Dance Transformations Opportunity

Are you looking to develop your career as a dance artist? Do you need time, space and financial support to explore choreographic ideas? Could you benefit from mentor guidance?
Starting this autumn Dance Transformations is a part time two-three year training programme.  It supports emerging artists with a physical disability and/or sensory impairment and non-disabled dance artists based in the West Midlands.

Dance Transformations is managed and delivered by Blue Eyed Soul Dance Company in partnership with Coventry University’s ICELab; (Institute for Creative Enterprise) and with the support of DanceXchange (dx), all of whom have a stake in providing enhanced opportunities for disabled dance artists in the region.  Ultimately Dance Transformations aims to provide a unique environment that empowers emerging artists to investigate dance making.
They are keen to recruit artists who have significant potential but may have not received acknowledgement as established ‘creators of choreography’.

The project offers artists time and space to explore choreographic ideas in a supportive ‘unpressured’ environment.  They will also attend dance seminars, workshops, professional dance company rehearsals and additional events identified by the ‘trainees’, partake in a seminar event, and the opportunity to create work in 2012 as part of the Cultural Olympiad celebrations.

Mentor support is an essential part of the programme, along with an infrastructure that supports artists to work together.  The programme is intended to explore a range of important questions about the experience of disabled and non-disabled dance artists so a commitment to a process of enquiry is expected of all participating artists. The programme will be documented and reflected upon, eventually leading to a multimedia publication.

For further information and to download an information pack visit:
www.blueeyedsouldance.com/dance-transformations/
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T: 01743 210830

deadline for applications monday 6 September.