The project W-EST_WHERE builds on prior activities and interests of dance organizations partners in this project with the objective to connect South-East European countries – as the spring board of inspiration rooted in diverse cultrues through the intrinsic long term goal of developing a dance community in the Balkan region.  

It is this belief in the possibility of creating  new structures in culture which will allow for exchanges and new partnerships between dancers, choreographers and others who participate in the cultural sectors in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, Macedonia, Serbia and Bulgaria

The project creates opportunities for artists originating from South East Europe through opening a window for touring works outside of national borders, regionally as well as through Western Europe. The project also aims to provide enhanced visibility of dance performances and the promotion of the art of contemporary dance in general.

Choreographers and dancers exchange experiences and ideas through workshops and seminars; it is the start of a creative dance laboratorium as an additional avenue to research and transfer knowledge; it enables emerging artists to present their respective works. 

W_EST WHERE comes alive in the field of contemporary dance which is, as any other contemporary art, it is by definition and curren trends an interdisciplinary one, while at the same it questions and references tradition, both that inherited as well as the one which will result from these cultural activities.   

There are well over 10,000  direct beneficiaries of this project – artists, cultural professionals, and the audiences. Indirectly the beneficiaries of these programs are all of the citizens of Europe and primarily due to an increased level of use of the intenet as a promotinoal and communication tool around the project.   

In addition of the creation of a unique network of European choreographers, the aim of the project is to emphasize the plurality of European cultures which are open to a meeting with the other as well as partnerships and through these encounters  which remain open to each and the other. And, through this project to strive  in addition to development of a pluralistic European culture open to others and towards each other and through the encounters of these  cultures create an European identity based on the principle: "In varietate Concordia".