Structural Development in Dance

Image credits: EDN Atelier at La Briqueterie 2023, photo by Joseph Banderet

EDN members: get ready for an exciting year with your network for structural development in dance. From March to November 2025, join us for a series of dynamic events designed to foster exchange, inspire advocacy, and strengthen connections within the dance sector in Europe and beyond.

EDN Members Forum

online & onsite

Our Members Forums are a versatile platform to facilitate exchange between EDN members and the EDN coordination team. Some meetings will be a casual chance to chat over your favourite morning drink, while other meetings will have a thematic focus to go in-depth on questions regarding our working groups.

EDN Webinar Series “Trans-Local Advocacy”

online

Three mentoring webinars will kick off EDN’s focus on dance advocacy, giving its members and the sector tools to implement in their local advocacy efforts.

EDN General Assembly & Think-in

hosted by Lavanderia a Vapore, Collegno, Turin - Italy

At EDN’s only in-person annual network meeting, member representatives, partners, artists, and other guests will gather to exchange, reflect and give input on dance advocacy.

EDN “Young Atelier”

hosted by Oriente Occidente, Rovereto - Italy

EDN’s newly founded working group on community-engaged practices for empowering young audiences and emerging artists will hold its first Atelier, inviting working group members for an in-depth on-site conversation joined by artists and other dance professionals.

EDN “Advocacy Atelier”

hosted by CN D & Maison de la danse, Lyon - France

In this two-day Atelier split between two member dance organisations, CN D and Maison de la danse invite artists, dance professionals and policy makers to discuss different models to support dance, mapping the existing and imagining new structures.

EDN Conference “Advocating for Dance”

online

EDN’s final event of the year will gather findings from EDN’s inquiry on dance advocacy and hold space for diverse perspectives from the field. The conference will invite sector representatives, artists, administrators, public funders, and decision-makers to explore what kind of support structures the dance sector needs to survive and to thrive.

These events are brought to you by Embodied Transformations, EDN’s EU-funded network project. It connects contemporary dance professionals, organisations, and communities across Europe to foster a stable and interdependent dance ecosystem.