NOMAD Dance Academy - Cultural Cooperation Model in South East Europe

NOMAD Dance Academy is a grass-root initiative of 6 contemporary dance organizations from 6 Balkan countries and a proactive and innovative platform for exchange and cooperation in performing arts. NOMAD originates in recognition of some shared problems existing in all these countries, from Macedonia to Slovenia: lack of higher education programs, lack of cultual policy in the field, lack of development funds for contemporary dance, low visibility of contemporary dance within local cultures, need for professionalisation of contemporary dance field. 
Emphasizing and developing a model for cooperation, education, mobility and intercultural dialogue in contemporary dance, NOMAD Dance Academy has become an inspiring model of artists? self-organization and example of innovative cultral and educational policy experiment. It is applicable in various cultural fields and opens new roads for cooperation and exchange in Europe.

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