Partially Funded Residency for Artists from La Volière in France

La Volière invites contemporary aerial circus and aerial dance artists to a partially funded residency program that aims to identify and support emerging artists of the field. It will take place between July and August 2023 for a continuous period / between January and June 2023 for a split period of residency. This program provides free use of the creation space to work on your creative process and/or to finalize your creative project, as well as A financial contribution, which will be made to support the process. 

If you get this residency, you will have:

• Depending on the project selected, the dedicated envelope will be as follow:
• 1 person in residency: € 1,500 all tax included
• 2 persons in residency: € 2,300 all tax included
• 3 persons in residency: € 3,000 all tax included

Please note: This financial contribution may be used in different ways:

• Artistic Fees for team rehearsals.
• And/or
• Transport or Accommodation costs.

You should follow the following criteria: 

• The project can be submitted by one artist, a company of artists, a production, or a distribution organization.
• The aesthetic of the project must be contemporary, in the field of aerial circus and/or aerial dance.
• Proposals should not be technically challenging to be installed.
• The project team must:
• Be a maximum of 3 persons to host on-site.
• Engaged in a professional path and artistic activity.
• Speak French and/or English.
• Young emerging artists whose projects are in the process of being structured will be given preference.
• Projects for which the residency at La Volière will be one of the first residencies will be preferred.
• Residency duration must be comprised between 1 and 2 weeks maximum, either continuously or in a split.

Please note: The selected project will be notified by email on December 20th 2022.

About La Volière:

La Volière is a cultural and artistic place dedicated to circus arts and related arts. Unifying project: both a circus school, an artistic factory, a laboratory for social ties, and a platform for international exchanges. La Volière proposes to imagine or rather reinvent the disciplines around the contemporary circus which, more than ever, are changing in today's world; with that many openings on the educational, artistic, intellectual, cultural, and economic level.

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