NXTSTP, The Second Generation
The Culture Programme of the European Union renews its support for NXTSTP by attributing a second term 5 year funding to NXTSTP, The Second Generation

NXTSTP is a network European performing arts festivals that came into being in 2007 to provide an extra shot of energy to the co-production and circulation of the performing arts in Europe. Over a period of four years, NXTSTP supported 31 projects from 27 companies of individual artists from 12 European countries, representing hundreds of performance dates. In 2012, the first term of NXTSTP concludes, but another is already under construction.

NXTSTP, the Second Generation was awarded a 5 year funding (2012-2016) under the Strand 1.1 'Multi-annual cooperation projects' from the Culture Programme of the European Union.

Partners: alkantara festival (Lisbon), Baltoscandal Festival (Rakvere), Göteborgs Dans & Teater Festival, Noorderzon (Groningen), Dublin Theatre Festival, steirischer herbst festival (Graz), Théâtre National de Bordeaux en Aquitaine, Kunstenfestivaldesarts (project leader)

Miet Warlop Berlin / Gent

ACT/COLLECTION

Miet Warlop is a young Belgian artist whose shows and installations are attracting increasing interest on the international scene. After the surrealist Grote Hoop/Berg, she blew us away with Springville, a visual slapstick performance in which humans and objects lose their usual appearance and turn into strange hybrids: women’s legs become table legs and a cardboard house slowly implodes. Warlop recently moved to Berlin to develop her work alone in the calm of her studio there. For Trailer Park, which anticipates an even bigger production to be created for Kunstenfestivaldesarts 012, she abandons the device of theatrical representation to concentrate on the plastic dimension of her work. She extracts a series of images from her existing works, creates new ones and brings them all together in a collection of tableaux vivants and small acts. By immersing onlookers in her world, she opens up new and unconventional ways of looking at things. Bold, playful and surprising!

NXTSTP partners: Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Göteborgs Dans & Teater Festival

www.mietwarlop.com

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