GROOVIN’ GREENHOUSE 2018 ARTIST APPLICATION
Apply to be a guest dancer or company at Groovin’ Greenhouse as part of the Fertile Ground Festival of the Arts! This is a call for professional and pre-professional dance companies only.
Once again Polaris Dance Theatre is thrilled to present Groovin’ Greenhouse, the dance hub for Portland’s Fertile Ground Festival. Polaris Dance Theatre’s Groovin’ Greenhouse venue comes equipped with full lighting, sound, seating and a dressing room. We welcome all participants and look forward to helping you bring your new works to life! Think of us as your producer! Keep in mind this is a non-adjudicated festival with applications taken on a “first come – first serve” basis. Don’t delay!
IMPORTANT DUE DATES:
OCT 11 2017: PLEASE BE PRE-REGISTERED W/FERTILE GROUND FESTIVAL ON-LINE
Participants must complete a separate application with the Fertile Ground Festival at: www.fertilegroundpdx.org
OCT 15 2017: SUMBIT GROOVIN’ GREENHOUSE ARTIST APPLICATION W/Payment email to: sara@polarisdance.org
mail to: Polaris Dance Theatre 1826 NW 18th Avenue Portland, OR 97209
JANUARY 18 – 28, 2018
Returning for the 8th year, Polaris Dance Theatre’s Groovin’ Greenhouse will host an array of emerging and established Portland-area dance companies during the city-wide Fertile Ground Festival of New Work! Audience members will enjoy a taste of various genres at this pivotal show featuring the Polaris Dance Company, the Polaris Junior Company, and other local favorites! This production has been a huge success and one of our most highly anticipated events, so be sure to reserve your seat ahead of time as performances often sell out!
Fertile Ground is a non-juried festival of world premiere works in a variety of artistic genres. It features world premiere projects from the Portland creative community, from fully staged world premiere works of theater to experimental and ensemble-driven work, workshops productions, readings, and many other performance events and collaborations including dance, music, comedy, visual art. Each participant produces their own event, with Fertile Ground as an umbrella of publicity, marketing and consulting support.
Email Sara Anderson at sara@polarisdance.org with any questions.
PERFORMANCE DATES
Thursday, Jan 18 | 7:30pm
Friday, Jan 19 | 7:30pm
Saturday, Jan 20 | 7:30pm
Sunday, Jan 21 | 2:00pm
Thursday, Jan 25 | 7:30pm
Friday, Jan 26 | 7:30pm
Saturday, Jan 27 | 7:30pm
Sunday, Jan 28 | 2:00pm
Fertile Ground Overview:
Fertile Ground is a non-juried festival of world premiere works in a variety of artistic genres. It features world premiere projects from the Portland creative community, from fully staged world premiere works of theater to experimental and ensemble-driven work, workshops productions, readings, and many other performance events and collaborations including dance, music, comedy, visual art. Each participant produces their own event, with Fertile Ground as an umbrella of publicity, marketing and consulting support.
Unlike a typical fringe festival, Fertile Ground’s focus is offering the finest work of our local theater and dance companies, as well as multi-disciplinary artists. This ensures that the artistic and financial benefits of the festival stay in Portland, while the festival showcases what Portland ‘s creative community has to offer far beyond. Where other new works festivals are curated by one organization and typically feature a string of staged readings, Fertile Ground opens the door to all creative voices. In a concentrated, 10-day timeframe, audiences can choose from a vast depth and breadth of works at all different stages in the creative process. For these reasons, Fertile Ground is nationally unique, providing a new model for creating and publicizing new work that will be of substantive value to the national theater, dance and arts conversation.
Participation Qualifications
To participate in the festival, fully staged productions must be World Premieres, defined as not having had a fully staged production in another venue in its current form regionally or nationally.
Staged readings and workshops of new plays in development may participate as long as the most recent draft being presented has not been staged for public viewing before.
Fertile Ground welcomes work generated non-traditionally, collaboratively, and using new techniques and methods, and work that transcend the boundaries of traditional theater, dance or other artistic models.