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Meet the artists #5: Group θΘ (Greece)
Something was pushing to breathe, to take shape. Occasioned by a song. “Antonis the boatman” by M. Vamvakaris. A ceremony set up with the aim of initiating the human, whose nature is male, into nature, which is female. A female figure who tries to reconstruct her…
Meet the artists #4: Eirini Tiniakou and Zoi Mastrotheodorou (Greece)
Zoi Mastrotheodou and Eirini Tiniakou create a performance by engaging in observation and research of the natural and social landscape of Bornholm and Naxos islands. They collect organic materials and relics of human activity that construct an entity of life and…
Meet the artists #3: The Amazing Other (Denmark)
Through aerial arts and video projection, we place our universe on the wall, creating an island that can move in size and location. We intend to create a unique ecosystem that can include audiences in its perimeter and make them part of an island ecosystem. Lalla la…
Meet the artists #2: Christopher McAuley and Emmen Jude Donnelly (Ireland)
The Irish artists Christopher McAuley and Emmen Jude Donnelly will be working on their show “Boys, like us” in Cres, Croatia, thanks to the Island Connect Residency. A tentative waltz between two male performers, “Boys, like us” addresses the physical characteristics…
Meet the artists #1: Kathleen Doherty & Alexandre Duarte (Ireland)
Kathleen Doherty and Alexandre Duarte have been selected as the Irish artists heading to Birca in Denmark. They will be working on their show “Martyr”. Female-driven, emotionally charged, visually captivating. Martyr is a direct and threatening view into the human…
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.
