Supported projects
— European network "Life Long Burning (LLB)" - Futures Lost and Found
. "Life Long Burning (LLB)" Towards a sustainable Eco-System for Contemporary Dance in Europe project supported by the European Union from 1 July 2018 to 30 November 2022 under the Creative Europe program
. Then with the new project "Life Long Burning - Futures Lost and Found " from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2026
Since 2018, Life Long Burning has been working to anchor choreographic practice, its production and reception in a larger societal and more discursive context. The "Life Long Burning" success story continues with this new project, Life Long Burning - Futures Lost and Found (LLB3 January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2026), the CCN Occitanie continues the European cooperation actions built since 1998.
In a Europe today confronted with even more social divisions, in the grip of war in part of its neighboring territories, and under the threat of a pandemic, its consequences and the different political responses to it, confronted with the immense challenge of climate change, the ambition of this network made up of partners from 12 countries (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Finland, France, Croatia, Hungary, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden) is to take into account a certain number of societal issues, among which LLB3 tackles the following:
+ addressing and fighting social exclusion,
+ advocating for decision-making processes in dance as a role model for a democratic and fair Europe,
+ fostering the CCS job market both on the artistic and the admin side,
+ sustainably accompanying emerging and mid-career dance artists and dance admin.
To achieve this, the network's ambition over the next 4 years will be to stimulate artistic development and promote the professionalization of the dance scene, as well as defending and developing knowledge of choreographic art and expanding its impact throughout Europe.
— Partners:
Coordinator: Danceweb (Vienna - Austria) | Members: 4 Culture (Bucharest - Romania), Brain Store Project Foundation (Sofia, Bulgaria), Divert (Zagreb, Croatia), Centre chorégraphique national (CCN) Montpellier Occitanie (Montpellier, France), MDT (Stockholm, Sweden), Moving in November (Helsinki, Finland), Nomad Dance Academy Slovenija, Stuk Kunstencentrum (Leuven, Belgium), Uferstudios GMBH (Berlin, Germany), Het Veem Theater (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Workshop Foundation (Budapest, Hungary)
Associated partners: MSU (Croatia), Kik Melone (Zagreb - Croatia), Contemporary Dance Platform (Ukraine), Arsenic (Lausanne, Switzerland)
↳ For more information, please contact:
Anne Fontanesi — Responsible for the European Life Long Burning program at CCN Occitanie
+33 (0) 4 67 60 06 75 / a.fontanesi@ici-ccn.com
www.lifelongburning.eu
— 2025 Projects
. PERFORMANCE SITUATION ROOM
October 3–4, 2025 — Project with La Bulle Bleue and Valérie Castan (audio description)
. CREATIVE CROSSROAD — Ghyslaine GAU
Residency: October 1–10, 2025
Open Studio: Thursday, October 9 at 7:00 PM
LLB Partners: Nomad Dance Academy Slovenija and Divert (Zagreb, Croatia)
. ON THE OUTSET ABROAD
Hosting of Klara Šoštarić — Observation internship from November 7 to 17, 2025
. OPEN HOUSE — Marion Storm
December 1 & 2, 2025
. CREATIVE CROSSROAD — Jasmin Ihrac
Guest artist for networking
Residency: January 12–19, 2026
LLB Partner: MDT (Stockholm, Sweden)
. CREATIVE CROSSROAD — Marko Milić
Guest artist for networking
Residency: January 26–30, 2026
Workshop: Thursday, January 29, 2026, from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
LLB Partner: Danceweb (Vienna - Austria) Teaching Offer 25
. CREATIVE CROSSROAD — Eliza Trefas
Guest artist for networking
Residency: April 13–25, 2026
LLB Partner: Uferstudios GMBH (Berlin, Germany)
— Lauréate de l’appel à candidature Creative Crossroad 2025/2026
Ghyslaine GAU – collectif Landscape in Motion for the research and creation project S.U.T.U.R.E.
She will be supported for two years starting January 2025 as part of the Life Long Burning project.
She initiates the S.U.T.U.R.E. project, which she envisions as an extended research process.
Exploring the spaces between transparency and opacity — between function and symbolism — between lived experience and imagination.
How can we gather our fragments and take stock from a place of multiplicity?
The project spans multiple fields of practice, brings together various collaborators, and operates beyond a defined territory.
Several strands are emerging: >pre OrG< a performative research collaboration with Lola Rubio, Typing Novels — an attempt at writing sonic short stories, and the formation of a transdisciplinary migratory trio reimagining sociality, which will support work around the notion of territory with people in transit (workshops, encounters).
Her activities are carried by the Landscape in Motion collective, based in the Cévennes National Park.
- First Phase of the Project
> ZAGREB, November 22 & 23, 2024 — as part of the CHOREOGRAPHIC CONVENTION : BODIES IN FREE FALL,
to meet all selected artists and project partners.
. Collectif Lim : landscapesinmotion.com/Home
. Life Long Burning : www.lifelongburning.eu/creative-crossroads
. Antisezona : antisezona.space/en/choreographic-convention-programme
Acknowledgments:
We would like to thank everyone who applied — we know how much time and energy it takes.
We are truly grateful for the opportunity this call created to (re)initiate dialogue with many of you.
Our sincere thanks also go to the selection committee for sharing their expertise!
