Rosas

Rosas is part of DanceMap, a Horizon Europe project on dance heritage.

The heritage of 20th century dance in Europe is largely invisible and in danger of being lost. Works that are no longer being performed risk becoming forgotten, their memory confined to small and fragmented communities of artists and practitioners. DanceMap is a pioneering heritage initiative funded by Horizon Europe, the European Union’s funding programme for research and innovation. This ambitious project, which runs for three years from January 2025 to December 2027, operates under the research cluster “Culture, creativity and inclusive society” and aims to develop a cross-sectoral strategy for safeguarding and promoting Europe’s rich dance heritage. 

DanceMap brings together a consortium of 16 research centres, universities, archives, arts organisations and leading policy experts, who recognise that dance represents values which are central to the European project. It is a map both in the geographical sense, showcasing examples of successful dance heritage initiatives all over Europe and making them accessible for a wider global public, and in the sense of a blueprint or roadmap towards effective and sustainable policy solutions at regional, national and European level. Combining excellence in research and extensive experience of delivering innovative dance heritage initiatives at the national level, the DanceMap consortium has developed an integrated, cross-sectoral approach that incorporates research, data science, artistic practice, outreach, advocacy and policymaking.

The DanceMap partners are:

Bureau Ritter (Berlin, Germany) as lead partner
C-DaRE (Centre for Dance Research) at Coventry University (Coventry, UK)
University of Antwerp (Antwerp, Belgium)
Motion Bank research group at the University of Applied Sciences Mainz (Mainz, Germany)
Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln (Cologne, Germany)
STUK House for Dance, Image and Sound (Leuven, Belgium)
Culturgest (Lisbon, Portugal)
Noa Eshkol Foundation (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Station Centre for Contemporary Dance(Belgrade, Serbia)
Lokomotiva Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture (Skopje, North Macedonia)
Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Nomad Dance Academy Croatia (Zagreb, Croatia)
Brain Store Project (Sofia, Bulgaria)
Culture Concepts (Berlin, Germany)
Goethe-Institut – Associate Partner (Germany)
Rosas (Brussels, Belgium)

DanceMap Website