DANCETOPIA SYMPOSIUM
EMOTIONAL LANDSCAPES
24–30 May 2027 | Prague, Czech Republic

ABOUT DANCETOPIA
DANCETOPIA is an annual symposium bringing together dance and performance artists, researchers, and audiences through performances, workshops, discussions, and shared experiences. Organized collectively by a team of curators who are also practicing artists, it creates space for exchange across artistic practices, generations, and perspectives.
Each edition explores different ways of thinking about dance and its relationship to the world around us.
OPEN CALL
DANCETOPIA invites artists, performers, researchers, and writers to take part in its fourth edition, exploring the theme Emotional Landscapes.
Taking place in Prague from 24–30 May 2027, the symposium brings together dance and performance artists, researchers, and audiences through performances, workshops, lectures, discussions, and shared experiences.
This year's edition turns towards the complex terrain of emotions and affect. We are interested in how feelings shape our bodies, relationships, environments, and ways of understanding the world. Approaching emotions as physical, social, political, and ecological experiences, we invite proposals that explore how emotions move through bodies and spaces, connect us to others, and influence the environments we inhabit.
We welcome diverse artistic, embodied, and research-based approaches to the theme, and are particularly interested in expanding perspectives on dance and performance.

WE ARE OPENING THREE CALLS FOR PARTICIPATION:
✹ PERFORMANCE ARTISTS — 2 selected performances
✹ LECTURE-PERFORMANCE — 1 selected proposal
✹ WRITER IN RESIDENCE — 1 selected writer

IMPORTANT DATES
Application deadline: 12 December 2026, 23:59 CET.
Notification of results: By 30 January 2027.
DANCETOPIA Symposium: 24–30 May 2027.

For questions, please contact us at [email protected].

HOW TO APPLY