Open Call – for North Macedonian dance artist
Lokomotiva (Skopje) and Uferstudios (Berlin) invite applications for a 10–14-day artistic residency in Berlin in 2025 (ideally 16.06. – 27.06.2025). This residency is designed to support choreographers, dancers and dance makers in the field of contemporary dance and performance based in North Macedonia who need support in their creation process.
Applications are open until 23 May 2025.
What the programme offers
- Overall budget of €4,800 for 2 people (covering travel, accommodation, per diem, artist fees, studio time with technical support).
- Access to studios at Uferstudios equipped with technical capacity.
- Optional informal showing of work in progress.
- Tailored dramaturgical or technical input and peer expertise from Berlin-based artists or professionals, based on the specific needs of the selected artists.
- Additional €500 available for local collaborator, research partner, or dramaturg-collaborator.
Please note: the program is ideally suited for 2 persons. If the applicant(s) plan to include more people or have different travel/accommodation arrangements, this will require adjustment within the existing budget or timeline.
Who can apply
The residency is open to:
- Emerging or established choreographers, dancers and dance makers in the field of contemporary dance and performance
- Applicants residing and working in North Macedonia
How to apply
To apply, please submit the following in English:
- CV of the applicant(s)
- Links to previous works (video, photo documentation)
- Motivation letter including a short Project description outlining what you plan to develop during the residency (max. 1 page)
- Contact details (email, phone, address)
Send the application on the lokomotivaskopje2015[a]gmail.com and if you have any further question write us also on this mail.
Additional notes
- Selected artist(s) or professionals are required to submit a short evaluation report on their experience at the end of the residency. This will be published on the Life Long Burning and Lokomotiva website, contributing to shared knowledge and promoting both their work and the hosting institution.
About the partners
Uferstudios for contemporary dance are a landmarked area in Berlin-Wedding that currently brings together a total of six partners from Berlin’s independent dance scene. Uferstudios are characterized by the coexistence of artistic production, research, education and information, and promote a synergetic collectivity on site with focus on openness and participation.
Lokomotiva and Nomad Dance Academy
Founded in 2003 in Skopje, Lokomotiva has been a platform dedicated to education, reflection, production and research in contemporary arts and culture. The organization continually works on knowledge production, cultural and labour rights, and the improvement of working conditions for artists and cultural workers, with a primary focus on contemporary (performing) arts. Lokomotiva understands culture as an extended field interrelated with society, and art as a (post)disciplinary field that broadens forms of expression, production, and dissemination. In recent years, Lokomotiva has increasingly focused on the inclusion of marginalised voices, with an emphasis on feminist approaches and ecology, rooted in developing forms of equity in collaboration and work.
Lokomotiva is the co-founder of the Nomad Dance Academy project network that is presented through its partners on the LLB project.
Created in 2005, Nomad Dance Academy is a Balkan contemporary dance network which is active in the field of dance education, artistic creation, production, as well as promotion, advocacy and cultural policies for dance. Through its cultural activism, it seeks to strengthen various creative and artistic forces in the local and regional contemporary dance contexts of the post-Yugoslav region, in order to contribute to better conditions for contemporary dance development and better working conditions for artists. The partners of Nomad Dance Academy understand contemporary dance and choreography as an artistic and social practice, which deals with working conditions, production, construction, performing, mapping and thinking various presences, absences and representations of (human) bodies, as well as their traces, manifestations and potentialities in the past, present and future.