Category: LAB
circusnext Labs return in 2024
The circusnext research labs are back this year! From August to October 2024, the authors of the shortlisted 2025 projects will be invited to work on their projects with circusnext’s European partners.
Lab 06: it took place at UP (Belgium)!
The last Lab of the year took place from November 6 to 16, 2023 at our partners of UP – Circus & Performing Arts (Brussels, Belgium).
The 2023 Labs comes to an end! Discover the images of the 10 days of work at UP – Circus & Performing Arts, which gathered 9 pre-selected artists around Gaël Santisteva as mentor.
Co-funded by the European Union, City of Paris & French Institute
Labs 2023 in numbers
The circusnext Lab taking place at UP in Brussels (Belgium) from November 6 to 16 is the final Lab of 2023.
Labs have made a comeback as part of circusnext’s support program. Pre-selected authors are invited to take part in 10 days of collective research on their projects at one of circusnext Platform members venues, under the guidance of an experienced artist.
Key numbers
Over the past 2 years: 12 Labs in 8 countries, 88 participants including 51 women (58%) and 37 men (42%), 59 projects supported.
In 2023, the Labs took place from August to November and brought together 46 artists from 29 projects at Cirkorama (Zagreb, Croatia), Sarabanda (Genoa, Italy), Subtopia (Stockholm, Sweden), La Grainerie (Toulouse, France), l’Espace Périphérique (Paris, France) and UP – Circus & Performing Arts (Brussels, Belgium).
Mentors
The mentors play a key role in the organization of the Labs: the work program is developed by the mentor according to his or her fields of expertise and the location chosen for the Lab. Therefore, even if they are designed with a common philosophy, each Lab is unique.
11 personalities from the performing arts have been mentors for a circusnext Lab since last year: Darragh McLoughlin (artist), Kitt Johnson (dancer & artistic director), Claudio Stellato (artist), Fatou Traoré (choreographer & director), Morgan Cosquer (artist), Marion Guyez (artist & researcher), Delphine Lanson (actress & artistic director), Albin Warette (actor & director), Gael Santisteva (artist), Marta Tkatchuk (artist) & Jérôme Dupin (actor & director).
The Labs will return next year for the artists pre-selected circusnext 2025.
Images of Lab 05 in Paris
Lab 05 of 2023, organized by circusnext in Paris, took place from October 11 to 20 at our partners’ Espace Périphérique (Paris).
The 4th Lab of 2023 took place at La Grainerie (France)
The 4th Lab of the year took place from October 2 to 13, 2023 at La Grainerie (Toulouse, France).
6 authors pre-selected for circusnext 2024 worked on the writing and dramaturgy of their projects with artist-mentor Albin Warette. La Grainerie’s team even took part in some of the artists’ experiments!
© La Grainerie
Co-financé par l’Union européenne, Ville de Paris & Institut Français.