Category: round1

Cevennes with Emma Daniel: dancing outside, relationships & sharing childcare  We spent 4 weeks in the south of France working with Emma Daniel. Most of the time in Cevennes mountains: Sainte Croix Vallée Française and some of the time in Corbieres: Sigean and Thézan. In the Cevennes we lived and worked in a camping site.…

Persis Bekkering gave us the tip that ‘Jan van Eyck Academie supports artists with childcare responsibilities’, and on a late evening at Performing Arts Forum (PAF) we improvised an application with the title sex and time. A full hearted, but not particularly worked through application. Much in contrast to the many elaborate funding dossiers we…

I did manage to give birth! Throughout the pregnancy I was afraid that I would either explode or that the baby would get stuck like a really bad constipation. For me the timeline of pregnancy was stopping at the moment of birth, when everything would be done. “That’s where it all begins,” said my sister in…

When Penélope was born we were living in a short term sublet and didn’t have employment, project-funding, savings or inheritance to rely on. What we did have was access to, and understanding, of the Danish social welfare system. And with some creative bookkeeping we managed to get Andrea qualified for a Danish maternity leave (write…