The International Competition for Performing Arts in France 2018
Applicant criteria
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity description
The New Settings is an annual international program offered by The Fondation d’entreprise Hermès and is dedicated to the performing arts. The program supports the creation and diffusion of new performance works, and listens to the concerns and needs of artists and back them at every step of their journey, from the studio to the stage. It supports hybrid performing arts projects rooted in potent dialogue with the visual and digital arts. The program also supports productions exploring innovative audience engagement and interaction, at the crossroads of artistic vocabularies and disciplines. Often, the supported projects take a fresh approach to the theatrical environment, developing new ways to make use of the space of the stage, objects, sound and the body.
Eligibility Criteria:
[1] The visual arts dimension of the performing arts project must be dominant. To do this, the project can be:
- The result of a creative collaboration between one or several performing artists and one or several visual artists (in the framework of a new collaboration)
- A work by a performing artist or a visual artist, on condition that the author(s) is committed to: a piece that mixes performing arts and visual arts, a visual arts piece brought to the stage, and a performing arts piece including a visual arts problematic.
[2] The author(s) can make use of digital technology.
[3] The project must propose new ways of working in the process of creating the piece and/or in its relationship to the public.
[4] The project must be designed for an audience of at least 100 people.
[5] The piece must be ready for its premiere between the months of January and December 2019.
[6] Performance art created for exhibition spaces are not eligible.
The Foundation accompanies projects from their production phase onwards and proposes performance dates with partner institutions in the Ile-de-France: the Théâtre de la Cité internationale, the Festival d’Automne in Paris, the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, the Théâtre de la Ville and the Centre Pompidou. Some projects are also presented in the United States thanks to the Foundation’s links with the FIAF-French Institute Alliance Française in New York. It is also eager to share these works with a broad public and to facilitate their understanding and appreciation.
The Fondation d’entreprise Hermès aims to work on their ability to rise to the great challenges facing society today such as poverty and discrimination, the quest for lasting peace, education, the depletion of natural resources. Through their ability to harness their shared intelligence to the search for humanist, culturally-focused responses with its long history of social solidarity based on mutual support and collaboration.