Gdańsk: Solo Dance Contest 2018 preselection results

The Solo Dance Contest 2018, held as part of the 10^th Gdańsk Dance Festival, attracted 173 entries from 37 countries from around the world. The competition will take place on June 11-15, in Klub Żak. The invited artists will perform their solos for four days, and on the fifth day the finalists chosen by the international Jury will show their works again. In addition to the Jurors, the audience will also award their prize. The prize pool of this year?s edition amounts to EUR 6,000. The Solo Dance Contest is a broadly defined contemporary dance / contemporary ballet competition addressed to dance artists and striving to support and promote contemporary dance.

For the 2018 edition, Klub Żak has decided to invite the following artists:

1. Sebastian Abarbanell / Germany/USA / Parasites 
2. Samuele Arisci / Italy / TABOO / chor. Nicolo Abbattista
3. Jonathan Breton / France/USA / LifeLine
4. Natalie Bury / Switzerland/Germany / Frau Müller und die Suche nach der Wirklichkeit
5. Yi-En Chen / Taiwan/France / YI-EN
6. Jill Crovisier / Luxemburg / Zement, the solo
7. Gloria Ferrari / Italy/ ? I ma / chor. Erika Silgoner, Bob Bobsil
8. Giulia Forotti / Italy / Where the Heart Is / chor. Nunzio Perricone
9. Margot Gelber / USA / Follow her Smiling
10. Isabella Giustina / Italy / Destinata Guerriera
11. Valerija Gneuševa / Lithuania/Russia / Between the Two Sunrises
12. Raquel Gualtero Soriano / Spain / Somebody Somewhere
13. Daniel Gwirtzman / USA / Doodling
14. Edouard Hue / France/Switzerland / Forward
15. Paulina Jaksim / Poland / Sola / chor. Anna Nowak
16. Leila Ka / France / Pode ser
17. Yochan Kang / Korea/Germany / I have something to say
18. Alexandra Kostopoulou / Greece / Artemisia
19. Gennaro Andrea Lauro / Italy/France /  Sarajevo ? the massacre of the quiet man
20. Max Levy / USA/Germany / Silent bell
21. Dor Mamalia / Israel/Switzerland / I Choose You
22. Rebecca Margolick / Canada/USA / Ministry
23. Ivona Medić / Croatia/Hungary / Self Manual
24. Jarosław Mysona / Poland / Stonewall Inn
25. Sean Nederlof / USA / Coming Home / chor. Yoshito Sakuraba
26. Andrew Pearson / USA / This is not the end
27. Rima Pipoyan / Armenia / Woman Before Decision Making
28. Łukasz Przytarski / Poland / Weld 
29. Antonin Rioche / France/Belgium / Ohboy!
30. Mounir Saeed / Egypt / What about Dante 
31. Aya Toraiwa / Japan/Germany / Miscanthus and Blackbird
Drosia Triantaki / Greece / CASCADE: Equilibria
32. Eri Watanabe / Japan/Germany / Describe
33. Dominika Wiak / Poland / Melancholia / chor. Jakub Lewandowski
34. Yeh Yung-Chen / Taiwan / Lost Dust
The organisers are currently waiting for confirmations  from the participants ? the final schedule of the competition will be released in mid-May.

Klub Żak has invited artists and experts of contemporary dance to sit on the jury of Solo Dance Contest 2018: Bojana Cvejić (Serbia/Belgium) master of philosophy, prolific writer (including Drumming & Rain: A Choreographer?s Score, co-authored with Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker); Palle Granh?j (Denmark) dancer and choreographer, originator of obstruction technique; Anastasio Koukoutas (Greece) writer, lecturer of dance history and assistant director; Inbal Pinto (Israel) award-winning choreographer, scenographer and former dancer of Batsheva; Ewa Wycichowska (Poland) head of the Dance Department at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and former director of Polish Dance Theatr