Report on a European Project: The laboratory for the twenty-first century (LABO21)

From 2010 until 2014 different European partners join forces to conceive LABO21, a platform for transdisciplinary research on artistic methodologies. LABO21 would bring together organizations with a common interest in how performing artists make work and the wish to make knowledge about these making practices, or poiesis, available to a wider audience. The main artistic organizatons involved in the project were BADco. (HR), Troubleyn/Jan Fabre (BE), Wayne McGregor|Random Dance (UK), ICKamsterdam (NL) and The Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) at Coventry University (UK). This article sketches the evolution of LABO21 and briefly presents some of the specific approaches and outcomes of the project. Publisher Statement: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Performance Research on 26 November 2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13528165.2015.1111057