Seminar SDF

Free entrance (limited capacity!)

Like every summer, we’re hosting a seminar to explore urgent questions from within the culture, together with a panel of international dancers and makers. This time, the seminar has been curated by Fanny, a prominent dancer and figure in the French W*acking community. We invite participants to reflect together on the meanings, limits and practices of “safe(r) spaces” in dance communities today.

About the seminar

How can our dance space(s) feel safer ?
Who is responsible for holding that space?
How do artists, battle participants, choreographers, organizers, teachers, audiences and care teams contribute to collective care within dance communities?

This conversation invites participants to reflect together on the meanings, limits and practices of “safe(r) spaces” in dance communities today. Through shared experiences, questions, curated material and collective discussion, we will explore how community and accountability can take shape beyond policies and intentions.

Participants are warmly invited to contribute to the conversation by bringing:
➔ a question,
➔ a thought
➔ a book or text, a video, an audio
➔ a moment they witnessed,
➔ or a thought that has stayed with them.

Rather than searching for definitive answers, this space aims to open dialogue about : building awareness, strengthening response capacity, and widening the spectrum of available possibilities for safer, more inclusive environments for us, by us.

Keywords: Safe(r) Spaces, Community Care, Dance Communities, Intersectionality, Identities, Consent, Accessibility, Racism, Sexism, LGBTphobia, Fatphobia, Ableism, Dialogue, Accountability, Collective Responsibility.

About Fanny

Fanny is a dancer, choreographer, interaction analyst and instructional designer rooted in the French W*acking community. She moves fluidly between the stage, from W*acking battle, cabaret performances to choreographic creation, and the spaces where dance communities think together.

On the floor, she has competed in battles across France and Europe and created choreographic work that travels beyond the studio, including Bridging the Gap, presented at the Intersectional Futurisms Art-Sci seminar at the University of Helsinki. She also contributes to passing on W*acking, through workshops and initiations.

Off the floor, Fanny shapes the conversations that surround dance: as co-organizer of Waack in Paris’ events, host of a Hippoh live conversation on safe spaces in dance communities, later released as a podcast episode, and conversation facilitator at Festival Underground in Rennes, she designs spaces where dance, community engagement and cultural transmission can meet.

Her practice is guided by one through-line: bridging gaps. Between performance and reflection, between individual experience and collective care, between the cypher and the outside world.