The WHY NOT? Collective was founded in 2018 in North Rhine-Westphalia. We develop transdisciplinary formats at the intersection of dance, media art, sound design, and visual arts. Our focus lies on transcultural themes and the combination of digital and analogue elements in order to rethink memory, performance, and transformation.

We understand bodies as living archives and consciously position non-European dance practices against their exoticization and devaluation. For us, dance is an archive of resilience, memory, and connectedness. We create spaces for diasporic communities in which knowledge is preserved, shared, and artistically transformed.

The WHY NOT? Collective was founded in 2018 in North Rhine-Westphalia. We develop transdisciplinary formats at the intersection of dance, media art, sound design, and visual arts. Our focus lies on transcultural themes and the combination of digital and analogue elements in order to rethink memory, performance, and transformation.

We understand bodies as living archives and consciously position non-European dance practices against their exoticization and devaluation. For us, dance is an archive of resilience, memory, and connectedness. We create spaces for diasporic communities in which knowledge is preserved, shared, and artistically transformed.