apap – FEMINIST FUTURES 2020-2024

apap – advancing performing arts project is an international network of cultural organizations from across Europe, established in 2000. Supported by various EU culture programs, apap successfully supported a large number of artists and developed new formats that responded to evolving artistic practices and needs. Since 2005, Tanzfabrik Berlin was an apap partner, and from 2020 onward, it served as the project leader of the network.

The project apap – FEMINIST FUTURES 2020–2024 aimed for the ambitious goal of initiating profound social change through art. The main objective was to address inequality in contemporary performing arts by using the body of thought consolidated under the term intersectional feminism to find concrete structural answers and raise public awareness. Not only did artists, artworks, and formats operate under this focus, but the network itself — each partner with their working methods and relations — considered themselves as objects of inquiry under this thematic umbrella. What happened during these four years can be found here.

Partner of the project were: Tanzfabrik Berlin e.V., BIT Teatergarasjen - Stiftelsen Bergen Internasjonale Teater, EPCC Maison de la Culture Amiens, IL GAVIALE Società Cooperativa / Centrale Fies, Performing Arts Institute Warsaw, Reykjavik Dance Festival, STATION – Service for contemporary Dance, SZENE Verein zur Förderung der Kultur, Teatro Nacional D.Maria Il E.P.E., Theaterfestival Boulevard ’s-Hertogenbosch, Vzw Kunstencentrum BUDA, Maré Arts Center / Rio de Janeiro.

The project was funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, supported by the co-financing fund of the Senate Department for Culture and Europe and for the activities of Tanzfabrik Berlin.

 More information: www.apapnet.eu