DNA NETWORK

A4, Slovakia

Cultural association A4 – a company for contemporary culture – was founded by Atrakt Art NGO, Asociácia súčasného tanca (Association of Contemporary Art), Burundi association and Pre súčasnú operu (association For Contemporary Opera). The project finds its home at up-to-date multifunctional non-profit centre and is open to both, governmentally led as well as non-governmental institutions. The company organises festivals, workshops and produces their own theatrical performances.
www.a4.sk

Schloss Bröllin - international theatre research location, Germany

Schloss Bröllin is a research centre for interdisciplinary art and a producer of innovative projects. This extensive production site hosts experimental performances, theoretical discussions on contemporary art, guest artists from around the world, artists in residence, unique events, flying beds, operating trees and singing walls. The centre provides a space for intensive cooperation, interaction and exchange, crossing borders and generations. Schloss Bröllin is a challenge in every respect.
willkommen, welcome, do widzenia !!!
Covering an area of 46,000m2, with 12,000m2 of interior space in historic buildings, Schloss Bröllin is located on the northern edge of Uckermark in the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern region, close to the town of Pasewalk.
Formerly a deserted country estate, it has been transformed into one of the largest venues in Germany for interdisciplinary arts, cultural events and performances.
www.broellin.de

Bora Bora (formerly Entré Scenen), Denmark

Bora Bora is a national and international production establishment for modern performing arts. Thhey produce, as well as co- produce, domestic and foreign performances, organize festivals, laboratory experiments, residencies and workshops. We have a house artist arrangement and rehearsal premises to let. In the 90’s, Entré Scenen was an open stage for all kinds of performing arts. An old factory- buliding in the backyard of Grønnegade, was utilized by people of cultural and performing heritage, all with disparate backgrounds and orientations. Through the years, the place became a refuge with a stage, rehersal premises and an office with partially unpaid staff. In 2000, the existing administration was contracted to make the theatre more professional, and to turn the place into a theatre of reportoire. Deeply rooted in the local enviroment, the theatre’s main goal was to reflect the already existing professional production conditions in town. And as this mostly consisted of dancers and performance artists, focus was turned away from text-based theatre.
Today Entré Scenen displays dance performances, animation theatre, contemporary circus and music theatre, all with an intense visual expression.
Festivals are an important part of Entré Scenen’s profile and operation. It’s through the festivals, which almost have the characteristics of residencies, artists from different countries and audiences meet, and exchange thoughts, views, experiences and sometimes commence longlasting collaborations.
Entré Scenen is supported by The Performing Arts Committee of the Danish Arts Council and The Municipality of Aarhus
www.bora-bora.dk

L1 Independent Artists Association of Public Utility, Hungary

L1 Association established in 1998 as an alliance of independent Hungarian dancers has been focusing on the promotion of contemporary dance by supporting productions and presenting the works of talented artists from Hungary and abroad. L1 Contemporary Dance Festival has been considered as the main annual event of the association. From 2009 it developed into a more and more extensive European overview with the general aim to import new creative thinking and progressive art practices. L1danceFest with its already 10 years of experience of event organization is scheduled as a significant platform of international artists with a strong desire to preserve diversity and recast the role of creativity, arts and culture in today’s society life. In the previous editions of the festival we accomplished 31 productions, 6 co-productions, 2 residencies, 10 workshops. In these events we involved more than 95 artists, more than 35 regional coordinators and art promoters. L1 programs were visited by more than 1.600 spectators. The Association's primary goal is to support innovative, unconventionally thinking and courageously experimenting artists – those ones who are always ready to leave the known for the sake of the unknown. L1 Association holds interest in creating circumstances for high quality performances (creative arts, performing arts and dance), managing the members of the organization and supporting external artists. Supporting festival visiting and study tours, resiency programs, organizing workshops and discussions is another very important educational aspect of our recent work. In the long run our aim is to operate a contemporary dance and art centre in a welcoming, open environment.
Zsolt Varga - chairman
Márta Ladjánszki - artistic director
Andrea Ádám - program coordinator
www.L1.hu
www.l1dancefestival.blogspot.com
www.polskapoint.blogspot.com
www.passingthroughv4.blogspot.com

Fish Eye Artistic Association, Lithuania

The group “Fish Eye” (“Zuvies akis”), established in 2002, unites young artists of Klaipėda city (Lithuania), representing different genres of art: design, choreography, modern dance, sculpture, art critics. The main aims of the group is to unite, to help the young artists in order to get integrated into the cultural life, to induce them to improve both in the sphere of ideas and technologies, to organize various cultural events, to present cultural talents to society and to collaborate with perspective artists from Lithuania and foreign countries, to provide opportunities for the creation of new works exploring cross disciplinary, interactive approaches and non-traditional venues, to draw particular attention to professional training and education schemes; thus to make cultural life of Klaipėda, Lithuania and Europe more active and diverse.
Group’s activities:
Initiation and organization of various cultural events, especially contemporary dance performances, and open-air projects; Organization of the annual International Festival of Contemporary Arts “PLArTFORMA” (since 2005). This festival, the only of such kind in Klaipėda and the region of Western Lithuania, aims to combine forms of visual (various art forms, video, film) and performing arts (modern theatre, contemporary dance, music) as well as the artists from Lithuania and foreign countries in one cultural platform; Development of collaboration and communication between Lithuanian and foreign artists. Networks:
In 2010, the “Fish Eye” and festival “PLArTFORMA” became a partner of project “DNA Development of New Art”, which aims to become a sustainable organic network, joining various forms of arts and artists from all over Europe and acting as an open platform for the artists who are offering fetching creative ideas to recast role of arts and culture in the contemporary European society life. The “Fish Eye” is also a partner of the keðja – major dance network of Baltic and Nordic countries. The “Fish Eye” is appointed as the main organizer of network’s encounter in Klaipeda (Lithuania) in 2013. www.zuviesakis.lt

Chorea Theatre Association, Poland

Activity of Chorea Theatre Association is a continuation of work started by two groups: ‘The Anctient Orchestra’ and ‘Dances of The Labirynth’. After three years of an intense, international activity Chorea Theatre found its permanent residence in Lodz, and together with Lodz Art Center and the City of Lodz created in 2007 new cultural center – Factory of Art. In the Factory Chorea runs Theatre and Education Center, which organizes:
series of cyclical theatre, music and dance workshops, focused on work with human body, voice and rhythm concerts theatre performances At the beginnings of artistic activity Chorea took inspiration from the ancient tradition. By researching sources of dance and music Chorea artists explored the culture of Greek and Roman antiquity. Results of this research were confronted with new art forms and were recreated in innovative and dynamic performances in which tradition meets modern theatre and modern world. Currently Chorea is concentrated on problem of the condition of modern man and taking inspiration from great, controversial artists, like Artaud, Wyspianski, Herbert, or Grotowski.
www.chorea.com.pl

Glej Theatre, Slovenia

Glej Theatre is Slovenia’s oldest independent theatre. Founded back in 1970, this experimental venue and production house has been led through the decades by young theatre creators, many of whom are Slovenia’s most well known theatre practitioners today: among others Dušan Jovanović, Janez Pipan, Eduard Miller, Nevenka Koprivšek, Matjaž Pograjc, Bojan Jablanovec, Tomi Janežič, Sebastijan Horvat, Diego DeBrea.
Glej produces and hosts research theatre projects of up-and-coming directors, who can apply to Glej’s open call. Glej offers a stepping-stone to young directors with professional working conditions, enabling quick and effective personal artistic growth and providing an entry point to a successful theatre career.
In the last few years Glej has been successfully touring festivals across Europe and the United States. Since 2009 the theatre is a member in standing of two international theatre networks: IETM - International network for contemporary performing arts and DNA - Development of new arts.
Glej’s current artistic director Marko Bulc’s vision is to keep Glej a daring urban theatre, dedicated to theatre research and promoting the new and marginal. Glej brings audiences an unusual theatre experience, while offering creators a space of uncensored freedom of creation.
www.glej.si