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“To dance with each other is an ideal platform to meet in open-mindedness, respect and acceptance."
Wilfried van Poppel
Choreographer of HUMAN Communtiy Dance-Premiere and director of HUMAN school projects "Five days to dance".
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From the very beginning, HUMAN initiator and composer Helge Burggrabe had a special focus on transforming the HUMAN orchestral work into dance. Especially the form of community dance invites people - independent of previous knowledge in dance, of age, traditions and lifestyles, of national, cultural or religious affiliation - to move the basic themes of being human in the literal sense.
The HUMAN Community Dance performance at the Bremen Theatre and the Royal Flemish Theatre in Brussels (summer 2021) under the leadership of the international team of choreographers around Wilfried van Poppel and Amaya Lubeigt demonstrated how this can be possible (cf. premiere film).
While the age range in Bremen was from 12 to over 70, in Brussels around 60 young people from many different nations interpreted 11 of the 13 HUMAN themes in a way that was both sensitive and powerful.
Where is the HUMAN music available?
The sixty-minute HUMAN Music is recorded on CD/Vinyl and is also available digitally (Edel music/Neue Meister; amazon, spotify).
Is there a film document of the Bremen Community Dance premiere?
Here you can find the Link to the complete recording of the premiere on 27 augsut 2021 at the Bremen Theatre
The short film clips with commentary on dance impressions mark the stages of the HUMAN Community Dance premiere.
Are choreography notes available for the Community Dance premiere?
Wilfried van Poppel (NL) and Amaya Lubeigt (Esp) explain the main ideas of their community dance choreography at the premiere in Bremen/Brussels in the HUMAN dance script“. A preview of the script can be found here.
The manual also offers links to audio examples and dance impressions and can be ordered for free as a download in the HUMAN project office.
Are there guidelines for the interpretation of HUMAN music in dance?
Choreographers, dancers, dance teachers ... can interpret HUMAN music with their own varied ideas.
We are very happy to receive information about the conception of HUMAN music and to include the performance dates of public performances in the HUMAN calendar ().
How can schools combine HUMAN music with movement/dance?
- Movement and dance to HUMAN music offer - not only in the subjects of music and sport - a creative, playful introduction to the basic themes of being human and human rights.
- A school project week could concentrate on the preparation and creation of a school-internal or public HUMAN dance performance - in which the HUMAN music is sounded on CD or in which the school orchestra plays live.
- The HUMAN music can inspire the production of a community dance choreography: developed together with the pupils or by the teachers. This can be done without a licence.
- HUMAN choreographers can be invited and engaged for a "Five days to dance project week" at the school. This intensive educational-artistic project week is completed with a school-internal or public HUMAN Community Dance performance. Between 50 and 120 pupils can take part in such a HUMAN Community Dance project week; the number of participating choreographers varies with the number of participants.
The project office is happy to receive further ideas and experiences, publish them on the HUMAN website with the school name/author, as well as to put you in touch with the HUMAN choreographer team.
Has there already been experience with HUMAN Community Dance projects in schools?
Yes, there have already been a number of "HUMAN Five-days-to-Dance-Projects" in schools under the direction of Wilfried van Poppel and Amaya Lubeigt (D, ESP, P). There is also experience with inclusive HUMAN community dance projects, including a performance at the First European Inclusive Congress in Zurich (june 2022) and also in Palestine (july 2022).
»[…] We are tonight in the HUMAN dance project spectators or participants of a new human-human relationship without ifs and buts. […] The only essential thing is the encounter at the same eye level in the presence of the full individuality of each other. […]«
Domenig Christian Gaegauf
initiate the first inclusive HUMAN dance project in Switzerland (June 2021; communicated via Supported Communication)
For me, dance makes my world better. I tell stories and images with it. It's something very personal, intimate and at the same time very communal.
Mina Raschiatore
Ensemble member, HUMAN Dance Premiere Bremen
More than ever, our world needs humanity. So I' m very happy that HUMAN wants to work with young people to overcome opposites in order to realise the dream of equality and unity of cultures in a loving and humane way.
Aldegonde Brenninkmeijer-Werhahn
Initiate the HUMAN performance in Brussels
Human encounter in movement, where the sparks fly before the dance begins. And suddenly we spectators are also part of this warm-hearted community of people who are all on the same way.”
Semya Ayoubi
Visitor of the HUMAN Community Dance performance at the Inclusive European Congress "Moving Borders" in Zurich on June 16, 2022
A great project! I wish all participants deeply lasting and happy impressions and experiences. I would love to dance along right away! And finally, I also hope that the message will get to places and people where it is most urgently needed, so that human rights can really be rights for all people.
Julia Jentsch
Film and theatre actress
HUMAN is an inspiring and empowering opportunity for young people—and everyone else involved—to explore and create collectively. Its focus on humankind’s shared values, needs and wishes, through a creative and caring process, counterbalances the current flood of global issues that constantly threaten our inner sense of stability.
Susan Barnett
Choreography Team HUMAN Premiere
In a dance project like HUMAN, everyone can participate. One's own abilities are taken into account and the best is brought out.
Madita Brünjes
Ensemble member, HUMAN Dance Premiere Bremen
The book Menschlichkeit JETZT! by Pierre Stutz and Helge Burggrabe is a wake up call, not to separate between caring good for one self and live with empathy for others. I discover in this book and in the HUMAN project something which is an impuls and inspiration for our work as publishing group: Have a good life and live the good!
Ulrich Peters
Director Verlagsgruppe Patmos
The dance project was truly unique. It has been so nice to feel how much joy the impaired people had to be able to dance with us.
Anina Hartmann
Participant of the first inclusive HUMAN project in June 2021, Rudolf Steiner Schule Zürcher Oberland, Wetzikon
I am extremely proud of our students as well as the whole school family. The performance has demonstrated what our kids are capable of when given the chance. What was clearly noticable tonight: Our diversity unites us.
Florian Hölzl
Major of Pfeffenhausen/Bavaria, on the 20th jubilee of the school partnership of the primary and secondary school Pfeffenhausen and Szkoła Podstawowa in. Marii Konopnickiej in Jaworzyna Slaska
I very much hope that many will be so inspired by the innovative and exciting HUMAN Culture Project and the young people's work for human rights. We are happy to contribute to this.
Prof. Dr. Karin Luckey
Rector Hochschule Bremen/City University of Applied Sciences
Movement emerge from itself, thats how I dance. To do this with human rights holds archaic moments and touches my heart - its healing. To spread the movement of our VALUES into the world is just wonderful.
Andrea M. Nossem
Participant of the HUMAN rights conscious dance group, Munich
The idea of the HUMAN project is to bring young people together and give them a voice so that they are heard as individuals and as a group.
Royston Maldoom
Artistic choreographic support
Young people who are interested in people in other countries develop a deep understanding of a Europe of diversity, of a Europe of peace and democracy. This is the great asset of this school partnership and the HUMAN performance is a powerful, distinctive sign of this.
Ruth Müller, MdL (SPD)
Second Vice Chairwoman of the SPD in the Bavarian State Parliament, District Councillor in the Landshut District, Municipal Councillor in Pfeffenhausen and Foundation Member of the Friends of Pfeffenhausen-Jaworzyna Slaska e. V.
For me, participating in a community dance project means being able to express myself without boundaries. In HUMAN, we thus present the basic rights of humanity, which unfortunately are not respected in many countries.
Sandra Calvo Pastor
Ensemble member, HUMAN Dance Premiere Bremen
Being HUMAN is our reality, but feeling HUMAN is our right. Through this project and through dance we want to invite participants to love and express life, feeling, understanding and working together for a better world.
Amaya Lubeigt
Choreography Team HUMAN Premiere and head of HUMAN school projects
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HUMAN project is about us all. No matter your color, country of origin, age, background, disability, or culture … it is about you too. And it’s a privilege to be part of it!
Albino Moura
School director Escola de Dança Lugar Presente, Viseu/Portugal, Partner in the Erasmus+ project
To express in freestyle dance what is manifested from moment to moment on these compositions by Helge Burggrabe on elementary themes of being human, unites us as a group and brings our individual expression of humanity into the world. THANK YOU from the bottom of our hearts for this wonderful present!
Oranna Erb
Direction of the HUMAN dance project with freestyle dance in Munich
Dancing together is so wonderful. Dance is a great language that all people understand. For me, it is a great joy to express the 13 pieces on being human. I am really gripped by dance fever!
Yeroh Saw
Ensemble member, HUMAN Dance Premiere Bremen
Taking part in the Human project has been an opportunity for me to recognise and transmit, through the expression of dance, universal feelings and sensations of human rights in a wonderful and unknown atmosphere for me. So much in the aspect of the artistic background as well as the group of people who have shared this project. A very warm embrace to all of you
Gloria Madrigal Mir
Participant in a HUMAN dance project in Asturias, summer 2022
In this community dance project, the human right to cultural empowerment can be experienced. I am sure that the HUMAN performances will raise awareness of this important issue. We all have to commit to the concrete realisation of human rights!
Karoline Ott
Violinist and dramaturge of the Kammerensemble Konsonanz, HUMAN dance premiere at the Bremen Theatre
Well, I think human rights are an incredibly brilliant idea! The fact that human beings as a species, which is very much characterised by survival of the fittest, can conceive of such ideals of equality, freedom and solidarity is a phenomenal achievement.
Morten Reisemann
Ensemble member, HUMAN Dance Premiere Bremen
Participating in the Human International Cultural Dance Project in Pfeffenhausen has been an unforgettable adventure and a wonderful learning experience for the Polish students.
Barbara Dzikowska
The HUMAN International Cultural Project is a very touching community dance project and as a part of the school exchange it can hardly be topped. Barbara Dzikowska, teacher, Szkoła Podstawowa im. Marii Konopnickiej in Jaworzyna Slaska; the school has had a partnership for 20 years with ‘Grund- und Mittelschule’ Pfeffenhausen/Bayern. For the 20th anniversary of the school partnership, the HUMAN Community Dance Workshop ended with a performance of the HUMAN themes "Home", "Protection" and "Love" (Choreographer: Wilfried van Poppel, Amaya Lubeig, Susan Barnett; 10/2022).
For me, this HUMAN performance expressed a new human right, as essential as any other: the right to be who you are!
Yann Lenggenhager
History teacher, Lead Educator Robert F Kennedy Human Rights, Switzerland
To dance with other people is always very moving and fills the heart immensely, specially when you see so many people who didn't know each other before, dancing together a piece like HUMAN on stage.
Susanne Eule
Susanne Eule, choreographer, director of a HUMAN Community Dance project in Freiburg with 20 people aged between 6 and 74 and from seven nations (Madagascar, Turkey, South America etc.).
Very special the opportunity to share with others and to bring forever in the body movements, images and claims of Human Rights like Liberty, Equality, Creativity ... through HUMAN and the dance-theatre.
Pablo García Bartolomé
Psicólogo colegiado M-33251 especialista en arte terapia, salud comunitaria y educación para la salud.
The HUMAN project strives to encourage young people to develop their own strengths and visions so that they can make their own way as part of a free and tolerant society.
Kurt de Prins
Director of the IMELDA school in Brüssel-Molenbeek
People dancing together is the ideal way of engaging with each other in a spirit of openness, respect and acceptance.
Wilfried van Poppel
Choreography Team HUMAN Premiere and head of HUMAN school projects
The purpose of the HUMAN project is to empower and allow young people to flourish.
Helge Burggrabe
HUMAN Initiator and Composer of the HUMAN Suite for orchestra
A project such as HUMAN underlines what is common to all people and lets us reflect on the importance of human rights. I like to contribute to bringing more awareness of their importance to society.
Julio Fernández
conductor of the HUMAN dance premiere at the Bremen Theatre, founded the IntoNation Choir of the Bremen University of Applied Sciences in 2014 with the aim of developing choral works with singers from all over the world
Edris - a young Afghan who joined in the dancing in this project - really won my heart! Between being desperate and having tears in his eyes from happiness, he let me live through the four days. At last he gave me a Turkish euro, which he probably kept with him as a talisman on his escape. It was as if someone was pressing a treasure of gold into my hand in thankfulness for his presence. THAT touched and impressed me deeply.
Nina Baldinger
Choreographer, director of a HUMAN Community Dance project in Freiburg (9/2022) with 20 people aged between 6 and 74 from seven nations (Madagascar, Turkey, South America etc.).
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It is a great joy and confidence to be able to work with other dancers in free dance to weave a loving, appreciative togetherness of the human family.
Vera Griebert-Schröder
Participant of the HUMAN project with free dance / Conscious Dance, Munich
Music and dance express what cannot be said and about which it is impossible to remain silent. Man cannot be silent and should not be silenced. That is why we dance.
Mareike Windorf
General Manager, Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin
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Our German-Polish student exchange week in cooperation with the HUMAN project days has been the most impressive event ever to take place at our secondary school. The 45 children from Germany, Ukraine, Kosovo, Albania, Serbia, Northern Macedonia, Hungary, Syria, Spain and Peru also really got beyond themselves in the Community Dance. It was a very touching and moving demonstration of humanity!
Gabriele Lechner
Rector of the Primary and Secondary School Pfeffenhausen/Lower Bavaria; the school has had a partnership for 20 years with Szkoła Podstawowa im. Marii Konopnickiej in Jaworzyna Slaska. For the 20th anniversary of the school partnership, the HUMAN Community Dance Workshop ended with a performance of the HUMAN themes "Home", "Protection" and "Love" (Choreographer: Wilfried van Poppel, Amaya Lubeig, Susan Barnett; 10/2022).
Bremen and dance, Bremen and human rights - they all match in a wonderful way. I am very happy that this exciting and important project is starting here in Bremen and I wish that it will reach many young people and sensitise them to the value of human rights until it ends in the year after next.
Dr. Andreas Bovenschulte
Mayor, President of the Bremen Senate, Patron of the HUMAN dance premiere at the Bremen Theatre
I’m so enthusiastic about HUMAN because this creative dance project brings my somewhat gutsy composure to the fore where there is no dividing line between a playful presence and depth, spirituality and human rights.
Pierre Stutz
Author of the HUMAN book "Menschlichkeit JETZT!"
To us as a label, the HUMAN project means empathy and enthusiasm for interpreting the UN’s declaration of human rights in music and dance in a brand-new way.
Marcus Heinicke
Senior Product Manager, Edel Kultur/Berlin Classics
In helping to shape them, the HUMAN European Culture Project pays tribute to human rights and all those involved.
Gerhard Ziener
Pedagogical-Theological Centre Stuttgart
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A HUMAN performance that took us with it. Two-way unification and decoding of movement and music. Deep and joyful at the very same time. A touching reminder of human rights, so valuable and so much under threat.
Katharina Vollmer
Pastor, Swiss German Reformed Parish of Geneva, on the HUMAN performance on UN Human Rights Day, 10.12.2022 at the Temple de Madeleine (Direction by Prof. Nathalie Effenberger Dance School Youra Tcheremissinoff)
For me, HUMAN is the chance of an intercultural embrace by people who respect life.
David Cisternas
Violinist and dramaturge of the Kammerensemble Konsonanz
The human rights are the minimum common framework on the grounds of which the individual can develop. Therefore, they must be collectively demanded and protected. In the workshop team formed by Amaya and Wilfred, we are all pieces of a beautiful puzzle whose elements join together to form a whole. But the message is never clear, it requires audience members who are challenged by what happens on stage.
Angélica López de la Manzanara
Jurist, participant in the HUMAN Community Dance project in Asturias in summer 2022
For me, HUMAN is about essentials: Beyond language and cultural barriers, we are people - with bodies that want to move. Community Dance can overcome walls and build bridges! So let us dance!
Nanni Kloke
Choreography Team HUMAN Premiere
Even the first rehearsal we had together was full of touching, humorous, exciting moments. It was a great feeling to see how intensively the students had already engaged with human rights and music. I am looking forward to the big performance in June.
Lena Simon
Cultural Office of the City of Wolfenbüttel, Director of the HUMAN Project at the Lessingtheater Wolfenbüttel
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