Current Projects (2024-25)

Moving Kinship: Touring Feminist Performance Hubs in Europe

‘How can we do ourselves and each other justice in an increasingly divided world?’

Beatrice Allegranti 

 

Moving Kinship® is a sustainable, hybrid, and digital touring practice that re-imagines the boundaries between performance, participation and activism. Touring trauma-responsive hubs across geo-political borders, this Perform Europe partnership champions inclusivity, decolonises artistic practice, and nurtures feminist micro-cultures of belonging and care. 

 

Led by transdisciplinary feminist artist, Beatrice Allegranti (Italy), the Moving Kinship® partnership includes Gruppo Danza Oggi with associate artists Palliani and Migliorati (Italy), Aigars Larionovs (Latvia), Initium Foundation (Latvia), Association for Dance Movement Therapists (Ukraine), Ukrainian Contemporary Dance Platform (Ukraine) and Bewogen Werken/Job Cornellisen (Netherlands). Engaging professional dance artists, and underrepresented communities, the partnership enacts diversity and artistic advocacy through establishing feminist performance hubs in partner countries. Tailored to local community contexts, the artistic practice (re)generates responses to an established choreographic score. Documented in a film, Moving Kinship® is a feminist call for pluralist and embodied dialogue, resources, and accountability.

Perform Europe Grant
EUR 60,000

Partners

Artistic Works

Moving Kinship: Touring Feminist Performance Hubs in Europe
Producers: Italy: Gruppo Danza Oggi Latvia: Initium Foundation Ukraine: Ukrainian Contemporary Dance Platform Netherlands: Bewogen Werken and Dutch Dance Days
‘Moving Kinship - individual change powered by the collective‘
Beatrice Allegranti

Moving Kinship® feminist performance hubs include collaborating with local professional dance artists to co-create bespoke performances with and for underrepresented communities including, intergenerational refugees and migrants (Italy), people living with physical disabilities (Latvia), war veterans (Ukraine), and people living with rare young onset dementia (Netherlands). The touring hubs are based on a choreographic practice that responds to personal-political lived experiences of privilege, oppression, neurodiversity and mental health, in nuanced and intersectional ways.

Each hub generates individual and collective responses to an established choreographic score that blends dance, spoken word, music and film/digital presentation. The resulting hybrid and digital performance, with its bespoke title, is tailored to the local artistic teams’ and communities’ embodied intersectional experiences. Moving Kinship® presentations demonstrate how choreographic practice and performance can be a form of artivism that restores shared humanity and respect for diversity, which are often lost in public discourse.

Tour Dates

List of performances
DATES
Venue and location
Performing arts
Topics covered
Date
Moving Kinship: Touring Feminist Performance Hubs in Europe
Fondazione Santa Maria Goretti organisation
Italy
Dance
Site specific work
Activism
Decolonisation
Diversity
Feminism
Social justice
April 1, 2025
Moving Kinship: Touring Feminist Performance Hubs in Europe
La Casa Della Memoria, Peace Park and Monument
Italy
Dance
Site specific work
Activism
Decolonisation
Diversity
Feminism
Social justice
April 2, 2025
Moving Kinship: Touring Feminist Performance Hubs in Europe
Festival Laiks Dejot, National Contemporary Dance Festival
Latvia
Dance
Site specific work
Activism
Decolonisation
Diversity
Feminism
Social justice
June 1, 2025
Moving Kinship: Touring Feminist Performance Hubs in Europe
Pardaugava Creative Center
Latvia
Dance
Site specific work
Activism
Decolonisation
Diversity
Feminism
Social justice
June 2, 2025
Moving Kinship: Touring Feminist Performance Hubs in Europe
Totem Dance School
Ukraine
Dance
Site specific work
Activism
Decolonisation
Diversity
Feminism
Social justice
August 1, 2025 - August 2, 2025
Moving Kinship: Touring Feminist Performance Hubs in Europe
ZorgSpectrum Community Healthcare organisation
Netherlands
Dance
Site specific work
Activism
Decolonisation
Diversity
Feminism
Social justice
October 1, 2025
Moving Kinship: Touring Feminist Performance Hubs in Europe
Dutch Dancedays
Netherlands
Dance
Site specific work
Activism
Decolonisation
Diversity
Feminism
Social justice
October 2, 2025
Photo credits

Neil Max Emmanuel

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