Transborders is ciasargantana’s international laboratory programme, a space for shared research with creators from around the world that explores the boundaries—physical, cultural, political and perceptual—of contemporary performative practice.

It emerged after the closure of La Cuina as a natural continuation of the company’s research work, with the intention of opening the process to external perspectives and diverse contexts. Transborders is not a closed project, but a flexible framework for encounter, experimentation and dialogue.

The laboratories begin from questions rooted in the present: how we inhabit the world today, how identities are constructed, which borders shape the ways we relate to one another, and how performance can generate spaces for shared thinking and experience.

The working sessions are based on practice, exchange and applied research. They do not aim for immediate final outcomes, but rather seek to activate processes, languages and methodologies that can nourish future creations, collaborations and lines of research.

The work developed within Transborders is in dialogue with the iam system, with the dramaturgy of action, and with the relationship between body, space, time and audience. It also opens the field to hybrid practices, performative technologies and modes of transmission that allow for a rethinking of creation within a global context.

Transborders is an open space for artists, researchers and institutions interested in sharing research processes, activating new collaborations and exploring forms of creation that cross disciplines, territories and perspectives.