After careful evaluation by the 6-member jury, the selected projects are:

🔶Spilling the Body by Aylish Bik and Rhea Slootweg (NL)
🔺A Practical Guide to Being a Whore by Manuela Montoya Ramirez / Guayabo Colectivo (FR)
🔷SKIN.CARE by Sabina Kohn Bernhard (FR)

🔶𝗦𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗱𝘆 uses contemporary circus to create an immersive, safe space where female anger is transformed from a suppressed, destructive force into a radically honest, shared, and empowering physical expression.

🔺𝗔 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗕𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗪𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗲 is a contemporary circus and physical theater piece using the trapeze, whip, and bouffon performance to draw from personal experience as a migrant sex worker, dismantling societal taboos through a raw, practical reflection on the complexities, intimacy, and armor required in sex work.

🔷𝗦𝗞𝗜𝗡.𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗘 is an immersive contortion and physical theatre solo that uses ASMR, prosthetics, and sensory discomfort to challenge the exhausting societal pressures of beauty culture through the lens of personal and structural struggle.