“KÖRPER ausLAND” is choreographic and audiovisual research into various aspects and relationships between man, earth and chaos - on the one hand from a physical and scientific perspective and on the other hand through the confrontation of man with the socio-political circumstances of today's world. The material collected through the artistic, performative, sociological and scientific exploration will serve as the basis for future choreographic production.

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COLOURFUL WHITE is in-depth movement research into the use of gravity and centrifugal force in dance and especially in partnering. Tina Halford from VAYA works together with the dancers Raoul Salvador Martinez & Alexander de Vries on the artistic residency.

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In today's society, the deeply rooted patriarchal role models and societal expectations of men are omnipresent. Statements like "boys don't cry" are merely the tip of the iceberg and represent the extent of socioeconomic expectations placed on men from an early age. At the same time, there are more and more movements that aim to destroy the traditional image of the unfeeling, same-sex male. These movements explore the concept of male tenderness (or sensitive masculinity) and strive to develop new, positive patterns as alternatives to the prevailing stereotype of the resourceful, physically and mentally resilient alpha male.

EXIT THROUGH THE UNIVERSE (AT) is a transmedia dance performance that deals in an interdisciplinary manner with the emerging phenomenon of technoshamanism

and examines digitalism in relation to spirituality. At the interface of the physical body, immersive sound, film, and virtual world building, an immersive art experience can be enjoyed in the museum and theatre space through transmedia storytelling. Immersion in mental worlds and different somatic states. An encounter with the self.

An escape to places of longing and dream worlds. An aesthetic experience of one's own inner universe.

EXIT THROUGH THE UNIVERSE uses the paths and parameters of esoteric ideologies and spiritual practices and translates them into the mixed reality space in search of the "divine core within us". The subject and method of this production is technoshamanism. This ideology combines reflection on nature with current technology. The symbiosis of nature, body and technology creates, according to their ideology, an opportunity for transformation into the best version of one's own self.

Residency #4: 18.–30.11.2024

As part of TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund, Tanznetz Freiburg is enabling another full-time choreographic residency in cooperation with E-WERK Freiburg. Professional dance professionals from Freiburg can dedicate themselves to an artistic research project of their choice, at any stage. Part-time research is possible by arrangement.

For Zina Vaessen, work is always associated with securing our livelihood and with the deeply human need to (co-)shape the world. We always experience the associated hopes, visions, instincts, but also fears and paradoxes physically. Questions about the meaning and value of work are therefore always physical questions for her. In the planned video series, she is developing a short dance portrait with people from various professional fields, from which a longer video series will then emerge. The film series deals with that which cannot be replaced by any machine, the effect of compassion, passion and intuition, but also the accidental - that which we perhaps do not have at our direct disposal, that which we cannot really pay for and cannot produce artificially.

4 exchange -

in Nuremberg/Fürth, Munich, Freiburg and Mannheim

Exchange residencies as part of the 'Make four out of three' project of the Netzwerk Tanz Süd

Implementation: November - December 2024, 10 - 14 days per residency

The partners in the network

In order to structurally improve the visibility of contemporary dance in southern Germany, Tanzzentrale der Region Nürnberg, based in Fürth, and Tanztendenz München have been working together since 2022 and have initiated a residency exchange. As cooperation partners in Baden-Württemberg, the project includes the cities of Mannheim (EinTanzHaus and Schwindelfrei Festival) and Freiburg (Tanznetz Freiburg). In addition, the four project partners are involved with other southern German players in the Netzwerk Tanz Süd.

The residencies taking place under the title “4exchange”, in which an artist or company from one of the four partner cities is given the opportunity to spend a maximum 14-day residency in one of the other three cities, serves to further develop the artistic work in a partner city.

In all participating cities, the residents will be integrated into existing structures such as training courses, workshops, festivals and other activities; each residency plans showings and/or lecture demonstrations that are not only reserved for the professional audience, but also and above all provide the dance and performance-interested public with interesting insights into the dance landscape of southern Germany.4exchange will conclude with a networking day on December 15 in Fürth, which, in addition to keynote speeches and discussion rounds on networking and the further development of the independent dance scene in southern Germany, will once again offer a wide audience the opportunity to visit the results of the residents' work at a public presentation at the Kulturforum Fürth.