Sea Dance Festival

Sea Dance Festival

Sea Dance Festival view from Dance Paradise stage
DatesThree days, starting on the last Friday of August (2018–present)
Thursday after EXIT Festival (2014–2017)
17–19 August 2023
Location(s)Malinska, Krk, Croatia (2023–present)
Buljarica Beach, Budva, Montenegro (2018–2022)
Jaz Beach, Budva, Montenegro (2014–2017)
Years active2014–present
Attendance40,000 (2022)[1]
Capacityapprox. 21,000
Websitewww.seadancefestival.me

Sea Dance Festival (Serbo-Croatian: Si dens festival / Си денс фестивал) is a summer music festival, held in Malinska, a settlement on the island of Krk in Croatia. It has been held at Jaz Beach in Budva since 2014 until 2017, as an extension of EXIT Festival, and then at Buljarica Beach in Montenegro until 2022. In May 2023, the organizers announced the festival's displacement from Montenegro, because of the blockades and lack of financial support from the local government, with several potential future locations announced.[2] Croatia was revealed as the location in June 2023.[3]

Just after its first edition, Sea Dance Festival was officially proclaimed as the 'Best Medium Sized European festival' at the European Festivals Awards,[4] held in Groningen in January 2015. Following the recognition at the European Festival Awards, Sea Dance Festival teamed up with London-based media company AEI and its global brands UKF and TheSoundYouNeed for the second edition of the festival.

In short time, Sea Dance gained international media attention, featuring an article in Forbes magazine that listed Sea Dance Festival, together with EXIT Festival in Top 10 Europe's Summer Festivals.[5] At the national level, Sea Dance festival won Montenegro Wild beauty Award[6] for the event with greatest promotional effect for Montenegro.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference vijesti.me was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Rampa AZK za festival "Sea dance"". vijesti.me (in Serbian). Retrieved 29 May 2023.
  3. ^ portal, D. A. N. (10 June 2023). "ДАН - Sea Dance se seli u Hrvatsku". www.dan.co.me. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  4. ^ "Sea Dance je najbolji evropski festival srednje veličine". Vijesti.me. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  5. ^ Rodriguez, Cecilia. "Europe's 10 Best Summer Festivals You Never Heard Of". Forbes. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  6. ^ "Sea Dance Festival dobio nagradu za događaj godine". Retrieved 16 June 2015.