Dance and choreographic competitions

With great pleasure we would like to inform you that the forthcoming
RUDOLF NUREYEV           

INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION Edition 6
will be held on March 3 – 8, 2010 in BUDAPEST, Hungary.

The competition is open to all professional dancers.
The recommended age is between 15 and 27 years old.

Deadline: January 31, 2010
First prize USD 5000

For more information please see our official website:

www.nureyevibc.com

Roland Bokor                                                                                                                              Founder, Director-General of the RNIBC
rbokor@nureyevibc.com
management@nureyevibc.com

The SAZKA Prize is the most prestigious acknowledgement of creative work in the realm of contemporary dance in the Czech Republic. It will be awarded for the ninth time by SAZKA a. s. in direct co-operation with Tanec Praha civic association, an organization which co-ordinates the work of the jury as well as the public presentation of concerned artistic works.

Every year SAZKA a. s. supports the artist who creates the most interesting piece with a sum of 400.000 CZK netto intended for the support of the creation of a new piece by the awarded artist (or more artists – authors of one piece). Moreover, the awarded artist gains the opportunity to create and present their new piece at Ponec theatre for free as well as special financial support for publicity, advertising and printing of publicity materials. The above mentioned sum is aimed at covering the expense necessary for the creation of a new piece, such as royalties for artists (for rehearsals and opening show, or even subsequent shows), costumes, scenic design, music, choreography, production, etc. The award provides the artist with the possibility of using the money not only for the creation of a new piece but also for repeated presentations of the piece so that it could be seen by as large public as possible.

Everyone who wants to aspire for the SAZKA Prize has to present the organizers of Czech Dance Platform with a competing piece. The piece has to be presented early enough for the expert jury to be able to see it at time, that is, from the date of the announcement of the competition until December 2009 at the best, until February 15, 2010 at the latest. The piece will then be either recommended for or disqualified from the programme of Czech Dance Platform 2010 on the basis of expert consideration of Czech members of the jury.

Czech Dance Platform stands for the second round of the competition. It will be heldat various Prague venues from April 16 to 20, 2010. The pieces competing in the second round will be judged by an extended jury composed Czech and foreign experts on dance as well as other genres.

SAZKA Prize is intended for professional artists in the domain, that is, even for students of higher years of artistic schools focused on authorial creation (Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts, Duncan Centre conservatory).

Each choreographer can only apply with one piece. The piece must not have been applied with in the preceding years of the SAZKA Prize competition.

The International Jury (composed of at least 7 experts) will watch all the pieces included in the Czech Dance Platform programme. The winners of SAZKA Prize and The Interpretation Prize chosen by the jury will be announced during the 22st edition of TANEC PRAHA festival.

If you aspire for being included in the competition, please fill in the attached application form and send it to the address of Tanec Praha civic association, Jirsíkova 4, 186 00 Praha 8, or via fax to 222 319 576 or via e-mail to office@tanecpraha.cz.

Deadline for submission of application: 1. 12. 2009 at the latest!

Deadline for the life presentation of the piece in front of the jury: 15. 2. 2010 at the latest!

Everyone interested in participation in SAZKA Prize for “discovery in dance” should, in their own interest, inform Tanec Praha civic association early enough about all dates of public presentation of the applied piece so that all the members of the jury could have the opportunity of seeing the piece until February 15, 2010!!! Any piece that will not provide for this opportunity will be disqualified from the Czech Dance Platform programme. Including any piece that was only provided in the form of a DVD recording and not live is possible only under special and well explained circumstances.

The Czech Dance Association in collaboration with the Czech I.T.I. Centre at UNESCO, with the financial support of the Ministry of Cultur of the Czech Republic, the Czech Literary Fund and the Artist Life Foundation
is ANNOUNCING

3^rd INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION, BRNO 2009 as a part of the Competition Show of Dance Artists in Czech Republic

Competition will take place on December 10 – 13, 2009 in Mahen and Janáček Theatre in Brno.
More detailed information about the conditions, organization, obligatory repertoire and also the application form you will find (bouth in czech and in english) on www.profibalet-tanec.cz.

Attedants fill in the application form and send it together with the photo (latest 15. 10. 2009) to: Taneční sdružení ČR, Celetná 17, 110 00  Praha 1. Please note the envelop COMPETITION. You can also send the application form to z.prokes@narodni-divadlo.cz.

Anlässlich des 100. Geburtstags von Kurt Jooss, Mitbegründer der Folkwangschule und Gründer des Folkwang Tanzstudios, im Jahre 2001, wurde die Verleihung eines nach ihm benannten Tanzförderpreis für junge Choreographen ins Leben gerufen.

Die mit 6.000 € dotierte Auszeichnung wird von der Stiftung Anna Markard (geb. Jooss), Herman Markard und der Stadt Essen international ausgeschrieben und alle drei Jahre verliehen.

Bewerben konnten sich Choreographen, die professional arbeiten, aber noch nicht arriviert sind.
Die Bewerber unterliegen weder einer stilistischen Beschränkung noch einer Altersbegrenzung.

Der nächste Kurt-Jooss-Preis wird im Jahr 2010 verliehen.  
Anmeldeschluß ist der 28. Oktober 2009.

Die Teilnahmebedingungen mit den Bewerbungsunterlagen und dem Anmeldeformular können über u. a. Kontaktadresse angefordert werden.

Die Jury setzt sich zusammen aus:

Anna Markard, die Choreographen Nils Christie (NL) und Martin Schläpfer, ballettmainz (D), sowie Prof. Dr. Oliver Scheytt, Geschäftsführer Ruhr 2010 GmbH und Dr. Patricia Stöckemann, Dramaturgin des Bremer Tanztheaters

http://www.essen.de/Deutsch/Kultur_und_Bildung/Institutionen/Kulturbuero/Kurt_Jooss/Ausschreibung_Kurt_Jooss.asp

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In the Autumn of 2010 the Kurt-Jooss-Prize will be awarded for the fourth time.

The Kurt-Jooss-Prize is sponsored by the Anna and Hermann Markard Foundation, Amsterdam, together with the City of Essen.

The prize is endowed with 6000 Euro. The Kurt-Jooss-Prize is intended to encourage and foster choreographers not yet fully established in their profession, there are no restrictions as regards style or age.

The jury will include Anna Markard together with choreographers Nils Christe (NL) and Martin Schläpfer, ballettmainz (D), also Prof. Dr. Oliver Scheytt, Essen
and Dr. Patricia Stöckemann, dance writer, Bremen.

Entry requirements and application forms are available through: Kulturburo Essen, Hollestrasse 3, D-45121 Essen
e-mail: alfons.wafner@kulturbuero.essen.de
Application without the completed application form will not be accepted.
Application deadline: 28. Oktober 2009