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About us
Founded in 2014 Choreomundus Association is an international (non-profit) association that gathers members of practitioners and researchers active in the field of dance, dance anthropology, ethnochoreology and dance studies form about 40 countries, who benefited in terms of research and creative exploration form the Erasmus Mundus programme: Choreomundus. Believing that bodily movement is a strong tool for intercultural communication, understanding, and empathy, the association aims to disseminate and democratize dance, bodily practices and knowledge through symposiums, workshops, and other intercultural projects.
Founders: The association is founded by the graduates of the first Cohort (2012-2014) of the Erasmus Mundus Programme known as Choreomundus: International Master in Dance Knowledge, Practice, and Heritage.
Vision and Aims: The purpose of the association is to promote and sustain the full potential of the community of dancers, movers, artists, and dance scholars who have benefited in terms of research, creative exploration, and mobility from the Choreomundus Programme.
Choreomundus Association aims to:
The association shall be active worldwide by seeking to, but not limited to:
Founders: The association is founded by the graduates of the first Cohort (2012-2014) of the Erasmus Mundus Programme known as Choreomundus: International Master in Dance Knowledge, Practice, and Heritage.
Vision and Aims: The purpose of the association is to promote and sustain the full potential of the community of dancers, movers, artists, and dance scholars who have benefited in terms of research, creative exploration, and mobility from the Choreomundus Programme.
Choreomundus Association aims to:
- Make anthropology of dance, choreology and ethnochoreology accessible to the public through scholarly and creative means.
- Create cultural understanding through dance practices.
- Promote dance anthropology to a scholarly and non-scholarly audience through conferences, publications, workshops, and capacity building.
- Extend the knowledge produced in Dance Studies through the anthropological lens.
- Create a platform for cross-cultural discourse in dance.
- Support research, safeguarding, promotion, and continuation of dance and movement practices, including the implementation of 2003 UNESCO Convention on ICH.
The association shall be active worldwide by seeking to, but not limited to:
- Encourage networking, cooperation and mutual understanding among members from different countries who want to explore and research dance practices.
- Foster global relationships within the worldwide research and innovation community with particular emphasis on the Choreomundus MA experience.
- Support the dissemination of dance research across disciplines.
- Serve as a platform for debate on current issues on dance and enable members to promote their own research, educational, artistic, or other related projects.