Opportunities for dance professionals
Yahoo Group
This group for regional dance artists provides a quick and easy tool for like minded people to chat and share knowledge/ideas. To sign-up email
fiona.speed@danceeast.co.uk
Foundation for Community Dance’s National College Summer School 2012
Choose one of five inspiring courses:
- Passport to practice (for graduates, newcomers to community dance or as a refresher course).
- Dance, health and wellbeing (for people leading dance in health settings)
- Dance and age inclusive practice (for people leading dance across age groups).
- Dance and disabled people (for people leading dance with disabled people).
- Dance, media and site-specific practice (for people leading and documenting site-specific dance).
These courses are perfect for the dance practitioner wanting to deepen and develop their knowledge and practical skills.
Dates: Tuesday 24 - Friday 27 July
Venue: De Montfort University, Leicester
To find out more and to book your place visit
www.communitydance.org.uk/summerschool and complete the booking form, or call Lindsay on 0116 253 3453.
E-MOTIONAL Bodies & Cities, May 2011 - April 2013
E-MOTIONAL Bodies & Cities is a two year mobility and artistic exchange dance programme gathering artists and managers from six European countries – Romania, Cyprus, Ireland, Latvia, United Kingdom and Turkey. The programme plans to identify, nurture, attract and sustain talent and creativity at European level, by connecting artists and dance managers from countries participating in the project.
- Five artistic residencies in Dublin, Limassol, Riga, London and Bucharest.
- A Motion Fund including 14 ArtistNe(s)t dance residencies, 20 mobility grants and 11 Gabriela Tudor fellowships for dance managers.
- 12 performance exchanges.
- One co-production.
- Two training sessions in dance management in Riga and Limassol.
- One international forum in Bucharest
For more information visit
www.e-motional.eu
Six major dance organisations, universities and a hospital unite to launch the first National Institute of Dance Medicine and Science
The National Institute of Dance Medicine and Science (NIDMS) provides a radical new approach to dancers’ healthcare which is one of the most pressing problems facing the growing industry. NIDMS aims to provide access for all dancers to high quality, evidence-based, dance specific healthcare and dance science services.
The founding partners are Dance UK, Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Jerwood Centre for the Prevention and Treatment of Dance Injuries, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, University of Wolverhampton, University of Birmingham and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital.
Find out more about the
National Institute of Dance Medicine and Science »
The English Folk Dance and Song Society opens applications for creative artist residencies
The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) has launched a new scheme offering creative residencies at its London base. The initiative is open to individuals or groups who want to explore their creative potential and the English traditions by undertaking a residency at Cecil Sharp House to research and develop new work.
The creative residencies are open to professional artists across all sectors – from classical composers and contemporary dancers to poets, musicians or visual artists – not just those working within the folk arts. The residencies will run from September 2012 to March 2013.
Deadline for submissions: Saturday 30 June.
For more information or to apply for a creative residency visit
www.efdss.org
Completed application forms can be returned via email to
neil@efdss.org or to: Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, London, NW1 7AY.
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