Dance festival
A dance festival is a regular (mostly annually) cultural event at which several contemporary dance pieces and ballets as well as dance theater pieces , dance operas and performances are organized by an organizer on different stages and other locations in a city . A dance festival is often carried out in cooperation with a municipal theater , opera house and other institutions where dance theater ensembles or ballet companies regularly develop dance art and produce and present dance pieces. Pieces by other choreographers and dance ensembles from other cities are usually invited to a dance festival and international competitions with award ceremonies are announced.
Overview of international dance festivals
- Adelaide Festival (Adelaide / AUS), for all arts
- Aerowaves Spring Forward (location rotates; 1st edition in 2010: Ljubljana / SLO, 2nd edition 2011: Bari / I), contemporary dance
- Biennale di Venezia (Venice / I), for all arts
- Culturescapes
- Cutting Edge Move (Frankfurt am Main / D)
- DANCE, international festival for contemporary dance in the City of Munich
- Duisburg Dance Days , Germany's largest amateur dance festival
- Festival d'Avignon (Avignon / F), for the performing arts
- Edinburgh International Festival and Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Edinburgh / GB), for all arts
- euro-scene Leipzig (Leipzig / D), for contemporary theater and dance
- Holland Dance Festival (The Hague / NL)
- ImPulsTanz (Vienna / A), contemporary dance
- International dance fair NRW (Düsseldorf / D), contemporary dance
- International Dance Days Oldenburg (Oldenburg / D)
- International competition for choreographers Hanover (Hanover / D)
- International Ballet Festival Bodrum (Bodrum / TR), ballet
- International Baltic Ballet Festival (Riga, Latvia), ballet
- International solo dance theater festival (Stuttgart / D), competition, contemporary dance
- International Summer Festival Hamburg (Hamburg / D), contemporary dance
- In Transit (Berlin / D), for all performing arts, contemporary dance
- Lucky Trimmer Dance Performance Series (Berlin / D), contemporary dance
- Montpellier Danse (Montpellier / F), contemporary dance
- Movimentos Festival Weeks (Wolfsburg / D), contemporary dance
- Ponderosa TanzLand Festival (Stolzenhagen / D), contemporary dance
- Potsdamer Tanztage (Potsdam / D), contemporary dance
- Seoul International Ballet Festival (Seoul, North Korea), ballet
- Springdance (Utrecht / NL), contemporary dance
- Dance Biennale Heidelberg (Heidelberg / D), contemporary dance
- Dance Festival Bielefeld (Bielefeld / D), contemporary dance
- Tanz im August (Berlin / D), contemporary dance
- Tanznacht Berlin (Berlin / D), contemporary dance
- Dance platform Germany (location rotates), has been taking place every 2 years since 1994, contemporary dance
- TANZtheater INTERNATIONAL (Hannover / D), contemporary dance
- Dance workshop Europe (Munich / D), contemporary dance
- Uzés Danse (Uzés / F), contemporary dance