EDAP2010 – Emerging Dance Artist Project

Bridging the gap between training and doing.

Applications are now being accepted | Closing date July 10th

A week-long encounter for dance and theatre practitioners with a strong physical practice wherein everyone is invited to train, perform and generate. Six days of doing and talking about the intersection, conversation, overlap and difference between disciplines without relying on slashes or hyphens.

EDAP offers specific opportunities to get inside and learn more about a choreographer’s approach and values. Working on strategies for making, dancing, and thinking about performance.

Morning technique classes will be taught by the choreographer and guest teachers specifically selected to prepare students for the day and a life in dance.

July 26 - 31, 2010

Public Recordings | Ame Henderson with Katie Ewald, Brendan Jensen and Barbara Pallomina

In this one week exchange Ame Henderson and some of her closest collaborators invite participants to join a collaborative creation process, sharing composition and conceptual strategies and using these to create performance material and situations between participants. Daily practice will begin with body training focused on breath, release and alignment followed by investigations using several of Henderson's compositional and improvisation systems leading to experiments in how to purpose these for performance. Ame is joined by Katie Ewald, Brendan Jensen and Barbara Pallomina.

Eligibility and Requirements

EDAP2010 is open to dancers, choreographers and other interested artists* who have completed or are in the final year of their post-secondary training or equivalent.

All participants should have a capacity or curiosity for: collaboration, creative processes, cross-disciplinary approaches, generosity of spirit, risk taking and a willingness to confront assumptions.

*Please note there will be significant physical work during the two weeks. A strong physical practice is recommended.

Fees and Registration

$400 for one week

A limited number of partial scholarships available based on need and merit.

Applications must include:

- A letter of interest in the program
- A CV with previous training and experience

Please note that applicants may be contacted for an interview.

Send all applications and inquiries to edap [at] dancemakers.org. Closing date July 10th.

Bios

Ame Henderson lives and works in Toronto. A performer and choreographer, she is the artistic director of Public Recordings. She completed her dance training at Concordia University in Montreal and continued at the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. Her works Blue**Disco (2002), memories and statements (2004), Manual for Incidence (2005), /Dance/Songs/ (2006), Open Field Study (all together now) (2007) and It was a nice party (Dancemakers, 2008) have been presented in The Netherlands, Italy, Croatia and across Canada. Her new creation relay premieres at Harbourfront Centre in April 2010. Ame has developed work in residence at Le Groupe (Ottawa), Studio 303 (Montreal) and Tangente (Montreal) as part of Clash, a choreographic research project directed by Lynda Gaudreau. As a performer she works regularly with Small Wooden Shoe, a theatre company directed by Jacob Zimmer. She has also recently performed in projects by Fiona Banner, Tino Sehgal and Jenn Goodwin. Ame is currently working on a masters degree in choreography at the Theaterschool of the Amsterdam School for the Arts.