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NOMAD DANCE ACADEMY is a common initiative of six partner organizations from SEE region with the aim to promote, educate and collaborate in the area of contemporary dance and related arts.

An inner and an outer voice echoing along the urban sections of the river. Lines conceived in the intimacy of a poet's room. Stranger's gaze sliding across the water as he passes by. The river. A flow of images. A being to live with for a lifetime. A coagulum of our past and present bleeds.

This project negotiates the question of affirmation as a performative method and political stance. To choose the esthetics of subversive affirmation – in times of neoliberal relativism – means to take a political position – at the same time affirmative and performative.

Artists-in-residence programme dedicated to dance and performance artists from Eastern and South-eastern Europe. The residence lasts for a maximum of 8 weeks (6 weeks at TQW, for two further weeks a studio will be organised in the city; less is possible) and shall open a multilayered exchange among international artists and create qualified working conditions.

NOMAD/ Educational programme 2009 is dedicated to the group of up to 12 emerging artists from the Balkans who are motivated and mature to live, learn, work and move together for 4 months, creating a network for future artistic collaboration and continuing to work in contemporary dance.

Support and promotion of young choreographers, training and professional development courses and the promotion of Contemporary Dance – these are the focal points of the K3 Zentrum. For the third time the Tanzplan Hamburg is offering three residencies within this framework to choreographers at the beginning of their professional career. Ideally, the applicants should have realised their first own works.

TANZPLAN DRESDEN seeks to give new impulses to the contemporary dance scene in Dresden and is therefore looking for two production teams to come to Dresden and create a new project for the dance evening of TANZPLAN DRESDEN in June 2009.

Through the program Tanzplan Potsdam: Artists-in-Residence the fabrik Potsdam initiates and supports artistic projects in contemporary dance, choreography and performance with work residencies that include financial, creative, technical and logistical support. The program is oriented to professional artists and groups, from within and beyond Germany.

PACT Zollverein runs a residency programme, which is open to professional choreographers, theatre and performance makers from Germany and abroad. Shaped to suit individual needs, residencies are available throughout the year and can include rehearsal space as well as administrative and technical support for artists involved in researching, developing or realising projects or productions.

Borrowing the title from the famous Dean Martin song, this notebook-like performance explores the mechanisms of forgetting, emotional consumption and remembering moments and spaces that have been evacuated or that were never there.

The second Summer Workshop takes place between 14 – 25 July on the campus of Palucca-Schule. The course program includes Contemporary Technique, Ballet Class, yoga, Forsythe Repertoire, Trisha Brown Repertoire and visual arts with dancers. Teachers are Stefan Dreher, Holger John, Mariah Maloney, Ana Catalina Román and Risa Steinberg.

The goal of the workshop is the transmission of an excerpt of the piece dance (praticable). The workshop will consist in working on the different tools that permit to read and interpret the score on which the piece is based. Mainly, we will work on a body practice that approach anatomy and physiology through movement.