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Performance Summer Laboratory
10th – 24th August 2025 in Eltville, Germany
We look for participants from Hesse (Germany) and from Nouvelle-Aquitaine (France) in the age between 18 and 30. Performance Summer Laboratory is a cultural exchange initiative centered around performance research and exploration. The project covers all participation costs, including accommodation, meals, and workshops, with the exception of a 200-euro registration fee. Travel expenses of the French participants will be supported by the project.
This program welcomes young artists from Germany and France in the field of dance, performance, theater, music and the like. Not only young professionals and performing arts students, but also passionate individuals from other backgrounds with dedicated interest can apply. The seats are limited to ten.
Performance Summer Laboratory is part of the partnership program between Hesse and Nouvelle-Aquitaine, organised by interdisciplinary theater initiative T-LAP (Frankfurt, Germany). The project is supported by the Hessian Ministry for Science and the Arts and the Franco-German Youth Office, among others.
Application Deadline: April 20th, 2025
When and Where: August 2025 from the 10th evening till the 24th morning in Kultur- und Tagungshaus Rauenthal (Eltville, Germany). The dates include travel days. We welcome only those who would take part through the entire project
period.
Required Language Skill: English as well as either French or German
Facilitation:
Ferenc Kréti (T-LAP: Tanz | Theater | Laboratory | Cross-over Productions) www.t-lap.org
Jungyeon Kim (T-LAP: Tanz | Theater | Laboratory | Cross-over Productions) www.jungyeonkim.com
written documentary 2019 https://performancetransposition.wordpress.com/blog-2/
In our artistic laboratory we explore a distinctive approach that brings one's own personality as performer into a dialogue with the chosen theme. Through this process, individual perspectives and forms of expression emerge as creative material, evolving in an intensive personal journey within the ensemble. This material then serves as both inspiration and concrete content for the collective work, culminating in an instant composition — a performance shaped entirely through improvisation in the moment of meeting the audience.
Taking this risk in relation to the theme forms the core of our preparation. Over the course of two weeks, we navigate this journey together, piece by piece, as a
developing ensemble. To this end, we live as a community, engage with Franco-German culture and language, and
learn about ourselves and each other on the basis of respect, heterogeneity and artistic creativity.
In this way, our approach to performance art permeates and connects all areas of life, opening the door to authentic creation
and expression.
This describes - as limited as words can capture a creative process - the framework of our German-French Performance Project, now in its 13th edition.
Artistic Theme for 2025: "Je suis venue!von irgendwo 2.0"
We have all come from somewhere and, at some point, had to go somewhere. Perhaps it was just to the next bigger city, perhaps to another region of our country,
or maybe it took us across borders, confronting us with a new language and an unfamiliar culture. Maybe the journey was by choice, or maybe it was out of necessity...
When does the feeling of being foreign truly end? What defines a cultural identity? How do time, experience, language, profession, appearance, skin color, and other factors shape our sense of
belonging?
The performance project Je suis venue!von irgendwo 2.0 explores
stories of both brief and lifelong journeys — of departures and arrivals, of discovering the new and recognizing the familiar, of overcoming obstacles and encountering failure. Perhaps it is also
about setting off once more in order to arrive somewhere else...
The project is shaped by the Franco-German perspectives of its participants, drawing inspiration from their personal narratives. These are articulated in the development process, controversially negotiated and aesthetically expressed through language, body and music. The resulting performance invites both performers and audiences to challenge and deepen the understanding of origin, identity, transition, and belonging.
Apply till the 20th April – HERE'S HOW
Please send us your application as a single PDF file containing the following information:
– Full name, age, city of residence, phone number, and email address
– CV
– Letter of motivation (approximately one to two pages)
to: applicationsummerlab(at)gmail(dot)com (Ferenc Kréti and Jungyeon Kim)
If you are interested in this project, but cannot apply this year, you can leave a message to Jungyeon kmjykmjy(at)gmail(dot)com and get informed for the project in 2026 and on.
Photos of this page: Ferenc Kréti