Productions

Be SpectACTive! produces 15 new theatre/dance shows, involving young and innovative European artists or groups that are supported in the entire cycle of production, from the research period to the touring phase. The companies/artists involved are carefully chosen through a common assessment expressed by the artistic directors of theatres and festivals of the project.

The production process is developed through the creative residencies’ programme: 3 residencies of 11 days are expected for each artist/group in 3 different cities of the network, plus a fourth residency in house.

During the creative residencies, the artists enter in contact with different communities opening their work to several inputs given by the stay in new cultural contexts and organisations. At the same time, each hosting partner will have the possibility to know new artistic works and practices, creating also new areas of dialogue with its spectators and with the reference community.

The artistic productions are divided among “small”, “medium” and “large scale”, depending on the numbers of actors/dancers and technicians involved and the budget devoted. The network is producing 3 small productions, 7 medium productions, 5 large productions:

  • with large scale productions we refer to productions that will be composed by a maximun of 10 between actors/dancers and technicians; this production gets a contribution to the artistic process of € 21.000,00;
  • with medium scale productions we refer to productions that will be composed by a maximun of 6 actors/dancers and technicians; this production gets a contribution to the artistic process of € 14.000,00;
  • with small scale productions we refer to productions that will be composed by a maximun of 3 actors/dancers and technicians; this production gets a contribution to the artistic process of € 7.000,00.

Each artist has the same chances to work on the project during the creative residencies scheduled from the network. In order to strengthen the support for production, the network provides for different bonus:

  • research bonus for a research period, aimed to support the artists in their mobility before starting the production and the three residencies; it consists of a contribution of €1.500,00.
  • bonus for the residency in house, giving the opportunity to the partner to host a starting point of the residence at its venue; it consists of a contribution of €. 2.500,00;
  • bonus for tournée, to promote the movement of the shows in the network; the contribution is of €1.500,00 for the small scale production, €3.000,00 for the medium scale production, €5.000,00 for the large scale production.
  • a bonus to support the partners is also provided with the aim to support the mobility of the partners for attending the debuts of the shows co-produced.