FRAGILE is based on the experience of the Norwegian choreographer Kjersti Engebrigtsen in dance with blind persons and similar experiences of choreographers in Estonia and Portugal.The aim of this project is to exchange knowledge about dancing with blind/visually impaired persons and to enhance the integration of visually impaired persons in the performing arts through transnational collaboration. Objectives are that dancers, choreographers and the visually impaired will be able to find a new “dance language” together and that professional dancers can enhance their working opportunities through new possibilities of expression.The project will cross art borders as well as country borders by including composers, costume and lighting designers and filmmakers from different countries. In addition special needs educators and dance teachers will collaborate with the project, this will raise their awareness for the importance of movement for the visually impaired. The partners will collaborate through Learning Workshops and will create three new performances, which will be shown in 2013 and documented in three documentary films.The implementation of the project is divided in three main phases:1. From September 2011 to July 2012 the Norwegian choreographer will hold seminars/workshops with choreographers in Estonia and Portugal for dancers and visually impaired persons from the partner countries. 2. In 2013 the three choreographers from Norway, Estonia and Portugal will develop new performances together with their dancers and the visually impaired performers, who have some movement experience. 3. The production of three dance pieces will be completed in spring 2013, and be presented in Oslo, Tallinn and Lisbon. The results of the project will be communicated in a suitable way to professional dance milieus, relevant universities/research institutes, organisations for the visually impaired and public authorities through a Symposium in spring 2013 in Lisbon.