Workshop and co-creation with the 6 young artists in Kelebia, Serbia

Theme 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, Norway

Theme 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, Spain

Theme 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.

Title: SS (sense-scapes)

Amid the complexities of an ever-shifting world, six artists from the Moving Matters project will gather together with the choreographer Aleksandar Georgiev for a three-week working around dance through methods of co-thinking, co-dreaming, and co-imagining futures shaped by queer narratives and nonlinear logics. Inspired by the project Fantastic Futures FF, this project embraces ambiguity—blurring the lines between facilitating collective processes and creating new artistic work. Together, participants will engage with the uncertainties of the present and co-imagine possibilities for transformation.

​This project deals with the kinetics of dance and performing arts as practices for envisioning and embodying shared futures. By engaging with the complexities of our current global moment, we will explore queer narratives and nonlinear logics as pathways to reimagine transformation and interconnectedness. Through co-thinking, co-dreaming, and co-imagining, we aim to generate a space where futures are not fixed but continuously unfolding through nostalgia and disrupted linear logics of frontality. Embracing senses and affect in the making of spaces/places, ambiguity and collective imagination, this process invites us to consider dreaming as a radical act of creativity and renewal, shaped by fluid and intersecting realities.

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, Norway 

Where: 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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