[clausula.meta .x] I.

 

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RESIDENCY PROGRAM FOR MUSIC-THEATRE MAKERS, COMPOSERS, PERFORMERS, DIRECTORS, DRAMATURGS, DESIGNERS, AND INTERDISCIPLINARY ENSEMBLES

[October 2026 - June 2027]

 

An international residency dedicated to developing, testing, presenting, and critically examining new paradigms of music-theatrical composition, performance, dramaturgy, design, and production.

 

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PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

 

Program period: October 2026–June 2027
Format: Four online seminars followed by an on-site residency
On-site location: Bled, Slovenia (EU)
Final presentation: Seventh Bled Contemporary Music Week
Application deadline: September 15, 2026

 

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FORMAT

 

Stage I. | October 26, 27, 2026

- 2 online seminar

- Individual participants and ensembles present their artistic practices, methodologies, projects, and works in progress

- Q&A

 

Stage II. | January 6, 7, 2027

- 2 online seminars

- Collaborative development, dramaturgical analysis, practice-led experimentation, and pre-production of new music-theatre works

- Critical inquiry into the relationships among sound, performance, text, space, image, objects, and technology

- Q&A

 

Stage III. | June 14-25, 2027

- Performances, staged works, installations, lecture-performances, laboratories, and research presentations at the seventh Bled Contemporary Music Week in Bled, Slovenia

 

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ABOUT THE RESIDENCY

 

[clausula.meta.x] I. is an international, practice- and research-oriented residency for artists and ensembles working across music theatre, contemporary performance, composition, direction, dramaturgy, scenography, design, and technology. Extending from September 2026 to June 2027, the program supports new works and working methods, culminating in performances, installations, lecture-performances, laboratories, and research presentations at the seventh Bled Contemporary Music Week in Bled, Slovenia (EU).

 

The residency approaches music theatre neither as a fixed genre nor as a synthesis of autonomous disciplines. It understands music theatre as a transdisciplinary field in which sound, body, voice, text, movement, space, image, objects, light, media, and technology enter contingent relations. These relations produce temporality, organize attention, distribute agency, construct spectatorship, and generate performative meaning.

 

Participants investigate how compositional propositions become theatrical situations; how dramaturgical structures emerge among heterogeneous materials; how bodies, objects, images, spaces, and technical systems condition one another; and how infrastructures shape what can be imagined and realized. These artistic problems are addressed through making, analysis, experimentation, rehearsal, documentation, and performance.

 

Four online seminars sustain project development through presentation, methodological inquiry, material analysis, and feedback from peers and invited mentors. The on-site phase places these inquiries in relation to performers, technical conditions, festival structures, and publics. Artistic research is understood not as discourse added after production, but as inquiry internal to composition, performance, direction, dramaturgy, design, and rehearsal.

 

The residency welcomes divergent positions, including composed and instrumental theatre, experimental opera, performance art, choreographic practice, sonic installation, expanded scenography, object theatre, documentary forms, participatory structures, and digital or networked performance. Projects may be materially restrained or technically complex, provided that their premises are precise and their development is feasible within the program.

 

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MENTORS

 

Dr. Alastair White 

Urban Megušar, Double M.Mus.

Dr. Niki Zohdi

Dr. Dré A. Hočevar 

 

 

COORDINATOR

 

Brina Kren