Submissions Open: Translocal Performance Lab

In the process of reclaiming their narratives and finding senses of connection with the “others”, BELALANG \\ CÀO CÀO: TRANSLOCAL PERFORMANCE LAB (the Lab) proposes a “home-in-between”, a hands-on infrastructure that allows the artists to experiment with making a “theater within”, as in finding the right “panggung” (stage) where their words can be spoken and heard truthfully. It’s an invitation to inhabit the in-between as a site of co-presence, friction, and collective emergence. It’s an inquiry to look around, to look within and explore the dramaturgy of everyday life.

Offering an intensive 3-weeks residency, from 24 July – 13 August (travel exclusive) in Jakarta, Indonesia, facilitated by contemporary theater and performance makers from the SEA region, the Lab aims at holding a space for exploring intercultural/collaborative frameworks and tools of seeing, sensing, thinking, sharing, and staging within as well as beyond the inter-Southeast Asia connection. The process-orientated collaboration strives for mapping various issues, discourses, needs, and current initiatives in theater and performance in the region, particularly regarding how different local elements and knowledge gaps intertwine and evolve in collaborative exchange practices.

Within the Lab, the participants will encounter various exchanges, conversation, co-learning, performance watching and experimentation which will lead to a performative open studio presented in the framework of DITP: Bumantara 2025, developed in conversation with the Lab’s facilitators, the festival’s curators and organising team.

Funding Information

• The following supports are only applicable for one person per successful application:
  • One roundtrip airfare from any Southeast Asian countries to Jakarta, Indonesia
  • One artist grant of: $400 (7,000,000 IDR)
  • Per diem of: $180 (3,150,000 IDR) for the whole stay
  • Accommodation (sharing room)
  • Shared studio space
  • Mentorship/dramaturgy support
  • Presentation venue, production and tech support for the Lab Presentation within the framework of DITP2025
  • Full-pass entrance to all programs of DITP 2025
  • Networking opportunities with artists, producers, festival directors from the region

Eligibility Criteria

• The Lab is open for theater makers and artists of diverse ages and experiences who:
  • Have a nationality from one of the Southeast Asian countries (Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Singapore, Brunei, East Timor)
  • Are interested in an open and equal exchange, in sharing and learning from each other
  • Works across disciplines in theater and performing art, including but not limited to theater directors, performers, choreographers, playwrights, dramaturgs, scenographers, sound makers, visual artists, technologists,
  • Are interested in social-related, intercultural and interdisciplinary approaches to performances
  • Are 18 years old or older
  • Have an attempt to communicate in English
  • Are an individual or duo (The Lab can accept applications from duo or small, artist groups but can only provide airfare, accommodation, artist grant, per diem for one (1) person.)

Application Requirements

• Artist bio (100-300 words)
• Current Headshot (JPG)
• CV detailing artistic experience (PDF):
  • The CV must be saved in PDF format and titled as the following syntax: CV_FullName_DITP2025.pdf
• Portfolio (PDF) of selected works in theater or performing arts, including:
  • General information (title-year-genre-premiere location);
  • Web/video links (if applicable)
  • Images
• The Portfolio attachment must not exceed 20MB and must be saved in PDF format and titled as the following syntax: Portfolio_FullName_DITP2025.pdf
• They encourage you to include information of existing or in-progress international collaborative projects, if any.
• Other supporting materials of your choice to help them have a better understanding of your works (for example: reviews, interviews, etc.)
• Fill in the answer for two (2) questions:
  • What are you looking to explore in this regional/collaborative Lab?
  • What would you like to contribute to the program (for example: a workshop, working methods)?

For more information, visit Djakarta International Theater Platform.