The International Šibenik Dance Festival (SDF) is considered to be the contemporary dance festival with the most beautiful venues in Europe. Over the past decade, since its first edition in 2011, we have welcomed numerous dancers, choreographers, and companies to our amazing stages. SDF brought to Šibenik’s audiences some of the most unforgettable European and world contemporary dance performances. Among the many, SDF presented the works of established choreographers such as Andonis Foniadakis, Xie Xin, Masha Kolar, Maciej Kuzminski, Balázs Vincze, Aleksandar Ilic, Isidora Stanisic, Igor Kirov, Rita Gobi, and more recently, Eva Duda, Olivia Court Mesa, Kate Jablonski and many others.
We could not have provided any of the opportunities for them to perform on these stages without the steadfast support of the City of Šibenik, the whole community, especially our partner in project – The Fortress of Culture. SDF provides space for networking with renowned choreographers, dancers and teaching artists. Sibenik Dance Festival is carefully followed by international festival curators, national press, critics and passionate audience. Its programme is rich and diverse, open to the infinite shades of contemporary dance.
– Main Programme, dedicated to established companies: This programme is presented at the European top venues, the medieval fortresses St Michael’s and Barone.
– Downtown show, Art Cube off programme, dedicated to youth companies and pre-professionals;
– Additional events, such as Art Cube intensive seminars, master classes and workshops: The one-week workshop programme is intended especially for young dancers and dance students, offering plenty of opportunities for their artistic development, the opportunity to improve their technique and receive new creative input.
– “Young emerging artists” a special section dedicated to discover, support and promote the work of emerging choreographers, dance students, youth companies and performers. Performances of young emerging dancers are chosen in collaboration with the Art and Drama Academy, University of Zagreb, dance dept.
– SDF meetings and conferences
Future programmes:
For the season 2023, we announce and introduce the SDF residencies program, open to young artists from Eu countries (age 18- 35) with the aim of helping them to create and put on stage innovative projects. The works developed during the residential programs are to be premiered during the SDF 2023 festival.
The 2019 edition presented 15 shows, 8 companies and 150 dance artists form countries as far apart as USA, Israel, China, Austria, Greece, Albania, Slovenia, Serbia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.
We are looking forward to bring everyone together again safely and to enjoy in the upcoming season of SDF live performances.