DANCING OLYMP is a forum open to young dancers from vocational and private schools and is held once a year in Berlin. The participants can represent their countries in the following categories: classical dance, modern dance, character dance, folk dance, jazz and pop.

The festival's primary objective is to foster and increase the popularity of dancing, to bring together the international participants, their parents and teachers in order to spark new impulses for young dancers, to enable an exchange about dancing and the issues of young dancers and to foster dance as a global lingua franca.

The participating dancers (in 2004, approx. 380 participants, in 2005 - 500 participants, and in 2006 - 2010, approximately 600 participants from 30 countries every year took part in the festival) come from Germany, Finland, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Greece, numerous Eastern European countries (Poland, Serbia and Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, Russia and the Ukraine), from China, Japan, Korea, Brazil, the USA and Canada.

The performances are evaluated (according to aspects such as skills, technique, artistic expression and intention, etc.) by an international Jury consisting of experts from the world of dance, media and diplomacy.

Scholarships to the leading ballet & theater schools will offer the winners of the Festival the opportunity to train with vocational theatre and dance schools and to go on tour with today's stars.

You will find more information on DANCING OLYMP's mission, the festival's programme and jury, which consists of famous and highly-acclaimed personalities from the world of the Stage.