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Apr 15, 2021

FRANCE: stage BMC et Danse du 5 au 9 juillet 2021

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Apr 01, 2021

New book by Hubert Godard (in French)

New book by Hubert Godard: Une respiration

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Mar 23, 2021

AMSTERDAM: ICK Auditions (deadline end of March)

ICK is looking for experienced contemporary female and male dancers with high ballet skill for their ensemble. Please send your motivation letter, CV, portrait picture and Video material/links to...

AMSTERDAM: ICK Auditions (deadline end of March)

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Mar 17, 2021

UK: Jasmin Vardimon Company: JVIntensive Summer 2021

JVIntensive takes place over 6 weeks from 19th July - 27th August 2021 at Jasmin Vardimon Company studios in Ashford, Kent. Each week will concentrate

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Mar 13, 2021

About research in dance, by Laurence Louppe

Last week, the editorial house Contredanse included an amazing short piece of thought by Laurence Louppe in their Chronique #5. The text is in French and I could not resist to translate it and share it with all of you. Thanks to Laurence Louppe for her amazing power to say things in such an accurate way. Here it is:

“In fact, the choreographer would be the first researcher: getting out of the preexistent models, working on displacing the processes, giving oneself and others instructions that open to the unknown, to analysis, to the visit of operations and dispositions (like the Tuning Score of Lisa Nelson), trying new scores, exploring ways of improvising, observing what occurs and giving new frameworks to experience, isn’t this the very definition of a scientific act? Yet it is the very definition of a poetic act. Research in dance is first a research in art.”

Laurence Louppe

Extrait from the paper Notes pour une recherche en danse in Nouvelles de Danse no 26, 2003.

Mar 10, 2021

CANADA Prospects: an Evening of Dance and Discussion | March 25 at 8 pm

Save your seat for Prospects: an Evening of Dance and Discussion. A live platform hosted by Aeris Korper Contemporary Dance Theatre, for choreographers

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Feb 23, 2021

SPAIN: Audition for male dancers at Cia Daniel Abreu

Audition for male dancers at Cia Daniel Abreu

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Feb 21, 2021

Sound For Movement: Mix 8 - Sevens

Sound For Movement: Mix 8 - Sevens Photo: Bethany Formica

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Feb 16, 2021

North Wales Festival of Dance (deadline 7th March)

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Feb 15, 2021

Contemporary Dance Companies World Wide

Contemporary dance companies world wide. A directory that includes links to web pages, postal addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mails.

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Feb 04, 2021

KAMEA Dance Company: Auditions for professional Dancers for the 2021-22 season

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Feb 03, 2021

CND FRANCE: Canal becomes Canal online

Seventeen active dance structures take over the CN D

Through the Canal project, CN D makes its location, resources and spaces available to the entire choreographic sector. For two days, the fourteen studios will be...

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Feb 02, 2021

Free movement class with Nejla Yatkin

Find Nejla through the link below:

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Feb 01, 2021

Learn to compose for dance!

Hello!

I am excited to share a new video series showing you how to make and teach sound design for dance. I walk you through how to compose a three minute piece. The tools needed are a computer, a mobile phone, Ableton Live Intro and all the creativity you can muster. I have designed the series to start from the very beginning, so no prior experience with music or Ableton Live required. (Ableton Live Intro is less than a textbook...which gives students a tool to use for life!)

This is an amazing resource for dance educators that would like to bring deeper musical practices into a choreography/creative process course. It is also designed for the choreographer interested in making music for their own pieces. You will be blown away to hear what you and/or your students make. I have had wonderful experiences teaching music to dancers and musicians this way. I am so happy to be sharing these concepts with everyone now!

"Learning Sound Design" is available now for all membership levels at no additional cost. There are eight videos totaling 4-5 hours of content. I plan on making many more of these in the coming months. If you would like to supplement your classes with more music for dance, memberships start at $5.

Have fun!

Michael Wall

Photo by - Becca Webb

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Jan 30, 2021

Casting for touring shows in Mallorca, Spain

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Jan 29, 2021

Music for dance offered

Hello, I'm an Italian electroacoustic composer and musician, currently based in Stockholm. I would like to start collaborating with dancers in order to

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Jan 29, 2021

ARGENTINA: Técnica Limón Febrero 2021

Jan 28, 2021

Online conferences by the Folkwang University of the Arts

- 5th February 2021, 17:30 - 18:45 Neither Commotion nor Ceremony: The influence of Visual Communication in the creation of Dance Compositions, by Frederico Mendes Teixeira Inscription (till 4 february) to the Zoom conference:

- 12th February 2021, 17:30 - 18:45 Movement Journals/Moving Journals — an experiment in processes of transforming and practices of remembering movement, par Foteini Papadopoulou Inscription (till 11th February) to the Zoom conference:

Jan 27, 2021

USA: AMDA's virtual auditions

AMDA encourages interested students to audition for admission and scholarships virtually. Audition from anywhere in the world, on your time, and in the privacy of your own home. Start Your Application. Audition for AMDA online. Financial Aid Available.

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Jan 26, 2021

BREDA: BRIK Festival (Brabants International Kinder Festival)

BREDA: BRIK Festival (for kids)

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Jan 25, 2021

MADRID: Cuerpo Romo Festival

Cuerpo Romo 2019 / Conde Duque, Madrid from Elías Aguirre Imbernón on Vimeo.

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Jan 20, 2021

MOSCOW: 57th World Congress of Dance Research

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Jan 19, 2021

Jasmin Vardimon Company announces new video auditions for JV2 (deadline Feb 14th)

The renowned contemporary dance company has announced they are now welcoming video auditions for their JV2 professional development programme 2021-2022.

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