45 short works programmed to date. New commissions to Echo Echo Festival Open Call…

Echo Echo Festival Open Call is now accepting proposals and the closing date is Friday 23rd October 2020. For further information on how to apply please visit: https://www.echoechodance.com/whatson/festival-open-call-2021-1

The Open Call programme has been a highlight of Echo Echo Festival over the last few years with over 600 applicants from all around the world and 45 short works programmed.

Many artists have connected with Echo Echo for the first time through the Open Call and have built ongoing creative relationships with us, showing full works at later editions of the Festival, or returning to Echo Echo Studios as artists-in-residence.

Echo Echo Festival Open Call Artists from 2014-18 included:

Ferenc Fehér and Dávid Mikó; Sahar Damoni; Hwa Wei-An; Julianne Chapple and Maxine Chadburn; Rikilikemagic (Rachel Sheil); Susan Koper; Look, but with love (Suahee Abro and Lucia Moretti); Linda Fearon, Cinzia Savonitti & Helen Hall of Luminous Soul; Zoe Ui Fhaolain; Nasrine Kheltent; Inna Aslamova; Hilde Ingeborg Sandvold; Anastasia Brouzioti and Yiannis Tsigkris of Alma Libre; Lior Lazarof, Timea Laza and Sharon Barbakov; Bjorn Richter of RichterMeyerMarx; Hannah Rogerson and Pieter Visser of Tea Time Company; Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín and Isabella Oberlander; Collective B, Sonia Borkowicz, Elsa Mourlam, Izabela Soldaty, Vilte Svarplyte; Sarah Herr and Meret Rufener; Nicola Cisternino; Circul’R, David Phiphak, Berenice Dupuis; Sabrina Gargano and Verena Schneider; Aoife Toner; Gary Rowntree, Ryan O’Neill, Catherine Muckle; My Johansson; Erin O’Reilly, Sophie Ammann and Roseanne Briens of Junebug Company; Rachel Sheil; Jusztina Hermann and Robert Peoples of Delighters; Yukiko Masui; Jann Gallois; Mel Bradley and Zoe Ramsey; Helga Deasy; Nastasja Stefanic and company; Sorcha Shanahan; Alba Lorca; Alessandro Sollima; Jessica Peoples and ZoNa Dance Company; Maria Papathanasiou; Ronan Kearney; Claire Bonnie; Argyro Tsampazi; Lily Akerman; Oona Doherty; Sara Campinoti; Sibéal Davitt and Olwyn Lyons; Valeria Famularo; Carie Logue and NWRC Dance.

With thanks to all of the past Festival Open Call artists and their colleagues, collaborators and supporters!

Selection of images from previous editions

2018

Hwa Wei-An (Malaysia)

Rachel Sheil (Ireland)

Ferenc Feher and David Miko (Hungary)

Julianne Chapple and Maxine Chadburn (Canada)

Sahar Damoni (Palestine)

Susan Koper (USA)

Look But With Love (Pakistan/Italy)

Luminous Soul (NI)

2017

Hilde Ingeborg Sandvold

Timea Laza and Sharon Barbakov choreographed by Lior Lazarof,

Hannah Rogerson and Pieter Visser of Tea Time Company

Inna Aslamova

Anastasia Brouzioti and Yiannis Tsigkris of Alma Libre

Bjorn Richter of RichterMeyerMarx

Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín and Isabella Oberlander

2016

My Johansson (Sweden/London)

Catherine Muckle and Ryan O’Neill in Courtship by Gary Rowntree (NI)

Collective B (Austria)

Berenice and Laos (France/Canada)

Nicola Cisternino (Italy)

Sarah Herr and Meret Rufener (Germany/Switzerland)

Sabrina Gargano and Verena Schneider (Italy/Germany)

Aoife Toner (Ireland)

2015

Jann Gallois

Helga Deasey

Nastasja Stefanic and company

Jusztina Hermann & Robert Peoples

Yukiko Masui

Rachel Sheil

Mel Bradley & Zoe Ramsey

Junebug Company

2014

NWRC Dance by Carie Logue (NI)

Ronan Kearney, Dave Stevenson and Colin Norrby (NI)

Sara Campinoti (Italy)

Oona Doherty (NI)

Maria Papathanasiou (Greece)

Alessandro Sollima (Italy)

Lily Akerman (USA)

Valeria Famularo (Italy/London)

Olwyn Lyons and Sibéal Davitt (Ireland)

Janie Doherty and Zoe Ramsey (NI)

Argyro Tsampazi (Greece/NI)

Alba Lorca (Spain/Dublin)

ZoNa Dance and Jessica Peoples (Ireland)

Sorcha Shanahan (NI)

Images by Living Witness Photography 

Echo Echo Festival of Dance and Movement is kindly supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Derry City and Strabane District Council.

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