klub żak: solo dance contest at gdańsk dance festival 2024

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.