For the Solo Dance Contest 2018 held as part of the 10th Gdańsk Dance Festival, 173 solos from 37 countries from around the world were submitted.

The competition will take place on June 11-15, in Klub Żak. For four days invited artists will perform their solos, and on the fifth day finalists chosen by international Jury will show their works again. In addition to the Jurors, the audience will also award their prize.

Klub Żak decided to invite the following artists:

1. Sebastian Abarbanell / Germany/USA / Parasites 

2. Samuele Arisci / Italy / TABOO / chor. Nicolo Abbattista

3. Jonathan Breton / France/USA / LifeLine

4. Natalie Bury / Switzerland/Germany / Frau Müller und die Suche nach der Wirklichkeit

5. Yi-En Chen / Taiwan/France / YI-EN

6. Jill Crovisier / Luxemburg / Zement, the solo

7. Gloria Ferrari / Italy/ ? I ma / chor. Erika Silgoner, Bob Bobsil

8. Giulia Forotti / Italy / Where the Heart Is / chor. Nunzio Perricone

9. Margot Gelber / USA / Follow her Smiling

10. Isabella Giustina / Italy / Destinata Guerriera

11. Valerija Gneuševa / Lithuania/Russia / Between the Two Sunrises

12. Raquel Gualtero Soriano / Spain / Somebody Somewhere

13. Daniel Gwirtzman / USA / Doodling

14. Edouard Hue / France/Switzerland / Forward

15. Paulina Jaksim / Poland / Sola / chor. Anna Nowak

16. Leila Ka / France / Pode ser

17. Yochan Kang / Korea/Germany / I have something to say

18. Alexandra Kostopoulou / Greece / Artemisia

19. Gennaro Andrea Lauro / Italy/France / Sarajevo - the massacre of the quiet man

20. Max Levy / USA/Germany / Silent bell

21. Dor Mamalia / Israel/Switzerland / I Choose You

22. Rebecca Margolick / Canada/USA / Ministry

23. Ivona Medić / Croatia/Hungary / Self Manual

24. Jarosław Mysona / Poland / Stonewall Inn

25. Sean Nederlof / USA / Coming Home / chor. Yoshito Sakuraba

26. Andrew Pearson / USA / This is not the end

27. Rima Pipoyan / Armenia / Woman Before Decision Making

28. Łukasz Przytarski / Poland / Weld 

29. Antonin Rioche / France/Belgium / Ohboy!

30. Mounir Saeed / Egypt / What about Dante 

31. Aya Toraiwa / Japan/Germany / Miscanthus and Blackbird

32. Drosia Triantaki / Greece / CASCADE:Equilibria

33. Eri Watanabe / Japan/Germany / Describe

34. Dominika Wiak / Poland / Melancholia / chor. Jakub Lewandowski

35. Yeh Yung-Chen / Taiwan / Lost Dust

We are waiting for confirmation of participation, and the final schedule of the competition will be announced in mid-May.

Thank you for all submissions and see you in Gdansk!