PLATEFORME STUDIOTRADE

Founded in 2010, the European network Studiotrade brings together thirteen partners across nine countries around a shared vision: making collaboration, rather than competition, the driving force of dance and the arts. Defending artistic freedom, it gathers artists beyond borders to promote knowledge sharing and develop cooperative projects that facilitate the international circulation of works and artists, as an alternative to conventional funding. Inspired by the bodies they observe in streets, public spaces, schools, retirement homes, factories, and prisons, choreographers São Castro, Teresa Alves da Silva (Portugal), Laurynas Žakevičius, Rokas Šaltenis, Airida Gudaitė (Lithuania), and Tchina Ndjidda (France-Cameroon) experiment with materiality, consistency, and truth, resonating with poetry, creativity, and boldness. On an overheated planet, where successive upheavals challenge societies and values, these works invite reflection on identity, migration, aging, twinship, and the representation of masculinity. Program – 3 pieces selected by the Studiotrade network: Compagnie Tchina (Roubaix, France) – Cross Choreography & Performance: Tchina Ndjidda Play False (Portugal) – hOLD Choreography & Performance: São Castro & Teresa Alves da Silva Low Air Vilnius City Dance Theatre (Lithuania) – Together Alone Choreography: Laurynas Žakevičius, Rokas Šaltenis, Airida Gudaitė Performance: Laurynas Žakevičius & Rokas Šaltenis