The Center for Choreography Bleiburg/Pliberk Johann Kresnik (CCB) is looking for performances and other formats for the Long Nights of Dance 2025 in Carinthia, Austria! This will be the first year that the Long Nights of Dance will be held over two or three evenings in different locations across Carinthia. The events will take place on May 29 – 31, 2025. Selected performances or other formats will be performed on all days in different locations. The cities and the decision if there will be two or three events will be confirmed soon.

The call is open to companies, dancers, choreographers, performers, and artists who want to showcase a performance or another special format at some very unusual locations during the Long Nights of Dance. We explicitly invite cross-disciplinary, audience-interactive, and highly technical dance performances to apply. Additionally, we are open to new and absurd formats related to dance (e.g. video, photography, audio walks, workshop formats).

The Long Nights of Dance are an annual event held in various cities in Carinthia (Austria). Up to twenty short performances are presented along routes at both outdoor and indoor venues. The CCB's objective is to showcase contemporary dance across Carinthia and to reduce the barriers to accessing dance and cultural events. By staging performances throughout the city, the CCB aims to make these events more accessible to all.

The thematic focuses of the LNTs 2025 are:

• Emerging artists
• Innovation and digitality
• New forms of dance

Submissions should address at least one of these thematic focuses. We also accept several proposals from one artist/company/collective.