Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found

Our Dutch network partner Veem House is hosting its final event, join us for a bittersweet goodbye. 

Swedish choreographer Anna Pehrsson starts her Artistic Exchange Residency at ICI–CCN Montpellier. 

We start the year again in Berlin, where  the Tanztage take place until 25 January. In the frame of our programme Capacity Grid, two of our partners sent artists there as guests: ICI–CNN invited Hamed Rad and the Nomad Dance Academy Jelena Alempijevic to be part of Tour Through Tanztage by Uferstudios. 

Episode 20 of our [8:tension] Podcast is out! Netti Nüganen completes our second season. Her piece The Myth: last day, a pseudo-archeological excavation turned punk concert, is an exercise in how history is constructed and yes, it is quite funny to listen to what Netti has to tell about the making of this piece.

We start the year again in Berlin, where  the Tanztage take place until 25 January. In the frame of our programme Capacity Grid, two of our partners sent artists there as guests: ICI–CNN invited Hamed Rad and the Nomad Dance Academy Jelena Alempijevic to be part of Tour Through Tanztage by Uferstudios. 

Episode 19 of our [8:tension] Podcast is out! With someone who's name you will hear more often from us: Camilla Schielin, who showed her solo piece into (quickening ground) at ImPulsTanz and is one of our Creative Crossroad artists of cycle 2!

Episode 18 of our [8:tension] Podcast is out! May we present to you: Luca Bonamore. In his latest piece, Silent Lovers, he is concerned with cruising – a historically queer practice of public sexual encounters. He chatted with Sean Pfeiffer, about becoming a dancer, and what it means to open up the private to the public. 

Episode 17 of our [8:tension] Podcast is out! Meet choreographer Jette Loona Hermanis from Estland and visual artist and stage designer Anna Ansone from Latvia!

Episode 16 of our [8:tension] Podcast is out! This time with j. bouey and Tyrone Bevans, both waacking dancers and choreographers based in New York.

Imre Vass, on his second Creative Crossroads Exchange, is visiting Ljubljana where he is also diving into CoFestival.

Episode 15 of our [8:tension] Podcast is out! It has never been that crowded behind the microphone: Today’s guests are Viní Ventania and Vitória Jovem, performing together as Irmãs Brasil.

Dancing, Resisting, (Un)working – Aspects of Dance as a Cultural, Political, and Art Work in Yugoslavia and After is an exhibition curated by Nomad Dance Academy – (Non)Aligned Movements. It performs a long-term research on developing the digital archive of contemporary dance and the performing arts of the post-Yugoslav region.

Xenia Koghilaki is our guest in episode #14 of the [8:tension] Podcast. It is out now!

Episode 13 of our [8:tension] Podcast is out! Here is Astrid Boons, everyone!

During ChoreoCon 2024 we introduced the artist of the second cycle – her's a sneak peek, more details will follow next year.

Elvan Tekin is working for Uferstudios in the frame of our programme On The Outset.