[call for applications] K3 - ZENTRUM FÜR CHOREOGRAPHIE RESIDENCY PROGRAMME 2009 / deadline: 4.08.2008. / Hamburg

K3 - Zentrum für Choreographie / Tanzplan Hamburg
Residency Programme 2009
April – December 2009

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.
Duration of residency: April – December 2009
The first part of the residency should be used for research, training and professional development in Hamburg. The second part should be directed towards creating a production.
The applicant should possess some knowledge of the German language

The residency programme offers:

Course programme at the K3 Zentrum (production oriented and dance/performance theory classes)

Events as part of the MA Performance Studies course at the Universität Hamburg

Performances of the projects in autumn 2009 at Kampnagel

an artistic mentor who will accompany each production

Support from the Tanzplan Hamburg regarding dramaturgy, organisation, technical requirements and PR work.

Active participation in the promotion programme of the Tanzplan Hamburg

Application Material:

Cover sheet K3 Residency: .pdf or .doc

Documentation Material of own projects
a.    DVD (2 max)
b.    Photos (3 max, one of which may be a portrait)
c.    Reviews, flyers, postcards etc.

Please send 4 copies of your application (including a self-addressed envelope for return mail) to:
Tanzplan Hamburg
c/o Kampnagel
Jarrestraße 20
D - 22303 Hamburg

In general, we don't return applications. If desired, please add a postpaid envelope (for Germany) or an international reply coupon (international) to your application.

Please also send the completed coversheet via email to:
tanzplan@kampnagel.de

Deadline for applications: 04 August 2008

Further information:
Tel.: 040 / 270949-45
Mail: tanzplan@kampnagel.de
Web: www.k3-hamburg.de

As part of Tanzplan Hamburg every year, until 2010, three choreographers will be awarded residencies for the duration of nine months (April-December). They will be artists at the beginning of their professional careers who have already produced their own works.

This programme, in collaboration with the MA course in Performance Studies at the University of Hamburg, connects the practical work on the choreographers’ own projects with theoretical- and production-related practical knowledge and thus offers new approaches towards the promotion of young artists.

The selected artists develop their own productions during their stay in Hamburg, which will be presented every year in the autumn as part of K3 at Kampnagel. They will be accompanied and supported by artistic mentors and by the dramaturgy, organisational and public relations departments at K3.

The artists in residence will have the opportunity to visit seminars and lectures offered by the performance studies course. They also have the chance to take part in the activities offered by K3, which include training sessions and workshops led by renowned artists as well as courses on dance and performance theory and production-specific aspects like dramaturgy, concept development, public relations, cultural management and backstage production.

In April 2007 the ‘K3 Residency Programme’ has embarked on its pilot phase:
The jury has selected three choreographers from over 80 international applicants:

Monica Antezana (Hamburg, Germany/ Cochabamba, Bolivia)

Jenny Beyer (Rotterdam, Netherlands/ Hamburg, Germany)

The choreographies created as part of their residencies were presented at K3 at Kampnagel in November and December 2007 (with generous support from the Alfred Toepfer foundation).

Stefan Hilterhaus (artistic director of PACT Zollverein)