The day is finally here! Rockheim/Ringve and the Norwegian Center for Folk Music and Folk Dance invite you to an exhibition opening!
Free entry! We offer something good in a glass.

On Friday 18 October at 14:00, the European dance exhibition Dance - Europe's living heritage in motion opens at Rockheim! It will be on display until mid-March 2025. 

Come and enjoy a free lecture with Professor Egil Bakka about common features in various dance traditions we find in Europe today, and how this is reflected in Norwegian traditions. Films and photos are shown here, and we talk about the major trends in European dance history.

The European exhibition makes it easier to understand dance as part of our daily lives. Here you get to meet different dance environments through film, posters and dance. The films were made in the various countries and illustrate the different dance environments and give an insight into Europe's rich dance traditions. We want to create exhibitions with room for dance so that visitors can take part in the dance together with the dance environments. Together, this constitutes a new concept that we have called a dance party exhibition. The European project will encourage and stimulate participation in the dance. The focus is on the joint dance, with room for everyone to participate. Dance parties are an expression of the present, based on the past, but with an eye on the future.

The exhibition is curated by 9 partners in the @Dance-ICH project, and produced by partner @Museul Astra in Romania.
The European project Dance as Intangible Cultural Heritage: New models of facilitating participatory dance events (Dance - ICH) runs from 2022 to 2025. The project brings together over 20 researchers, curators, dance educators and archivists from nine different institutions in six countries, who have researched on dance as living cultural heritage in several different dance environments. 

The project is part-financed by the EU. 
Cover image: Jana Pavlova