GLINT Dance Projection Installation
Call for Screendance Entries: GLINT 2025 – Shift
Shift the landscape. Illuminate change.
Westminster University Dance invites artists to submit original screendance works For GLINT 2025 – Shift. We seek bold, innovative pieces that embody seismic change, transform perspectives, spark dialogue, and reimagine place. Show us what it means to shift perspectives, systems, and stories.
Selected works will be projected outdoors onto the architecture of Westminster's campus during a 2-day outdoor video installation, transforming familiar spaces through movement and light.
- Submission Deadline: Friday, April 18, 2025 by 11:59 p.m.
- Event Dates: October 24–25, 2025
Guidelines and Submission Details
In its fifth season, GLINT is an annual video installation project by the Westminster Dance program that presents original screen dance works by students, faculty, and community artists projected on the architecture and landscape of Westminster’s campus. The accessible path is approximately .3 miles in length and allows audiences to engage with the work in a gallery style that can be enjoyed at your own pace. GLINT aims to enhance engagement for patrons by integrating accessible tools of audio description, mobility considerations, self-paced interaction, and content information related to the screen dance being projected. GLINT is made possible through generous support from ZAP, individual donors, and Westminster.
- Submission Deadline: Friday, April 18, 2025 by 11:59pm
- Event Dates: October 24–25, 2025, 7–9:00 p.m.
Submission Guidelines
Submissions should be original screendance works exploring themes of transformation, movement, and place for projection onto campus architecture during a 2-day outdoor video installation. Works may be newly created or previously screened and should be suitable for public, site-specific presentation. Pieces up to 8 minutes are welcome. Please note that each screendance runs on a repeated loop as visitors stroll through the outdoor installation in a gallery style. Artists are encouraged to consider how their work shifts perspectives, sparks dialogue, transforms spaces, or reimagines familiar environments. All submissions are due by Friday, April 18, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. Each selected screendance will receive a $600 screening honorarium. Selected screendance works will be notified by Friday, May 16, 2025.
Support GLINT
GLINT is free and open to the public, thanks to generous support from Zoo, Arts, and Park (ZAP) Tier II funding.
Additional contributions to the Dance program support community engagement and student opportunities like GLINT and are deeply appreciated. To make a contribution, complete the donation form and select “Dance Program.”
Previous Shows
GLINT 2024 – Glisten
GLINT 2024 – Glisten portrayed the multifaceted perceptions of water in various environments, reflecting its beauty, power, and vulnerability as a sustaining resource. Glisten featured Utah-based artists as they considered how water shapes our inner and outer landscapes, creating dialogues between moving imagery and fixed architecture.