26th International Competition for Choreographers Hanover 2012
on June 23rd and 24th, 2012
“This is the most interesting, well organised, progressive choreographic competition in central europe with an international reputation. It is a privilege to have been part of this renowned competition, a platform of artistic exchanges. The support of the Ballett Gesellschaft Hannover for the world of dance is paramount!”
Richard Wherlock, Director Ballet Basel.
Prize: The money that can be won for the first 3 endowed prizes amounts 13.500 EUR. The audience prize amounts 1.000 EUR. Furthermore there is a critics prize of 1.500 EUR and the Scapino Production Prize.
New production prize:
Since 2005 Ed Wubbe, director of the Scapino Ballet Rotterdam awarded the Scapino production prize. This year we can present a second production prize. 2011 John Neumeier founded the Bundesjugenballett. In 2012 this young company awarded the Bundesjugendballett production prize.
http://www.ballettgesellschaft.de
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5th INTERNATIONAL CHOREOGRAPHIC CAPTURES COMPETITION
DEADLINE: APRIL 30th, 2012
For the fifth time, JOINT ADVENTURES is inviting choreographers, dancers, film and (multi-)media artists to develop new aesthetic approaches and visual languages for choreography and film in a 60-second ad format in the CHOREOGRAPHIC CAPTURES context.
We are searching for works that operate choreographically with the film medium, react creatively towards movement, leave room for experimentation and initiate unusual aesthetic dialogues with the film audience: “Expanded Choreography”. The objective is to discover the endless choreographic possibilities within film – with, but also separated from the moving body in front of a camera, as well as in editing, rhythm, abstraction or animation.
All information required for participating in the competition is available at: www.choreooo.org.
Deadline is April 30th, 2012!
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CHOREOGRAPHIC CAPTURES – choreooo.org
The CHOREOGRAPHIC CAPTURES art project and short-film competition was initiated under the motto “ART FOR THOSE WHO DIDN’T ASK FOR IT!” by JOINT ADVENTURES with support from the German Federal Cultural Foundation in 2008. The goal is as simple as it is ambitious: to use unconventional means to increase people’s awareness of the art forms of film, dance and choreography.
The project website has been just now newly designed and expanded into an interactive portal. Now you can register at www.choreooo.org as a member of the online community, upload your own art films, watch and evaluate other people’s clips or watch a bunch of high-qual dancefilms from our four competitions (shorts no longer than 60 seconds). The portal is meant to support the interaction between choreography, media art and film, and motivate people to creatively work with a medium of art. So make the jump with us, and check us out at www.choreooo.org
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Dingle – Donegal, Dancing the West Coast of Ireland
Nomadic Dance is a collaborative platform, founded to facilitate performance research with local and international arts practitioners in rural & urban communities. The Nomadic Research Laboratory is an archive of kinetic exploration, documenting environmental and social investigation. Establishing a devised, durational choreographic score informed by landscape, people & culture.
The project will start in Dingle and finish in Derry with some final sharings:
SKELLIGS: 02 August
DINGLE – GALWAY (approx): 03 –10 August
GALWAY – SLIGO (approx): 10 – 17 August
SLIGO – DONEGAL (approx): 17 – 24 August
DERRY (approx):24 – 28 August
DUBLIN: 29 August – 02 September
BERLIN: 04 September
GLASGOW: October
Although this project is being executed on minimum funds; we are in need of some additional finances; so I would like to draw you attention further to the sponsorship page:
http://www.sponsume.com/project/nomadic-dance
If you can donate even the smallest amount we would be eternally grateful! This project is hugely ambitious and this first study is the very start of the road. seeking through dance to create a a unique, intricate and intimate series of responses to place.
Also if you would like to join any when along the way, your support and activity would be warmly welcomed, just get in touch!
Nomadic Dance
Scottish dance artist, Dana MacPherson will dance from Dingle to Donegal, the West Coast of Ireland this August, covering approximately 600km in 4 weeks. The work in Ireland will culminate with a Dance Ireland Residency at DanceHouse, before performing the work in Germany at the festival Zietgenossicher Oper Berlin, and a residency at Glasgow’s Dance House, Scotland.
Dana will be joined on the road by a variety of artists; together they will develop a series of choreographic scores created from experimental exercises in perception and orientation. The scores will map moments of discovery read from the Irish landscape. Terrain and weather will be documented in the mediums of dance, sound, text, drawing, photography and film. Integral to the labs resource is local input of Irish history and culture. Recording and archiving people’s tales along the road will form the foundations of the labs cultural archive, an invaluable resource for our devised performance, Shifting States. Created on the road, Shifting States reflects upon how we perceive, orientate and relate to our local habitat and landscapes.
Nomadic Arts School
Nomadic Dance is working towards creating, The Nomadic Arts School, an organisation that takes resources of creative value to rural & urban global communities around the globe with emphasis to travel to refugee camps where knowledge of homeland is in danger of being lost. The role of the Nomadic Arts School is to create a space where people can document their stories, their lives before and after.
Weblinks:
Sponsorship: http://www.sponsume.com/project/nomadic-dance
Website: http://nomadicdance.org/projects/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nomadicdance
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Choreography with Caroline Bowditch
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
Speirs Locks Studios
210 Garscube Road
Glasgow G4 9RR
5-day course
Monday to Friday: 9am – 5pm
8 – 12 August 2011
£400
Caroline Bowditch – Choreographer, Director
Caroline has been dancing for 15 years. Since arriving in the UK in 2002, she has been mentored by Adam Benjamin (CandoCo) and Yael Flexer (Bedlam Dance) and has participated in several residencies with CandoCo.
She has choreographed and performed work as Girl Jonah with Fiona Wright and is a founder member of Weave Movement Theatre (Melbourne) and The FATHoM Project (Newcastle).
Caroline toured with Scottish Dance Theatre where she helped create and performed in Adam Benjamin’s Angels of Incidence. Caroline is currently Scottish Dance Theatre’s Dance Agent for Change.
This 5-day course is designed for people aged 17 plus interested in developing and advancing skills in choreography.
By the end of the course participants should have:
. Strengthened skills in choreography and composition
. Explored a diverse range of techniques for generating original dance and movement
. Discussed the work of various professional choreographers
. Created a short performance piece based on concepts and techniques explored during the course
Working with experienced dancer and choreographer, Caroline Bowditch, participants will explore the essential elements of creating original dance performance.
Each day will consist of engaging practical workshops that introduce participants to a variety of choreographic techniques and methods. This will include creating movement inspired by text, objects and the environment, and using composition activities to structure fragments of material.
During the course participants will view filmed dance performance by different choreographers and have the opportunity to experiment with their established techniques in the creation of new work.
Each participant will have the opportunity to lead on the development of a short performance piece and work collaboratively with others on theirs.
The course will culminate in a sharing of the work created during the week for an invited audience of friends and family on Friday 12 August at 4pm.
Speirs Locks Studios is Glasgow’s newest space for dance. The four industry-standard studios are used to support the Academy’s professional dancers in their training and are now also available to you.
The Choreography Course is part of our new dance programme which offers you access to our great dance spaces and experienced teaching staff.
The Academy is committed to widening access to the performing and production arts. The majority of our courses are designed to allow students to explore the performance and production arts fully and enable students of differing abilities the opportunity to grow and develop through participation in the arts.
All courses are held at the Academy which is an accessible building with a lift, accessible toilets and accessible teaching spaces.
Here is a link to a pdf file outlining the course in detail.
http://www.rsamd.ac.uk/export/sites/default/common/documents/YouthWorks/Choreography_-_Summer.pdf
Watch Caroline performing with Tom Pritchard for Scottish Dance Theatre:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POlr7W9mpD4
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APPLICATIONS ARE INVITED FOR AN MA IN ART (CHOREOGRAPHIC ARTS)
PRESENTED BY DAGHDHA IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LIMERICK SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN (LSAD), LIMERICK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (LIT).
Daghdha and LSAD, LIT are pleased to announce a two-year fulltime MA in Art (Choreographic Arts) by Research. This unique opportunity for practice-based research at DAGHDHA, will allow artists, as LSAD registered students to avail of LSAD’s regular student services whilst pursuing their research at Daghdha, a leading dance-organisation in Ireland. The intiative brings together academic and professional practice, offering a distinctive research opportunity in an Irish as well as a European context. Students will follow their individual research paths placed within the framework of Daghdha’s professional development programme. Supervised by Dr. Michael Kliën (Artistic Director), in addition to LSAD academics, students may also engage in frequent mentoring with associated artists and external practitioners.
The deadline for receipt of applications for the first MA in Art
(Choreographic Arts) is 14th March. Starting-dates will be individually agreed with the suitable candidate.
For further information please visit www.lit.ie / www.daghdha.ie
For formal application and application forms please email Kathleen Leamy, Graduate Studies and Research Office LIT kathleen.leamy@lit.ie | 061 448 526
For informal queries and questions please contact Gemma Carcaterra, General Manager on gemma@daghdha.ie | 061 467872
Daghdha wishes to acknowledge the financial support of the Arts Council, Limerick City Council and LIT. Daghdha is also supported by RTÉ lyric fm and Culture Ireland.
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NUMBER
Welcome to share with us the work of NUMBER, a choreography based on algorithms, counting and moving humans in it’s latest development created in Helsinki with international and local artist, thinker and scholars.
Sat 26.2.2011 at 15:00
Zodiak – Center for New Dance, Studio C4
Cable Factory, Tallberginkatu 1 C 4th floor, Helsinki, Finland
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The event starts with a short lecture about the work, followed by the choreography and ending in a shared discussion.
NUMBER is an on-going Choreographic Experiment for a group. The work started during choreographer Riikka Theresa Innanen’s (Fin) Artistic Residency at Daghdha Dance Company 2008-2009 and has been greatly influenced by her collaboration with the Irish mathematician Alexis Clancy and the discussions and experiments done with the participating dancers in the original research. Now this work will take new form in Helsinki C4 studio of Zodiak -Center for New Dance.
In NUMBER a “game” of simultaneously moving, counting and speaking introduces an alternative approach to the body-mind work within choreography. In this work we have started out engaging movement with simple calculations working towards more complex formulas, insisting the brain and the body to work equally radical.
This balancing act in motion reveals patterns of thought, ones genetic structure, intimate strategies of individual surviving, and oddly enough, revives the holistic human for us to witnesses. While Number also reveals a possibility of co-existance of individuals, supporting by mere sharing of a condition, we also ask the question what could the metaphors of thought for the future be.
We welcome the audience to join us to watch the waves with us – this time in human form – to tune in to the vibration created by dancers focusing in counting, speaking and moving, non-stop, and witnessing an event where Numbers changes the states of minds.
NUMBER choreographer Riikka Theresa Innanen
Before a number is a number, a number is a (quantum) wave.[Assertion mine.]
By putting an Úna sequence into the mind of a moving dancer, the wave can be re-instantiated in mind and body – the dancer becomes a “wave mimic”.
With a number of dancers, the dance floor can become an observable quantum field.
In a sense, it is a new type of fractal, where an Úna sequence (which is non linear governor in a fictional sense) is reiterated in a non-linear field (that is the coupled minds and bodies of the dancers).
The novelty of this fractal lies in the fact that not only is the governor non-linear – so to is the field upon which the fractal is generated.
Mathematician and NUMBER dramaturg Alexis Clancy
NUMBER HELSINKI TEAM:
CHOREOGRAPHY:
Riikka Theresa Innanen (Helsinki)
DRAMATURGY/MATHEMATICS:
Alexis Clancy (Limerick, Ireland)
WITH DANCERS:
Isabella Oberländer (Austria/Limerick, Ireland)
Sheena McGrandles (Belfast/Berlin)
Sonja Jokiniemi (Kuopio)
Laura Jantunen (Helsinki/Outokumpu)
Alexis Kotsopoulos (Greece/Outokumpu)
Sadja Nordin (Helsinki/Outokumpu)
Heli Meklin (Helsinki)
Liisa Risu (Helsinki)
Jari Vuomajoki (Helsinki)
Outi Yli-Viikari (Tampere)
and additionally participating also Dance Researcher PhD Anne Makkonen (Hki/TeaK) and Hypnotherapist and Culture Pedagog Risto Santavuori (Hki)
NUMBER has been Created at and in collaboration with:
Daghdha Dance Company (Artistic Leader Michael Kliën)
Supported by:
FÁS Limerick
Limerick Arts Council
Irish Arts Council
School for Movement Research, Pohjois-Karjalan oppimisyksikkö PPKY Outokumpu
Svenska Kulturfonden
Zodiak – Center for New Dance
Many Thanks to:
Michael Kliën
Steven Valk
Bush Hartshorn
The NUMBER team in Daghdha!
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*Residency Opportunity for Dancer/Choreographers *
The Dance Omi International Dance Collective in Ghent, New York, USA
Application Deadline: March 15, 2011
Residency Dates: August 9 to August 30, 2009
10 international dance artists will be selected for a 3-week collaborative residency. Culminating in 2 INFORMAL showings at the Omi campus and in New York City, the most unique aspect of this program is it’s gently facilitated process that emphasizes exploration and collaboration, not performance. Professional Dancer/Choreographers of ALL styles (Modern, Ballet, Improv, Ethnic Dance, etc), who have the desire to share ideas and process with dancers from around the world, should apply. It is recommended that applicants do not have specific projects in mind, but come open to working with others on jointly conceived projects. It is also imperative that all applicants have a genuine openness to collaborating with artists of different dance backgrounds.
Selected residents receive FREE room, board, and studio space at Omi’s 300-acre facility & Sculpture Park (please note: Omi is UNABLE to provide travel funds)
For info and application guidelines go to http://artomi.org/
or http://artomi.org/dance.htm
Director: Christopher K. Morgan
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Dance Italia – International Summer Dance Intensive for advanced students (ages 18 and over).
August 1 – August 19, 2011 in the magical Tuscan city of Lucca, located on the Tuscan coast of Italy. Daily classes will be held at Fuorientro Spazio Danza e Teatro, (Via Nottolini, 43, 55100, Lucca, Italia www.fuoricentro.org).
The studio is located just outside the majestic Renaissance-era wall surrounding the city center, near the train station (3 minute walk), which provides a convenient jumping off point for traveling throughout the region.
Dance Italia offers Italian language classes, guided tours, and the unique opportunity to access Italian culture while pursuing creative and artistic fulfillment.
The program brings world-renowned, cutting-edge, contemporary choreographers and teachers to a select group of advanced level dance students in an intimate and professional environment, creating a profound atmosphere of cultural exchange and artistic pursuit.
2011 FACULTY includes Massamiliano Barachini, Julian Barnett, Shaked Dagan (Bat-Sheva Repertory & GAGA technique), Cristiano Fabbri, Bruce Michelson, Stefanie Nelson, and Richard Siegal.
www.danceitalia.com
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Les Ballets Persans
Auditions for Fall Season 2010 and Spring (Summer) Season
2011:
Video auditioning for European Youth Dance Project:
Semiprofessional dancers
Online registration required
www.balletspersans.org
Upcoming Productions
Fall Season 2010: 22 November – 11 December
Production & Performances in Latvia
Spring Season 2011 June 27 – July 24
For the first time: EYDP presentation outside Europe and in North America
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Dance New Amsterdam
As part of our Fall Season, DNA is pleased to announce DNA PRESENTS: Heritage Series: Contemporary First Nation, Tom Pearson│Third Rail Projects & Donna Ahmadi│Mantis Dance Theater. This two-part event combines four live performances and a visual art exhibit spanning DNA’s two galleries. Additionally, a preview performance will take place Thursday, November 4 from 4:30-5:30pm in DNA’s second floor gallery space and a post-performance talk back, moderated by Eva Yaa
Asantewaa, will occur on opening night, Thursday, November 11.
www.dnadance.org
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SALVATORE LARUSSA DANCE THEATRE NYC SEASON 2010
New York, NY (October 19, 2010)- Salvatore LaRussa Dance Theatre returns for its NYC season at Merce Cunningham Studio, 55 Bethune Street, NYC, 10014, 11th Floor. The general public can reserve seats in advance by emailing rsvp@sldt.org. Pay at the door, cash only. Tickets are $20 general admission and $15 for students.
bound (World Premiere)- bound takes you through Salvatore’s imaginary world of chaotic night life. Obsessed with texting, dancers go in and out of useless chatter with their crush, who may be their next love interest or just the next quick hook up. On stage, mounds of balloons represent the exceeding amount of breath wasted in worthless conversations. The stage is converted into a cage where the bars are never too tight to hold anyone in; you are free to leave but you choose to stay, bound.
render (2008)- In render, self is extracted, restored and exhibited.
Dancers surrender to the journey and find themselves through the masses. The loss of love, spirituality and power are fulfilled through the exploration of ritual and ceremony. Help me to let go. Save me from falling. Who will be my savior? Guide me to a new life.
www.SLDT.org
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The VASA Project is an online media workshop which currently supports online “Gallery Talks” by artist and critics, and online workshops. This fall and early winter VASA will make available a global blogging project named “Tramsmedia”. Transmedia will address the areas of photography, video, digital arts, and sound. In November VASA will open one of it’s curated exhibition spaces with 3 photography exhibitions. Later in the year VASA will open it’s e-bookstore. The bookstore will distribute artist e-books, portfolios, and readings. This past fall 7 interns joined the VASA Project to work on “Transmedia” and the exhibition program.
Visit the VASA Project at http://vasa-project.com
Any questions or if you wish to get involved please email Roberto
Muffoletto, Director, at roberto@vasa-project.com
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Dance New Amsterdam (DNA) presents GRRRlesque
Friday, October 22, Hosted and Curated by Honi Harlow
Curator’s Description
Come be tempted, tantalized and teased by the most enthralling GRRRls of the stage. They sing, they dance, they twirl and twist and lose quite a bit of clothing along the way. The notorious Honi Harlow hosts and curates this magical evening, with performances by Amber Ray, Bunny Love, Rose Wood, Calamity Chang, Miss Ekaterina, Jill Magilo, and Meghan Andrews.
Honi Harlow was nothing but a country girl with big glitter dreams. Her path was chosen for her at the age of 3 when she preformed for a family gathering her “I’m the Boom, I’m the Boom, I’m the Boom Boom Girl” number wearing only her sisters head bands, none of them on her head! Needles to say, her professional career was put on hold for a while, and her sister was pissed! It was a long and twisted road before she landed in New York and along the way she developed some serious skills: acting, singing, dancing and even choreographing. She has played such roles as Miss Julie on tour in Maribor, Slovenia, Queen Margaret in Lublin, Poland and Helen of Troy in Thessaloniki, Greece where she drank red wine and dance with the Gypsies late in to the night and ruined a great pair of DKNY shoes, but it was worth it!
Saturday, October 23, Hosted and Curated by Victoria Libertore aka Howling Vic
Curator’s Description
Turn off that flat screen TV, pull out the top hat and come to Late Nite @ DNA! GRRRlesque is all women, all-queer, all for you: music, performance art, burlesque, faux Liza Minnelli there’s-no-business-like-it entertainment. Saucy saxophones, hilarious hula hooping, rapping vixens and more will lure you into a world where no “real” housewives of any town can compete. Curated and hosted by Victoria Libertore with performances by DapperQ, Fetchin’ Gretchen, Janessa Clark/KILTERBOX, Julia Steele Allen, Kelley Sanford aka Kstar, Miss Saturn & The Tiptons Sax Quartet and Drums.
Victoria Libertore is an actress, writer, improv artist, emcee, curator and teacher. She has performed her work throughout NYC in venues such as BAX, Dixon Place, Joyce Soho & PS122 as well as in Boston, D.C., Montreal, Philadelphia, Provincetown and Toronto. She is the author of five solo shows including GIRL MEAT and “My Journey of Decay.” Libertore teaches performance and burlesque incorporating her original archetypal energy technique. She is the 2010 Artist Advisor for Brooklyn Arts Exchange and a new member on the board of New Dance Alliance. Libertore lives in Wallabout, Brooklyn where she also gives intuitive readings. www.howlingvic.com
About Dance New Amsterdam
Founded in 1984, Dance New Amsterdam (DNA) celebrates 26 years of cultural leadership in contemporary dance. DNA supports the life, career, and longevity of dance artists through ongoing high quality contemporary dance education, opportunities for choreographic exploration and innovative performance, and service to the field and the Lower Manhattan community. DNA fosters the development of new and experimental works through commissions, residencies and subsidized space. We are committed to training healthy dancers, developing new audiences and bridging diverse communities by exploring the role of dance across a spectrum of contemporary dance styles and cultures.
Program revenue alone does not cover the costs of DNA’s annual activities. We would like to thank the generous supporters who have helped DNA achieve its mission and make the 2010/2011 season possible, including: public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), in partnership with the City Council and
Former City Council Member Alan J. Gerson; New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State’s 62 counties, and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA); New York State Assembly-Member Deborah J. Glick and New York State Senator Daniel Squadron through the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation; as well as from American Express; Mertz Gilmore Foundation; Multi-Arts Production (MAP) Fund; TenduTV, a media sponsor; Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; Jerome Robbins Foundation; Consulate General of Israel in New York; in-kind support from Arts & Business Council and Materials for the Arts; our Individual Program Sponsors, Co-Presenting Partners, Community Business Partners, and DNA’s community of individual donors.
www.dnadance.org
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DANCE RESEARCH READING & DISCUSSION GROUP
This group invites everybody interested in exchange about theoretical, practice-based and practice-led research in dance and performance. One initial aim is to provide the space to reflect ideas, and to engage with the ideas of a wider community. Texts will be provided to the group to stimulate the discussions. New members are always welcome. Join us, and enrich and reflect your movement practice through communication with your peers and stay up to date with current concerns in dance and performance research. Participation is free of charge.
This group is supported by Dance Ireland.
Tuesdays, 6-8pm
7 Sept, 28 Sept, 19 Oct, 16 Nov, 7 Dec
Dublin, DanceHouse, Artist Resource Room
infodanceresearch@gmail.com
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Daghdha Mentoring Programme in Choreography and Dance (DMP)
Daghdha invites applications for the unique opportunity to join the 7th Daghdha Mentoring Programme in Choreography and Dance (DMP)
NEW DEADLINE: 31/8/2011 (Interviews commencing week 20/9/2011)
NEW STARTING DATE: 1/11/2011
Daghdha Dance Company invites dance artists to apply for the DMP a full-time, year long residency programme designed for emerging artists in choreography and dance as well as established dance artists at a crossroad of their career. Individuals seeking to develop their own practice within a professional context are encouraged to apply for one of five full-time, financially supported, places.
The resident artists will contribute to the culture of Daghdha through self-initiated projects as well as taking part in dance, choreography and performance related events, while contributing to the ever-growing dance world in Ireland.
Applicants should be self-motivated, enthusiastic and open-minded with a strong foundation in dance and or choreography; a proven track record of self-directed research and/or practice is desired.
For an application form and further information on previous DMPs please visit: http://www.daghdha.ie/003/002.html
Please note: In 2010/2011 the DMP will no longer be funded through FAS, directly affecting some of the selection criteria. Please refer to FAQ below for eligibility.
Frequently Asked Questions
Daghdha Mentoring Programme in Dance and Choreography 2010/2011
WHAT IS THE MISSION, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE DAGHDHA MENTORING PROGRAMME IN DANCE AND CHOREOGRAPHY (DMP)?
Daghdha Mentoring Programme in Choreography and Dance (DMP) provides a home, time and space, for independent artists to develop their own practice on a full-time basis. For 48 weeks the artists are integrated into a coordinated, curated and structured programme, with emphasis on flexibility and opportunity for independent, self-directed research. Set within the stunning surrounds of Daghdha Space, St. John¹s Church, Daghdha Dance Company proactively provides unique conditions for exchange, peer-learning, critical thinking and dialogue through the provision of workshops, lectures, discussions, informal presentations/feedback sessions and performances.
The legacy of the DMP is to enable former participants to survive as independent artists, whilst pursuing their own path of enquiry. Rather than following traditional forms of production the programme aims to encourage brave new practices in dance and choreography, allowing artistic practice to follow boldly where one’s ideas point to. The DMP aims to considerably contribute and enrich Irish dance culture by developing and supporting the participants through a culture of discourse, discipline and openness.
WHO IS IT FOR AND WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO APPLY TO THE PROGRAMME?
The DMP is primarily aimed at young professionals working in the field of choreography and dance who wish to develop their personal practice. Mature artists who feel the need to change direction in their current practice will also be considered. All participants need to be living in Ireland during the duration of the programme.
COULD YOU PLEASE EXPLAIN THE APPLICATION AND SELECTION PROCESS FOR THE DAGHDHA MENTORING PROGRAMME IN CHOREOGRAPHY AND DANCE?
The programme runs from 1st week of November to the last working day in September the following year. Application forms are downloadable from Daghdha’s website (www.daghdha.ie) and should be submitted before the annual deadline published online, however Daghdha may consider applications received during the year. The selection committee reviews the applications and short-lists candidates for interviews. Offers for places are made on the strength and merit of a prospective participant’s written application, documentation of previous work, a proven track record of self-directed research and/or practice and following interview, on an applicant’s perceived suitability for the overall programme.
WHAT ARE DAGHDHA’S EXPECTATIONS OF THE PARTICIPANTS?
Daghdha is an innovative production company in dance and choreography with beautiful resources that reflect our ethos and vision of producing dance in open and communal, yet focused and thorough manner. Participants of the programme are expected to contribute to the quality and life of the artistic community, feeding their own knowledge into the group (via the provision of workshops, morning class, roundtables, lectures, etc.) and/or engagement with the Limerick community through original projects (festivals, partnerships and performances). Daghdha also encourages participants to proactively participate in the Irish dance scene, through exchanges with
other organisations and personal initiatives.
IS THERE A ‘PROGRAMME-STRUCTURE’ IN PLACE WITHIN THE DMP¹S CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK? IF YES, PLEASE PROVIDE DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS.
The Daghdha Mentoring Programme in Choreography and Dance activities are organised around various fields of engagements (60% self directed and 40% directed), which form the programme structure. Such fields include:
Choreography for Dance, Dance Performance Practice, Media Production, Dramaturgy, Choreographic Studies, Dance and Repertoire Training and Social Choreography. Workshops are provided by Daghdha’s artistic team and guest artists chosen by the mentors partly in consultation with the DMP participants. The resident artists are required to engage in self-directed learning through independent research, production and rehearsal for their own performances through research, group or peer learning. Although there is a clear structure to the programme, it does not mirror academic nor vocational training courses, but is primarily a self-directed framework for research and production, whereby exposure to other ideas and methods is offered through structured activities.
COULD YOU EXPLAIN ATTENDANCE RULES AND REGULATIONS IN DETAIL?
A 90% attendance rate is mandatory in order to qualify for continued participation in the DMP. Participants are required to commit themselves fulltime to the DMP in order to receive monthly financial support. All participants are required to regularly attend one weekly group meeting or send apologies if absent in advance.
WHAT IS THE AMOUNT OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT AVAILABLE TO DMP PARTICIPANTS?
Daghdha will contribute to each participant’s living costs with 900 EUR a month. Daghdha will also provide a small travel and training allowance for networking and performance events. Daghdha cannot provide additional production budgets, but supports participants to source money outside the framework of the DMP through administrative and artistic advice and guidance.
WHERE DO DMP ACTIVITIES TAKE PLACE?
The programme takes place, primarily, in two beautifully restored historic buildings in John’s Square in Limerick’s city centre: Daghdha Space, an impressive performance and exhibition space housed in a former church, and the nearby Daghdha offices and dance studio, home to the former Limerick City Museum. Participants do have 24 hours access to Daghdha Space and occasional access to the dance studio located in office building.
HOW IS THE USE OF THE DAGHDHA SPACE COORDINATED AND ORGANISED?
Daghdha Space is self-regulated via an ‘Open Studio’ format through the use of the large blackboard. In conjunction with regularly scheduled events or classes, the ‘Open Studio’ is the format used to define and schedule the day-to-day use of the Daghdha Space by all its various users: company members, DMP participants and resident artists alike.
HOW IS THE DMP PROGRAMME SCHEDULE ORGANISED AND DELIVERED TO THE DMP PARTICIPANTS?
Daghdha staff sets the overall DMP schedule. Day-to-day activities are developed in regular meetings between Daghdha staff and the participants in a democratic manner.
HOW DO THE MENTORING RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN THE DMP PROGRAMME FRAMEWORK WORK?
Mentoring relationships on the DMP are generally formulated during and after January, while informal mentoring may take place throughout the year (in the form of unscheduled meetings, spontaneous discussion and during participation in company performances and events). Formal mentoring takes place up to 4 times per year and is arranged by appointment between the mentees (DMP participants) and mentors (Daghdha staff or Daghdha¹s regular guest artists).
WHO ARE THE MENTORS?
Formal mentors of the 2010/2011 programme will be Michael Klien, Phd (Artistic Director, Daghdha), Bush Hartshorn (Co-ordinator, Daghdha; qualified personal coach and vastly experienced artistic producer) and Steve Valk (Dramaturge, Daghdha; former head-dramaturge Ballet Frankfurt).
WHAT IS THE RELATION BETWEEN DAGHDHA AND THE DMP?
Daghdha’s mission is to produce choreography and dance that illustrates the role, value and legacy of research, discourse, and artistic process. The DMP presents a major strand of this mission with projects and productions of the Artistic Director forming another. All strands of the company, including the DMP, are working towards a common goal, to develop dance and choreography to a level of excellence for traditional and non-traditional formats including stages, galleries and other surfaces, which engage the perception, imagination and experience of both the artists and the audiences (locally, nationally and internationally).
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Young Dancemakers Company
2010 SUMMER PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
Wednesday, July 21,
2:00 PM
Fieldston School, 3901 Fieldston Road, Bronx
Thursday, July 22, 5:00 PM
Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
East 47th St. between 1st and 2nd Ave., Manhattan
Friday, July 23, 2:30 PM
Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street, Manhattan
Tuesday, July 27, 2:00 PM
Stern Auditorium, Mt. Sinai Medical Center
Madison Ave. & 100th St., Manhattan
Wednesday, July 28, 11:30 AM
Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts
1 University Plaza, Brooklyn
Thursday, July 29, 1:00 PM
Jamaica Performing Arts Center
153 St. & Jamaica Ave., Queens
Friday, July 30, 2:00 PM
New York City Center, Studio 5
130 West 56 St., Manhattan
GALA FINALE AND RECEPTION
Saturday, July 31, 7:30 PM
Ailey Citigroup Theater
9th Ave. & 55 Street, Manhattan
STUDIO PERFORMANCE WITH BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE DANCERS
Thursday, August 5, 6:30 PM
Manhattan Movement and Arts Center
248 West 60th Street, Manhattan
Group and individual reservations to FREE performances throughout the metropolitan area should be made by calling 718-329-7250.
ABOUT YOUNG DANCEMAKERS COMPANY
Young Dancemakers Company (YDC) is a completely free summer ensemble of students selected from NYC public high schools, grades 9-12, who love to dance and seek to create and perform original choreography. A guest Repertory Project provides students a unique opportunity to learn works of master choreographers, such as Donald McKayle, Robert Battle, Sean Curran, Ronald K. Brown, José Limón, Alvin Ailey, Merce Cunningham, Mark Morris, and Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane. In addition to touring throughout New York City, YDC has performed as part of Dancenow/NYC Festival; Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival; The Yard, in Martha’s Vineyard; Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY; and International Conference 2000 & Dancing in the Millennium; held by the NDEO at the Kennedy Center.
The program is funded by the Richenthal Foundation, the Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation, the Surdna Foundation, the Harkness Foundation for Dance, Jody and John Arnhold, individual contributors, and is hosted by the Fieldston School in the Bronx.
For more information please visit the company website: www.ecfs.org/ydc.asp.
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TANZWERKSTATT EUROPA 2010: Workshops
For the 20th time, dance and theatre enthusiasts from all over the world meet in Munich from August 4 – 14, 2010 to share and enrich their knowledge in movement, dance and performance.
You can choose from a wide range of styles and techniques. Apart from Hip Hop and Contemporary Dance, exercises for the enhancement of body awareness and sensory perception by the use of voice are equally offered. In addition to that, we are very
proud that we can again offer a 5-day program especially for children and young people!
Courses for adults
Henry Montes (GB): Release-based Contemporary Dance (Professionals)
Janez Janša (SI): Interdisciplinary Performance Workshop – “What am I not allowed to do” (Advanced & Professionals)
Chiang-Mei Wang (TW/DE): Floating Body – Modern Dance / Tai Chi Dao Yin (Advanced & Professionals)
Amanda Miller (USA): Composition / Matrix (Advanced & Professionals)
Patricia Bardi (USA/NL): Embodied Voice in the Moving Body (Pedagogues & Dancers)
Richard Siegal (USA/DE): Creation -(c)oPirates” (Advanced & Professionals)
Ivana Müller (HR/NL): Physical Theatre – “The 17 of us looking at each other and guessing what is this dance all about” (Advanced & Professionals)
Stefan Dreher (DE): Yoga for Dancers (all levels)
Dr. Liane Simmel (DE): Dance Medicine “Not just any body” (Pedagogues & Dancers)
Katja Wachter (DE): Contemporary Dance (Beginners & Advanced)
Niako (F): Hip Hop Freestyle (Beginners, Advanced & Professionals)
Goran Bogdanovski (SI): Fico Training and Improvisation Tools (Advanced & Professionals)
Courses for children (classes of 5 days)
Andrea Marton (DE): Contemporary Dance for Children (age 6-10)
Annerose Schmidt (DE): Contemporary Dance for Girls and Boys (age 11-15)
Aloun Phetnoi (LAO/DE): Breakdance for Kids (age 8-11)
Aloun Phetnoi (LAO/DE): Breakdance for Young People (age 12-16)
For further information (concerning the courses and the application form) please visit:
http://www.tanzwerkstatt-europa.net
www.jointadventures.net
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Salvatore LaRussa Dance Theater to perform at the
Emerging Arts Festival (A.R.T.)
SLDT is proud to announce that they will be part of the Emerging America Festival at the A.R.T. (Harvard University) on Sunday May 16. Festival celebration party featuring decode; created by Salvatore LaRussa celebrate the end of the festival weekend with a raucous party featuring a dance performance where silent dialogues and physical commands are exchanged
between dancers throughout the venue.
Tickets: $20/$15
Venue: A.R.T. @ OBERON, at 2 Arrow St. Cambridge, MA.
www.emergingamericafestival.org
SLDT – The Academy: Free Sunday Arts Performances series & Queens Arts Express
Salvatore LaRussa Dance Theatre – The Academy located at 66-85 73rd Place, Middle Village, Queens, NY 11379, presents the Free Sunday Performance series during which The Academy will showcase six emerging NYC choreographers. Sponsored by Queens Council on the Arts, all events are free and open to the general public.
Scheduled performances: May 23 at 2 pm Vissi Dance Theatre and Trainor Dance; May 30 at 2 pm Circle of Dance and DiMauro Dance; June 6 at 2 pm Dina Denis Dance and KerPlunk Dance.
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THINKING, TALKING, WRITING DANCE
Dance Ireland wishes to support a community of writers who engage in ideas about their own artistic practice, and the creative work of others across a wide range of disciplines. Jeffrey Gormly, editor of choreograph.net, will bring his experience as writer, dramaturge, editor and cultural producer to a process of discovering while addressing the needs of creative producers.
29 January 12 – 4pm
26 February 12 – 4pm
26 March 12 – 4pm
The aim of the pilot is to identify and address the needs of creative artists around writing. It is acknowledged that there are three general aspects to the use of writing in artistic professional practice and development:
• Writing as process: use of notebooks, reading and research as part of the creation of artistic material;
• Writing as interface: creation of texts for publicity, marketing, and artistic proposals;
• Discursive practices as a means of developing artistic ‘working friendships’, community and eliciting feedback: blogging, article writing, dialogical and discursive formats.
This pilot will involve raw thinking and talking, note-taking, discussion, and development of a critical, associative field of ideas relating to the particular thoughts and ideas occupying each participant’s mind. The program also incorporates space/time for free dance as an essential and constructive part of an embodied thinking process. The final session of the workshop will include publishing texts and images produced by the participants in a raw thinking thread on choreograph.net, for those happy to do so.
Open to all creative artists interested in exploring and developing their writing practice; €10 per workshop or sign-up for all three and pay €25. As places are limited, please reserve your place by calling 01 855 8800 or email reception@danceireland.ie.
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DANCE RESEARCH READING AND DISCUSSION GROUP
Pilot project coordinated by Antje Schneider
Tuesdays 6-8pm
16 March, 20 April, 04 May, 18 May @ DanceHouse
This group is an initiative to create a space for verbal exchange about theoretical and practice-based research in dance and performance. It addresses all dancers and researchers who want to reflect their ideas and engage with the ideas of a wider community. Discussions will be stimulated by reading texts that will be provided to the group. The pilot term will kick off with a focus on improvisational practice.
Join us, and enrich and reflect your movement practice through communication with other dancers and stay up to date with the current concerns in dance research.
For further information, please email: infodanceresearch@gmail.com
This group is supported by Dance Ireland and co-facilitated by GradCAM (Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media)
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Citydance Auditions
CityDance Ensemble, a contemporary repertory company based in Washington, DC, is seeking male and female modern dancers ages 18 and up for its main professional company and second company. Dancers in the main company will be hired for 32-26 week salaried contracts and must be available to rehearse Monday through Friday from 9:30am-5pm. Extensive touring is a possibility. Strong modern and ballet technique is required, previous professional experience preferred. Salary is commensurate with experience.
Dancers in the second company are not salaried at this time and work on a per performance fee structure. CityDance2 is both a performance company and an outreach and teaching residency company. The second company appears periodically with CityDance Ensemble.
For Questions, please email CityDance Ensemble Rehearsal Director Christopher K. Morgan at christopher@citydance.net.
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choreography commissions
CityDance Ensemble, “Washington’s preeminent modern dance company” (The Washington Times), seeks promising choreographers to create dances for the company’s 2010-2011 Next series. Next is an annual concert series that presents work by today’s up-and-coming dance artists.
for info email commissions@citydance.net or call 202.347.3909.
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Audition for Spring Production:
Les Ballets Persans
Video auditioning for European Youth Dance Project:
Professional and semiprofessional dancers
Online registration required
Spring performance production includes three dance creations:
Turquoise Land – Dream of Peace
Symphony of Elegy in Green
A whole new ballet for EYDP
http://www.artira.com/balletspersans/eng/mainframe.htm
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Learn Balinese music & dance with Cudamani in Bali
Çudamani Music & Dance Summer Institute. Bali, Indonesia
Three week program JUNE 28 – JULY 17, 2010
Application due Feb 15, 2010 or until enrollment fulfilled!
Apply Online
www.cudamani.org
Artistic Team: I Dewa Putu Berata & Emiko Saraswati Susilo
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For the fourth time, internationally acclaimed Gamelan Çudamani ensemble invites you participate in the study of Balinese music & dance in Bali, Indonesia.
Intensive study with 6 master artists and a team of 12 assisting teachers using pedagogy developed collaboratively by Ibu Ni Ketut Alit Arini, Bapak I Nyoman Cerita and Çudamani; lectures and demonstrations by internationally renowned scholars and artists; observation of rehearsals, ‘backstage’ preparation and performances; visits to sacred sites and ceremonies. Participants engage with Pengosekan’s community of artists, well known as weavers, painters, dancers and musicians. For the very first time, Çudamani will offer elective courses on the fine of making masks, bamboo instruments and offerings.
With the success of the 2007, 2008 & 2009 summer programs, Çudamani invites you to participate in a rigorous study of Balinese music and dance in the village of Pengosekan, Ubud, Bali. Çudamani has provided gamelan and dance instruction to
hundreds of youth and adults over the past eleven years. The company’s technical accomplishments on the seven-toned Semarandana are unparalleled.
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ABUNDANCE dance festival
The tri-annual ABUNDANCE dance festival will take place in Karlstad and the Värmland region in Sweden on June 15 – 17, 2010. Our aim is to gather choreographers, dancers, critics and philosophers from many countries, and offer a platform for exchange, feedback and critique of new work as well as being a forum for creating new knowledge about dance and choreography. The festival will offer opportunities to see, talk about and participate in performances and workshops.
ABUNDANCE 2010 will coincide with the international congress World Summit, which will be situated in Karlstad in June 2010, – on Media for Children and Youth and the general theme of dance, body and media is at the centre of ABUNDANCE dance festival.
please visit us online
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Salvatore LaRussa Dance Theatre
Celebrates 5th Anniversary with First Full-Length Work decode
Friday, Oct 23 – 9pm; Saturday, Oct 24 & Sunday, Oct 25 – 8pm
Merce Cunningham Studio, 55 Bethune Street, NYC, 10014, 11th Floor.
The general public can reserve seats in advance by emailing rsvp@sldt.org. Pay at the door, cash only. Tickets are $20 general admission and $15 for students.
Choreographed by Salvatore LaRussa, with costumes by designer Guillaume Boulez (of ThreeASFOUR) and original score by composer Steve Sclafani.
In his first full-length work, decode, LaRussa deconstructs the inner mind of evil controllers, through out history, who dedicated their lives to destroy what is considered “different” or “other”. The second half changes direction to the figures that have saved them from this destructive society.
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24th International Competition for Choreographers
Hanover 2010
taking place during “OsterTanzTage” at the Staatsoper Hannover
on April 3rd and 4th, 2010
Since 24 years the Ballet Society Hanover organize the International Competition for Choreographers Hanover. Within the last years the competition estimated as an important event in the national and international dance scene.
We are proud receiving the following statement: “This is the most interesting, well organised, progressive choreographic competition in central europe with an international reputation. It is a privilege to have been part of this renowned competition, a platform of artistic exchanges. The support of the Ballett Gesellschaft Hannover for the world of dance is paramount!”
Richard Wherlock, Director Ballet Basel.
Since 2004 the Staatsoper Hanover and the Ballett Gesellschaft Hanover organize the OsterTanzTage, a four day long dance festival with performances of the Ballett der Staatsoper Hannover, a guest performance and several other activities. Centre of the OsterTanzTage is the International Competition for Choreographers.
These are the competition guidelines:
In order to take part in the competition, all participants, choreographers and dancers must have a completed professional training and education.
The competition is limited to choreographers 35 years or younger. The length of the performance has to be from 5 to 15 minutes and a solo ballet may not be interpreted by the choreographer him/herself. The choice of subject and music is optional. The choreographic work must be submitted on videotape/DVD.
This competition is open to all styles of ballet subject to the formal conditions provided.
Performances will be evaluated based on a creative arrangement of space and time, the concept of the performance and its adaptation to and by the dancers.
A prejury will select a maximum of 20 of the submitted works, which will enter the contest. The artistic director of the jury is Ed Wubbe, director of the Scapino Ballett.
Prize:
The money that can be won for the first 3 endowed prizes amounts 13.500 EUR. The audience prize amounts 1.000 EUR. Furthermore there is a critics prize of 1.500 EUR and the Scapino Production Prize.
For any questions please do not hesitate to contact us, telephone ++49. (0)5109 .5646-14. Please find the actual terms of conditions, application forms and photos of the last competitions on the internet at http://www.ballettgesellschaft.de.
info@ballettgesellschaft.de
www.ballettgesellschaft.de
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European Youth Dance Project’s Upcoming Season; Fall 2009
Highlights:
The New Production: Symphony of Elegy in Green
Available participation possibilities and vacancies:
Audition for Fall Season 2009 and Spring Season 2010
Vacancies for ballet master and contemporary dance instructor
Call for participation: Young contemporary choreographers
International Master Classes Seminar | 7-19 December 2009
New videos available on Ballets Persans
go to: www.balletspersans.org
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YOUTH BALLET WEST AUDITIONS
for the 2009/10 season
27 August 2009 at 11AM
Dance Academy’s studios in Briarhill
Those interested in auditioning contact: info@youthballetwest.ie.
Youth Ballet West (YBW) is a non-profit organisation offering young dancers in the west of Ireland the opportunity to audition for, and perform in professionally choreographed ballets of the highest standard while they continue to train with their own teachers.
By providing the opportunity for young dancers to gain performance experience, train with top-class teachers, work with acclaimed choreographers and work closely with professional dancers we aim to lead these young dancers to fully develop their artistic potential.
Membership of Youth Ballet West is free to those dancers selected at audition.
What we have been up to:
Last Monday saw the Youth Ballet West performers take the streets of Galway in a fund raising extravaganza that helped them raise over a thousand euro for the company. The dancers performed six pieces, drawing an audience of over a thousand people throughout the day.
Youth Ballet West are commencing work on a new piece entitled The Celebration. The company are delighted to have acclaimed international choreographer Cathy Sharp, creating this piece. The work will highlight the young dancer’s energy and youth, while providing a new and inspiring outlet for their technical prowess and abilities. YBW has been supported by The Arts Council’s Commissions Awards Scheme.
The company have also been busy all summer. In May, they were delighted to perform Ballet Egyptian, to large crowds at the hugely successful Volvo Ocean Race. In July they took part in The Dublin Youth Dance Festival in Dun Laoghaire and also performed a new piece by Judith Sibley in collaboration with Noeline Kavanagh for the Galway Arts Festival’s Macnas Parade.
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Transdisciplinary Artistic Investigation
From October 12th 2009 till March 26th 2010
c.e.m : centro em movimento | Lisbon | Portugal
F.I.A 2009/2010
A transdisciplinary artistic investigation deeply rooted in the Studies of the Body. A period of 6 months dedicated to a practical daily work which promotes the arising of essential questions brought by each individual in her/his own investigation. This daily work includes reflexion and discussion. Through it the proposals developed by each creator will come to form allowing a growing understanding and a profound knowledge of the matter under investigation.
F.I.A is organized in blocs of 3 weeks of practical work focusing on the Body (sensation, perception, movement, relation) tangled with short term proposals from two days to one week long. All the work is guided by professionals from different artistic and scientific backgrounds (dance, writing, video, sound art, philosophy, anthropology, biology, body theory). At the same time each person is individually coached, having regular dialogues with the tutors and producing weekly papers that are presented to the collective for feedback. During these six months of practical work each creator should find the ways that better suit him in the process of sharing with others the questions of his current investigation. The final public communication will assume the form that each creator considers adequate as an exercise fitted to the matter of study.
In F.I.A.‘s following ‘c.e.m. — centro em movimento’ is open to applications for artistic research (Zona Z) during April, May and June integrated in c.e.m’s continuous work – Creation/Community.
Applications from April 13th till September 6th 2009.
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Dance Studies
The center Maxime d’ Harroche school of formation and improvement in Barcelona wish to promote the program Dance Studies in order to research potential pupils who would like to spend one year in Barcelona. This formation accommodates foreign students (all levels) to improve in Modern Jazz, Classic, Hip Hop and Contemporary. The technical courses will proceed
every day of 10:00 at 14:30.The characteristic of this formation, in partnership with an academy of language, allows deepening, the afternoon, their Spanish knowledge and their will be used to live new experiences thanks to the discovery of another culture.
For a description of the formation as well as the dates of preregistrations and also a flyer which makes the description of a training course of two week during the summer which will make it possible to the pupils make a first impression of the program “Dance Studies”, contact me by email: jdenis153@gmail.com.
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TANZWERKSTATT EUROPA 2009
We are happy to announce the workshop program for this year’s TANZWERKSTATT EUROPA 2009!
For the 19th time, dance and theatre enthusiasts from all over the world meet in Munich from
August 5 – 15, 2009
to share and enrich their knowledge in movement, dance and
performance.
You can choose from a wide range of styles and techniques. Apart from Hip Hop and Contemporary Dance, exercises for the enhancement of body awareness and sensory perception by the use of voice are equally offered. In addition to that, we are very
proud that we can again offer a 5-day program especially for children and young people!
Here is an overview of the courses offered:
Courses for adults
Iñaki Azpillaga (B/ES): Dynamic Changes in Contemporary Dance (Intermediate & Advanced)
Patricia Bardi (USA/B): Physical Voice in the Moving Body (Pedagogues & Dancers)
Stefan Dreher (D): Yoga (all levels)
Jeremy Nelson (USA): Contemporary Dance Technique (Advanced & Professionals)
Dr. Liane Simmel (D): “Inside out” – The Body in Motion (Pedagogues & Dancers)
Katja Wachter (D): Contemporary Dance (Beginners & Advanced)
Anna Williams (UK): Contemporary Dance (Advanced)
Niako (F): Hip Hop Freestyle (Beginners, Advanced & Professionals)
Goran Bogdanovski (SI): Ficot Balet – Technique and Improvisation Tools (Intermediate & Professionals)
Kenneth Flak (S/N): Contemporary Dance Technique (Intermediate & Advanced)
Kenneth Flak (S/N): Moving in Character (Professionals)
Boris Charmatz (F): 50 years of dance (Professionals)
Courses for children (classes of 5 days)
Andrea Marton (D): Contemporary Dance for Kids (age 7 – 11; 5.8. – 9.8.)
Annerose Schmid (D): Contemporary Dance for Boys (age 8 – 11; 5.8. – 9.8.)
Aiga Keller (D): Hip Hop for Kids (age 8 – 12; 10.8. – 14.8.)
Aiga Keller (D): Contemporary Dance for Young People (age 12 – 16; 10.8.-14.8.)
For further information (concerning the courses and the application form) please visit:
http://www.tanzwerkstatt-europa.net
www.jointadventures.net
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Dance Theatre of Harlem: 40 Years of Firsts February
11-May9, 2009
Vincent Astor Gallery
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Dance Theatre of Harlem: 40 Years of Firsts is a multimedia exhibition that captures the 40 years of art and accomplishment of the Dance Theatre of Harlem. Through unique stage props, spectacular costumes, programs, posters, intimate photographs and more, this exhibition highlights the historic productions and community outreach that brought ballet to Harlem and the Dance Theatre of Harlem to the international stage.
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Research: computer program for choreographers
My name is Jennifer Pierce.
I am a Master’s student at Waseda University’s Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies in Tokyo, Japan.
Prior to moving to Japan, I studied art history, dance, and photography in the United States.
I am in the beginning stages of preparing for my Master’s thesis which will focus on intermedia dance, specifically interdisciplinary choreography. It is my tentative goal to collaborate with computer scientists in my school to create a computer program designed for choreographers.
In order to better understand the needs and processes of choreographers I have prepared a questionnaire. My questions are very general although my curiosity is great so any creative feedback would be very much appreciated!
if you are willing to give a little time to help me, please contact me
photo.color.fashion.dance[at]gmail[dot]com
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