Dance Hub residency Sigrid Stigsdatter in Stockholm

MDT in Stockholm and Veem House for Performance in Amsterdam opened a call for two research residencies for dance artists based in Amsterdam and Stockholm.MDT and Veem House wished to create space for artistic research in experimental dance and choreography and to open possibilities for exchange with and between the two chosen artists and and the respective cities/artistic communities/workplaces/venues of Amsterdam and Stockholm.

View her experience report in the upper right column.

Sigrid Stigsdatter is on a residency in Stockholm from October 4-17, 2021:

Cat Cow Cat Cow is a wish to work fragmented and make space for the OMG dramaturgy to work. OMG dramaturgy is a method where things unfold one after the other without needing transition or reason, much like an album. OMG works for picking out all of the things in a process that is totally OMG and deserves to be on stage as material for no other reason than that it’s so OhMyGod. I believe this way of throwing material creates a space that is punk and magic.

I wanna see how naming movements like the Cat and the Cow makes space for stories and characters, I wanna create myths and paradoxes where fiction becomes the map from where reality can be reimagined. With Cat Cow Cat Cow I wanna investigate undulation in body, voice and sound as a way to create material not only to be looked at, but to be sensed, to be absorbed as a way of investigating other ways of experiencing in the theater than the penetrating gaze.

My choreographic work investigates future feminism, erotics and intimacy, the sensing body and how this keeps being a complicated place to work from. I want the complicated, the messy, the emotional, the sensitive and details. Always details. The details keeps me busy in the theater, a place I keep insisting to work with choreography and staging dance and performance in.

View her experience report in the upper right column.

Oda Brekke is on a residendcy in Amsterdam from November 29 to December 12.

What’s the offer?
MDT and Veem House offer each a 12-day residency (excluding travel by train) for two dance artists working with experimental dance/choreography (one person based in Amsterdam and one person based in Stockholm).
The artist from Amsterdam will be working in Stockholm at MDT and the person from Stockholm will be working at Veem House, Amsterdam. Both the venue and the artist based in the hosting city will introduce the guest artist to the city and the local field.
Each residency offers:
Train tickets between Stockholm and Amsterdam for one person (with one overnight stay during traveling).
Per diem and accommodation for one person.
Each artist receives a budget of 1000 euros.
A studio to work in.

Artist from Amsterdam
The artist from Amsterdam is offered a 12-14 day residency at MDT in Stockholm (including travel time by train) between October 4th – October 17th this year (2021). MDT offers a studio space with the possibility of limited technical support. During the residency it is possible to attend the public program. If wanted by the artist, a public showing of their research/working process can be arranged.
The Amsterdam based artist is also available for meetups in Amsterdam while the guest artist from Stockholm is working, between November 29th – December 12th.

Artist from Stockholm
The artist from Stockholm is offered a 12-day residency at Veem House for Performance in Amsterdam (excluding travel time by train) from November 29th – December 12th this year (2021). Veem House offers a studio with basic technical needs. During the residency it is possible to attend the public program of Veem House. We would like to do an intimate public sharing of the process/research/subject you are working on in that same week.
The Stockholm based artist is also available for meetups in Stockholm while the guest artist from Amsterdam is working, between October 4th – October 17th.