Devising Performance

A Laboratory which offers choreographers, performers, visual artists or anyone else working with physical and visual manifestations; the time and space to research the creation of a solo or duo work in the full breadth of its multiple meanings and possibilities. We will welcome and facilitate an individual proposal or a duo partnership to share a 7-day investigative journey; working as a cooperative to strengthen and nurture each individual process.

• We are aware of the current difficulties inherent to concentrate and research performance practice. Devising performance offers an intimate and focused research framework and artistic accompaniment in which we create (and recreate) common references, lines of action and collaborative debates around our various performance practices.

This lab is an invitation to anyone keen on developing live solo or duo performance work regardless of their level of experience.

We will provide a full week residency in our studio, from Monday to Sunday, including a single room for one person or a shared room in case of a duo. You will be able to cook for yourselves in the studio kitchen and you will receive a bicycle for local transportation.

The practice will take the form of joint morning training sessions with the artist(s) and choreographers/facilitators. They will include yoga, dance tools, movement and voice research with the intention of fully preparing the body for the creative process. Subsequently, based on the artist(s) needs, we will define lines of work to create the material. This could include: conceptual exploration, improvisation, composition, voice/text research, visual language and extra physical/movement sessions; complemented with group classes, film, readings and continuous feedback.