The five-day laboratory ‘Leadership and Artistic Practices from Diversity’ focuses on the question of leadership, both from an artistic perspective and in a broader sense. Through interdisciplinary choreographic practices, participants will work on their past and present experiences to rethink what it means to lead today within the field of dance. The program offers a space for experimentation and collective reflection aimed at supporting a greater diversity of practices and forms of artistic direction, placing the voices and processes of participating artists at its core.
European artistic laboratories are one of the central components of Europe Beyond Access, an initiative that works to support Deaf and disabled artists and to promote new forms of creation in the field of dance and the performing arts. These laboratories aim to foster artistic innovation, break geographical and creative isolation, and build professional connections at an international level. The LABs are aimed at Deaf and disabled artists with prior experience in leading creative processes, offering a space to develop their own practices in dialogue with other contexts and perspectives. Within this framework, Mercat de les Flors hosts at Graner the second part of a cycle of laboratories that began in Lisbon.