Solidarity with the people of Palestine

Nomad Dance Academy (NDA) is a transnational network of dance artists and cultural workers rooted in the legacy of the Non‑Aligned Movement: anti-colonial solidarity, cultural sovereignty, and commitment to emancipatory artistic and pedagogical practices.

In response to the ongoing genocide in Gaza and decades of settler-colonial oppression, we express our unequivocal solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle for freedom, justice and historical accountability. Our position draws on the political imagination of the Non-Aligned: a refusal to side with imperial powers, a rejection of domination in all its forms, and a commitment to cultural resistance that centers people over nationhoods, justice over neutrality.
We therefore commit to refusing collaboration with Israeli state institutions and all entities that enable or benefit from Israel’s policies of ethnic cleansing, land dispossession and systemic violence.

At the same time, we remain open to collaboration with Israeli artists, researchers and organisations who actively oppose the genocidal war on Palestinians, occupation and systemic violence, who are not funded by the Israeli state and who share the foundational values of freedom, justice and equality. Such collaborations are not gestures of false balance, but a continuation of Non-Aligned political ethics that rejects both normalisation and isolation.

We believe that art- especially dance and somatic practices- can act as a space of decolonial imagination and of articulation of resistance. In all projects, partnerships and exchanges, we commit to transparency of funding sources, ethical accountability in collaboration and a clear position against the normalisation of the genocide, occupation and injustice.

Our commitment to justice includes a responsibility to be vigilant in how art and culture are mobilised – to question when they serve propaganda or whitewashing, and to affirm when they create space for resistance, mourning, survival and shared struggle. This is not a temporary position, but an ongoing ethical and political horizon that guides our actions and alliances.