NOMAD Dance Academy is education and research program of Balkan Dance Network that gathers all available potentials and resources in contemporary dance on local and regional level with the aim to contribute to improvement and professionalization of contemporary dance in the Balkans.

Specific problems in the Balkans addressed by NDA are:

• Lack of higher education programs,
• Lack of cultual policy in the field,
• Lack of development funds for contemporary dance,
• Low visibility of contemporary dance within local cultures,
• Need for professionalisation of contemporary dance field.

This initiative – Nomad Dance Academy – should open possibilities for development of the existing artistic practices and potentials in contemporary dance based on:

• intense regional cooperation and exchange,
• important international networking and credibility of the artists from the Balkans,
• need for empowering common market which should enable sustainability of new productions and better social status of contemporary dancers and choreographers,
• need for interdisciplinary approach to contemporary dance which is a synergetic art form relying on various art fields (visual arts, new media, music, theater, video, art theory....) and enriching these art fields,
• need for development of pedagogues who will take over extension of education policies with contemporary dance.

Program NOMAD DANCE ACADEMY have three lines:

1. educational programme
2. research programme and regional creative collaboration collaboration
3. regional production and co-production

The NOMAD Dance Academy program consists of three program lines with a different focus on education, research programs and regional creative cooperation and regional productions and co-productions.