Professionals: WE SUPPORT ARTISTIC AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT

We support the professional journeys of artists, choreographers, dancers, performers, educators, dance theorists and academics in the movement arts.

OPEN CALLS

Apply for a current project, residency, or workshop.

Stéphanie N'Duhirahe pracuje na projektu Šrámy, 2019
Stéphanie N'Duhirahe pracuje na projektu Šrámy, 2019

Work, create and research

Do you need to focus on your work and research? Join us and you can, during residences in Žďár and Prague and in dialogue with performing arts coaches from abroad. There is no pressure concerning the outcome; the time is yours alone.

Develop know-how and theoretical tools

Work with us to strengthen your pedagogical and managerial skills in an international context with contributions from guest lecturers from abroad. Engaging in theoretical reflection also provides you with an effective tool for your choreographic practice.

Becka McFadden na rezidenci s koučinkem, 2021
Becka McFadden na rezidenci s koučinkem, 2021

Work interdisciplinarily
and
site-specifically

Take part in SE.S.TA’s artistic projects, which combine various fields in the arts, humanities and technology and, above all, place artists in dialogue with other experts. Our site-specific projects are created for a specific place and those who live there. We connect artists with communities and specialists, assisting them with the mutual exchange of experience.

Dance in the Gallery: Museography Choreography (Alice Chauchat)

10–11 Sep & 8–9 Oct 2024
Trade Fair Palace (National Gallery Prague)

A collection of relations… a vibrating field of tensions. Choreographic response to curatorial work. Internationally acclaimed choreographer Alice Chauchat (FR/DE), together with dancers Hana Polanská (CZ), Nhung Dang (CZ), Ran Jiao (CN/CZ) and Daniela Kolková (CZ), complete their work on the “choreography of relationships”, staged by National Gallery Prague’s permanent exhibition 1939–2021: The End of the Black-and-White Era.  

Tvořivý tábor KoresponDance
Tvořivý tábor KoresponDance

Work with children

The vitality and creativity of children inspires and energises. Join us to gain
new experience, as well as opportunities for paid work.

Associate artists We support you

We help artists develop the topics that are most essential to them. The Associate Artists program offers selected artists residencies, mentoring, production support and international networking opportunities.

What can Associate Artists expect? Multiyear support, artistic residencies and residencies with coaching, participation in the Choreographic Forum and mentoring and advice on PR and promotion. Works by Associate Artists regularly appear on the program of the KoresponDance Festival, through which the artists gain new contacts and opportunities for international collaboration.

Meet your fellows

Selected Associate Artists receive long-term care and service from SE.S.TA, including management and marketing advice.

Johana Pocková (CZ)

About Us

It is the exchange of know-how between the fields of dance and visual art that, on one hand, allows professional artists to approach their work conceptually, and on the other, provides galleries with space to perceive the dynamics of exhibitions differently.

Marie Kinsky, SE.S.TA Director

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