ELSEHERE is inviting artists to submit short dance films, documentation, photo-based works, or short texts for a free, one-day special open call in celebration of International Dance Day (April 29). The call is titled Re-position: Returning the gaze to the dancer and centers three optional themes: Still Remember (injury, recovery, physical aftermath), Dedicate To: (dance as offering/tribute), and Beyond the Wings (the dancer’s life beyond performance). Selected submissions will be featured online via ELSEHERE’s Open Call page, and may also be considered for future ELSEHERE opportunities, including editorial features, interviews, program invitations, and cross-border partnership pathways as our upcoming cycles open.

Where: New York, USA

When: April 29, 2026

Dance can also be an offering.
It can be made for someone, toward someone, in memory of someone, or in relation to something that cannot be easily spoken through ordinary language.
A dance may be dedicated to a person, a relationship, a grief, a place, an ancestor, a friend, a teacher, a lost future, a political horizon, or an abstract force that continues to shape one’s life. To remember why one turns to dance, and where one hopes that dance might arrive, matters just as much as the work itself.
For this theme, we are especially interested in works that:
– are made as an offering, tribute, or act of address
– hold a clear emotional or conceptual direction
– reflect on the inner process of the choreographer or performer
– name the intended recipient, whether literal or symbolic

Please clearly identify who or what the work is dedicated to as part of your submission.
When the music stops, the lights go out, and the audience leaves, dancers return to another self. Not a lesser self, but a fuller one. The person who cooks, waits, jokes, grieves, commutes, obsesses, repairs, scrolls, cares for others, hides, dreams, and survives.
We are interested in the dancer outside the role. Outside performance. Outside idealization. We want to see the habits, interests, contradictions, skills, routines, and private textures that make a dancer singular, and that quietly shape what becomes visible onstage.
For this theme, we welcome works that explore:
– daily life outside dance
– the relationship between profession, selfhood, and survival
– hobbies, rituals, side lives, hidden skills, private habits, and personal texture
– the part of the dancer that remains unseen, unperformed, or unrecognized

This theme may be documentary, intimate, humorous, observational, poetic, or sharply personal.

How to apply:
Please include the following with your submission:
– selected theme: Still Remember / Dedicate To: / Beyond the Wings
– title of the work
– name of the creator or contributors
– short written description if submitting multimedia work

Apply via the Open Call page:
https://www.elsehereglobal.com/open-calls/%23re-position
For questions: artists@elsehereglobal.com
(Use the submission portal on ELSEHEREGlobal.com.)
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For more OPEN CALLS, please visit https://dancingopportunities.com/category/open-calls/