The European Union National Institutes of Culture Open Call for Proposals

The Silesian Dance Theatre Open Call for Proposals

Deadline: February 29th 2012

The Silesian Dance Theatre in cooperation with European Union National Institutes of Culture (EUNIC) is seeking emerging, young artists from all over EU with dance works to be presented as part of the European Festival of Contemporary Dance, Bytom and Kraków, July 2nd – July 6th, 2012.

• The work must be between 15 and 30 minutes in duration
• The work must be set for no more than 4 dancers
• The choreographer can’t be older than 35 years
• The DVD must be a recording of a public performance
• The work must have been made in Europe
• The work must have simple technical requirements
• You must be resident in Europe
• Work by post-graduate but not under-graduate students

How to apply

Please send an application that include:

1) Filled application form (from Silesian Dance Theatre’s website www.stt.art.pl )
2) Video material documenting previous performances – recorded on DVD Video with a description containing the title, date and place of the performances
3) 5 photographs documenting previous performances, with a description containing the title, date, place and author of the photographs

Applications are reviewed by an international Selection Committee that includes dance and performing art leaders.
EUNIC encourages proposals from artists based within EU and offers a strong international network of associates as a continued benefit of the presentation.

We try to be flexible and sometimes exceptions can be made, so don’t hesitate to contact us with any question

For more information please contact theatre manager – Anna Wróblowska:
e-mail: a.wroblowska@stt.art.pl phone: +48 32 281 8253
Proposals with applications must be submitted by post to the following address:

Anna Wróblowska
Silesian Dance Theatre
Ul. Zeromskiego 27
41-902 Bytom, Poland
(with note European Festival of Contemporary Dance)

Note: The organizers must receive the applications by 29th February 2012.
The materials submitted will not be returned.

The list of artists invited to participate in the festival will be announced at www.stt.art.pl

About the European Union National Institutes of Culture EUNIC Kraków
The European Union National Institutes for Culture, EUNIC, is a partnership of public organizations working in international cultural relations and cooperation. The members, based in European Union member states, operate at "arms length" from their national governments. Collectively they work in over 150 countries.
In Krakow EUNIC is represented by: Goethe-Institut Krakau, Institut français de Cracovie,
Istituto Italiano di Cultura Cracovia, Österreichisches Kulturforum Krakau, NordicHouse Kraków, Instituto Cervantes.
More on the EUNIC may be obtained from http://www.eunic-online.eu/eunic-members

The Silesian Dance Theatre
The Silesian Dance Theatre is a public institution dedicated to the development of contemporary dance created in 1991 by Jacek Luminski. The dance company that operates under the same name is a core of the institution.
For more information about the Silesian Dance Theatre please visit http://www.stt.art.pl

About the Festival
The main focus of the European Festival of Contemporary Dance is to offer a platform for presentation of dance works from young artists resident to EU; to provoke a discussion and exchange of ideas between artists and dancegoers, artists and dance writers, and between artists themselves in a particular situation provided by postindustrial environment of Silesia and juxtaposed with historic architecture of the city of Krakow. The European Festival of Contemporary Dance emerges as an integral part of the Annual International Contemporary Dance Conference and Performance Festival in Bytom
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Contact: Anna Wróblowska, e-mail: a.wroblowska@stt.art.pl phone: +48 (0)32 281 8253