[FLUX] is a research program dedicated to choreographic research as an embodied, collaborative practice. Across three cycles between 2026–2028, [FLUX] offers three two-week Research Residencies annually: two for external artists and one for Jefta van Dinther and company members. During the residencies, the artists engage deeply with a given topic, allowing movements, ideas, and reflections to resonate between individual exploration and collective process. Embodied research lies at the heart of the program, emphasizing knowledge that emerges through bodily experience, physicality, movement, and somatic practices. The program investigates how knowledge both resides in and unfolds from moving and sensing bodies – always in motion, never fixed, and always co‑constitutive.

Rather than operating within production logics, [FLUX] cultivates a research-oriented way of working in dance. Conceived as a living organism, it creates time and space for practices that are situational, adaptable, and non-linear – where processes are not driven by predefined goals, and where unexpected trajectories can emerge. In this environment, discoveries cross-inform one another and accumulate over time, allowing new questions, methods, and forms to arise.

The first year, 2026, centers on vocal practices. [FLUX] VOCAL TROUBLE investigates what happens when the voice is decoupled from the body – whether by external devices or the body’s own capacities as a site of technological intervention. In this framework, voice no longer guarantees a consistent presence and the body no longer guarantees authorship. Voice is approached not as the expression of an interior truth but as something displaced and circulating: an acousmatic matter produced through mediation and technique that cannot be traced back to a single origin. The body shifts from being the source of voice to a porous site of hosting, transmission, and modulation. Voice becomes excess, interruption, or residue, resisting stable meaning and linguistic coherence. In contrast to polished singing or normed speech, this approach foregrounds voices that struggle – vocalities that reveal the instability of embodiment and the distribution of agency across bodies, technologies, and systems of language.

[FLUX] is curated by Jefta van Dinther and Jette Büchsenschütz. Each year, an invited expert in the specific topic of research joins as a consultant, supporting the selection and research of participating artists. This year's consultant is choreographer and dancer Luísa Saraiva.