OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY
Online and In-Person Drop-in Classes
Tuesdays and Thursdays @The Dance Centre or on Zoom
Online Intensive November 9-20
Mornings only or full days, this exciting international workshop will include ballet, repertoire, Gaga, improv and body awareness workshops.
Tuesdays and Thursdays @The Dance Centre or on Zoom
Online Intensive November 9-20
Mornings only or full days, this exciting international workshop will include ballet, repertoire, Gaga, improv and body awareness workshops.
About the Performance Research Project
The Performance Research Project is a mentorship and professional development platform for emerging, early career and mid-career 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.
The Performance Research Project is a mentorship and professional development platform for emerging, early career and mid-career 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.
Fall and Spring Sessions
September 28th - December 4th, 2020 / March 1st - May 7th, 2021
These 10 week sessions include:
• 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)
September 28th - December 4th, 2020 / March 1st - May 7th, 2021
These 10 week sessions include:
• 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
• 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.
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 |
How to apply for the Fall and Spring Sessions
Please contact performanceresearchproject@gmail.com for more information.
Please contact performanceresearchproject@gmail.com for more information.