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.

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.

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.

In the frame of our programme Capacity Grid, Bita Bell is visiting Puzzle#8 in Belgrade in December. 

Elvan Tekin, who is currently working at Uferstudios Berlin in the frame of On The Outset, is visiting our network partner MDT in Stockholm this week.

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.

In the frame of our programme Outsetters Abroad, Luisa Pisetta Ravanelli started working in Zagreb as part of the organisational team of the ChoreoCon 2024.  

In the frame of our programme Capacity Grid, Vienna based choreographer Costas Kekis is visiting Helsinkis international dance Festival Moving in November.

In the frame of Capacity Grid, Andrea Vezga travels to Artland Academy, organised by 4Culture in Rumania. In Timișoara she gives an Afro Fusion dance workshop at the youth center Casa Tineretului.

Brand new episode 12 of our [8:tension] Podcast is out! Chris Haring had a chat with French choreographer and dancer Georges Labbat.

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.

Episode 11 of our [8:tension] Podcast is out! 

We started to release Season #2 of our [8:tension] Young Choreographers' Series! 

Our first guest is Deva Schubert, dancer and choreographer from Berlin and one of the winners of the 2024 ImPulsTanz – Young Choreographer’s Award with her piece Glitch Choir.

danceWEB is looking for an emerging dance and choreography artist interested in getting to know the contemporary dance scene in Belgrade and collaborating with the Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist André Zachary.

Application ends on 21 October 2024.

danceWEB is looking for a dance critic/producer/independent dance curator/artist interested in getting to know the contemporary dance scene in Croatia. This internship is dedicated to the Choreographic Convention from 19–23 November 2024, organised by our partner Antisezona in Zagreb. Application ends on 2 October!

Netti Nüganen is invited to a residency to the renowned [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series in the frame of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival.

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

Jette Loona Hermanis and Anna Ansone are invited to a residency to the renowned [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series in the frame of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival.

j. bouey and Tyrone Bevans are invited to a residency to the renowned [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series in the frame of ImPulsTanz.

Luca Bonamore is invited to a residency to the renowned [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series in the frame of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival.

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).

Viní Ventania and Vitória Jovem are invited to a residency to the renowned [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series in the frame of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival.

Camilla Schielin is invited to a residency to the renowned [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series in the frame of ImPulsTanz  – Vienna International Dance Festival.

Astrid Boons is invited to a residency to the renowned [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series in the frame of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival.

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

Georges Labbat is invited for a residency to the renowned [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series in the frame of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival.

Xenia Koghilaki is invited to a residency to the renowned [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series in the frame of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival.

Soa Ratsifandrihana is invited to a residency to the renowned [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series in the frame of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival.

Belgian dance producer from STUK Leuven – Fien Aerts – joins ImPulsTanz in the course of our programme Outsetters Abroad. Welkom!

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.

Joins danceWEB 2024 in the course of Capacity Grid!

Deva Schubert is invited to a residency to the renowned [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series in the frame of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival.

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.

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.

Val Holfeld starts to work in the frame of On the Outset for danceWEB. Val supports the team with the coordination of this year's danceWEB scholarship programme, which is taking place during ImPulsTanz – International Dance Festival.

This year's PRÉAC seminar will take place from 27–31 May at La Genette Verte, near Montpellier in the South of France. The seminar, organized and hosted by ICI–CCN Montpellier, is on Narratives and led by the guest artist Sylvain Prunenec.

daneWEB selected Lara Cortellini as the young dance critics/researchers/independent dance curators/artists to visit the 4th edition of the Bulgarian Dance Platform.

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.

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.

danceWEB is looking for young dance critics/researchers/independent dance curators/artists interested in getting to know the contemporary dance scene in Bulgaria. The 4^th edition of the Bulgarian Dance Platform is taking place from 16–20 May 2024 in Sofia, hosting performances, discussions and artist gatherings. The offer includes travel, accommodation and free entrance to the performances. Application deadline: 15 March 2024

In 2024 now, the [8:tension] series for emerging choreographers will take place for the first time under the artistic direction of Breanna O’Mara and Chris Haring.

Sometimes you get a second chance. Or, some of you do. If you are a dancer and/or choreographer with decidedly professional ambitions, either based in Rumania or in Finland you get a second chance to apply for danceWEB 2024! Because two of our Life Long Burning partner – 4Culture and Moving in November – are each covering the fee for and nominating one participant for this year’s scholarship programme.

danceWEB is looking for a dance/performance artist/dance writer/dance teacher interested in participating in PRÉAC at La Genette Verte in France!

The seminar PRÉAC (Pôle de Ressources pour l'Éducation Artistique et Culturelle), organized and hosted by ICI-CCN Montpellier, is on Narratives: can we make fiction without making stories? The place of narrative in choreography: the relationship between abstraction and narration, and fictional modalities in choreographic composition, in particular.

Emma Talló is supporting danceWEB at ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival.

Sara Lanner is coordinating the participants of danceWEB at ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival this summer!