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Open call for the On_Bodies Dance & Performance Arts Festival

by sergio vaccaro
Photo: Sergio Vaccaro

A long-standing local festival enters a new course this year, welcoming a new chapter into its story by taking on a new name. After a successful 13-year cycle, Dance Gate Lefkosia-Cyprus and Dance House Lefkosia have changed the name of their annual festival. The NO_BODY festival transforms into the On_Bodies festival, bringing revitalised energy for both audiences and artists from various fields of performance.

The new festival is scheduled for October 16 and 17 and an open call for artists has been launched. “We welcome applications that embrace the multidimensional presence of the body both as an artistic medium and as a concept, and invite artists from the fields of dance and performing arts to send their proposals focusing on the body, on movement and embodiment,” organisers say.

Until the deadline on June 25, each artist can apply with a new proposal or with a performance that premiered in 2020 in one of the two categories. Bodies on Stage will include 20-25 minutes pieces that will be presented on the main stage of the Dance House. “Here,” say organisers, “we are interested in how the conditions of the stage (distance from the audience, the technical support, the black linoleum, the theatrical setting) affect and empower the body in performance.” The selected proposals will receive technical support for the performance and 10 hours of free rehearsal time.

The Bodies in the Garden category invites solo works of a maximum of five minutes, influenced from the previous years’ category MOVE5. The pieces will be presented in the garden/outside area of the Dance House and so the performances should incorporate how the environment, sound and scenery of the garden enrich the short performance without any extra technical support. The selected proposals will receive five hours of free rehearsal time.

Each application form should include a company name, a contact person and email, a telephone number and a short CV of a maximum of 200 words. In addition, the application should state the title of the proposed piece, which of the categories it falls under and describe the concept in under 300 words. Collaborators, videos from previous works and technical requirements can be added to the email to [email protected].

 

On Bodies

Open call for artists for dance and performance arts festival. Deadline: June 25. Send application to [email protected]

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