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Residencies

Uferstudios GmbH currently has residencies to offer through cooperation with the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Kultur lx Arts Council Luxemburg, as well as the pilot project for dance residency funding by the Berlin Senate.

Each artist in residence is invited to the Uferstudios as a place for artistic work, experimentation and exchange with the city of Berlin and its dance scene.

The Berlin Residency Program at Uferstudios, funded by the Berlin Senat Department for Culture and Europe, has offered Berlin-based dancers and choreographers the opportunity to reflect on, hone or develop their practice since 2020. Berlin artists are thus able to work in their city without the requirement of any explicit result and – as with so many other residences – without the need to completely reorganise their family or private life and necessary employment. Moreover, they are able to take advantage of their pre-existing artistic network in Berlin during the residency at Uferstudios. The residencies are not bound to any specific format or theme and can be designed according to the individual needs of the invited artists. Open calls are published yearly, dependent on funding approval.

Luxembourgian and Swedish artists are also offered residency periods at Uferstudios. Support is offered according to each specific artistic project, offering in turn an intensive exchange with the Berlin dance scene, opening the potential to shape the professional development of the artists in the long term.

Kultur | lx Arts Council Luxemburg, in collaboration with Uferstudios, offers an annual choreographic research residency of six weeks to artists based in Luxemburg. The artist selection is made by Kultur | lx Arts Council Luxemburg in consultation with Uferstudios.

The Swedish Arts Grants Committee – Konstnärsnämnden, in collaboration with Uferstudios, invites Swedish artists to work at Uferstudios twice per summer. The selection of these artists is made by the International Dance Program in consultation with Uferstudios.

Current calls

Currently none

Berlin Residency

2023

Nagao Akemi, Bettina Mileta, Evelyn Saylor and Johanna Ackva

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Armin Hokmi and Maikon K

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Laima Jaunzena and Maciek Keica

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2022

Yuko Kaseki

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Camila Malenchini and Margarida Alfeirao

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2021

KAPUTT

As part of the Berlin residency program, the collective KAPUTT, consisting of Pilar Villadangos and Valeria Oviedo, was invited to work at the Heizhaus from early August to mid-September 2021. Their project on the topic of migration began with interviews with people with a migrant background in Berlin to capture their voices and experiences. From then on, the project developed into a collaboration with various associations and artists dealing with migration: In several workshops, the group and the artists working with them worked together with members of the various communities on issues of arrival and departure, creating a community themselves in the process. Their collected experiences and voice recordings during the interviews were part of several urban interventions that took place in various districts of Berlin in September.

© Alejandro Ramos

© Alejandro Ramos

Kevin Bonono

"A Sensation of a Truth (about the gaze and its effects on human behavior)" is a reflection on the perception of the self in relation to the associated manners. In doing so, it provides a political, social and personal overview of how appearances, cultural background and fashion more broadly are evaluated and shape our behavior. The result is that we are isolated, restricted, controlled or observed. The ways in which Black and queer bodies are subjected to the gaze and attributions directed at them is a focus of Kevin Bonono's work.
In his longstanding preoccupation with gaze, Bonono investigated the various codes and vocabularies that minorities use - or sometimes do not use - to recognize each other as part of the Berlin residency program. This vocabulary is part of a larger identity struggle.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: "A single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete..."

Kevin Bonono "A sensation of a truth"

Lea Kieffer

With the project "Meluzine & Cie (Spending time with mermaids)", Lea Kieffer (aka Meluzine Codex Mercury) dedicates the Berlin residency to the recurring figure of her work over the past year: the cosmic mermaid. Together with other artists/creatures such as the dancer/drummer Ángela Muñoz Martínez (aka Jupiter Sonic Smith), the dancers Frida Giulia Franceschini (aka Morticia Moon X) and Rocio Marano (aka Yawna Galactica), the light magician Sandra Blatterer (aka Sasa_Sun), the dancer/author Timothée Nay (aka Colin Danger) and occasional guests, Lea Kieffer aimed to awakening her inner mermaid and exploring movement connections, songwriting, storytelling, lapdancing, somatic shape-shifting, apnea and tail-growth training, as well as building aquatic-cosmic landscapes and costumes out of shells, sea creature prints from recycled 90s bedsheets, neon light sculptures and other found treasures as part of the Berlin residency program.

© Lea Kieffer

Joni Barnard

As part of the Berlin residency "trials and revisiting", Joni Barnard continued to work on her joint performance "Danse Macabre and the Burning of the Bugs". The project is a tragic-comic response to the current extinction of species in the insect world, the horror of the bug apocalypse and the absurdity of mankind's violent destruction of our habitat. Joni invited the videographer Elisa Purfürst, the dancer and performer Liselotte Singer, Marc Philipp Gabriel as guest performer and dramaturge as well as Tizo All for costume and set design and conception. During the residency, the artists focused on creating soundscapes and superimposing images in real time, thus projecting additional images in the performance. As further input, they consulted insect experts based in and around Berlin and researched in depth the experiences, prejudices and discrimination of their own group in relation to the connection between the species.

Joni Barnard "Danse Macabre and the Burning of the Bugs"

Tzeshi Lei

Tzeshi Lei's research project took place in fall 2021. The project explored the collective creation of transcultural contemporary magic in choreographic forms in an urban context. It was intended as a platform and creative and critical safe space to bring different groups into exchange and co-creation and to reflect on the inherent choreographic dynamics of love, power and sexuality.

© Tzeshi Lei

Luxembourgian Residency

2023

Anne-Mareike Hess

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2022

Saeed Hani

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2021

William Cardoso

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2020

Tania Soubry

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2019

Annick Schade

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2018

Jill Crovisier

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2017

Simone Mousset

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Schwedish Residency

2023

Lisen Pousette and Olivia Rivière

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2022

Oda Brekke

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Sebastian Lingserius

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2021

Carima Neusser

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Marcus Baldemar

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2020

Ellen Söderhult

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2019

Elise Brewer

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Nicole Neidert

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2018

Ulrika Berg

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2017

Rani Nair

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2016

Emelie Enlund

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2015

Mirko Guido

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2014

Quarto - Anna Mesquita & Leandro Zappala

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2013

Halla Ólafsdóttir

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2012

Daniel Almgren Recén

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Supporter

Konstnaersnaemnden, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee,
Kultur lx,
Senat Department for Culture and Community,

Further projects

AUSUFERN

Life Long Burning

Making a Difference