REYKJAVÍK DANCE FESTIVAL IS A PROUD MEMBER OF THE NETWORKS AND PROJECTS
Aerowaves
APAP - ADVANCING PERFORMING ARTS PROJECT (2020 - 2024)
R.O.M. Residencies on the move
Nordic Residency Exchange Programme
Bridges
Visiting Artist Programme
Aerowaves
Aerowaves is a Europe-wide hub for dance discovery and support for emerging choreographers, with partners spanning 34 countries. Since its founding in 1996 at The Place in London, the network has grown into a vibrant community of 44 professionals who collectively identify the most promising new dance works and promote them through cross‑border performances—facilitating around 100 shows annually via Creative Europe support. Each October, partners select 20 outstanding choreographers (“Aerowaves Twenty”), whose works receive dedicated promotion, touring opportunities and presentation at initiatives like the Spring Forward festival, Springback Academy, Startup Forum and Artist Encounters—ensuring dynamic artistic exchange and professional development across Europe.
APAP - Advancing Performing Arts Project
Website: www.apapnet.eu
APAP is an international European network of 11 cultural organizations, founded in 2000, dedicated to fostering contemporary performing arts through transnational collaboration. The network supports artists via co-productions, residencies, touring presentations, and knowledge-sharing projects aimed at audience development and artistic innovation. With backing from EU funding programmes such as Creative Europe, APAP adapts to evolving practices by developing flexible formats and long-term support mechanisms, ensuring sustained professional growth and cultural exchange across Europe.
R.O.M. Residencies on the move
Created in 2019 by La Balsamine (Brussels, Be), le joli collectif - Théâtre Aire Libre (St-Jacques de la Lande, Fr) and the Grütli (Geneva, Ch) and joined in 2023 by the Santarcangelo Festival (Santarcangelo di Romagna, It), Théâtre Périscope (Québec, Ca), Théâtre Prospero (Montréal, Ca) and in 2024 by the Reykjavik Dance Festival (Rekjavik, Is). The R.O.M brings together creation and dissemination spaces working in collaboration to build a network of residencies and dissemination.
This network is based first of all on the sharing of our respective experiences and on our will to confront ourselves with other expertise in the accompaniment of artists, other ways of functioning, but also to mutualize our means. As "friends theaters", we invite artists to live and work in our structures each season. These are privileged moments of encounters that create links between artists and institutions, opportunities for future collaborations directly linked to the creative process.
R.O.M Residencies on the move is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
Nordic Residency Exchange Programme
In the Nordic Residency Exchange Programme, five major performing arts houses in the northern Europe collaborate to exchange artists once a year. Each house sends out a local artist to a partner and receives an artist from one of the other partners (from either Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland or Iceland). These residencies are selected by the partners and can not be applied for.
The Nordic Residency Exchange Programme is funded by the Nordic Culture Point and the Nordic Culture Fund and is supported by Bora Bora Residency Centre, BIT Teatergarasjen, MDT Stockholm, Reykjavik Dance Festival and Zodiak.
Nordic Residency Exchange Programme is supported by Nordic Culture Fund.
Bridges
BRIDGES is run by Sonya Lindfors and the organisation UrbanApa and is a Nordic project funded by Kulturkontakt Nord / Nordic Culture Point with UrbanApa from Finland, CODA Oslo International Dance Festival and BIT Teatergarasjen from Norway, MDT from Sweden, Haut from Denmark and Reykjavík dance festival from Iceland among its partners. After a successful pilot of the project in 2020-2022, its second phase will take place in 2023-2024. The second phase consists in a series of seminars partner workshops, a small publication, and more.
Visiting Artist Programme
The Visiting Artist Programme is a European network initiative designed to support early-career choreographers through international exchange and professional development. By inviting selected artists to attend partner festivals across Europe, the programme offers opportunities to observe, connect, and engage with local dance communities, programmers, and peers. Through studio visits, informal discussions, and curated activities, artists gain valuable insights into diverse cultural contexts and strengthen their international networks. The programme fosters long-term connections and contributes to a more inclusive and sustainable dance ecology across Europe.
