Artists In Residence (Air) program, provides development opportunities and facilities to emerging contemporary choreographers from Denmark and abraod.

Together with each artist, Archauz custom tailors the optimal framework for support, feedback and mentoring.

If you are interested in Archauz AIR send an e-mail to Louise Friis, call +45 8693 0009 or send a letter to Archauz, Valdemarsgade 1, 8000, Aarhus, Denmark.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Départs

Besides the AiR program Archauz has been selected to be a part of the EU-funded network Départs, which is a project that runs until 2014. Archauz is the only Nordic country in the network, which consists of 13 different cultural organizations from 9 countries (Denmark, Belgium, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Turkey, France and Hungary). Here Archauz has the opportunity to offer young national and international artists, production and research residency. This gives the artists an opportunity to develop themselves and their work in a professional environment. There will always be a display associated with a residency, where the audience has a chance to ask about the art, and make suggestions and thus develop the artistic product.

Besides their own choreographic work the artists also give professional morning classes and workshops and sometimes work with Archauz U-kompagniet and Archauz Senior Company.

Photo: Marius E. Hauge

AiR in the current season

DancersCorner vol. I, 29th of Augusti 2010: In August 2010 Archauz introduced the first DancersCorner. DancersCorner is a concept created by Archauz, and as Speakers Corner, a forum where the word is free and the artists' impressions are discussed.

For the first DancersCorner in August, the audience experienced Anna Reti, Amos Ben Tal and Claudio Stellato from Hungary, a Départs project. They showed their work, a dance performance ”Delirious”. Additionally, there was a dance performance from PARTS, the renowned Belgian dance school.

Movement Research is a collaboration between Archauz and the U.S. and in August Archauz had invited the artists Jillan Pena and Martin Lanz Landazurri from New York for a research residency. Their works were also presented on DancersCorner.

An exciting and interesting evening with good discussion afterwords about the importance of dance, the individual works and the artists' thoughts about their works.

DancersCorner vol II, 24th and 25th of February 2011: Lisbeth Sonne & Signe Klejs (DK), Thomas Holm Radil (DK) and the company ArouniDance (NO) are the brave artists who this time is on the program at DancersCorner Vol. II.

	Sonne and Klejs		Ghosts - a Study of the tracks we put in our surroundings and the tracks that the surroundings put in us.
	Thomas Radil		A duet inspired by poetry and is preoccupied with concepts as existence, tones and flickering.
	ArouniDance (NO)		Showing what's happening in the choreographic scene in Norway through: "60 seconds, apart". Choreograpy Christopher Arouni with dancers Erik Rulin & Martine Sofie Bergh.

Video by and with Amos Ben-Tal, YouTube, E-mail: amosbental@gmail.com