Jardin d'Europe

Jardin d’Europe is a project dedicated to the establishment of a sustainable European infrastructure for the professionalisation of emerging dancers, choreographers, dance administrators and dance writers. Its main objective is  to organise individual artistic projects liable to become a driving force in an emerging dance market throughout Europe.

Jardin d’Europe is organised as a network of European dance institutions (dance training centres, dance companies or festival organizers) with a priority in Middle and Eastern European Countries (4CULTURE/RO, Bimeras Culture Foundation/TR, CCN Montpellier/FR, Cullberg Ballet/SE, danceWEB/AT, Lokomotiva/MK, Southbank Centre / UK, Station/YU, Ultima Vez/BE, Workshop Foundation/HU).

Jardin d’Europe is based on the success story of the European project danceWEB-Europe, which - with the support of the European Union - enabled a break-up of innovative  actions with a recognized European added value in the field of production and dissemination of contemporary dance.

Supported by the the European Culture Programme (2007 – 2013), Jardin d'Europe is a good opportunity to develop an altogether new comprehensive project with the objective to overcome the precarious status of contemporary dance in Europe and  to build a reliable hub for contemporary dance and its relating art forms (visual arts, film, music, philosophy, theatre, fashion, architecture).

The network activities of Jardin d’Europe are planned in a period of five years starting July 2008. Each year the results of the accompanying evaluation processes will be used to reframe the process according to the current necessities. Its well elaborated elements are linked together to support the qualification and professionalisation of the emerging players of our art form on a European level.
 

NEWS!

Call for applications 

Critical Endeavour 2012 / Vienna

organised by danceWEB (AT) 

Dance and performance have become a vital part of what can be called contemporary artistic practice. Descriptive formulae and definitional standards that are strictly movement-based or refer solely on the paradigm of stage performance no longer suffice for qualified discourse.

Critical Endeavour 2012 invites participants, experts and the interested public to rethink dance appreciation, expanding it to the filed of fine arts / visual arts, net activism, and informal communication media.

While classical journalistic fields decrease, the need for communication and discourse steadily increases.

Critical Endeavour will be exploring new forms, more driven by what is possible and less done into mourning past states of the art.

This workshop/training program for emerging dance and performance writers/journalists/critics

Critical Endeavour 2012 will be taking place from July 26 – August 12, 2012 in the frame of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival and led by Critical Endeavour mentor Franz Anton Cramer (DE). 

Special forms, such as “tandems” with guests (e.g. participants of the danceWEB Scholarship Programme 2012) public talks, improvised analysis or instant writing will be part of the programme. 

Key-words for working sessions include, but are not limited to: 
reversed experience
dance / non-dance
micro-invasive discourse

Further, the program includes
+ accommodation in Vienna for the whole period of the program
+ per diem: EUR 25.- (17 days)
+ travel

Application requirements:

Participants should have a proven interest in dance/performance and bring an experience in writing and publication, either in print, in the net, or in dialogical terms.

+ current CV

+ text (dance or performance review/discussion)
+ experience in writing and publication, either in print, in the net, or in dialogical terms
+ good knowledge of English as the working language will be English

Application deadline: June 1, 2012 

to be sent to: jane.hopper@cullbergbaletten.se

The Prix Jardin d'Europe 2011

The Prix Jardin d'Europe 2011 was hosted by the co-organiser 4Culture and awarded on October 15 in the frame of eXplore dance festival, Bucharest (October 1 - 16, 2011). 

15 performances by emerging artists were in the competition for the 4th Prix Jardin d’Europe – a EUR 10.000 European award. 

10 European emerging journalists formed the group of Critical Endeavour and had the responsibility to nominate the winner(s) of Prix Jardin d’Europe 2011.

The following performances were in the competition for the Prix Jardin d'Europe 2011:

An Verstraete - "The angry girl" 
Anna Mendelssohn - "Cry me a river"
Aleksandra Borys - "Lost in details"
Daniel Linehan - "Zombie Aporia" 
Fanni Futernecht - "I almost love you" 
Valerie Oberleithner - "Splendid Isolation" 
Sofia Dias & Vitor Roriz - "A gesture that is nothing but a threat" 
Anna MacRae - "Loud Enough" 
Dragana Alfirevic - "ARE MADE OF THIS" - Jardin d'Europe coproduction 2011
Valentina de Piante - "The thing doesn't touch me" (PREMIERE) - Jardin d'Europe coproduction 2011
Clement Layes - "Allege" 
Maria Baroncea, Eduard Gabia and Dragana Bulut -  "EIONOMETRY" (PREMIERE) - Jardin d'Europe coproduction 2011
Raul Maia & Thomas Steyaert - "The Ballet of Sam Hogue and Augustus Benjamin" - Jardin d'Europe coproduction 2011
Cecilia Lisa Eliceche - "Cow's Theory" (PREMIERE) - Jardin d'Europe Wild Card residency 2011

The Prix Jardin d'Europe 2011, endowed with EUR 10.000.-, was awarded to "A gesture that is nothing but a threat" by Sofia Dias & Vitor Roriz (PT). Additionally, the winners received a sculpture, designed by the Romanian visual artist Doru Dumitrescu (more information to Doru Dumitrescus work can be found at http://artbydd.blogspot.com/)

Residencies at ImPulsTanz (AT) respectively Workspace Brussels/Ultima Vez (BE) were given to Clément Layes and Cecilia Lisa Eliceche.

Jurystatement:

"Looking at the whole of the 2011 eXplore dance festival in Bucharest we found ourselves, as critics, reflecting on the frame of this festival and the frame of any other contemporary dance and performance art festival in Europe. We were in a complex situation, coming from different countries, with different backgrounds and expectations towards the performances, to the aesthetics and to art itself. Within the 10 days, it became obvious to us, that, in the end, given all these individual approaches to the performances that we saw, it had to come to a majority of voting.

The jury chose the piece “A Gesture that is Nothing but a Threat” by Portuguese artists Sofia Dias and Vitor Roriz, as the winning production of Prix Jardin d’Europe 2011. The work of Dias and Roriz was awarded for “their thorough re-thinking and detailed investigation of the word, voice and sound in relation to embodiment. The piece achieved a personal identity by engaging in the ongoing questioning of the choreography through creative and physical labour; while at the same time opening up a poetic space of thoughts, feelings and, as the two performers enacted a very intimate discovery.”

Furthermore, the jury suggests two residencies, which will be given by the partners of Prix Jardin d’Europe.

For its intense physical investigation of construction dynamics and social relationships. Cecilia Lisa Eliceche, Cow’s Theory

For its individual and skilful approach to choreography, a meditation on the nature of the arts, the expectations of the audience, and the world itself. Clement Layes, Allège"

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