“An Ideal City” starts on 18 December: an international project coordinated by the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto – Reggio Emilia in partnership with Les Halles de Schaerbeek – Brussels and the Greek National Opera Ballet – Athens, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

“An Ideal City” aims to explore, in a 22-month process, the value of dance as a form of inhabiting, in connection with contemporary artistic practices. A step-by-step program that will take place in Athens, Reggio Emilia and Brussels linking short choreographic creations – the MicroDances, signed by some of the most relevant contemporary choreographers – to different places in the cities: museums, industrial areas, urban spaces, defining unusual stages but linked to a direct and immediate relationship with the public and the inhabitants.

The online round table will cover the following topics:

• the Micro/Macro relationship introduced by the MicroDances in the dialogue between exhibition and urban spaces;
• ‘inhabit’ a place which dance experiences in relation to different spaces and audiences  different kind of spaces and audiences;
• the relationship between the conceptual space of the choreography and the experienced space;
• the Self/Other dialectic related to the reenactment process of the repertoire to a group of non-professional young dancers to be performed in urban areas of the three cities.