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Workshop and co-creation with the 6 young artists in Kelebia, SerbiaTheme for the workshop: Landscape, dramaturgy and the body. Co-creation: Nyári Mozi in Serbia will work site-specifically with the relationship with nature. Their performances are created through lengthy experimentation and as a result of the joint, free and creative work of the participants who mainly come from rural areas of the region. In their work they seek to review existing theatrical conventions. The boundaries of their stage and playing field are sometimes extended an entire town or landscape. Title: Trinitas |
In the process of co-creation six performers will work on their own stories and mythologies in various natural spaces, out of their comfort zones. The aim of the three-week process is to create a performance linked to nature, based on the interplay between the organic, repetitive functioning of the human body and the ever-changing, pulsating existence of nature. We are all part of the natural world, so we are all part of the unstoppable change. The boundary of our bodies is our skin, through which we can physically connect with the inanimate and living elements of nature. There are many similarities between natural entities and our human organs. Our objective is to free and use our potentials through discovering, and uncovering our body's natural map. By constantly observing ourselves in an organically evolving environment, we can reveal unique and particular dance movements based on our personal feelings and perceptions. Over three weeks of collective creation, we can transform them to soloistic and group etudes, and develop a choreography of an organic system. The six performers, from different cultural and geographical backgrounds will move through time and space, coexisting inseparably with nature. Their dance can be full of energy or empty, fast or slow, harmonious or disharmonious. To achieve the desired state of stage presence, we will focus on the trinity of human nature, to physical, mental and emotional aspects. These are all essential to connect with each other on this earthly playground. During the common research we will invite guest presenters from many artistic disciplines to teach and inspire us. This site-specific creation can be achieved by embracing and processing local cultural and natural values. Exploring local energies will help participants to see their own home environment as a source of inspiration for their future works of art. |
Workshop and co-creation in Stamsund, NorwayTheme for the workshop: Physical theater and soundscape Co-creation: Eilertsen & Granados Theater in Stamsund, Norway will work in the site-specific co-creation project BACK ROWS at their space, the old cinema in Stamsund. Title: Back Rows |
BACK ROWS is a performance shaped around the history of Eilertsen & Granados Theater. The theater is the first cinema that was built in 1932 in Stamsund, where the company is based. Six young artists will work together with Eilertsen & Granados creating the experience building the relationship between the actors, dancers, the space and the objects. The project will use as a main object, the old five wooden benches still existing from the original cinema from 1932 where people were sitting to watch movies. Working in a conceptually way with the objects, the space and the actors to tell the story of the place. Looking at historical events seen through the eyes of the theatre, the building’s function as a meeting place for plays, cinema, parties, weddings, and funerals in a historical context where the theater itself becomes art in itself. Regarding the future plans for the performance, E&G will work with the idea of taking a piece of BACK ROWS to continue working and to be able to tour with it. E&G is planning a tour going to small villages of the North of Norway to community houses with the old benches from our theater. In that way E&G will be moving from the site-specific to a touring product that can reach more audiences. |
Workshop and co-creation in Tenerife, SpainTheme for the workshop: Contemporary dance and choreography Co-creation: Laboratorio de Artes Vivas in Tenerife, Spain will work with the relationship between body, objects and sound. A piece emerging through the choreographed body, the voice and the manipulation and relationship with objects and diverse materials. |
LA COMPOSICIÓN is the soundtrack of a piece that does not exist. A piece emerging through the choreographed body, the voice and the manipulation and relationship with objects and diverse materials. A sound and movement performance piece for six co-creative artists and a collection of inanimate elements (of different density, texture, size and quality) that uses musical composition patterns to compose the scene like composing a record, a song, a chorus, a melody. Proposing movement based on guidelines treated as independent musical pieces, putting them in relation to each other and observing what narrative is generated from this combination. To compose the space, the bodies and the objects from this narrative, specifying and removing all shallowness. To delve into what is strictly necessary to let the narrative emerge from movement, song and the choral manipulation of objects. To compose simple structures, simple harmonies and strictly necessary arrangements for all the bodies. Let style and form be the result of the action, and not of the idea. LA COMPOSICIÓN is also an act of faith - inspired by the spiritual practices of Ignatius of Loyola and the Spanish mystics - in the performance practice itself. Action and commitment in the intimate as a need and urgency, imagining while doing and doing while imagining in the theoretical framework of a vital materialism in which all the elements that compose (bodies, voices, words, inert materials, sounds, light, space, etc...) configure a framework of vibrant materials on equal terms and with the same agency. The co-creation process will be developed in several phases and in collaboration with different public venues and institutions: 1. Research period: Casa de la Cultura de El Sauzal / Dance Hall. 2. Creation period: Theatre Auditorium of Los Realejos 3. Production and premiere period: Espacio La Granja / Government of the Canary Islands. In each phase, the artistic team will consider the following actions: - Meetings with students from different artistic disciplines (Escuela Superior de Artes Dramático, Escuelas Municipales de Danza, Escuela Superior de Artes y Diseño, Facultad de Bellas Artes de la Universidad de La Laguna y Centros de Educación Secundaria) - Encounters with young local artists at open-studios - Professional conversations with local agents and media in collaboration with the Asociación de Artistas y Profesionales de la Danza de Canarias. Specifically for this program, the selected artists will work in different locations throughout the island, from small rural towns to the most important venues on the metropolitan areas. The aim is to ensure the artists can engage with different contexts, agents and inhabitants of the island during their stay, both affecting and being influenced to and by those environments. The venues associated to our European program in Tenerife are:
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Well-being retreat in Claremorris, Ireland |
The young artists will meet in Ireland and participate in a five-day well-being retreat coordinated by The Non Prophet Organisation in collaboration with guest facilitators. At the end of the retreat, the artists will participate in Culture Night 2025, an event engaging the local community of the hosting partner, where they will share the experience and engage the community in the project. The retreat will be held in a natural environment on the Irish coast and include: workshops & well-being activities, naturally mindful, mindful eating, movement practices - mindful walking, movement medicine, yoga, play therapy, talks. |
Final Showcase in Stamsund, NorwayWhere: Eilertsen & Granados Teater and Nordland Visual Theatre in Stamsund |
The final showcase will take place in Stamsund with a presentation of six original performing arts productions, one by each of the young artists. Eilertsen & Granados Theater in collaboration with Nordland Visual Theater will be the organizer of this showcase. |
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