Call for registrations: Virtual dance workshop in Canada

This call targets those interested in increasing their compositional awareness, expanding their definition of dance, and looking to refresh their practice as well as reassess their assumptions.

Titled Creative Practice for Contemporary Dance, the workshop, facilitated by Canadian choreographer and mentor Christopher House, formerly of the Toronto Dance Theatre, will focus on the following topics:

• Enhancing Specificity
• Editing and Distillation
• Adaptation and Remix
• Working With Found Materials
• Developing Written Scores
• Choreographing with Objects
• Relationships with Sound and Light
• Foreground/background: Space as Poetry
• Modes of Counterpoint
• Expansion within Limits
• Addressing Anticipation
• Framing, Mapping and Navigating Form
• Collaboration and Directing
• Redefining Virtuosity

Participants will also receive individual mentorship along with an opportunity to showcase their work.

Eligibility

• The programme is open to artists worldwide, including all gender identities, sexual orientations, race, creed, age, national origin, economic positions, or physical or mental abilities.
• Participants must commit to being present for the entire duration of the workshop and be available for a 30-minute conversation with the lead facilitator in advance.

Requirements

• Resume
• Personal statement
• Portfolio

Programme guide

• Participants will gather on video conference for three hours daily, working offline to balance the day with research and preparation for the next day’s session. Access to Zoom and Google folders will be required.
• In preparation for the first workshop, the programme’s faculty will arrange a time with each participant to connect for approximately 30 minutes.

Note:

• American Sign Language interpretation will be available for deaf artists.
• Participants will be selected by impartial adjudicators based on their submitted material.

How to apply

The programme fee is $215, but a scholarship of 100% of tuition fees will be awarded to all successful applicants.

The application deadline is 5 May at 7.59am (CAT).

View the original call here.