CHOREOGRAPHERS OPEN CALL Making Moves Dance Festival 2020 (MMDF)

The Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL) invites NYC-based DANCE COMPANIES AND CHOREOGRAPHERS TO APPLY TO MMDF2020 OPEN CALL-NOW LIVE! Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning Open Call for CHOREOGRAPHERS FOR LIVE FEBRUARY 10, 2020 https://jcal.submittable.com/submit [https://jcal.submittable.com/submit] MAKING MOVES DANCE FESTIVAL 2020 ~ Switchin’ It Up SEPTEMBER 24-26, 2020 MMDF2020 offers paid performance opportunities for 11 choreographers on both the indoor and outdoor stages of the Jamaica Performing Arts Center on Friday, Sept. 25, 2020 and Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020 with our outdoor Kick-Off Dance Party on September 24! MMDF2020 will not only showcase new, emerging and underrepresented professional choreographers, but we’re Switchin’ It Up by providing an additional way for creative choreographers and dance artists to represent the diversity that is Queens and NYC: an open-style, live-juried, audience-participating Community Dance Battle set for Thursday, Sept. 24, including a pot of money and prizes to the winner. The Dance Battle, followed by our season kick-off Dance Party, is free and open to the public. Applicants for the MMDF2020 open call are determined through a formal juried process. Jurors are cultural leaders representing the diversity of NYC and selected from the dance and performing arts communities. JCAL’s commitment is to showcasing the diversity of NYC culture, especially through its Building Equity platform, which emphasizes inclusiveness and tapping into the often underrepresented immigrant and indigenous artists within the African, LatinX, Asian, Arab, and Native American (ALAANA) communities. Choreographers working in all dance genres are encouraged to apply for MMDF2020. April 15, 2020 is the deadline; early submission is encouraged. Go to - https://jcal.submittable.com/submit [https://jcal.submittable.com/submit]