TanzWerkstatt is a centre for creation and dissemination. It organizes Tanz im August - Internationales Tanzfest Berlin, the international Berlin dance festival, a veritable hub for dance in Europe. TanzWerkstatt Berlin is one of Germany’s foremost contemporary dance centres, a highly professional facility that works in close collaboration with numerous contemporary dance centres in Europe.

The choreographic residency in Berlin enables Québec artists to engage in a significant experience in their professional development. The new living environment and contacts with other artists create conditions favourable to the development of creativity and artistic approaches, indeed to the enhancement of the artist’s international profile.

The residency is intended to allow an up-and-coming Québec choreographer to engage in a period of research and artistic renewal outside his community and to take advantage of Berlin’s cultural diversity, especially during the Tanz im August - Internationales Tanzfest Berlin festival.


Concerned artistic field 
Contemporary dance


Target applicants
This international residency is intended for up-and-coming choreographers with at least two years of artistic practice.


Location 
TanzWerkstatt will make available to the guest choreographer a work and research space, its office infrastructure and professional follow-up by its artistic directors.


Length of stay and amount of the grant 
The residency will last two months, from August 15 to October 15, 2012.

The amount of the grant is $7 500 and covers transportation expenses, insurance, housing and a per diem allowance. The Conseil’s Berlin partner has already reserved the apartment.


Registration deadline
September 10, 2011


Additional information
This residency is made possible through the collaboration of the TanzWerkstatt Berlin and the Québec government office in Berlin.

TanzWerkstatt Website (www.TanzWerkstatt-berlin.de)

Contact information for Québec government delegations, offices and field offices abroad is available on the Website of the ministère des Relations internationales (www.mri.gouv.qc.ca).


Québec artists who participated in the choreographic residency in Berlin
Dany Desjardins (2009), Marie Béland (2010)



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