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OPEN CALL: COACHING RESIDENCIES FOR CHOREOGRAPHERS. International choreographic residencies under the guidance of experimented and world-renowned coaches Kathy Casey (CA) and Valentina Desideri (ES). We are currently accepting applications for the twelfth year. The goal of the Coaching Residencies is to guide and support the artistic work of emerging choreographers and to navigate them in reflection of their initiated projects. The Residencies act also as a platform establishing a discourse in the field of contemporary dance, art and life echoing the Czech and international dance and art scene.

VIDEO ABOUT THE PROJECT SCHOOL IS DANCING. In cooperation with Kryštof Benoni, we have prepared a video report about the implementation of the School is Dancing looks like in practice. The pilot project of SE.S.TA is focusing on development of artistic creativity in School is dancing. The unique methodology uses "moving body" as a tool of learning and education. In cooperation with the teacher and a dance instructor the educational topics are connected with movement creativity. Children get to know mathematics, physics or grammar through movement and their own creativity and instead of pure memorizing they use a different level of acquiring the topics, they have opportunity to connect it with experience and find their own way to what they are being taught at school.

Centre for Choreographic Development SE.S.TA presents GENIUS RISES. A three year research and creative project by artists from the Czech Republic, France and Ghana, GENIUS RISES places the European Baroque and traditional Ghanaian art on the same stage. Through simple elements and collective and individual searching, this fusion of music, dance, theatre, history and sociology presents the public with something both entirely new and emerging from historical roots.

ROUNDABOUT EUROPE: a new opportunity for outdoor arts. Roundabout Europe is building a European circuit of residencies and festivals of outdoor arts, targeting artistic companies that are either emerging or are at a turning point in their artistic development. The project was created by five main partners who all are directors of respectable outdoor arts festivals from around Europe: Imaginarius from Portugal, KoresponDance festival from Czech Republic, Out There from the United Kingdom, Passage Festival from Denmark and Spoffin Festival from The Netherlands. Spoffin is the coordinator of the project.