Residency

Dancers and performers wishing to immerse themselves in the cross-cultural contemporary work of Gabriela Zuarez’s Sur Mundo Ensemble, which emerges from the constructive sources of tango, can apply for the residencies held in Amsterdam or Buenos Aires. The residency programme may include in-house workshop-labs, masterclasses and mentoring.

Since 2017, the Dance Residencies have continued to evolve and have been made permanent. They are programmed annually in Amsterdam ( Dance Research & Development) and Buenos Aires (Coreo-Lab) and gather dancers together for a long-life learning journey while enabling dancers’ enhancement, upgrading and connection.

Open calls are held twice yearly to recruit dance fellows who wish to immerse themselves in the crosscultural eclectic work mode of the Gabriela Zuarez ensemble that approaches tango’s constructive sources (physical-connective-cultural) in an expanded performative scope. In most cases, the outcomes are staged in a try-out format at sober venues, portraying dance documentary films and video-dance fictions. A cornerstone of the residencies is to set the fire to ignite a strong group synergy during the community practice leading to fruitfull collaborations.

Participation can greatly benefit dancers, performers, visual artists and musicians. BA/MA dance students, post-graduate students, interns and professionals are invited to apply for those interdisciplinary residencies to be hosted in Amsterdam or Buenos Aires and are full-time. Cultural and knowledge exchange is essential!

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Residency, Amsterdam 2024

Dance Research & Development

The Residency Dance Research & Development in Amsterdam focus intensively on practices for choreographic research and developing dramaturgy centred on the hybridisation of movement and dance, exploring primarily the musical realm, then literary and visual narratives.

The tango universe informs and distils the elements addressed during the residency, and that is the first task: to tackle the movement language. As a result, the residencies can have two aims, either in the linguistic direction of the choreographic research – leading to improvisation and composition- or towards the collective performative creation with the ensemble, which is a more advanced step involving repertory and script. In both cases, it is a matter of exploring the play development for a new dramaturgies in hidden depths that will be achieved during the residency period, and which may encompass several modules of workshops and practices tailored to the dance resident’s goal.

Submit your request applying with a motivation letter and CV. Register

RESIDENCY 2024

Residency, Buenos Aires 2025

Coreo-Lab

The residency Coreo-Lab in Buenos Aires has been the matrix and locus for developing the sister residency project, Coreo-Lab Holland-Argentina. It focuses mainly on the corporeality of the dancer digging into the collective territory of the tango culture in all its forms.

During the residency, the dramaturge-choreographer Gabriela Zuárez explores a potential identity for the aesthetics of contemporary dance in co-shared with several dancers’ formations. As leader also foregrounds a new generation of dancers engaged in expanding physical awareness and movement language as social activism, strengthening community connections. The residency holds a strategic production program that includes boot camps, workshops, labs, research, and montage, where many participant dancers benefit from improving, learning, revising new approaches, and reflecting on their dancing bodies.

The outcomes of the Coreo Lab residency had been staged at Argentina’s vibrant popular dance venues, such as Centro Cultural Recoleta (2017-2018), Club Cultural Matienzo (2018-2019) and, most recently, Espacio Homero in 2023 for the filming of the video-dance fiction ‘Lapso de Fuga’.

Coreo-Lab has been copartnered with Tu Tribu Micaela Tettamanti, Club Cultural Matienzo Buenos Aires, Plataforma Lavarden Rosario and JIRA Conferences on the Rhythmic in the Field of Performing Arts Buenos Aires. Coreo-Lab received the auspices of the City of Buenos Aires (Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires) and the financial support of the Embassy of The Netherlands and Mecenazgo Cultural in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Dance-Theatre Development Foundation in The Netherlands. Logos ( In the website)

Are you interested in participating of the next Coreo-Lab in Buenos Aires? Write to us and submit your request applying with a motivation letter and CV. Register

RESIDENCY 2025