January 2010 - Dance Ireland

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investigation workshops for professional danceand movement based artists. In FebruaryDeirdre Grant will commence the first of aseries of Innerscapes Saturday shorts. Deirdrewill focus on instinctual movement practice,using improvisation, play and somatic studymaterial to explore.For further information:www.myriaddance.com.MYRIAD DANCE COMPANYOpen Call for Mentoring Programme 2010Myriad Dance is seeking expressions ofinterest from dance artists who are lookingto gain further experience in theprofessional sector and who are particularlykeen to work on their 2010 performanceinitiatives and education & communityprogramme.Each of their Mentoring Programmes areindividually tailored and will cover areassuch as dance performance, movementexploration & choreographic methodology,children & youth dance, dance in educationand several dance outreach initiatives.Email your expression of interest & CV toJoke Verlinden, Education & OutreachDirector to jo@myriaddance.com. Closingdate is Monday 18 January 2010.For an information sheet, log on to ourwebsite www.myriaddance.com or call Jokeon 053 9174668.OTHER DANCE NEWSCHOREOGRAPH.NETSCREEN GRABSDue to popular demand, we are delighted tocontinue to carry monthly extracts and screengrabs, as selected by Jeffrey Gormly editor ofchoreograph.net from the website for theinterest of the wider Dance Ireland Newsreadership.Streaming Nothing Fieldswww.choreograph.net…the soft geometries of body is in motion.move meant I mean. meant. dancing while thealarm bells ring and the worldview burns.dancing all we’ve built into conflagration .climbing onto a magic carpet space floor danceship and driving it with our own freedom upand up and up. dance is an anti-gravity machinesent back from the beginning end of time toshow us the edges of things. the shadowthrown by reality onto the backdrop of what…?wavefronts of possibility ripple out from thedancing body and collapse inside myperceptual apparatus. my body becomeswhole, sensing, a whole surface,skintinglistening attention. I remember that it ispossible to be this way. it is possible to be alive.this death thing:… it’s just a thing. it doesn’thave to be me.From streaming nothing fields by Jeffrey Gormly.DANCE RESEARCH FORUM IRELANDThird International Conference24 –27 JuneThe Firkin Crane, CorkFirst Call for Proposalswww.danceresearchforumireland.orgDance Research Forum Ireland (DRFI) invitesproposals for its 3rd International Conference:Capturing Composition: Improvisation in DanceResearch and Practice. The conference, inkeeping with the aims and objectives of DRFI,provides a platform for both dance academicsand dance artists in Ireland and abroad.Included in its programme are academic-basedpaper presentations, practice-based researchpresentations, lecture demonstrations, danceworkshops, a student poster exhibition, anddance performance contributions.The conference explores improvisation indance research and practice. What isimprovisation and how relevant is it to dance14
esearch and practice? Is improvisation asubjective experience; a creative tool; a mode ofperformance - or all or none of the above? Howis improvisation transmitted? Whatmethodologies or techniques are used or arebeing developed; and how is improvisationdocumented? What or who are the primary andsecondary sources?Broadly defined as ‘spontaneous composition’,improvisation has always been an integral partof dance practice. The aim of this conference isto identify and document how and whereimprovisation has been, and is being, used indance practice; and its relevance andimportance in dance research and dancepractice as research.DRFI invites proposals for the conference in theform of academic-based paper presentations,practice-based research presentations, lecturedemonstrations, dance workshops, a studentposter exhibition, and dance performancecontributions. Abstracts of presentationsaddressing the above or any other topicrelevant to the theme of the conferenceshould be forwarded electronically in RichText Format to Ms. Carmel McKenna,Secretary DRFI, at carmel.mckenna@lit.ie ormckennadance@gmail.com.Forum Ireland said following years of effort, theNational Dance Archive of Ireland is nowbecoming a reality; it is a historic moment for alldance in Ireland. Dance Research Forum Irelandowes an enormous debt of gratitude to the ArtsCouncil for the awarding of this seed funding.The report, written by dance historianDr Victoria O’Brien, established the existence ofa wealth of dance archival material, which todate has been difficult to access. Since thecompletion of the feasibility report, DanceResearch Forum Ireland together with the IrishWorld Academy of Music and Dance, theGlucksman Library at the University of Limerick,and the Arts Council have worked togethertowards the establishment of an accessibledance archive.Commenting on the announcement, Mícheál ÓSúilleabháin, Professor of Music and Director ofthe Irish World Academy of Music and Dance atthe University said: The establishment of theDance Archive of Ireland at the University ofLimerick, is a direct follow on from the inspiredand inclusive vision of Dance Research ForumIreland, across ballet, contemporary, traditional,popular and world dance genres.UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICKDance Archive of IrelandThe University of Limerick recently announcedthe establishment of Ireland’s first nationaldance archive to be based at the GlucksmanLibrary. The Dance Archive of Ireland will beestablished through seed funding of €140,000from the Arts Council and came about throughinitiatives by Dance Research Forum Ireland, abody set up in 2003 by Dr Catherine Foley,Director of the MA Ethnochoreology and MAIrish Traditional Dance Performance at the IrishWorld Academy of Music and Dance atUniversity of Limerick. Dance Research ForumIreland received an award from the Arts Councilin 2008 to carry out this feasibility report inconnection with the establishment of anational dance archive in Ireland.Dr Catherine Foley, Chair of the Dance Research15Dance Archive of Ireland Launch, LimerickSource: Catherine E Foley
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