MD ❦ Grand Studio
Materiais Diversos and Grand Studio have maintained, since 2016, a partnership dedicated to the exchange of artistic residencies, fostering circulation and encounters between artists based in each organisation’s context. This practice of crossing paths creates time, relationship, and continuity between different geographies, practices, and artistic communities.
4 to 10 May 2026 — Brussels
Standing Ancestors, by Piny, as part of the Accompanied Artist programme and the European project DRIFT – Dance and Research in the Future Time (Wave #1). This research will be presented at the DRIFT Research Showcase in November at BIT Teatergarasjen (NO).
18 to 26 July — Alcanena
Project by Vilma Pitrinaite, in residency at the Alviela Science Centre (Centro Ciência Viva do Alviela).
© Jérôme van Belle
Vilma Pitrinaite in Residence in Alcanena
In partnership with Grand Studio, we welcome artist Vilma Pitrinaite for a residency at Centro Ciência Viva do Alviela, Alcanena, from 18 to 26 July 2026.
Identified at the Aerowaves festival, Vilma has created several works that demonstrate boldness and imagination: Miss Lithuania, presented for around fifty times, pushes language and the body to the point of exhaustion while dismantling the figure of the beauty queen; Somaholidays translates the choreographic codes and rituals of nightclubs to the stage; MATCH trilogy explores competition through grotesque displays of ego and aggression, connecting the social, the animal, and the national.
Since the lockdown, Vilma is exploring a rebel figure: performance It’s not your dream, sharing the positive and creative energy that lies in refusing submission and rebelling against rules imposed both by others and by oneself, earned Vilma the Lithuanian Golden Cross award for best dancer in 2022.
Her last solo, When you’re alone in your forest always remember you’re not Alone stages a body in resistance and establishes itself as a ritual against the sense of powerlessness generated by recent events in Eastern Europe.
Her new project, COMMONWOUND, revolves around the phenomenon of trauma and extends Vilma’s ongoing interest in rebellion, unruly female bodies and contemporary practices of resilience. Through dance, contemporains krump, singing and performative situations infused with absurd humour, she explores female figures oscillating between vulnerability and strength, victimhood and agency, the human and the machine, notably through the use of a looper.