JOMBA! 2020 DIGITAL FRINGE APPLICATIONS OPEN
The Centre for Creative Arts (UKZN)
JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience 2020
FRINGE APPLICATION FORM
Date & Time of the JOMBA! Fringe TBC
For 2020 the JOMBA! Festival Platforms will all be online
APPLICATIONS CLOSE ON: Friday 10th July 2020 @4pm
NO LATE APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED!
PLEASE READ THE INFORMATION SUPPLIED THOROUGHLY AND COMPLETE YOUR APPLICATION ON THE FORM BELOW — ONLY APPLICATIONS COMPLETED ON THIS FORM WILL BE CONSIDERED
It is clear that we will not be able to deliver JOMBA! the same manner as previous years. COVID-19 has shifted the arts world very significantly. With the initial curtailing of gatherings of more than 100 people to a full lock down … and while we all have every hope and wish that life as we remember it will return to ‘normal’ after July, there are clear indictors that this might not be possible to the extent of complete free movement without any social distancing and concern around gatherings of people. Arts and culture will remain one of the hardest hit sectors both now and will continue to be so in whatever is the post COVID-19 phase. We are thus working and planning in an environment of fragile uncertainty but in a space — via the Centre for Creative Arts at UKZN — that I believe could still offer (importantly) much needed income generations for local artists and still offer audiences (embodied or virtual) space to engage serious and important new art and dance making via a re-visioned digital JOMBA! 2020. The ideas is to make JOMBA! a benchmark of what a dance festival could possibly be/become at this zeitgeist in our history. JOMBA! 2020 will be a digital platform and as such we are accepting digital submissions for the JOMBA! Fringe 2020.
Professional, experimental and up-coming choreographers, dancers and dance companies are invited to apply for participation on the JOMBA! Digital Fringe platform.
Please note that this application form does not confirm inclusion of your digital offering, it will be placed (alongside all other applications) before the JOMBA! selection committee. If you are successful in your application you will be notified via e-mail please ensure all details are correctly filled in when you submit you digital Fringe form that goes alongside the film (ensure too that the e-mail address you supply is valid, and one which you regularly check). Please note that the committee’s decisions are final: no late applications will be accepted, and no discussion will be entered into regarding these matters.
We will accept 8-to-10 digital works onto this year’s JOMBA! Fringe, and these will be streamed as part of the JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience on a date to be confirmed.
We are accepting works of no longer than 6-minutes onto the platform.
As we are a contemporary dance festival, works that are located within the broad spectrum of contemporary dance will be considered, and preference will be given to South African and African submissions.
For the JOMBA! Digital Fringe, we are accepting works that are specifically conceived, and created for film and for a digital platfom, and that develop interesting dynamics between dance and screen/digital/film disciplines.
A panel of experts (local and international) will adjudicate the works presented as part of the JOMBA! Digital Fringe, and our “Pick-of-the-Fringe” works will be announced publicly.
The work selected as “Pick-of-the-Fringe” will receive a R1500,00 award.
This year there are also a two further cash awards;
- the “Runner-up to the Pick-of-the-Fringe” who will receive R1000,00
- and a third place award for which the applicant will receive R500,00 (payments will be made after JOMBA! 2020).
CONDITIONS FOR APPLICATION
* Closing Date of Application: FRIDAY 10th July 2020, 4pm (LATE APPLICATONS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED).
* Only applications completed on this form, and sent with either a link to, or an attached video file of the work for consideration will be accepted. Please note, both this form, AND your video file (or a link to it) need to be submitted together for your application to be considered. Please send both this application form AND your video file (or a link to it) in the same e-mail.
* Video file requirements are as follows:
- File Container: MP4
- Video Codec: H.264
- Video Bitrate: 50–80Mbps
- Audio Codec: AAC
- Minimum Audio Bitrate: 128kbps or higher
- Resolution: 120x720p or 640x480p (16:9 or 4:3 respectively)
- Files should not exceed 10GB in size
* All forms must be submitted by e-mail to ATT: Clare Craighead jombafestival@gmail.com with the subject line “2020 JOMBA FRINGE APPLICATION”.
* An e-mail confirming that your application has been received will be sent within 24 hours of you mailing your application (should you not receive such confirmation — please re-send your application).
* Filling out this form and submitting it for consideration indicates that you understand the rules and regulations as set out by the JOMBA! Festival.
* Please ensure accuracy when completing your application — incorrect information and information left out may result in the application being disregarded.
* Successful applicants will be notified via e-mail by early August 2020 and should we require any further information or another video format/copy we will request this.
* Please note that music rights are not covered by the JOMBA! Digital Festival platforms, and as such you will need to supply proof of rights/permissions for any music/audio used in your FRINGE submission (if these are not provided, your submission will not be considered). In the case that royalty free music/audio is used, please provide the details of this alongside your digital submission.
* The JOMBA! Fringe is only open to choreographers over the age of 16yrs working specifically in the idioms of contemporary and fusion dance.
* No traditional or classical dance forms will be accepted onto the fringe as the mission statement of JOMBA! is to support and promote the development of contemporary dance in KZN. Fusion or intercultural dance work, will be considered.
SEE BELOW FOR THE DIGITAL JOMBA! FRINGE FORM ….
JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience 2020
APPLICATION FOR THE JOMBA DIGITAL FRINGE PERFORMANCE
DATE: TBC, online during the JOMBA! Digital Festival
Please complete all details on this form, and e-mail this, with your digital (video) submission, and a photograph (jpeg format) of the choreographer/director to jombafestival@gmail.com
Name (contact person and choreographer/director):
Short (x200 word) Biography of the choreographer/director:
Contact Details (e-mail & whatsapp):
Title of work:
Dancers/Performers (please provide full names):
Music Details (please provide proof of music rights as necessary, works that do not supply this information will NOT be considered):
Duration of Work (please note that works should not exceed a 6-min duration):
Short X250 worddDescription of work/concept note (this will be used in the upload description if your work is selected for screening as part of the JOMBA! Digital Fringe):
Film credits (please supply any necessary credits here as they pertain to your project i.e. cinematography, editing, production design etc.):
Please contact Clare Craighead — during office hours only at
jombafestival@gmail.com if you have any queries.
