Dear collegues,

We are pleased to announce you the 5th edition of eXplore dance festival - Bucharest’s annual international contemporary dance festival.

This year’s edition proposes to present during the last week of September, on the most important scenes of Bucharest, choreographers from Romania and abroad. The objective of the festival is presenting diverse shows as artistically approach, proposing new concepts, original creations realized in the last years.

If you are interested to participate please send your application including:

1. video documentation of your recent work (DVD / no trailer, only full length documentation) + details: title / short description / length of the piece / year of creation / technical rider /number of the people traveling

2. biography

3. dossier about your work (including press reviews in English translation) if available

Adress: eXplore dance festival OP 37, CP 147, 020941, Bucharest, Romania

Please make sure your application will arrive in Bucharest before March 1st! The selected artists will be announced by e-mail on March 15th.

Yours sincerely,

Andreea Capitanescu

eXplore dance festival Director

andreea@artlink.org.ro

ArtLink Association organizes in Romania the second edition of the international festival of theater, contemporary dance and video image, TEMPS D'IMAGES, which starting this year on, will be presented in Cluj.

We find it necessary that an international event of European proportions should take place in Cluj, a city with many important artists, who deserve more attention on a national and international level. Furthermore we can speak about an open public, interested in new experiences and innovative projects.

We appreciate the artistic dynamics of Cluj and TEMPS D’IMAGES comes to meet the existent demands by promoting the artists and developing a cultural offer for a diverse and exigent public. This year's offer is made out of 6 shows, 3 performances, 4 chantiers with choreographers and visual artists, a workshop for students, a conference, an audio-video event and a video-dance film projection.

We are not in front of a „colonizing” event, in which the exchange is in one direction only. We want to make the city gain in value by integrating in the festival its patrimony through the creation of special projects (some of them site-specific) in locations like Hotel Continental, Turnul Croitorilor and Fabrica de Pensule.  

We aim for TEMPS D’IMAGES to become one of those extraordinary annual meetings of Cluj which will animate the city and open new perspectives for its inhabitants.

We are facing an exciting start for both sides: the public will take contact with new performance forms and contemporary artistic approaches and the organizers respond to a challenge by meeting a new city.

We think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship!

Miki Branişte,

For Temps d’images  Team Festival

In 2009 ArtLink, as co-organizer in European project Jardin d'Europe, will invite artists from Romania and abroad to work for the realisation of an individual or/and group artistic project, during three weeks in July.
In the end of these residences it will take place a final presentation of their works, opened for the public at Palatele Brancovenesti Mogosoaia.

The Residences project will be realized in partenership with Palatele Brancovenesti Mogosoaia.

Jardin d'Europe is a European project dedicated to the establishment of a sustainable European infrastructure for the professionalisation of emerging dancers, choreographers, dance administrators and dance writers.
Its main objective is not only to organize individual arts projects but to also make them a driving force in an emerging dance market throughout Europe.

Jardin d'Europe is organized as a network of European dance institutions (dance training centers, dance companies or festival organizers) with a particular priority in Middle and Eastern European Countries (ArtLink/RO, Bimeras Culture Foundation/TR, CCN Montpellier/FR, Cullberg Ballet/SE, danceWEB/AT, Lokomotiva/MK, Southbank Centre/UK, Station/YU, Ultima Vez/BE, Workshop Foundation/HU).

The network activities of Jardin d'Europe (workshops, residences, scholarships for artists and journalists, co-productions, documenting activities and festivals) are planned for a period of five years starting July 2008.

Info : www.jardindeurope.eu