Residencies

Artist residencies move our theatre, our artists, and our community and audiences forward.

Residency program 2025 - RESULTS

The 3rd year of the residency program will take place at Divadlo Štúdio tanca.

90 projects applied for the 2025 residency program, from which the evaluation committee selected 10 great ideas from Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria, Germany and France.

Considering the current situation in culture, we decided to give more space to Slovak artists and foreign artists living in Slovakia.

Topics such as motherhood, the position of women in society and their disadvantages have once again proved to be important, but at the same time very relevant. Themes such as the criticism of Slovak society or connecting folklore with contemporary dance were also of interest. We would like to thank the external evaluators who helped us to select the finalists. Not only will the wOrk in Progress presentations take place in our space, but also two premieres – Mario Drgoň’s and Pascal Marty’s. We look forward to seeing all the selected artists in our spaces!

Evaluation Committee:

Zuzana Majlingová (Stredoslovenská galéria) and Milan Zvada (CNK Záhrada) as external evaluators, Lucia Kašiarová, Zebastián Mendéz Marín and Alexandra Mireková as evaluators for Divadlo Štúdio tanca

Supported projects for 2025

Mário Drgoňa / Schwarzes Loch Europas / project: Slo_mo (SK)
Pascal Marty / project: Less and Less (FR, SK)
ME-SA / project: SECOND PRACTICE (CZ)
Silvia Grachová & Yann Szuter / project: Colliding Stories (SK)
BOD.Y ngo / project: WHAT THE FOLK? (SK)
Yuliia Chubareva, Mariia Chubareva  / project: Girl’s girl (UA, DE)
Miriam Budzáková / project: the other side (SK, AU)
M(other): Nicole Nigro & Natália Peták / project: MATRESCENE: interruptions welcome (CA, DE, SK)
This & That / project: In The Surface (SK)
Diego Alvarez Sanou / Colectivo Clá  / project: Unseen Earth (SK, CR)

Supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council

List of supported artists

2024

Radical Empathy / projekt: Flux 2 (SK) 
Colectivo Priekopník Veverička / projekt: Camille (Laboratórium v tieni) (SK)
Yuri Korec & Co. / projekt: Príbeh (SK)
Lukas Blaha Bliss, Andrej Štepita / projekt: Conversations of a haptic nature //: throw-dance. (SK, CZ)
SVUNG Research Group / projekt: Journeying (the weight we carry) (AT)
Soňa Kúdeľová / projekt: intensive tense (SK)
DARLINGBUDS / projekt: My Body Is Made Out Of Glass (IT)
Roberta Ceginskaite in collaboration with Kemelo Sehlapelo / projekt: for the world we’re after (IRL)
Sofiia Onishchenko / projekt: sweet and sour (UA)
Jakob Schall, Jakob Jautz / projekt: We are not as innocent as we thought (DE) 
Jessica Schmidtová a kolektív / projekt: N I (c) K (SK) 
Nezávislé  zoskupenie Odivo / projekt: Lost in translation (SK)
Antoinette Helbing / projekt: On/Crying – The Gravity of Tears (DK)
Andrej Kalinka, Milan Kozánek / projekt: complementary art (SK)

2023

Cola Ho Lok Yee / projekt: Emma’s Jaw (Hong Kong)
Nezávislé divadelné zoskupenie Odivo  / projekt: Kozmos (SK)
SOMALAB Katarína Trulíková / projekt: SOMALAB (SK)
Isabel Paladin / projekt: COME VERDE ongoing (Taliansko)
Natália Benková / projekt: Looking for myself (SK)
Colectivo Priekopník Veverička / projekt: EU.GENUS (SK)
Jonas Frey / projekt: Third Place (Nemecko)
Charlie Brittain | Milan Tomášik / projekt: Arms that never knew me (Veľká Británia / SK)
Zuzana Hanzušová, Alexandra Mireková, Barbora Michaligová / projekt: hraj_hru_hraj (SK)
Katherina Vasiliadis / projekt: International Cultural Management (Izrael)
COMPAGNIE LA TENEUR / Chloé Beillevaire / projekt: SCHLASS (Francúzsko)

2022

Lukáš Bobalík, Maja Hriešik, Dana Tomečková, Lukáš Kubičina
/ projekt: Light work (SK) // Eddie Oroyan a Jessica Eirado Enes (My Homeless Lover) / projekt: IVY (USA a Taliansko) // Lior Lazarof / projekt: Until Midnight (Izrael)

Why do we provide our space for artists to complete residencies?

We are a theatre technically and spatially suitable for the creation of dance works. We see it as our duty to provide these spaces to independent artists or other established companies from Slovakia and abroad.
We want to connect with artists and support their development in the field of contemporary dance and physical theatre.
In addition to a technically equipped space, we also provide the professional support needed to cultivate one’s own practice and self-development.
Residency programs also bring us new inspirations that come with each artist’s unique approach.
We provide our audiences with the opportunity to confront the work of visiting artists with our own.
Residencies often result in a work-in-progress output, so the audience can see the process of creation and influence it with their questions, opinions, and reactions. And deepen their perception of the specifics of dance art.