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Below is the press release issued by the Quantic Cultural Association announcing the opening of the call for submissions for the online speculative fiction platform, Possible Worlds:

Starting today you can send us literary, visual or sound creations until April 20, 2023!

We’re looking for original creations, unpublished somewhere else, that explore speculative fiction genres through an intersectional lens. We want speculative fiction to be a radical tool for emancipation, reflection, and changing the status quo.

Through visionary fiction we want to construct a space of reclaiming power and self-determination for historically dispossessed people.

Possible Worlds is an online platform for radical speculative fiction.

Lumi Posibile hosts and celebrates a myriad of forms of creative expression: literature, essays, visual art, sound art, and anything else we can imagine.

Lumi Posibile encompasses various genres of speculative fiction: from science fiction, to horror, to fantasy and any other similar existing or future genres.

Our Possible Worlds include people with diverse identities and histories. We see speculative fiction as a tool for marginalized communities to forge a gentler, more revolutionary future, to explore the present and the past through fantasy, and to exorcise social injustices through an imaginary of chaos and the monstrous. We can build the world we want to live in, a world our ancestors have already begun to work on.

Possible Worlds rejects the binary and purity of literary-artistic genres. We encourage and celebrate mixture, hybrid forms, all that is strange, strange and hard to define..

Our Possible worlds are sensitive and curious, emotional and undisciplined, poetic and analytical; they are affected by everything that touches and affects them in turn. Our Possible Worlds are body, idea, sensation and thought in the same breath, which together are always transforming.

Our Possible Worlds are queer, Roma, feminist, anti-capitalist, anti-speciesist, neurodivergent, anti-abolitionist.

We welcome any form of speculative fiction, such as:

• Science fiction (utopias, dystopias, solarpunk, cyberpunk, post-apocalyptic, cosmic exploration, etc.).
• Horror (body horror, gothic, supernatural, monstrous, etc.)
• Fantasy (fairy tales, mythology, superheroes/heroines, etc.)
• Magical realism
• Alternative Histories
• Any other genre we can imagine

You can send us the following artwork:

• Literature (prose, poetry, essays)
• Visual arts (video poem, video essay, short film, comic strip)
• Sound art (narrative podcast, music mix, song)
• Submissions can be sent to lumiposibile@gmail.com along with a description of yourself of about 50 words.

Material published on the website will be remunerated.

Partners: Accept Association, National Dance Centre Bucharest, Intersect Community Centre, ArtHub, Art200 Queer International Film Festival, CUTRA Magazine, Echinox, SUPER Film Festival, AIVImedia.hub, Radio Romania Cultural;

The project “Possible Worlds” is run by Quantic Cultural Association and is a project co-financed by AFCN. The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or how the results of the project may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the grantee.

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Citofonare PimOff reaches its 9th edition and as every year it launches an international call for contemporary dance projects in phase of creation, that have never debuted, in Italy or abroad, and have never been presented to the public in finished form. It will be possible to send applications from 15th March to 30th April 2023.

The winners of Citofonare PimOff are assigned a period of artistic residency up to maximum of 15 days from February to May 2024, which includes: the use of the theatre room and its equipment; accommodation; financial support up to a maximum of € 3,000; technical assistance; organizational, communicative and promotional support. The goal of the residency is not the staging of an accomplished show, but the artistic research. Precisely for this reason, each residency ends with a sharing of the project, a fundamental moment of encounter and exchange between artists and the audience.

Initially designed as an open call addressed to every sector of the performing arts, during its editions, Citofonare PimOff has defined its focus on dance, a sector that in the Italian context is among the most sacrificed. However, there remains a trace of its original form and of the heterogeneous activity of PimOff: these traces reflect in a broad concept of dance, a perspective that considers hybridization between knowledges and arts as an indispensable resource for reporting the complexity of our time.

PimOff is a member of dance card, the network of dance in Lombardia.
In collaboration with Fondazione Accademia Teatro alla Scala –Photo Video and New Media course and with Afol Moda – Afol Metropolitana – Costume Designer course for Theatre and Entertainment. Patrocinated by Municipio 5 of Comune di Milano.

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The Berlin-based dancer and artist continues Fountains of expressive flow at the Academy of Dance and Performance, a module started by Jan Burkhardt. The focus is again on opening up and shaping the full range of expressiveness through the use of rigour and lightness.

Sigal Zouk graduated from Emek Israel Dance School and was a member of the Batsheva ensemble from 1994-1996. After moving to Berlin (1997), she became a member of Sasha Waltz and Guests (1999-2004). In 2005 she began collaborating with Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods, and in 2007 with Laurent Chetouane, with whom she created 10 dance and theatre pieces for the stage.
She has worked with numerous artists (including Boris Charmantz, Zeirkratzer, Simone Aughterlony, Ian Kalerl) and teaches in several European dance institutions and departments (such as HZT, Tanzfabrik Berlin, DDSKS Copenhagen, Cullberg Ballet Stockholm, Ponderosa). Sigal holds the “Best Performer” award at the 2010 Dortmund Festival and was named “Dancer of the Year” by Tanz Magazine in 2011.

The CNDB Itinerant performance season presents choreographic works and performances created by artists and produced by independent structures not only at our headquarters in Bd. Mărășești, but also in other venues in Bucharest or in the country.
Discover the calendar of performances scheduled in the next period.

1 & 8.03 | moving [m]others @ ARCUB

Some things seem obvious, but they still need to be underlined. March 1 and 8 are not about making women strong. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way we perceive that power, about taking ownership and freedom of choice.

Not at all by chance, on 1 and 8 March, the CNDB presents moving [m]others at ARCUB., a layered, cumulative and unpredictable performative installation, a question-driven journey that embraces the chaos and foreboding of motherhood.

4.03 | Luați de VAL…s @ HEARTH

Luați de VAL…s is a dance piece performed in the Kerim House and inspired by its architecture and history. In addition to the house in Parfumului 19, Alexandra Mihaela Dancs and Vlad Benescu let themselves be carried away by the waves of the Black Sea during their long surf sessions.

Being carried away by the waves thus becomes an artistic practice.

Admission is free, reservation by email to asociatiahearth@gmail.com or by phone, 0724293708.

The capacity of the space is 15 seats.

12.03 | Less might be more, but sometimes less is just nothing @ CNDB 

Less might be more, but sometimes less is just nothing is a work by Bulgarian choreographer Willy Prager inspired by the disco band Zoom, founded in 1973 in Spain.

The performance, at the intersection of visual art and disco dance culture, questions the principle of modernity in contemporary art by proposing “less is more”.

The restrictions of the pandemic that have brought less communication, less interaction, less interpretation, less criticism, less demonstration, fewer participants, less… makes this performance question this thesis and explore whether less is still more or whether it is nothing.

26.03 | Humans | Bodies | Images @ CNDB  

Drawing on choreographer Ioana Marchidan’s personal experience at ballet school, Humans | Bodies | Images questions how we relate to the body in art, fashion, media, education and within the family, offering a broader perspective on the impact of body shaming today.

31.03 | Double-bill: Outcome & Reverse Discourse @ LINOTIP

Outcome, by Manuel Pelmuș, is one of the most daring choreographic works to appear in the early 2000s in Romanian contemporary dance, by its proposal to short-circuiting the typical aestheticism of the time. Almost 20 years after its premiere, the piece was revived in the CNDB Academy of Dance and Performance in 2020.

Reverse discourse is a performance about body politics in which Ioana Marchidan identifies and brings to the surface deeply rooted gestures, in order to unravel and decompose them through a bodily glide towards an abstract choreography. The piece proposes cataloguing and re-editing the memory of the submission, of the suppression and repression of the meanings of gestures, and integrates the audience as participants in the dialogue, as submissive observers.

20.04 & 21.04 | In three days the grass will grow… @ SAC

In three days the grass will grow… oscillates between oblivion and remembering, erasure and recovery. Past spaces, objects and stories are brought into the present. Their reconfiguration generates new experiences that become in turn archival sources.

22.04 | Humans | Bodies | Images @ CNDB

Drawing on choreographer Ioana Marchidan’s personal experience at ballet school, Humans | Bodies | Images questions how we relate to the body in art, fashion, media, education and within the family, offering a broader perspective on the impact of body shaming today.

23.04 | Double-bill: Outcome & Reverse Discourse @ LINOTIP

Outcome, by Manuel Pelmuș, is one of the most daring choreographic works to appear in the early 2000s in Romanian contemporary dance, by its proposal to short-circuiting the typical aestheticism of the time. Almost 20 years after its premiere, the piece was revived in the CNDB Academy of Dance and Performance in 2020.

Reverse discourse is a performance about body politics in which Ioana Marchidan identifies and brings to the surface deeply rooted gestures, in order to unravel and decompose them through a bodily glide towards an abstract choreography. The piece proposes cataloguing and re-editing the memory of the submission, of the suppression and repression of the meanings of gestures, and integrates the audience as participants in the dialogue, as submissive observers.

05.05, 08.05 & 21.05 | Pathosphere

The Pathosphere – is the sphere of pathos (emotion), the sphere/medium in which contradiction, contrast, overlapping, deformation, the fabric of paradoxes, seen both micro – biologically and psychologically – and macro, in relation to the surrounding reality and universe, cohabit. Mădălina Dan proposes an artistic universe structured around a unitary bodily composition, in which individualities, dynamics and affective subjectivity form an extended body

13.05 & 14.05 | BLOT – Body Line of Thought

BLOT proposes a series of performative situations that explore movement from the perspective of the relationship we have with the bacteria in our bodies. The performance looks at the human body as an interconnected system, powerful and fragile at the same time. Stripped of the social meanings defined by language, the body redefines itself through a continuous dialogue, at the basis of which lies the principle of coexistence. On stage and off, choreographers Simona Deaconescu and Vanessa Goodman have created a performative system based on seemingly invisible links, but without which the human body could not function.

19.05 | Luați de VAL…s @ HEARTH

Luați de VAL…s is a dance piece performed in the Kerim House and inspired by its architecture and history. In addition to the house in Parfumului 19, Alexandra Mihaela Dancs and Vlad Benescu let themselves be carried away by the waves of the Black Sea during their long surf sessions.
Being carried away by the waves thus becomes an artistic practice.

The center is where you dance. The center can be anywhere.

A teacher of the Gaga movement language since 2007, Noa Zuk is holding a repertory workshop with us in which she will be incorporating material from choreographies she has created over the years. Her goal will be to show students how to increase the volume of a sensation and how to connect to the needs of each movement.

Noa Zuk has danced for 9 years in Batsheva, in all of Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin’s creations since the early 2000s, while working with artists such as Mats Ek, Sharon Eyal, Yasmeen Godder and Inbal Pinto. She left the company in 2009 to focus on his own work as a choreographer (early works include O.M.S., A Droom Come Tree and the Boxerman trio).

She has worked for Bern Ballet (Speakers, 2012), Groundworks Dance Company of Cleveland (After Chorus, 2012), Repertory Dance Theatre of Utah (By the Snake, 2014), Frontier Danceland-Singapore, and Inbal Dance Company-Israel.

Choreographer Marta Coronado has begun work at the Academy of Dance and Performance with “Tools for a Thinking Body”, a workshop under the umbrella of which students will generate ideas for interaction, practice real-time compositions and outline the structure of a dance piece.

Winner of the Bessie Award in 2002 (The New York Dance and Performance Awards), Marta Coronado has danced and contributed to the creation of the Rosas Company’s performances for over 15 years, has become rehearsal director of artistic teams such as those of the Paris Opera and the Lyon Opera, and is co-founder of the House of Bertha collective and the La Faktoria Choreographic Centre in Pamplona.

Theater School in Amsterdam, CNDC Angers, Deltebre Festival, Les ballet C. de la B., Ballet de Marseille, P.A.R.T.S., Ultima Vez Company are just a few of the dance-performance entities where she has given workshops in technique and composition – and now the CNDB-Academia has been added to the “short list”.

It promises to be a great two weeks!

On Monday, February 6, we begin the Academy of Dance and Performance Producer Program, dedicated to those who want to become professional in performing arts production, with a focus on dance and performance

New training, new students

Selected following an open call, the 7 trainees with different but complementary professional backgrounds – management, cultural production, film directing, curating, education – will embark on a theoretical and practical learning path, structured in modules and running for 3 months until May.

Alexandra Manole, Anca Turtoi, Dan Iliuță, Daniel Dragomir, Marta Gheleșel, Teona Milicevic and Elena Peneva make up the first generation of producers we are training.

Module 1: General context of production in performing arts/contemporary dance

Focusing on the theoretical notions that any good producer must master, the first module provides an overview of the field: public policies and creative practices, dance production in the international space, the design of a dance festival or an artistic portfolio, the role of international networks in cultural mobility.

Among the professors invited to give lectures and workshops during the module, we mention Corina Șuteu (cultural policy expert), Marijana Cvetkovic (founder of Nomad Dance Academy and co-founder of Stanica-Service for Contemporary Dance) and Alexandra Schmidt (cultural manager).

They are joined by part of our team (in the introductory preludes) and numerous arts professionals (in q&a workshops).

Module 2: Producer tools

Oana Radu (manager and cultural consultant), Elena Calistru (president of Funky Citizens), Raluca Iacob (manager and cultural expert), Lucian Vărșăndan (director of the German Theatre in Timișoara), Demeter András (Secretary of State at the Ministry of Culture) or Ștefan Teișanu (cultural entrepreneur, executive director of the Cluj Cultural Centre) are just a few of the guests who will accompany the trainees in deepening and practising the practical issues of the cultural system, from contracting/budgeting and grant writing to local/central administration and audience development.

Module 3: Institutions

Institutions such as ICR, AFCN, INCFC, UMP, but also European institutions will be explored during the last module, in meetings with experts such as Irina Cios, Delia Mucică, Ovidiu Dajbog Miron or Sorin Enuș.

Also here, students will do internships in various institutions. The spaces invited in the programme represent opportunities for the beneficiaries to assist with the production of dance, dance-theatre or performance works and to practice the knowledge & skills developed during this time.

A guided tour

Developed by Corina Șuteu, as programme director, the architecture of the Producers Programme is a guided pathway within which learners can access and improve their organic skills.

The 7 beneficiaries will receive constant feedback from us, through the team of mentors made up of Carmen Coțofană, Andreea Andrei and Laura Trocan, and will have, in addition to courses and workshops, tutoring sessions, networking meetings or impromptu samples.

Stakes

Through the Academy Dance and Performance, with its two sub-programmes, the Dancers Programme and the Producers Programme, we are trying to develop a new generation of performers and producers to the highest standards.

For the latter, we provide them with consistent resources, a friendly environment and our full support to succeed in today’s performance landscape.

Application deadline: 22 February 2023
Online Application here.

Running all year round since 2002, the residency programme is at the heart of PACT Zollverein’s day to day work. Open to professional artists from home and abroad who work in the areas of dance, performance, media arts or music and closely linked to PACT’s two other core strands of activity in presenting work and facilitating research and development, the programme is a key element in PACT Zollverein’s profile as an Artists’ House supporting lively exchange between practice and theory.

While occupying their own designated space and essentially working independently, residents may choose to take advantage of various kinds of production support.

Please find enclosed the Call for Entries for the time period between August and December 2023. The closing date for applications is 22 February 2022.

Thanks to the support of the Ministry for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, residency recipients receive a grant to cover their living expen­ses and travel costs. 

Call for Entries here.
Online Application here.
(Apply by 22 February 2023, 23:59 h CET)

The call for applications for mobility grants under the Culture Moves Europe programme is open until 31 March!

The programme is aimed at artists and cultural professionals, including those in the performing arts.

Applicants must be resident in a country participating in the Creative Europe Programme and travel to another Creative Europe country.

Details and applications here.

The digital magazine On Curating dedicates its latest issue (#55/January 2023) to dance as a performing art, but also as a socio-cultural practice in the international context Curating Dance: Decolonizing Dance.

Through this theme, the journal aims to develop the relevant theoretical and methodological foundations of dance curation, with a focus on decolonization in the performing arts.

Coordinating editors: Sigrid Gareis, Nicole Haitzinger and Jay Pather.

Contributions by: Miriam Althammer, Rainy Demerson, Kai van Eikels, Gurur Ertem, Jörn Etzold, Sigrid Gareis, Nicole Haitzinger, jackï job/Rolando Vázquez Melken, Gwendolin Lehnerer, Kirsten Maar, Ong Keng Sen, Jay Pather (with Choy Ka Fai, Sigrid Gareis, Lia Rodrigues and Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor), Amanda Piña, Michiel Vandevelde.

Online release: 30 January.
Registration here.