A call for emerging choreographers

Solar One is currently accepting submissions for its Fifth Annual Solar Solar One Dance Series to take place over two weekends this summer, as part of the 2009 Green Energy Arts Festival. Emerging artists are strongly encouraged to submit materials for consideration by the festival selection panel.

DEADLINE: April 1, 2009

After last year's successful season, Solar One is pleased to announce its fifth annual Solar Powered Dance Series. Over the course of our 2008 series, hundreds of visitors and artists appreciated and enjoyed the richness of the arts experience at our unique solar-powered venue in Stuyvesant Cove Park, located on Manhattan's East River waterfront. This year, we will again provide a much-needed new venue for dance and produce an exciting line up of performances by emerging choreographers.

Solar One's 2009 Solar Powered Dance Series will be held over two weekends in Summer 2009 and will be divided into two three-day programs (Program A: July 23-25, Raindate July 26; Program B: July 30-August 1, Raindate August 2).

Performances will take place in the evening on our 20-foot by 24-foot outdoor eco-stage, made from recycled materials and overlooking the East River. (Please note that the stage design does not include curtains, wings or lighting equipment.) As with our 2008 festival, the sound system for the Solar Powered Dance Series will be powered entirely by energy collected by the solar-paneled roof of the Solar 1 building. Each soloist or group will perform three evenings and is expected to contribute pieces ranging anywhere from 6 to 10 minutes in length. Performances should be accessible to a general audience and appropriate for all age groups. Ten hours of free rehearsal time on stage will be allotted to each individual or group, and each choreographer will receive an honorarium.

In accordance with our energy philosophy, we would prefer that you send us electronic materials only, to the extent possible. Please provide a link to a video segment of your work, preferably the work you intend to present in the series, along with contact information and a brief bio. If a new work is being created especially for the series, please provide links to a completed work and to the work in progress and/or notes. Text may be attached as MS Word documents, and all electronic materials may be submitted online to tamar@solar1.org no later than April 1, 2009.

Those unable to provide electronic submissions should send in a complete piece of work, cued to a five-minute segment, on DVD or video, preferably the piece they intend to perform for the festival, along with contact information and a brief bio. If a new piece is being created especially for this series, send a completed work, and a DVD of the work in progress and/or notes. Please refrain from sending extra materials, including publicity materials and extraneous packaging.

Submissions may be delivered to Solar 1, located at East 23rd Street and the East River in Manhattan (10am - 5pm, Monday - Friday) by April 1, 2009. Submission materials, postmarked no later than March 28, 2009, may also be mailed to:

Solar One
2009 Solar Powered Dance Series
24-20 FDR Drive, Service Road East
New York, NY 10010

If you would like your materials returned to you, please include a self-addressed stamped mailer with submission. (Materials may also be picked up at Solar One during the second week of April.)

For additional information regarding this year's Solar Powered Dance Series and Solar One's summer arts programs, please visit our website or contact Artistic Director Tamar Rogoff at (212) 533-8589 or tamar@solar1.org.

Solar 1 is New York's only stand-alone, solar powered learning center. Through unique green energy, education and arts programming, Solar One has dedicated itself to inspiring New Yorkers to embrace energy-conscious and environmentally responsible lifestyles.