On this season, the selected artists at the Creative exchange residences with CAMPO, the arts center based in Ghent (Belgium) with a diverse programme, ranging from theatre, dance and performance to festivals, neighbourhood kitchens and debates directed by Kristof Blom, are Nico Jongen and Lisa Vereertbrugghen.
Nico Jongen proposes Cantus Gestualis#2: Behind the scenes, a conceptualization and research project that follows the formal and narrative steps he has carried out since the beginning of the Trilogia del fill. His project will revolve around corporality, representation and the figure of old age.
Lisa Vereertbrugghen will be in the middle of creating a group piece on the notions of folk dance and (hardcore) techno, and will embrace the connection between these two areas questioning their political identity in a project untitled at the moment.
Both will spend one month of residence in Belgium, in February 2023, and another in Barcelona, between May and June 2023. In the latter period, at least one open session of the process will be held at the Lliure.
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Every season, Teatre Lliure organises a creative exchange residency with a different international cultural institution linked to a different city. This year the collaboration is with CAMPO in Ghent, an arts centre with a diverse programme ranging from theatre, dance and performance to festivals, neighbourhood kitchens and debates.
Through an open call for applications, open to people living in Catalonia or the rest of Spain who are linked in some way to the performing arts, the two teams will select two artists with research projects in tangential areas of the performing arts that can be nourished by the interaction between the two cities. It is valued that the projects raise cultural, academic and social aspects that can generate activities in these three axes, in relation to the work to be carried out. The two artists spend a month in residence hosted by the other team, and at the end of the two stays there is an open session on the process at the Lliure.