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BACKGROUND
In 1995, Patricia Cremins of Wyoming Dance Theater Project, Susan Osberg of Workwith Dancers Company, and Joan Duddy, Director of the Dance Program at Dia Center for the Arts, created a successful model for Dance Across Borders, the first international symposium on cooperative exchange in Dance. Dance Across Borders was originally conceived as a cooperative, grass roots exchange, initiated by dance artists. With the support of the Dia Center for the Arts in New York, a partnership developed with the School of New Dance Development in Amsterdam, and Unga Atalante/Rubicon in Gothenberg. Participating choreographers, teachers, dancers, and administrators came from New York City, Venezuela, India, France, the Netherlands, Estonia, Sweden, Canada and China. It was funded by a New York State Council on the Arts challenge grant with matching funds from the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation

Susan Osberg and Pat Cremins are now co-directors and founders of DAB in the United States. Since the first event with the administrative support of Joan Duddy at Dia, DAB symposiums, large and small, have provided an opportunity for an ongoing dialogue between dance artists, who meet in different locales, exchanging thoughts and experiences while watching each other's work change over time. New artists have been added each year through a video review and recommendation by the peer panel of artists and relationships have been forged over time. The hosting site determines the themes addressed in each symposium.


. Related events include:

Bodies of Influence was a cooperative effort between School of New Dance Development (SNDO) and Dance Across Borders. This symposium included artists from the United States, Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain, France, Germany, Lithuania, Belgium, and Switzerland, and took place in Amsterdam from June 9-21, 1996.
Small-scale DAB events in 1996 sponsored by two artist-run theaters: Unga Atalante in Sweden and Le Regard du Cygne in France.
Unga Atalante in Gothenberg, Sweden, sponsored the third Dance Across Borders symposium, held August 15-24, 1997.
Dance Across Borders NYC: Delicious Dialogue: Conversation & Performance, November 13-14, 1999, at Squid, 127 Fulton Street.
Food For Thought, Dance Across Borders, a showcase for U.S. artists sponsored by Danspace Project, January 2000.
Dance Across Borders, Polli Talu, Estonia, 2000, a small symposium at a rural Estonian arts center with participants from the United States, Scandinavia, Poland, Lithuania, Slovenia, Bulgaria, and Lithuania. Partially funded by the Soros Foundation and The Trust for Mutual Understanding.
DAB Symposium, Unga Atalante in Gothenburg, Sweden, August 2001, featured artists from Ireland, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Estonia, Sweden, Finland, USA, Canada, and France.
2006 Gun Lund, co-director in Sweden will collaborate with Director artists Mirielle Feyzeau, Amy Swanson and Fabrice Dugied from Le Regard du Cygne for a DAB project that will take place in Bordeaux, Normandy and in Paris.
2007, Susan Osberg is Diretor of DAB at Bard College, working with Tambra Dillon, (Director of the Fisher Art Center at Bard College) and co-directors: Pat Cremins and Joan Duddy, to facilitate a Symposium which will take place May 29th- June 16th.

Créé en 1995, Dance Across Borders est un réseau international d'artistes, d'administrateurs et de structures désireux de partager leurs œuvres et leurs pratiques corporelles et pédagogiques dans un esprit coopératif et non-commercial.