My experience with modul-dance began in 2010 at the first meeting held at the Maison de la Danse in Lyon. A group of about forty dance artists and professionals gathered there to get acquainted with each other. As opposed to what often happens, modul-dance endowed itself with the means to create a “true network” by inviting all these…

Tânia Carvalho is from Portugal and was proposed for the modul-dance project by HELLERAU-European Center for the Arts in Dresden. In the framework of the project she created Icosahedron, an impressive piece for 20 dancers.

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English choreographer Ben Duke and his company Lost Dog were proposed by The Place in London for the modul-dance project. Duke talks about It needs horses/Home for broken turns.

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loscorderos is a Spanish company selected by modul-dance in 2012 to develop the piece ULTRA_innocence. We interviewed Pablo Molinero during their residency at Graner, in Barcelona.

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Studio footage of a new work-in-progress by Itamar Serussi entitled Frost. Filmed in Bassano and London, 2013. Itamar Serussi - choreography & dance

Modul-dance interviewed the Greek artist Patricia Apergi during a residency at Graner Barcelona to create Planites. She talks about the concept developed during the creation process.

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In 2011 I was privileged to be selected by modul-dance to create the performance Slipping Through My Fingers which premiered at Dansens Hus in Stockholm in September 2012.

In this project I deepened my collaboration with three dancers I have worked with for some years now; Katarina Eriksson, Moa Westerlund and Aleksandra Sende, but I also introduced a new dancer to the group; Elizaveta Penkova.

By my side was also Jukka Rintamäki, the composer I have worked closely…

Itamar Serussi was selected for the modul-dance project after being proposed by Danshuis Station Zuid Tilburg. During the modul-dance conference that took place in October 2012 in Tilburg, Serussi talked with us about Mono, the piece developed under the project and inspired while buying a pram for his newly born twins. The advertisement said "In three clicks from mono to duo". In effect, mono is about several…

In May 2011, the Slovenian artist Jasmina Križaj wrote the following article for a modul-dance newsletter regarding her experience in the framework of the project.

Working period: from 04/04/2011 - 15/04/2011

Where: in Poznan, Poland - Art Stations Foundation

Who: Anja Bornsek, Cristina Planas Leitao, Jasmina Križaj and Tarras…

Emma Martin has been named by the Tanz Magazine as 1 of the 3 Hoffnungstraeger ("bearers of hope") 2014 in its yearbook. Read here the whole article in German.

Since the premiere of Tundra last May, the reviews of the project have been excellent. Read…

The Loose Collective was selected for the modul-dance project after being proposed by Tanzquartier Wien. Here, an interview with two of its members, talking about the process of creation of The Old Testament According to The Loose Collective.

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The performance is in the form of a circuit situated in a horticultural nursery on the outskirts of Cologne. The circuit consists of three buildings whose interiors are divided and semanticised during the course of the performance: a big, brick-walled greenhouse, a small glass greenhouse and a hothouse with…

Developing our piece Pausing within the context of modul-dance has been a significant experience for us. As in our work, we are always interested in sharing voices through collaboration, we found this context of modul-dance somehow corresponding to this desire - a group of dance houses collaborating in order to bring forward an idea and…

My first encounter with the modul-dance network was in November 2012 in Barcelona when I presented my work and the idea of the piece Duel. I was trumphally pregnant at that time so I new that if I want to create that show I would really need some support. My budget was ridicoulously small and on top I wished to check for the first time how it is to direct the others…

On 17th April Arno Schuitemaker premiered his modul-dance project "I is an Other" at Chassé Theatre in Breda. Here, some of the good reviews he got:

The climax [of the performance] is smart and touching. (...) Then you see how there can be a dialogue, a shared universe, between two different worlds. Exactly what a metaphor does - Mirjam van…

Tundra

In a nameless land, where there’s more darkness than daylight…he sat in the long white hut, at the table, tapping /his mother sat at the back of his mouth and the black sun was born/ the black sun was born…

Tundra is a wild and dangerous place inhabited by a cast of…

"A nameless land, where there’s more darkness than daylight …"

("Tundra" by Emma Martin Dance - Dublin Dance Festival, May 2014)

Photo by Luca Truffarelli/ © Emma…

“He got his strength up flush and in full glitter…” 

(“Tundra” by Emma Martin Dance – Dublin Dance Festival, May 2014)

Photo by Luca Truffarelli/ © Emma Martin Dance…

In May 2011, Tina Tarpgaard published this article in one of the modul-dance newsletters. How does she work as an independent artist in Denmark?

In the fall 2011 I will start the first residency as part of the modul-dance project. Together with my group of dancers and software artists (recoil performance…

The Italian artist Alessandro Sciarroni was selected for the modul-dance project after being proposed by Centro per la Scena Contemporanea Bassano del Grappa. Here, an interview with him during the research process of his project: UNTITLED_I will be there when you die.