Artist Residency Program

After the success of our first Berlin focussed residency, Ana Jordão’s delicate and compelling A Body and Other Objects, we are thrilled that also the Open Call for the second residency found much interest, this time focussed on artists based throughout Germany.

Thanks to the prize money associated with the Theaterpreis des Bundes we are able to offer the chosen artists not only fees, rehearsal space, dramaturgical and production support but also travel and accommodation support.

The jury for our second residency will include Anne-Cathrin Lessel (Artistic Director LOFFT Leipzig), Yogi Mohr (Board of Directors Schloss Bröllin), Jenny Patschovsky (1. Chairwoman BUZZ/ Federal Association of Contemporary Circus, Curatorial Consulting CircusDance Festival Köln), and Anke Politz (Artistic Director Chamäleon).

The residency has fixed dates, from the 2nd to the 20th of December 2024. The deadline for this residency already expired. An Open Call for a third residency will follow.

We want to support courageous circus projects that follow open creative processes and find compelling points of intersection with other strands of the performing arts. We encourage applications from artists and groups that aim to shed light on social, political and ecological issues. In this way, we hope to strengthen the thematic diversity of new circus projects. As a cultural organization, the Chamäleon aims to enable fairer access to the art form and we therefore particularly encourage artists who have experienced discrimination to apply. We see ourselves as a learning institution that continues to educate itself and critically examines its own role and the limitations of our perspectives.