Creative Crossroad

Creative Crossroads supports emerging and mid-career artists nominated by each network member to enjoy financial and structural support over the course of 2 years – which makes two cycles. The focus is put on enabling dance and performance creation and there are several meetings for the artists to get to know each other, their work and the network partner. There is a strong commitment to engage in the continued accompaniment of the selected CC artists.

The artists or artist collectives are selected and nominated by the partners, partially via open call. Cycle one happens in 2023 and 2024, cycle two will take place in 2025 and 2026.

© Hanna Fasching, collage by Lau Lukkarila
Austrian Premiere: Hold yr ache 2 my ache

Hold yr ache 2 my ache by Zeynab Kirikou Gueye and Lau Lukkarila premieres on 22 November at Tanzquartier Wien! The piece was (also) developed during the Creative Crossroads residencies at STUK Leuven and Workshop Foundation.

22.11.2024 - 23.11.2024 @ TQW Wien
© Hanna Fasching, collage by Lau Lukkarila
Finnish Premiere: Hold yr ache 2 my ache

Hold yr ache 2 my ache by Zeynab Kirikou Gueye and Lau Lukkarila premieres in October in Helsinki! The piece was (also) developed during the Creative Crossroads residencies at STUK Leuven and Workshop Foundation.

24.10.2024 - 26.10.2024 @ Mad House Helsinki
Reading The Room by Imre Vass © Barnabás Neogrády-Kiss
Imre Vass is showing Reading The Room

Reading the room is an ongoing improvisational and performative practice by Imre Vass that invites the audience to witness a journey of investigating precarious routines of increasing the sensitivity of attention. Join in, in Budapest on 24 and 25 October.

24.10.2024 - 25.10.2024
The Temporary NDA Collective – Inside the Outside Remixed
The Temporary Collective is on residency in Bukarest

The Temporary NDA Collective, our Slovenian Creative Crossroad artists, are in residence at 4Culture in Bularest. On 12 October they show Inside the Outside Remixed at Wasp.

07.10.2024 - 13.10.2024 @ 4Culture Bukarest
© Sharrat Cherry
Showing by Adam Seid Tahir in Budapest

Adam Seid Tahir is coming back to Budapest for a work-in-progress-showing. They will share some early fragments from their ongoing research on fictive archaeology which had been developed during their residencies in Budapest, Vienna and Amsterdam this summer.

30.09.2024 @ Workshop Foundation Budapest
© Sharrat Cherry
Showing by Adam Seid Tahir in Amsterdam

Adam Seid Tahir is finishing their residency at Veem House Amsterdam with a showing. They will share some early fragments from their ongoing research on fictive archaeology which had been developed during their residencies in Budapest, Vienna and Amsterdam this summer.

28.09.2024 @ Workshop Foundation Budapest
@ Bea Borgers
Adam Seid Tahir at Veem House

Adam Seid Tahir, our Creative Crossroads artist from Stockholm, is in residence in Amsterdam! They will share some early fragments from their ongoing research on fictive archaeology. They’re conducting this research as both a longer research project and the starting point for their new work artifact (working title).

15.09.2024 - 29.09.2024 @ Veem House
© Nina Đurđević
Sonja Pregrad at Uferstudios

Croatian Creative Crossroads artist Sonja Pregrad is in residency in Berlin! She also shows her work O at Uferstudios.

26.08.2024 - 08.09.2024 @ Uferstudios
@ Bea Borgers
Adam Seid Tahir at ImPulsTanz Festival

Adam Seid Tahir, our Creative Crossroads artist from Stockholm, is coming to ImPulsTanz – Vienna international Dance Festival for a residency end of July!

29.07.2024 - 11.08.2024 @ ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival
© ICI—CCN Denise Oliver Fierro
OPEN CALL by ICI—CCN

Our network partner in Montpellier – ICI–CCN – has opened a call for an artist / Choreographer / Researcher based in Occitanie to become one of the Creative Crossroads Artists of the upcoming cycle 2025/2026. 

Applications are open until 15 September 2024.

27.07.2024 - 15.09.2024 @ Life Long Burning Network
© Nina Đurđević
Sonja Pregrad is teaching at ImPulsTanz

Sonja Pregrad is coming to Vienna for a Creative Crossroads residency. During her stay she will teach at ImPulsTanz a workshop Of drag, plants and other objects (of dance).

22.07.2024 - 26.07.2024 @ ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival
© Loïc Iten
Lee Méir is teaching at ImPulsTanz

In the frame of her Creative Crossroads residency, Lee Méir will teach a costume workshop at ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival.

15.07.2024 - 19.07.2024
Marion Darova © KoceBosse Studio
Marion Darova in residence at ImPulsTanz

Our Bulgarian Creative Crossroads artist Marion Darova and her collaborator Martina Apostolova arrived in Vienna at ImPulsTanz, were she has a studio for one week and a huge performance and workshop programme to choose from.

10.07.2024 - 16.07.2024 @ ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival
Residency at Workshop Foundation Budapest © Lau Lukkarila
Showing: Hold yr ache 2 my ache

At the end of their 2 weeks residency at Workshop Foundation in Budapest, Lau Lukkarila and Zeynab Kirikou Gueye open the studio for a public rehearsal showing, followed by a talk with the visitors. The piece developed (also) during this residency, Hold yr ache 2 my ache, premieres on 22 November in Vienna.

27.06.2024 @ Workshop Foundation Budapest
Open Call – for artists active in the Hungarian contemporary dance scene

Workshop Foundation Budapest is looking for artists active in the Hungarian contemporary dance scene as next Creative Crossroad artist.
Deadline for the application is 22 July 2024!

26.06.2024 - 22.07.2024
Open Call | professional dance and movement artist based in Amsterdam

Veem House for Performance in Amsterdam opens a call for one professional dance and movement artist based in Amsterdam, for Creative Crossroads Cycle 2, who will be supported during a two year cycle from 1 January 2025 till 31 December 2026.

Deadline for applications is 4 July 2024.

25.06.2024 - 04.07.2024 @ Life Long Burning Network
Residency at Workshop Foundation Budapest @ Lau Lukkarila
Lau Lukkarila at Workshop Foundation

Lau Lukkarila and Zeynab Kirkou Gueye are currently in Budapest, working on their upcoming project Hold yr ache 2 my ache at Workshop Foundation and Trafohouse.

17.06.2024 - 28.06.2024 @ Workshop Foundation Budapest
Inside the Outside by The Temporary Collective © Sunčan Stone
The Temporary Collective on residency at Uferstudios

A Creative Crossroad Residency brings The Temporary NDA Collective to Berlin in June!

12.06.2024 - 18.06.2024 @ Uferstudios
© Gretchen Blegen
crying creatures crying by Lee Méir
26.05.2024 @ Uferstudios Berlin
© Gretchen Blegen
crying creatures crying by Lee Méir
25.05.2024 @ Uferstudios Berlin
© Gretchen Blegen
Premiere: crying creatures crying by Lee Méir

Our Creative Crossroads artist from Berlin, Lee Méir, will premiere her new solo crying creatures crying at Uferstudios this May!

24.05.2024 @ Uferstudios Berlin
Jason Respilieux in residence at Antistatic Festival

The artist Jason Respilieux, one of the collaborators of Anneleen Keppens in her performance Blue Moon Spring, part of the Creative Crossroads programme, will be an artist-in-residence of the 17th edition of the Antistatic Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria in May.

13.05.2024 - 19.05.2024 @ Sofia, Bulgaria
O by Sonja Pregrad shown in Zagreb again

Sonja Pregrad is showing her new work O at Meštrović Pavilion / Croatian Association of Visual Artists (HDLU) in Zagreb this May.

11.05.2024 @ Meštrović Pavilion / Croatian Association of Visual Artists (HDLU), Zagreb
@ Alex Mirutziu
Alex Mirutziu on residency at Workshop Foundation Budapest

Creative Crossroad artist Alex Mirutziu is currently in Budapest, in residence at Workshop Foundation.

08.04.2024 - 28.04.2024 @ Workshop Foundation Budapest
Residency at STUK Leuven @ Lau Lukkarila
Lau Lukkarila at STUK Leuven

Lau Lukkarila, Zeynab Kirkou Gueye and Marika Peura are currently in residence in Belgium, working on their upcoming project Hold yr ache 2 my ache at STUK Leuven.

08.04.2024 - 20.04.2024 @ Workshop Foundation Budapest
Élie Autin on residency at MDT Stockholm
25.03.2024 - 07.04.2024 @ MDT Stockholm
© Dalia Castel
Lee Méir is on residency at STUK Leuven in spring
25.03.2024 - 05.04.2024 @ STUK Leuven
O by Sonja Pregrad in Zagreb

Sonja Pregrad's new work O will be shown at the Museum of Contemporary Arts tonight, when Antisezona 24 #1 is kicking off.

19.03.2024
© Almud Krejza
Network Meeting at Festival Programme Commun

This weekend Festival Programme Commun is kicking off in Lausanne! Apart from a vivid performance programme Arsenic invited to a Life Long Burning meeting, which includes a three days watch-and-talk programme for our Creative Crossroads artists, led by Ysaline Rochat.

14.03.2024 - 17.03.2024 @ Lausanne
Blue Moon Spring in Brussels

Blue Moon Spring by Anneleen Keppens is invited to Brussels and is shown at the In Movement Festival in March.

07.03.2024 - 09.03.2024 @ STUK Leuven
Marion Darova © KoceBosse Studio
Marion Darova on Residency in Stockholm

Our Bulgarian Creative Crossroads artist Marion Darova is starting her residency at MDT Stockholm end of February.

29.02.2024 - 09.03.2024 @ MDT Stockholm
© Nina Đurđević
OBJECT OF DANCE in San Francisco

Sonja Pregrad, our Croatian Creative Crossroad artist, will show her solo performance OBJECT OF DANCE  at the KH FRESH Festival in San Francisco this Sunday!

11.02.2024
Imre Vass in residence in Zagreb at Antisezona © Neogrady Kiss Barnabas
Imre Vass on residency in Zagreb

Imre Vass, our Creative Crossroads Artist nominated by Workshop foundation, is about to start his residency in Zagreb! During his stay he will be busy researching and articulating his solo dance performance practice. “In this period of my life and career there is too much thinking and worrying so I will just simply lose myself to dance.” 

01.02.2024 - 15.02.2024 @ divert / Antisezona
© Matija Kralj
Award for Sonja Pregrad

Our Creative Crossroad artist Sonja Pregrad from Zagreb received the Croatian Professional Dancers Associations Award for the best performance in 2023, for her solo performance OBJECT OF DANCE. 

29.01.2024
RELAX by Imre Vass © Janos R. Szabo
Imre Vass is premiering RELAX!

Imre Vass' RELAX - Strain Treatment is premiering at Trafó Budapest.

28.11.2023 - 29.11.2023 @ Trafó Budapest
Blue Moon Spring in Mechelen

Anneleen Keppens' piece Blue Moon Spring is invited to !BRAND! Jazz festival.

26.11.2023 @ STUK Leuven
Premiere: O by Sonja Pregrad

Our Croatian Creative Crossroad Artist Sonja Pregrad presents her newest work O in the Course of Antisezona #5 on 24 November at Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb – MSU. 

24.11.2023 @ Antisezona
Imre Vass at DunaPart6

Imre Vass was selected to present his work in_form at DunaPart6 platform in Budapest.

23.11.2023 - 26.11.2023 @ DunaPart6, Budapest
Blue Moon Spring in Roeselare

Anneleen Keppens' piece Blue Moon Spring is shown at CC Spil at Roeselare.

23.11.2023 @ STUK Leuven
Blue Moon Spring in Bruges

Anneleen Keppens' piece Blue Moon Spring is shown the frame of Jazz Brugge 2023.

15.11.2023 @ STUK Leuven
Don't clap for Crap in Lausanne

Don't clap for Crap is touring to Switzerland and shown at Arsenic Lausanne.

15.11.2023 - 19.11.2023 @ Arsenic, Lausanne
© Amina Seid Tahir
Showing: several attempts at braiding my way home

Creative Crossroads artist Adam Seid Tahir is showing their work several attempts at braiding my way home, which they developed together with their sister Amina Seid Tahir, at MDT Stockholm. Shifting between labour and speculative proposals several attempts at braiding my way home insists on fiction as a tool for quaking potential and finding opportunities for recovery and belonging. The performance swims alongside Clymene dolphins, who defy understandings of heritage. It listens to walruses who trust their hair for navigation.

02.11.2023 - 19.11.2023 @ MDT Stockholm
Anneleen Keppens receives Co-Funding

Our Croatian partner Divert is co-funding Anneleen Keppens new production Blue Moon Spring

03.10.2023 @ Divert, Zagreb
Premiere: Blue Moon Spring

Creative Crossroad artist Anneleen Keppens is premiering her piece Blue Moon Spring at STUK Leuven!

03.10.2023 - 04.10.2023 @ STUK Leuven
Anneleen Keppens is on online residency at Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia
15.09.2023 - 29.09.2023 @ online
Vincent Riebeek receives Co-Funding

Divert is co-funding Vincet Riebeeks new work Don't Clapp for Crap, which will be premiering at Julidans on 4 July.

04.07.2023 @ Divert
Premiere: Don't clap for crap

Don't clap for Crap, Vincent Riebeeks remake of his and Florentina Holzingers show Kein Applaus für Scheisse, which premiered in 2010, premiers in Amsterdam at Julidans.

04.07.2023 - 06.07.2023 @ Julidans, Amsterdam
Try Out: Don't clap for crap

Veem House is showing a try out of Don't clap for Crap, Vincent Riebeeks remake of his and Florentina Holzingers show Kein Applaus für Scheisse, which premiered in 2010.

07.06.2023
© Dalia Castel
Lee Méir
01.01.2023 - 31.12.2024 @ Uferstudios Berlin
© Élie Autin
Élie Autin
01.01.2023 - 31.12.2024 @ Arsenic, Lausanne
Lau Lukkarila
01.01.2023 - 31.12.2024 @ danceWEB Vienna
@ Alex Mirutziu
Alex Mirutziu
01.01.2023 - 31.12.2024 @ 4Culture, Bukarest
@ Bea Borgers
Adam Seid Tahir
01.01.2023 - 31.12.2024 @ MDT Stockholm
Imre Vass © Michal Liner
Imre Vass
01.01.2023 - 31.12.2024 @ Workshop Foundation Budapest
© Yana Lozeva
Marion Darova
01.01.2023 - 31.12.2024 @ Brainstore, Sofia
Inside the Outside by The Temporary Collective © Sunčan Stone
The Temporary NDA Collective
01.01.2023 - 31.12.2024 @ Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia
© Nina Đurđević
Sonja Pregrad
01.01.2023 - 31.12.2024 @ Divert, Zagreb
Vincent Riebeek
01.01.2023 - 31.12.2024 @ Veem House Amsterdam
Anneleen Keppens
01.01.2023 - 31.12.2024 @ STUK Leuven