Schedule:

Performance/competition/ceremony:

July 28, 2023, Youth Edition 

July 29, 2023, Professional Edition/Award Ceremony 

Festival Performance Location: 

Atlas Performing Arts Center the Lang Theatre

1333 H St NE Washington, DC 20002

Masterclasses/Workshops:

Xing Dance Theater 2023 Summer Intensive 

July 17-28 Youth Edition 

July 24-28 Professional Edition July 26-28 Festival Performers Masterclasses 

Workshop Location: 

The Clarice Performing Arts Center (University of Maryland) 

8270 Alumni Dr, College Park, MD 20742

Application Details:

The 2023 Washington International Choreography Festival includes performance and competition in two editions: youth and professional. Each edition also includes an online and in-theater performance/competition. Online edition is for applicants who are not planning to travel to Washington DC for this year in-theater performance. Selected online applicants’ work will be live streamed at City Dance Festival LIVE online channel. In-theater performance/competition applicants finalists will be invited to perform on stage in Washington, DC, July 28-29, 2023. 

Online and in-theater applicants will be separated for the selection process. Both editions’ finalists and award winners will receive certificates. Both editions’ finalists‘ works will be collected into the City Dance Festival International invitational pool. All the works in the candidates’ pool will have the chance to be selected to present at City Dance Festival International partner festivals. 

Conditions

For youth edition: 

Original Choreography.

Contemporary/Modern/Jazz work are accepted. 

Choreographers can be students or adults/professionals, the performers must be youth. 

For in theater edition, the performers’ minimum age is 12. 

For the online edition, the performers’ minimum age limit is 9. 

Solo/duet must not exceed 3 minutes; groups must not exceed 5 minutes. 

Each choreographer may submit up to two works for each age group. Separate application forms and video links are required.

Age groups are: 

age 9-11  (online edition only)

age 12-13

age 13-15

age 16-18

Incomplete materials or those exceeding the time limits listed above will not be processed.

Professional recordings are not required; rehearsal videos are accepted. 

All finalists are responsible for travel arrangements and other related expenses. 

Production fee:

Selected in theater finalists will need to pay a theater performance production fee. More detail will be e-mailed with the finalist announcement notice. 

Submission Deadline: 

In theater: June 20, 2023 (or the performance spot are full)

Online: July 1

Application fee: $25 per piece (Apply before June 15 is free)

Finalists announced:

Both youth and professional editions in theater competitions and performance awards will be announced at the ceremony on July 29, 2023. 

Online awards will be announced at www.CityDanceFestival.org in August. 

Awards: (both youth online and in the theater)

Festival Official Selection: all finalists. 

Choreographer Award.

Performance Award.

Jury Award.

Audience Award. 

International Invitation Awards (for pieces selected by City Dance Festival International partner festivals)

For more questions: 

E-mail: info@xingdancetheater.com

Wechat: XDTDance 

City Dance Festival Partner Festivals:

Washington International New Year Gala (USA)

Puerto Rico International Gala (USA)

SAI International Dance Festival (Japan)

City Dance Festival Taiyuan Choreography Showcase (China) 

Shanxi New Modern Dance Exhibition (China) 

The Washington International Gala (USA)

Finland International Gala (Finland)