Open Call collaborators – Visiting Artist Programme
About the Visiting Artist Programme
With 23 partners in 22 countries across Europe and UK, the Visiting Artist Programme is a collaborative project aimed at stimulating artistic development, creative exchange and valuable networking. With support from The European Union the program runs 2025-2027 inviting independent choreographers to visit one of the diverse and vibrant partner dance festivals with an especially curated programme.
Each VAP visit includes:
- meeting with the artistic director
- meeting local artists, presenters and promoters
- performances
- workshops
The programme hosts a maximum of 8 artists per visit and runs over approximately 4 days.
This Open call goes out to organisations that wish to support an independent choreographer to participate in the Visiting Artist Programme.
The collaborating partner is responsible for:
- selection of the artist/artists
- costs for your artists expenses (travel, accommodation, per diem and stipend)
- estimated to approximately 2.500 EUR/artist
- providing VAP with the artist information requested for marketing and logistics
The hosting festival is responsible for:
- a specially curated VAP programme
- marketing
- providing tickets to performances included in the Visiting Artist Programme
Apply to become a collaborating partner!
If you would like to join the Visiting Artist Programme, please fill out this FORM with information about how many artists you would like to support to take part in the Visiting Artist Programme and which meetings you would like to attend.
The VAP festivals will be presented at the upcoming Artistic Directors meetings:
17th of April 2025 10.30 – 11.30 CET
- Bratislava in Movement, Bratislava, Slovakia, Oct 2025
- Dance Umbrella, London, United Kingdom, Oct 2025
- CODA, Oslo, Norway, Oct 2025
- Lublin International Dance Theatre Festival, Lublin, Poland, Nov 2025
- Zodiak, Side Step Festival, Helsinki, Finland, Feb 2026
23rd of Oct 2025 10.30 – 11.30 CET
- DDD Festival Dias da Dança, Porto, Portugal, Apr 2026
- Festival Sismògraf, Olot, Catalonia/Spain, Apr 2026
- Dance Fest Skopje, Skopje, North Macedonia, Apr 2026
- One Dance Festival, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, May 2026
- STHLM DANS, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2026
16th of April 2026 10.30 – 11.30 CET
- Torinodanza Festival, Torino, Italy, Sep/Oct 2026
- Iridescent Festival, Bucharest, Romania, Oct/Nov 2026
- Albania Dance Meeting, Tirana, Albania, Nov 2026
- December Dance, Bruges, Belgium, Dec 2026
After the Artistic Directors meeting you will be asked to fill out a form with input on which festival you would like to send an artist to. The selection process will be made by the VAP partners in accordance to availability and diversity.
For more information please get in touch with our Partner Festivals listed below, if there is one in your country or Project Coordinator Hanna Falk:
Partner Festivals / Institutions of Visiting Artist Programme
Danscentrum Syd (Sweden), DDD – Festival Dias da Dança (Portugal), Dublin Dance Festival (Ireland), Biennale de la Danse de Lyon (France), December Dance (Belgium), One Dance Festival (Bulgaria), Torinodanza Festival (Italy), Zodiak – Side Step Festival (Finland), Bratislava in Movement (Slovakia), Festival Sismògraf (Catalonia – Spain), STHLM DANS (Sweden), International Dance Theatre Festival in Lublin (Poland), Julidans (The Netherlands), Albania Dance Meeting (Albania), Dance Week Festival (Croatia), Dance Fest Skopje (North Macedonia), Iridescent Festival (Romania), Reykjavik Dance Festival (Iceland), STU (Estonia), International Dance Festival Tanec Praha (The Czech Republic), CODA Oslo International Dance Festival (Norway), New Baltic Dance (Lithuania), Tanz im August (Germany)