E-Motional: rethinking dance is an artist and manager-driven initiative, dedicated to exchange, research & artistic collaboration, co-production & touring, and audience development at European level. The guiding idea of this programme is finding the right language in the production of new cultural contents in the field of contemporary dance in the new Europe. The project cooperation scheme involves dance professionals and organisations from Romania, Latvia, Portugal, as well as from Ireland and Luxembourg, but it is also open to artists from more EU countries.The project embodies the processes of cooperation and mobility at European level for dance and movement, reflection, research and professional development, and their innovative translation into production. E-Motional launches a new concept of creative collaboration (the Reflection Platform) by generating a sharing, brainstorming and production format designed for mixed groups of dance professionals, and undertakes interdisciplinary artistic residencies, sharing formats for artistic processes, and performance programming. The production of new European artistic works, which trespasses contemporary dance scenes in each country, is also central to the project.The array of interlinked activities are generating an original eco-system of the European dance and a new model of interaction and cultural development that will function as a platform open to artists, cultural organisations and audiences.The project links small size, but highly dynamic and creative organisations in Europe, and supports them in order to extend their cultural and artistic reach across borders. E-Motional: rethinking dance acknowledges and advocates that it is their extensive contribution to the shaping of the local contexts for contemporary dance, their empowerment potential, and their function as both nests and flexible and growing pillars of European creativity, that make them essential to both European citizens and to European arts.