Call for applications: Dance workshop in Uganda

The workshop, titled the Home Project, will be facilitated by New York City-based US dancer, choreographer, and teacher Valerie Green.

Participants are required to create a dance project during the workshop. The project will be presented at the Bayimba International Festival at Lunkulu Island, from 20 and 23 August.

How to apply

Interested individual send the requirements to info@bayimba-academy.org and johnmary@bayimba.org or call +256960602/ +256772469731

At the workshop, Green will equip participants with the dance your frame movement technique, which involves:

• Working with different muscles.
• Moving through space.
• Full-body movements.

Bayimba will provide the following to selected participants:

• Local transport.
• Meals.
• Accommodation.

The application deadline is 30 June 2020. 

Requirements

• CV.
• Motivational letter.

Bayimba Foundation arts and education director Johnmary Mukisa told Music In Africa that the application process for all its 2020 calls are ongoing despite the government shutdown on public gatherings and events. 

"We have decided to keep the application process open," Mukisa said. "If the coronavirus is not contained by June, we shall be postponing all our activities until further notice. However, we shall maintain and consider the same applicants once everything resumes to normal.

"We will maintain constant communication and updates with the selected applicants. In the meantime, applications are warmly received, and no physical contact is to be made until June or later when we know the containment status of the country."

Since 1995, Green has created 39 dances including 10 evening-length works. Her projects incorporate original production, musical composition, innovative set design or new media. She has presented her work in such countries as US, Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Canada, Croatia, France, Georgia, Greece, Guatemala, India, Italy, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden and Cuba.

“I am looking forward to coming to Uganda to work with local dancers and it will be part of a project called Home,” Green said. ”Home is a project where I am working with different dancers and choreographers from all over the world and what home means to each person. In Uganda, we will have a workshop where we will work on dance and choreography techniques. Participants will be guided to break old habits, find new path-ways, use their movement conceptions and ultimately express their understanding of home.”