El Graner – Arts Factory in Barcelona has launched its 2026 international residency call for artists, groups and professionals working in dance and the performing arts. El Graner is a centre for creation and research around the language of the body and movement. It forms part of Barcelona City Council’s Arts Factories programme and is managed by El Mercat de les Flors in collaboration with the Associació de Professionals de la Dansa de Catalunya (APDC, the Catalan Association of Dance Professionals) and the Associació de Companyies Professionals de la Dansa de Catalunya (ACPDC, the Association of Professional Dance Companies of Catalonia).
El Graner is a diverse, interconnected space whose focus is artistic research and experimentation around dance and its contemporary manifestations and maintains a close relationship with the professional and educational communities and the general public.
The International grant is aimed at researchers, artists and collectives with an international scope, working in the areas of dance and live arts, and who during 2026 are developing a research or creation project whose central theme is the body, movement and choreographic thinking as its central theme.
El Graner will host each selected project for a period of two weeks to a maximum of four weeks, not necessarily consecutive, between January and December 2026.
The grant has a financial endowment 3,000 EUR per project. Coverage of travel expenses to attend the two annual APLEC meetings will be provided, a programme held at El Graner twice a year aimed at artists selected through a public call. Travel coverage will only be provided to the individual beneficiary of the call or to the representative of the group/company in the case of a legal entity. Only national or European travel will be included.
