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IN THIS ISSUE:

Choreographic Residencies, Opportunities, & Funding: Current listings for the US, Latin America, Europe, & Asia:  National Choreography Intensive, FL; Choreography Fellows Program At Jacob’s Pillow, MA; WAXworks, NY; Choreographic Development Residency, NC; BalletX’s Choreographic Fellowship, PA, USA: Culture Moves Europe & ATLAS, AUSTRIA; Beijing International Dance Video Festival, CHINA; Choreographic Dialogues, GERMANY; Invisible Dance Open Call, INDIA; Fringe Festival Open Call, SINGAPORE; Istanbul Fringe Festival Open Call, TURKEY, and more…. 

New Works & Events: New Cathy Marston, Pontus Lidberg, Justin Peck, David Parsons and Juliano Nuñes in the US; Rena Butler in CANADA; Philippe Kratz in ITALY; Noé Soulier in the NETHERLANDS; Pam Tanowitz in UK, and more…

Choreographic Competitions: Hanover International Choreography Competition, GERMANY; Copenhagen International Choreography Competition, DENMARK; Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition, NETHERLANDS.

Trending: When Dancing is Being [Site-] Specific

New Movies: White Noise (2022), written and directed by Noah Baumbach, choreography by David Neumann

New Books: On Site: Methods for Site-Specific Performance Creation, by Stephan Koplowitz, Oxford University Press, 2022

CHOREOGRAPHIC RESIDENCIES, CREATIVE OPPORTUNITIES, & FUNDING:

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ARIZONA: Company choreographers are invited to apply for the Wickenburg Residency with the opportunity to pursue new projects, mount work, or collaborate with other artists, free from everyday pressures. These residencies are intended for chamber dance companies. Previous dance companies have included American Ballet Theatre II and Northwest Dance Theatre. Residencies are up to three weeks, and the average number of artists in residence at a time ranges between one and five. The application is open to US artists. Rolling deadline. Visit: https://dewpac.org/programs/made-in-wickenburg/

CALIFORNIA: The Annual Choreography Festival at the McCallum Theatre Institute will take place on November 11 & 12, 2023. Choreography by both emerging and established dance makers from across the nation will take center stage in McCallum’s popular festival. Winners will be announced at the conclusion of each performance. Highlighting dance as an art form, this event always delivers an exciting mix of work by inventive artists. Cash awards up to $10,000. Apply by March 15, 2023. Visit: http://www.mccallumtheatre.com/index.php/education/choreography-festival/submit-choreography

FLORIDA: Dancing out of Time festival is accepting film submissions from dance artists from diverse communities, both urban and rural, and all dance styles who are creating work focused on bringing attention to the correlation between environmental justice and social justice. Apply by March 31, 2023. Visit: https://www.nwdprojects.org/film-festival-dancing-out-of-time/

FLORIDA: The Regional Dance America’s National Choreography Intensive 2023 (NCI) is a multi-faceted program providing dancers, emerging choreographers, and seasoned choreographers with the unparalleled opportunity to work, study and create under the guidance of nationally recognized professionals in the fields of music and dance. The festival will take place between June 18 - July 2, 2023. Apply by May 30, 2023. Visit: http://www.nationalchoreographyintensive.com

MARYLAND: US Artists International supports performances by American artists at cultural festivals and arts marketplaces around the globe with grants of up to $15,000. Apply by March 29, 2023, for projects between July 1, 2023, and June 30, 2024. Visit: http://www.midatlanticarts.org/usartists-international/

MASSACHUSETTS: Choreography Fellows Program at the Jacob's Pillow is led by Program Directors Dianne McIntyre and Risa Steinberg between August 22 – August 31, 2023. The program is fully process-oriented, with no expectations of an end-product or public showing. Apply by February 27, 2023. Visit: https://www.jacobspillow.org/school/choreography-fellows-program/

MASSACHUSETTS: National Dance Project (NDP) Travel Fund provides monetary assistance for US-based presenters, curatorial staff, and residency directors to connect in person to explore the feasibility of presenting NDP-funded works. Rolling deadline. Visit: https://www.nefa.org/grants_programs/grants/national-dance-project-travel-fund

MICHIGAN: Applications for Choreographers Showcase, Rivera Court Stage, and Summer Stage are now open. The performance will take place between September 8-10, 2023. Apply by February 24, 2023. Visit: http://www.detroitdancecityfestival.com/artists

NEW YORK: Movement Research’s Parent Artist Residency program, designed to support the artistry of parents with children between the ages of 1 month and 13 years, aims to address the need for flexible and supportive-based parent artists in the field of dance and movement-based art forms. The high cost of childcare in NYC, combined with studio rental costs, is often a barrier preventing parent artists from having time in the studio to produce creative work. Apply by February 7, 2023. Visit: https://movementresearch.org/programs/residencies

NEW YORK: An American nonprofit with a program in Italy, applications for the Bogliasco Foundation is now open for residencies during the Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 semesters. Apply by March 1, 2023. Visit: https://bfny.org/en/about/program-overview

NEW YORK: WAXworks is a non-curated showcase open to new and seasoned artists. Applications are accepted on a first-come first-served basis in choreography, theater, music, poetry, comedy, juggling, acrobatics, monologues, performance art, or any other form that can be performed on stage. There is no audition process. Visit: http://www.williamsburgartnexus.org/

NEW YORK: The Mark DeGarmo Dance Salon Performance Series is accepting applications for a unique opportunity to view and engage with original performing arts and dance works-in-progress of DeGarmo and guest artists. Rolling deadline. Visit: http://markdegarmodance.org/

NORTH CAROLINA: The Choreographic Development Residency is a 5-week program to foster the development of new work by emerging choreographers of exceptional promise. Through this initiative, UNCSA School of Dance looks to deepen its mission of developing original works, supporting artists, and giving back to the broader community. Apply by February 17, 2023. Visit: https://www.uncsa.edu/summer/dance-summer-intensives/choreographic-institute/choreographic-development-residency.aspx

NORTH CAROLINA: American Dance Festival (ADF) is calling for applications for its dance-on-camera initiative Movies by Movers, a bi-annual festival dedicated to the celebration of the conversation between the body and the camera. Applicants are invited to share in the collaboration between the ephemeral art of live movement and the perpetual nature of film. Apply by March 1, 2023. Visit: https://filmfreeway.com/festival/MoviesByMovers

ON LINE: TCI is an independent festival that showcases contemporary dance on-screen works from around the world. As digital technology has made filmmaking increasingly more accessible to independent producers, so has the genre of dance film has exploded in popularity and variety. TCI aims to present novel approaches to how the ever-evolving cinematic medium can use dance or, equivalently, how contemporary choreographers and performers can use image capture to further the discourse of this artistic crossover. Apply by July 14, 2023. Visit: https://filmfreeway.com/tci

PENNSYLVANIA: BalletX’s Choreographic Fellowship unites one emerging artist each season with a distinguished choreographer who serves as a mentor as they both create World Premieres on the BalletX dancers. Apply by March 10, 2023. Visit: https://www.balletx.org/artist-training-and-resources/choreographic-fellowship/

US: USArtists International (USAI) grants programs that support performances by American artists at cultural festivals and arts marketplaces around the globe. USAI is committed to the presence of U.S. artists on world stages and provides grants to performers in dance, music and theater. Grants of up to $15,000 are awarded towards artist fees, travel, accommodation, per diem, shipping and visa preparation. Apply by March 29, 2023. Visit: https://www.midatlanticarts.org/usartists-international/

INTERNATIONAL:

ARMENIA: HIGH FEST International Performing Arts Festival is calling for applications from performing arts companies and artists to present their productions in all genres of performing arts. The festival will run from October 1-8, 2023. Apply by March 15, 2023. Visit: https://highfest.am/apply/

AUSTRALIA: QL2 Dance offers curated residencies both to young people (up to age 26) and older artists. Curated residencies provide theater or studio space without charge and may also include other support. Write to Artistic Director Ruth Osborne to apply. Rolling deadline. Visit: https://www.ql2.org.au/residency-program

AUSTRALIA: Create NSW’s Arts and Cultural Funding Program provides funding opportunities for arts and cultural organizations, professional artists and arts/cultural workers across a wide range of art forms and disciplines. Apply by February 6, 2023. Visit: https://www.create.nsw.gov.au/funding-and-support/arts-and-cultural-funding-program/organisation-funding/

AUSTRIA: Culture Moves Europe connects artists, creators, and cultural professionals from the countries participating in the Creative Europe program. The program offers mobility, which is particularly focused on emerging artists. Culture Moves Europe has a budget of €21 million between 2022 and 2025. This allows around 7 000 artists, creators, and cultural professionals to go abroad for professional development or international collaborations and much more. Rolling deadline. Visit: https://culture.ec.europa.eu/creative-europe/creative-europe-culture-strand/culture-moves-europe-mobility-for-artists-and-professionals

AUSTRIA: ATLAS is a five-week training program that offers young artists with first choreographic experience and mid-career artists a dynamic environment for personal and artistic development. It aims to meet two key needs: to have a studio available for research and piece development and to gain new input through individual workshop programs, visits of international productions and exchanges with artists from 100 countries and within the group. Apply by February 15, 2023. Visit: https://www.impulstanz.com/en/atlas/

BRAZIL: Casa Na Ilha Art Residency Program is based in a colonial house on the Island of Ilhabela, Brazil. The residency program is an initiative to provide a space to encourage creativity and the exchange of ideas among artists from different disciplines. Applications are being accepted on an ongoing basis. Visit: http://www.casanailha.org

CANADA: Circuit-Est Choreographic Centre in Montréal, Québec, offers residencies for generative and/or disciplinary works. To be considered be involved in a career in contemporary dance, utilize a research perspective and questioning process in your work; demonstrate artistic quality and show a distinctive and promising choreographic signature; already have presented your work to the public (minimum of two productions in a professional context), and use the residency time to work on a creation intended to be broadcast.  Apply by March 1, 2023. Visit: https://circuit-est.qc.ca/en/activities/soutien-aux-artistes/

CANADA: New Works invites expressions of interest from dance and movement artists to participate in 2023-24 season of performance opportunities. There are a few distinct opportunities next season. Apply by February 10, 2023. Visit: https://www.newworks.ca/2023/01/apply2023-24/

CANADA: Reboot: Micro-Grants by Scotiabank Dance Centre helps artists (maximum 2 per month) improve skills and create work with small grants of up to $500. May be used for activities such as hiring collaborators (mentors, musicians, videographers, photographers), subsidizing project research/production, renting studios at Scotiabank Dance Centre, equipment rental, professional development, etc. Apply by End of the month prior to the project. Rolling deadline. Visit: https://thedancecentre.ca/upcoming-deadlines/

CHINA: The 2nd Beijing International Dance Video Festival is now accepting submissions. Theme of the year is Integrating. Apply by March 10. 2023. Visit: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/5WFt_qyACAMG795leXEEMA?fbclid=IwAR0SMGjG6gW2EMI3mNhxp_vlkWuhQX074JB_V2yTgfzHtS9eKmJcH7gG2wE

EUROPE: The new program Culture Moves Europe announces its open call for artists and cultural professionals. It offers travel grants to artists, creators and cultural professionals to pursue an international project of their choice. Rolling deadline. Visit: https://culture.ec.europa.eu/creative-europe/creative-europe-culture-strand/culture-moves-europe

EUROPE: Creative Europe Opens Call will support projects to carry out a broad spectrum of activities and initiatives involving artists and stakeholders active in different cultural and creative sectors. Apply by February 23, 2023. Visit: https://www.ednetwork.eu/news/creative-europe-cooperation-projects-call

EUROPE/ ON LINE: ArtUniverse offers a choreographic course that prepares director for the performance production with performers by equipping students with the tools and skills necessary to build strong mise-en-scene, blocking, composition, and movement directing. The central topic is exploring ways to create choreography and movement in the performance. ArtUniverse Scholarships are awarded on a competitive basis. Next program starts in September & October 2022. Rolling Admission. Visit: https://www.nipai.org/online-courses/Choreography-and-Blocking-in-Performance

FINLAND: Ice Hot Helsinki 2023 consists of more than 20 performances on stage and the first release of selected artists and companies from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Apply by March 30, 2023. Visit: https://www.icehotnordicdance.com/open-call-2024/registration-to-ice-hot-2022/

FINLAND: TelepART Mobility Support promotes opportunities for Finland-based performing artists to travel and perform internationally. It is an easy and quick micro-funding format for emerging and semi-established professional artists and young academics. The grant is intended for travel, and accommodation costs up to €1,000 and the funding decision will be made within two weeks from the application. Open deadline. Visit: https://finnland-institut.de/telepart-support/

FRANCE: Ballet Preljocaj welcomes artists in residence at the Pavillon Noir. Companies can benefit from a studio or stage of the Théâtre du Pavillon Noir, as well as a financial accompaniment. Apply by February 15, 2023. Visit: https://preljocaj.org/en/artistes-en-residence-22-23/

FRANCE: MOV’IN Cannes, an international dance film competition under the artistic direction of Didier Deschamps and Eric Oberdorff. Take part in the competition and have a chance to be part of the pre-selection of films that will be screened during the Festival in front of an international jury of dance and film professionals. Apply by April 5, 2023. Visit: https://filmfreeway.com/MOVINCANNES

GERMANY: International Workshop “Physicality in Performance" with Sergei Ostrenko will take place between April 26-30, 2023. The program is suitable for choreographers who work mainly with movement. The main focus of the program is to answer the crucial nowadays question "How to enrich dance performances with psychological tension?" and "How the physicality in acting enriches your performances?”. Visit: https://www.physicalityinacting.com/

GERMANY: RAW. Tanz*werke2023 Dance Festival is calling for applications from artist working in Germany. The festival will take place between October 30- November 5, 2023. Pieces are sought that deal with the concrete body, have a strong physicality, and work on elemental themes of contemporary dance and performance.  Apply by February 28, 2023. Visit: www.tanzwerk-kassel.org

GERMANY: Choreographic Dialogues is a two-week long residency programme at PACT Zollverein in Essen, designed to offer performers and choreographers based in North Rhine-Westphalia the opportunity to collaborate with a national or international visiting dialogue partner of their choice.  Apply by February 22, 2023. Visit: https://www.pact-zollverein.de/en/artists-centre/residencies

GERMANY: Dance-techAIR at Lake Studios Berlin is accepting applications for its residency program, which offers international interdisciplinary movement and media artists the possibility to live and make art in a peaceful, artist-run, working, living and performance space in Berlin. Rolling deadline. Visit: https://www.lakestudiosberlin.com

GERMANY: Choreographers up to age 40 are invited to apply for a Guest Programme for Young Foreign Theatre People conducted by Goethe-Institut, Munich, and the Federal Republic of Germany Centre of the International Theatre Institute (ITI). Grant recipients will be taken in by theatres in Germany to become familiar with production conditions and the conception and rehearsal process of at least one production. Acceptance of applications is ongoing. Visit: https://www.goethe.de/en/uun/auf/tut/sta.html

GREECE: Akropoditi Dance and Performing Arts Centre and the International Dance and Performing Arts Festival Akropoditi DanceFest are now calling for applications for the Artistic Residency Program, which will take place in September 2023 -- December 2023. Apply by June 1, 2023. Visit: https://www.akropoditi.com/dancecentre/en/residencies-en/#1554724541704-3a535a8e-1533

INDIA: Goethe-Institute is calling applications for Invisible Dance. The body in friction seeks to explore the hidden choreography of conflict and friction and, in doing so, considers movement practice as a means of producing counter-movements and choreographies. This objective will be explored during a three-week residency that will be held at the Conflictorium in Ahmedabad, India, between April 10-30, 2023. Apply by February 20, 2023. Visit: https://www.goethe.de/ins/in/en/kul/art/aus/ind.html

INDIA: Farm Studio International Artists Residency hosts artists through out year, with accommodations available for up to 6-12 residents at one time. Artists of all disciplines creating in any media are welcome to apply. Rolling deadline. Visit: https://farmingstudio.wordpress.com/art-residency/

INDIA: Omaggio Performing Company Goa is accepting applications for its residency program. Submissions will be accepted throughout the year. Visit: http://omaggioperforming.com/residencies/

ITALY: International Contemporary Live Arts Fest To Give Rise To A Human Regeneration will be June 5-18, 2023 in Napoli. Proposals may refer to one or more finished and already debuted works. Apply by February 4, 2023. Visit: https://www.teatringestazione.com/altofest/opencall_2023_en/

ITALY: An American nonprofit with a program in Italy, the Bogliasco Foundation awards one-month residential Fellowships to gifted artists and scholars of all ages and nationalities. During their month-long stay at the Center, Bogliasco Fellows are provided with living quarters, full board, and a separate private studio. Apply by March 1, 2023. Visit: http://bfny.org/en/home

ITALY: Kulturfactory Performing Arts Residency program runs year-long. Application to the Kulturfactory Residency are through email requested, should include examples of work and CV information, as well as details about what applicant artists hope to achieve during their residency. Rolling deadline. Visit: http://www.kultursciok.com/kulturfactory.html

JAPAN: Dance creators who are 35 or younger may apply for residency program at Dance Base Yokohama. Apply by February 10, 2023. Visit: https://dancebase.yokohama/info/6609

MEXICO: The Tijuana Cultural Center (CECUT) and Lux Boreal Dance Company announce the 11th edition of the TJ Night 4×4 Choreographic Contest, a challenging event where choreographers and performers display talent and dance skills on a four-by-four-feet stage. The contest will take place between March 27- 31, 2023. Apply by February 7, 2023. Visit: https://en.luxboreal.org/convocatoria4x4tjnight

NORWAY: Dansearena Nord, a regional center in Northern Norway, is seeking submissions from emerging modern dance choreographers for its artist-in-residence program. Apply by February 10, 2023. Visit: https://www.davvi.org/sok-stotte/artist-in-residence

NORWAY: Ice Hot Nordic Dance Platform is an event presenting both emerging and established names of Nordic contemporary dance and choreography to presenters, programmers, and other professionals worldwide.The aim of Ice Hot Nordic Dance partners is to increase international touring and other working opportunities of Nordic artists, and to help our communities to share ideas and connections. Apply by March 30, 2023. Visit: https://www.icehotnordicdance.com/registration-to-ice-hot-2022/

SINGAPORE: Fringe Festival 2024 is calling for applications. The work should be a contemporary, cutting edge and socially engaged piece that can be presented as a live or digital performance or a participatory event. We welcome proposals that use alternative models of presentations to include the disabled and immunocompromised, to encourage environmental sustainability, and/or to reduce air travel. Apply by March 3, 2023. Visit: https://2023.singaporefringe.com/Fringe-2024

SLOVENIA: An under30 Open Call for Italian, Central-European and Balkan projects of theatre, music, dance and multidisciplinary/circus, examined by a group of curators under30 who will select 9 projects to be showcased from May 18-21, 2023. Apply by February 15, 2023. Visit: https://www.mittelfest.org/en/mittelyoung/

SLOVENIA: 11th GIBANICA – Biennial of Slovenian Contemporary Dance Art will be held between February 23-25, 2023. Out of the 49 submitted applications, seven performances have been selected for the competition program by the selection team. Visit: https://gibanica.info/en/gibanica2023/

SPAIN: LAV Artist Residency is a project that aims to accommodate artistic creation in situ in the city of Granada, offering a space for creation and exhibition based on coexistence and community. The residence is proposed as a laboratory for experimental creation, as an exhibition and informative place. Duration of residency is from one month to two months. Apply by June 1, 2023. Visit: https://espaciolavadero.com/lav-artist-residency/

SWITZERLAND: Das Tanzfest Zentralschweiz 2023 is looking for short dance pieces of professional choreographers. The choreographers must be based in one of the regions of Central Switzerland: Luzern, Zug, Schwyz, Uri, Obwalden and Nidwalden or have a strong connection to at least one of the above mentioned regions of Central Switzerland. Apply by February 12, 2023. Visit: www.igtz.ch

TURKEY: Istanbul Fringe Festival is looking for contemporary and experimental works including dance, performance, and theater as well as site-specific works and workshops from artists from around the world. The festival will take place from September 16-23, 2023. Apply by March 19, 2023. Visit: www.fringeistanbul.com

TURKEY: SOLO Contemporary Dance Festival will run June 25 - 27, 2023. As participants in the festival, choreographers and dancers from around the world are requested to perform a solo piece which is new, original, imaginative, unique and which displays unusual achievement. Apply by May 2023. Visit: http://solodans.com

UK: Established in 2011, Central’s MA Choreography course is designed for professional choreographers who wish to develop their choreographic profile and professional skills. Applications for the January 2023 intake are now open. The program uses a rolling admissions system where the application will remain open for the next intake until all places have been filled. Visit: https://www.centralschoolofballet.co.uk/applications/ma-choreography-application-form/

UK: Space Clarence Mews in London is offering a residency program that is ideal for artists/companies/collectives working within and across all performance disciplines to push the boundaries of their own process and practice within a mutually supportive context. Both emerging and established artists/companies are welcome to apply. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis. Visit: https://spaceclarencemews.com/one-year-residency/

NEW CHOREOGRAPHY, WORLD PREMIERES, EVENTS, & NEWS:

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HOUSTON: Houston Ballet premieres Cathy Marston's Summer and Smoke, a co-production with American Ballet Theatre set to a commissioned score by Michael Daugherty. Inspired by Tennessee William’s eponymous poem, Summer and Smoke brings Marston’s unique perspective on storytelling, often inspired by works of literature. The world premiere will take place on March 9, 2023. Visit: https://www.houstonballet.org/seasontickets/pdps/2022-2023/summer--smoke/

MIAMI: Miami City Ballet’s Modern Masters is a program for lovers of modern and contemporary dance, featuring two seminal works by masters of the genre and two commissions from notable choreographers working in the art form today. The new works are by Pontus Lidberg and Amy Hall Garner. The performance will take place on February 10- March 5, 2023. Visit: https://www.miamicityballet.org/modernmasters

NEW YORK: Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal, returns to BAM for the first time in six years with a US premiere Água, which offers all audience members the pleasure of immersing themselves in Bausch’s utterly singular vision. The performance will take place between March 3- 19, 2023. Visit: https://www.bam.org/agua

NEW YORK: Parsons Dance returns to The Joyce with two world premieres, a new David Parsons and Rena Butler’s work, as well as beloved repertory classics. The performance will take place between March 15- 26, 2023. Visit: https://www.joyce.org/performances/parsons-dance

NEW YORK: For over 50 years, Cullberg has brought cutting-edge contemporary repertoire to Sweden. Celebrating its Joyce debut, the company brings Horse, the solos, a new work by Deborah Hay. Created while in lockdown, the dancers worked onsite in Stockholm with Hay directing its creation from her home in Austin, TX. The performance will take place between February 1-5, 2023 at Joyce Theater. Watch: https://youtu.be/0bNDG9dSp4g

NEW YORK: After choreographing 22 works for New York City Ballet since 2012, Resident Choreographer Justin Peck creates his first full-evening work for the Company, set to the music of Aaron Copland. Providing designs for this exploration of America today is the painter and sculptor Jeffrey Gibson, who has often drawn on his Choctaw-Cherokee heritage for inspiration. The performance will take until February 7, 2023. Visit: https://www.nycballet.com/season-and-tickets/winter-23/new-peck

PENNSYLVANIA: With Philadelphia Ballet’s New Works series, three renowned choreographers have been commissioned to conceptualize new works for the stage. This program features world premieres from recipient of the Danza Award for Best Choreography Andonis Foniadakis, Hope Boykin acclaimed Bessie Award Winner and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater member, and Resident Choreographer Juliano Nuñes. The premiere will take place on February 3, 2023. Visit: https://philadelphiaballet.org/2022-2023-season/forward-motion/

SAN FRANCISCO: The next@90 festival, by San Francisco Ballet, presents 9 world premiere ballets by 9 innovative, international choreographers, centering the innovation of the dance world. The festival features new works by Nicolas Blanc, Bridget Breiner, Val Caniparoli, Robert Garland, Yuka Oishi, Yuri Possokhov, Jamar Roberts, Danielle Rowe, and Claudia Schreier. The performance will take until February 11, 2023. Visit:  https://www.sfballet.org/tickets/2023-season/nextat90/

WYOMING: PNB presents world premiere works by Alejandro Cerrudo, Jessica Lang. The program also includes Savor Saunders’ theater-roving Wonderland. The world premiere will take place on March 17, 2023. Visit: https://www.pnb.org/season/boundless/

INTERNATIONAL:

AUSTRIA: Concerto, which received its world premiere in Lisbon in 1993 performed by the Lucinda Childs Dance Company, marks the first time that a work by this important American choreographer will be seen at the Vienna State Ballet. The program includes works by Jerome Robbins, Lucinda Childs, George Balanchine taking place at Wiener Staatsoper on February 13, 2023. Visit: https://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/en/season-tickets/detail/event/993466525-liebeslieder/

AUSTRIA: English National Ballet’ s Giselle by Akram Khan will have its Austrian Premiere on February 24, 2023. Khan shrewdly sets this narrative ballet in an abstract version of the present and probes the characters’ psychology with an assured touch. Famous for his multi-faceted, expressive style, the British choreographer with Bengali roots combines classical ballet with Indian Kathak dance, elements of industrial processes, court ceremonies and folk dances. Visit: https://www.festspielhaus.at/en/calendar/akram-khan-english-national-ballet-1#2022-12-07-15h00

CANADA: Ballet BC presents an evening featuring a new commission works. Vancouver-based Shay Kuebler and Czech choreographer Jiří Pokorný will each share brand new works exploring dichotomies within the human body and mind, and Israel’s Adi Salant—former Co-Artistic Director of the Batsheva Dance Company—will be back to share the powerfully elegant WHICH/ONE. The world premiere will take place on March 16, 2023. Visit: https://balletbc.com/performance/horizons/

CANADA: Rena Butler will create her first work for The National Ballet of Canada, a dynamic contemporary piece to celebrate the music of Grammy Award-winning composer John Adams for his 75th birthday. The program also includes works by David Dawson and George Balanchine. The world premiere will take place on March 3, 2023. Visit: https://national.ballet.ca/Productions/Anima-Animus

FINLAND: The world famous dancer Tamara Rojo, has created a new version of the iconic ballet, Raymonda. Set in the midst of the Crimean War, the production has been inspired by the story of the pioneer of nursing, Florence Nightingale, as well as other women who supported the war effort. The program is a co-production of the English National Ballet and the Finnish National Ballet. The Finnish premiere will take place on February 24, 2023. Visit: https://oopperabaletti.fi/en/repertoire-and-tickets/raymonda/

FRANCE: Held every March in the Hauts-de-France region in 20 to 30 cities, Le Grand Bain festival offers an immersion into the realm of choreography, both large and more intimate. Around forty theatre and event partners open up a range of aesthetic experiences to around 10,000 people. The 2023 edition of the festival will take place from March 7-31, 2023. Visit: https://www.ednetwork.eu/news/legymnase-legrandbainfestival

FRANCE: Both trained at the Batsheva Dance Company under Ohad Naharin, Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber present Pit, their first creation for the Paris Opera Ballet. The premiere will take place on March 17, 2023. Visit: https://www.operadeparis.fr/en/season-22-23/ballet/bobbi-jene-smith

GERMANY: anzhaus nrw invited several choreographic perspectives on techno and rave culture that negotiate techno as well as his various sub-genres and dance practices. From the beginnings within Black Detroit communities and with Kraftwerk in Düsseldorf, they look at techno and rave as cultural practices between utopian and queer communities, future dystopia, and neoliberal appropriation. The festival will take place between February 3-26, 2023. Visit: https://tanzhaus-nrw.de/en/specials/series/raving-choreographies-2023

ITALY: Teatro Alla Scala’s program includes world premiere by Philippe Kratz, who plunges into Egyptian mythology to their ascend towards the light, Anima Animus by David Dawson, Bella Figura by Jiří Kylián, and Nacho Duato’s Remanso. The performance will take place between February 3-9, 2023. Visit: https://www.teatroallascala.org/en/season/2022-2023/ballet/dawson-duato-kratz-kylian.html

JAPAN: National Ballet of Tokyo presents Dance to the Future, which includes new works choreographed and performed by company dancers. The performance will take place between March 24- 26, 2023. Visit: https://www.nntt.jac.go.jp/dance/dtf/

NETHERLANDS: NDT presents a full length evening by Marco Goecke. With In the Dutch Mountains Goecke contemplates the absurdities of life and questions our sense of belonging, familiarity and becoming. The premiere will take place on February 9, 2023. Visit: https://www.ndt.nl/en/agenda/in-the-dutch-mountains/

NETHERLANDS: NDT2 presents world premier by a French choreographer Noé Soulier . The program also includes Johan Inger’s Out Of Breath and Crystal Pite’s Ten Duets On A Theme Of Rescue. The premiere will take place on March 16, 2023. Visit: https://www.ndt.nl/en/agenda/climb-the-sky/

NORWAY: Carte Blanche will open its spring season in 2023 at the National Opera & Ballett in Oslo with BIRGET; Ways to deal, ways to heal, a collaborative work between choreographer Elle Sofe Sara and visual artist Joar Nango. The title is based on the Sámi expression Birget, which means coping and surviving in a changing environment. The world premiere will take place on February 9, 2023. Visit: https://carteblanche.no/en/shows-and-events/birget-ways-to-deal-ways-to-heal/

UK: Pam Tanowitz returns to the Royal Ballet with a world premiere set to Grammy-nominated composer Anna Clyne’s Breathing Statues. The programme showcases Tanowitz’s unique modern sensibility deconstructing balletic convention. The world premiere will take place on February 5, 2023. Visit: https://www.roh.org.uk/tickets-and-events/everyone-keeps-me-new-pam-tanowitz-details

UK: Acclaimed masters of mask-performance, Familie Flöz return to the London International Mime Festival for the first time since 2016, with their trademark, wordless mix of sharp observation, sentiment and humour. UK premiere will take place at Sadler’s Wells on February 2, 2023. Visit: https://www.sadlerswells.com/whats-on/london-international-mime-festival-familie-floz-feste/

UK: Dance Me is an exclusive creation inspired by Montreal-based poet, artist and songwriter, Leonard Cohen. Approved by Cohen during his lifetime, and under the artistic direction of Louis Robitaille and dramaturgy of Eric Jean, this riveting homage to the famed artist evokes the grand cycles of existence in five seasons, as described in Cohen’s deeply reflective music and poems. UK premiere will take place on February 7, 2023 at Sadler’s Wells. Visit: https://www.sadlerswells.com/whats-on/leonard-cohens-dance-me/

UK: In a London premiere, South African choreographer Dada Masilo embraces the traditional dance of Botswana in a work inspired by Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. Combining the European heritage of this monumental work with the uniquely rhythmic and expressive movements of Tswana, the traditional dance of Botswana. London Premier will take place at Sadler’s Wells on February 24, 2023. Visit: https://www.sadlerswells.com/whats-on/dada-masilo-the-sacrifice/

COMPETITIONS:

INTERNATIONAL:

DENMARK: The Copenhagen International Choreography Competition (CICC) is a platform to discover and promote emerging contemporary choreographers. The application for CICC 2023 is now open to choreographers under 40 years of age. Apply by April 30, 2023. Visit: https://www.cph-icc.dk/conditions-of-entry

GERMANY: Choreography 37 is now accepting applications. All participants, choreographers and dancers, ought to have professional training. Choreographers must be 39 or younger. The competition is open to any kind of style. Evaluation is based exclusively on imaginative use of space and time, the realisation of an idea, and its transfer onto the performers. The duration of the performance, have to be between 5 and 12 minutes. Apply by April 9, 2023. Visit: https://choreography-hannover.de/en/news/

NETHERLANDS: The purpose of AmsterDans is to provide an opportunity to learn from and inspire each other. Competition for Emerging Choreographers is for groups (2 or more dancers) and any dance genre is possible. Send a max 3 line description of the theme of the choreography to info@amsterdans.org. The competition will take place on March 11&12, 2023. Visit: https://amsterdans.org/competition-2023/

NETHERLANDS: On June 22-23, 2023, international dance talent from all over the world will be in Rotterdam for the fifth edition of the Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition (RIDCC). The competition is the only annual dance event for choreographic talent in which a duet competition is the centrepiece. Apply by March 12, 2023. Visit: https://www.ridcc.com/event/

SLOVENIA: The aim of the 14. International Competition of Young Dance Creators OPUS1 is to promote contemporary dance and discover fresh talents. Not to push for competitiveness, but rather to foster creativity of young dance creators born between 1999 and 2007. The competition will take place on April 8, 2023. Apply by February 20, 2023. Visit: https://www.jskd.si/ples/prireditve_ples/opus/opus_23/english_opus_23.htm

SPAIN: Choreographic Competition 10 Sentidos has established itself as a benchmark among choreography competitions in Europe for emerging creators on the national and international scene. The Festival team selects 8 finalists in each edition. Apply by February 12, 2023. Visit: https://www.festival10sentidos.com/en/

TRENDING: When Dancing is Being [Site-] Specific

When we enter any space, enclosed or outdoors, we experience and interact in various ways with the space surrounding us. A choreographer’s physical involvement, movement engagement and artistic response to particular non-proscenium dance spaces is widely known as a site-specific performance approach.  

Moving and dancing in the interior of a gallery, a church, or a warehouse, all of which have determined purposes, may lead to vastly different kinesthetic engagement than dancing in a dance studio, a ballroom, or a disco club. A creative choreographic response might also emerge in smaller, confined spaces such as doorways, windows, and staircases. There are also open exterior locations to move and dance in, such as streets, plazas, railroads, train stations, and parks – small and large, local and national.  

The choreographer’s engagement with a site and various improvised or structured approaches might result in making-sense of the site through dynamic attraction, interaction, integration, and collaboration among the space, the choreographer, the performers, and the observers.

As striking example and a artistic marker for outstanding work in this genres, we refer here to the choreographer Heidi Duckler, who over 37 years has created hundreds of site-specific works for her dance company> she recently was featured in the prestigious publication Fjord Review, link below: https://fjordreview.com/heidi-duckler-dance/?utm_source=The+Dance+Edit&utm_campaign=aadb0fff6b-TheDanceEdit20201119_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_71d672be74-aadb0fff6b-69727214

CINEMA ON CHOREOGRAPHY & CHOREOGRAPHERS:

White Noise (2022), written and directed by Noah Baumbach, with choreography by David Neumann. The new film adaptation of Don DeLillo's postmodern novel White Noise. College professor Jack Gladney and his family's comfortable suburban life is upended when a nearby chemical leak causes "The Airborne Toxic Event," releasing a noxious black cloud over the region that forces the Gladney family to evacuate. The film ends with a big, splashy, totally unexpected dance number  in a supermarket (Los Angeles Times). Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJblPY5hVHI

BOOKS ON CHOREOGRAPHY & CHOREOGRAPHERS:

On Site: Methods for Site-Specific Performance Creation, by Stephan Koplowitz,  Oxford University Press, 2022. On Site: Methods for Site-Specific Performance Creation is a practical book for artists and students at all levels who create or are learning to create making sited dance works. Author Stephan Koplowitz covers specific, hands-on strategies for an array of issues to consider before, during, and after embarking upon a project, including site selection, procuring permits, designing the audience experience, researching and exploring a site for inspiration and content, differences in urban and natural environments, definitions of key production roles, building effective collaborations with artists, and techniques to generate site-inspired production elements such as sound/music, costumes, lighting, and media. He also offers helpful chapters on project budgeting, contract negotiation, fundraising, marketing, documentation, and assessment.

Based on the author's career spanning over 30 years of site-specific creation, the book also includes the voices of over 24 other artists, producers, and writers who share their perspectives and experiences on the many topics covered. A guide designed to make site work practical, intentional, and attainable, On Site will become a well-worn reference for anyone interested in the creative process and discovering the power of site-specific works. Link: https://www.amazon.com/Site-Methods-Site-Specific-Performance-Creation/dp/019751524X

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