PERFORMANCE RESEARCH PROJECT
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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. 
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!)
Book here
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.

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

Past Seasons 2016-20
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• 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
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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. ​
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