Pina Bausch Fellowship 2022

Since early 2020, the ongoing restrictions on face-to-face encounters and international travel have posed challenges for the Pina Bausch Fellowship, mainly focusing on international exchange and direct contact between grant holders and their cooperation partners. Therefore, a digital fellowship was announced in 2021.

In 2022, the Pina Bausch Fellowship will support face-to-face encounters again. Recognizing the opportunities that digital formats offer, the Fellowship will support a broader range of formats next to international, on-site fellowships, such as local and virtual cooperations as well as hybrid formats. By offering a variety of cooperation formats, the Fellowship adapts to applicants’ individual needs and interests. It provides freedom in designing fitting cooperation formats that help them develop their unique artistic signature.

Interested applicants can apply with a cooperation format from the 1st of February until the 31st of March 2022. Applications should be based on realistic evaluations of their implementation. Applicants apply with a self-selected cooperation partner whose artistic work they are interested in or with whom they would like to work.

THE SPONSORSHIP IS MEANT FOR

In 2022, a variety of cooperation formats will be funded, taking place on-site and/or virtual. For example:

– Cooperations with acclaimed institutions of dance and choreography education
– Cooperations with ensembles or choreographers, or
– Studies of dance techniques with acclaimed personalities

The various formats allow grant holders to gain new experiences and to be able to gather new influences for their artistic work.
The cooperation format is planned and realized jointly with the cooperation partner. The design of the individual fellowship format is left to the creativity of the applicants and their cooperation partners. Each applicant has to contact their cooperation partner and confirm their cooperation for the respective period through a letter of intent.

Overview of previous cooperation partners.

Application form available here

The application period for the 2022 fellowship runs from the 1st of February to the 31st of March 2022.

The online application requires:

– A portrait
– Information on your cooperating partner (Contact details and description,max. 500 characters)
– Letter of intent by the cooperation partner (e.g. an ensemble, a renowned person or institution from the field of dance or choreography, in English)
– A brief statement on the planned fellowship (max. 500 characters incl. blanks in English)
– Details regarding travel to the fellowship site (estimate of total travel costs incurred as part of the fellowship, if any) and to the kick-off and closing events (estimate of total travel costs for two round trips to Wuppertal)
– Information on the intended time period and duration of the fellowship (specified in whole months)
– Letter of motivation (max. 1000 characters incl. blanks in English)
– CV in tabular form (max. 1000 characters incl. blanks in English)
– 1 video (length max. 5 min)

Please note that the video material must be made available online, e.g. via a password-protected upload in a video portal. In the application form you can provide respective links and, if necessary, passwords. For technical reasons, please do not submit videos via WeTransfer, YouTube or Dailymotion. Videos whose links do not work can not be considered.

The selected fellows take part in an introductory week in Wuppertal at the beginning of their fellowship. In the following year, they return to Wuppertal to present their experiences in individual formats and thereby officially conclude their fellowship. In 2022, the introductory week will take place from the 29th of August until the 4th of September 2022.