Zagreb, Croatia
26-30 September, 2022
Budapest, Hungary
30 January - 3 February, 2023
Perth, Australia
26-29 September, 2023
Best of Perth
Brussels, Belgium
6-11 May, 2024
Best of Brussels
The "Interdisciplinary Dialogue" (ID) project, a three-year Erasmus+ initiative designed to foster collaboration and innovation in arts education.
The project sought to broaden perspectives, encourage cross-disciplinary thinking, and equip future arts practitioners with the adaptability and mental flexibility necessary to address the challenges of the 21st century. By connecting institutions across Europe and Australia, the ID project facilitated knowledge exchange, experimentation, and the development of new pedagogical models.
ID is an invitation to try, an invitation to familiarity (recognition) rather than mastery of a discipline. The experience of becoming familiar with a particular discipline is worth the risk of trying. We might not master the discipline we have learned, but its possibilities become clearer and closer to us. (Goran Ferčec, ADU)
The core principle driving this project—interdisciplinary dialogue—rests on the idea of collaborative practice. Successful artistic endeavors depend on seamless teamwork.
Through the "Interdisciplinary Dialogue" project, our students not only expanded their artistic and cultural knowledge but also developed critical skills that will serve them well in their future careers. They learned to adapt to new environments, think creatively under pressure, and collaborate with individuals from diverse backgrounds—all of which are essential abilities in the ever-evolving world of the arts.
“Dialogic presence is a time of presence in which the questioner is waiting for a response and the respondent is not yet responding. The other person will be with me as long as the silence between question and answer lasts. {...} Dialogic time is a time of dramatic tension. The retention in this time is the immediate awareness of the weight of the question just asked, the pretension is the waiting for an answer, and the present is presence - my presence for the other person and the other person's presence for me." - Józef Tischner: A dráma filozófiája. Európa Kiadó. Bp. 2000.6
“These moments of culture sharing in between the theatre-making are moments of true person to person culture sharing that are precious and that the theatre facilitates.” (Frances Barbe (WAAPA))
“A dancer or actor can use their body movements, steps, breath, voice or the sounds of their clothes to significantly contribute to the performance and intensify contact with the audience.” (IVAN ZELIĆ (ADU))