Performing Arts

Danscentrum Sverige invites Sweden-based choreographers to apply to be part of the Big Pulse Visiting Artist Programme by taking a trip to Torinodanza Festival in Turin, Italy. The visit will take place 20-22 October 2021 and involve meetings, networking and opportunities to see work at the festival.

BASITA Fellowship is a 12-month programme that aims to equip 20 performing arts groups from different disciplines such as music, theatre, dance, and all types of spoken word, from the Middle East, with the necessary skills to navigate and master the digital era.

Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center is located in the Madou district, on the northern outskirts of Tainan city, in an old sugar refinery that has been infused with multicultural ideas to form a unique space. The theme for the Center’s 2022 residency programme is ‘Site-Specific Art’. Artists working in visual art, performing art, installation, interdisciplinary contemporary art are invited to apply. Residencies last 45-90 days and take place in the period 21 February 2022 - 30 August 2022.

The Cradle ReWired project will explore how work can be presented in real life when audiences are not able to engage normally with theatre/theatre spaces. Artists from South Africa and Belgium will be paired to explore ideas together, with one or two proposals selected to present at the Cradle of Creativity festival at the Market Theatre, South Africa in August 2022.

Dublin Theatre Festival and Theatre Forum invite theatre makers, curators, dramaturgs, directors, thinkers and producers from Ireland and abroad for an international school, Forecast. A School of Thinking-With – a digital space of common learning and sharing practices. The school runs 30 September - 17 October 2021.

V4@Theatre Critics Residency is a creative platform for theatre critics from Central and Eastern Europe up to the age of 35. This year there are two strands: an in-person residency at International Theatre Festival Divadelná Nitra (1-6 October 2021) for critics from Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia; and then an online residency for critics from Western Balkans, Eastern Partnership countries and Russia.

Dance Base Scotland and Ecole des Sables Senegal unite to create Source, an exchange project celebrating African Contemporary practice through Germaine Acogny’s Technique. Artists based in Scotland can apply for the eight-month programme, which includes a digital exchange from September 2021 - April 2022, as well as a 2-3 week in-person residency at Ecole des Sables in Senegal in May 2022.

The Saison Foundation’s Online Research Residency is open to individual artists working in the field of contemporary dance and performance art who are able to communicate in English, and who are able to carry out creative research between 10 November 2021 – 10 February 2022. The programme offers artistic development opportunities to research and spend time building links with the other participating artists.

An important goal of the ‘Collision of Arts’ residency is to establish a creative scene in the small town of Bischofswerda, Germany and build up a permanent network there. Artists will live and work together from 30 August – 12 September 2021. National and international freelance artists and students from all areas of the visual and performing arts are eligible to participate.