SHIFT Shaping Harmony, Innovating Forms & Thought 2024-26 is a groundbreaking project funded by the Culture strand of the Creative Europe programme of the European Commission.

The project, led by Cie Omar Rajeh & Maqamat (France) with the partners Fabbrica Europa and Albania Dance Meeting (Albania), aims to transform the way dance is experienced and presented.

SHIFT seeks to explore new formats of artistic expression, community engagement, and audience interaction, involving artists, experts, and citizens from multiple EU and Mediterranean countries.
SHIFT aims to uncover the essential conditions for transitioning from the ‘visual’ to the ‘active’, illuminating the requirements for engaged creations, innovative relationships, and unconventional audience experiences

The project kicked off in 2024 in Florence with the first On-site Explorations (13-16 October), continued in Tirana (17-19 January 2025) with The Big Dance Lab, and in Lebanon with Telescope Beirut (4-10 April 2025).

Also in 2025 (September-October), SHIFT has a new phase in Florence, as part of the Fabbrica Europa Festival, with further developments in research and work on unconventional spaces.

The project continue in Albania with Telescope Korça (4-8 March 2026), and will culminate with the final event Dance People – Le Happening in Lyon, from 19 to 21 June 2026, during which citizens will immerse themselves in an interactive journey of artistic creativity and community participation.
For this final phase of the project, a Call was launched, open to artists, choreographers, dancers, researchers, architects, poets, circus artists, social thinkers, and other creatives from across Europe and the Mediterranean, whose work engages with space, community, and shared action.

SHIFT is a project