theYard.Residency.14

MITOS Center of Performing Arts announces the residency program for theYard.Residency.14 which will take place at the Old Vinegar Factory in Lemesos. This year’s residency is under the theme MyNeighbour and is part of the frame of local action of the European Program Songs of My Neighbours that MITOS has already started to realize in cooperation with Grotowski Institute and Centrum Kultury-neTTheatre from Poland and Astragali Teatro-Eufonia from Italy.

The Yard is taking place for the fourth consecutive year and for each year it transforms to meet to the potential and capabilities of the organizers and the local community. The Yard enhances exchange and dialogue between artists and encourages immediate communication with the audience. The theYard.Residency.14 mainly functions as a free platform with the active involvement of the participants. All the groups/artists involved are free to express themselves artistically in any form and in any way they desire in accordance to the given theme, but also to act responsibly towards their production.

The schedule for theYard.esidency.14 consists of 20 proposals from different fields of the performing arts, 15 of which were chosen after an open call from the Center and involve young artists and groups or creators from Cyprus and abroad. The program is completed by five special guests at the Old Vinegar Factory. The participants are responding to the theme MyNeighbour and to the following text:
A neighbour is the person who lives (or lies) near or next to another.A neighbour may be a friend, an assistant, a helper.
A neighbour can also be him/her who is not me, the other, the different one, the migrant, the enemy, the suspect.

The participants can use the Old Vinegar Factory for rehearsal and for up to three performances, its technical equipment, briefed on technical matters, partly promoted, audiovisually recorded, and can also keep the income that their performance will bring. For information relating to the coordination you can contact to Elena Agathokleous via telephone on the number 99985232 or via email on [email protected] and for information for each event you can contact th aparticipants on the numbers given in the schedule. The organizer is not responsible for any changes or cancellations on behalf of the participants.

For the programme please click here