– Former participant of RIDCC
XL Production Award
The XL production award is an opportunity to create a new work for Scapino Ballet Rotterdam presented on large and medium sized stages within the Netherlands. The XL Production Award is a co-production between RIDCC and Scapino Ballet Rotterdam and aims to support upcoming talents in their career paths to get acquainted with the creative process in a large dance company as well as learning about PR, marketing, audience development, touring, education and networking. Winner(s) will get the opportunity to create a new dance piece with Scapino’s outstanding dancers under the guidance of artistic director Nanine Linning and the entire staff of the company. The Award is made possible by Stichting Droom & Daad.
Scapino Ballet Rotterdam
Scapino Ballet Rotterdam is the partner of our XL Production award.
Under the artistic direction of Nanine Linning, Scapino Ballet Rotterdam is committed to artistic innovation. Scapino brings urgent and impactful productions with which the audience can identify. The company’s productions and activities focus on social themes that express wonder and activism. They are multi- or interdisciplinary; melting the boundaries of dance and other art disciplines such as visual arts, couture, science, digital art and interactive technology. Scapino invests in talent development, reinforced by partnerships and collaborations in an (inter)national context. With its contemporary dancers and unique artists of today and the future, Scapino Ballet Rotterdam is dedicated to create an impactful contribution to the art of dance.
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Audience Award
The Audience Award at RIDCC offers participants the chance to win a special prize determined by the audience. During the final, the audience will vote for their favorite duet and contribute to the Audience Award. The duet with the most votes will be awarded a cash prize, with a guaranteed minimum of €500, funded by audience contributions.
Partner Awards
Dutch National Ballet is offering a talented choreographer a place in their Choreographic Academy. The choreographer will receive the possibility to research and create with the dancers of the Junior Company. A sharing with a selected audience will be part of the research and creation process.
Dutch National Ballet, leaded by artistic director Ted Brandsen since 2012, has evolved into one of the world’s foremost ballet companies. With a unique and wide repertoire, a tradition of innovation, and around 80 dancers from all over the world, the company plays a leading role in Dutch cultural life and beyond.
The Junior Company of the Dutch National Ballet, leaded by Ernst Meisner, was established in 2013 to be a stepping stone for young dancers.
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MiR dance Company Gelsenkirchen
The winner of the MiR Dance Company Award will be offered the possibility to create a site-specific project for their season 2023-2024.
Under the direction of Giuseppe Spota, the MiR Dance Company Gelsenkirchen is building its own repertoire with a special focus on contemporary dance. The company also has its finger on the pulse of the times in the topics of its productions. Spota does not miss the time to trace in dance what moves us and the world. The fourteen performers who have come to Gelsenkirchen from all over the world prove their strong artistic personalities. They translate the traditional dance vocabulary into a whole new expressive body language. Located in the unique music theatre in the district, the company stands for a contemporary dance that is rooted in the Ruhr area, but develops radiance far beyond.
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FORM Dance Projects
FORM Dance Projects will offer the RIDCC nominated artists access to the IDEA Festival program across three years. IDEA – Independent Dance Exchange Australia is a festival of First Nations practice, contemporary dance and physical theatre comprising workshops, creative developments and presentations from some of the most exciting contemporary artists creating on the global stage.
Year 1 – Participate in the IDEA workshop program and present their winning duet in IDEA NOW
Year 2 – Undertake creative development of new work on Australian artists – showing/sharing in IDEA NOW
Year 3 – Production and presentation of new work, to then tour through our national and Asia Pacific networks.
AT HOME IN WESTERN SYDNEY / AT HOME IN THE WORLD
FORM Dance Projects is the leading producer and presenter of Australian independent contemporary dance in Western Sydney. While we are a small organisation based in Parramatta, Western Sydney, FORM Dance provides the opportunity for artists all over the Asia Pacific region to engage in globally benchmarked development, collaboration and performance opportunities that inspire creativity, platform new ideas and develop national and international identities. Like our artists, FORM Dance is nimble, flexible and has the agility to seize this opportunity and place it deep into the national ecology.
We are an artist-lead organisation, operating with highly experienced leadership team of Paul Selwyn Norton as Creative Director, Lewis Major as Executive Director and Naomi Hibberd as Creative Producer. As festival directors, producers and pedagogues we bring our entrepreneurial expertise and global connectivity to the local NSW dance sector.
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Club Guy and Roni / Poetic Disasters Club.
Club Guy & Roni offers a research of 2 weeks to their chosen winner. With the possibility of a full production afterwards. The winner will work with Club Guy & Roni’s Poetic Disasters club, our junior company; a group of 6 – 10 international, young performers. Club Guy & Roni’s Poetic Disasters Club is dedicated to the creation of a fresh and contemporary repertoire, performed by a young international ensemble.
Club Guy & Roni is an international dance company based in Groningen, led by choreographers Roni Haver and Guy Weizman. The company was founded in 2002. The performances are characterised by collaborations with artists in film and theatre and are always accompanied by live musicians that often play a part in the choreography. Club Guy & Roni’s performances are high energy and have an explosive character. The choreography is precise and demands technically highly skilled dansers. Typically each of the dancers stand out with their own personality that differ greatly from each other. The Poetic Disasters Club is the group of young dancers that join Club Guy & Roni each year. These young performers are in their last year of their education and they come from all over the world to join the Club for the period of one year.
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Dansateliers
Dansateliers will offer a two weeks research residency in their studios with dramaturgical coaching by the team of Dansateliers. The residency is concluded with three public studio presentations in order to share the work-in-progress. Formal and informal formats will be offered to assemble feedback with the public present. Part of the residency will be to share the artists’ practice with our community in the weekly Monday movementclass.
Dansateliers is an independent house for the development of contemporary dance and a home for dance artists. The organization invests in dance dramaturgy, creative producing, (international) research and a diverse palette of dance artists – each with their very own artistic form, language and signature. Dansateliers initiates research to unfold undiscovered potential to feed into the dance artists’ practice in order to broaden work opportunities. Our goal is to create versatile grounds for a professional and multilayered artistic practice, which can manifest itself in a local, national and international context. Dansateliers is a member of Aerowaves and the European Dancehouse Network and is structurally funded by the Ciry of Rotterdam and the Dutch Performing Arts Funds.
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Centre Chorégraphique National de Créteil et du Val-du-Marne | EMKA
Centre Chorégraphique National de Créteil et du Val-du-Marne | EMKA provides a valuable prize of 5000 euros to spend a week in the studio to develop a project.
Create, gather, share. Open to all, the CCN of Créteil et du Val-de-Marne | EMKA is a borderless space dedicated to choreographic creation in all its forms, shining on the national and international stage through its creations and cultural initiatives. Dance is our universal language. Performances, residencies, workshops, and training for all levels fuel our ambition for exchange and discovery. We foster innovation, research, and interdisciplinary collaborations to push the boundaries of dance. We work to make dance accessible to all audiences, regardless of age, origin, or physical condition. Visit the website
SALLY Dansgezelschap Maastricht
SALLY will offer its Award winner the opportunity for a residency in SALLY’s Dance Lab, a platform where they will be able to further develop their work or research new work geared to a young audience.
SALLY uses the power of dance to tell stories that reflect the society we live in. The dance company seeks to move its audience and then change the future, with a focus on young people. SALLY teaches these young people to believe in who they are and to develop their talents in performances, workshops, and dance labs. Visit the website
NDT Partner Award
The winner of the NDT Partner Award will receive a tailor made prize.
Founded in 1959, Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) is a leading international contemporary dance company dedicated to the research and creation of new work. In the pursuit of innovation, NDT collaborates with exceptional international artists from dance and other disciplines showcasing a diversity of voices and perspectives. NDT is a catalyst for the future of dance by cultivating creativity and supporting dancers and makers at all stages of their careers, bringing dance of the highest calibre to a wide audience in the Netherlands and around the world, and providing exceptional research and talent development opportunities for the next generation of professional dance artists. Visit the website
Codarts Rotterdam
The winner of the Codarts Partner Award will receive the possibility to work with Codarts dancers on a mutually agreed production.
Codarts Rotterdam is an international university providing high level professional arts education in music, dance and circus arts. The dance department of Codarts is one of the leading institutes for contemporary dance in Europe. Codarts offers bachelor programmes in dance and in teaching dance, a Master in Arts Therapies and a Master in Choreography. Graduates from Codarts can be found all over the world in successful careers in their respective fields. The aspiring dancers of Codarts have the opportunity to gain experience through artistic collaborations with a wide range of choreographers and teachers.
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TanzLabor ROXY Ulm
TanzLabor ROXY Ulm offers the ResearchLab residency, designed to foster and promote artistic creation in the field of dance. Encouraging artistic risk-taking, the ResearchLab pushes the boundaries of creative exploration for dance makers. Each residency is customized to meet the specific needs of the choreographer and their team, providing support through rehearsal space, local accommodation, travel expenses, and a contribution towards production costs.
Established in 2021 in Ulm, Germany, under the artistic direction of Pablo Sansalvador, TanzLabor has offered choreographers unique opportunities to develop innovative artistic work. By creating deeper connections between dance makers and audiences—locally and globally—TanzLabor has become a key hub for artistic exchange and innovation in contemporary dance.
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TANZ Bielefeld
TANZ Bielefeld is offering the winning artist a short-term residency with the dance ensemble. The program is conceived to be a creative laboratory focusing on the choreographic research itself, rather than a finished product, and concludes in a public presentation.
TANZ Bielefeld is a contemporary dance company under the artistic direction of Felix Landerer. Under the umbrella of the stages and orchestras of the city of Bielefeld, the choreographer is committed to establishing the ensemble as a creative hub among international pioneers, shaped by his choreographic vocabulary, and dedicated to creative research and exchange. The ten ensemble members represent an accumulation of cultures and creative perspectives that are representative of the strive for diversity in expression. Every season, TANZ Bielefeld invites international collaborators to broaden the company’s choreographic repertoire and to facilitate knowledge exchange through residency programs.
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Conny Janssen Danst
A tailor-made prize will be awarded. The company will look every year to see which type of collaboration will best support the selected choreographer.
Artistic director and choreographer Conny Janssen has founded Conny Janssen Danst in 1992. Conny Janssen Danst is one of the leading modern dance companies in the Netherlands. The work of Conny Janssen is widely known for the strong physical and theatrical power of the dancers and the surprising diversity of her performances, in which high-quality dance is always central.
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