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Music Moves makes dance floors accessible for everyone

Monday, 11 October 2021
Music Moves and ADE have collaborated with the aim of making dance floors more accessible and inclusive. Music Moves was brought to life to help music fans become social entrepreneurs and kickstart their careers in the music industry, and this year they have organized eleven inclusive ADE events.

Students followed a 4-part course, where they learned the tricks of the trade in organizing music events. Music Moves focusses on including people you normally wouldn't see on the dance floor, such as the elderly, young kids, newcomers in our country, homeless people, or people with a disability. We're shining a light on all the Music Moves events, a part of our Arts & Culture program.

Thursday

ADAMMIX

Free to visit and starting with an open stage: ADAMMIX invites everybody and especially newcomers to participate and perform on Thursday evening at the auditorium of Oosterbar. All musical styles are welcome, and the open stage will end in a banging party, where you can make new friends and connections. The ADAMMIX event especially welcomes newcomers, but everybody is welcome to express their love for music.


De Stoelendans (The Chair Dance)
De stoelendans is a wheelchair dance workshop, where wheelchair users are invited to dance together and with the people close to them. Family members, friends, neighbours: everybody is welcome to dance in their own way. Just like Music Moves says: 'anything is possible.'

Muziek Verbindt (Music Unites)
Muziek Verbindt, or Music Unites, is an event created to raise awareness for the creative powers of young people with mental disabilities. Their disabilities may be not observable at first glance, but their strengths can be brought to light with music. This events grants young people the opportunity to experience and feel the power of music together, in a loving way.


Draai Je Grijs (Play Yourself Gray)
Dance music is not just for young people, as Music Moves invites the elderly on Thursday at Vreugdehof. Their workshop 'painting on music from the past' brings music and art together and ends in a afternoon dancing on hits from the past.

ADAMMIX

Free to visit and starting with an open stage: ADAMMIX invites everybody and especially newcomers to participate and perform on Thursday evening at the auditorium of Oosterbar. All musical styles are welcome, and the open stage will end in a banging party, where you can make new friends and connections. The ADAMMIX event especially welcomes newcomers, but everybody is welcome to express their love for music.


De Stoelendans (The Chair Dance)
De stoelendans is a wheelchair dance workshop, where wheelchair users are invited to dance together and with the people close to them. Family members, friends, neighbours: everybody is welcome to dance in their own way. Just like Music Moves says: 'anything is possible.'

Muziek Verbindt (Music Unites)
Muziek Verbindt, or Music Unites, is an event created to raise awareness for the creative powers of young people with mental disabilities. Their disabilities may be not observable at first glance, but their strengths can be brought to light with music. This events grants young people the opportunity to experience and feel the power of music together, in a loving way.


Draai Je Grijs (Play Yourself Gray)
Dance music is not just for young people, as Music Moves invites the elderly on Thursday at Vreugdehof. Their workshop 'painting on music from the past' brings music and art together and ends in a afternoon dancing on hits from the past.

Friday

Dansplaats (Dancing Place)
Dansplaats is a place where people with intellectual disabilities can go wild at the silent disco, sing their hearts out at karaoke, or become a DJ during the workshop Music Moves is providing. This event at Volta, a location near Westerpark, is free of charge.

Liberated People
Liberated People is an event that focusses on channeling and releasing pain, and turning scars by sexual assault into something creative and liberating. Music Moves offers positivity workshops, where dance, connection with others and music guide you through the day.

Moving Events x Philadelphia
Music Moves invites people with intellectual disabilities to already sold-out workshops that aspire to inspire, by inspirational speakers and seeking a connection in each other.

The Silent Silent Disco
Music Moves is hosting a silent disco at Meet Berlage, a venue in Amsterdam West. This silent disco is free of entrance, and especially for the deaf and hard of hearing, where all senses are stimulated.

Doek Gevoel (Canvas Feeling)
Always wanted to paint to live music? Music Moves makes it possible for you to fill a canvas with your own creation, while chatting with elderly people. Doek Gevoel organizes accessible painting workshops for all ages, where inclusiveness and connection are paramount. After the workshop, you're invited to enjoy a bite and a drink with other participants.


Uit Je Dak (Off the Roof)

Music Moves has found that stories by street artists often go untold. In an attempt to change this for the better, they are inviting you to a showcase by homeless and street musicians. Inloophuis Makom will be the stage during of this free event on ADE Friday, a place where people can get a free meal, a shower, or find connection with others. All proceeds will be donated directly to the artists themselves.

Dansplaats (Dancing Place)
Dansplaats is a place where people with intellectual disabilities can go wild at the silent disco, sing their hearts out at karaoke, or become a DJ during the workshop Music Moves is providing. This event at Volta, a location near Westerpark, is free of charge.

Liberated People
Liberated People is an event that focusses on channeling and releasing pain, and turning scars by sexual assault into something creative and liberating. Music Moves offers positivity workshops, where dance, connection with others and music guide you through the day.

Moving Events x Philadelphia
Music Moves invites people with intellectual disabilities to already sold-out workshops that aspire to inspire, by inspirational speakers and seeking a connection in each other.

The Silent Silent Disco
Music Moves is hosting a silent disco at Meet Berlage, a venue in Amsterdam West. This silent disco is free of entrance, and especially for the deaf and hard of hearing, where all senses are stimulated.

Doek Gevoel (Canvas Feeling)
Always wanted to paint to live music? Music Moves makes it possible for you to fill a canvas with your own creation, while chatting with elderly people. Doek Gevoel organizes accessible painting workshops for all ages, where inclusiveness and connection are paramount. After the workshop, you're invited to enjoy a bite and a drink with other participants.


Uit Je Dak (Off the Roof)

Music Moves has found that stories by street artists often go untold. In an attempt to change this for the better, they are inviting you to a showcase by homeless and street musicians. Inloophuis Makom will be the stage during of this free event on ADE Friday, a place where people can get a free meal, a shower, or find connection with others. All proceeds will be donated directly to the artists themselves.

Sunday

Movement
Music Moves joins forces with Samen Warm Welkom Amsterdam, an organization that works hard for the rights, residence and representation of migrants and status holders in The Netherlands. For their Music Moves event, they host a day where like-minded people can dance, get to know each other and participate in workshops, performances and DJ sets.

As a special treat, Yallah! Yallah! will close the day with a set that's full of electronic beats coming from the Arabic music world. This event is free of charge.

Movement
Music Moves joins forces with Samen Warm Welkom Amsterdam, an organization that works hard for the rights, residence and representation of migrants and status holders in The Netherlands. For their Music Moves event, they host a day where like-minded people can dance, get to know each other and participate in workshops, performances and DJ sets.

As a special treat, Yallah! Yallah! will close the day with a set that's full of electronic beats coming from the Arabic music world. This event is free of charge.

Curious about everything cultural during ADE? Check out our complete Arts & Culture program: