Dance Moves Cities is a two year international artistic project, focusing on the potential of urban spaces to become inspiration sites for contemporary dance creations and international collaboration as a mode of production. It is centered around opposite notions of „international/local”, “experienced/emerging”, “solid/temporary“, “dance spaces/non-dance spaces”, “community/individual” and aims to re-think the capacity of contemporary dance to take place outside traditional venues.At the core of the project there is a series of city residencies involving experienced international choreographers leading teams of local young dance artists in three cities on the edge of European dance territory – Riga in Latvia, Terni in Italy and Krakow in Poland. The residencies and creation process will take place in different urban sites, away from traditional dance venues or performing spaces, and produce each time a new creation for the city. This first step of the project will be followed in the next stage with a final gathering in Riga where the young artists of the project will meet and mix among themselves and in a course of one week develop their own artistic proposals to be carried out in the city spaces. The results of both project stages will be presented to wide public locally and internationally. The project is based on the strategy of turning existing limits and disadvantages into advantages. It will play with the restrictions that are found in the surrounding circumstances in the four project cities and turn them into a resource.The activities will involve a number of young generation dance makers in each of the three partner cities, several leading international dance artists (from outside the project countries) and address wide city audiences that will become the witnesses of urban dance creations.