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 Fall 2026
DESTINY
Friday, October 23rd at 14:00
Ida Haugen
The residency will conclude with an informal workshop sharing combining practical demonstrations, discussion and conversation with the audience. Rather than presenting finished material, I would like to share parts of the artistic process, introduce some of the choreographic methods and physical research developed during the residency, and invite participants into a dialogue about the project's themes, questions and future development.
HUDLØS
Friday, October 16th at 15:00
Ida Hebsgaard Mogensen
I imagine sharing excerpts from the work, elements of the choreographic score, and opening a conversation about the questions that have emerged during the residency. Depending on where the process leads, the sharing could also include a workshop, participatory elements, or other ways of inviting the audience into the research.
Terrarium
Friday, September 25th at 15:00
Hanna Våge Skjeggestad
The terrarium as an image is intriguing because of the potentiality in the layers and the friction between them. We want to work in this intensified process and concentrated version of something that shapes the culture in this kind of encapsulated space. A terrarium in the shape of all the visible and invisible layers that tie the bodies together. They need each other, they use each other and they are being used. They are everything, with infinite possibility, but in an enclosed space.
Chisto/Чисто
Friday, November 13th at 15:00
Lana Lisa Granerud
A central thread in the research is a ritual connected to cleansing. I am curious about what happens when a person attempts to free themselves from something that has settled in the body. The ritual is not conceived as therapy, but as a performative act.
I want to explore how sincerity, humour, absurdity, and resistance can coexist side by side.
Beinsamleren
Friday, November 20th at 15:00
Maggi Asbjørnsen
The project follows a traveling character who moves through an unfamiliar landscape, encountering strange and abandoned objects. Through touch, movement, listening, and experimentation, the character gradually forms relationships with these objects, transforming them into companions, obstacles, shelters, instruments, burdens, or extensions of the body.
Mazungumzo
Friday, December 18th at 15:00
Eshidoreen Paradiso
Mazungumzo (“conversations” in Swahili) is an choreographic research project exploration of the body as a language. Inspired by an experience in Tanzania where two people communicated through dance without words, the project asks how movement can create understanding across cultures and identities.
The project investigates how bodily expression can be transformed and reinterpreted within a Norwegian and Western context.
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