During Theaterfestival Boulevard 2023, the festival organises and hosts the Closing Lab of the European project Performing Gender – Dancing in your shoes [2021 – 2023]. Sixteen European artists, partners, representatives and productions by the communities meet to present their work.  

The Closing Lab
Between 2021 to 2023, 9 partners from 8 countries researched the engagement of audiences in artistic processes by facilitating a collaboration between choreographers and non-professional dancers from local communities to share stories of unheard voices through movement and dance.

The Closing Lab is the conclusion of the project and is organised by Boulevard in collaboration with the University of Bologna and other partners within this project. The three-day event, taking place from the 7th to the 9th of August, will provide an insight into the working processes of the communities, the results of the project and developed methods to enhance the collaboration between audiences and artistic processes.

Programme

Fri 7 August
18:00 – 19:30h Welcome dinner at Pand 18.
20:30 – 22:00h Performance But First, We are Going to Eat by Theaterfestival Boulevard, ‘s-Hertogenbosch. More information about the performance can be found here. 
 

Sat 8 August
10:00 – 11:30h Opening Closing Lab at Pand 18
14:00 – 15:00h Performance community Tilburg at Pand 18
16:00 – 17:00h Presentation + workshop community Ljubljana at Bank van Leening
20:30 – 22:00h Performance community Madrid at Studio Tramkade. More information about the performance can be found here.
 

Sun 9 August
10:00 – 11:30h International Lab at Pand 18
14:00 – 14:30h Presentation community Umea at Pand 18
15:30 – 16:30h Performance + workshop community Leeds at Bank van Leening
20:00 – 21:30h Performance community Bologna at Studio Tramkade. More information about the performance can be found here. 
22:00 – 22:30h closing ritual by SÍN (Budapest)

Partners and communities

The partners of Performing Gender – Dancing in your shoes are:
Gender Bender Festival and Il Cassero LGBTI Center and Alma Mater University of Bologna [ITA], City of Women [SVN], Paso a 2 [ESP], Yorkshire Dance and British Council [GBR], KLAP Maison pour la Danse [FRA], SÍN Cultural Center [HON], Norrlandsoperan [SWE].

The communities participating in the project are:  
Il Cassero LGBTI Center/ Gender Bender Festival [ITA], SIN Arts Centre [HON], City of Women [SVN], Norrlandsoperan [SWE], Yorkshire Dance [GBR], KLAP Maison pour la Danse [FRA], Paso a 2 Certamen Coreografico de Madrid [ESP], Theaterfestival Boulevard and DansBrabant [NL]. 

Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
More information about Performing Gender: Performing Gender.