The Supporting Performing Arts Circulation in Europe (SPACE) project recently announced a new training programme for writers (critics and journalists) in the field of performing arts (theatre, dance, performance art, street theatre and circus performance, not music).
Interested applicants should have at least three years professional experience and a portfolio of published work. Applicants should be interested in improving the knowledge required to write about international work in the performing arts sector.
Background
SPACE is providing twenty places on a mobile European training program for critics, journalists and theoreticians working within the performing arts sector, who want to deepen their knowledge base and analyse and improve their work.
Participants will take part in a training program lasting 4 days and take place in 2 European cities (London and Prague).
In addition, participants will get the chance to experience different forms of performing arts via theatre festivals, performances, and an exhibition of performance design and space (available for participants in the Prague sessions only).
Aims of the training
The training will be based on the programmes offered at the London Mime Festival and the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2011, as a base for discussion and development of a critical discourse. The London session will be moderated by Tiago Bartolomeu Costa (PT) and Yohann Floch (FR). The Prague session will be moderated by Joanna Warsza (PL) and Arnd Wesemann (DE). Antoine Pickels (BE) will coordinate both sessions and stress the links between them.
The London session will start with interviews every morning with the artists seen the day before on stage. In the perspective of the 'parrhesial' concept, the artists’ words will be the point of departure of a journey to analyse the distance between critics, artists, and readers, discuss (and probably disagree) on the collective writing.
The Prague session will concentrate on spoken word and speech acts, and will not consist of writing or speaking about the different live arts phenomenon. Instead we will look at various language and performance formats, such as the Générique, an open-source performance project, which develops depending on the interest and investment of a variety of performers.
Tiago Bartolomeu Costa (PT) is the editor of Obscena magazine in Lisbon, and writes and teaches about performing arts and cultural politics. Yohann Floch (FR) is coordinator of the Circostrada Network and in charge of the international relations at HorslesMurs, Paris. Joanna Warsza (PL) is an artist-curator working on the edge of visual and performing arts. Arnd Wesemann (DE) is a writer and editor for Tanz Zeitschrift, Berlin. Antoine Pickels (BE) leads the Belgian magazine Scènes and is the director of La Bellone, House of Performing Arts in Brussels.
The training is conceived and conducted by TEAM network (Trans-disciplinary European Art Magazines) which has been launched as a move towards increased international co-operation and exchange of ideas. Find out more at www.team-network.eu
Who can apply
Candidates should meet the following criteria:
Dates and Locations
Session 1 – London 26 - 29 January 2011 during the London International Mime Festival 2011 www.mimefest.co.uk
Session 2– Prague, 22 – 25 June 2011 during the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2011 www.pq.cz
The training program will be conducted in English.
Application procedure
In order to apply, candidates must electronically send the following documents in English to writers@spaceproject.eu . The deadline has been extended to 14 November 2010, 12am (Central European Time):
Financial conditions
SPACE - Supporting Performing Arts Circulation in Europe
Nine national cultural institutions with an international policy and practice created a platform to analyse persistent imbalances (between countries, regions, artists, disciplines and performance venues) in terms of the circulation of performing arts works in Europe, and to experiment with new tools and mechanisms to reduce them. SPACE has created a 3 year-long project, supported by the European Union and based on three strands of activity. These are:
SPACE has been funded with support from the European Commission. To find out more about the SPACE network and the participating organisations then please visit the website: www.spaceproject.eu
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