SPRING SESSION 2021
For interested early career dance professionals.
March 1st -May 7th 2021
Applications due January 22nd
To apply or inquire further, please contact performanceresearchproject@gmail.com. Please send a video that represents your work, your CV and a description of your goals and what you hope to develop by participating.
March 1st -May 7th 2021
Applications due January 22nd
To apply or inquire further, please contact performanceresearchproject@gmail.com. Please send a video that represents your work, your CV and a description of your goals and what you hope to develop by participating.
OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY
In-Person Drop-in Classes @The Dance Centre
Online Drop-in Classes Tuesdays and Thursdays on Zoom
Spring Online Workshop (announced soon!)
Online Drop-in Classes Tuesdays and Thursdays on Zoom
Spring Online Workshop (announced soon!)
About the Performance Research Project
The Performance Research Project is a mentorship and professional development platform for early career dance professionals led by Lesley Telford and Heather Myers. Conceived as a stepping stone into a career in dance or for those in transition between contracts, this professional development project provides daily training along with further experience in the creative process and exposure to new ways of working and thinking about dance . PRP provides a space for dance artists to build an intensive practise, connect, learn, question, experiment, collaborate, perform, and grow. Although this year we will have constraints around gathering, we hope to navigate possible performance situations and ways of continuing to connect. Ultimately, the main purpose of this project is to provide dancers with the support, mentoring and focus that they need while balancing training, auditioning and independent work.
The Performance Research Project is a mentorship and professional development platform for early career dance professionals led by Lesley Telford and Heather Myers. Conceived as a stepping stone into a career in dance or for those in transition between contracts, this professional development project provides daily training along with further experience in the creative process and exposure to new ways of working and thinking about dance . PRP provides a space for dance artists to build an intensive practise, connect, learn, question, experiment, collaborate, perform, and grow. Although this year we will have constraints around gathering, we hope to navigate possible performance situations and ways of continuing to connect. Ultimately, the main purpose of this project is to provide dancers with the support, mentoring and focus that they need while balancing training, auditioning and independent work.
Upcoming Spring Session 2021
March 1st - May 7th
Fee: $2500
The Spring Session includes:
• 10 weeks, 3.5 hours/day plus private meetings
• Personalized mentorship with respect to artistic and career development
• Choreographic research with Lesley Telford and guest artists.
• Development of personal practise and choreographic skills (special focus on choreographic workshop)
• Improvisation intensive
• Guest artist Margaret Grenier
• Interdisciplinary investigation with film
• Public showings or streaming and investigation of performance opportunities
March 1st - May 7th
Fee: $2500
The Spring Session includes:
• 10 weeks, 3.5 hours/day plus private meetings
• Personalized mentorship with respect to artistic and career development
• Choreographic research with Lesley Telford and guest artists.
• Development of personal practise and choreographic skills (special focus on choreographic workshop)
• Improvisation intensive
• Guest artist Margaret Grenier
• Interdisciplinary investigation with film
• Public showings or streaming and investigation of performance opportunities
Past Seasons 2016-20
• Collaborations with Ballet BC, Chor Leoni , Bard on the Beach, Pi Theatre, Inverso Productions, Bloom Mascall Dance
• Creation processes with Serge Bennathan, Noam Gagnon, Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, Idan Cohen, Heather Myers, Vanessa Goodman, David Raymond, Livona Ellis, Brandon Alley, Rachel Prince and Lesley Telford
• Workshops by Crystal Pite, Eric Beauchesne / Kidd Pivot, Yvan Dubrueil / Nederlands Dans Theater
• Improvisation events and improvisation research
• Choreographic workshops with participating dancers
• Repertoire by Crystal Pite, Jiri Kylian, Johan Inger, Medhi Walerski, Sharon Eyal, Lesley Telford
• Dancers have worked with actors, writers, musicians, opera singers and movement sensor technology
• Collaborations with Ballet BC, Chor Leoni , Bard on the Beach, Pi Theatre, Inverso Productions, Bloom Mascall Dance
• Creation processes with Serge Bennathan, Noam Gagnon, Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, Idan Cohen, Heather Myers, Vanessa Goodman, David Raymond, Livona Ellis, Brandon Alley, Rachel Prince and Lesley Telford
• Workshops by Crystal Pite, Eric Beauchesne / Kidd Pivot, Yvan Dubrueil / Nederlands Dans Theater
• Improvisation events and improvisation research
• Choreographic workshops with participating dancers
• Repertoire by Crystal Pite, Jiri Kylian, Johan Inger, Medhi Walerski, Sharon Eyal, Lesley Telford
• Dancers have worked with actors, writers, musicians, opera singers and movement sensor technology
Alumni
Alumni have gone on to work with local and international companies and have created their own choreographic projects with careers as independent artists.
Alumni have gone on to work with local and international companies and have created their own choreographic projects with careers as independent artists.
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Luzerne Tanz Theater, Switzerland
Mainfranken Theatre, Germany Theatre Pforzheim, Germany Theatre Augsburg, Germany Theater Nordhausen, Germany Staattheater Flensburg, Germany Compañia Contemporanea de San Martin, Argentina Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal Ballet Edmonton Project20 / Donald Sales The Response/ Amber Funk Barton |
605 Collective
Inverso Productions/ Lesley Telford Action at a Distance/ Vanessa Goodman Vision Impure/ Noam Gagnon Les Productions Figlio/ Serge Bennathan Wen Wei Dance TWObigsteps collective Rachel Meyers Mascall Dance/ Jennifer Mascall The Darlings |
Please contact performanceresearchproject@gmail.com for more information.