Info for Guest ChoreogrAphers

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About

SpARC Dance Festival, hosted by ArcTangent Dance, aims to amplify South Bay Area choreographers, dancers, and artists. Making dance visible and available to our community is key to growing our artistic community. 

We are looking for professional-level choreographers and dance groups/companies/ensembles to perform in our showcase. Included in the festival are free, public dance classes available to the community on Friday and Sunday.

Who Should Apply: Professional-level choreographers and dance groups/companies/ensembles. Special priority is given to those who are either based in or originally from the South Bay. Emerging and mid-career choreographers are strongly encouraged to apply!

If you don't have all the details of your piece ready, feel free to add whatever details you have in your application. 

Criteria for applying

• Pieces should not exceed 8 minutes. 

• Any dance style is encouraged to apply! 

• What do we mean when we say the South Bay Area? We know this can mean something different to different people, especially when so many of us commute around the Bay and foster connections in many communities. For our festival, any cities or towns in and around Santa Clara County or Silicon Valley (i.e. Sunnyvale, Campbell, Milpitas, Palo Alto, Los Gatos, Fremont) are a good way to think about it. Of course we love for our friends in Santa Cruz and the other 8 Bay Area counties to apply as well! 

• Special priority will be given to applicants who have a strong connection to the South Bay Area. This means either rehearsals based in Santa Clara County or dancers who trained, grew up, live, or work in the area. 

• This year, we are only accepting applications from choreographers and dancers 18 years or older.

• In your application, please be ready to share a video of your proposed piece and a description of the piece (more details below).

• Please limit your application to 1 piece from each group/choreographer. If you are a choreographer representing more than one group/company, you can fill out a separate application for each group/company.

What to Expect 

• Tech rehearsals are 15-20 minutes long per piece. Coming to a tech rehearsal is a requirement of participating in the performance.

• There is a free dance community dance class before the performance. We encourage taking this class as a warm-up!

• Call Time is an hour before the performance.

• Performers Meeting/Bow Practice is half an hour before the performance.

• The performance tends to last about 2.5 hours including a 20 minute intermission.

If you have any questions, please email contact@arctangentdance.com.