Moving Kinship® is a bold transnational project, supported by Perform Europe and the European Union Commission. The touring project seeks to reimagine the boundaries between performance, participation, and activism. Touring across Italy, Latvia, Ukraine, and the Netherlands, the project brought together local arts and grass roots organisations, artists and underrepresented communities to co-create trauma-responsive feminist hubs-- each generating bespoke performances. These works—documented in four short performance reportage films—confront some of the most urgent issues of our time: migration and D/deafness, war, mental health, and dementia.
Led by Dr. Beatrice Allegranti—transdisciplinary feminist choreographer/filmmaker, psychotherapist, and researcher—this project explores how embodied artistic practice can open new ways of thinking about language, memory, and transgenerational experience.
This online panel discussion and series of short film premieres brings together artists, psychotherapists, arts therapists, researchers, educators, activists and health professionals, creating a shared space for cross-disciplinary dialogue. Keynote talks, short film screenings, and embodied audience responses will invite participants to reflect on solidarity, resistance, and feminist justice in our fractured world. Through multilingual voices, lived gestures, and shared inquiry, Moving Kinship poses the question: “How can we do ourselves and each other justice in an increasingly divided world?”
PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS
Short Film Premieres:
- U/Heard: The Politics of Listening (Latvia)
- I Carry These Moments in My Body (Netherlands)
- Come Closer, Listen (Italy)
- UNARMED: Among the Flowers I Find Myself (Ukraine)
Inivted Talks & Dialogues with researchers, artists, activists and practitioners from Ukraine, Italy, Netherlands, Latvia and the UK.
Audience Movement Responses & Q&As: embodied participation and collective discussion
Ukraine
Julia Bair, Ukrainian essayist, translator, and journalist.
Tymus Anastasia, Journalist for DIVOCHE Ukrainian Feminist Magazine.
Oleksandr Manshylin, teacher, choreographer, researcher, cultural manager, the Executive director of Ukrainian Contemporary Dance Platform, Ukraine.
Oksana Bielova, Founder & Director of “BioSoft” Institute for Coaching and Psychotherapy, psychotherapist, dance movement therapist, Psychodramtherapist, director of training programme for psychologists in Dance Movement Therapy, Ukraine.
Viktoriia Khoroshylova, movement artist, choreographer, dancer, cultural manager
Yuliia Skyba, Doctor of Philosophy, choreographer, dancer, teacher.
Italy
Dr 'Funmi Adewole, UK based Nigerian Dancer, Researcher-Practitioner, Dramaturg & Educator.
Maria Olga Palliani, Dancer, choreographer, teacher.
Nicola Migliorati, Dancer, choreographer, teacher.
Valeria Sacchi, Actress, singer, arts therapist, educator.
Netherlands
Grace Bellel: Dance artist & dance educator in the Netherlands, long-time collaborator & dancer with Wym Vandekeybus.
Job Cornelissen: Artistic Director of Bergowen Werken, Dancer, Dance Movement Therapist, Choreographer, Musician.
Stacz Wilhem, Producer at Dutch Dance Days Festival.
Latvia
Jolanta Znotina, Actress & D/deaf advocate.
Dana Kalpina, Director Rītausam Dance Centre for D/deaf and hearing impaired adults.
Ieva Nedre, Director INITUM Foundation.
Aigars Larionovs, Dance artist & choreographer.
Laura Gorodko, Dance artist & choreographer, Latvia.
UK - Touring Team
Robert Howat: Composer, musician, arranger.
Neil Max Emmanuel: reportage illustrator, motion graphics editor.
Alexander Lopera: videographer, editor, producer.
WHO IS THIS FOR?
We warmly invite artists, psychotherapists, arts therapists, students, researchers, educators, health and social care professionals, activists, and community groups committed to inclusion, diversity, and socio-politically informed relational growth.