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Jette Loona Hermanis & Anna Ansone at the [8:tension] Podcast

Episode 17 of our [8:tension] Podcast is out! Meet choreographer Jette Loona Hermanis from Estland and visual artist and stage designer Anna Ansone from Latvia!

05.12.2024 - 12.12.2024 @ ImPulsTanz Vienna
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Bita Bell

In the frame of our programme Capacity Grid, Bita Bell is visiting Puzzle#8 in Belgrade in December. 

02.12.2024 - 06.12.2024 @ Belgrade
Elvan Tekin © Jubal Battisti
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Elvan Tekin

Elvan Tekin, who is currently working at Uferstudios Berlin in the frame of On The Outset, is visiting our network partner MDT in Stockholm this week.

02.12.2024 - 06.12.2024 @ MDT Stockholm
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j.bouey & Tyrone Bevans at the [8:tension] Podcast

Episode 16 of our [8:tension] Podcast is out! This time with j. bouey and Tyrone Bevans, both waacking dancers and choreographers based in New York.

28.11.2024 - 05.12.2024 @ ImPulsTanz Vienna
Reading The Room by Imre Vass © Barnabás Neogrády-Kiss
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Imre Vass in residency at Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia

Imre Vass, on his second Creative Crossroads Exchange, is visiting Ljubljana where he is also diving into CoFestival.

25.11.2024 - 13.12.2024 @ Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia
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Viní Ventania & Vitória Jovem – Irmãs Brasil – at the [8:tension] Podcast

Episode 15 of our [8:tension] Podcast is out! It has never been that crowded behind the microphone: Today’s guests are Viní Ventania and Vitória Jovem, performing together as Irmãs Brasil.

21.11.2024 - 28.11.2024 @ ImPulsTanz Vienna
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Exhibition Opening: Dancing, Resisting, (Un)working

Dancing, Resisting, (Un)working – Aspects of Dance as a Cultural, Political, and Art Work in Yugoslavia and After is an exhibition curated by Nomad Dance Academy – (Non)Aligned Movements. It performs a long-term research on developing the digital archive of contemporary dance and the performing arts of the post-Yugoslav region.

20.11.2024 - 28.02.2025 @ ChoreoCon 2024, MSU Exhibition Space
© Almud Krejza
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Xenia Koghilaki at the [8:tension] Podcast

Xenia Koghilaki is our guest in episode #14 of the [8:tension] Podcast. It is out now!

14.11.2024 - 21.11.2024 @ ImPulsTanz Vienna
© David Krooshof
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Astrid Boons at the [8:tension] Podcast

Episode 13 of our [8:tension] Podcast is out! Here is Astrid Boons, everyone!

07.11.2024 - 14.11.2024 @ ImPulsTanz Vienna
danceWEB 2025 © yakoone
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danceWEB Applications for 2025 are open!
15.10.2024 - 06.12.2024 @ ImPulsTanz
Raja Feather Kelly © Marq Walls
Raja Feather Kelly – danceWEB Mentor 2025
09.07.2025 - 13.08.2025 @ ImPulsTanz
Puzzle#8 with workshop by André M. Zachery

André M. Zachery gives a workshop on Intention, Invitation, Initiation during Puzzle#8 in Belgrade, Serbia. 

03.12.2024 - 06.12.2024 @ Stanica / Station Belgrade
»We are beings of human origin…«

Part 2 of the PSR Developing Critical Discourse in Balkan 2024: Dramaturge Igor Dobričić will discuss with members of the CoFestival curatorial team Rok Vevar and Dragana Alfirević.

28.11.2024 @ CoFestival, Ljubljana
Participatory Programme: Hangover Session

Discuss with us.

23.11.2024 @ ChoreoCon 2024, MSU Lobby
Performance: O

by Sonja Pregrad

23.11.2024 @ ChoreoCon 2024, MSU Gorgona Hall
Dragon Hunt (filmstill) © Marko Gutic Mizimakov
Film: Dragon Hunt

by Marko Gutić Mižimakov

23.11.2024 @ ChoreoCon 2024, MSU Gorgona Hall
© Jasmina Založnik
Federation of Artistic Actions and Discourse

Part 1 of the PSR Developing Critical Discourse in Balkan 2024: Jasmina Založnik and Alexandra Baybutt present their resent books:  Claiming of Space: New Performative Art Practices in Yugoslavia (published in Slovenian, Maska, 2024) and Contemporary Dance Festivals in the Former Yugoslav Space: (In)dependent Scenes (published in English, Routledge, 2023).

23.11.2024 @ CoFestival, Ljubljana
© Hanna Fasching, collage by Lau Lukkarila
Austrian Premiere: Hold yr ache 2 my ache

Hold yr ache 2 my ache by Zeynab Kirikou Gueye and Lau Lukkarila premieres on 22 November at Tanzquartier Wien! The piece was (also) developed during the Creative Crossroads residencies at STUK Leuven and Workshop Foundation.

22.11.2024 - 23.11.2024 @ TQW Wien
Participatory Programme: Conversations on Assumptions, Beliefs and Habits that linger around in the Field of Dance, whether wanted or unwated / Desires, Fantasies and Imagination

with Lana Hosni

22.11.2024 @ ChoreoCon 2024, MSU Extension
Performance: A Blink of Silence

by Tamara Bračun

22.11.2024 @ ChoreoCon 2024, MSU Gorgona Hall
Performance: Sol

by Silvia Marchig

22.11.2024 @ ChoreoCon 2024, MSU Gorgona Hall
Curatorial Tour: Dancing, Resisting, (Un)working
21.11.2024 @ ChoreoCon 2024, MSU Exhibition Space
Modular School – Interactive Installation

In the frame of ChoreCon 2024, the participants of the Modular School will share their collective work at TALA PLE(j)S. Through an interactive installation, visitors will have the opportunity to explore individual projects intertwined with group responses.

21.11.2024 @ ChoreoCon 2024, TALA PLE(j)S
Participatory Programme: Naama Shoshana Fogiel Lewin

A morning class rooted in a self-creating practice, combining theory and various exercise and movement methods to explore non-normative ways of giving and receiving care for both, our own bodies and others’. 

21.11.2024 @ ChoreoCon 2024, TALA PLE(j)S
Inside the Outside © Suncan Stone
Performance: Inside the Outside

A performance by Deborah Hay & Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia.

21.11.2024 @ ChoreoCon 2024, MSU Gorgona Hall
Glasovi Voices / A Lullaby for Bodies in Free Fall © Sara Salamon
Participatory Programme: Glasovi / Voices: A Lullaby For Bodies in free Fall

A Workshop by Selma Banich & Group For New Folk Practices

21.11.2024 @ ChoreoCon 2024, MSU Gorgona Hall
Panel Discussion: NOMAD DANCE ADVOCACY TRANSFORMATIVE POLICIES FOR DANCE

Antisezona and Nomad Dance Academy put together a day of discussions, aiming to sketch beter future scenarios of our dance community:

Activating the Present of Dance: Discussing Cultural Policies

Futuring: Dance Research as the Foundation of a new Dance Institution

New Structures for a new Future – Call for Action

20.11.2024 @ ChoreoCon 2024, Zagreb Dance Center ZPC
Performance: Desire to make a solid history will end in failure

The starting desire in the creation of this dance performance by Igor Koruga is the question: in what way can archiving dance art be an artistic practice? The author’s exploration of this desire takes place through a transgenerational creative exchange with six choreographers/directors/dancers/performers of the local independent dance scene: Nela Antonović, Anđelija Todorović, Jelena Jović, Tanja Pajović, Boris Čakširan, and Sanja Krsmanović Tasić.

20.11.2024 @ ChoreoCon 2024, MSU Gorgona Hall
CHOREOGRAPHIC CONVENTION 2024 – BODIES IN FREE FALL

Save the date! The Choreographic Convention 2024 is taking place from 19–23 November in Zagreb, hosted by Antisezona, co-hosted by Nomad Dance Academy.

19.11.2024 - 23.11.2024 @ Zagreb
Suvi Tuominen, Dash Che & Oula Rytkoenen © Hrafnkell Birgisson
Mean Time Between Failures at STUK

Mean Time Between Failures, the Helsinki-based experimental dance and performance art collective of Dash Che and Suvi Tuominen. During their Artistic Exchange Residency at STUK, MTBF will work with sound designer Oula Rytkönen, who is a long-term collaborator of the collective. They will focus on dramaturgical and choreographic development of a new dance piece called DOWN BEAT.

19.11.2024 - 01.12.2024 @ Stuk Leuven
Participatory Programme: CONSTELLATION OF BODIES

An open lab by Teodora Ežovska. The focus of the Constellations of Bodies workshop is on creating group dynamics and harmony among participants by developing awareness of internal dynamics, space, time as a measuring unit, and proximity. 

19.11.2024 @ ChoreoCon 2024, TALA PLE(j)S
ChoreoCon 2024 Opening: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE DANCE KIND

A Performance Situation Room: Close encounters of the dance kind

What would you send into the future of dance? We asked the local dance scene to dance and write their answers to the following question: If there were something at your disposal right now that you would send into the future of dance, what would it be? We received answers from those at the beginning of their journeys, as well as from those who have been on this trek for a while. For very trivial practical reasons, the responses presented in the film don’t encapsulate the entirety of our scene, but demonstrate its multiplicity, polyphony, strength, persistence and permanence. 

19.11.2024 @ ChoreoCon 2024, MSU Lobby
Performance: HiHi

Premiere of the Performance Hihi by Ivana Bojanić.

19.11.2024 @ ChoreoCon 2024, MSU Gorgona Hall
Luisa Pisetta © Laoura Tsiati
Luisa Pisetta at the ChoreoCon 2024

In the frame of our programme Outsetters Abroad, Luisa Pisetta Ravanelli started working in Zagreb as part of the organisational team of the ChoreoCon 2024.  

14.11.2024 - 24.11.2024 @ ChoreoCon 2024
Kaïsha Essiane

Kaïsha Essiane is on residency at ICI–CCN in November, working on her Life Long Burning Co-Production Les choses de mon corps.

11.11.2024 - 23.11.2024 @ ICI–CCN Montpellier
© Kerstin Schroth
Soup Talks

Moving in November released its programme for the festival from 7–17 November in Helsinki! One format we are involved in and highly recommend: The Soup Talks, where informal conversations raise between audience and artists mingling around a hot pot full of soup.

07.11.2024 - 17.11.2024 @ Moving in November, Helsinki
Costas Kekis © Evandro Pedroni
Costas Kekis at Moving in November

In the frame of our programme Capacity Grid, Vienna based choreographer Costas Kekis is visiting Helsinkis international dance Festival Moving in November.

07.11.2024 - 17.11.2024 @ Moving in November, Helsinki
Dan Mussett © Bianca Zueneli
Dan Mussett

Dan Mussett is in residence at 4Culture in Bucharest. He is working on a new performance called Fully Automated Luxury Dancing! in which he invites local freelance dancers to each show to re-enact situations from a freelance dancer's life: auditions, classes, rehearsals. In doing so, it attempts to expose and pick apart the micro-politics of the art world, and to question the power dynamics inside it.

05.11.2024 - 15.11.2024
Andrea Vezga © Cesar Vezga Acevedo
Andrea Vezga at Artland Academy

In the frame of Capacity Grid, Andrea Vezga travels to Artland Academy, organised by 4Culture in Rumania. In Timișoara she gives an Afro Fusion dance workshop at the youth center Casa Tineretului.

05.11.2024 - 10.11.2024 @ Casa Tineretului, Timișoara
Eliza Trefas © Christophe Berlet
Eliza Trefas at Moving in November

Eliza Trefas is visiting our Finnish network partner Moving in November for an Artistic Exchange Residency in Helsinki.

04.11.2024 - 17.11.2024 @ Moving in November, Helsinki
Georges Labbat and Chris Haring © Almud Krejza
Georges Labbat at the [8:tension] Podcast

Brand new episode 12 of our [8:tension] Podcast is out! Chris Haring had a chat with French choreographer and dancer Georges Labbat.

31.10.2024 - 07.11.2024 @ ImPulsTanz Vienna
© Hanna Fasching, collage by Lau Lukkarila
Finnish Premiere: Hold yr ache 2 my ache

Hold yr ache 2 my ache by Zeynab Kirikou Gueye and Lau Lukkarila premieres in October in Helsinki! The piece was (also) developed during the Creative Crossroads residencies at STUK Leuven and Workshop Foundation.

24.10.2024 - 26.10.2024 @ Mad House Helsinki
Reading The Room by Imre Vass © Barnabás Neogrády-Kiss
Imre Vass is showing Reading The Room

Reading the room is an ongoing improvisational and performative practice by Imre Vass that invites the audience to witness a journey of investigating precarious routines of increasing the sensitivity of attention. Join in, in Budapest on 24 and 25 October.

24.10.2024 - 25.10.2024
Sean Pfeiffer and Soa Ratsifandrihana @ Almud Krejza
Soa Ratsifandrihana at the [8:tension] Podcast

Episode 11 of our [8:tension] Podcast is out! 

24.10.2024 - 31.10.2024 @ ImPulsTanz Vienna
Cyborg Dancing with Darío Bardam

In the course of Antisezona#4 Darío Bardam is coming to Zagreb. He is sharing his practice based on the work seguir moviendo (keep moving) which he presents at the festival.

18.10.2024 @ Antisezona Zagreb
Lecture Online+Live by Marjana Krajač

In the course of Antisezona#4, Marjana Krajač is giving a live online lecture. In her research she explores spaces at the former Workers and People’s University Moša Pijade in Zagreb that served as dance studios and were used as movement sites during the socialist and post-socialist periods.

17.10.2024 @ Antisezona Zagreb
© Almud Krejza
Deva Schubert at the [8:tension] Podcast

We started to release Season #2 of our [8:tension] Young Choreographers' Series! 

Our first guest is Deva Schubert, dancer and choreographer from Berlin and one of the winners of the 2024 ImPulsTanz – Young Choreographer’s Award with her piece Glitch Choir.

17.10.2024 - 31.10.2024 @ ImPulsTanz Vienna
The Temporary NDA Collective – Inside the Outside Remixed
The Temporary Collective is on residency in Bukarest

The Temporary NDA Collective, our Slovenian Creative Crossroad artists, are in residence at 4Culture in Bularest. On 12 October they show Inside the Outside Remixed at Wasp.

07.10.2024 - 13.10.2024 @ 4Culture Bukarest
© Morgan Hickinbotham
James Batchelor teaches in Budapest

Australian but Berlin based James Batchelor gives a workshop for choreographers and dancers at Trafó House in Budapest. This workshop offers an introduction to James Batchelor’s teaching and choreographic practice, followed by an opportunity for developing knowledge about contemporary dance networks in Europe. Participation of the workshop is for free, registration is necessary!

05.10.2024 - 12.10.2024 @ Trafó Budapest
© James Batchelor, Bek Berger
James Batchelor & Bek Berger in Budapest

James Batchelor and Bek Berger go to Workshop Foundation Budapest for an Artistic Exchange Residency. The two originally Australian, Berlin based and internationally working artists have been working together extensively (and successfully!) since 2017. 

05.10.2024 - 12.10.2024 @ Workshop Foundation Budapest
Bryan Campbell © hyacinthe
Marie Reverdy Feedback Session

IC–CCN has invited playwright Marie Reverdy to accompany a group of people to explore the programmes of Par/ICI: Madeleine Fournier and Bryan Campbell.

03.10.2024 - 18.11.2024 @ ICI–CCN
Cécile Le Claire © Lilya Kaski
Cécile Le Claire is On the Outset at Moving in November

The project manager, artistic mediator and facilitator from France recently moved to Finnland and is now involved in the production of the contemporary dance festival, which takes place from 7–17 November this year.

01.10.2024 - 31.12.2024 @ Moving in November Helsinki
Elvan Tekin © Jubal Battisti
Elvan Tekin

Elvan Tekin is working for Uferstudios in the frame of our programme On The Outset.

01.10.2024 - 31.01.2025 @ Uferstudios Berlin
© Sharrat Cherry
Showing by Adam Seid Tahir in Budapest

Adam Seid Tahir is coming back to Budapest for a work-in-progress-showing. They will share some early fragments from their ongoing research on fictive archaeology which had been developed during their residencies in Budapest, Vienna and Amsterdam this summer.

30.09.2024 @ Workshop Foundation Budapest
© Sharrat Cherry
Showing by Adam Seid Tahir in Amsterdam

Adam Seid Tahir is finishing their residency at Veem House Amsterdam with a showing. They will share some early fragments from their ongoing research on fictive archaeology which had been developed during their residencies in Budapest, Vienna and Amsterdam this summer.

28.09.2024 @ Workshop Foundation Budapest
Stanica / Station Belgrade © Luka Knežević Strika
OPEN CALL – PARTICIPATION IN PUZZLE#8 IN BELGRADE

danceWEB is looking for an emerging dance and choreography artist interested in getting to know the contemporary dance scene in Belgrade and collaborating with the Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist André Zachary.

Application ends on 21 October 2024.

25.09.2024 - 21.10.2024 @ Station Belgrade
PSR The Fortnight

For this PSR, the ICC team has invited artists who address diverse issues and topics related to queer identities, alternative dynamics of pornography, anal politics, the concept of holes as a seclusive system, and pleasure as politically relevant. Through collective practices of co-dreaming, co-thinking, and co-imagining, dance and choreography become active practices aimed at constructing softer and more accurate spaces for contemporary desires within our cultural landscapes.

23.09.2024 - 04.10.2024 @ Sofia
© Maia Eleonora Ledesma
Anna Chwialkowska, Maria Elena Seidenari and Joost Koster researching in Montpellier

Berlin based anthropologist, dancer and dramaturgist Anna Chwialkowska, dancer and social researcher Maria Elena Seidenari and video artist Joost Koster are currently at ICI–CCN in Montpellier, where they look at current near-future scenarios of how to deal with the ecological crisis.

23.09.2024 - 29.09.2024 @ ICI–CCN
@ Benjamin Bledea
Open Call | Join the ChoreoCon team in Zagreb

danceWEB is looking for a dance critic/producer/independent dance curator/artist interested in getting to know the contemporary dance scene in Croatia. This internship is dedicated to the Choreographic Convention from 19–23 November 2024, organised by our partner Antisezona in Zagreb. Application ends on 2 October!

16.09.2024 - 02.10.2024 @ Zagreb
@ Bea Borgers
Adam Seid Tahir at Veem House

Adam Seid Tahir, our Creative Crossroads artist from Stockholm, is in residence in Amsterdam! They will share some early fragments from their ongoing research on fictive archaeology. They’re conducting this research as both a longer research project and the starting point for their new work artifact (working title).

15.09.2024 - 29.09.2024 @ Veem House
Ametonyo Silva © B.Buchmann-Cotterot – Fondation d'entreprise Hermès
Ametonyo Silva participates at Improscetions 2024

ICI–CCN invited Ametonyo Silva to participate at Improspections 2024 in Zagreb. 

10.09.2024 - 23.09.2024 @ Improspections 2024 Zagreb
@ Mariana Viana
Mariana Viana in recidency at MDT Stockholm

ICI–CCN nominated choreographer and Performer Mariana Viana for an Artistic Exchange Residency at MDT Stockholm. She is working on her new piece Matière grise/Gray matter during these two weeks in Sweden.

02.09.2024 - 15.09.2024 @ Uferstudios
© Nina Đurđević
Sonja Pregrad at Uferstudios

Croatian Creative Crossroads artist Sonja Pregrad is in residency in Berlin! She also shows her work O at Uferstudios.

26.08.2024 - 08.09.2024 @ Uferstudios
Curating in Context

In Struga, North Macedonia, the International Summer School Curating in Context returns for its fourth edition, offering a unique platform for rethinking curatorial practices in contemporary art and beyond. 

25.08.2024 - 31.08.2024
PSR Pokretnica in Novi Sad

From 23.–29. August, the Performance Situation Room Pokretnica takes place within the 8th edition of Pokretnica Contemporary Dance and Performance Festival in Novi Sad. 

23.08.2024 - 29.08.2024
@ Bea Borgers
Adam Seid Tahir at ImPulsTanz Festival

Adam Seid Tahir, our Creative Crossroads artist from Stockholm, is coming to ImPulsTanz – Vienna international Dance Festival for a residency end of July!

29.07.2024 - 11.08.2024 @ ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival
© ICI—CCN Denise Oliver Fierro
OPEN CALL by ICI—CCN

Our network partner in Montpellier – ICI–CCN – has opened a call for an artist / Choreographer / Researcher based in Occitanie to become one of the Creative Crossroads Artists of the upcoming cycle 2025/2026. 

Applications are open until 15 September 2024.

27.07.2024 - 15.09.2024 @ Life Long Burning Network
© Nina Đurđević
Sonja Pregrad is teaching at ImPulsTanz

Sonja Pregrad is coming to Vienna for a Creative Crossroads residency. During her stay she will teach at ImPulsTanz a workshop Of drag, plants and other objects (of dance).

22.07.2024 - 26.07.2024 @ ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival
© Loïc Iten
Lee Méir is teaching at ImPulsTanz

In the frame of her Creative Crossroads residency, Lee Méir will teach a costume workshop at ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival.

15.07.2024 - 19.07.2024
© Fien Aerts
Fien Aerts at ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna

Belgian dance producer from STUK Leuven – Fien Aerts – joins ImPulsTanz in the course of our programme Outsetters Abroad. Welkom!

10.07.2024 - 17.07.2024 @ ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival
Marion Darova © KoceBosse Studio
Marion Darova in residence at ImPulsTanz

Our Bulgarian Creative Crossroads artist Marion Darova and her collaborator Martina Apostolova arrived in Vienna at ImPulsTanz, were she has a studio for one week and a huge performance and workshop programme to choose from.

10.07.2024 - 16.07.2024 @ ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival
Domino Residency

Nomad dance academy Croatia is a guest at the Karlovac Dance Festival!

The summer edition of the 14th Karlovac Dance Festival brings collaboration and partnership with the Nomad Dance Academy Croatia through their Domino Residency and Modular School programmes.

27.06.2024 - 28.06.2024 @ Karlovac Dance Festival
Residency at Workshop Foundation Budapest © Lau Lukkarila
Showing: Hold yr ache 2 my ache

At the end of their 2 weeks residency at Workshop Foundation in Budapest, Lau Lukkarila and Zeynab Kirikou Gueye open the studio for a public rehearsal showing, followed by a talk with the visitors. The piece developed (also) during this residency, Hold yr ache 2 my ache, premieres on 22 November in Vienna.

27.06.2024 @ Workshop Foundation Budapest
Open Call – LLB Co-production for artists active in the Hungarian contemporary dance scene

Workshop Foundation Budapest is looking for artists active in the Hungarian contemporary dance scene for a LLB Co-production.

Deadline for the application is 22 July 2024!

26.06.2024 - 22.07.2024
Open Call – for artists active in the Hungarian contemporary dance scene

Workshop Foundation Budapest is looking for artists active in the Hungarian contemporary dance scene as next Creative Crossroad artist.
Deadline for the application is 22 July 2024!

26.06.2024 - 22.07.2024
Open Call | professional dance and movement artist based in Amsterdam

Veem House for Performance in Amsterdam opens a call for one professional dance and movement artist based in Amsterdam, for Creative Crossroads Cycle 2, who will be supported during a two year cycle from 1 January 2025 till 31 December 2026.

Deadline for applications is 4 July 2024.

25.06.2024 - 04.07.2024 @ Life Long Burning Network
Flavia Pinheiro

Another Artistic Exchange Residency is coming up! Amsterdam based performer Flavia Pinheiro will research in Zagreb in June and July.

24.06.2024 - 07.08.2024 @ Zagreb
Residency at Workshop Foundation Budapest @ Lau Lukkarila
Lau Lukkarila at Workshop Foundation

Lau Lukkarila and Zeynab Kirkou Gueye are currently in Budapest, working on their upcoming project Hold yr ache 2 my ache at Workshop Foundation and Trafohouse.

17.06.2024 - 28.06.2024 @ Workshop Foundation Budapest
On (dance) art and cultural politics

Sweden is facing a shift in art and cultural politics, and we’re not the only ones. As one travels internationally in Europe nowadays, almost everyone (with a few exceptions) is talking about the massive budget cuts and how artists and institutions are struggling. In some countries, this is also tied to democratic restrictions.

14.06.2024 - 15.06.2024 @ MDT Stockholm
© Joeri Thiry
OPEN CALL | Artistic Exchange Residency

Our Finnish network partner Moving in November is currently looking for artists who are eager to visit STUK Leuven in November for an Artistic Exchange Residency. 

Applications are open until 28 June!

13.06.2024 - 28.06.2024 @ STUK Leuven
© Nemo Hinders Stocklassa
Open Call | Cats & Poetry workshop

Moving in November is inviting to participate in a two-day workshop lead by Swedish choreographer Pontus Pettersson. Over these two days, Pontus will open up his practice to host the different methods and practices that are part of the work Pancor Poetics (which will be shown in this year’s Moving in November Festival), including one of his seminal pieces The Cat Practice. As simple as it sounds, it involves practicing being a cat. Applications are open until 27 June!

13.06.2024 - 27.06.2024 @ Moving in November
© Menyhért Hivessy
Julcsi Vavra on Artistic Exchange Residency

Julcsi Vavra starts her Artistic Exchange Residency at Uferstudios in Berlin these days!

10.06.2024 - 22.06.2024
© Ines Frieda Försterling
Val Holfeld

Val Holfeld starts to work in the frame of On the Outset for danceWEB. Val supports the team with the coordination of this year's danceWEB scholarship programme, which is taking place during ImPulsTanz – International Dance Festival.

10.06.2024 - 31.08.2024
© yako one
Obituary for Brigitte Bierlein

It is with great sadness and deepest sympathy that we bid farewell to Brigitte Bierlein, an extraordinary woman who left a lasting mark through her multifaceted commitment and tireless dedication both in politics and in the art world – including ImPulsTanz, danceWEB and Life Long Burning.

03.06.2024 @ Vienna
Ghost dances / Spökdanser by Ellen Söderhult
02.06.2024 @ MDT Stockholm
Ghost dances / Spökdanser by Ellen Söderhult
01.06.2024 @ MDT Stockholm
Ghost dances / Spökdanser by Ellen Söderhult
30.05.2024 @ MDT Stockholm
Premiere: Ghost dances / Spökdanser by Ellen Söderhult

Our Swedish partner MDT announced their Life Long Burning co-production for this year: Ghost Dances / Spökdanser by Ellen Söderhult will premiere on 30 May and be shown three consecutive days.

29.05.2024
© Michael Würmer
Verena Herterich selected for PRÉAC 2024

This year's PRÉAC seminar will take place from 27–31 May at La Genette Verte, near Montpellier in the South of France. The seminar, organized and hosted by ICI–CCN Montpellier, is on Narratives and led by the guest artist Sylvain Prunenec.

27.05.2024 - 31.05.2024 @ ICI–CCN
Work-in-progress-showing HOT BODIES #4 in Sofia
27.05.2024 @ NHK Burgas
© Gretchen Blegen
crying creatures crying by Lee Méir
26.05.2024 @ Uferstudios Berlin
© Gretchen Blegen
crying creatures crying by Lee Méir
25.05.2024 @ Uferstudios Berlin
© Gretchen Blegen
Premiere: crying creatures crying by Lee Méir

Our Creative Crossroads artist from Berlin, Lee Méir, will premiere her new solo crying creatures crying at Uferstudios this May!

24.05.2024 @ Uferstudios Berlin
Expose

Expose brings together authors and artists from various fields of art who practice (self)archiving, (self)musealization, (self)documentation, (self)recording or/and (self)mapping through mixed formats and media. This three-day public event will explore these practices and their relation to the fields of dance and new media art.

24.05.2024 - 26.04.2024 @ Zagreb
Work-in-progress-showing HOT BODIES #4 in Veliko Tarnova
23.05.2024 @ NHK Burgas
Dance Magazin 2024 release coming up

Bulgarians only print magazin entirely dedicated to dance – Dance Magazin – releases its 2024 edition The Value of Dance in May.

20.05.2024 @ Sofia, Bulgaria
Work-in-progress-showing HOT BODIES #4 in Burgas
19.05.2024 @ NHK Burgas
© Alisa Guberman
Lara Cortellini nominated to visit Bulgarian Dance Platform

daneWEB selected Lara Cortellini as the young dance critics/researchers/independent dance curators/artists to visit the 4th edition of the Bulgarian Dance Platform.

16.05.2024 - 20.05.2024 @ Sofia, Bulgaria
Jason Respilieux in residence at Antistatic Festival

The artist Jason Respilieux, one of the collaborators of Anneleen Keppens in her performance Blue Moon Spring, part of the Creative Crossroads programme, will be an artist-in-residence of the 17th edition of the Antistatic Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria in May.

13.05.2024 - 19.05.2024 @ Sofia, Bulgaria
HOT BODIES #4

HOT BODIES, organised by ICC (Imaginative Choreographic Center), supports, stimulates, and nurtures new generations of artists in the field of choreography and dance. The 4th edition of the programme takes place in Burgas, Veliko Tarnovo and Sofia, Bulgaria for 3 weeks in May!

07.05.2024 - 28.05.2024 @ Bulgaria
Without Distance Platform 2024

The Without Distance educational platform is an integral part of the International Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance Antistatic in Sofia. This year's programme features three lectures by Boyan Manchev, Margarita Dorovska, and Angelina Georgieva, alongside a workshop led by Jason Respilieux.

07.05.2024 - 23.04.2024 @ Brain Store Project Sofia
Work in progress presentation of Matter by Anat Bosak and Nina Traub

ICI–CCN is presenting a work in progress showing of the LLB Co-production Matter by Anat Bosak and Nina Traub. The premiere will take place in August during the Israel Festival 2024. 

06.05.2024 @ ICI–CCN Montpellier, France
[8:tension] Young Choreographers' Series Podcast with Olivia Axel Scheucher and Nick Romeo Reimann

This is already the last episode of our first podcast season! Welcome today’s guests, theatre director Olivia Axel Scheucher and actor Nick Romeo Reimann.

Their collaborative work FUGUE FOUR : RESPONSE was first developed for the Porn Film Festival Vienna. The satirical investigation of how sex and bodies are commodified in the digital age was then adapted for Volkstheater Dunkelkammer. 

02.05.2024 @ online
© Hugo Le Brigand
[8:tension] Young Choreographers' Series Podcast with Sebastiano Sing

Episode 8 out today! Listen to the conversation of Sean Pfeiffer and Sebastiano Sing. The work of Sebastiano, a Vienna-based choreographer and performer, has long been occupied with making space for big emotions. His piece MATHIEU was first developed in a TURBO residency at ImPulsTanz Festival 2022. Following its premiere in WUK Vienna’s project space, it was then presented at Schauspielhaus Vienna in the frame of [8:tension]. 

25.04.2024 @ online
[8:tension] Young Choreographers' Series Podcast with Anne Lise Le Gac & Loto Retina

New Episode out now! Hello, Anne Lise Le Gac and Loto Retina. Her work La Caresse du Coma ft. YOLO is a multi-media performance, a lecture on digital chimeras, and an invitation to a strange and yet strangely familiar world. Together with musical collaborator Loto Retina, Anne-Lise transformed the Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz into a misty, spa-like space of uncertainties and fabricated truths. 

After their showings, the two of them sat down with writer Sean Pfeiffer. They discussed the role of levity and humor in their work, the productivity of not knowing for sure, and how their residency time at ImPulsTanz stimulated their creative partnership.

18.04.2024 @ online
OPEN CALL | Artistic Residency in Stockholm and Montpellier

MDT Moderna Dansteatern in Stockholm and ICI-CCN in Montpellier launch a joint open a call for two research residencies for artists based in Montpellier or Stockholm! This call is open to artists from the field of choreography and dance. Deadline for applications is 12 May 2024.

15.04.2024 - 12.05.2024
[8:tension] Young Choreographers' Series Podcast with Marga Alfeirão

New Episode out today! Welcome Marga Alfeirão and her team. Marga’s work opens up spaces in which she is able to explore feminine sensuality and sexuality at her own pace. She and her team joined writer Sean Pfeiffer for a conversation before the second showing of their “lesbian lap dance duet” LOUNGE.

They discussed the reciprocal effect between the music and the dancers and the piece’s ebb and flow of energy and slowness. They also talk about the difficulties in balancing the public and the private while performing intimacy on stage.

11.04.2024 @ online
Residency at STUK Leuven @ Lau Lukkarila
Lau Lukkarila at STUK Leuven

Lau Lukkarila, Zeynab Kirkou Gueye and Marika Peura are currently in residence in Belgium, working on their upcoming project Hold yr ache 2 my ache at STUK Leuven.

08.04.2024 - 20.04.2024 @ Workshop Foundation Budapest
© Morgan Hickinbotham
[8:tension] Young Choreographers' Series Podcast with James Batchelor

James is a choreographer, dancer and dance teacher from Australia. Now based in Berlin, he works internationally. Before the second showing of his piece Shortcuts to Familiar Places at Schauspielhaus Vienna, James sat down with Chris Standfest. They discussed the ways in which James’ mentor Ruth Osborne as well as the legendary Gertrud Bodenwieser shaped the work.

They also touch on the specific excitement of showing it in Vienna, where Bodenwieser Lived before she had to flee from the Nazis. They further reflect on how expression or Ausdruckstanz is reentering the current dance landscape.

04.04.2024 @ online
Mille Shake – Talk with Pauline L. Boulba and team on the creative process

As an extension of her exploration into lesbian subjectivities in dance and the performing arts, Pauline L. Boulba seeks to make queer practice visible through artistic creation. In this way, she explores the extent to which imagination, somatic practice and fiction act to repair damaged bodies. A two-headed combo of narrative and choreography foster reflection on patriarchal violence. Re-territorialising bodies, to fictionalise life, pumping reality back onto the stage.

Free admission by reservation only.

28.03.2024 @ ICI–CCN Montpellier
[8:tension] Young Choreographers' Series Podcast with Harald Beharie

Harald’s first solo Batty Bwoy is both bleak and playful in its re-appropriation of racist and homophobic stereotypes. By embodying this harmful imagery, they emerge on the other side as a newly ambivalent figure, impossible to grasp. 

Writer Sean Pfeiffer and Harald talk about his inspirations for the piece, the musical collaboration with a Norwegian prog-rock band, and the delicacy of involving an audience directly. 

28.03.2024 @ online
[8:tension] Young Choreographers' Series Podcast with Esben Weile Kjær

Esben is a Danish visual artist whose sculptures and performances have been shown at numerous galleries and festivals. Esben’s works tap into his generation’s habits of visual consumption. He has introduced short-attention-span tools like social media livestreams into traditional museum spaces in pieces like BURN!.

With the writer Sean Pfeiffer, Esben discusses his experiences as a visual artist at a contemporary dance festival. They also talk about the heavy use of pop-cultural signifiers and accessing the authentic through the artificial.

28.03.2024 @ online
OPEN CALL | Artistic Exchange Residencies in Berlin and Budapest

Uferstudios Berlin und Workshop Foundation Budapest are offering two differently designed exchange residencies for professional movement and dance artists who work in Hungary or who are based in Berlin! Application deadline is 14 April.

27.03.2024 - 14.04.2024
© Jelena Mijić
Nemanja Bošković participates at exerce in Montpellier

Serbian dancer Nemanja Bošković joins workshops by Mathilde Monnier & Stéphane Bouquet, Nadia Lauro and Jassem Hindi in the frame of exerce by ICI–CCN.

27.03.2024 - 12.04.2024 @ ICI–CCN
exerce open workshop with Pauline L. Boulba

The workshop is taking place on Thursday, 21 March from 3–6pm at ICI—CCN

Free admission by reservation only.

21.03.2024 @ ICI–CCN Montpellier
Screening of the film J.J by Pauline L. Boulba

Thursday, 21 March, 7–8pm

J.J is named after Jill Johnston (1929-2010), dance critic, performer, and uber-determined and angry lesbian feminist. The work is a journey through the real and fictional lives of this very American figure. Through the invention of archives and the use of quotes, voices and drag-kings, the two performers reflect upon lesbian practice in art.

→ Screened in partnership with Rainbow screen festival

Free admission by reservation only.

21.03.2024 @ ICI–CCN Montpellier
© Vince Varga
[8:tension] Young Choreographers' Series Podcast with Anna Biczók

Anna is a Hungarian dancer and choreographer based between Vienna and Stockholm. Her work often deals with bodily memory, cultural identity, and dance as a means of communication. The group choreography DELICATE has been equally shaped by these themes. The work features three female dancers who grew up in different European and Eastern European contexts – namely Karin Pauer in Austria, Adél Juhász in Hungary and 
Sasha Portyannikova in Russia.

After presenting DELICATE at Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz, Anna sat down with author Sean Pfeiffer. They discussed the role of writing in the development of the piece, Anna’s decision not to perform herself, and her collaboration with musician Rozi Mákó.

21.03.2024 @ online
[8:tension] Young Choreographers' Series Podcast with Chara Kotsali

Chara is a performer, choreographer and dance instructor based in Athens, Greece. She has studied Theatre Studies as well as Social and Cultural Anthropology and is musically trained. Her artistic practice merges choreography with field recordings, sound collage and writing.

She sat down with author Sean Pfeiffer to discuss her first solo work to be possessed. It premiered at the Onassis Dance Days in Athens before being presented at Schauspielhaus Vienna in the frame of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival. In their conversation, the two touch upon the myth of artistic ecstasy, the comfort of routine, and the similarities between contemporary dance and poetry.

21.03.2024 @ online
First Podcast Episodes released today!

The artists of the [8:tension] Young Choreographers' Series of 2023 were in conversation with Chris Standfest and Sean Pfeiffer and we are excited to publish this podcast from today on. 

The first released episodes will be with Chara Kotsali and Anna Biczók. They are giving insights into their working methods and artistic approaches, the making of their pieces To Be Possessed and DELICATE, respectively, and their experience in Vienna.

The release will start on Thursday 21 March, with weekly new episodes. Save us on Spotify Apple Podcast, Podcastaddict or Deezer!

21.03.2024 @ online
Partner Meeting during Festival Commun in Lausanne 2024 © Almud Krejza
Network Meeting at Festival Programme Commun

This weekend Festival Programme Commun is kicking off in Lausanne! Apart from a vivid performance programme Arsenic invited to a Life Long Burning meeting, which includes a three days watch-and-talk programme for our Creative Crossroads artists, led by Ysaline Rochat.

14.03.2024 - 17.03.2024 @ Lausanne
Pauline L. Boulba on residency at ICI–CCN

Pauline L. Boulba is on a residency at ICI–CCN in Montpellier this March!

11.03.2024 - 29.03.2024
Open Call | HOT BODIES #4

HOT BODIES #4 is intended for dance artists who haven't yet encountered the dynamics of freelance work in this field, or who are just starting out.

Apply now and spend three weeks in May in Bulgaria. Do studio work, sessions with other dance artists, co-sharing lectures, co-sharing workshop and presentations – accommodation, rehearsal and performance space as well as per diems are covered.

NOTE: The application end got changed to 21 February!

05.02.2024 - 21.02.2024
© Matija Kralj
Award for Sonja Pregrad

Our Creative Crossroad artist Sonja Pregrad from Zagreb received the Croatian Professional Dancers Associations Award for the best performance in 2023, for her solo performance OBJECT OF DANCE. 

29.01.2024
A follow up on DANCEOLITICS

In 2021 a round table discussion between artistic teams of Tanztage Berlin, Bâtard in Brussels and Les Urbaines in Lausanne got published in the book DANCEOLITICS, supported by Life Long Burning.
Starting from this publication, a panel discussion at Tanztage Berlin continues the conversation about this fragile state tonight.
 

Together with colleagues from different European scenes – curators, artistic coordinators and organizers (from Vienna Chris Standfest is joining, artistic director of [8:tension Young Chreographes' Series] at ImPulsTanz Festival) – they would like to exchange on the intertwinement between the lives of artists at the beginning of their career and the platforms presenting artists and aesthetics that need to “emerge”.

Further information and free download of the book DANCEOLITICS here.

15.01.2024 @ Tanztage Berlin
© Sophie Laly
Open Call: Participant for PRÉAC wanted

danceWEB is looking for a dance/performance artist/dance writer/dance teacher interested in participating in PRÉAC at La Genette Verte in France!

The seminar PRÉAC (Pôle de Ressources pour l'Éducation Artistique et Culturelle), organized and hosted by ICI-CCN Montpellier, is on Narratives: can we make fiction without making stories? The place of narrative in choreography: the relationship between abstraction and narration, and fictional modalities in choreographic composition, in particular.

09.01.2024 - 09.02.2024 @ ICI-CCN Montpellier