We offer residencies for professional artists working in contemporary dance. We welcome proposals for performance projects, artistic research, or the development of artistic practice.
Two open calls are announced each year: Spring residencies are announced in December, and Fall residencies have an application deadline in July.
Selected artists receive 25 hours of free studio space at PRAXIS Oslo’s studio at Hausmania, concluding with an open sharing on the final day. The sharing may take the form of a work-in-progress presentation, open rehearsal, demo performance, workshop, or talk.
Residency artists also receive a free PRAXIS clip card, giving access to PRAXIS morning classes during the semester of their residency.
Please note that artist fees, accommodation, and travel costs are not included.
Artists in residency spring 2026
krets
Thursday, March 19th at 13:00
Scenekunstkompaniet ØY
KRETS is about the idea of belonging to a flock, and the feeling of being inside or outside. Krets is about a group of friends, a circle, a group you can be part of—or break away from. It is about a ring, an electrical circuit, and a physical or geographical area. It is also about orbiting around each other: gathering around one another or around an object. About circular movements. About rotation. About the fact that sometimes, in a magical way, we can come together and be in sync.
Song of distance
Friday, May 15th at 15:00
Bianca Hisse
Song of Distance is a new performance that departs from the Juruá River in the Brazilian Amazon, considered the most sinuous river in the world. Flowing through flat terrain with a heavy load of debris and residues, the Juruá constantly twists and turns, generating an excess of meanders. The performance adopts this sinuosity as both image and method, following its curves to think about migration, diasporic memory, and river knowledges as forms of survival and resistance.
To free oneself
Friday, June 12th at 15:00
Haranni Umakanthan
The theme of this solo project is liberation, which for me means freeing oneself from personal expectations, external demands, limiting norms, and oppressive rules. To free oneself involves challenging established oppressive structures, while simultaneously strengthening the authenticity of the individual and the community, and actively working towards new utopias.
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Friday, July 3rd at 15:00
Martijn Joling
Getting back in touch with my roots in music has sparked a big urge to dig deeper into the relation between dance, text, rhythms and the body.
Choreographer and performer, Martijn Joling will in the end of his Praxis residency share some of his first findings on his current research; exploring the merge of freestyle rap and contemporary dance improvisation. In this spontaneous improvisation, incorporation both body and voice, you can expect the unexpected.