Deadline September 21, 11:59pm

Dance Matters Performance Dates: February 9th at 8pm, 10th at 4pm

Risky Business & Rebel Yells encourages physical, choreographic/artistic performance risks; fusion of dance aesthetics and forms; dances with risk or rebelliousness as the central theme. Works of up to 20min will be considered.

The venue is intimate and casual, with a focus on celebrating the dance medium with its audience. A post-show discussion will delve into each artist’s creative mind and ingenuity and into the exciting world of dance making.

You will receive an honourarium of $400, a DVD of each performance, full technical staff and marketing as well as a fantastic opportunity to show your work and meet other artists!

o apply please send the following via email todancematters@gmail.com by the deadline (no exceptions):

1.  Choreographers’ CV and biography

2.  Performer biographies

3.  Piece description

4.  A paragraph explaining how the proposed work relates to the

theme presented in the series. Interpretations are encouraged.*

This is an important aspect of your application.

Please give this aspect of the proposal considerable thought.

5.  List of props, or special technical requests.

Please send a video of the proposed work or a recent work or work-in-progress.*

You can send the video via Youtube link or vimeo (with password), or web link to dancematters@gmail.com

OR

Mail the DVD (post-marked by the deadline):

Dance Matters

1337 Queen St. East

Toronto ON, M4L 1C6

*Please indicate whether you will be sending a link to your video

by email or sending a DVD by mail. Please do NOT send hard

copies of your written application, email only please.

Tips

You may propose an excerpt of a longer work, a remounted work, or a new piece.

If you are proposing an excerpt of a longer work, please describe fully what you intend to show and consider that the excerpt should feel complete on its own.

If you are proposing a new piece that is unfinished at the time of the application please describe how you intend to finish or develop the work into a finished piece. Please show video footage of the work in progress.

This series is meant to showcase finished works/well-developed pieces and NOT works-in-progress.

Any form of dance is encouraged so long as the work is an original choreography.