Artists in Residence

Artists in Residence

Since 2009, a successful artist-in-residence programme has been run as part of NORDWIND in Berlin and will be continued in the coming years. In Hamburg, the second festival venue since 2011, a new residency programme will be set up in collaboration with Kampnagel as a new network partner. Early 2013 sees the start of the next run of both programmes; the results will be presented at the NORDWIND FESTIVAL at the end of November/ beginning of December 2013 in Berlin and Hamburg respectively.

Residency: Dance (Finland and Germany) in Berlin

Following the residency of choreographer Eeva Muilu in Berlin 2011, collaboration with partners of the contemporary Finnish dance scene will be taken forward. As second partner institution, the Center for New Dance in Tampere will join Zodiak the Center for New Dance in Helsinki. For 15 years, the Tampere venue led by Anniina Kumpuniemi has developed ambitious and distinctive productions and is an important venue for the Finnish dance scene.

The NORDWIND Residency Programme for dance is planning an exchange of Finnish and German choreographers who will work in parallel on their current projects for three weeks in the respective host country. Following the residency there will be a showing.  In the framework of NORDWIND Festival the live presentation of the Finnish resident will be combined with the German artist’s project documentation in a collective format, adapted to the work’s content and formal qualities, and be developed.

At the beginning of 2013 the young choreographer Outi Yli Viikari together with sound designer Johannes Vartola continued her work on her solo When in Berlin. She attended performances at Berlin's dance venues and took part in open classes which brought her into contact with Berlin's dance scene.

Outi Yli Viikari, born in 1979, graduated from the Finnish Ballet Academy in 1996 and continued her studies in Stockholm and then in Brussels at P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios). She holds a scholarship awarded by the ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna and has presented her works in Scandinavia as well as in New York (Flea Theatre) and at Théâtre de la Bastille in Paris. In addition to her education and work as a dancer and choreographer, Outi completed her studies as a visual artist at the Tampere University of Applied Sciences in 2008.

The residency programme in January 2013 was a collaboration with the Center for New Dance in Tampere (Finland) and the dance festival in Tampere. In collaboration with the Finnish Ministry of Culture, the city of Tampere and Dock11 Berlin.

Residency: Baltic Countries (Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia) and Germany in Hamburg

As much culturally influenced by Scandinavia as by Russia and the Soviet past, in the still young Baltic performance scene the drive to find their own artistic style is ever more apparent. Individuals active on the international scene such as Mart Kangro, Oskar Korsunovas, Emunitas Nekrošius and Alvis Hermanis have raised the profile of Baltic theatre aesthetics abroad. It is still the case in Lithuania and Latvia that the independent scene outside the established and mainstream theatres can only develop under very difficult structural and financial conditions. In Estonia it is primarily the two theatres, Kanuti Gildi Saal and the Von Krahl Theatre, which play a key role in shaping the development of this predominantly young generation and try to show significant aesthetic trends. In Lithuania the growing independent dance and performance scene takes as its point of reference the Arts Printing House, a production and performance venue under the management of Audronis Imbrasas, which is located in a former sewing factory. In Latvia the young and experimental scene is focused around the GIT (Ģertrūdes ielas teātris), a small independent performance and production venue in Riga and the new Latvian Theatre Institute. The planned regular NORDWIND exchange-residencies are intended to establish lasting and productive support, promotion and networking for young Baltic artists, through the structures of the professional German theatre scene, and so help them further develop their artistic work.

Hamburg's first artist-in-residence programme focuses on Latvia. Young artists from Latvia and Hamburg will work together for three weeks in Hamburg followed by three weeks in Riga and get to know the respective art scenes. It will first be about getting acquainted with each other's work and building on this, about mutually taking forward a process already begun or starting a completely new project . This may result in collective as well as individual works. Crucial to this concept is the idea of exchange i.e. to engage with the structure and content of the other art scene through personal contact with another artist.

The young Latvian director Valters Silis kicks off this year’s series of Baltic countries RESIDENCIES. In collaboration with his set designer Ieva Kaulina and the actors Kārlis Krūmiņš and Carl Alm, he will work on his new performance Hope of Change during a three-month RESIDENCY in Hamburg. Within the context of NORDWIND 2013 he will show the intermediary stages of this process-oriented work. You will soon be able to find more detailed information under the heading Artists at http://www.nordwind-festival.de/2013/en/artists-sorted.

In collaboration with NORDWIND, Kampnagel Hamburg, Ģertrūdes ielas teātris, Riga, Kanuti Gildi Saal, Tallinn, OKT Vilnius.