Dance notices
Featuring notices and announcements from the Scottish Arts Council's Dance department about its activities, opportunities and other key notices about dance in Scotland. Be sure to check the International area of our website for more opportunities.
Scholarship Classes - 09/07/2008
Peeping Tom - 28/05/2008
International Course - 'Performers Village 08' - 28/05/2008
Summer Choreographic Project With Steinvor Palsson - 28/05/2008
Audition Notice - Tommy Small: Smallpetitklein - 28/05/2008
Being Seen Being Heard - 22/05/2008
Call of the Wild - 22/05/2008
Dance Ireland International Associate Artist Programme 08/09 - 14/05/2008
fast+Dirty at citymoves, Aberdeen - 14/05/2008
Dance House - Arts Admin Traineeship - 09/05/2008
Indepen-Dance: Event - 09/05/2008
Drop in with your little ones - 28/04/08
SPACE to Move - 24/04/08
FIERCE Audition
Call for Participants
Auditions for Scottish Ballet's Associate Programme
Arts Professionals in Moray
Text consultation on culture in the Fife area
Scotland to hold National Choreographic Competition
Y-Dance Big Lottery Mentoring Programme
China-UK Connections through Culture
Theatre Methods 2008 - call for Creative Presentations
Dance Leadership Course
Casual dance tutors required
Dance Base needs your inspirational true stories
Media Arts and Imaging MSc - Screendance
The Scottish School of Contemporary Dance (SSCD) will be offering scholarships to gifted young dancers, providing them with specialist classes in ballet and contemporary dance. Four years of training are available, which will culminate in a BA (Hons) Dance degree validated by Northumbria University. SSCD is acknowledged as one of the leading training establishments in the UK, attracting students from all over Europe.
The aim of the scholarship classes is to enhance rather than replace scholars existing dance activity, and will provide high quality training with the necessary step towards advanced training and a potential career in dance. The classes will be offered on Saturdays at The Space, Dundee College.
Applicants must be 14-17 years of age and undertaking higher dance or be attending a dance school or school dance club.
For more details and to register your interest in auditioning for a scholarship, please call Morag Graham on 01382 834946.
PEEPING TOM collectif is organising an audition for:
dancers m/f (+22) - with high-level technical skills and distinctive style
and
dancers-contortionists m/f (+22) for the new creation 2009
Candidates are available for a selection workshop 12, 13 & 14 June 2008 & full-time for the creation and touring from March 2009 onwards
AUDITION in BRUSSELS
Mon 9, Tue 10 & Wed 11 JUNE 2008
Date, time and location of the audition will be confirmed after application.
Candidates are invited to prepare a solo of 3 minutes maximum
Applications, CV and Photo until 1st June 2008
by e-mail
or by post to
AUDITION
Peeping Tom
Koolmijnenkaai 34 - 8
1080 Brussels, BELGIUM
People who are interested but unable to attend, are invited to visit ‘audition peeping tom ’ on youtube
1-28 August, 2008
Malpils, Latvia
Performers Village is a four-week course – production of a performance open to professional actors, dancers, singers, musicians as well as directors, choreographers, playwrights, scriptwriters and stage designers from different countries, creative genres, techniques and styles. Film makers, photographers, body painters, mask makers and multimedia artists will also find a role in this process. The course will take in a secluded village traditionally known as the "theatre village".
PROGRAMME. The Village 08 is an opportunity for professional performers to find new devices for realization of creative ideas together with colleagues from different parts of the world. The programme is designed as the intensive consecutive training process of mounting the performance. As a result of practical training, discussions and rehearsals all participants will become the co-authors of the work-in-progress.
CERTIFICATION. Participants who successfully complete the course have opportunity to receive the Certificate.
REGISTRATION. To submit an application, candidates should send the following materials in Word format to The Globe Theatre
‧ Letter of motivation stating the title, dates and location of the event (about 250 words)
‧ Detailed CV
‧ Latest head shot and additional photo materials (JPG format).
Participation fee:
960 EUR if payment is made before 15th June.
1500 EUR if payment is made before 15th July.
Accommodation (27 nights) and meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner) for participants are provided.
Click here to see the PROGRAMME and REGISTRATION information
Monday 28 July – Friday 1 August
9.30am – 4.30pm
for Advanced Level Dancers
Citymoves is delighted to welcome Edinburgh-based dancer and teacher Steinvor Palsson to lead this week long workshop for advanced level dancers.
Each morning will start with a Cunningham-based class, with emphasis on
placement, core strength and breath. This will be followed by choreographic sessions looking at a piece of music from the Baroque period, creating simple movement phrases and exploring different ways of developing these phrases within the musical framework.
Of Icelandic parentage, Steinvor Palsson was born and raised in Edinburgh. After completing her dance training, she moved to England in 1979 and danced professionally for 12 years, performing with a variety of companies including the Spiral Contemporary Dance Company, the Royal Opera Company, Scottish Opera and the Imminent Dancers Group, directed by Matthew Hawkins. Steinvor returned to Edinburgh in 1992 and since then has worked extensively as a freelance teacher and choreographer. She is currently teaching at Dance Base, Dance For All and Edinburgh's Telford College. She is also a regular teacher for the X Factor Dance Company and the Curve Foundation Dance Company, of which she is also Patron. Her choreographic work includes pieces for Scottish Opera, the Ensemble Group, St. Mary's Music School, Scottish Ballet's Education Unit, the Dance Base production Off Kilter and the Scottish International Storytelling Festival. In 2007 she was part of '26 solos' created by Ian Spink and was given the opportunity to perform extracts from it in April of this year, as part of the POOL performance at The Space in Dundee.
Cost: £50
Venue: Citymoves Dancespace, Schoolhill, Aberdeen
Booking: Citymoves 01224-611 486
Award-winning choreographer Thomas Small (currently Choreographer In Residence at The Space, Dundee) is holding an audition on Saturday 14th June at The Space, Dundee for male and female dancers to join his company, Smallpetitklein for a creation period this summer, an autumn tour of Scotland and a spring 2009 tour of the UK.
Applicants must have a minimum of three years professional experience, with strong classical & contemporary technique, strong physicality and teaching experience.
Audition is by invitation only. To apply, email your CV and headshot. Successful applicants will then be sent an application pack. Application deadline is 5pm on Thursday 5th June.
Further information about Smallpetitklein can be found at our website.
Authentic Movement Workshop
Sunday 22nd June
2:45pm to 7:45pm
Woodside Halls, Glenfarg St. (near St. Georges Cross)
Authentic movement is a meditative, therapeutic & creative movement practice in which, with eyes closed, we listen to our bodies and wait to be moved by the impulses, images and feelings that arise, in the presence of at least one witness. The witness watches and tracks inner responses to the mover with the intention of not judging, but focusing on self-awareness. Authentic Movement has been described as “Inner Directed Movement” and “Spontaneous ChiKung”
Authentic Movement has been used extensively as an inspirational tool for choreography, visual art, poetry, music, therapy and healing.
This workshop will be facilitated by Ruth Antoli & Larry Butler.
Advanced Booking Essential: Contact: Larry Butler,
14 Garrioch Drive, Glasgow G20 8RS, Tel 0141 946 8096
Please send a cheque for £15 (£10 concession) payable to “RDTC”
email: butlerlarry@talktalk.net
A workshop in improvisation & movement reserach with Janis Claxton. Exploring the body as creative resource.
Sunday 22 June 10.30am-4.30pm, St. Stephens Centre, Edinburgh
In this workshop I would like to share some of my current and ongoing movement research based around explorations of the animal within all moving bodies.
By delving deeper into the vast creative resource of the body and the deep connection we share with animals, we will source not only movement and sensation, but also meaning and metaphor, exploring gesture, presence, instinct & connectivity with self & other through improvisation.
This workshop is for movement based practitioners and students, artists from other forms interested in collaborations with movers, and for community members who foster a professional approach, interest and desire to exploring the moving body.
£30 waged. £25 low waged/concession. £20 Full time students
Bookings and pre-payment essential
For more information or to book please contact Janis Claxton - 07813864778
Dance Ireland invites proposals from experienced international dance artists/choreographers for consideration for our International Associate Artist Programme 08/09. A new initiative, this is an opportunity for two international dance artists to undertake a self-designed programme of research and development, with free studio space in residence at DanceHouse, stipend, access to Dance Ireland programmes, advisory support and networking opportunities.
We aim to support the creative process and emerging ideas of artists, not final product. Finished, fully produced work is not expected, nor is Dance Ireland able to support final productions. Our interest is in providing opportunities for international artists to critically reflect on their artistic practice and take time, in residence at DanceHouse, to further develop their own unique artistic process.
We wish to strengthen contacts, promote creative exchanges and facilitate dialogue among dance artists nationally and internationally. We promote dance and cultural exchange by providing opportunities for dance artists to share with the professional dance community and Dance Ireland – knowledge, creative developments, ideas and artistic processes.
The residency programme offers up to a maximum of 12 working weeks over a 12 month period from August 2008 to August 2009. The aim of the residency is to enable international artists to work for concentrated periods of time in DanceHouse. The first residency period is from 18 August to 5 September 2008 (three weeks inclusive); the second and third residency periods are scheduled for January/February and July/August 2009.
Submission deadline: Friday 30 May 2008
Proposals will be considered by a peer panel convened by Dance Ireland; assessment will be based on proposal. Applicants will be notified by Friday 13 June 2008.
For more information and a detailed information sheet, please visit Dance Ireland
Applications are now being sought for participant performers and creators for our October Research Project.
fast+Dirty will consist of 3 site-specific self contained projects led by selected creative teams of 2 artists together with 2 or 3 performer/participants. We are looking for creative people who can collaborate across art-forms, who have clearly defined objectives and who are also prepared to step out of their comfort zones. At the conclusion of fast+Dirty there will be a sharing of the work produced on Oct 25th.
Each project will contain a mix of skilled practitioners - dancer, director or visual artist, musician, dancer or writer, media artist, choreographer etc, and will be led by a creative team who have pre-planned their particular research idea. During the research period there will be a daily session allowing feedback from other participants. Each of the projects must contain an element of dance and each team may also contain trainee volunteer artists as appropriate.
If you are interested in participating as creator or performer/participant or as a trainee volunteer please contact Ian Spink or write to: Ian Spink, citymoves - fast+Dirty, c/- Aberdeen Art Gallery, Schoolhill, Aberdeen, AB10 1FQ
If you want to perform - tell us what you’ve done. If you want to be part of a collaborative creative team - tell us what you might do and with whom. Artists who are still in training and would like to volunteer please send a short profile of what you are currently doing and what experience you’d like to gain.
PLEASE NOTE: There are very few places available on this workshop. Participants will be chosen on the basis of a written application available on request. All participants are strongly advised to seek their own funding for travel, childcare and accommodation expenses if needed. Information about expenses is available on the funding pages of the Scottish Arts Council website.
citymoves pays a basic daily rate for professional participants at £65 per day. Volunteers will be paid up to £10 per day for expenses.
citymoves is jointly funded by Aberdeen City Council and the Scottish Arts Council as part of a network of Scottish Dance Agencies and is also an associate member of the Federation of Scottish Theatre.
For Individuals from Minority Ethnic Background Resident in Scotland
The position will offer hands-on training opportunities in all aspects of arts administration for individuals of African, African-Caribbean, Asian or Chinese descent.
Candidates must have:
• Enthusiasm for developing a career within the arts in Scotland
• A good educational qualification that meets higher education admission requirements or corresponding experience
For application packs and job descriptions please email Sheila McCubbin at Dance House or call 0141 552 2442.
Closing date: Thursday 22nd May 2008
This traineeship is covered by Section 37 and 38 of Race Relations Act (1976) as amended. Re-advert, previous applicants need not re-apply.
An Introduction to the Principles of the Laban Dance Method
Couper Institute, 84 Clarkston Rd, Glasgow, G44 3DA
Saturday 18th May 2008 at 10.00am – 4.00pm
Jenny Elliott is Artistic Director of Orbit Dance and Company Maine, two contemporary Dance Companies that have emerged over the last ten years from healthcare settings in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Jenny is well known for her development of Laban-based contemporary dance programmes throughout a diverse range of healthcare services such as learning disability, brain injury, elderly care and mental health. She recently completed a comprehensive research project mapping the journeys of a group of men with enduring brain injury and the nurses who care for them as they came together to create a dance company and perform in a community theatre. Both nurses and residents articulated through the medium of dance the different dimensions and complexities of the care relationship illuminating how care practice and quality of life can be enhanced and informed through democratic creative engagement.
This one-day course is a practical lead introduction to the Principles of Laban Dance Method and provides a working dance framework for healthcare staff that may have an interest in developing dance within their work environment. The course is designed to enhance participants’ skills and understanding of dance in healthcare. It is suitable for people within the healthcare sector, people with a basic understanding of dance as well as those with many years experience wanting to be re-inspired.
This day will demonstrate how dance can be used as a powerful creative reflective tool that enhances professional care practice development
To book: Call Claire Mitchell, Dance Manager on: 0141 248 5525 / 07980 845 902 or email Indepen-Dance
£30 (£25 conc.) £15 non refundable deposit. Limited free places for GCC care staff.
For further information please visit the Indepen-dance website.
new term of classes has begun at Dance Base. We run classes for kids aged one to teenagers, all of our young dancers classes are non-competitive and focused on having a great time and being fit and healthy in body and mind.
Parents of toddlers are encouraged to take their shoes and socks off and join in. Come and try toddlers Dance 'n' Play (Wednesday 11.00-11.45), Baby Moves (Thu 13.15-14.00) or for preschool Dance Express (Wednesday 10.00-11.00). Classes are £3 for 45 minutes or £3.50 for an hour including one adult and one child - bring a brother, sister or friend for just £1 extra per child.
No need to book, just turn up and dance!
SPACE to move
in studio & other places
with Merav Israel (and guest teacher Sheila Macdougall)
SPACE TO MOVE is a course of movement and improvisation which
develops embodied physical practice, performance and dance composition
skills. It brings consciousness into movement, builds awareness and presence.
The course will be sometimes conducted as a creative lab, which will explore
participants’ own creative ideas and input to find a personal movement practice
and potential for personal development.
We welcome: dancers, actors, directors, those with a movement/performance interest and beginners who would like to take on a creative physical training!
Fees
Full Course (9 sessions): £90/cons. £72
Drop in: £11/cons. £9
Dates Spaces and Times
Fridays:
25 April Drill Hall 9 – 11 am
2 May Drill Hall 9 – 11 am
9 May Drill Hall 9 – 11 am
23 May TBC 10 – 12 am
30 May Drill Hall 9 – 11 am
6 June TBC 10 – 12 am
13 June Drill Hall 9 – 11 am
20 June TBC 10 – 12 am
27 June Drill Hall 9 – 11 am
*most sessions will take place in the rehearsal studio at Drill Hall - Out of The Blue: Dalmeny St, Edinburgh
*other sessions will investigate alternative spaces for movement exploration, those spaces will be confirmed during the course (TBC)
contact: LaNua - Movement & Improvisation
Merav 07821335757
Monica 07981582879
FIERCE (a new performance company in Scotland for 2008) are currently seeking talented young people between the ages of 12 and 21 years to join their performance group. Fierce Performance will be working on various styles of dance ranging from Street to Musical Theatre. This will be a great opportunity to perform at various competitions, corporate events and cabaret nights.
Audition
SUNDAY 13th April 18.00 - 20.30
Venue: Dance For All Theatre School
106 St. Stephen Street
Edinburgh
(Please bring suitable dance attire and prepare one song with backing track)
How to book a place at the audition:
Please email or text (07909 825 920) your Name, Date of Birth and Telephone Number.
If you are successful?!
Rehearsals will take place on sunday evenings from 7 - 8.30pm.
At Dance for All Theatre School
Here Now, There Now is a major art project taking place in the landscape along Scotland's busiest rail commuter routes linking Aberdeen, Dundee, edinburgh and Glasgow. Here Now, There Now will include a series of performances and artworks to be viewed from the trains.
Here Now, There Now is seeking volunteers for the following:
- simple movement performance based on popular forms of dance (choreographed by Litza Bixler - no formal dance training necessary)
- a relaxing performance involving lying in the landscape.
Time commitment requires a few hours of rehearsal in May (date tbc), and 1 full day commitment on either June 4th (Aberdeen - Dundee), June 5th (Dundee - Edinburgh) and/or June 6th (Edinburgh - Glasgow) June 2008. Expenses covered and delicious food provided.
The final outcome will be documented for both broadcast and gallery viewing.
For further information please email Here Now There Now or call 07939 055523.
Love to Dance? Then audition for Scottish Ballet's Associate Programme!
Junior and Senior associate Schemes provide a classically based training for boys and girls in Primary 6 & 7, or Secondary 3, 4 & 5. Scottish Ballet's aim is to encourage the development of confident, dedicated and motivated dancers by supplementing the training provided by dance teachers from across the country.
Auditions will be held in May 2008 at Scottish Ballet's studios in Glasgow for entry to the new session starting in September 2008. Applications are invited from those currently in Primary 5 & 6 or Secondary 2, 3 & 4.
No previous dance experience is required for Junior Associate applicants. For an application form call 0141 331 2931, or visit the Scottish Ballet website.
Arts Professionals in Moray
The Moray Council's Arts Development Team is currently updating its database of artists living and working in the area.
The Arts Development Team uses freelance arts practitioners on a regular basis or is asked to recommend people who can deliver high quality workshops and projects. There is an increasing number of professional artists living in Moray and it is important that an up to date data base is maintained. So, if you are a visual artist, musician, dance or drama specialist, video/film-maker or writer and have experience of delivering workshops to a range of ages and abilities please let us know by completing a very simple form.
The form can be obtained from Arts Development, Moray Council, Commerce House Annex, South Street, Elgin, IV30 1JE - 01343 557146, or alternatively, email Caroline Coomber at Moray Council.
'Culture Talk' is a unique consultation, the results of which will be used to shape culture in the Fife area. By answering three simple questions on your mobile phone, you can help Fife Council and Fife community planning organisations make Fife even more actively creative in the future. The questions are:
1. What sort of experience or activity does the word 'culture' mean to you today in Fife? Text ANSWER ONE followed by your answer to 80010
2. What cultural or creative activities or experiences would you like to see more of in Fife? Text ANSWER TWO followed by your answer to 80010
3. What would you like to see happening to better support and encourage the creative talent of people of all ages in Fife? Text ANSWER THREE followed by your answer to 80010
Messages will be charged at your normal rate. Alternatively you can email your answers (and any illustrative photos) to Culture Talk.
Edinburgh’s Telford College is on the hunt for the next generation of dancing talent after securing funding to host the first ever Scottish National Choreographic Competition on 14 June 2008.
Sponsored by British Harlequin, manufacturers of flooring for the performing arts, the competition is open to 14-25 year olds with dance experience, as well as those with professional dance training, and aims to encourage the development of Scotland’s choreographic talent and to provide a platform for those interested in pursuing a career in choreography.
For a competition information pack, please contact Mandy Purdie on 0131 559 4061 or email Mandy Purdie.
Do you have an interest in dance? Would you like to help sustain dance development in your area or school? Do you live/work in Argyll & Bute, Glasgow, Inverclyde, Midlothian or West Lothian? If you answered yes to the above questions then the YDance Big Lottery Mentoring Programme could be for you.
Anyone aged 18 and over with an interest in dance, and who is willing to commit to a year long programme, should send their CV and a covering letter to Yvonne Young, YDance, Ladywell Business Centre, 94 Duke Street, Glasgow G4 0UW or email Yvonne at Scottish Youth Dance. The letter should explain why you want to take part in the programme and how it would benefit you and the young people in your area.
Are you looking to create links with Chinese Arts Organisations, unsure how to get started, or need guidance on how to over come bureaucratic hurdles to further develop links already established? Connections through Culture could be just the scheme for you.
China — UK Connections through Culture is a joint initiative between the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the British Council with support from the Scottish Government. The initiative offers support, information, advice, networking opportunities and development grants to cultural organisations in China and the UK, aiming to build relationships and to develop exciting cultural collaborations between organisations in the two countries.
There is a website which contains a searchable database of organisational profiles and interests. All cultural organisations in the UK and China can register on the database to enable potential partner organisations to make contact.
For further information visit the Connections website, email Malena Malbaek, Projects Co-ordinator, British Council Scotland or telephone 0131 524 5729.
Call for Creative Presentations - 7 - 13 July 2008
Theatre Methods 2008 in an international festival exploring the bridge between traditional and contemporary performing arts. Held in Malpils, Latvia, the event will unite performers from across the globe, including actors, directors, dancers, choreographers, teachers, playwrights, designers and theatre critics.
They are currently accepting applications for creative presentations – such as workshops/masterclasses, works in progress, performance fragments, lectures and any other demonstrations. For more details, go to the Theatre Methods website.
Youth Scotland are looking for young women aged 16 to 24 years old with an interest in physical activity and dance to take part in a five day residential Dance Leadership Course.
The course is practical and challenging but most of all fun - mixing skills training and personal development with social activities. Applicants don't have to be dancers - but should have an interest in leading dance for girls and young women in their local community. The course will enable young women to gain a nationally recognised qualification in dance leadership.
For more information please contact Youth Scotland on 0131 554 2561 or visit the Girls on the Move website.
Arts Development at South Lanarkshire Council is looking to build on their bank of casual dance tutors to deliver in the new autumn term in September. Selected tutors will be expected to attend interview and will be subject to disclosure checks. Own transport or living locally would be an advantage.
Please send your CV to:
Jacqueline Tindal
Arts Development Officer (Dance)
South Lanarkshire Council
The Town House
102 Cadzow Street
Hamilton
ML3 6HH
Anyone who has ever taken a dance class knows just how much fun they are, and how much fitter, healthier and happier they can make you feel. Dance Base, Scotland's National Centre for Dance, is looking for your stories about how dance changed your life, to feature in their next brochure.
Maybe you found a new lease of life at a tap class? Met your husband or wife doing Tango? Or were inspired to travel through flamenco? The story can be anecdotal, sentimental or just downright ridiculous - so long as its true. Submitting a story is easy - just email it to James Allenby, and if Dance Base decides to use it in their Autumn brochure, you will receive a free class voucher for use during the Edinburgh Fringe.
The first decade of the 21st century sees the convergence of dance and the moving image manifested in many different forms and contexts, from single screen video dance works to pop promos, documentation to feature films, live performance with technology and net dance. All require a technical and critical understanding of and experience in both dance and the media arts.
This brand new strand of a well-established and respected Masters programme enables students to develop advanced skills, knowledge and understanding within the rapidly expanding field of screendance and is also designed to prepare graduates as skilled professionals in the video arts, film and television sectors.
The flexible programme offers a wide range of opportunities for individuals to develop both practical and theoretical skills. The Programme aims to address the demand for directors, choreographers and screendance artists with the technical expertise and creative vision needed to support specialisms in the commercial and arts sectors.
The School of Media Arts and Imaging has excellent high-end shooting, graphics, animation and editing facilities for use by students and supported by highly experienced technical staff. The Masters has a dedicated Course Leader and this strand is supported by internationally renowned screendance artists and guest lecturers from the field.
The curriculum is designed to attract graduates from courses in dance, choreography, screen arts, animation, net arts and interactive media, as well as those in professional careers who wish to focus on developing their personal practice.
For an informal discussion and information about funding, please email Gair Dunlop, Course Leader or telephone 01382 388 944 or email Katrina McPherson or telephone 01382 385 249.
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