Open Your Mind Festival

OPEN YOUR MIND FESTIVAL EINDHOVEN
The annual celebration of creativity in dance! Open Your Mind is a 3 day festival with parties, battles and theatre competition.
So if you like creative, young and experimental dance art, if you like street culture, modern dance culture and everything in between – we’ll see you in Eindhoven!

>> FRIDAY 11 JANUARI DYNAMO EINDHOVEN
TICKETS: FREE
OYM Warm up.
Pre-party with special guest event and music all night long.

>>SATURDAY 12TH OF JANUARI PARKTHEATER EINDHOVEN
OYM Battle Day
TICKET LINK: https://www.parktheater.nl/programma/?maand=2019-01-12#modal=/programma/7226/Sample_Culture_ISH/Open_Your_Mind_festival/
Pre-selection and finals of Open Your Mind Battle.
Prize categories: the best battle, best showmanship, OYM award.
Judges:
Jonzi-D (breaking convention) MacSpencer (TaetVremya) Kali (Flying Steps)
mc:
Machette
dj:
Nobunaga Renegade

Battle Day is the classic OYM Battle that transforms battle into theater. There is no need to register just come to the event and sign up.

round 1: solo pre-selection
round 2: 1 vs 1 round battle (top 16)
round 3: improvisational solo (top 8)
round 4: improvisational round ( top 4 )
final round: group improvisation ( top 2 )

>>DYNAMO EINDHOVEN
OYM Afterparty
Ticket: 5 euro at te door, free for festival ticket holder

>>SUNDAY 13TH OF JANUARI PARKTHEATER EINDHOVEN
OYM Stage Day
TICKET LINK: https://www.parktheater.nl/programma/?maand=2019-01-12#modal=/programma/7226/Sample_Culture_ISH/Open_Your_Mind_festival/

The preselections and finals of OYM choreography contest.
For all styles and genres. Who makes the most creative, well structured, crazy, ugly, beatifull choreography of maximum 10 minutes?

How the stage day works?
1. Send your application
2. get notification that you are selected. ( we select about 20 so your chance are very good! don’t hesitate)
3. Go to the stage day and do your performance for the judges panel in the morning. (you have to buy a ticket)
4. Just choose top 8 acts to perform again in the evening
5. Perform in the evening the second time. Win crowd or judges favor.

Prize categories: stage selection top 8, crowds favorite, not of this world main award.