We are delighted to announce that, following an intensive four-day meeting in Dublin involving the organisational partners of the E-MOTIONAL: Bodies & Cities Project, recipients of a Mobility Grant and Artistic Research grants were selected from the applications made by Irish dance artists and managers.

Mobility Grant:
Jenny Traynor of CoisCéim received an E-Motion Fund Mobility Grant to travel to Bucharest, Romania for the eXplore Festival in October.

Artistic Research:
Fearghus Ó Conchúir and Laura Murphy have been selected to participate in international artistic research residencies as part of two groups of five artists from the five partner countries who will come together over the course of 11 months, from May 2012 to April 2013. The outcomes of their artistic research will be presented at the E-MOTIONAL Forum in Bucharest in April 2013.

*The next call for proposals for Mobility Grants under the Motion Fund will be posted in January 2012.*

E-MOTIONAL: Bodies & Cities is a two-year mobility and artistic exchange dance programme gathering artists and managers from six European countries – Romania, Cyprus, Ireland, Latvia, United Kingdom, and Turkey. The programme plans to identify, nurture, attract and sustain talent and creativity at the European level, by connecting artists and dance managers from countries participating in the project through mobility grants, residencies, fellowships, artistic research and performance co-production and exchange. Professional development and artistic experiment represent pillars of the project.

E-MOTIONAL is realised in Ireland by Dublin Dance Festival and Dance Ireland in association with the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at University of Limerick.

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication [communication] reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.