Ticino in Danza Festival/Permanency for Swiss and International dance makers

Call for dance makers

TICINO IN DANZA 2025

Festival/Permanency

Call for 4 Swiss and International dance makers

From June 29 to July 6, 2025, Mendrisio will host the 11th edition of the Ticino in Danza Festival/Permanenza, an event for contemporary dance in unconventional venues located in a peripheral region of Ticino in southern Switzerland. Since 2022 Ticino in Danza has been experimenting, in close collaboration with artists, with new types of encounters with the public.
For this edition we are looking for 4 artists who want to participate in the Festival/Permanenza with a participatory or relational performative device that involves the public and the territory in an active form. The call is open to Swiss and international artists.
In the 6 months prior to the Festival, the artists will get to know each other through 4 virtual meetings and will be invited to adapt and develop their proposals in relation to the territory and its inhabitants.
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This call aims to identify four artists who would like to participate in the Festival/Permanency with a participatory or relational performative device that involves the public and the territory in an active form. The call is open to Swiss and international artists. Priority will be given to Swiss artists.

In the six months prior to the Festival, the artists will get to know each other through a number of virtual meetings from January to September 2025 and will be invited to adapt and develop their proposals in relation to the territory and inhabitants. Proposals can be designed for natural or urban locations and involve community activation both during the event and in the weeks leading up to the Festival/Permanency (e.g., through the collection of information, materials, interviews).

It is planned to host seven artists working with contemporary dance from Ticino, Switzerland and abroad, of which four will be selected by call. The call is aimed at singular artists, not collectives or companies.

The organisation guarantees a gross cachet of a minimum of 1,500 CHF plus coverage of room and board expenses. Travel reimbursement is also provided.