Home

BALLET ARABESQUE

XI COMPETITION FOR CONTEMPORARY CHOREOGRAPHY

BASED ON BULGARIAN MUSIC

FOR MARGARITA ARNAUDOVA AWARD

THIRD INTERNATIONAL EDITION

SOFIA

OCTOBER 2023

REGULATIONS

THE PROJECT IS SUPPORTED

BY THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE

THE COMPETITION

“Margarita Arnaudova” Competition was founded by assoc. prof. Kalina Bogoeva in 1996. The international edition of the Competition is organized together with Ballet Arabesque and “Kalina Bogoeva” Foundation with the support of the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture.

The Competition is an expression of the creative necessity of Ballet Arabesque to seek interaction between Bulgarian composers and contemporary choreographers. The Competition encourages the quest for original ideas expressed in authentic, natural, contemporary dance language and style.

Margarita Arnaudova (1941-1994), whose name the Competition bears, is a whole epoch in contemporary dance in Bulgaria and her spirit is still perceived in Bulgarian culture as a bridge connecting the best from the past with the future.

In the competition can participate choreographers and dancers with professional experience in the sphere of contemporary dance . The competitors must be up to 40 years of age (i.e. born after December 31st, 1983). The competition takes place every three years.

Music compositions by five Bulgarian composers are offered, each of them with duration of about 20 minutes. Each competitor has to choose one of them and make a choreography including three to six dancers. The choreographers selected in the final round of the competition will perform their works with professional dancers from Ballet Arabesque.

Selected Bulgarian composers:

George Strezov

Album Flourish:

https://youtu.be/KytrFeLqnFo

Album Birth of a Flower:

https://youtu.be/NCyfY9drXuk

Dobromir Kisyov

Spotify:
- https://open.spotify.com/album/4aNL3Bf8ivScFvaHDzPKdz?si=2vAQ-ROcRu-hB9vlr_54mg
- https://open.spotify.com/track/3hIdRH3ee0wuZdAdAK5gkM?si=44cf1220a54c4cfe

Milen Apostolov

https://soundcloud.com/milenapostolovmusic/sets/music

Petar Dimov

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1F71m1MYSjdtMbWUf2xY-h2OGpz7OHZQh?usp=sharing

Petar Dundakov

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?app=desktop&;list=OLAK5uy_nH5GehPAR3W37RYis8zRVHMs26lrlTAY8

Peter Kerkelov

https://youtu.be/nSKZXAl67FM

Roumen Boyadjieff-junior ( Rumen Boyadzhiev)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12wNLWZBK6-J5F4NIcLkTATzgSHf_5h8j/view?usp=drive_link

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-UI2mY766RfONqn99STdWvWwNhZHSe9B/view?usp=drive_link

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nI20kASb9oi6NQ18p-RyedAhGoUDJpn-/view?usp=drive_link

Suggested music can be used only for the purposes of the Competition.

All application materials are listed in the PRELIMINARY SELECTION column.

AWARDS

There are two awards:

“Margarita Arnaudova” Award – BGN 5000 (EUR 2500) is awarded by the audience by voting with tickets and it is presented by prof. Kalina Bogoeva, the founder of the award and president of “Kalina Bogoeva” Foundation.

The International Jury Award – BGN 5000 (EUR 2500)

The award-winners grant the rights of presenting their production to Ballet Arabesque for one year.

The choreographers have to be available to be photographed and interviewed by the media, for free; also they may not have any financial claims when parts of their productions are shot by TV companies for the purpose of advertising the event.

I ROUND –PRELIMINARY SELECTION

Required application materials:

- Application form – you may download it from the site www.margaritaarnaoudova.org, or by email on request.

- Applicant’s CV containing detailed information for his/her professional experience in the sphere of dance as well as feedback information for contact

- Choreographer’s photo

- Preliminary design of the production that is to be presented at the Competition (participants: 3 to 6 dancers)

- Video containing 3-minute fragment of a choreography based on one of the offered music compositions by Bulgarian composers.

- Video containing fragments of former productions by the choreographer made during the last three years

Deadline for sending all needed documents and materials via e-mail to Ballet Arabesque This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it is till 31.07.2023, with copy to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Selection Committee chosen by the Management of Ballet Arabesque will evaluate the sent materials and will pay special attention to the originality of the concept, music interpretation and dance language demonstrated in the fragment

Deadline for announcing the participants admitted to II round: The chosen participants will be informed via e-mail till 5.08.2023.

Selected choreographers confirm the participation in the final round of the competition till 10.08.2023 via email.

The contracts will be signed upon their arrival in Sofia at the beginning of September.

II ROUND – FINAL

- In the II round participate from 3 to 4 selected projects

- The chosen choreographers will accomplish their productions with the participation of professional dancers from Ballet Arabesque – from 3 to 6 dancers

- The choreographers must be available for rehearsals with the group for a period of 20 days between September 7th, till October 7th, 2023 specified in advance signed contract

- All choreographers will have equal number of rehearsal hours depending on the duration of chosen music (not less than 50 rehearsal hours).

- Travel expenses –in both directions – and health insurances for the period of their stay in Sofia are on the account of the applicants.

- Accommodation and daily expenses (according to the Bulgarian legislation) of the finalists for their stay in Sofia are on the account of the Competition.

- Each choreographer will have a budget at his/her disposal for non-complicated costumes, and probably for minimal décor and requisite necessary for the scenic performance of the production

- All choreographers will have at their disposal and on the account of the competition a professional Bulgarian artist for the costumes and décor as well as a lighting designer, they both will work together with the choreographers to form the whole vision of the Competition evening helping choreographers with their requirements and ideas.

- The copyright of the music played at the final evening is settled by the competition.

- For the final evening a stage with black background and with the size of 12 х 15 m will be provided, as well as a black dance floor.

- The final evening will take place on the 6th or 7th of October in front of audience and international jury on the stage of the State Music and Ballet Center-Sofia.

Ballet Arabesque

3 Panajot Volov str.

1504 Sofia, Bulgaria

Mobile: + 359 897 920920 Boriana Sechanova – Artistic director

+ 359 897 969780 Maya Mihailova - Manager

+ 359 897 880554 Olessia Pantikina -Choreographer

e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

www.margaritaarnaoudova.org

www.arabesque.bg