MODArts Dance Collective (MADC) is elated to announce its seventh annual dance festival, Collective Thread, on March 17-19, 2022 7:30 PM; Location: TBA + Livestream & On Demand Option. The purpose of Collective Thread is to provide a voice and a platform for artistic self-impression to those women/womxn identifying artists of underrepresented ethnic groups within the medium of dance. The goal of Collective Thread is to instill artists with the necessary tools to take on leadership roles in an effort to increase diversity, inclusion, and gender equality in the dance field. 

 

Up to twenty national and international artists will be chosen to present 5-15 minutes of a dance work or dance film in one of the live evening concerts on March 17-19, 2022 7:30 PM in one of the following options:

• Live performance (new, previously presented, or work in progress) in the festival venue + tech before the scheduled performance; venue - TBA

• Pre recorded performance to be livestreamed during the festival; venue - TBA

• Live & Pre recorded performance; Please note that the selection panel may choose one of the two submission

 

*****Please note that all artists performing live would need to comply with the Key to NYC mandate. For more information, you can click here.*****

 

The 2022 open submission call is November 15 - 11:59 PM EST on January 31, 2022. National & international artists including people with disabilities of all dance genres are encouraged to apply.  Artists can submit one of the following work samples with their application + $10 application fee for one piece or $20 for two pieces:

• A work (new, previously performed, or work in progress) to perform live in person in one of the evening concerts

• A work (new, previously performed, or work in progress) to be livestreamed during the dance festival

• A dance film to be livestreamed during the dance festival

 

There is a $10 application fee to submit one work or $20 to submit two works via 

Zelle (account name: modartsdancecollective@gmail.com), 

PayPal (account name: modartsdancecollective@gmail.com), 

or Venmo (account name: @modarts_dance). 

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If you do not have one of the aforementioned accounts, please contact MADC directly at modartsdancecollective@gmail.com or (929) 352-5253 for alternate forms of payment. There is no participation fee if chosen. Please note that the $10/$20 application fee goes towards the performance venue and production costs. All artists will be notified by 11:59 PM EST on Monday, February 7, 2021. If chosen, artists will sign a letter of agreement to confirm her/their participation in the dance festival. Participating artists will either present their work live or their work will be livestreamed during one of live evening concerts on March 17-19, 2022 7:30 PM, as well as tech before their scheduled concert if performing in person, free admission to the festival’s movement based classes, the opportunity to participate in the festival’s round table discussion, and amplify the artists’ voices through advertising & marketing.