EFA Members in EFFEA Generation 1
The European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists (EFFEA) enables the creation of new artistic platforms for emerging artists by bringing together international festivals and supporting their international breakthrough.
Six EFA Members were involved in EFFEA Generation 1 as Leading and Partner festivals, playing a pivotal role in providing a creative space for artistic residencies and make the emerging artists of their choice benefit from their rich network and expertise.
Stroom, Wonderfeel, Valley of Arts
Slagwerk Den Haag are ‘sound researchers’ - they add value to things considered waste by transforming the objects from being ‘noisy’ to ‘having their own sound’. Their motto is: give trash a voice and leave an awareness footprint. For this project, United in Waste Slagwerk Den Haag worked with local audiences and with waste available on site - each of the performances resulted in a different, unique experience, challenging both their musical and social improvisational ability.
Festival Jordi Savall & Cistermusica
The residency of The Ministers of Pastime project deepens the musical work of various Italian women composers of the Baroque as Barbara Strozzi, Maddalena Casulana and Isabella Leonarda, creating a concert programme performed at the Cistermusica (Portugal), Fontfroide (France) and Jordi Savall Festival (Catalonia) festivals.
Music Biennale Zagreb
Ivar Roban Križić's residency Performing Reflection involves the intersection of musical and philosophical improvisation. The ensemble consists of instrumental and electro-acoustic improvisers and an improvising philosopher. The project explores the various cognitive states in which performers find themselves during improvising, and at the same time creates a performance framework that allows both the musical and the reflexive elements of improvisational practice to coexist. The performance attempts to elicit reflections on improvisation both from the performers and the audience.
Gogolfest
Simone Tetrault's Unsettled is a participatory performance project exploring how identities are constructed and transformed by movement. It investigates the process of uprooting to settle somewhere new and the feeling of being unsettled by unfamiliar people, places, customs and traditions. The project took place in Rocca di Mezzo, London, Kyiv and the Canary Islands, where transience and migration are urgent social issues. The residency brings together four international theatre festivals to support the development of artist Simone Tetrault.
Music Biennale Zagreb
Juraj Marko Žerovnik and Sara Caneva's residency resulted in Root position distance, an 80-minute chamber opera with soloists, an actor and an ensemble of 15 elements - the result of the joint creativity of two young composers from Italy and Slovenia. The creative process developed from the cities of Gorizia and Nova Gorica's cultural and historical heritage, investigating new languages of contemporary musical theatre: the next generation creating a truly borderless cultural and musical ecosystem.
Festival dos Canais
Hélène LEVEAU and Léo MANIPOUD's residency Shiftshapers enters into cities' public spaces and explores their limitless dimensions. It included research, improvisation and experimentation as an approach to how previously defined ideas and places adapt in diverse environments - diverting the use of balconies, lampposts, urban furniture and above all, renewing the view of how places are modelled by habits of use. The artistic collective re-enchanted spaces with their outdoor work "Obake" in Portugal (Festival dos Canais), France (Viva Cité) and Sweden (Malmö Sommarscen).
Gdansk Shakespeare Festival
The residency of Sławek Krawczynski & Anna Godowska resulted in The Rite of Dreams, a new staging of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. Through a solo performance, the artists explore the altered states of consciousness of Vaslav Nijinsky, the legendary dancer and choreographer, based on Nijinsky's diary of dreams. Analysing these dreams, they discovered an inner world constantly teetering between ecstasy and nothingness, yet filled with longing for humanity's childhood, when the heart was the centre of thought, community grew out of ritual dance, and contact with God was as direct as with another person.
The European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists - EFFEA is an initiative of EFA, co-funded by the European Union, implemented in partnership with 14 EFFE Hubs:
Croatian Composers Society (Croatia), Culture Matters (Czechia), PLMF Arts Management (Estonia), France Festivals (France), Festival Friends (Germany), Stichting Caucasus Foundation (Georgia), Summa Artium Kultúra Támogató Nonprofit Kft. (Hungary), Association of Irish Festival Events (Ireland), ItaliaFestival (Italy), ARC Research and Consultancy Ltd. (Malta), Asociația Centrul Cultural Clujean (Romania), ArtLink (Serbia), Sweden Festivals (Sweden), and Development Centre "Democracy through Culture" (Ukraine).