Choreographic Futures
Citymoves, Dance Base, Dance House and The Work Room are delighted to offer a two-week workshop with David Gordon and Ain Gordon, hosted at Dance Base as part of the Choreographic Futures initiative.
19 – 31 March 2012
Extended Deadline: 17.00, Friday 13 January 2012
Choreographic Futures, Dance Base
14-16 Grassmarket, Edinburgh EH1 2JU
morag@dancebase.co.uk
Funds Available: Up to ten awards are available for a fully subsidised place and subsistence for this two-week reflective residency.
Level of Award: £400 per week subsistence, plus course fees, plus travel and accommodation expenses, as required.
This is an exciting opportunity for choreographers working in Scotland.
The dance agencies have invited the respected American teachers, Ain Gordon and David Gordon to recreate their legendary two-week residency for choreographic critical practice. This is the first time this opportunity has been offered in Scotland. Previous attendees include Laurie Booth, Gaby Agis, Finn Walker, Emma Diamond and Matthew Hawkins.
David Gordon founded Pick Up Performance Co(s), participated in original Judson Church Performances, founding member of improvisational group Grand Union, founding member of Center For Creative Research & member of Actors Studio in NYC.
Ain Gordon is co-director of Pick Up Performance Co(s), a 3-time Obie Award winning writer/director/actor, Visiting Artist at the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Artist in Residence at the Center for Creative Research and a Playwright’s Center Core Writer.
This ‘time out’ for choreographers encourages artists to take a new perspective on their work. This would take place over two weeks at Dance Base, Edinburgh and would be followed up with a facilitated retrospective weekend at Cove Park to process thoughts and incubate ideas.
SELECTION PROCESS:
By open application and invitation. The proposals will then be shortlisted in consultation with PickUp Performance Co (David Gordon and Ain Gordon)
SELECTION CRITERIA
David & Ain have drawn up the following guidelines:
“Participants need to be ‘in practice’ – meaning they’ve made/been in some work over a reasonable period and self-designate as practising artists. We shy away from ‘established’ or ‘emerging’ or ‘professional’ – so hard to know what those terms really mean.”
Participants must be willing:
To work in repeated draft form rather than zeroing in on an ideal product
To possibly experiment in other mediums/disciplines than their own
To possibly stick with material for too long
To possibly abandon favourite material too soon
To use what’s in the room rather than wish for what is not
To work in front of each other
To work with each other
To discuss any of it
To join this two-week workshop, please email morag@dancebase.co.uk with a statement of interest and a CV by 17.00, Friday 13 January 2012. Participation in the workshop is by selection only and all costs will be covered.
