World Dance Alliance-Americas 2013 Conference and Festival

      Evolve + Involve: Dance as a Moving Question…

(Performances, Scholarly Presentations, Panel Discussions, Classes, & Choreographic Labs)

July 29 – August 4, 2013

Scotiabank Dance Centre, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

 Proposal deadline: February 15, 2013

What are your questions for dance in the 21st century?

World Dance Alliance – Americas (WDA-A) is delighted to announce our 2013 Conference and Festival will be held July 29 – August 4, 2013 at the Scotiabank Dance Centre in beautiful Vancouver, BC, Canada. This event is hosted by WDA-A in conjunction with the 2013 Dance Critics Association Conference with support from Texas Woman’s University Department of Dance, University of Wisconsin-Madison Dance Department, and the Dance Centre.

 With Evolve + Involve: Dance as a Moving Question… as the focal point of the event, WDA-A encourages broad investigations into the following questions: How is dance evolving in the 21st century? How are we as artists, educators, and researchers engaged with these emerging developments? With whom and how will we be involved as new practices emerge? How might these new engagements and involvements open further questions for dance’s future? With these questions in mind, we urge participants to propose new possibilities for the many different modes of presenting, experiencing, producing, and teaching dance. Proposals need not be limited to or by the Conference and Festival’s theme, which should be considered as a catalyst for discussion rather than a restraint.

Both WDA members and non-members are invited to submit proposals for presenting dance works in performance, presenting scholarly research, leading a panel discussion, conducting a class, or leading a choreographic lab.

 To submit a proposal, please complete an online proposal application at:

http://www.wda-americas.net/conference/proposals/

 For general questions about the Conference and Festival or the proposal process, please contact:

Scott Martin, Chair of the Conference Committee at scottmartin@wda-americas.net

August 10-18, 2013

8 DAYS II: CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS (Public Recordings Performance Project)
A Gathering of Choreographers at Ten Fifteen Maple & The Dance Centre

8 DAYS is an intensive encounter for Canadian choreographers. The gathering values curiosity, creative risk-taking and reflection with a fluidity around the notions of theory and practice in order to engender the deepening of choreographic practice.

DEADLINE: JANUARY 21, 2013
Please submit a letter of interest and recent biography in addition to any work samples that are relevant to contextualize your application. The letter of interest should detail your current choreographic concerns and address how participation in this encounter might enrich your practice. Please keep your responses brief and select any support material carefully with the aim of addressing this specific opportunity.

Applications can be submitted in English or French. Please note: the working language will be in English.

All materials must be submitted electronically. Support materials must be included as an attachment or available online. Make sure to include all necessary links and access information. Please note, applications sent by mail cannot be processed.

For more information: http://publicrecordings.org/2012/12/09/456/
To apply: eightdays@publicrecordings.org

60×60 Dance is seeking choreographers and dancers of all styles and genres to participate in the upcoming 60×60 Dance event on Sunday March 10, 2012 at 8 p.m.

60×60 Dance events feature 60 choreographers’ creation (for any number of dancers) of a one-minute performance to one of 60 one-minute compositions. The 60 performances will be joined to create a 1-hour show, co-ordinated by Viv Moore, and co-produced by Tova Kardonne in association with founder Rob Voisey and Vox Novus. The music, a macro-composition compiled from submissions to a national call for one-minute electro-acoustic compositions is known as the Canada Mix 2011. It premiered at NAISA Electroacoustic Sound Symposium 2011 in Toronto.

Eclectic by nature, 60×60 Dance offers an unmatched diversity of styles, making for a fast-paced, electrifying one-of-a-kind performance that never ceases to surprise. Dances can span all forms from ballet to hip-hop to ballroom and contemporary, while the music spans the breadth and depth of all that’s possible in current electroacoustic creation.
The one-minute time frame of 60 x 60 creations induces a haiku-like poetic form of dance. Emerging and established dancers alike have an opportunity to create a signature piece that showcases their eloquence, individuality and economy of expression. All participating choreographers will receive a professional dvd recording and photograph of their work.

“An express without any delay….It’s this kind of madness that makes the cultural world go round.”—The New York Times

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: DECEMBER 22, 2012.

Please click on the link below to get to the submission page, where you will be asked to submit the following: Name, contact info, link to work, short bio and style of dance. Choreographers will be notified of their acceptance by January 14, 2013.

Groups and individuals selected for participation must be available for BOTH a rehearsal on March 3 2013 from noon -6 p.m AND the date of the event from the dress rehearsal at 3 p.m. through performance time at 8 p.m. on March 10^th 2013. Otherwise rehearsals are to be conducted on an individual level.
Submissions: http://www.60×60.com/calls/

60×60 Dance website: http://www.60×60.com/dance/
Contact: 60×60.dance.toronto@gmail.com

Deadline: November 5, 2012
Toronto is pleased to invite submissions for Mayworks 28th festival season. Applications are accepted from groups and individuals in a range of disciplines, including: visual art, music/ poetry, film, video, interdisciplinary, and theatre.

Artistic Vision
Mayworks Festival is a multi-disciplinary arts festival that celebrates cultural production working class culture. Mayworks Festival seeks to showcase high calibre art by artists at all stages in their careers that are politically and socially engaged with labour realities. We are especially committed to providing a platform to support the underrepresented labor of indigenous peoples, people with disabilities, migrants, women, queer-identified people, people of color, and youth.

Mandate
Our program committee is guided by our equity policy that recognizes the systemic discrimination and injustices faced by equity-seeking groups. Mayworks Festival is not a funding body, we work in partnership with unions and co-presenters to present events that fit our mandate. We are committed to paying artists’ fees.

Timeline
Submissions will not be accepted after the deadline date: Nov. 5, 2012. Proposals selected will be notified by email by December 2012. The festival dates (TBD) will be in early May 2013.

Inquiries
Questions about the application process, contact Dianah Smith at program@mayworks.ca

Organizations interested in co-sponsoring an event at Mayworks Festival, contact Nausheen Quayyum at outreach@mayworks.ca

SEND SUBMISSION FORM AND SUPPORT MATERIAL TO: festsubmissions@gmail.com

or by mail:

Mayworks Festival
25 Cecil Street
2nd Floor
Toronto, ON
M5T 1N1

http://www.mayworks.ca/

December 17, 18, 19, 2012
Toronto, Canada

INTENSIVE PRO TRAINING FOR CHOREOGRAPHERS AND INTERPRETERS
Application Deadline: mid October 2012 (propose now for early acceptance!)

Intensive professional exchange and training for dance artists, established & emerging, all genres, development, feedback, process, mentoring, video, studio show and later follow-up.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PROPOSAL CRITERIA AND APPLICATION INFO
E-mail: choreomarathon@acrossoceans.org

Across Oceans Maxine Heppner will mentor 4 groups of choreographers and their dancers over 26.2 hours of creative flow, discovery, creation and performance. Jessica Runge, Susan Lee and Takako Segawa will assist as coaches.

Work with your own ideas within your own creative process. Break blocks. Move
work forward. Build creative stamina. Hit the wall and find out what is at the
other side.

Come with material to test, twist, develop, cut, refashion, reason, rescue and
refine. Share feedback and take it immediately back into the studio. Reflect.
Wrestle with angels. Play with demons. End with work possibly unlike anything
else youve created or performed before.

With support from The Canada Council for the Arts and the Toronto Arts Council
and the generous cooperation of The Pia Bouman School for Ballet and Creative
Movement

www.acrossoceans.org

Series 8:08 provides participating choreographers with a performance venue, stage manager, technicians, Resident Outside Eye, general publicity, a fee to help cover the costs of performing, a DVD of the performance, written comments from the audience members and informal discussions after each show.

Choreographers are welcome to participate in Series 8:08’s Resident Outside Eye (ROE) program, an opportunity for all CPW choreographers to receive a more in-depth written response from an established dance artist on their works-in-progress. Our ROE’s for the 2012/13 season are Susie Burpee, Susan Cash, Heidi Strauss, Christopher House and Sasha Ivanochko.

Payment policy for CPW Choreographers: The choreographers are guaranteed $125 each. Any box office revenue over the amounts paid to the choreographers is split between the choreographers.

Thursday, September 27th 5pm– for the November Residency and Take Two slots.  
Thursday, December 6th 5pm – for the February residency and Take Two slots. 
Residency/Take Two participants must show their work in a regular CPW prior to their Take Two date and residency.

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.

December 14, 15, 16, 2012
Toronto, Canada

for dance artists • established & emerging • all genres •

Deadline: mid October 2012

(propose now for early acceptance!)

A weekend of dance development, creation, feedback, mentoring, presentation and later follow-up.

Across Oceans Maxine Heppner will mentor 4 groups of choreographers and their dancers over 26.2 hours of creative flow, discovery, creation and performance. 

Jessica Runge, Susan Lee and Takako Segawa will assist as coaches.

Question 1: how long is a marathon? 26.2 miles
Question 2: how long is the choreographic marathon? 26.2 hours
Question 3: why? to learn the Art of the Possible in a shared community pulling
each other along not because it’s easy, but because it is hard, going deep inside
yourself and drawing on inner creativity and strength that you might have never
known even existed.

Take an idea & Run with it for 26 hours 385 seconds & beyond.

Work within your own creative process. Break blocks. Move work forward. Build creative stamina. Hit the wall and find out what is at the other side.

Come with material to test, twist, develop, cut, reflect, refashion, reason, rescue and refine. Share feedback and take it immediately back into the studio. Wrestle with angels. Play with demons. End with a work unlike anything else you’ve created or performed before.

Maxine Heppner has been a mentor and teacher of choreographic process for professionals and students for over 30 years in Canada and worldwide. “A fine fine choreographer and she goes for it”, says the Globe and Mail. She developed the choreographic marathon to extend the modern dance quest to go beyond personal boundaries and boredoms to discover deep personal creative resources. Assisting in mentoring are senior dance artists Jessica Runge “tremendous breadth and depth”, Susan Lee “a tour de force” and Takako Segawa “compelling” “Maxine’s work became translucent through her.”

Visit www.acrossoceans.org or like us on Facebook

Past students say:

“Maxine teaches with passion, integrity, intelligence; authentic, bold and
in tune with her times.“ J Goodwin, Toronto;

“out of our usual framework, you allowed me to break free of pressures I
had felt previously and had repressed, pushing us to
focus on creative capacities.” L. Stevens, Montreal;

The choreographic marathon is produced by Across Oceans: collaborations in contemporary arts with the generous cooperation of The Pia Bouman School for Ballet and Creative Movement and supported in part from the Toronto Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.