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在“Frankfurt Moves! ”驻留计划框架下，德国KfW基金会与Frankfurt Lab诚邀您在
表演艺术领域
展开创作，并与其他创意人士展开交流。驻留艺术家将被邀请前往德国法兰克福，进行为期四周的创作驻留。2025年，Frankfurt Lab提供四个驻留名额，驻留时间为：2025年7月21日至8月17日。该项目面向在表演艺术领域具有潜力的国际新晋艺术家开放。
申请截止日期：2025年1月26日23:59（中欧时间）。详情见下。
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Open Call
Frankfurt Moves! 2025 -
International Artist Residency
In the framework of the
Residency Programme Frankfurt Moves!
,
the foundation KfW Stiftung and the Frankfurt LAB invite you to develop
artistic productions in the fields of the
performing arts
and to
exchange ideas with other creative artists. The Artists in Residence
will be invited to Frankfurt am Main, a German metropolis in the heart
of Europe, for a period of four weeks. They will be able to access the
professional venues of the Frankfurt LAB and will be provided with
dramaturgic and technical support. At the end of the residency, it will
be possible to present the results of the work publicly. In 2025, a
total of four residencies at the Frankfurt LAB will be made available
for the following time period:
21. July - 17. August 2025
.
The programme is aimed at promising professional international
emerging artists working in the performing arts. They must have produced
their first professional productions (max. one international
co-production) and have been trained in Africa, Asia, Latin America or
the MENA region. Particular attention will be paid to those who are
living and working in the mentioned continents at the time of the
application.
Applications must arrive at the latest by
26. January 2025 at 23:59 hrs (cet)
. Applications arriving after the 26. January 2025 will not be considered.
Please send us the complete application by email ONLY to [email protected].
About the Frankfurt LAB
The Frankfurt LAB is a production space for rehearsing and performing
experimental works in the fields of the performing arts (dance, theatre,
performance) and contemporary music. Artistic responsibility is shared
by its partners the Ensemble Modern, the Dresden Frankfurt Dance
Company, the Hessische Theaterakademie, the Hochschule für Musik und
Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main and the Künstler*innenhaus
Mousonturm.
About KfW Stiftung
KfW Stiftung is an independent, non-profit foundation based in Frankfurt
am Main, Germany. It was established in 2012 by the KfW Bankengruppe.
The foundation addresses major socially relevant transformative issues
on the basis of three fields of activity: Ecology & Sustainability,
Economy & Society and Arts & Culture. KfW Stiftung aims to
actively shape change by offering opportunities to those who are
advancing social transformation.
Benefits of the Residency Programme
:
• Fee (a total of max. 4.000 Euro gross per residency)
• 4 weeks accommodation in Frankfurt for 1-2 persons
• Travel expenses to Frankfurt (round trip) for 1-2 persons
• Material costs (a total of max. 800 Euro gross per residency)
• Professional documentation
• Professional rehearsal space (see below for specifics) / use of one
of the Frankfurt LAB venues (Hall 1 / Hall 2), including the use of the
existing technical equipment
• Workshop presentation (see below for specifics) with support by an event technician
• Dramaturgic and technical support by staff of the Frankfurt LAB, the partner institutions and/or external experts
Who can apply?
The residency offers excellent conditions for the (further) development
and implementation of artistic works, for a maximum two persons per
residency. Applications by groups with a larger number of people will
have to divide the benefits between the participants.
Applicants should:
• Work in the performing arts – interdisciplinary approaches are possible
• Have been trained in Africa, Asia, Latin America or the MENA region (at least one team member)
• Have had first professional experiences (incl. max. one international co-production)
• Name one concrete project idea or specific research project
• Be working on a future-oriented project, not on an already existing production
• Be able to organise a showing of the residency results with the available means / persons
• Be able to spend the complete duration of the residency in Frankfurt am Main
• Be interested in an exchange of ideas with artists and cultural institutions in Frankfurt
• Impart no hostility towards any groups of people in their projects
• Be able to communicate in German or English
Application procedure
:
The Application Form requests the applicants to provide details about
the project, their motivation for the application and video links to
recent works. An additional project description can be entered in PDF
form (max. 2 pages). There is no application fee. Queries may be made by
email to: [email protected]
A jury of experts, which consists of colleagues from the Frankfurt
LAB, partner institutions, KfW Stiftung and international experts,
decides on the awarding of the residencies. The applicants will be
informed about the jury’s decision approx. in May 2025.
Rehearsal Space
: both venues of the Frankfurt LAB are at the
disposal of the four residencies, meaning that two artists / artistic
teams share a hall, to which they have unlimited access. Both halls are
black boxes (Hall 1: 600 square metres, divisible by a curtain / Hall 2:
250 square metre studio stage), which have a grid and numerous hanging
possibilities. The Frankfurt LAB also has a kitchen, dressing-rooms and
showers for the residents. Existing technical equipment (sound, light,
video, stage) can be used upon request and basic technical supervision
on site is available.
The
final presentation
should provide scope for reflection and exchange and need not be a completely finished production.
