International residency

Residency in Gothenburg for international choreographers

In 2010, The International Dance Programme at The Swedish Arts Grants Committee opened a residency program in Gothenburg for international dance artists.
The aim with the program is to create meetings and exchanges between international and local artists and contexts. Every year international choreographers and dancers will be invited to stay and work in Gothenburg. The residencies are tailor made by the local residence partners and include travel, living, studio time and a grant.
It is a long term collaboration with Danskontoret, Gothenburg Dance and Theatre Festival, Atalante, Danscentrum Väst and Dansbyrån.

Residency 2011:

Oct-Nov
The duo Steinunn and Brian (isl) will visit Gothenburg this autumn, during their IDP residence. They will give work-in-progress, workshops and presentation of their works. Steinunn and Brian will also hold two open shows where you have the opportunity to learn about their choreographies:  Love Always, Debbie and Susan at Pustervik on October 28 and Steinunn and Brian DO Art: How to be original that appears 3 to 5 November at Atalante. During their three week stay, they will rehearse at the Studio.
Steinunn and Brian have worked together since 2007 when they debuted with the first work in their trilogy about love, sex and relationships: Crazy in Love with Mr. Perfect. The second work Love Always, Debbie and Susan came in 2008 and the final The Butter Face premiered in 2009th. The latest work of the duo, Heilabrot, was commissioned by the Iceland Dance Company.

Steinunn Ketilsdóttir graduated in 2005 from Hunter College in NY with a BA in dance.  She has a love/hate relationship with dance but wants to keep on doing dance stuff until she gets old and wrinkled. Perhaps it is this love-hate relationship that makes her art so cocky and liberating uncompromised?

Brian Gerke is originally from Montana but has lived on Iceland for the past years. He came to Reykjavik from NYC where he was dancing with Hilary Easton + Co., Juliana May's MayDance and Sondra Loring and Dancers. In addition to freelance dancing and choreography, Brian also teaches and is the director of the Contemporary Dance Department at Listdansskoli Islands (isl).
For more information about Steinunn and Brian go to their Facebook page here

May
The first grants for this year's International Residency were given to Roger Sala Reyner and Simon Tanguy. Together with Gothenburg-based Aloun Marchal, they worked in the Dance Studio in May.

For more info on the trio and their work together please reade this pdf!
http://simontanguy.wordpress.com/

Residency 2010:

Rachid el Bandki from Maroco and Kettly Noël and Aly Karembe from Mali.

More about Rachid here:
http://www.jardinsdumaroc.com/dansemarrakech/
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6yx5c_rachid-el-bandki-performance_creation

More about Kettly Noël and the festival in Bamako:
http://www.donkoseko.org/
http://www.ccfbko.org.ml/pages/