Dance artists based in Ireland are invited to apply for a bursary to participate in SPLASH Lab, a process-based 6-day encounter in Clonmel, 7-12 July 2025 as part of Clonmel Junction Arts Festival. Bursaries cover accommodation, free access to the Lab, and a €700 stipend (for travel & subsistence costs, and remuneration).
What is SPLASH Lab?
SPLASH Lab a Tipperary Dance initiative, will be a process-based 6-day encounter that will include roundtables, reflection workshops and an artist research laboratory gathering local, national and international artists of diverse disciplines for an intensive residency of collaborative, creative experimentation and cross-pollination within the context of Tipperary Dance’s Splash Alliance and Clonmel Junction Arts Festival, supported by South Tipperary Arts Centre.
This open call is addressed dance artists who have already experienced the demands of creating, producing and disseminating their own work.
SPLASH Lab aims to enable you to deepen awareness and reflection on your practice in relation with the environment where it takes place (peers, people, experience, society, professional infrastructure, idiosyncrasies…).
SPLASH Lab aims to reflect on the relation between the essence of your practice and the shapes that it takes – particularly under the incentives, possibilities and limitations that exist where you work.
SPLASH Lab will gather artists and arts managers/curators.
SPLASH Lab aims to hold a space for horizontal, non-hierarchical encounters, where each participant shares equal responsibility to both contribute and receive, to both speak up and listen. The Lab will be accompanied by Tipperary Dance co-founder Alexandre Iseli and guest artists, as a way to manage time, to observe, moderate discussions, and channel emerging processes and ideas.
SPLASH Lab will combine dance practice/research/experiment in the studio, with in depth discussions.
The Lab will also be an opportunity for artists and arts managers/curators to discover or deepen their understanding of each other’s realities and capacities.
SPLASH Lab will culminate on day 6 with an open workshop + outdoor showcase performances on Kickham Plaza on 12th July as part of Clonmel Junction Arts Festival 2025.
Applications Details
Full applications details and guidelines here
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Apply by Thursday 22 May, 6pm
