The project Subs_Dance, Disco Zwei, Mannheim under the direction of Carolin Ott together with the dancer and choreographer Tobias Weikamp, the musician and performer Angie Taylor and the drag queen Shayma Alqueer/Rzouga Selmi invites three groups of three artists for four-week residencies concluding with participation in a contemporary dance, performance and club-culture festival, which will take place for the first time in August 2021.
Where: Germany, Mannheim
When: July/August 2021
Deadline for applications: 01.05.2021
Open call: 01.04.2021 – 01.05.2021
Residences: 19.07.2021 – 16.08.2021
Festivalperiod: 04.08. – 15.08.2021
The project Subs_Dance, Disco Zwei, Mannheim under the direction of Carolin Ott together with the dancer and choreographer Tobias Weikamp, the musician and performer Angie Taylor and the drag queen Shayma Alqueer/Rzouga Selmi invites three groups of three artists for four-week residencies concluding with participation in a contemporary dance, performance and club-culture festival, which will take place for the first time in August 2021.
The residencies are offered to three interdisciplinary teams of three who join forces across the
boundaries of theater, physical theater, dance, vogueing, queer, drag, travesty, music, electronic house and techno culture and apply with your concept idea for a stage (short) piece.
Subs_Dance is dedicated to the borders and interfaces of club and stage, to the liminal space between so called high culture, in which contemporary dance is at home, on the one hand, and the manifold embodied modes of sub-expression – not only queer – on the other. Subs_Dance wants to explore this field of tension of artistic forms and give it a stage.
Artists who work in the fields of gender, vogue, drag, queer, subculture and who are interested in entering into a dialogue with other artists and viewers can apply for the residencies. Since Subs_Dance aims to establish a firm foothold in the city and region, at least one of the residencies will be awarded 3 to a group from the Rhine-Neckar area. Following the residencies, the artists present the results of their work at a ten day festival, the programmatic core of which is formed by their performances. These are flanked by an extensive supporting program of discourse, disco and much more.
To apply for a residency grant and participation in the subsequent festival, please send the
following documents by email to subsdanceapply@disco-zwei.de (until 01.05.2021):
– detailed description of the project (max. 5,000 characters)
– short biography/introduction of the three participants or of the group already created
(max. 3,000 characters)
– Web links (website/social media channels)
– Videos/showreels etc. (max. 3 minutes per video!)
A residency within Subs_Dance includes:
– a rehearsal studio for four weeks (the last two of which include the festival).
– 2.500 Euro for each artist involved in the project (for max. three persons)
– Provision of technical equipment (subject to agreement and availability)
– Workshops and professional advice (dance/theater, drag, music producing,
light/visuals)
– Accommodation for four weeks in Mannheim, presence during the whole period is
obligatory
– Opening of the working process: mutual rehearsal visits and feedback rounds of the
groups
The residencies and the festival are supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
For further information, please visit https://www.facebook.com/discozwei