Following a selection week held in Neerpelt 21-26 April 2014, CircusNext has announced the seven artists/companies that will receive structured support from the organisation and its partners. During the selection week, fifteen shortlisted groups were invited to show extracts of their projects and to present to the CircusNext jury. The selected projects are:
Johan Bichot and Netty Radvanyi, BRUT – Le presque rien (France)
Marion Colle – Marion Ka / Porte 27, Autour du domaine (France)
Julia Christ, Me Myself and I (Germany)
Nacho Flores, Tesseract (Spain)
Darragh McLoughlin – Squarehead Productions, Fragments of a Mind (Ireland)
Alexander Vantournhout, Aneckxander (Belgium)
Aude Martos & Noam Wise – Kevin Company, Kévin (France)
Each laureate will now receive a creation grant, at least one month of residency time, and mentoring support as they prepare to present their project publicly at the Théâtre de la Cité Internationale in Paris in December 2014. For more information see the CircusNext website.