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OPEN CALL – ECO-MOVEMENT RESEARCH LAB AND PERFORMANCE
Apply to take part in a collaborative research laboratory with artist and choreographer Elena Bajo, winner of the Special Award Outside the Competition – Fondation Carmignac.
Image credits: © Elena Bajo
Published on 20 October 2026
ECO-MOVEMENT RESEARCH LAB AND PERFORMANCE
Artemisia Noctis: A Grammar of Darkness (Arianrhod’s Threshold) A project by Elena Bajo, presented within Sans Réserve — La Nuit – Prix COAL 2026 Nominees Exhibition at Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris
Interdisciplinary artist and choreographer Elena Bajo, recipient of the Prix Spécial Hors Compétition – Fondation Carmignac, is looking for participants, dancers and movement practitioners to take part in a collaborative research laboratory, specially conceived for Sans Réserve, the event dedicated to artistic creation committed to ecology, at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature on 4 December.
The process will be developed through Bajo’s “Anarchoreographic” Method: choreographic structures that dismantle hierarchy to listen to non-human agencies, plant intelligence, and ancestral botanical memory. The laboratory will explore repetition, weight, breath, scent, voice, darkness and collective transmission. We will consider how ecological and sensory relations can be embodied and transformed into precise movement.
Participants should be comfortable using the body as a mode of research, thought and composition, and able to generate, develop and retain movement material within collaborative process.
Process & Details:
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Laboratory and rehearsals: 4 sessions between 9 November and 3 December 2026 (one 2-hour session per week, followed by a dress rehearsal).
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Performance Opening: Dec 4, 2026 at dusk.
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Location: Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris
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Compensation: Participation in the laboratory is free; a stipend is provided to compensate for work, rehearsals, and performance time.
- Initial Stage: Selected applicants will be invited to a short ndividual introductory dialogue via Zoom.
How to Apply:
Deadline November 1st, 2026
Email to: elena@elenabajo.com CC:projectcoal.fr
Subject: Artemisia Noctis — LAB & PERFORMANCE— [Your Name]
Include
- a 1-minute video sample of recent improvisation
- a CV
- a short motivation statement regarding your interest in movement, ecology, and the night.
Confirmation of your availability for the complete process, dress rehearsal and performance is required.
Words Buried in Your Petals (Datura Rituals), Socrates Sculpture Park, New York. Previous performance by Elena Bajo.
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