The dance dialogues bring together experts from areas such as neuroscience, architecture, philosophy, and other fields of the arts. Together with the audience, they discuss issues in the context of dance, which also cut across sectors and disciplines. These dance dialogues allow an audience with little experience of dance to gain insights into creative processes and the work of dancers and choreographers. To put people at their ease and to offer easier access to the art form, the dance dialogues are also held in places with no previous link to dance.
The feedback and insights from the interactive encounter help dancers to broaden their horizons and to integrate new stimuli and ideas into their work. This new platform for encounters shows that dance is more than just aesthetic movement, and dancers do not just work with the body and its forms of expression. This initiative should make dance a more visible component of art and culture for people in Leipzig, and increase understanding of contemporary, experimental dance and associated processes.