The Crossing Lines Project (2015-2018) ︎︎︎

was an EU-wide project for performances in the public space. It was an European large scale cooperation project, co-funded by the Creative Culture Programme of the European Union.One of its results has been a new international ensemble, made up of 30 participants from the site-specific productions initiated by the partners from 2015 to 2017.

In this first phase of the project, productions for the public space were created for festivals of the ten partners in seven European countries. These performances have been developed in the corresponding cities with a focus on that city’s history, location or some other special characteristic.

Between 15 and 40 young adults from the each city worked with the artistic direction team to develop a production in approximately two weeks’ time. Then they presented this production within the scope of a festival or special framework programme. In addition to the forms typical for this genre (such as acrobatics and theatre), the medium of expression for the productions is primarily hip-hop, and rap (poetry slam).

Up to three participants from each of the ten partner cities were chosen and invited to come to Freiburg in June/July 2017 for an intensive production phase.
In Freiburg a large-scale venue production CROSSING LINES for several thousand spectators was developed and had premiere on 28 July 2017. Then it went on tour to all partners, the last performance was at 22nd July 2018 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.