RESIDENCIES FOR SOMATIC, PERFORMATIVE AND SCENIC PRACTICE AT HAUT COPENHAGEN
Full information on the call to be found here.
Are you looking for a studio, black box or other, as well as paid time to expand your somatic, performative or scenic practice during the spring or summer of 2026?
We offer soft and generous havens for artistic research, practice, and performing arts experiments.
This application window is your opportunity to apply for a residency with an existing artistic research or practice.
In the curatorial team Marie Kaae, Oyoun and lím collective will join our artistic leader Alex Blum.
Read more about the conditions and the process on the HAUT website.
We look forward to receiving your application and getting to know your artistry better.
The application window is now open from 11.09. until 10.10.
Today we launch our new needs-based application round for residencies in the spring and summer of 2026. Our intention is to limit the unpaid labor of applicants, while reducing the administrative load of reading applications and writing rejection letters.
Stay tuned for tomorrow’s newsletter where we elaborate further on the decision to go from open calls to needs-based application rounds and share reflections about our curatorial practice.
Try something new, together with us.
About HAUT Copenhagen
HAUT is a hub for performing arts development. We cherish curiosity, generosity and exchange – and create spaces where artists and audiences can meet.
We believe that the performing arts should be in motion – and that change begins with those who dare to investigate, question and create something new. HAUT is an invitation to do just that: to take part in a vibrant and generous ecosystem where artistic courage, knowledge sharing and community are the driving forces.
In close dialogue with the Danish and international performing arts community, we work to create the best conditions for artists and artistic development work, and to be an active part of the constant movement and innovation that characterizes the field.
With residencies, festivals, conversations and publications, we create space for artistic immersion and conversations about the role, potential and future of the performing arts. We create the opportunities we ourselves have missed – where there is room to take chances, develop practice and insist on the value and integrity of the art.
Together we create the future of performing arts.
In the curatorial conversations we will give attention to the alignment of the artists’ needs, HAUT’s material resources, the curators’ aesthetic concerns, and the diversity in the overall view of the season’s program.
There will be made a prioritized a list of applicants, who will then receive invitations for specific periods. If the dates does not align, the next artist(s) is invited for a residency.
All applicants will receive a reply by e-mail 1-2 months after the application window has closed. HAUT will offer general observations as feedback for the applicants who are not offered a residency in this round.
About Marie Kaae
Marie Kaae (she/her) is a choreographer, dancer, and educator with Danish, Kurdish, and Cameroonian heritage. Her practice is rooted in the cultural life of Afro-American and Afro-European club culture, and her body of work is connected to house dance.
About lím collective
lím collective is an experimental platform in Northern Jutland, dedicated to alliances between contemporary artistic practice, health, and care. Their work expands the artistic process from the studio and into society by working at for instance hospitals or refugee centers.