The Performance Research Project is a mentorship platform for emerging dance professionals led by Lesley Telford. PREP was formerly offered by Arts Umbrella from 2016-20. 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 . PREP 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. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Project Content 2020-21
• Personalized mentorship with respect to artistic and career development • Choreographic research with Lesley Telford and guest artists. • Development of personal practise and choreographic skills • Improvisation intensive • Interdisciplinary investigation • Repertoire by Jiri Kylian • Professionally filmed video portfolio and photo session • Public showings and investigation of performance opportunities (if possible) ______________________________________________________________________________ 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 Eric Beauchesne / Kidd Pivot, Yvan Dubrueil / Nederlands Dans Theater • Improvisation events and improvisation research • Choreographic workshops with participating dancers • Repertoire by Jiri Kylian, Johan Inger, 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. 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 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 Project20 / Donald Sales The Response/ Amber Funk Barton ______________________________________________________________________________ How to audition
Please contact performanceresearchproject@gmail.com for audition information. ______________________________________________________________________________