Presentation and Information Sharing Evening – 22 November 2007
6.30pm
The LAB
Places limited - RSVP to [email protected]
Dublin City Council is pleased to invite you to an informal presentation to create opportunities for collaboration, exchange and dialogue between Chinese and Irish artists.
Dance Artist in Residence with Dublin City Council Fearghus Ó Conchúir has invited Shanghai based choreographer and physical artist Xiao Ke to Dublin where they will begin work on a new collaboration, Dialogue.
To create opportunities for exchange and dialogue between Chinese and Irish artists, Dublin City Council will host an informal presentation in which Xiao Ke will share her experience of the dance and inter-disciplinary arts environment in Shanghai and Beijing. Xiao Ke has performed internationally and has been a point of contact in China for a number of artists, including Fearghus Ó Conchúir. She works in a contemporary art environment where inter-disciplinary collaboration is common and fruitful. As a result, her experience should be of relevance to a wide range of artists and to those interested in the contemporary arts in China.
Xiao Ke (born in Kunming, 1979), choreographer and physical artist moved to Shanghai in 1997 where she founded her own dance studio, XKDance Studio, in 1999 to explore personal contemporary dance art work and performance, and from the outset, cooperated with artists from different art backgrounds. She is considered a pioneer of contemporary dance in Shanghai. In 2005, Xiao Ke cooperated with Zhan Xian and other artists to found ZuHe Niao Post Contemporary Dance Group, and began the use of physical theater in Shanghai. ZuHe Niao's productions include Tongue’s Memory of Home, Sickroom #14 and The Left Cheek. Zuhe Niao has performed across Europe, as well as winning the ZKB AWARD in the 2006 Zurich Theater Spektakel. Xiao Ke has organised and produced many experimental physical performances and art works: live music and dance interactive performance systems (Touch Listening), dance film (Dance as a fish and MurMur), experimental video (Up Down and Documentary Pain&Itch), space interactive performance (Funny Shanghai, Art Cabaret, DREAM and Untinged), contemporary art exhibition (Malice) and many space improvisation artworks. As an independent physical artist, Xiao Ke is working with other choreographers and musicians from Holland, Japan, Ireland, Canada and Serbia with whom she is focusing on exploring and developing contemporary physical art.
Further details:
the LAB | Foley Street | Dublin 1
t 222 7841
www.dublincity.ie | www.bodiesandbuildings.blogspot.com | www.kkleeart.com
Supported by the Arts Council
Amsterdam Master of Choreography, Amsterdam School of the Arts
Deadline 25th November
Artists who have established a professional practice and seek possibilities for further reflection and development can increase their research skills at the Amsterdam Master of Choreography. This two-year non-residential Master's program of the Amsterdam School of the Arts aims to contribute to the field of critical and contemporary dance research and creation. The individual artistic practice is the point of departure and will be the guiding thread of the course design.
The Amsterdam Master of Choreography (AMCh) offers a study course for dance artists who are interested in augmenting their existing professional practice through immersion in a rigorous, two-year Master level arts research program. The course provides the support structure and organization to facilitate choreographic and interdisciplinary practice-led research, with an emphasis on the processes of praxis, or metapractice. The admission procedure is designed to engage prospective applicants in an exploration of relevant research questions, disciplinary perspectives and conceptual/ empirical methods.
Admission Criteria
The minimum formal criteria for admission to the AMCh study course include:
- A Bachelors Degree in Dance that meets the qualifications for choreographer as outlined by the Network of Dutch dance academies in 2002
- Three years work experience in the professional field of dance as performer and/ or choreographer.
- A well-articulated Motivation to expand practice-based research activities that demonstrates: (a) a desire and openness for new information, and (b) compatibility with the educational vision of the program (c) an ability to manage a predominantly independent, self-steered study program.
- A clearly formulated Research Plan.
Further information on criteria and making an application can be found here.
If I had an Artist for a Day …..
An Arts-In-Education Initiative
Kildare County Council Arts Service invites submissions from interested artists across all disciplines for inclusion in the 2008 rollout of the If I had an Artist for a Day … Arts-in-Education scheme. The programme aims to provide quality arts experiences for artists, teachers and children in primary schools throughout Kildare.
Interested artists should submit proposals outlining workshop ideas for delivery in a classroom setting over one day. Typically schools prefer an artist to work with more than one class group in a day therefore a facility to adapt and tailor to specific needs or offer a choice of formats or workshop plans is desirable. Full job description available on our website: https://www.kildare.ie/arts/artsservice/6_press_release/
Proposals should include:
- Detailed description of workshop suggestions with projected outcomes
- C.V./ Biography
- Outline of current areas of work and interests
- Documentation of work (images, DVDs, CDs, etc)
- Any other relevant supporting material
Closing date for proposals is 5pm, Friday 7th December 2007.
For further information please contact:
Brenda Brady
Acting Assistant Arts Officer
Kildare County Council Arts Service
Riverbank
Main St., Newbridge
Co Kildare
Tel: 045 448328 Email: [email protected]
Web: www.kildare.ie/artsservice
DLR Place and Identity 2008-2010 - Call to Artists
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council announces its first major Per Cent for Art Commission in the context of its Arts Strategy 2007-2010. Focusing on themes of place and identity, the commission is a county-wide public arts programme across all artforms: Architecture, Circus, Dance, Film, Literature, Multidisciplinary Arts, Theatre, Traditional Arts, Visual Arts, and Collaborative Arts.
In pooling funding from Environment and Housing capital projects under the Per Cent for Art scheme, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council has in excess of €500 000 available for the public arts programme. Place and Identity is the county’s first major round of commissions and comprises two distinct strands: six artists’ residencies and two once-off projects taking place between May 2008 and January 2010.
Place and Identity pushes boundaries in Per Cent for Art programming by advocating the commission to all artforms recognised by the Arts Council. Artists and arts practitioners are asked to engage with and seek inspiration from the county – its people, place and identity – in ways that are meaningful to the artists and the citizens.
A detailed information brief on DLR Place and Identity including descriptions of the county, its six electoral areas and a list of the county’s services is available from the Arts Office. Further information from Ciara King or Claire Power, Public Art Programme Administrator, Arts Office,
t. 01 271 9531 or e. [email protected]
The closing date for receipt of applications is 7th December 2007.
Slow Down (Dance Theatre of Ireland)
Dance Theatre of Ireland are thrilled to premiere Slow Down, a beautiful work by Paris-based choreographer Martine Pisani. In this playground for six dancers (Eneko Balerdi-Eizmendi, Robert Connor, Lee Davern, Alex Iseli, Karl Paquemar, Tania Pieri) Slow Down explores the insignificant troubles, the practical jokes, the awkwardness and the barricades that make human relationships come alive.
The work tickles and giggles and, with the unashamed likeness of a child, connects with the audience in a very special way. Other worlds come to mind: Charlie Chaplin's or Jaques Tati's. With jubilant detachment, six characters reveal the secrets and obstacles of a public performance, what it means to ‘be there’, onstage. Their hesitation, lost orientation and inarticulate declarations, discretely find irony in the everyday demands of discipline, creativity, concentration and ardour.
Performance Dates
7 – 10 November Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire, 8pm Premiere
Plus matinee Friday November 9 at 1.30pm
Booking: 01 231 2929 Tickets: €16/€12, matinee €9
12 November Town Hall Theatre, Galway, 8pm
Booking: 091 569 777 Tickets: €16/€12
16 November Iontas Theatre, Castleblayney, 8.30pm
Booking: 042 975 3400 Tickets: €15/€13
20 November Draíocht, Blanchardstown, 8pm
Booking: 01 885 2622 Tickets: €18/€14
22 November Excel Centre, Tipperary, 8pm
Booking: 062 80520 Tickets: €12/€8
25 November Hawk’s Well Theatre, Sligo, 5pm
Booking: 071 916 1518 Tickets: €10/€8
28 November Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny, 8pm
Booking: 056 776 1674 Tickets: €14/€10
Reduced rates available for groups of 10 or more. Dance Workshops also available.
For further information:
Tel: +353 1 280 3455 fax +353 1 280 3466
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.dancetheatreireland.com
You can also download a copy of the Slow Down flyer here
SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME for CONTEMPORARY DANCE 2008, July 9 - August 13
Application form & further information: www.danceWEBeurope.net
Deadline: January 10, 2008!
danceWEB Europe is an opportunity for each of the participants to question and perhaps break down and then redefine his relations towards himself, his art and the society, and have fun doing it.
Jurij Konjar, Slovenia
danceWEB - a unique opportunity for professional exchange, reflection and further training for young choreographers and dancers at the beginning of their careers.
danceWEB - a meeting point with impulses going far beyond the immediate work in Vienna itself, a forum for supporting and accompanying the careers of its participants.
danceWEB - a network linking students, choreographers, companies and educational experts in an open and critical debate.
The danceWEB Europe Scholarship Programme includes:
- Individual coaching by the artistic coach
- Participation in the research projects of PRO SERIES
- Participation in the research projects of COACHING PROJECT
- Participation in the technique workshops of ImPulsTanz
(150 seminars by 50 teachers)
- Admission to all (up to 45) performances of ImPulsTanz
- Access to approx. 250 awarded dance film videos available at the IMZ (Internationales Musikzentrum, Wien)
video library
- Exchange of ideas and contact with the international trainers and choreographers
- Lecture demonstrations
- Special projects exclusively offered to scholarship-holders
- Connection to and presentation of a yearly growing, international database
- Own homepage within the www.dancewebeurope.net
- Accommodation in Vienna for the period of the Scholarship Programme
Artistic Coaches
1996 Stephen Petronio, USA
1997 Ismael Ivo, Germany & Susanne Linke, Germany
1998 Jorma Uotinen, Finland
1999 Emio Greco, Italy & Pieter C. Scholten, The Netherlands
2000 Emio Greco, Italy & Pieter C. Scholten, The Netherlands
2001 Mark Tompkins, France
2002 Vera Mantero, Portugal
2003 Ko Murobushi, Japan
2004 Mark Tompkins, USA
2005 David Zambrano, The Netherlands
2006 Mathilde Monnier & Loïc Touzé, France
2007 Jonathan Burrows, UK
Further information: www.danceWEBeurope.net
