International - Nau Ivanow

Introduction

This programme pursues professional growth through the experience of young performing arts companies in cultural spaces of the world over similar to our own. Through an international residency plan, we collaborate with other agents, institutions and centres from the world over in exchanges intended to be as similar as possible in order to find a space for exchange and experimentation outside the company’s usual day-to-day activity.

The ultimate goal is to establish working residencies that allow companies from Catalonia and the rest of the world to share processes, methodologies and resources. We seek to consolidate a residency model which we believe to be the cornerstone of the growth of young companies.

This residency must have a financial contribution that will be conducive to creation and a team that will provide accompaniment in all areas, albeit without actually intervening in the creative process.

We realise that the first contact with a country is never easy. Travelling is intense, you need to learn how to explain who you are and what your project is, but also to know how to listen, learn and detect new and interesting projects. It is all about listening to the spaces, the companies that inhabit them, and how they work, the networks they have set up or what tools they use.

Building these bridges are processes that can take several years. Asking a company to take on this job can sometimes discourage them. The lack of contacts, management capacity or resources often renders this first step unfeasible.

This is why for many years now we have been working to establish links with different countries that could give companies’ a good point of entry to mobility. Nau has embraced this challenge of constructing planet-wide professional relationships and networks.

Like a stage for the general public, our objective is to walk hand-in-hand with professionals to help them find their feet in the world. Companies must decide their own future, but we, as a space, must offer them all the resources within our reach to ensure that there are no constraints on this decision.

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