A collaboration between the Compagnie De Brune and Tangente

What is the specific approach of the Slash residencies?

The Slash residencies are based on an approach that encourages risk-taking and novel ideas, even if they seem vague, absurd or irrational.

For its 2007-2008 edition, the Slash residencies will welcome choreographers from different generations at Tangente, in a unique environment of encounters, reflection and creation.

Each choreographer will have four intensive weeks in the theatre to develop choreographic material in collaboration with other artists and thinkers from all disciplines.

The Slash residencies will allow artists to investigate certain work-related questions that will vary from artist to artist; these investigations will result in models, sketches, outlines or other small forms that will be shared with the public.

The Slash residencies will allow artists to analyze their own approach and to make artistic encounters they would not normally make. They depend upon a willingness to work in an entirely new environment.

As part of Slash, the choreographers will be asked to:

propose a form of collaboration which is new to them, which they never thought they could undertake, or which they always wanted to do but never had the opportunity;
go deeper into a field of research and respond to a specific work-related question. The subjects will be established with the choreographers before the residencies begin, according to their specific needs;
translate their research, with rigour and concision, into working models, which will be presented to the public after each residency. The Slash residencies are thus a site of reflection—but with a practical aim, even if they will not result in complete works;
respect a number of constraints ;
be open to direct feedback from the public and other artists following the public presentations of the models, and to thus test whether their material conveys the spirit of their ideas.

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