The Dancing Museum initiates experiments, commissions works, invites bids and holds competitions, organizes exhibitions or also supports well-deserved breaks for a few tired artists. Our operative mode consists in being active in order to give birth to projects and cause unprecedented artistic formats to emerge,.

In parallel, the Dancing Museum welcomes the requests for residence from dancers, choreographers, plasticians, amateurs, research workers, critics, writers... which can find an echo with the Dancing Museum's project. Help can spread from the simple studio loan to financial, technical, logistic and contextual support. Modes of production will be thought out in close collaboration. Twice a year, the application forms will be studied by the Museum's team.

As an example, here are some "categories" of projects that the team would wish to support:

- plastic works (photographs, films, installations...) capable of forming an embryo of the Museum's collection.

- projects that bring freedom again into a sometimes narrow conception of a dance history and choreographic culture, understood here in the widest sense possible.

- forms that invite visitors to make the Dancing Museum, to incorporate it, to hold it up, or also that reveal the action potential of everyone.

- digital works liable to become integrated with the (virtual) Dancing Museum.

- choreographies of objects or machines, readings in motion, performances written on paper (conceptual art and litterary space have a primordial place for the advent of a « broadened dance»).

- projects of "copyleft" and savage artistic reappropriations.

People unwilling to accept any idea of museum, or Dancing Museum, should absolutely take part in the programme, partly polemical, of this three year project.
Incidentally the Dancing Museum is also a depository of works that will afterwards be coddled and valorized. Do not hesitate to propose your works to the collection!

Please send applications to:
Estelle Hervouin, managing assistant
estellehervouin@museedeladanse.org