NEWS
Meet the artists #3: Cecilie Schyth Kjær & Marcus Alexander Roydes (Denmark)
Ode to Y2K is the title of ongoing research by the collective PATCHWORKS. In this research, they explore and unravel the sparkling, alluring, ugly, maddeningly fascinating and sometimes deeply problematic culture of the 90s and early 00s. This research will ultimately…
Meet the artists #2: Antoinette Helbing & Birgitte Skands (Denmark) – The Laughing Crowd
The Laughing Crowd oscillates between a dance, an installation and a concert as the work equally involves body and voice work to unfold laughter as social communication, bodily state, stirring sound and sparkling sensation. Breaking with the common sense of looking at…
Meet the artists #1 – Danaë Wollen & Samuel Arnold Keane (Ireland)
A performance project exploring and inspired by the coastal habitat, Where Seaweed Dances brings a mélange of live music, acrobatic movement and theatre. During this residency we will be collecting further local knowledge of the coast, studying the movements and…
2022 Island Connect Brochure
Our 2022 brochure is released! Take a look at all of the artists and projects participating in Island Connect 2022.
2022 Residencies Announced
The Creative EU-funded project ISLAND CONNECT will support 7 performing arts projects from Croatia, Denmark, Ireland, Greece and Spain in 2022. This support will be dispersed via granting residencies and the “Island Connect SpringLab” in Athens (Greece), a 5-day…
End of Year One
Thank you to all of the artists, partners and funders that made Island Connect such a success in year one. We look forward to continuing the project in 2022 with a whole new batch of artists and projects!
Meet the artists #9: Beverley Grant and Chrissie Ardill (Ireland)
Our last Island Connect 2021 group is formed by Chrissie and Beverly, a professional dancer, aerialist and rollerskater and a dancer and circus artist based in Ireland. They will be exploring with the cyr wheel, aerial hoop film and a long rope duet during their work…
Meet the artists #8: La Contrapiel Teatro (Majorca, Spain)
A boat held in the sway of time, anchored, adrift. Medea returns from death to re-present her story. A ritual journey that aims at collective healing: the community of the victims is the same as the one that unites the victim to the executioner. Those who pity Medea,…
Meet the artists #7: teatreBLAU collective (Majorca, Spain)
“I wonder if we are not on the path towards a Great World War over Water”, Pope Francis, Seminar on the Human Right to Water, 2017. Water appears to be unlimitedly available in Europe; the fear of drought and thirst is nearly unknown. The production “War on Water”…
Meet the artists #6: Nikolina Komljenović and Irma Unusic (Croatia)
WHAT PLANET ARE YOU FROM? is the title of this work in progress Performers are hanging in the air on the ropes above the audience. The audience lies comfortably on the floor. Bodies are creating one unidentified object. Around them are different objects and surfaces…
2021 Residencies Announced
25th January 2021
The Creative EU-funded project ISLAND CONNECT will support 8 Performing Arts projects from Croatia, Denmark, Ireland, Greece and Spain in 2021. This support will be dispersed via granting residencies and a “SpringLab” in Limerick including different Capacity Building Workshops. ISLAND CONNECT’s goal is to support and assist artistic creation and the mobility of artists. The 2021 call for residencies received 81 applications.
The 8 selected companies are:
- Kathleen Doherty and Alexandre Duarte (IR) – residency at BIRCA (Bornholm, Denmark)
- Christopher McAuley and Emmen Donnelly (IR) – residency in Cres (Croatia)
- The Amazing other (DK) – residency in IACC (Limerick, Ireland)
- Eirini Tiniakou and Zoi Mastrotheodorou (GR) – residency at BIRCA (Bornholm, Denmark)
- Konstantinos Pavlidis (GR) – residency at C.IN.E. Sineu (Majorca, Spain)
- Nikolina Komljenović and Irma Unusic (CR)– residency at C.IN.E. Sineu, (Majorca, Spain)
- teatreBLAU (SP) – residency in Cres (Croatia)
- La ContraPiel Teatro (SP) – residency in Naxos (Greece)
The 8 companies will develop their projects during a 2-weeks residency in their own country and a second 2-weeks residency in the partner country, fights & coaching/mentorship included. The supported artists distinguish themselves by the richness and originality of their artistic approaches, as well as their aim to experiment.
Furthermore, the program will support this year 2 more projects in the framework of the Islander Focus productions, aimed at more established artists that have already been researching specificities of the insularity conditions. In 2021, a Danish company will travel to Majorca and Greece and a Croatian company will create in Ireland and Denmark. Both will benefit from and a final presentation of their work abroad.
The ISLAND CONNECT program not only supports new emerging companies of the 5 countries, but it also encourages artists’ interaction with the island area and community. Specific community members are contacted to spend a day with the artist on an island field-trip exchanging experiences, practices and reflections. Other public activities are artists’ work-in-progress presentations organised at the end of each residency and presentations of finished works of selected artistic companies in partners festivals. All presentations are followed by an artist-audience feedback session.
Download the press release PDF here.
