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Winter Dancing
Halloween is over and all around the world dance craving folks are facing severe conditions: Sensitive heating systems in rehearsal rooms need some loving care, theatregoers are buried below coats, scarves, sweaters and gloves and your mum wants you to wear strange underwear.
However, this winter offers you a considerable range of dance events to make you forget the season‘s little amusing side effects. From December 5 - 13, 2002, the Choreographisches Zentrum in Essen/Germany hosts a multinational meeting of dance students, choreographers and teachers from Germany, Belgium, France, Britain, the Netherlands, Turkey and India sharing their experience concerning contemporary dance education. In workshops (e.g. led by Nigel Charnock and Russell Maliphant), performances and discussions you can get to know the programmes of schools like P.A.R.T.S, Rotterdamse Dansakademie, Yildiniz Teknik Ünivertesi Istanbul and London Contemporary Dance School.
New York leaves nobody freezing: the Improvisation Festival including workshops and performances with Nancy Stark-Smith, Julyen Hamilton and Andrew de L. Harwood (Dec. 2-14, 2002, more information in the EventDataBase) and the Movement Research Melt with workshops led by John Jasperse, Jeremy Nelson a. o.(Dec. 30 - Jan. 17, 2003) will make you forget about rain, fog and frost. But also London fights the big cold with the help of the Winter Lab Programme of Independent Dance, offering workshops by Wendy Houstoun, Nigel Charnock a. o. (Dec. 2-20, 2002)
If sweating in a workshop is not enough and you need to feel spotlights and hundreds of eyes on you to make it through the season, check out the Waschküche at Choreographisches Zentrum in Essen. Once a month artists from all art genres may use this space for no budget productions. Long time planning is also a way to keep yourself occupied on rainy November evenings: applications for next year‘s residencies at the Choreographisches Zentrum (September-December 2003) have to be submitted now. The Deborah Hay Solo Commissioning Project 2003 has also been announced and waits for your proposals. The project is quite unique in its choreographic concept as well as in its organisational and financial structure and is open to practitioners of movement and/or performance art (detailed information in the EventDataBase). This should keep you busy at least until Rudolph the Reindeer drops his stuff in your chimney. If not, try to hibernate.
However, this winter offers you a considerable range of dance events to make you forget the season‘s little amusing side effects. From December 5 - 13, 2002, the Choreographisches Zentrum in Essen/Germany hosts a multinational meeting of dance students, choreographers and teachers from Germany, Belgium, France, Britain, the Netherlands, Turkey and India sharing their experience concerning contemporary dance education. In workshops (e.g. led by Nigel Charnock and Russell Maliphant), performances and discussions you can get to know the programmes of schools like P.A.R.T.S, Rotterdamse Dansakademie, Yildiniz Teknik Ünivertesi Istanbul and London Contemporary Dance School.
New York leaves nobody freezing: the Improvisation Festival including workshops and performances with Nancy Stark-Smith, Julyen Hamilton and Andrew de L. Harwood (Dec. 2-14, 2002, more information in the EventDataBase) and the Movement Research Melt with workshops led by John Jasperse, Jeremy Nelson a. o.(Dec. 30 - Jan. 17, 2003) will make you forget about rain, fog and frost. But also London fights the big cold with the help of the Winter Lab Programme of Independent Dance, offering workshops by Wendy Houstoun, Nigel Charnock a. o. (Dec. 2-20, 2002)
If sweating in a workshop is not enough and you need to feel spotlights and hundreds of eyes on you to make it through the season, check out the Waschküche at Choreographisches Zentrum in Essen. Once a month artists from all art genres may use this space for no budget productions. Long time planning is also a way to keep yourself occupied on rainy November evenings: applications for next year‘s residencies at the Choreographisches Zentrum (September-December 2003) have to be submitted now. The Deborah Hay Solo Commissioning Project 2003 has also been announced and waits for your proposals. The project is quite unique in its choreographic concept as well as in its organisational and financial structure and is open to practitioners of movement and/or performance art (detailed information in the EventDataBase). This should keep you busy at least until Rudolph the Reindeer drops his stuff in your chimney. If not, try to hibernate.