NXTSTP Next Step – The Second Generation
- Project Type
- Performing Arts
- Title
- NXTSTP Next Step – The Second Generation
- Irish Partner
- Dublin Theatre Festival
- Co-Partners
Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Belgium); Alkantara – Associação Cultural (Portugal); Foundation Rakvere Theatrehouse (Estonia); Göteborgs Stads Kulturforvaltning (Sweden); Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival Groningen (Netherlands); steirischer herbst festival gmbh, (Austria); Théâtre National de Bordeaux en Acquitaine (France).
- Funding Strand
- Strand 1.1. Multi-annual cooperation projects
- Year Funded
- 2012
Eight European festivals joined forces to stimulate the coproduction and transnational circulation of new works by the great European artists.
Amount awarded: €2,500,000
Total project budget: €5,000,000
Project duration: 1 November 2012 to 31 October 2017
Eight European festivals joined forces to stimulate the coproduction and transnational circulation of new works by the great European artists to encourage the artistic renewal of the contemporary performing arts in Europe. The artists supported through this collaboration already demonstrated their potential in their first artistic works.
The NXTSTP network co-produced new works, giving artists valuable financial support. The works are presented in different festivals, ensuring a real transnational circulation and a high visibility among international audiences. In addition, the festivals offer artists’ residencies to emerging European and non-European artists, providing further means to advance the performing arts scene in Europe.
The first term of NXTSTP ran from 2007 to 2012. Dublin Theatre Festival joined the network for its second edition, which began in November 2012, supported by an award of funding for five years from the Culture Programme of the European Union. Dublin Theatre Festival 2013 featured two NXTSTP projects: Germinal by Halory Goerger and Antoine Defoort (France) and Tiago Rodrigues’s Three Fingers Below the Knee, produced by Mundo Perfeito (Portugal).
IRISH ORGANISATION PROFILE
Dublin Theatre Festival, established in 1957, is an annual event running over 18 days from the last Thursday in September. Each year the festival programme includes around 30 productions by Irish and international artists for audiences from age 2 upwards, across a range of scales and contemporary forms.