Eligibility

Open to playwrights, dramaturges, theatre, dance and performance makers, preferably from Europe

Number of Participants

1

Deadline

December 30, 2019 23:00 UTC

Selection Results (Announcement Dates)

January 15, 2020 23:00 UTC

Duration

March 15, 2020 - April 25, 2020

Funding

• €600.00 stipend (one-time)

Costs

• €21.00 application fee

Facilities

Desk Space

Housing

Apartment, Home-Stay

Meals

Coffee

Disciplines

Activists, Choreography, Conceptual Art, Dance, Documentary, Immersive Experiences, Installation, Interdiscplinary Arts, Intervention, Playwriting, Poetry, Public Art, Puppeteers, Research, Screenwriting, Social Practice, Sound Art, Theatre, Theatre Directors, Thinkers, Video Art, Visual Arts

Languages

English

Program Description

One playwright/dramaturg/theatre, dance or performance maker will be invited to Sofia to put the beginning of a piece that would reflect critically on a topic related to the 30-year anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of communism and the neoliberal consensus that followed across unified Europe and beyond. We are interested in various different positions and points of view towards the East-West division, the current crisis of liberal democracies and the possible ways forward for the future. We expect the selected resident to use their stay in Sofia to research, discuss and understand the local context and how it fits in the larger shifting geopolitical frame. We offer free accommodation in a shared apartment in central Sofia for between one and four weeks and a stipend of 600 EUR. Travel costs are to be covered by the selected participant with parts of the stipend or with additional funding. Letters of invitation will be provided