Application window 11.09-10.10

Possibility for soft and generous havens for artistic research, practice, and performing arts experiments.

About

Are you looking for a studio, black box or other, as well as paid time to expand your somatic, performative and scenic practice during the spring or summer of 2026?

With this application round, we are offering you an opportunity to apply for a residency with an existing artistic research or practice. We are curating residencies for the period April - July 2026.

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The Application window is open September 11th - October 10th, after which the curatorial team will review the applications and select the artists who will be invited into residency. Invitations for the selected artists will be sent out in November 2025.

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Going forward, you can submit an application at any time using the link to the application form at the bottom of this page. Twice a year, HAUT invites a curatorial team to review the submitted applications and select artists for residencies.

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Next application window will close March 10th 2026. Here, we will curate and invite artists into residencies in the period August - December 2026.

curators

To challenge our own perspective, we invite various performing artists to join us at the table during the selection process. The ambition is to make room for open and critical dialogue with colleagues from the arts community that can add nuance to our reading of the applications.

This fall, HAUT's artistic director Alex Blum will curate in collaboration with Marie Kaae, Oyoun, and lím collective.

‍Marie Kaae (she/her) is a choreographer, dancer, and educator with Danish, Kurdish, and Cameroonian heritage. Her practice is rooted in the cultural life of Afro-American and Afro-European club culture, and her body of work is connected to house dance.

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Oyoun is a dynamic space for intersectional artistic and sociocultural practices rooted in decolonial and queer*feminist thought. They center voices and perspectives often sidelined by dominant cultural narratives, embracing embodied, experimental, and ephemeral forms of knowledge as vital to their work.

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lím collective is an experimental platform in Northern Jutland, dedicated to alliances between contemporary artistic practice, health, and care. Their work expands the artistic process from the studio and into society by working at for instance hospitals or refugee centers.

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In the curatorial conversations we will give attention to the alignment of the artists' needs, HAUT's material resources, the curators' aesthetic concerns, and the diversity in the overall view of the season's program.

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There will be made a prioritized a list of applicants, who will then receive invitations for specific periods. If the dates does not align, the next artist(s) is invited for a residency.

All applicants will receive a reply by e-mail 1-2 months after the application window has closed. HAUT will offer general observations as feedback for the applicants who are not offered a residency in this round.

Praktisk info

Are HAUT's residencies for you? Before you submit your application, there are some practical things that are good to know. Therefore we have compiled an overview of the framework for the residencies and the resources you will have access to.

Who are haut's residencies for?

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HAUT's residency program is primarily aimed at artists based in Denmark, Kalaallit Nunaat, and Föroyar. However, we invite all artists working within the expanded fields of choreography, dance, and performance to apply with their somatic, performative, and scenic explorations. We center body- and movement-based artistic practices.

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This residency opportunity is not intended for students.

Hosting in the house

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HAUT has workspaces at Thoravej 29 in Copenhagen Northwest, where there is barrier-free access to the Black Box in the basement and to the Studio on the ground floor. Elevators provide access to the other floors. HAUT's team is located on the second floor, where we are available to our visiting artists and can assist with printer access, meeting rooms, etc.

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HAUT is part of the Laboratory for Performing Arts at Thoravej 29, which can facilitate contact with a larger community of artistic platforms, interest groups, and companies.

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The library at Thoravej 29 is open to everyone in residency and contains a wide selection of publications contributed by the organizations housed in the building. HAUT has also contributed with a selection of publications – both our own releases and publications that have been recommended to us. The selection is continuously expanded based on suggestions from artists and collaborators.

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At Thoravej 29, lunch is served in the canteen on weekdays. On Fridays, we usually eat together – the HAUT team and the artists in residency.

material resources

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HAUT is committed to paying fair wages to stimulate a sustainable artist-life. Our daily fees of DKK 1,500 include holiday pay, which means that we pay DKK 8,450 per person for a week in residency. We offer a limited budget for travel expenses and accommodation, among other things, and we also have experience providing financial support for childcare.

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HAUT works systematically with care riders in our contact with artists and in the planning of residencies to clarify whether there is a need for other or different care structures.

Artistic resources

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HAUT is a practice community for more courageous and sustainable performing arts. Our team consists of performing artists who are present in and around the residencies to offer sparring and feedback. In addition, HAUT's artistic leader offers studio visits during a residency, which can be used to read a text together, contextualize the research, or just hang out.

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HAUT offers approx. 12 hours of technician time per week in our black box, and there is also a limited materials budget for, e.g., purchasing a book, experimenting with scenographic elements, or renting technical equipment.

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At HAUT, we believe that a worksharing or an open studio can bring more perspectives to the artistic development work, and we see feedback as a method of caring for the artistic practice. Therefore, HAUT's artistic leader often facilitates various feedback exercises after each worksharing to provide the artistic work material/information for the further process. Our feedback is based on the book A Queer Feedback Handbook: Experiments in Otherwise Arts Education.

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How you apply

Below you will find a link to our application form, that we ask you to fill out. In the form we ask about your artistic practice, your needs, your collaborators, and the context in which you work.

We do this both to assess how we can best support your work and to survey your context to map some of the conditions under which you work.

All questions relating to your context and experiences will be anonymized and will not affect your application.

When you fill out the form we ask you to describe your artistic practice and share with us which performing arts communities, disciplines, and references you draw upon in your work. We also ask you to upload an old application or a previous project proposal.

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We do this to get an impression of your artistry,

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Is the written application not for you, it is also possible to send us a voice memo (max. 7 minutes long) as application or share your practice with HAUT's artistic leader Alex Blum by scheduling a meeting with her via e-mail to info@hautscene.dk. She’s available on Tuesday or Thursday afternoons throughout September and October 2025.

We will gladly read or listen to you in Danish or English.

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If you have any questions, please send them to us at info@hautscene.dk.

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Apply for application window 11.09 - 10.10