Partners

Performing Arts Hub Norway (PAHN) is a national competence centre aimed at promoting professional performing arts domestically and internationally, with emphasis on the independent performing arts scene. Performing Arts Hub Norway acts as a performing arts advisor for The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and manages the Ministry's travel grant system for Norwegian artists performing abroad. This institution hosts a project Performing Criticism Globally (PCG)focused on organizing literary workshops, network meetings, seminars and debates about performing arts criticism in Norway and internationally. PCG is programmed by critics and writers Hild Borchgrevink and Anette Therese Pettersen.

Taneční aktuality o. p. s. (TA) is a non-profit organisation that encompasses multiple projects such as an established webzine called Taneční aktuality.cz, or Czech Dance News (with Mr. Josef Bartoš as editor-in-chief) and a printed yearly issue called Special Edition of Taneční aktuality (edited by Ms. Petra Dotlačilová). Since 2016, it has run a countrywide online dance database, www.databazetance.cz (managed by Ms. Daniela Machová), and, in the last three years, it has also played host to debates on dance criticism in the frame of the project Focused on Dance (supervised by Lucie Hayashi).

 

Festivals

MOVE Fest Ostrava is an international festival of contemporary dance, physical theatre and new circus organized by MOVE Ostrava, z.s. The 8th edition will be held in October 2021 in downtown Ostrava. The main topic of the 2021 edition is environmental awareness and possible approaches in artistic creation. 

https://www.movefest.cz

KoresponDance is an international festival of contemporary dance, physical theatre and new circus organized by Centre for Choreographic Research SE.S.TA that resides in the castle of Žďár nad Sázavou. It is the largest site-specific festival of contemporary dance in the Czech Republic, the only contemporary dance festival in the Vysočina region and, above all, a festival with a long-term commitment to work with the public.

https://www.korespondance.cz/

Ranvedans has been organised annually as the first contemporary dance festival in the South of Norway since its launch in 2010. Having begun as a series of walking-tour performances, the festival program has since flourished and now encompasses events hosted in downtown Kristiansand over a whole week.

https://www.ravnedans.com/

Oktoberdans in Bergen is a biennial festival with solid international recognition, unique in its genre in Norway. With its having performed the function of showcasing works of Norwegian artists on the international market, it has played a vital role in the spread of Norwegian performing arts abroad.

http://bit-teatergarasjen.no/festivaler/oktoberdans-2020/