BERLIN! dance-tech Artist in Residency FEBRUARY 2014

[Marlon Barrios Solano]

 

Call for Applications for Residency  for FEBRUARY 2014
dance-techAIR@Lake Studios Berlin
www.lakestudiosberlin.com

February 1st to March 1st 2014

dance-tech artist in residency in Berlin offers to international interdisciplinary movement and media artists the possibility to live and make art in a peaceful artist run working, living and performance space in Berlin, Germany.

The artists will enjoy the recently opened Lake Studios Berlin, a unique living and creative working space with fast connection into the exciting creative center of Berlin and with the advantage of the quiet and beauty of Mueggelsee lake and a forest at only 5 minute walk for depth concentration on research and creative process.

The resident artist will enjoy a private apartment and access to a dance space with sprung wooden floors. Lake Studios Berlin is primarily a working space for 8 diverse movement artists with the need to go deeper into their work and practice. It is an experience of collaborative living and creation, and the resident will have the opportunity of artistic exchange as well as access to inside information about the dance scene in Berlin.

 

INCLUDES:

• The resident artist will have access to 100 hours of studio space per month, divided between the large and small Studios.
• There is a possibility to teach classes, workshops and / or organize a performance or work-in-progress showing at the end of the residency period.
• The artists will be featured  and should blog about their process on dance-tech.net for the months of the residency.
• The artist also may decide to use dance-tech.tvLIVE channels to share the  process of exchange with the community.

NOTE: the selected artist brings his/her own equipment. The residency  does not provide any equipment. 

There is one projector available in the big space.

 

 

The selected artists will pay his/her transportation expenses, meals and will pay 500 Euros  for the Month.

 

Artists, scholars and practitioners can apply for the residency. Their practice and research should relate to the  topical themes (not exclusive):

 

Choreography and creation process

New media and performance

Movement practices  and economy

Improvisation and real time systems

Screen-dance  and movement based installation

Choreographic scores and new media tools (generative tools)

Movement, somatics and technology

Mobile devices, locative media and choreography

Social media  and trans-local collaborations

Contemplative practices and movement

 

Application Process:

The applicants must be a dance-tech member where you write you bio  and profile.

Please send an email including:

1.-Your research goals

2.-What would you like to work on and if you would like to offer master classes, workshops, etc.

3.-Two samples of you work posted on your dance-tech account (urls)

 

Send it via email to Marlon Barrios Solano to

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IMPORTANT:

write in the email subject: dance-tech Berlin FEBRUARY 2014

 

 

Deadline for application for February: December 5th, 2013.

We will let you know by December 15th about the decision.

 

Note: this residency is conceived as a sustainable collaboration between dance-tech and Lake Studios Berlin as a way to generate alternative and affordable spaces for independent artists and creative researchers.

 

 

Questions?

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