Paris Open Call: Dancers & Movement Practitioners for Lab and Performance Elena Bajo’s “Artemisia Noctis, A Grammar of Darkness”
Explore movement, scent, voice and darkness with artist and choreographer Elena Bajo in a free, compensated research laboratory culminating in a performance at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris. What happens when darkness, scent and botanical memory become choreographic materials?
Artist and choreographer Elena Bajo invites dancers, movement practitioners and amateurs to join a collaborative eco-movement research laboratory at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris.
Artemisia Noctis: A Grammar of Darkness (Arianrhod’s Threshold) is developed for Sans Réserve, the museum’s programme dedicated to artistic creation engaged with ecology.
The laboratory draws on Bajo’s Anarchoreographic Method, exploring non-hierarchical composition and attention to nonhuman agencies, plant intelligence and ancestral botanical memory.
Participants will work with repetition, weight, breath, scent, voice, darkness and collective transmission, investigating how ecological and sensory relationships can become precise movement.
The process includes four two-hour laboratory sessions, a dress rehearsal and a public performance on 4 December 2026 at dusk.
Participation is free. A stipend is provided to compensate participants for their work, rehearsals and performance time.
Shortlisted applicants will be invited to a brief individual introductory conversation via Zoom.
Elena Bajo is the recipient of the Prix Spécial Hors Compétition – Fondation Carmignac.
Requirements:
Open to dancers, movement practitioners comfortable using the body as a means of research, thought and composition. Applicants should be able to generate, develop and memorise movement material within a collaborative process.
Availability for all laboratory sessions, the dress rehearsal and the performance on 4 December 2026 is required.
Where:
Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France.
When:
Four two-hour laboratory sessions between 9 November and 1 December 2026, followed by a dress rehearsal. Public performance on 4 December 2026 at dusk.
How to Apply:
Email your application to [email protected], copying [email protected].
Subject: Artemisia Noctis — LAB & PERFORMANCE — [Your name]
Please include:
– A one-minute video showing a recent movement improvisation.
– Your CV.
– A short motivation statement explaining your interest in movement, ecology and the night.
– Confirmation of your availability for the complete process, dress rehearsal and performance.
Applications are reviewed as they are received. Early applications are encouraged, ahead of the final deadline of 1 November 2026.
Deadline for applications:
1 November, Sunday, 2026
Learn more about the audition at:
https://projetcoal.org/en/prize/open-call-eco-movement-research-lab-and-performance/
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Contact info:
For questions: [email protected] For applications: [email protected], copying [email protected]
Photograph: Javier Diaz (@javiziontifik).