a working group of dance artists, theoreticians, advocates & writers concerned with trans-local solidarity practices
next public opening:
Tuesday , 2 December 2025
agora, montpellier | tramway “Louis Blanc”
inside of the Lifelong burning network’s “open house” framework, our working group will present a performative encounter sedimenting somehow what we’ve traversed, learned, shared, and gathered together through 6 months of calls.
to RSVP or for more information : Marion.fr.storm.us (at) Gmail.com)
for more information on llb: https://www.lifelongburning.eu/
More background on Apprenticeship with place(s)…
Sparked by a generative invitation by Anne Fontanesi at Montpellier’s Agora (formerly ICI-CCN) in 2024, Marion began to reflect on her experiences and encounters encouraged by LLB over the past five years. Through reflection she expanded that invitation again, by convening this “working group”, planning to meet several times each season in 2025. Due to the realities of our itinerant, polymorph work-life-styles, we have met twice and will meet again in September. We quickly began to devise other asynchronous ways of “keeping in touch”, and there is currently a shared notebook being circulated between us by mail…. It is currently on it’s way from Marion to Dragana. Here we record notes, propose practices, and keep pulling the thematic threads that materialize during our calls so that we find ways to build this project together “in the meantime”. We work slowly and that is intentional. We see trans-local correspondence as an exciting form for collaboration in a pandemic-full world where funding systems are collapsing and our artistic work is no different than advocacy work. By putting some of our slow mobility ideals into practice, we are building our political capacities!
Marion brought us all together after having met each of us through various Lifelong Burning exchange programs & contexts since 2020: a residency in Ljubljana hosted by the Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia in September 2020 ; Tour through Tanztage hosted by Uferstudios in Berlin in January 2022 ; and most recently at the Choreographic Convention “Bodies in Free Fall” in Zagreb co-hosted by Anti-sezona and Nomad Dance Academy in November 2024.
notes from one of our first calls, 5 July 2025:
what do we want when we arrive to a place to work? re-apprenticeship with place(s)
what are our portable practices…
a traveling notebook to open a different space within me than this zoom call space… (le carnet intime)
on UREGNCY for each of us….on the Serbian protests, these uncompromising attitudes…
how bureaucracy can encourage MOMENTUM
how bureaucracy in the arts is a real problem that needs to be discussed and also,
bureaucracy considered as a field of potential…
“slow mobility”? it’s simply a way to CONTEXTUALIZE OUR PRACTICES
trans-local alliances. . . . . . .translation between localities, contexts, and artistic practices
SOLIDARITY AS A BASIC POLITICAL PRINCIPLE
to fight the isolation we feel in our field (in residencies, beyond…)
getting to know a place ; ice-breakers with a place
garden as a way to know a city…
performance-making process as a way to get to know a city…
scores: to transmit our places to each other…
a walking arrival to a new place…
getting to know someBODY as a way to get to know somePLACE
research connecting places
Marion Storm 