HUMAN
International Culture project

"More than ever, our world needs humanity. So I am very happy that HUMAN wants to overcome opposites with young people in order to realize the dream of equality and unity of cultures in a loving and humane way."

"Project HUMAN is about all of us. Regardless of your skin color, country of origin, age, background, disability or culture, it's about you. And it's a privilege to be a part of it!"

"The HUMAN evening carried us away. Mutual union and decoding of movement and music. Profound and joyful at the same time. A moving reminder of human rights, which are so precious and so threatened."

"The HUMAN project means for us as a label: empathy and enthusiasm to put the UN human rights in music and dance in a completely new way in sound and image."

"It's about self-confidence. HUMAN is a very beautiful project where you can express yourself, and I think that's great."

"Expressing in free dance what shows up moment to moment on these compositions by Helge Burggrabe on elemental themes of being human, unites us as a group and brings our individual expression of humanity to the world. From the bottom of our hearts, THANK YOU for this great gift!"

"The music and the dance express what cannot be said and about which it is impossible to be silent. Man must not be silent and must not be silenced. That is why we dance."

"With HUMAN, we want to encourage young people to develop their personal strengths and visions with the goal of going their own way as part of a free and tolerant society.

"For me, the HUMAN performance expressed a new human right, as essential as any other: the right to be who you are!"

„Es war eine einmalige Erfahrung. Eine neue Verbindung zu sich selbst und allen anderen."

"Dancing together is so wonderful. Because dance is a great language that all people understand. I take great joy in expressing the 13 pieces on being human. I've really been bitten by the dance bug!"

"HUMAN offers an inspiring and empowering opportunity for youth and all others involved to work together on an artistic project, and with a focus on the values, needs, and desires common to all people, to creatively counter the current tide of global issues that are shaking our inner stability."

"It is a very special opportunity to share with others and through HUMAN and dance theater to bring body movements, images and demands for human rights such as freedom, equality, creativity ... forever into the world."

"With a dance project like HUMAN, everyone can participate. There is consideration for one's own abilities and the best is brought out."

"For me, HUMAN is the chance of an intercultural embrace between people who value life."

"A project like HUMAN emphasizes what unites all people and makes us think about how important human rights are. I'm happy to contribute to making society more aware of their importance."

The moving engagement with human rights set positive processes in motion in the participants and promoted and enriched communication between all.

"Well, I think human rights are an incredibly brilliant idea! That man as a species, which is very much characterized by 'survival of the fittest', can conceive of such ideals of equality, freedom and connectedness, that is a phenomenal achievement."

"A great project! I wish all participants deep lasting and happy impressions and encounters. I would love to dance along immediately! Hopefully the message will also reach places and people where it is especially needed, so that human rights can really be rights of all people."

"Edris - a young Afghan who danced in this project won my heart! Between despair and tears in his eyes from laughter, he made me live through everything in the four days. At the end, he gave me a Turkish euro, which he probably had with him as a good luck charm on his escape. It was really as if someone was pressing a gold treasure into my hand out of sheer gratitude of being seen. THAT touched and impressed me deeply."

"Don't be afraid to be big, it was one of the best experiences of my life."

"The HUMAN project let me meet new people and visit new places to create amazing choreography."

"The HUMAN International Culture Project as a process of human rights education honours human rights and also all the contributors to it."

"Dancing with people is always very moving and fills the heart immensely, especially when you see so many different people who didn't know each other before dancing a piece like HUMAN together on stage."

"Our film project HUMANrights is an extraordinary project - for our club Soroptimist Leer-Papenburg, for us as people and for our region. Inspired by Helge Burggrabe and the Human International Culture Project, we have brought together people from our region from and in different phases of life and everyday life, networked them and connected them in this film. People from associations, school classes, families, nursing homes and many more. The result is a joint project which, as a whole, brings the topic of human rights into the world with great radiance."