Training Residency Programme in Contemporary Performing Arts
Where: Partner venues in Prato (KLm – Kinkaleri), Florence (Toast Project), Sesto Fiorentino (Company Blu) and Pistoia (NUB Project Space), Tuscany, Italy.
When: February–May 2027, across five residential training modules.
Deadline for applications: 31 October 2026 at 12:00 noon CET (Italian local time).
The body is the starting point and shared ground of Corpo a Corpi. Through movement, listening and encounters with space, participants will explore how they develop a presence within a performance. Choreographic research enters into dialogue with visual arts and sound, questioning conventions such as the separation between stage and audience and exploring how space and sound shape relationships between bodies.
Led by KLm – Kinkaleri in partnership with Company Blu, NUB Project Space and Toast Project, the programme is funded by Regione Toscana through PR FSE+ Toscana 2021–2027 within Giovanisì (www.giovanisi.it).
The 12 selected artists will work together throughout five modules:
• KLm – Kinkaleri: choreographic research into individual and collective bodies, exploring presence, improvisation and composition.
• Toast Project: relationships between body, image and contemporary art, combining experimentation with tools for documenting and communicating artistic practice.
• Company Blu: physical and somatic practices, improvisation and open scores connecting movement, voice and silence.
• NUB Project Space: sound as a material, perceptual and spatial experience, explored through listening, vocal and bodily actions, microphones and sound systems.
• KLm – Kinkaleri: development and staging of individual and collective work, addressing production and technical aspects and culminating in a public sharing.
The shared residential experience connects artistic research with professional practice through direct exchanges with artists, curators and cultural practitioners.
Applicants must be aged 18–35, reside or be domiciled in Tuscany, and be unemployed, seeking their first employment or economically inactive. They must hold an AFAM qualification or have other training or professional experience in the performing arts. Non-Italian citizens must have Italian proficiency of at least CEFR level B1.
How to apply:
Applications must be emailed to corpoacorpi@gmail.com by 12:00 noon CET on 31 October 2026.
Use the subject line:
“Candidatura CORPO A CORPI – [First name and surname]”
Please include:
• The completed and signed application form (Allegato 1).
• An up-to-date, dated and signed CV in European format.
• A motivation letter outlining the applicant’s background, research interests, relationship to the body and performance, reasons for applying, and availability for the entire programme.
• A portfolio or other artistic documentation, if available.
• A copy of both sides of a valid identity document.
• A copy of the Italian tax code document (codice fiscale).
• The signed privacy notice (Allegato 2).
The total email size must not exceed 10 MB.
The full call, application forms, eligibility requirements and selection procedures are available at:
https://www.kinkaleri.it/is-it-my-world/eventi/
Costs for participants: Participation is free.
Accommodation is provided free of charge during the training modules.
Participants receive a residency allowance of €25 net per day of actual attendance, subject to attending at least 70% of the scheduled hours in each module.
Contact details:
For enquiries and applications: corpoacorpi@gmail.com
For further information, please visit https://www.kinkaleri.it/is-it-my-world/eventi/
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