Open call: Ethno Germany 2025

Applicants can apply as musicians or dancers. They can apply as musicians if they want to share music from their traditional background and be part of a big ensemble arranging, singing and playing music from all over the world.

Applicants can apply as dancers if they want to share dances from their traditional background and be part of a dance group discovering a variety of traditional and modern dances and creating choreographies to the arrangements of musician’s ensemble.

Musicians and dancers will be working side by side in different groups with several daily meeting opportunities and sessions where everyone collaborates together in order to create a big performance with dance and music from all over the world.

The ruins of Castle Lichtenberg near Kusel (Palatinate) will provide a rustic yet fascinating scenery for musicians and dancers working side by side, creating breath-taking performances, where sound and movement merge together. About 40 participants will share and explore diverse cultural backgrounds, learn and reinvent traditional music & dances and connect through the power of music & dance.

“Be in the big spaces of the castle area, the comfort & service of the youth hostel, the professional artistic mentors or the support from the enthusiastic organisers, participants will receive everything they need for days and nights full of music, dance and joy,” the organisers said. “Be part of the ETHNO Germany experience and join our celebration of diversity and community.”

This year there two application deadlines:

• For those who need a visa: 31 March.
• For those who do not need a visa: 31 May.

Interested artists should apply here.

View the original call here.