Residencies
At the core of the action is the thought of a Central Elétrica [Power Station] as a permanent laboratory, a place to investigate, experiment, create and share. A place for risk, for developing ideas and for testing possibilities. A place of intersection of generations and geographies – Porto, Portugal and any other place in the world -, where artists meet at different stages of their journey: more or less emergent, more or less consolidated.
Our commitment to artistic creation divides into three residency programmes: Regular hosting, Calls and Inresidence.
For 2021, we offer a fourth programme: the Iberescena Residences.
To see the residency agenda click here.
REGULAR HOSTING
Rehearsal space and some technical support, without financial support.
Applications are open all year round and managed according to space availability.
Artists interested in Hosting may send us a proposal with synopsis, cast and credits, a biographical note of the team involved, duration/schedule proposal for the residence, and links to helpful information (websites, videos, information from previous projects …) to the email address: residencias@circolando.com
OPEN CALLS
Annually, we open two calls for artistic residencies in performing arts, which unlike Hosting include financial support.
The residencies selected during Open Call 2021.1 (with applications between December 16, 2020, and January 10, 2021) are now being executed: The Hum, by João Pedro Sarnadas (PT) and Apocalipso, by Luara Learth Moreira (BR).
INRESIDENCE
CRL – Central Elétrica belongs to the programme Inresidenceporto, a platform for the dissemination of spaces and artistic residency projects based in the city of Porto, promoted by the City Council. Every year we give a grant for a medium-term residency project (2 months) to an artist / collective, chosen directly by our curators.
For 2022, the chosen artist is the Mozambican choreographer Panaibra Gabriel Canda, who developed the Mentiras Aplaudidas project.
To know the projects received in previous editions, click here.
IBERESCENA
In 2021 and 2022, Central Elétrica is part of the Iberescena Program, an Ibero-American Cooperation program for the performing arts. Each year, we welcome artists through invitations and calls, the latter aimed at selecting 2 artists from the countries that make up the Iberescena, with the exception of Portugal: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Spain, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.
As part of this partnership, in the first year, we received the duo Azkona & Toloza (ES and CH) and the choreographer Josefina Gorostiza (AR). In addition to these artists invited by our curatorship, the call selected the creators Carolina Bianchi (BR) and Nicolas Lange (CH). In the second year, we hosted the artists Iñaki Alvarez and Ariadna Rodríguez – Nyamnyam (ES) & Francis Wilker (BR) in residence. The Residency Program – Power Plant 2022 – IBERESCENA, selected Ramon Lima (BR) & Pilar Mackenna (CH).