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Focus on expanding performance and interdisciplinary dramaturgy

We would like to draw your attention to the master’s programme in Contemporary Theatre, Dance and Dramaturgy at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. This one-year academic programme welcomes both students in arts and culture studies as well as (arts)professionals who wish to enrich their practice.

Our profile
Since the world is becoming a stage with ever-increasing rates of intensity, this begs the question of how we can critically assess its staging strategies. Now that politics has become a spectacle, reality a show and identity a DIY-kit, theatre and dance are highly relevant fields of expertise and expand their sphere of influence. In this Master’s programme, you will learn how contemporary theatre, dance and performance provide us with many tools and concepts to make sense of this all, due to their practices of making meaning, designing experience, framing reality, staging narratives or constructing spectatorship. Contemporary performance radically breaks with disciplinary borders and invites us to re-adjust our lenses and sharpen our pens. This program teaches you how to do that. You will learn how to investigate the dramaturgy of public space or the scenography of social media, how to write about relations between movement & criticality or between performance & visuality. We look at theatre as a laboratory, where artists and audiences jointly explore how to respond to societal and ecological challenges, how to think through bodies, how to relate to objects or machines, how to move together, in sum, how to use theatre and dance as constructive thinking tools.

Our programme
Fully taught in English, this Master’s programme approaches theatre and dance as intermedial and interdisciplinary phenomena. You will get acquainted with state-of-the-art theory, yet we are also actively oriented towards the practice of theatre and dance. Our programme is deeply engaged with the performing arts in the Netherlands and Flanders, internationally regarded as forerunners of the exciting new trends that emerge on the European stage. Through performance visits, after-talks and discussions with makers, we provide you with lots of opportunities to actually see the work that inspires our interdisciplinary programme. The practical orientation is further exemplified by the focus on dramaturgy, an internship in the second semester, a studio week and the many opportunities to meet with practitioners. These are built-in components within the programme and closely related to the staff’s expansive network.
The programme comprises two semesters, the first widens the scope of your knowledge and experience, the second focuses on individual specialisation.
In this webinar we inform you in detail about the programme!

This programme welcomes both Dutch and international students as well as arts professionals who wish to enrich their practice through academic research. The academic DNA of our MA students preferably consists of reflexivity, curiosity, open-mindedness, commitment, initiative and affinity with writing.

After graduation, you are able to:

• Render a critical analysis of theatre, dance and performance productive for a variety of ends.
• Situate trends in the performing arts in the context of larger societal events.
• Use theatre, dance and performance knowledge for in-depth reflection on artistic work and contemporary issues and debates.
• Engage professionally with artistic making processes, by inspiring that process through critical analysis, constructive feedback and professional dialogue.
• Articulate your thoughts and observations in a precise and committed manner, both orally and in writing.
• Translate your knowledge to others, in a variety of presentation formats.
• Employ these skills in the areas of dramaturgy, programming and curating, education, critical writing and art criticism, creative producing, and more!

Check out how some of our graduates use their knowledge and expertise in the professional field! They share their stories in this short video.

Call for Applications
We would be pleased if readers could pass this information on to anyone interested. The latest date by which we can receive applications is June 1, but we recommend candidates to apply as early as possible. In addition to applying online, candidates are asked to upload a writing sample and a motivation letter. Please upload everything well before the latest date of application.

More information?
Visit our website or ask the programme coordinator, Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink, L.W.GrootNibbelink@uu.nl.

*original article here

Springback Academy at Spring Forward Festival

24 -26 April 2020 Rijeka, Croatia

A project designed to stimulate dialogue about dance and performance whilst striving to improve and promote written criticism online 

After Umeå, Barcelona, Pilsen, Aarhus, Sofia and Paris, Springback Academy will once again offer aspiring dance writers the chance to be mentored in the fundamentals of quality dance criticism in the action-packed environment of Spring Forward. Aerowaves annual festival will take place this year in Rijeka, Croatia on Friday 24, Saturday 25, and Sunday 26 April 2020.

Under the guidance of four experienced dance writers, participants have the chance to create, shape and share conversations about dance and hone their critical writing skills for a number of different formats. It’s a fast-track way to gain experience and technique in responsible, effective, attractive dance criticism as well as to explore and understand the opportunities that digital publishing has to offer.
 
PLUS – Two years ago now, Springback Magazine was launched. The publication’s contributors are drawn exclusively from writers who have participated in the Springback Academy programme and who are part of the ever-growing community of Springback Academy ‘graduate’ writers.

Check out Springback Magazine

If selected for the project, Aerowaves will provide mentorship, accommodation, hospitality, a pass to the festival and the opportunity to participate in future Springback activities.

Participants will be required to organise and fund their own return travel to Rijeka.

What Springback Academy 2020 will entail:

We are looking for up to 10 opinionated people with an interest in, or some prior experience of writing about dance. The participants will be mentored in critical writing by our lead critics including Donald Hutera (The Times, London), Sanjoy Roy (The Guardian, London) Kelly Apter (The Scotsman) and Laura Cappelle (New York Times).

During the Spring Forward festival each participant will:

• Attend an introductory lecture about dance writing given by Sanjoy Roy followed by an extended Q & A session.

•  Have the opportunity to meet informally with the 200 strong Spring Forward audience made up almost exclusively of dance professionals including Springback writers from previous years. 

• Write short reviews in English (140 words) of several of the performances they see over the weekend. They will work to tight deadlines so that their reviews can be published each day on the Aerowaves/Springback website

• Generate ultra-short reviews, provocations, opinions and questions to share on Twitter – using #Springback to gather the conversations

• Participate in a round-table and/or panel discussions 

Contribute one longer, opinion-style piece for the Aerowaves website in the week after the festival — to allow for greater reflection or to draw themes and bigger ideas together

Read reviews and opinion pieces from last year’s Springback Academy

Discover Spring Forward Festival experience 

Watch the ‘Meet the Makers’ video interviews featuring previous Springback Academy participants 

Watch Springback Live and Critical Issues streamed from Studio Ouest at La Briqueterie during Spring Forward Festival 2019.

How to apply:

• Send us a summary of your experience in critical review writing (140 words or less)
• Send us a sample review (in English) of a dance performance you have seen (140 words or less). This can be an existing review or one you’ve written especially for this application
• Tell us in 140 words or less why you want to participate in Springback Academy 2020 
• Tell us in 140 words or less about your local dance scene
• Tell us your potential arrival and departure date and time. If selected for the project, you would ideally need to arrive on the evening (if possible by 19:00) of Thursday 23 April and depart on Monday 27 April 2020
• Send all of this in an email to:  SBapplications@aerowaves.org before 24:00 (GMT) on Sunday 17 January 2020
• Participants will be notified by email by Saturday 15 February 2020 whether they have been selected for the project

N.B. If you applied to participate in the Springback Academy in previous years and your submission was not accepted, we do encourage you to apply again.

Good luck! 

*original article here*

DANSE ÉLARGIE – Call for project 2020 details HERE

DANSE ÉLARGIE is a project devised by BORIS CHARMATZ and EMMANUEL DEMARCY-MOTA, in continued partnership with the FONDATION D’ENTREPRISE HERMÈS. An international competition open to artistes from all disciplines (dance, theater, visual arts, music, philosophy, poetry…).

For his next creation, AA – Autres Ailleurs, Bouba Landrille Tchouda, Cie Malka Company’s choreographer, casts hip hop / contemporary dancers with excellent technical mastery, strong physical potential and previous stage experiences. An openness to other dancing aesthetics (contemporary, capoeira, krump, experimental …) would be an advantage.

This casting session aims to encounter the choreographer’s world and the constitution of the distribution for this future show.
This day of September 8th is understood as a process of co-creating with the dancers, solo, duets, group … around various topics.

/// Applications ///

Bring your CV (in English), video extracts from performances and improvisations, on a USB key, on the casting day.

deadline: 6th of September
number of participants: 14 people
contact: Camille Triadou-Hernandez
email: contact@ciemalka.com

AA – Autres Ailleurs (creation 2020) – piece for 8 francophone dancers from here and somewhere else

/// Argument of creation ///

The issue of an Other, of oneself, of identity, of difference are shaking up us increasingly. From the angle of distance to another, geographical, aesthetic and cultural remoteness, I wish to show the difference as enrichment rather than threat in the construction of contemporary identities, singular and multiple, in constant transformation, unfinished.

A A Initial letters, a basic graphic assembly with twin sounds, the poet conjugates them in a „I is another”, being at once similar and so different, intimate and foreign to himself; just as „life is elsewhere”, the affirmation of the imperative necessity of the movement is the very principle of life.

Other existences, from these unknown equations, will establish bridges braided by our common and plural languages, the Francophones, and will testify of our distances, will cross spaces, will project to the present, always further from you, from us, from everything, to join you. We will invent new stories, we will go where our languages sing our gestures, we will dance to please you, we will dance to give a chance to the meeting.

/// Schedule of rehearsals ///

The rehearsals will take place in France, Senegal and maybe in Romania.

period 1 | from April 13 to 25, 2020
Theater “le Rive Gauche” in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray (France)

period 2 | from May 18 to 29, 2020
The Baraka / Annonay (France)

period 3 | from July 20 to August 2, 2020
Senegal or Romania

period 4 | from 14 to 27 September 2020
Senegal or Romania

period 5 | from 5 to 14 October 2020
Theater “le Rive Gauche” in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray (France)

creation | on October 15 and 16, 2020
Theater “le Rive Gauche” in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray (France)

Bouba Landrille Tchouda
Artistic Director-Choreographer

Bouba Landrille Tchouda is an intense dancer and a thoughtful choreographer. He leads a powerful work that mixes hip-hop, capoeira and contemporary dance. Her mixed career, made of original encounters, feeds her exploration of the infinite possibilities of the language of dance, seeking to push her limits, to overcome gender barriers. He collaborates with various aesthetic artists including Accrorap, choreographer Jean-Claude Gallotta or, more recently, Cirque Plume. He is one of those dancers-choreographers from the hip hop movement who has developed a singular contemporary choreographic writing. The national and international tours he conducts today allow him to position himself as a choreographer beyond our borders.

In residency from 2004 to 2010 at the Rampe-Echirolles, stage conventioned for the dance, he choreographed his most emblematic pieces, the Franco-Brazilian shows Malandragem and Meia Lua, then it will be Murmures created at the National Theater of Chaillot and presented to the Biennale of the Dance of Lyon in 2012.

From 2010 to 2016, associated with Château Rouge – Annemasse, a stage labeled for the New Writings of the Body and the Speech, he choreographed Têtes d’Affiche, a small opera on the race to desire which will be followed by an energetic and colorful Casse- noisette. In 2014, he co-elaborates The proof by the other with the complicity of Anne Nguyen and Farid Berki, two remarkable figures of French hip-hop writing.

Artist associated with the MC2-House of Culture of Grenoble for the seasons 2015/2017 and with the House of Dance of Lyon in 2016/2017, it produces Boomerang, an explosive painting of the contrasting behaviors of society.

Newly, he has just created two pieces, a quartet entitled Des air(e)s d’anges mixing live electronic music, circus and hip hop dance, a twirling and poetic show asking our relationships abroad, at the unknown, at our internal borders, then the solo I have not always danced like that, a sensitive portrait of his life course that he interprets himself.
Currently, the company Malka is in residence of Artistic Education on the territory of Bièvre-Valloire, located in the department of Isère. At the same time, the choreographer is an associate artist at the Théâtre Le Rive Gauche, Scene for Dance in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, Normandy.

Between 2001 and 2019, the company Malka created 14 choreographic shows distributed in France and abroad.

The Malka company is associated with the Rive Gauche – Saint-Etienne-du Rouvray (76). It is supported by the General Council of Isère, the City of Grenoble, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region, the DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes / Ministry of Culture and Communication, the French Institute for tours to internationally.

CNDB invită copii cu experiență în dans și mișcare (7-14 ani) la audiție pentru crearea unei grupe de avansați în dans contemporan, condusă de Catrinel Catană.

Audiția pentru această grupă vor avea loc în data de 8 septembrie, de la ora 10:30, la Sala Stere Popescu.

Cursurile se vor desfășura în fiecare marți, de la 17:30.

Pentru a participa, vă rugăm să completați următorul formular:
https://forms.gle/TxdtHz1sh5jS6TXD7

Deadline înscrieri:
7 septembrie

Pentru mai multe întrebări, colega noastră Ana Papadima (consultant educație artistică / formare) vă este la dispoziție pe cursuri@cndb.ro.

EXTRA
Școala performativă pentru copii este primul program autohton de formare și educație artistică în dans contemporan și arte performative, adresat copiilor cu vârste cuprinse între 5 și 14 ani.

Școala îmbină cursuri, ateliere și sesiuni de creație artistică, care se desfășoară pe durata întregului an școlar, susținute de cei mai buni coregrafi, performeri, artiști vizuali și pedagogi din România, cu o bogată experiență în zona dansului, a artei contemporane și a artelor performative.

Tangaj Collective, în parteneriat cu Centrul Național al Dansului București, invită persoane care se identifică drept femei și care activează în domeniul dansului și performance-ului la audiția pentru spectacolul “Daughters”. Această nouă lucrare face parte din proiectul “Sons and Daughters”, care a debutat în luna iunie în cadrul Springboard Danse Montreal.

Spectacolul este inspirat din perioada post punk și începuturile cyber art, fiind o colaborare între coregrafa Simona Deaconescu și artiștii berlinezi M. Kardinal și Monocube.

Audiția are loc la CNDB – Centrul Național al Dansului București, Sala Stere Popescu, în datele de 19 și 20 august, între orele 17:00 și 21:00.

Pentru a participa la audiție te rugăm să trimiți CV-ul sau biografia ta la adresa tangajdance@gmail.com, alături de o fotografie portret.

Data limită de trimitere a informațiilor este 14 august, ora 18:00.

Căutăm artiste care:
‣ sunt disponibile să lucreze 26 de zile, timp de 6 ore pe zi (10:00 – 16:00), într-un proces de cercetare interdisciplinară;
‣ sunt curioase să experimenteze noi modalități de a performa și sunt deschise să lucreze prin improvizație;
‣ au experiență de minimum doi ani în domeniul artelor performative (fie dans, performance sau actorie) și au rezistență la procese de lucru solicitante;
‣ au creativitate și vor să-și depășească limitele corporale;
‣ pot lucra cu instrumente creative ca mișcarea, vocea și textul.

Audiția este organizată sub formă de întâlniri individuale între participante și coregrafa proiectului. Orarul final va fi stabilit după definitivarea perioadei de trimitere a informațiilor. Coregrafa va face o preselectie a participantelor, in funcție de materialele trimise. Proiectul este recompensat cu onorariu.

Repetițiile pentru spectacol vor avea loc la CNDB în perioada 9 septembrie – 18 octombrie, urmate de două reprezentații în datele de 19 și 20 octombrie.

“Sons and Daughters” este un proiect cultural organizat de Asociația Tangaj Dance, în parteneriat cu Centrul Național al Dansului București și co-finanțat de Administrația Fondului Cultural Național. Proiectul nu reprezintă în mod necesar poziţia Administrației Fondului Cultural Național. AFCN nu este responsabilă de conținutul proiectului sau de modul în care rezultatele proiectului pot fi folosite. Acestea sunt în întregime responsabilitatea beneficiarului finanțării.

Laura Petrisan ne-a scris câteva rânduri după ce a participat la o săptămână de cursuri din Festivalul b12 de la Berlin, cu sprijinul CNDB. Împărtășim cu voi experiența ei de acolo, pentru că poveștile dansatorilor pe care reușim să-i sprijinim, ne bucură cel mai mult. 
Laura, felicitări și la cât mai multe burse! 

„B12 Festival a fost o experienta minunată. Dansatori din SUA, Asia, Europa și Australia s-au adunat să-și testeze limitele, sa învețe unii de la alții, să se inspire și să tot caute până la extenuare.

Am avut oportunitatea să cresc și să aflu multe lucruri despre mine în urma acestui schimb cultural.

Cel mai dificil lucru este sa alegi workshopuri le când sunt la un loc atât de mulți profesori buni.

În fiecare dimineață au fost puse la dispoziție clase de yoga, sălile arătau excelent cu geamuri imense înconjurate de natură, câteodată mai vedeai și o veverita, o vulpe, pasari multe.

Am văzut spectacolele profesorilor, m-am îndrăgostit de Jone San Martin Astigarraga (William Forsythe Company), i-am luat și clasele și după cum spune ea „ne-am dansat mintea și am gândit cu corpul”.

Mi-am găsit super puterile cu Christina Mertzani prin forta feed-back-ului pozitiv și am învățat sa dansez mai mult cu susul în jos cu Alexandros Anastasiadis (Wim Vandekeybus).

Mă bucur foarte tare că dansul contemporan se dezvoltă peste tot în lume și conectează artisti frumosi. Mulțumim organizatorilor pentru B12 Festival, Johannes și Evanghelos sunt deschiși și atenți la toată lumea.

Multumesc CNDB pentru susținere în obținerea bursei, am fost răsfățată în cele mai bune condiții!”

Are you a choreographer based in Europe?

„It can feel like we operate in a series of geographical bubbles and this was one way of bursting a few of mine” Robbie Synge (Twenty16 & Twenty19 artist). Read the interview.

“I got so many gigs out of Aerowaves and it really changed my life, so I want to say thank you to Aerowaves. Once you get in, it really moves things along” Oona Doherty (Twenty17 artist) at Critical Issues panel, Spring Forward 2019 festival in Val de Marne.

Aerowaves is a hub for dance discovery in Europe with a network of partners in 33 countries. The network is looking for the twenty talented emerging choreographers based in geographical Europe.

You can now apply to become a Twenty20 artist with a chance of having your work programmed at Spring Forward festival next year in Rijeka (Croatia) and by our partners. Around 100 performance opportunities are guaranteed by the partners and supported by Aerowaves each year.

Applications are now open and will close at midnight on 12 September 2019.

Cosmin Vasile a absolvit Masterclass-ul cu Dominique Mercy și Malou Airaudo din Franța.

Statusul scris de el ne bucură și ne arată încă o dată că Premiile CNDB contribuie pragmatic la dezvoltarea artistică a dansatorilor români.

Mulțumirile pentru susținerea acestui premiu merg și către Institutul Francez București și Institutul Cultural Român.

Felicitări!

„Experiența mea la Paris în cadrul Masterclass cu Dominique Mercy și Malou Airaudo a fost una de neuitat. O piatră de hotar în cariera mea. Prin cei doi am reușit să mă întalnesc, nu fizic, dar totuși atât de direct, cu Pina Bausch. Tot ce a realizat faimoasa coregrafă a creat împreună cu Dominique și Malou. De aceea, încărcătura cunoștințelor și a experienței lor are o însemnătate foarte mare pentru mine. Pe lângă tehnica bazată pe simplitate și ușurința mișcării, exercițiile creative și modul de lucru ale celor doi, cea mai valoroasă învățătură a fost că sinceritatea exprimării este cea mai de preț calitate. Este mult mai frumos să joci realitatea, decât să fii un interpret desăvârșit. Mulțumiri speciale Vava Stefanescu pentru susținerea și încrederea pe care mi-o acordă, „carte blanche”, așa cum ar spune chiar ea. Mulțumiri pentru ajutorul din partea Institutul Francez, Centrul Naţional al Dansului Bucureşti și Institutul Cultural Român.” – Cosmin Vasile