Welcome to the New Formats application for IMPRO Amsterdam 2025! If you want to try something new, risky, experimental or audacious (either for you or in your format), you’re in the right place.
This year’s festival will run from 15 to 22 February 2025 in Amsterdam Noord, centered around 't Zonnehuis (Zonneplein 30, 1033 EK Amsterdam).
Performing is open to anyone that wishes to apply for it! We are looking for a wide variety of shows, performers and styles, and will select from the groups that apply to create the best, most varied schedule possible for the festival.
Anything and everything, including solo shows, for a time slot.
Maybe you’re a fresh group looking to play your first festival, or a group still fairly new to the international scene. Maybe you’re a collective of experienced improvisers who met at festivals past and want to try something new together. Maybe you’re a team who’d like to reunite after years of dormancy, or an experienced group that wants to try a new show, format, or something wildly experimental. Maybe you do something improv adjacent like clown or puppetry and you’d like to share your show to a new audience.
Whether it’s you taking an emotional risk by putting your team out there for the first time, or it’s your show taking a risk by trying to combine puppetry with gymnastics, we are dying to hear from you.
(If you’re an established group and this doesn’t fit for you, fear not — click over to our Established Groups application).
If your group is selected to perform, the festival offers:
If selected, your show can be scheduled any day from 15 to 22 February 2025, so please double check your availability!
The form to apply will be open until 30 September, 2024.
We will let you know whether or not you have been selected before the end of October.
If your team is selected but your entire cast (as per this form) cannot make it, please let us know as soon as possible. We will do our best to make it work, but this may lead to the cancellation of the invitation in favor of a group that commit in full to the performance.
If selected, your show can be scheduled any day from 15 to 22 February 2025, so please double check your availability!
We know that you’re applying over the summer for a festival that will take place in February, with an idea that may evolve over time, whether those changes concern the cast of the show or changes in the format itself.
That’s understandable, but tricky for us. We get over 400 applications each year and it’s always an impossible choice narrowing that list down. If we choose your pitch, it’s because we like your pitch as written. That, after all, is why we chose you.
That doesn’t mean that you can’t change your pitch as time passes, but it DOES mean that we ask you to run any of those changes past our artistic team. We want to make sure that we’re both still happy about whatever your show evolves into, and that we are accurately communicating what to expect to our audience.
You can also apply for other roles in the festival — all applications have the same deadline:
What do we need from you?
Pretty much what you’d expect — some information about you for our marketing, contact info, and a pitch for your show.
Your email and phone numbers will not be communicated to anyone other than festival organizers and your members.
If you have any questions, you can reach Erica (Artistic Director) at arti@impro-amsterdam.nl.
Warm regards,
IMPRO Amsterdam Team