MOVING BALKANS: OPEN CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IN CHOREOGRAPHY SEMINAR IN BUCHAREST
April 7–12, 2025, Bucharest
Do you have at least two years of professional experience in contemporary dance and are interested in enhancing your skills and meeting colleagues from abroad? We invite you to apply for a six-day choreography seminar in Bucharest, organized within the framework of the European project Moving Balkans.
Application Deadline: December 29, 2024, 23:59 CET
Application Form: https://forms.gle/z8Cdq48GhdWieTxp9
The seminar will select 27 young dance artists from Bulgaria, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Albania, Greece, North Macedonia, Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, and Romania.
The National Dance Center Bucharest (organizer) will cover the costs for the seminar, travel, and accommodation.
Stay in Bucharest: 6 days (April 7–12, 2025 // travel dates April 6–13, 2025). Before the seminar, you will be invited to participate in two introductory Zoom meetings (dates to be confirmed).
ABOUT THE SEMINAR:
The program is designed as a laboratory/masterclasses, held daily from April 7 to 12, from 10:00 to 16:00. It will include group meetings and classes in interdisciplinary techniques, composition, textual and visual dramaturgy, and artistic-research processes.
TEACHERS:
- Patricia Apergi (Greece) – Choreographer, Director of the Aerites Dance Company
- Rita Góbi (Hungary) – Dancer, Choreographer, Teacher, Founder of Góbi Dance Company
- Joanna Leśniewska (Poland) – Freelance Choreographer, Visual Dramaturg, Light and Space Composer, Performance Creator
- Mădălina Dăn (Romania) – Choreographer, Performer, Teacher
- Simona Deaconescu (Romania) – Choreographer and Filmmaker working in various genres and formats
During the seminar, selected participants will have the opportunity to attend evening lectures-performances presented by the instructors and engage in professional networking.
The choreography seminar in Bucharest will offer young choreographers tools for the development and deepening of their artistic practices and knowledge exchange in a multicultural environment. Key activities include sharing evolving and collaborative work on creating performances using multidisciplinary, technical, contextual, theoretical, or conceptual composition strategies, as well as interdisciplinary and practice-oriented approaches to composition research for artists.
OUTCOMES:
The seminar will support participants in using various composition tools, strategies, and techniques in their individual work and collaborative projects, linked to broader contexts of composition strategies and tactics, contributing to their artistic development through insights from other disciplines and approaches. This training will help young choreographers gain more experience in the process and collaboration with different professionals when their work is in the process of staging and performance.
ELIGIBILITY:
We invite applicants with at least two years of stage experience as performers, who are also emerging choreographers with at least one publicly presented piece.
There are no age restrictions.
Applicants must have permanent residence in one of the following countries: Bulgaria, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Albania, Greece, North Macedonia, Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, or Romania.
Please send your CV in English, one video of a representative piece (full-length or at least 15 minutes / link from Vimeo or YouTube), and a motivation letter detailing your artistic interests, future plans, projects, and proposals.
Application Deadline: December 29, 2024, 23:59 CET
Selection Notification: January 17, 2025
About Moving Balkans:
Moving Balkans is a new European project bringing together dance organizations from the Balkans. The platform’s mission is to elevate contemporary dance in the region and position it competitively in Europe. Through a regional partnership network, showcases, artist mobility initiatives, seminars, joint creations, and capacity-building activities, we aim to strengthen dance professionals and increase awareness of the vibrant dance scene in the Balkans.
The project is carried out with the financial support of the EU’s Creative Europe program and the National Culture Fund.
