Québec | Sweden

New residence

We are pleased to announce a new international residency opportunity for dance artists! In April 2026, one artist from Québec will travel to Sweden for a residency in the heart of nature at Vitlycke – Centre for Performing Arts, as part of a Québec/Sweden artistic exchange.

© Vitlycke

March 23rd ➜ April 3rd, 2026

Circuit-Est will host a Swedish artist in residence in Montréal.

April 6th ➜ April 17th, 2026

A Québec artist will be in residence in Sweden, in Tanumshede.

The selected artists

Salka Ardal ROSENGREN

Salka Ardal Rosengren is a dance artist whose work explores play, listening, and relational movement. She is drawn to social and partner dances, as well as historical dance games that once revealed subtle physical and social connections. By studying their structures and inventing new ones, she investigates what makes movement come alive and how encounters take shape.

For her, partner dance creates a shared space where surrender, response, and mutual sensitivity become engines for creation. Moving between heritage and the present, form and sensation, she explores how play — as curiosity, attention, and communication — can transform the dancing experience. Her research also examines what unfolds between performer and audience today, and how dance can inspire new ways of being together.

Katia-Marie GERMAIN

Collections is a research project focused on creating characters, continuing the work begun in Mascarades. Each day, I will develop one character inspired by a pictorial artwork, using observation, writing, and a short choreographic sequence to imagine a singular, ephemeral presence.

In dialogue with the surrounding space, I will use clothing, objects, and found materials to spark movement and deepen the relationship between body, place, and atmosphere. This daily practice favors intuition, sketch-like creation, and the freedom to let each figure emerge or fade, while exploring the nuances and contradictions of identity.

Each character will be documented through writing and photography, forming a “collection” of fragments that may feed future projects. The residency offers an ideal ground for this simple, sensitive, and open-ended research.

Project Partners

Salka Ardal ROSENGREN

Katia-Marie GERMAIN

Informations

For who? 

➜ The residency in Sweden is aimed at choreographers engaged in fundamental research or a creative project, with more than two years’ practice and at least two works presented in a professional context..

➜ One artist will be selected.

Support

➜ Artist fee of $1 700$, airfare, accommodation, and per diem.

Maximize your chances

➜ Provide a  Vimeo or YouTube uniquement
➜ No CV links  : all information must be uploaded directly in the application form
➜ Be clear and concise in your descriptions