**SOLO DANCE CONTEST 2024**

  
Klub ŻAK, the cultural institution of the City of Gdansk, announces an Open Call for the international SOLO DANCE CONTEST 2024 in the field of contemporary dance. The contest will be organized from the 26th to 30th of August 2024 in the Klub ŻAK within the 16th Gdańsk Dance Festival. It will be 13th edition of the competition, thatuntil 2011 was known as the Baltic Movement Contest. The competition is aimed at Polish and international professional dancers, who are at least 18 years old.

  
The contest aims to support contemporary dancers and promotion of broadly understood contemporary dance. The Contest is open for dancers of contemporary dance who have a documented artistic activity or/and are professional dancers with a diploma of dance studies.

  
Participation in the contest is permitted for solos, the premiere of which took place between 1.01.2022 and 13.05.2023 or prepared especially for the Contest. The solo should not be shorter than 5 minutes and no longer than 20 minutes. One dancer can submit a maximum of two solos.

Submitted works will be judged by a preselection commitee. Shortlisted solos will be shown during the main competition and judged by an international jury of acomplished dancers and experts in the field of contemporary dance. The total prize pool is 6,000 EUR. During the competition, an audience prize of 500 EUR will be awarded, and the remaining 5,500 EUR will be distributed by the jury among the winners.

  
**Costs of stay and travel for competition participants**

These provisions of the Terms and Conditions of § 7 apply only to dancers qualified for the Competition who reside outside Gdańsk, Sopot and Gdynia.

  
The Organizer will cover the travel costs of dancers qualified for the Competition according to the following principles:

  
* Polish citizens shall be reimbursed the costs of return trip within Poland, on the basis of submitted originals of train or bus tickets. (The cost of traveling by car will not be reimbursed).
* Polish citizens residing outside Poland and citizens of other countries will receive reimbursement of the cost of a return trip on the basis of submitted tickets in total amount of maximum 180 euro per person. (The cost of traveling by car or local transport will not be reimbursed).
* The cost of traveling by public transport, taxi and car will not be reimbursed.
* The Organizer will provide all participants of the Competition with accommodation in hostel rooms throughout the duration of the Competition, starting from the day preceiding the first day of the contest.
* The organizer will provide 1 meal a day to all dancers who qualify for the Competition.

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