Perform Europe: one year of touring
From city squares to mountain peaks - Perform Europe projects have been on the move for a year now: 42 projects. 41 countries. 155 presentations (and counting), testing innovative, inclusive, and eco-conscious touring models.
And we’re not done yet. The tour continues until November 2025. Discover what’s happening near you.
Here below we present three projects supported by Perform Europe in which EFA Members are involved.
The long shadow of Alois Brunner
The project will take place on 18 July 2025 at Mittelfest.
Syrian Collective Ma’louba’s (Mudar Alhaggi, Wael Kadour, Mohammad Alrashi) production of ‘The Long Shadow of Alois Brunner’ will tour Bulgaria, Tunisia, Italy, Norway and Kosovo, connecting with local migrant and refugee communities. Discussions, panels and workshops will explore the reality and politics of migration and how the ‘long shadow’ of history and past conflicts impacts lives today.
Connecting Silent Voices
The project will take place on 22 July at Dance Festival Malta
CONNECTING SILENT VOICES is an artistic collaboration between BILOURA Intercultural Arts Collective from Italy, DanceBeyondBorders from Malta, WomanUp from Bulgaria and Artpolis from Kosovo, focusing on the topic of marginalisation and exploitation of women in the sex industry. It aims to raise awareness and empower communities to create actions as well as to create visibility, debate and inclusion through art on a very marginalised and veiled topic.
The project will tour the dance performance ‘SILENT VOICES’ and create activities in collaboration with local communities, activist groups and NGOs through workshops, public debates and fundraising campaigns in each country.
ALASKA - the pursuit of happiness & the abusive world
The project took place from 17 to 24 February at Gdansk Shakespeare Theatre.
One of the last performances to take place in Mariupol, Ukraine, was written four months before the Russian invasion. This work gives voice to the city’s youth after their theatre was completely demolished. The performance will tour in Poland, Hungary, and Bosnia where it will meet local young actors as well as Ukrainians who live in these countries. A new troupe will be formed and the performance reinvented in a devising-documentary style through a seven-day workshop, achieving all the programme’s goals for inclusion and diversity.
A voice is given to the people of Mariupol but also to local Europeans to express their truth about the issues of war, the meaning and purpose of life, friendship, family, nation, trauma, and mental health. ‘Alaska’ is a performance about the pursuit of happiness and security in an abusive world.
Credits
Perform Europe is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union and implemented by a consortium of six organisations: IETM, EFA, Circostrada, European Dancehouse Network, Pearle*, and IDEA Consult.