Information Exchange
Hi there,
This post and the following ongoing comments are dedicated to sharing information and staying in touch with other recent graduates or independent dance artists. Due to the many demands of working within this sector it can often be difficult to stay connected to fellow artists, and so please feel free to use this resource as a way to combat that isolation.
Please note that as a result of feedback from our Graduate Fortnight programme in 2007, we now offer an extended concession rate for our workshops and events. This means that if you hold a student card for 08/09 - a concession rate is valid on our events until 30 June 2010 or if you will become a graduate in 09/10 your concession rate is valid until 30 June 2011.
We hope you find this resource useful and welcome to the ID forum.
Gill and Fiona
September 29th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you both for your support. The idea of this webbsite is wonderful. It works very well for me, but I’ll continue to pop in and see if I can feed back any useful information. You wrote something about a soft launch, is that coming up?
I’ll keep checking, many thanks
Maria
October 30th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Hello ID!
The new website is wonderful, very accessable and easy to handle!
Thanks for all your efforts to make life easier for independent dance artists!
Antje
October 30th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
Thanks for the acknowledgement Antje!
Its great to know that it makes a difference.
Fiona
November 10th, 2007 at 7:33 am
Hi, if you know Marina Collard please pass hi to her from Russia, Novosibirsk, where she have taught classes.
Marina, we remember you! Wish you all the best!
November 10th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
Hi Natasha,
I’ve passed on your message to Marina - greetings to you all in Novosibirsk!
Fiona
December 5th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Motionhouse Dance Theatre is seeking courageous, athletic performers and a Rehearsal Director.
PERFORMERS
You will be creating and touring a major mid-scale production as well as taking our short festival pieces to street arts festivals throughout the UK and beyond. Work starts on 6 April 2009 and we are looking for a commitment until at least June 2010. We are looking for mature and experienced dancers (minimum age 21) with a versatile skills base and preferably some experience in acrobatic, circus or physical theatre work.
It would be useful to have some teaching experience and a clean driving licence is essential – non-drivers will be considered only in exceptional circumstances.
An open audition for performers takes place in Leamington Spa on Saturday 7 February with a second audition on Sunday 8 February for those selected. Contact Motionhouse to register and for an info pack.
REHEARSAL DIRECTOR
Motionhouse Dance Theatre seeks a Rehearsal Director to teach company class and rehearse the company’s performance work throughout production and touring periods. Contract to commence in April 2009 and we are looking for a commitment until at least summer 2010.
Interviews for the Rehearsal Director will be held on Friday 6 February in Leamington Spa.
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If you are interested in either vacancy email Gemma at admin@motionhouse.co.uk requesting an info pack and job description or call the office on 01926 887052.
Alternatively you can download the packs by visiting our website www.motionhouse.co.uk/news.htm .
Both vacancies are subject to a CRB enhanced disclosure check.
Motionhouse – creation, inspiration, participation
January 11th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Dance and Academia: Moving the Boundaries
‘The Body’
Interdisciplinary Conference
Oxford Playhouse Theatre and Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies
Saturday 7th February 2009, 10am-5.30pm
Following on from last year’s seminar series ‘Dance and Academia: (Re)Moving the Boundaries’, this conference-style event investigates the philosophical, artistic and cultural questions surrounding the concept of ‘The Body’ in the world of dance. Bringing together Oxford-based academics and dance practitioners from diverse fields, the conference will offer opportunities to listen and to participate, to discuss and to share ideas.
All are welcome, with a background in academia or in dance, or neither. The day will consist of speaker presentations combined with active, open discussion from all participants.
Tickets: £13.50/£10 from Tickets Oxford (01865 305 305) *Lunch included*
Coffee from 9.30am and morning session in the Top Room, Playhouse Theatre, Beaumont St
Lunch and afternoon session in Outreach Room, Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles
Conference participants are also invited to a workshop master-class on Sunday 8th Feb, 12-4pm, with academic and choreographer Carol Brown (Roehampton University). This event is included in the ticket price, and may be attended either as a dancer or observer. Places are limited so please email miranda.laurence@jesus.ox.ac.uk to book a place (quoting ticket reference). The workshop is also open to those not attending the conference at a cost of £8/£6. See www.freefalldance.org.uk for more details.
Susie Crow (Independent Ballet Choreographer and Teacher) and Jennifer Jackson (University of Surrey)
‘Beyond the Ballet Body: the Education of Physical, Intellectual and Emotional Bodies in the Making of the Dancer’
Cecilia Macfarlane (Independent Dance Artist)
‘The Body and the Landscape’
Fiona Macintosh (Archive for the Performance of Greek and Roman Drama, Oxford) and Struan Leslie (Head of Movement, RSC)
‘Collective Bodies: Modern Incarnations of the Ancient Chorus’
Zoe Norridge (New College, Oxford)
‘Multicultural Bodies in Conversation: Guillem and Khan’s Sacred Monsters’
Ruth Pethybridge (Independent Dance Artist)
‘Governing Bodies: Community Dance Values in Capitalist Society’
Kathleen Riley (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
‘The Body Poetic: Pylades, Fred Astaire and Edward Petherbridge’
Sarah Whatley (Coventry University)
‘Digital Technologies and the Reinvention of the Dancing Body’
Thomas J M Wilson (Independent Physical Theatre Artist)
‘The Body as Script’
March 20th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Common Dance
Wanted: Dancers of all ages and abilities for Performance Project
Rosemary Lee is looking for performers to get involved with her next project, Common Dance, a site-specific performance gathering a cast of a hundred singers, musicians and professional / non-professional dancers. The piece will be created at Greenwich Dance Agency and will be presented in the Borough Hall as part of Dance Umbrella 2009, London’s International Festival of Contemporary Dance.
Continuing her passion for making large-scale inter-generational performances and films, Rosemary is taking as inspiration for this new piece the notion of commonality and her long-term interest in traditional forms in poetry, folk music and dance.
She is searching for a cast of over forty non-professional performers ranging in age from nine upwards. The most important requirement for this project is to love dancing however it would be useful if participants have some experience of dance, movement or performing in public. The creation process will involve some intensive weekends and Saturdays scattered between June and October, along with weekly rehearsals from September until the premiere.
If you are interested in being involved contact gDA to receive an information sheet on 020 8293 9741 or kat@greenwichdance.org.uk by 30 April 2009. More information on Rosemary Lee can be found at www.artsadmin.co.uk/rosemarylee and www.rescen.net
Common Dance is co-commissioned and presented by Dance Umbrella & Greenwich Dance Agency in association with Artsadmin.
April 8th, 2009 at 9:35 am
Volunteers needed
to create the UK premiere of an installation by choreographer William Forsythe at the Midland Goods Shed, Kings Cross
Thurs 30 April – Sun 3 May
10 – 3pm or 3 – 9pm
Part of Focus on Forsythe season by Sadler’s Wells www.sadlerswells.com
The work is Scattered Crowd and includes over 7000 helium balloons tied in pairs to fill the entire warehouse
* Free tea and coffee and biscuits
* Ticket to see Forsythe’s Decreation 7.30pm Sadler’s Wells 24 – 26th April
* Special private view for you + a friend before it opens to the public
please contact Charlotte Geeves
charlotte.geeves@sadlerswells.com 020 7863 8080