Pointe to Point - Asia-Europe Dance Forum

Pointe to Point
The Fifth Asia-Europe Dance Forum
Beijing & Guizhou , China
13 to 24 November 2007
Organizers: Asia Europe Foundation & China Dance Association

Open Call for Applications
For Choreographer-Dancers & For Composer-Improvisers
Deadline: 10th August 2007

Pointe to Point, as one of the Asia-Europe Foundation’s (www.asef.org) Young Artist Exchange initiatives, aims to empower aspiring young artists from Asia and Europe to reflect upon their views of contemporary society through their individual artistic expressions. It is committed to providing young people with a process-oriented platform for artistic exchange and dialogue through the arts.

The aim of this year’s Pointe to Point project is to provide an avenue for new inspirations, discoveries and to instigate questions. This project will inquire into the relationships between tradition and contemporary, between dance in urban and rural contexts and also between dance and music. Although primarily a project for dance the intention is to allow dance and music to be treated on an equal basis, working from the beginning from a kind of mutual “ground zero”.

This year’s edition of Pointe to Point takes place in China. A research trip will be made to the remote rural areas of the province of Guizhou where the Miao Minority lives and has preserved their ancient traditions of dance and music. The observations and impressions gathered in Guizhou by the 12 selected choreographer-dancers and 6 selected composer-improvisers from Asia and Europe will serve as inspiration for five days of intensive artistic collaboration in Beijing . The process and results will be shared with the audience in Beijing after the public presentation.

A team of 4 artistic advisors from Europe and Asia - Susan Buirge (USA/France), Wen Hui ( China ), Fabrizio Cassol (Belgium/Italy) & Joyce Koh ( Singapore ) - will facilitate the process and give artistic advice to the participants during the whole period of the project.

For the full information on this open call for applications and the application form, click HERE and download the documents from the ASEF website.

Looking forward to receive your applications to ASEF by August 10th to

Katelijn Verstraete

Cultural Exchange Department
Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF)


31 Heng Mui Keng Terrace Singapore 119595
Tel : (65) 6874 9724 Fax : (65) 6872 1207


E-mail: Katelijn.verstraete@asef.org