Author: Dancing on the Edge

Dancing on the Edge is an artistic platform that moves between different borders, bodies, disciplines, histories and (pre)conceptions. In its working processes and programming, it attempts to challenge singular narratives and identities in representation as well as dominant power structures and (post)colonial relations. Dancing on the Edge is based in Amsterdam, and works both locally and globally, especially with artists and practitioners from the WANA region and its diaspora. Go to dancingontheedge.nl for more information.

Table Talks #4 – Drawings Gallery

In the Table Talks series we hope to sense, imagine and explore the urgencies that guide our practice, the structural changes we desire and what we are doing to achieve them. The series is a collaborative journey; the starting point for each of the Table Talks is formulated by the group in the preceding edition. As a part […]

Table Talks #3 – Drawings Gallery

In the Table Talks series we hope to sense, imagine and explore the urgencies that guide our practice, the structural changes we desire and what we are doing to achieve them. The series is a collaborative journey; the starting point for each of the Table Talks is formulated by the group in the preceding edition. As a part […]

Old Man, New City

Second-Hand Body is a writing project in which DOTE commissions five writers from the MENA region and The Netherlands to write a text collectively. An invitation and a journey traversing different bodies, temporalities, locations and references of the writers and the worlds they inhabit and imagine. The proposal is based on the concept of second-hand, […]

The Apples of My Grandmother

Second-Hand Body is a writing project in which DOTE commissions five writers from the MENA region and The Netherlands to write a text collectively. An invitation and a journey traversing different bodies, temporalities, locations and references of the writers and the worlds they inhabit and imagine. The proposal is based on the concept of second-hand, […]

Second-Hand Body Writing Project

Second-Hand Body is a writing project in which DOTE commissions five writers from the MENA region and The Netherlands to write a text collectively. An invitation and a journey traversing different bodies, temporalities, locations and references of the writers and the worlds they inhabit and imagine. The proposal is based on the concept of second-hand, […]

Table Talks #2 – Drawings Gallery

In the Table Talks series we hope to sense, imagine and explore the urgencies that guide our practice, the structural changes we desire and what we are doing to achieve them. The series is a collaborative journey; the starting point for each of the Table Talks is formulated by the group in the preceding edition. As a part […]

Table Talks #1 – Drawings Gallery

PHOTO GALLERY – TABLE TALKS #1 In the Table Talks series we hope to sense, imagine and explore the urgencies that guide our practice, the structural changes we desire and what we are doing to achieve them. The series is a collaborative journey; the starting point for each of the Table Talks is formulated by the group in […]

Table Talks Series

Dancing on the Edge Festival will bring performances by and in collaboration with artists from the Middle East and North Africa to The Netherlands once more in November 2019. The wind whistles: Not another festival, not another ‘big’ budget, no flying artists in, flying artists out, no audience tally. Not if the cultural and socio-political […]

Art notes

Traditionally, we see the end result of dance & theater when we go to the theater, but get little insight into how a performance came into existence. Background stories and artist talks offer context and depth, but are curated. To delve a little deeper and get an idea of the thought process of the artist-at-work, […]