result of DRIFT Open Call

Congratulations to Elvan Tekin! She was selected as a grant recipient by HAU Hebbel am Ufer / Tanz im August for the second project wave of the EU-network DRIFT (Dance and Reserach In the Future Times). 

DRIFT is a European cooperation project, co-financed by the European Union, that involves ten dance institutions and festivals, who have united to support choreographers and interdisciplinary artists in the research for their new projects. In each project wave, one artists is selected by each project partner. More information under driftdance.eu

In the frame of DRIFT each selected artist receives a research grant of 20,000.-€ and the opportunity to present the results of thier work in a showcase in front of all partners. In addition, they paritcipate in three online labs, which serch partly as mentoring prgramme and partly as a forum for exchange with the other grant recipients. 

Elvan Tekin was selected out of 127 applications. She is a Berlin based artist working across dance, choreography, performance, text, research, collaboration and community building. Her comprehensive artistic practice investigates how movement can funtion as a catalyst for social change and how embodied experiences can generate alternative ways of relating to memory, belonging, and collective life. She holds a master's degree in Choreography from HZT, Berlin.