SideBySide-net Internet Dance Festival

Festival de danza por internet German Embassy, Mexico

Almost 100.000 spectators in four years speak for themselves: The international internet dance festival SideBySide-net has established itself a cross-cultural platform for the freelance dance scene. Our goal is to give dance and young talented artists a greater presence in people’s minds.

Following our call for proposals in spring, we receive a multitude of top-class applications from artists of different styles from all over the world.

Our external international expert panel then chooses a selection that tries to represent the diversity of dance.
These nominees are then invited for the festival’s opening in late summer, where they present themselves and their art to the audience in the curse of a live-show.

Directly after that, the nominees’ short clips are put online. The visitors of this website » watch & vote to decide on their favorites who receive prizes.

However, all participating artists profit from showing their art to such a broad international audience. The strong feedback from artists and viewers likewise proves that innovative art can be successfully mediated by innovative means of presentation.