I DANCED HERE - BERLIN is a project to help us create and develop ties with Berlin and its urban space through dance. We will get to know the city with our bodies, our senses, taking time to connect to the space and ourselves. It is a dancing experience for everyone, so no movement experience is required!!
The idea of the project is very simple: we will meet and dance together in different places around Berlin! The magic happens here: by dancing and experiencing this new place through dance, you are automatically creating memories with it. And when you create memories with a place, just like it happens with a friend, you end up being a part of each other's history. Even if you never go back there, you will always be able to point it out on a map and say: I danced here!
Now let me tell you a little about where this idea comes from!
My name is Mariana, nice to meet you :) I moved from my hometown Florianópolis, in Brazil, to Berlin a few weeks ago and I am still trying to figure out my own way in the city. It is not the first time I am going through this process, but every time is somehow different from the other, which means that every time I also have to put together new energy and invent new strategies to adapt and embrace this new experience and all of its good, not so good, crazy and unexpected sides!
Moving and settling down can be easy and fun for some people, but also extremely hard for others. Moving because you wanted is for instance quite different from moving because you had no other choice, and also involves different feelings. Nevertheless, no matter what brought you here, I am pretty sure you are going through a lot right now, which is maybe making it harder for you to land fully with your heart at the new city.
So after spending some time thinking about this and also revisiting my old memories of settling down in a new place, I asked myself: how can I make this process easier and funnier for me and those who eventually are in similar situation? And since I am a dancer, I knew it would have to do with dance! From all the thoughts and energy and love and ideas I put together, I danced here was born.
Now let me guess what you are thinking: “This crazy Brazilian girl has dancing in her blood and find it pretty easy to dance in a random place with strangers”. Well, the truth is I have fears too. How many times I wanted to just dance in a park or in the streets but stopped myself from doing it fearing what people might think. Though from one thing I am convinced: The city does not exist by itself, we are actively reinventing it by the experiences we have in and with it. So why not do it all together: reinventing the city, our relations to the city and also ourselves? I know this may sound challenging, but believe me: dancing makes even the craziest things possible!
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