New Baltic Dance

The International contemporary dance festival New Baltic Dance (NBD) is one of the most significant events of the year, the festival will shine the light on worldwide tendencies of the art of dance and will introduce promising Lithuanian artists as well as foreign choreographers, who are making the history of contemporary dance.

The creative team of NBD festival visits all the most essential global dance events and puts together a program out of the most interesting dance companies and shows, which are leading the whole contemporary dance community ahead in Europe and beyond. While being the biggest event in The Baltic States of such nature, NBD carries out a triple mission: to inform, educate, and gather people who are interested in contemporary dance.

Since 1997 organizers of the festival introduced to the public companies from all North and Baltic countries, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Israel, Canada, Slovenia, Serbia, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Poland, Switzerland, Greece, South Korea, Liban, Portugal, Taiwan, China, Senegal, Brazil, Netherlands, Cape Verde Islands. In total, more than 230 companies from 35 countries with more than 450 dance performances participated in thefestival New Baltic Dance.

Festival organizers are happy that so far they were able to present such companies as Dimitris Papaioannou (Greece), Eun-Me Ahn (South Korea), Yoann Bourgeois (France) Marlene Monteiro Freitas (Portugal), Oona Doherty (Ireland), Euripides Laskaridis and Osmosis (Greece), „Les Ballets C de la B” (Belgium), Nederlands Dans Theater II (Netherlands), Club Guy and Roni (Netherlands), Cloud Gate Dance Theater (Taiwan), Compagnie Marie Chouinard (Canada), Louise Lecavalier (Canada), „La La La Human Steps“ (Canada), „Cullbergballet“ (Sweden), „Aterballetto“ (Italy), Liquid Loft (Switzerland) „Kibbutz“ dance company (Izrael), Russello Maliphanto company (United Kingdom), Lothringia Ballet (France), Danish Dance Theater (Denmark), etc.

Festival organizers: Lithuanian Dance Information Center and Vilnius Festivals. The festival is part of the “Vilnius 700” program.

Festival curators:

1997 – 2016 Audronis Imbrasas

Since 2017 – Gintarė Masteikaitė.