We welcome you to the biggest classical and contemporary dance event. The B.C.C. Festival (Balkan Classic Contemporary Festival), is organized for the fourth consecutive year in Thessaloniki and for the first time in Athens. It is addressed to all dancers, of all ages, from all over the Balkans and despite its few years of existence, it has already become an institution.
In B.C.C. Festival There will be a series of seminars aimed at all dancers, amateurs and professionals, and will be held during the days before and after the festival.
In B.C.C. Festival There will be a series of seminars aimed at all dancers, amateurs and professionals, and will be held during the days before and after the festival. It will take place on the two days of May 31 and June 1, 2025, in the Theater of the Lazarist Monastery. In Athens he will take part on May 3 and 4, 2025 in the Despotaki Hall of the Athens Conservatory.
World-renowned dancers and choreographers are invited to evaluate and rate the participants. Dancers who receive top scores earn scholarships to continue their studies at the schools they attend.
Each dancer or dance group will compete and be graded, not competitively with others but according to the score they accumulate. In this way competition is avoided, which is not consistent with the spirit of creation and culture, as expressed through classical dance.
SCHOLARSHIPS - ΥΠΟΤΡΟΦΙΕΣ
This year the competition part will last two days.
One day will be dedicated to the ballet categories and the other to the contemporary categories. .
Seminars take place at the same time as the competitive part. When the ballet categories compete, the contemporary seminars take part, and conversely, when the contemporary is contested, the ballet seminars take part.
Αfter the classical dance categories, on Saturday 23/3/2024, the Galla will take place.. In 2023, the show Gigelle part 2 was staged, where dancers from Greece, who passed an audition, framed the first couple of the Czech lyric scene, and in 2024, the show La Sylphide was staged.
The process of submitting an interest and sending a video was done to the email: bccfest@gmail.com. Immediately after, the video audition process began. The first fifty dancers took part in the performance and accompany the first solo couple of the Stara Zagora opera. The whole process is done under the supervision of mister Yuri Tcvetkov.
Dancers or dance groups scoring 90% and above will be awarded a gold medal. Those scoring 80-89% will be awarded a silver medal and those scoring 70-79% will be awarded a bronze medal.
The innovation that will be implemented for the second year at BCCFest 25, is that the highest scores of the competition will be displayed and rotated on the scoreboard, so that we know the winner or winners of the major scholarships throughout the competition,creating a healthy competition, since each dancer or dance group will have a reason and a clear motivation to perform as well as possible according to the requirements of the category they are competing in, with the aim of getting a high score and therefore a place among the best choreographies of the day to which financial scholarships will be given by the organization..
Of course there will be another classification for the first day which will be ballet and another for the second day which will be contemporary.
In case that a student is expelled or suspended from the faculty with which he participated in the B.C.C. competition. Fest 2025, the scholarship will go to the next in line. Our goal is to reward both talented dancers and their instructors.
In case of a tie, the gold medal will be awarded to all winners, but a final round will follow, where the judges will decide who should be awarded the category scholarship.
In any other case, the scholarships awarded by the organization are awarded to the dancers or dance groups with the highest score.
In case that that a dancer or dance group, over 18 years old or participates independently, without representing a school, then the corresponding amount of the voucher will be given to the person or group, by depositing into a bank account.
In addition to the scholarships to be awarded by the B.C.C. Festival, scholarships will be awarded in cooperation with the judges.
These scholarships are awarded independently of the score at the sole discretion of the judges.
IMPROVISATION HEAT
28€ per person
photos and videos included
BIG TEAM
(over 9 dancers)
28€ per person
photos and videos included
SOLO
53€ per person
photos and videos included
DUET
39€ per person
photos and video included
SMALL TEAM
(4 -8 d ancers)
34€ per person
photos and videos included
PARTICIPATION
To be valid, the declaration of participation must be accompanied by a copy of its deposit
bank account with the amount of the participation and sending proof of payment to
email : bccfest@gmail.com
The process must be done as a group by the head of the school or group and in no case individually
Also, the check-in will be completed per participation in a special template after the bank deposit and the corresponding comparison.
Participation in B.C.C.Fest automatically implies an agreement to film and publish footage of the Festival.
Important
€5 discount in total for every second, third, etc. participation
BCCFest in collaboration with Prokopiou Studio, provides with each participation the following :
VIDEO of the choreography & 6 photos.
In the event that there will be more dancers on stage, then the photos will be proportional
TRIO
39€ per person
photos and video included
Entry fees for B.C.C.Fest 25 will be announced by November 15, 2024
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Contest Tickets
The method of selling the tickets will be announced soon
GALLA:
GALLA will be held after the completion of the competition part
In 2023, the show Gigelle part 2 was staged, where dancers from Greece, who passed an audition, framed the first couple of the Czech lyric scene, Roman Soviar and Ikonija Palemis.
In 2024 the show La Sylphide was staged with their protagonists Tomoki Ishigo & Aneliya Dimitrova - Premier soloists of the Opera Stara Zagora
SEMINARS
As part of the festival, seminars will be organized by the judges.
The duration of the seminar will be 90 minutes and the total charge will be €25.
The minimum number of participants to hold the seminar is 15 people.
The declaration of participation is made from the platform on the page ΄΄registration΄΄.
BANK ACCOUNTS
Bank of Piraeus: GR7501722640005264060164300
Eurobank: GR6602601220000450200919098
National Bank of Greece: GR2501102400000024044021384
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