OPEN CALL - PROJEÇÕES 2025

Description
Projections is a cycle of work presentations by emerging artists. The aim is to support these artists with the creation and dissemination of their projects.

Call for applications
Stage 1: Applications
Applications must be submitted until September 30th, 2024 

Stage 2: Selection of projects
The selection will be announced by email until October 25th, 2024

Stage 3: Public presentation of the selected proposals
Date: March 17th, 2025
Presentation venue: Coliseu Porto Ageas

Selection Criteria
Participating artists must have a maximum of three creations of their own authorship in a professional context, including the one that is being submitted in the application.
The works to be selected are preferably the one’s of visible creative exploration that can generate new visions or new problematics about dance, theatre, the body or performance. Preference will also be given to works with small formats and some portability.  

Formats
Works can be presented in the form of a studycase, performance, choreography, play, solo, monologue or group work. Works should not exceed 10 minutes in total length. Exceptional cases may be considered by the selection panel.

Conditions
Balleteatro is responsible for the performance, providing the facilities, technical and human resources. Balleteatro is also responsible for promoting and publicising the event, using its current resources.
Each author is responsible for any necessary authorisations or copyrights.
The estimated payment is €500.00 per performance.

Final considerations
a)Selected artists authorise balleteatro to disseminate the content and images submitted in the application. Balleteatro will only publish the images that were submitted as part of the Projections cycle, with safeguarded copyright.
b)Balleteatro guarantees the security and confidentiality of the application submitted data. Information will only be used for the defined purposes.
c)Decisions on the acceptance and assessment of applications lies solely with balleteatro. Balleteatro is not obliged to provide comments or justifications of the selection.
d)Balleteatro promotes video and photographic recordings of the public presentation of the selected projects for balleteatro's own archive. Images can be used to publicise the cycle. Some images can be given to the participating artists upon request.
e)Applications to the Projections cycle, the official programme, implies full acceptance of these regulations.

Useful contacts
Balleteatro – Estrutura Artística Residente at Coliseu Porto Ageas
Rua de Passos Manuel nº 137, 4000-385-Porto
935239027 | documentacao@balleteatro.pt

Image Credits: © Pedro Figueiredo
Performance: "Dustbusters" by Cochon de Cauchemar
Performance presented within the scope of the 2024 Projections cycle