January 2012 auditions for the 2012 San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival will not be held. Instead, Festival Artistic Directors CK Ladzekpo and Carlos Carvajal will be curating, or selecting artists, for next year's Festival line-up from groups that participated in past Festivals.

By placing auditions on hiatus for a year, we hope to be able to navigate the new financial realities and make the best decisions we can regarding the Festival's future.

We are planning to return to the audition process for the 2013 Festival and have a confirmed reservation to hold the 2013 auditions on January 12th/13th and 19th/20th, 2013, at Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley.