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Application deadline : November 30th, 2023
July 5-6-7, 2024
The Festival
The Venue
Application guidelines
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Schedule
The Festival
About the Festival:
The International Choreographic Festival of Blois (Blois Danse) will take place in Blois, France, from July 4th to 13th, 2024.
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The Festival aims to bring the art of dance to the city of Blois, France and to democratize this art form by offering performances, dance short-film screenings, master classes, performance workshops and community outreach events.
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The professional performances will take place on July 5-6-7, 2024.
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The previous editions of the festival received a tremendous success and this new edition is strongly awaited by many people.
This festival is a platform for companies (both emerging and established) to produce their work and network with other international artists and potential supporters and programmers.
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The goal of this festival is:
1. to offer professional and high quality dance performances and other dance events to the citizens of Blois, the Loir-et-Cher and the Region Centre Val-de-Loire.
2. to enable foreign professional dance companies to perform in France in an historical and renowned theatre
3. to present a wide range of dance styles and to democratize this art form by introducing the audiences to these styles
Opportunities and exposure for companies :
Great exposure & media coverage for the companies invited to perform. Previous editions included press/TV and radio coverage
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Theatre programmers/producers are invited to attend the show, which we hope can lead to further opportunities for the companies
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Gala evening organized with sponsors, politics, press and theatre programmers, which offers an opportunity for companies to network
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Each company has the opportunity to teach up to 2 master classes in the technique of its choice during the festival and will receive 50% of the revenue created from the master classes
Only 6 companies are selected to perform. This assures great visibility to each company. Companies can rely on the staff and volunteers to help organize their trip to France and to make the best of their participation in the festival (for example with logistic support, translation or any question the companies may have before/during/after the festival). We're here for you !
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Each company taking part in the festival receives :
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200€/dancer
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up to 100€/dancer to support travelling costs
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Hotel + breakfasts for all dancers
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Pictures from the performances
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Press coverage (previous editions of the festival included written press/TV/Radio)
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Gala evening with sponsors, press and politics, theatre programmers
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Free pass to attend festival events
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Opportunity to teach 2 master classes
The Venue
Performances will be presented on July 5-6-7, 2024 at the most prestigious theatre of the city of Blois : la Halle aux Grains
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Located in the heart of the city, la Halle aux Grains is a magnificent historical theatre with a large stage and a great number of seats.
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630 seats
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Stage : 195 m2
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Renowned national theatre
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Located in the heart of the city
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Application guidelines
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The festival is looking for 6 dance companies to present their work at the festival.
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All dance techniques are welcome. Both emerging and established companies/choreographers can apply.
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3 different shows will be presented. The program of the performances will be different each day and companies will have the opportunity to perform at 2 shows and present pieces no longer than 25 minutes.
​We ask each company to perform a different piece at each show (you will show 2 different pieces during the festival)​​
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==> Companies/artists MUST apply with a minimum of 2 pieces.
==> Please note that the maximum duration of each piece is 25 minutes. We will not take longer pieces into consideration.
==> Pieces must be suitable for all audiences (no nudity)
==> Maximum of 4 dancers per company
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5 dance companies will be selected by the Festival team and 1 company will be selected by the audience, through a voting process on instagram.
apply here :
Application deadline : November 30th, 2023
Schedule
Provisional schedule below. Schedule is subject to change based on the length of the pieces that will be presented at the festival
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We ask the companies to arrive either Tuesday July 2nd or Wednesday July 3rd.
All companies check out on Monday July 8th.
Wednesday 03/07
Thursday 04/07
Friday 05/07
Saturday 06/07
Sunday 07/07
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Applications for the 2024 edition are currently closed.
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We will come back to all applicants as soon as possible with the results of this year's open call.
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Please accept our apologies for the delay in coming back to you. This year, we received an extensive number of applications that did not respect the Festival guidelines. This made it very difficult for the jury to respect the timetable announced in the open call as it occurred a great extra amount of work for the jury to deal with these applications.
Because of these delays and the timetable we have to respect, this year there will be exceptionally no online competition, which was originally planned in order to select one of the invited dance companies.
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Thank you for your understanding and we urge all applicants to read the guidelines of all opportunities they apply to BEFORE applying, in order to avoid these kind of issues.