Open Call: NEW CHOREOGRAPHERS FESTIVAL 7 – THE LAB

For a seventh year, Onassis Stegi organizes the New Choreographers Festival. However, it is the first time that the festival is preceded by a series of meetings, workshops and masterclasses planned for the occasion.

The New Choreographers Festival – The lab introduces new creators and original works to the audience, acting at the same time as a nonstandard lab, an explosive exchange of ideas, a workshop of sharing ideas and practices, which will take place from November 2019 to January 2020, aiming at the intersection, development and promotion of original methodologies.

Stegi seeks to make every artist, researcher and viewer to shift, network, open up to what they do not know and at the same time to delineate, broaden, substantiate and share what they already know. In one word, to transform.

The New Choreographers Festival will serve as the ground for a series of such transformative and surprising meetings, where the young generation of choreographers and not least the audience will engage in an open dialogue with art, society and the present day. Curation will be done by an international committee of professionals on contemporary dance and performance such as Vallejo Gantner, Asgerdur Gunnarsdottir, Linda Kapetanea, Androniki Marathaki, Alexander Graham Roberts and Sanjoy Roy.

The New Choreographers Festival – The lab will be curated by an international committee of choreographers and professionals in the field of contemporary dance, somehow passing on the torch to the younger generation of choreographers and, at the same time, supporting its research, as well as its practice.

The 6 members of this international committee are Vallejo Gantner, Asgerdur Gunnarsdottir, Linda Kapetanea, Androniki Marathaki, Alexander Graham Roberts and Sanjoy Roy.

During the 3-month period of process, and also after the festival, new choreographers that will be chosen on presenting their work at the festival will have the opportunity to participate in a series of special workshops and masterclasses with Passinho Carioca from Brazil, Euripides Laskaridis, Androniki Marathaki, Dimitris Papaioannou and RootlessRoot.

The Open Call is addressed to early-career choreographers, dance companies and other creators of contemporary artistic practices based on the concept of dance, regardless of age and ethnicity.

We encourage the creation and presentation of works of expanded dramaturgy, based on hybrid models of research, methodology and practices, flexible in their presentation, in an open dialogue with the fluid boundaries between dance and performance, as well as with the present day.

The applicants are invited to propose –according to their interests– innovative expressive means, interdisciplinary aesthetic vocabularies, conceptual and performative practices, original methodologies, focusing on personal as well as collective themes – corresponding to the modern global reality.

The proposed works by the creators/companies must be in progress, in any stage of the creative process, from the stage of initial conception to that of the development, elaboration and rehearsals, as long as they have never been presented before in their final form.

The artists progress in the proper environment, through education, learning, commitment, but also opposition to their object.

Stegi offers time and space for research through the extension of the preparation of each production, unforeseen meetings, networking and support of the creators’ personal research, according to their special characteristics.

In particular, Stegi provides:

• Workshops, masterclasses and meetings with eminent professionals of the field.
• Support in terms of production, dramaturgy and technical specificities.

Presentation of their works at venues in (Main Stage, Upper Stage, Exhibition Hall -1, Foyer) and outside Stegi.

**Prerequisites for the participation in the New Choreographers Festival: the creators and companies must not have previously presented their work in it, they must be at the beginning of their choreographic career, they must be available for research and rehearsals, and also to participate in the creative meetings and workshops planned for the occasion during the months November-December 2019 and January 2020.**

**The creators that are based outside Athens should cover their travel and subsistence expenses in Athens during the research process and rehearsals (these expenses can be part of the total budget).**

• Submission of a proposal does not guarantee its inclusion in the 7th Young Choreographers Festival program
• The OCC is not obligated to provide explanations for the rejection of a proposal