On curation: The development of Danscross and walking with Zhuangzi

This is a story which has been organised not only by the chronology of the events, but also by an attempt to identify and draw together some thematic strands gleaned from the experience of curating the ArtsCross initiative. It focuses largely on the early phase: the development of the project as a collaboration between ResCen Research Centre and the Beijing Dance Academy over a three year period and the first presentation and conference. The history of this initiative is one of organic growth, a development which has responded to evolving research concerns as well as the evolving relationships between the partners. The initiative as a whole has included a series of projects: first Danscross: Dancing in a shaking world (Beijing 2009); then ArtsCross Taipei 2011: Uncertain…waiting…; followed by ArtsCross Beijing 2012: Light and water and finally ArtsCross London 2013: Leaving home: being elsewhere.