Participants of the Culture, Identity and Heritage, and International Mobility working groups held at the meeting that gave rise to the Declaration.

The signatories: María Pagés, El Arbi El Harti, Snjezana Abramovic, Ana Carrasco, Alberto Estébanez, Ellem Bloom, Raydun Bolk, Jazmin Chiodi, Fabrice Edelmann, Juan Antonio Estrada, María José Mora, Samuel Retortillo, Carlos Rodríguez, Enrique Salaberría, Amadeo Vaño, Sonia Fernández, Ángel Gil, Marc Martí, Jon Maya, Ramiro Osorio, Imanol Otaegui, Govin Rubén, Karina Salguero and Jaime Suárez.

Organized by the María Pagés Choreographic Center of Fuenlabrada, Donostia Kultura, the Victoria Eugenia Theater and the Maria Pagés Foundation, within the framework of dFeria 2023, the working day “Europa Baila” brought together 30 international dance personalities on Monday, March 13. They met in Donostia to diagnose and identify the problems facing dance and draw from them universal principles and values likely to defend dance as a paradigm of creation, profession and cultural industry.

They propose that:

• Culture and Dance should be considered as a State paradigm, providing Dance with a legal instrument that allows access to services and goods like the rest of the arts.
• Dance is declared of public utility and general interest.
• Decentralize the creative work and promotion of dance by establishing mechanisms of mediation between the political, social and artistic, focusing on the periphery as a source of artistic creation and wealth.
• Support for the processes of creation, research and return, along with administrative simplification to facilitate these processes.
• Improve entrepreneurial awareness, convincing capital of the importance of patronage.
• To plan and build spaces for the promotion and creation of dance, facilitating the territorial and international mobility of choreographic creation as a universal good.
• Technical and artistic residency programs or mediation projects beyond the exhibition itself are encouraged.

This reflection meeting has been promoted by the María Pagés Choreographic Center of Fuenlabrada (Madrid), a project led by a creator at the service of dance and its professionals.

Participants of the Culture, Identity and Heritage, and International Mobility working groups held at the meeting that gave rise to the Declaration:

Read the Declaration.