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I address the mobility of contemporary dance artists in time and space, especially in uncovering the mechanism of the residency system on which most project-based contemporary dance artists have come to rely. My findings reveal several flaws of the residency system that can be generalized as well as a number of specific flaws that are linked to particular residency programs or spaces. The general lack of time for creative work, regulated in limited time blocks, leaves only little time for research and experiment and seems to undermine the quality of the dance pieces we see on European stages.
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The observations here are based on a performance in the Dirty Deal Teatro in Riga on September 11, 2013.
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Van Assche, A. (2020). The Mobile. In: Labor and Aesthetics in European Contemporary Dance . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40693-6_7
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