Dance

Orbitante Bogotá Dance Platform

With the aim of promoting creation in dance, the Instituto Distrital de las Artes (Idartes), through its Dance Department launched in 2019 the Orbitante Bogotá Dance Platform program, an ecosystem made up of dancers, choreographers, directors, teachers, designers, producers, managers, groups, companies and organizations of the various dance languages that inhabit the city: urban, traditional, contemporary, classic, popular, among others.

This program works through five lines of action:

1.Residencies: They seek to strengthen the creative processes of artists, companies, groups or collectives in the city through different actions that take place during a limited period of time and in a specific physical space or virtually, with the assistance of the Platform through spaces for qualification in tools for creation and advice on topics such as technical production, audiovisual production, research, training, dramaturgy, choreography, among others.

2. Qualification: This line aims to form a bank of expert teachers who develop actions to strengthen the different practices of dance, in activities such as training events, specialized workshops, seminars, dialogues, advice and stage productions. In addition, it supports the processes of students residing in Bogotá interested in developing their professional practice within the processes that are part of the Platform.

3. Exchanges:It covers the relationship of the Platform with independent dance processes in the city that have generated physical spaces or permanent activities of circulation, training, creation and exchange with district, national and international artists, contributing to the professional field of dance. The organizations selected in this line receive support for the development of a version of an activity that they carry out regularly, and they make a proposal for an exchange with the Platform.

4. Circulation Actions: Samples of processes, classes, workshops and open rehearsals; functions; meetings, among others, that allow the city to be shown the processes conceived and developed in the Platform, in coordination with venues, communities and territories.

5. Feedback:Meetings for promoting dialogue, relationships, networking and exchange of experiences between the different artists, creative and organizational processes that make up the Platform.

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The following are some of the achievements of the past two years:

1. Linking more than 1,000 artists and dance workers in Bogotá as residents, advisors, teachers, producers, among others, with processes and projects of urban dance, traditional dance, oriental dance, inclusive dance, contemporary dance, tango, African dance, circus, dance movement therapy, among others.

2. Participation of more than 20,000 attendees or beneficiaries of in-person and virtual activities such as exhibitions, workshops, community projects and actions to strengthen the Platform.

3. Articulation with communities such as:

  • Children in arts education who participate in the Emprende CREA program and Fundación Esartec.
  • Young people in artistic training, in their last semester at university or recent graduates, through the Universities Roundtable.
  • Children and youth from district schools with the Civinautas program of the Instituto Distrital de Patrimonio Cultural (IDPC, for the Spanish original).
  • Youth at high risk served by Idipron.
  • Diverse audiences, children, young people, older adults, diverse abilities, pregnant mothers, among others, from the Department of Social Integration (SDIS, for the Spanish original) in coordination with the IDARTES Common Culture program.
  • Women from different local collectives with work with a gender approach.
  • LGBTIQ+ through the line of exchange with the intensive training project of the House of Cobras group.

Every year, responding to the needs of the sector, the Orbitante Bogotá Dance Platform opens new possibilities of linkage for artists through public invitations that are launched at different times and among which the multiplier dancers, the artistic residencies and the assistance bank, among others, stand out.