APPLICATION TERMS
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15th Dance Days Chania
CHANIA 10.02.2025
We are glad to announce the Open Call for VIDEO DANCE Works submissions of applications for participating in Dance Days Chania 2025.
We cite below the terms and conditions for participating in the festival and its mode of operation (modus operandi).
>> Video Dance Works Open Call <<
Kicking off this year’s video dance section, we seek for groundbreaking and innovative work in the field of camera related choreographic captures, and welcome submissions of shorts, narrative based and 1 minute works (preferably). Dance films that transcend time, style, and form while celebrating innovative artists and stories. All forms of dance are welcome!
Applications submission for Video Dance works dates are from February 10th until March 23rd 2025 (10.02 – 23.03.2025, 00:00 Greek time) at our website: https://dancedays.gr .
TERMS
A. APPLICATIONS’ SUBMISSION
A1. General terms of submissions
A1.1. Interested parties may submit their application as an individual or/and as a group.
A1.2. The length of the works must not exceed 10min, otherwise will be disqualified at once. Priority will be given to short duration works.
A1.3. The production of the video must have been completed after January 1st, 2022.
A1.4. Accepting the application’s terms of participation in the Festival binds the participants to its requirements.
A1.5. Every applicant is allowed to submit (one) artistic proposal.
A2. Special conditions of participation
Participation in the Festival with a video dance work requires:
– Link of the Video with the proposing work (total duration of the work not a trailer) through a web platform (Youtube, Vimeo)
– 1 Video stills
– Brief description (up to 100 words)
The required material can be send in one email to [email protected] and the video must be uploaded in a valid platform (YouTube, Vimeo).
Accepted Screening Formats:
Frame Rate: 24,25 FPS
File Formats: MP4 video with AAC audio
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (1080p. 16:9)
B. FINANCES
For the participation of a Video Dance work no fee, transportation and accommodation costs are provided.
COMMENTS:
1. Applications which will not include the above material and documents, per case, will be considered incomplete for evaluation and therefore invalid.
2. Necessary condition for the valid submission of a proposal is the completion of the published application form which can be found at https://dancedays.gr.
3. The 14th Dance Days Chania Festival, most likely, will take place from July 21st to August 2nd 2025 in Chania, Crete, Greece.
4. Performances, parallel events (video dance projects, site specific performances, lectures e.t.c.) are taking place at indoor theaters, outdoor theaters or other suitable venues and cultural points in Chania.
5. All accepted applying entities will be notified through email along with details of presentation.
C. REPRODUCTION
All selected dance films, the relevant texts and stills etc. submitted to Dance Days Chania 2025 may be used as materials for public screenings and publicity. All selected entry applications submitted will automatically authorize the Dance Festival to use and edit these submitted videos, text, stills and their related elements for promotional purposes at no cost.
The applying entity should ensure that they have been granted the legal rights to use all copyrighted elements such as music, text, images and other media forms in the video for public broadcasting, so that all elements in the submitted video can be used and broadcasted by the Festival in its public screening activities and online platforms.
D. ADVERTISEMENT AND PROMOTION
D1. The Festival’s organizers are responsible for the promotion of the Festival and its participants with:
– Posters
– Programs
– Flyers
– Further printed and audiovisual material
– Promotion via mass media (press conferences, advertising spots)
– Promotion via electronic press
D2. The participants may be advertised in the Festival as follows:
Providing each advertising material regarding their participation (photographs, video) to the organizers to be used:
a1.For the Festival’s promotion
a2.For the individual promotion of their work
E. INFORMATION:
For any information regarding the Festival:
http://www.facebook.com/DanceDaysChaniaFestival
Thank you very much and we are looking forward for your proposals!
Organized by:
“Syn-Kinisi” Association of Expressive Dance
Artistic Director
Sofia Falierou
Video Dance section curator
Aliki Chiotaki
&
Dance Days Chania Organizing Team