Street Performers wanted: Bermondsey Street Festival

IdeasTap is looking for four creative performers for the Bermondsey Street Festival. We are looking for three street performers and one stationary performer who can energise and excite the street as well as engage with members of the public in creative ways. Whether that be music, dance, spoken word, magic, theatre or circus, it’s completely up to you! This is a chance to showcase your work and get paid doing it.

IdeasTap is an online arts organisation and funding body, providing unique opportunities for emerging creative talent.

For full details on  how to apply go to www.ideastap.com

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Free Workshop for Contemporary Dancers, Martial Artists & Free Runners - Future Performance Potential

FREE Open workshop for trained contemporary dancers who are experienced / interested in martial arts; martial artists who are interested in dance; and free runners.

Date: 21st August 2011

Venue: Theatre Peckham, Havil Street London SE5 7SD

The purpose of the workshop is to identify artists for future performance projects.  

Contact martswho@mail.com for details. 


Website: www.martial-dance.co.uk

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Audition Notice: Rosie Kay Dance Company - Female Dancer required for Asylum

Rosie Kay Dance Company is looking for a female dancer to fill the shoes of Rosie Kay for a one-off performance, with potential opportunities for a new work in 2012.

Dancer should have partnering experience, a strong contemporary technique and some ballet technique and have exceptional stage presence. Dancers must be athletic, physically strong and robust.

Asylum packs a lot into its 17-minute running length. A journey of two dancers, the work weaves a narrative of holding on, re-adapting, mechanisation, losing yourself and ultimately finding your identity through the sheer determination of the human spirit. The work comes from quite a personal crisis of the choreographer Rosie Kay, who while deeply questioning her own identity, relationships and personal pain, also studied the loss if identity suffered by asylum seekers and refugees. It was through working with asylum seekers and conducting interviews, that Kay saw a clear difference between how men and how women adapt to forced changes in living situations. Asylum can be read on one level as a duet between two people, or seen as a bigger exploration of two people in a landscape of pain, want and hope.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzkjlauDmpA

DATES AND FEES INFORMATION

Rehearsal Period: 2 weeks at DanceXchange w/c 26 Sept and 3 Oct 2011

Tech and Performance: 1 week at DanceXchange w/c 10 October 2011 (2 shows 13/14)

Fee: £1125 for 3 weeks including 2 shows

Expenses: Travel and shared accommodation provided

If you are interested in this opportunity please watch the You Tube link to ensure you feel capable of performing the role.

To apply, please send a CV and head shot photo to Company Manager, Hannah Sharpe hannah@twoscompanydance.co.uk

Successful candidates will be invited to attend an audition on Monday 29^th August, at DanceXchange, Birmingham. There will be no alternative dates.

www.rosiekay.co.uk / info@rosiekay.co.uk

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Afro Dance Xplosion Dance Classes & Workshops with Top African Diaspora Dance Practitioners

Afro Dance Xplosion (London) brings together some of the hottest African diaspora dance practitioners to deliver a dynamite weekend of dance classes and workshops on 17th and 18th September 2011.

The Weekend time table:

Saturday 17th September 2011

• 10:30am – 11:00 Registration

• 11:00 – 12:30pm Contemporary Cuban Dance with Dwayne Barnaby

• 12:45pm – 2:15pm Samba with Irineu Nogueira

• 2:30pm – 3:30pm ChuItal Pilates with Michael Burgess

• 3:30 – 4:15 Lunch Break

• 4:15pm – 6:15pm Djemba Traditional Senegalese Dance Masterclass with Aida Diop (Lingdienne)

Sunday 18th September 2011:

• 10:30 – 11:00 Registration

• 11.00am – 12.30pm Horton with David Blake from The Lion King

• 12:45pm - 2.15pm Afrobeat with Shelley Maxwell from the MaxwellDanceProject

• 2:30pm – 4:00pm Afro Eclectic Dance with Alesandra Seutin from Vocab Dance

• 4:00pm – 4:45pm Lunch Break

• 4:45pm – 6:45pm Sabar Masterclass with Aida Diop

VENUE:

Studio 68

68 Ewer Street

London SE1 0NR

Between Union St and Great Suffolk St under the Railway arches

Next to the boxing ring

Click here for map to studio

Nearest tubes: Southwark Station/Waterloo Station

See all the details at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Feel-the-Rhythm-Productions/107836562586948#!/event.php?eid=135697596519416

or go to facebook and enter Feel the rhythm productions and look at the latest event.

Also like Feel the Rhythm Productions to keep up with the latest in African and African Inspired dance in London and elsewhere.

For further information, email feeltherhythmprod@googlemail.com; or call: Carolyn (m:) 07979 464047, or Paula (m) 07800 959664

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Digital Futures in Dance National Conference: 8 - 10 September

South East Dance, Dance South West / Pavilion Dance, Digital Dance and Bournemouth University School of Media present

Digital Futures in Dance, 8-10 September 2011, Bournemouth (UK) 

 

Digital Futures in Dance is a brand new national conference discussing the future possibilities for dance and technology. As interactive technology and interdisciplinary practice become second nature, we witness an increasing fluidity between forms. DFiD gives artists, promoters, producers, venues, academics, creatives and digital companies an opportunity to come together and investigate how new digital technologies can create inspiration and new conditions for the production and presentation of dance. DFiD includes presentations, workshops, performances and installations. 

 

Speakers include: Anthony Lilley (CEO of Magical Lantern), Scott deLahunta (Coventry University, Random Dance, Forsythe Company), Mark Coniglio (Troika Ranch, developer of Isadora), BADco (artists’ collective, Serbia), Marlon Barrios Solano (founder of dance-tech.net)

 

Performances include: award winning German company: Silke Z./resistdance

 

Workshops include: Isadora Software, Whatever Dance Toolbox Software, Choreography in immersive environments.

 

 www.digitalfuturesindance.org 

Photo Credit: Jonah Bokaer

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Dance Video: Glenn Hudson's Routine to Stranger by Jhene Aiko

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Call out for performers "Suspect Number 4"

C-12 Dance Theatre are looking for 7 dance theatre enthusiasts to
feature as performers in their thrilling new dance-on-film production,
"Suspect Number 4".

Challenging their current choreographic processes, Annie (C-12) is
opening this opportunity to non-dancers as well as dance
professionals. The final 7 will be chosen at random to feature in a
CCTV/fly on the wall style film that will unravel the suspects of a
murder. The project will be filmed on location.

C-12 Dance Theatre needs 7 willing participants who:
• Are aged 8 years +
• Enthusiastic and willing to perform in front of the camera
• Can pick up choreography
• Available on the following dates:
Wednesday 10 August
Thursday 11 August
Friday 12 August
Saturday 13 August
Time TBC

No previous dance or theatre training required.

All performers will receive expenses of up to £8 per day as required.

If you are interested in this fantastic opportunity please contact:
suspect@c-12dancetheatre.com by Monday 8 August, 5pm 

Notes

Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster (C-12 Dance Theatre) has been commissioned by East London Dance to produce a short dance film inspired by and in response to Merce Circus, the first and final time that the Merce Cunningham Dance Company will visit east London before it disbands at the end of this year, for more information go to www.eastlondondance.org or www.danceumbrella.co.uk

Merce Cunningham was renowned for his chance procedures and risk taking choreographic processes.

The film will be shown internationally on the following websites: East London Dance, Dance Umbrella and Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

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