February 2024 will be an exciting month for all dance enthusiasts. Three European Dance platforms are taking place across the continent presenting the most thrilling and interesting shows from different national dance scenes. Conveniently scheduled one after the other not only professionals, networkers and audiences from all over the world, regional or local will have the opportunity to experience the best of European Contemporary Dance. Travelling southbound from the far North the 2024 Festival schedule starts in Oslo, continues in Germany and ends in Switzerland.

Baltic Dance Platform

9 to 11 February in Riga

ICE HOT Oslo

14 to 18 February 2024 in Oslo

Tanzplattform Deutschland

21 to 25 February 2024 in Freiburg

Swiss Dance Days

28 February to 3 March 2024 in Zurich

Baltic Dance Platform 2024 is taking place in Riga from 9 to 11 February 2024. For three days you will have a chance to experience a breeze of contemporary dance within three Baltic countries - Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. The artistic works of Baltic Dance Platform were selected by an international jury - the entire programme is on its way, but you can see selected artists on our website. Baltic Dance Platform is organized by Latvian Dance Information Centre, Lithuanian Dance Information Centre and Estonian theater and contemporary dance platform Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava. The registration for the Baltic Dance Platform 2024 is now open for dance professionals of dance houses, festival programmers, curators, producers, presenters, managers, critics, dance artists and other professionals in the field of dance! Closing day is 10 December 2023. Follow the Registration link for professionals.

Contact: info@balticdance.org

 www.balticdance.org

ICE HOT Oslo 2024 is a Nordic dance art platform presenting both emerging and established names of Nordic contemporary dance and choreography to presenters, programmers, and other professionals from all over the world. It will take place in Oslo 14 to 18 February 2024. ICE HOT Oslo 2024 is an excellent networking event in a uniquely warm and cosy atmosphere. The aim is to increase international touring and other working opportunities of Nordic artists, and to help our communities to share ideas and connections. The program consists of 21 performances, 18 artist presentations, seminars and networking/social activities. ICE HOT Oslo will have the Arctic as a focus area and sustainability as a common thread.
Registration is open and deadline is 15 January 2024.

Contact: Project manager Kirre Arneberg | kirre@dansenshus.com

Ice Hot Oslo 2024

From 21 to 25 February 2024, Tanzplattform Deutschland 2024 will transform the city of Freiburg and the entire tri-border region into the hub of the German and international dance scene. Tanzplattform Deutschland is an outstanding discourse and presentation space for contemporary dance and performance in and from Germany - connecting artists, curators and journalists. It is taking place biennially each ime in another citiy - 2024 presenting a selection of the ten most remarkable positions from over 550 dance and performance productions. A varied supporting programme brings together critical international and local perspectives on dance in different formats and offers numerous opportunities for professional networking. 2024 is also a special year, as Tanzplattform Deutschland celebrates its 30th anniversary.

Accreditation starts 1 December 2023, ticket sale starts mid December 2023.
For more information, please contact tanzplattform2024@theater.freiburg.de or visit tanzplattform2024.de

The Swiss Dance Days are the most important promotion platform for Swiss dance and take place every two years in a different Swiss city. The next edition will take place in Zurich from 28 February to 3 March 2024. Over four days, 15 productions will be shown, selected by a jury of experts. The Swiss Dance Days are aimed at both the local public and a national and international audience of professionals. Professional attendees and programmers may register from December 2023 onwards, benefitting from reduced admission and accommodation at our partner hotel, which we are able to offer thanks to the Swiss arts council Pro Helvetia.

For more information, please contact info@swissdancedays.ch or visit swissdancedays.ch.

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We are delighted to announce the final selection for the 2024 Swiss Dance Days! Among 218 productions viewed, the jury has chosen 15 inspiring pieces reflecting the current diversity of contemporary Swiss creativity in dance. The Swiss Dance Days will take place from February 28 to March 3, 2024. The partner organizations – Fabriktheater Rote Fabrik, Gessnerallee, Neumarkt, Schauspielhaus, Tanzhaus Zürich, ZHdK and Reso – wish to thank the five jury members for their dedicated work: Joanna Lesnierowska, Laurence Perez, Emanuel Rosenberg, Simone Truong and Laurence Wagner.

Congratulations to the companies of the final selection:

- Elie Autin / Cie Les Bacchantes – Présage

- Alexandra Bachzetsis – 2020: Obscene

- Maud Blandel / ILKA – L'oeil nu

- Géraldine Chollet / Cie Rahu LaMo – Ouverture

- The Field / Rafał Pierzyński, Isabel Lewis – Scalable Skeletal Escalator

- Delgado Fuchs – DOS

- Mélissa Guex / Cie Sumo – Rapunzel

- Trajal Harrell / Schauspielhaus Zürich Dance Ensemble – Monkey off my back or the Cat’s Meow

- Thomas Hauert / ZOO – Efeu

- Jeremy Nedd & Impilo Mapantsula – How a falling star lit up the purple sky

- Pierre Piton – Open/Closed

- Alessandro Schiattarella – Zer-Brech-Lich 

- Cindy Van Acker / Cie Greffe – Without references 

- Teresa Vittucci, Annina Machaz & Theater HORA – SACRE!

- Rebecca Weingartner – SOLIDARITY!

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Professional attendees and programmers may register for the Swiss Dance Days from December 2023 onwards, benefitting from reduced admission and accommodation at our partner Hotel, which we are able to offer thanks to the Swiss cultural foundation Pro Helvetia.

New edition

After the Swiss Dance Days successfully took place in Basel this February – postponed by one year due to the pandemic – we now announce the next edition: it is scheduled to take place in Zurich from Feb. 28 to March 3, 2024, co-organized by Reso and the Zurich partner institutions Tanzhaus, Gessnerallee, Fabriktheater Rote Fabrik, Theater Neumarkt, Schauspielhaus and ZHdK. These have joined together in the Association Swiss Dance Days, which is also now responsible for electing the five-person jury. The jury members will be presented in November 2022.

Call for Submissions

All dance comapnies and choreographers resident in Switzerland, or with their main focus of activity here, are invited to submit their project dossier and a video link in the registrationlink and to submit tour dates for eligible pieces via our touringcalendar. Dance pieces which can be shown on tour and which premiered between February 2021 (!) and July 2023 at the latest are eligible. This means that pieces which could not be presented in Basel, due to the pandemic-related postponement of the Swiss Dance Days, are also eligible.

We invite all companies resident in Switzerland, or with their main focus of activity here, to submit their project dossier and video link via the following registrationlink. The submitted informations will be forwarded to the jury, so that the jury members can watch the pieces live or via video. Please only submit full-length videos; trailer videos will not be considered. There is no deadline. The link will remain open until the jury has finished its visioning work in July 2023.

If you have submitted your dance piece, you can use the link of the touringcalendar to submit its tour dates. This link can be resubmitted at any time as soon as new tour dates between October 2022 and July 2023 are fixed.

Contact the jury secretary:

Noémie Delfgou: jury@swissdancedays.ch