Uferstudios Berlin, in collaboration with our network partner ICI–CNN, are offering the participation in a workshop, including an optional studio stay at ICI–CNN Montpellier.

The selected artist is invited to join the Master students of the programme Excerce (info below) for 5 days, from 31 March–4 April 2025, for the workshop directed by Kidows Kim. There will be the opportunity to extend the stay to develop one's own research work, but also to be involved in the other activities of the venue and the local context of dancers and professionals at the ICI-CCN from 7–11 April 2025.

Details:

Workshop Dates: 31 March–4 April 2025 (full day)
Studio Residency Dates: 7–11 April 2025
Travel Dates: 30 March, 12 April 2025
Location: ICI–CCN Montpellier
Provided: Travel costs (500€ max), per diem (30 euros X 12 days) and accommodation (Hotel or Airbnb  for 6 nights, ICI Guest room for 7 nights)
Requirements: Berlin based professional dance artist only

Application:

Deadline: 9 February 2025
Answers: by end of February/beginning of March
Decision making: Uferstudios will do a preselection (Simone Willeit). The final decision will be taken by ICI–CNN (Anne Fontanesi + MA Exerce).

Apply here.

About Kidows Kim:
Monstrosity is the theme of Kidows Kim's work. Trained as a graphic designer in South Korea, he left his native country for Paris, where he graduated as a mime artist in 2015, before embarking on training in contemporary dance at the CNDC in Angers and as part of the master's program in Montpellier. Performing for Vincent Dupont and Jonathan Capdevielle, his choreography wanders between the abstract and the figurative, while appropriating the imaginary world of manga, the cyberpunk movement and the paintings of Francis Bacon. He is a member of the collectif cohue. His creations form an intimate cosmogony in the shape of a Dictionary of Fantastical Creatures. He unveiled the first chapter, a strangely monstrous solo titled FUNKENSTEIN (2021), followed by the second part, CUTTING MUSHROOMS (2023), which delves into an unfinished micro-transformation. He is currently working on the third installment, HIGH GEAR (2025).
More info here.

About the master program Exerce:
Initiated in 2011, in partnership with the University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, the master Exerce is an internationally recognised training programme, accompanying artists – choreographers, performers – who are the authors of their dance projects and research. The investigation of the ways of working as a choreographer, as a researcher, as a citizen, is at the heart of the master Exerce, which invites to widen the perimeter of choreography and to pursue the approach between artistic processes and research methodologies.