2009 Casa Encendida Dancers-in-Residency Program, Madrid

This residency program is a joint venture between the Casa Encendida and the Estrella Casero Dance Department of the University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid. It's aim is to promote creativity within the field of dance, offering studios and spaces for presentations. In this way, the program facilitates the creative development, interchange and debate between dancers and professionals in related fields.
Maximum duration: 6 weeks
Studio 1: 18 x 8 meters
Studio 2: 10 x 8 meters
Studio 3: 8 x 8 meters
Other facilities: sound equipment
Deadline: Dec. 15, 2008
Honorarium: 1500 € for full residency period.
Number of projects awarded per year: 8
Selection notification: January 16, 2009

More information and application form: http://lacasaencendida.es

Casa Encendida's Dancers-in-Residence perform in Madrid (Oct. 23-29, 2008)

In Transit 2008. Nine artistic processes developed during the Madrid's Casa Encendida Dancers-in-Residency program in conjunction with the Estrella Casero Dance Department, University of Alcalá de Henares.

All of the participants are young creators who span a range of contemporary expressions. Estela Llovés y Tania Arias explore personal and family identity; Óscar Villegas works with pseudo-autobiographical introspection; Georg Hobmeier addresses corporal limitations; Patricia Ruz reflects on families as creative meeting groups;Iker Gómez explores stage elements and water as means of expression; Alexandre Fernández reflects on human tension andthe frontiers between different social reality; Filipa Guimarães work results from a dialogue between real and virtual voices; Kim-lien Desault's is analytical of the performer, and together, Muriel Romero y Pablo Palacio, explore the links between sound and performance.

For schedule dates and places: casaencendida@cajamadrid.es

Experiment at Medialab-Prado, Madrid, on Fridays this fall

Madridlab-Prado invites you to their "Fridays OpenLab" where space will be dedicated to work, meeting and experiment. If your interested in developing or collaborating in projects, prototypes, and experiments with electronics, interactivity, sound devices, computer vision, etc. join in. Admission is free and no signing up required.

Double check dates at: http://medialab-prado.es/article/viernes_openlab2