Call for application 2026
Want to be part of the official programming ?
Our call for artists is open!
The Montreal International Performing Arts Conference is a unique opportunity to present your work to programmers from around the world!
Submit your application from September 22 to November 24, 2025.
As part of its official programming, the CINARS Biennale 2026 will present full-length works (maximum 90 minutes) in dance, theatre, circus, interdisciplinary arts, and puppetry, as well as excerpts (25 minutes) in music.
The call for applications is open to artists from all countries. For each discipline, an international jury composed of performing arts professionals will select the artists or companies that will be featured in the official programming.
Showcase applications submitted must be the same work presented in front of a live audience at CINARS Biennale 2026.
Non-refundable fee applies to each showcase application:
- Regular rate before November 24th, 2025 (11:59 pm time in Montreal): 130$ CAD (taxes included)
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Explore our five disciplines and orientations for the next CINARS Biennale
Contemporary Puppetry and Object Theatre
We will celebrate the vitality of contemporary puppetry and object theatre, where gesture, material, and light meet technology and emotion. These works, bridging visual theatre and performance, reveal the poetic power of the object on stage and its ability to reshape how we see the world.This edition will highlight artistic approaches that reinvent the spectator’s experience, embracing immersion, live manipulation, shifts of scale, and tactile storytelling. Its aim is to offer an international showcase for a generation of artists who, through the language of the object, question our relationship to the world and open new pathways for contemporary performance.
Indisciplinary music
Highlighting classical, jazz, current, experimental, contemporary, and world music forms that are serious, surprising, or even unruly. Inclusive concerts where the hybridity of forms surprises, offering music with multiple influences and inspiring creations.
Contemporary circus
Through its acrobatic, aerial, balancing, object manipulation, and clowning acts, circus art embodies physical virtuosity and the poetry of movement. The circus, in all its contemporary and street forms, expresses a universal language accessible to all audiences. It reflects the spirit of openness, daring, and humanism that drives the Biennale.
Theatre and new writings
In addition to theater, it is essential to make room for new forms of writing. Welcome to interdisciplinary approaches, crossovers between practices, and hybrid aesthetics that are reshaping the landscape of the performing arts.
Contemporary dance
Dance is a major pillar of the CINARS Biennale program. Whether contemporary, neoclassical, or urban, it reflects the diversity of body language and emotions. It pushes aesthetic and cultural boundaries and embodies the universal dialogue between artists and audiences around the world.
Reveal contemporary artistic voices in their entirety
More than ever, the CINARS Biennial presents comprehensive works in dance, circus arts, theatre, music, and interdisciplinary arts, ranging from intimate venues to large-scale stages. Fiery works that disrupt, challenge, advocate, unsettle, or express themselves with great delicacy.
Marvel at youth performances
The vitality and quality of productions aimed at young audiences and families set them apart. This art showcases dazzling artistic approaches across all disciplines
Foster diverse networking
Welcoming a plurality of voices, provoking unexpected encounters, putting forward new conference formats, and delving deeper into the challenges facing our economy and professional exchanges.
Offer large as well as intimate settings
Present performances in a variety of settings (large stages, medium-sized venues and intimate venues) and diversify scheduling (midday, afternoon, evening, late evening) to optimize encounters between works. Free slots remain reserved for OFF activities, fostering complementarity and discovery
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Any question ? You can contact
Victoria Rose
Production Manager
coordination@cinars.org
+1 514 842 5866 #105
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