Sibu International Dance Festival 2027 |

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	Organized by Hornland Dance Theatre, Sibu, Malaysia, a non-profit organization.
	The Sibu International Dance Festival (SIDF) was initiated and organized by Hornland Dance Theatre in Sibu, Malaysia. It made its debut in 2012 with Sibu Municipal Council’s acknowledgement and support.
	Now, under the support of the Ministry of Tourism, Creative Industry and Performing Arts Sarawak, SIDF will accommodate more international groups.
	Conceived as an annual event, SIDF is planned to be held during the mid-term school holiday in the second half of the Malaysian academic year, in Sibu—the largest town in the central region of Sarawak. Situated along the Rejang River, the longest river in Southeast Asia, Sibu provides a distinctive cultural and geographical setting for the festival.
	Date and activities of SIDF 2027
	The 13th edition of SIDF will be held in 28 August – 1 September, 2027 (five days). The components of the festival are:
	1. Gala and Opening Night
	2. Dance Oasis - Folk Dance, Line Dance, Indigenous Dance, Street Dance, Contemporary Dance, Percussion, Theatre Work, and Children Dance
	3. Dance Concert
	4. Dance Workshop
	5. Dance Seminar
	6. Outdoor Performance at Sibu Central Market and Wisma Sanyan (shopping mall)
	7. Outdoor Site-specific Performance at University of Technology Sarawak (UTS), Sibu
	8. International Food and Handicraft Fair
	The activities of the festival extend from indoor to outdoor stages, and even onto the corners of the streets. It aspires to draw and encourage more people to join the festival, and be more directly and personally involved with the performers and their performances.
	Performance types and age eligibility
	The festival is open to all forms of performing arts, including dance and theatre, encompassing both traditional and contemporary expressions. It welcomes participants of all ages (with a minimum age requirement of 10 for child participants), races, and cultural backgrounds, both locally and internationally.
	SIDF welcomes a wide range of performances, not limited to dance, but also including works that combine movement, percussion, theatre, and other forms of artistic expression.
	A world celebration of dance platform
	SIDF also aims to become the world platform for artists and arts organization on local, regional and international levels to exchange dialogs, concepts, experiments, explorations and display the diversity of dances, and of course, to facilitate the development of tourism, arts and culture in this region through this event.