The NRW KULTURsekretariat is offering 6-12 week performing arts residencies for dancers, choreographers and performers. These are to be used for thematic research projects, which should not be focused on a production.

RESEARCH PERIOD

August to November 2015. The findings of each project will be presented at public events.

OFFERED

Rent-free accommodation for 1-2 people, plus a grant of up to €7,500, according  to the nature and scope of the research project. Personal support, mentoring and guidance. The NRW KULTURsekretariat will also provide access to its institutions and experts. Should any production emerge from the research projects, the Kultursekretariat will support any performances staged in NRW.

ONLY E-MAIL-APPLICATIONS

Only applications submitted with the complete application form and by e-mail will be accepted. Closing date: 15 February 2015. Selection will be made by April 2015.

JURY

Madeleine Ritter, Vera Sander und Eckhard Thiemann

The Dance Research NRW #16 (Partners: Renegade/Pottporus e. V. & Schauspielhaus Bochum) in Bochum invites to deal with the urban forms of expression and to investigate movement in an urban environment.

Which environment and which connections does urban contemporary art require to become effective in the city? Where can urbanity locate and how much movement does it require? And where does the city move?

Identity is not tied to a specific location. Yet globalisation and migration question the conventional concepts of space.

Only in movement can we experience locations and make them accessible with our body and thus create the space we can then connect to stories.  The Dance Research NRW #17 in Bonn (Partners: CocoonDance & Bundesstadt Bonn) is devoted to the question of how these body and spatial experiences can be artistically tangible as a political and aesthetic category.