XL Productie Award
De XL Production Award biedt de kans om een nieuw werk te creëren voor RIDCC, dat wordt gepresenteerd op middelgrote en grote podia binnen Nederland.Met deze award wil RIDCC opkomende choreografen ondersteunen in hun artistieke en professionele ontwikkeling. De winnaar(s) krijgen de kans om ervaring op te doen met het creatieve proces van een grootschalige productie en zich verder te ontwikkelen op het gebied van PR, marketing, publieksontwikkeling, tourmanagement en netwerken. Onder begeleiding van artistiek leiders Maya Roest en Mischa van Leeuwen, en het volledige team van RIDCC, krijgt de winnaar(s) de ruimte om een nieuw danswerk te creëren en een volgende stap te zetten in hun carrière.
Deze prijs wordt mogelijk gemaakt door Stichting Droom & Daad.
Audience Award
De Audience Award bij RIDCC biedt deelnemers de kans om een speciale prijs te winnen die wordt bepaald door het publiek. Tijdens de finale stemt het publiek op hun favoriete duet en draagt zo bij aan de Publieksprijs. Het duet met de meeste stemmen wint een geldbedrag, met een gegarandeerd minimum van €500, gefinancierd door bijdragen van het publiek.
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.
The Acosta Dance Foundation (ADF)
The Acosta Dance Foundation is pleased to offer a prestigious Digital Residency, a 10-day residency program to support emerging choreographers in creating innovative digital dance works by providing resources, mentorship, and opportunities for international collaboration. The programme aims to advance digital creativity, strengthen ADF’s global network, and expand its digital arts portfolio. This residency is valued at £5,000. Additionally, upon successful completion of the Digital Residency, there is a potential pathway to be considered for the Carlos Acosta Choreographic Fellowship, valued at £15,000, which provides further support and opportunity.
The Acosta Dance Foundation (ADF) is a UK-based charity dedicated to advancing the artistic vision and global legacy of Carlos Acosta. Rooted in the rich Cuban dance tradition that shaped its founder, ADF opens pathways to world-class ballet and contemporary training for young dancers and choreographers with talent, ambition, and commitment. ADF delivers industry-focused programmes that nurture the next generation of professional dancers. Its flagship courses, the AATH +18 pre-professional training programme in London and the AATH +16 two-year course, combine exceptional technical instruction with a distinctive blend of classical excellence and contemporary innovation. Beyond the studio, ADF champions accessibility and social impact. Its outreach projects bring dance education into schools and community spaces, inspiring young people from all backgrounds to experience the transformative power of movement and creativity. Guided by the belief that there can be “a dancer in every home”, ADF works to remove barriers and expand opportunities for participation in the arts.
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.
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.
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 the European Dancehouse Network and is structurally funded by the Rotterdam Municipality and the Performing Arts Funds.
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. VERVE is the internationally touring contemporary dance company of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD) based in Leeds (UK) directed by Matteo Marfoglia. Each year, the company selects a select group of exceptionally talented 18 dancers from top international conservatories. VERVE commissions highly acclaimed, visionary choreographers from across the globe to create an artistically diverse, physically demanding, and original program of dance works. Most recently VERVE has commissioned choreographers such as Akram Khan, Alesandra Seutin, Andrea Costanzo Martini, KOR’SIA, Oona Doherty and (LA)HORDE amongst others. Every season the company takes their commissioned repertoire on an extensive national and international tour, performing at prominent venues and festivals. In 2027 VERVE celebrates its 20th anniversary as the only company of its kind left in the UK that is affiliated to a dance conservatoire.
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.
VERVE Partner Award
The winner of the VERVE Partner Award will receive a fully produced commission to be part of one of the company triple bills alongside two other commissioned choreographers.
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.
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.
Skånes Dansteater
Skånes Dansteater offers one choreographer a possibility to create an outdoor work with the dancers of the Skånes Dansteater.
Skånes Dansteater is a company in motion. By offering you a variety of relevant and evolving experiences, we contribute to a sustainable society through our company of dancers and our inclusive community projects. We work in close dialogue with the arts, society and the people in the world we all share, so that more people can discover the power of contemporary dance.
