News for WDAAP International Dance Festival/Conference, 21-24 July 2016

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Information for dance practitioners, enthusiasts and fans from around the world, as well as WDAAP members, who are looking forward to World Dance Alliance Asia-Pacific’s next exciting annual event, in Seoul, South Korea, hosted by WDA-Korea:

1. A draft schedule of the event is now available! Download PDF here (28KB). This does not yet contain details of who is presenting where. It just contains the general outline of events — so you can start booking your flights to Korea! Check back at this website for an updated schedule with more details soon.

2. The conference site is in Sung Shin University, in the north of Seoul (30 mins from city centre). English Website: http://www.sungshin.ac.kr/website4eng/html/main/

3. The hotel nearby is Holiday Inn Seoul which will have a conference rate of US$100 with 3 beds (one roll-away bed); three people can share a room. With the conference rate, breakfast is not provided.

4. If anyone wants to book a hotel in the centre of Seoul, it is about a 35 minute bus ride to SSU. The MayPlace Hotel in the centre of Seoul is recommended. The special rate for anyone booking online directly with the hotel is around US$90 per room for two persons.

5. Conference registration will be open in mid May, US$100 for all WDA members. Please ensure your WDA membership is up to date through your country chapter before registering (e.g. Ausdance in Australia, MyDance Alliance in Malaysia etc.). There will also be facilities for payment of individual WDA membership at the conference (US$20). However, we strongly recommend that you strengthen your country’s dance networks by joining your own recognised organisation.

Call for proposal: 44th ICTM World Conference (Limerick, July 2017)

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You are cordially invited to submit a proposal to present at the 44th ICTM World Conference. The conference will take place at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick (Limerick, Ireland) from 13 to 19 July 2017. During the conference, the 70th anniversary of the Council will be celebrated.

Abstracts can be submitted for individual papers, organised panels, film/video sessions, and roundtables. The deadline for submissions is 30 September 2016. To learn more about the guidelines for submissions and to submit your proposal, please visit the conference website.

ICTM is a partner organisation of World Dance Alliance.

Dance Routes – Danced Roots: Connecting the Local and the Global

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Seoul, Korea – 2016

 In 2016, the Korean chapter of World Dance Alliance Asia Pacific will host the WDAAP Annual General Meeting and surrounding activities as the event Dance Routes – Danced Roots: Connecting the Local and the Global, from 21 to 24 July 2016.

Applications are now open for participation in the following events:

Southeast Asian Choreolab 2016 — Open for Applications

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The Southeast Asian Choreolab 2016 is now open for applications. We are looking for 14 emerging choreographers from the Southeast Asian region, for a 9-day choreolab facilitated by Japanese choreographer Akiko Kitamura, 28 May – 5 June 2016.

Applications close 15 February 2016.

The Choreolab aims to provide a supportive environment for participants to acquire new choreographic tools, develop regional networks with their peers, and increase their international understanding.

We are looking for emerging contemporary dance choreographers (performance artists or physical theatre creators also eligible) aged 35 or under, or who began creating professional-level work within the last five years. Citizen of and resident in an ASEAN country (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam) or Papua New Guinea or East Timor. Must be able to communicate functionally in English, and be excited to increase your knowledge base, share your practice and establish networks with your international peers.

The Choreolab provides accommodation, meals, local transportation and access to all Choreolab activities. The applicant must provide their own return airfare to Kuala Lumpur, insurance, and visa (if necessary).

For more information, see http://rimbundahan.org/southeast-asian-choreolab-2016/ or contact Bilqis Hijjas, +6017 310 3769, contact@mydancealliance.org<

Call for Proposals for Master Class

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Dance Routes – Danced Roots: Connecting the Local and the Global

Seoul, Korea – 2016

SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: FEBRUARY 10, 2016
(You will be notified in 6 days after application)

ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION: MARCH 10, 2016

World Dance Alliance – Asia Pacific, Korean Chapter, invites Dance and Movement (dance-related) professionals working with Community, Education, Performance and Somatic in dance to submit proposal for the Master Class at upcoming conference, Dance Routes – Danced Roots: Connecting the Local and the Global in Seoul, Korea, from 21st to 24th July 2016.

 

The Master Class aims to provide a teaching platform for dance and movement professionals to share their teaching to the wider dance community.

 

The Master Class, of 90 minutes in length, will take place in the dance studios located in ShangShin University and will be open to all participants of the WDA-AP Korean event.

 

All presenters must be registered members of World Dance Alliance – Asia Pacific.

 

Proposals for the Master Class will be submitted online and should comprise the following:

  • 100-word bio of the applicant (primary presenter);
  • 150-word of teaching experience (primary presenter);
  • 250-word statement that shows the genesis of the class to be taught;
  • 10-minute (maximum) video sample of recent class taught by Presenter (related to the applied subject) uploaded to either Vimeo or YouTube;
  • password-protected link to sample work.

 

Interested applicants are encouraged to provide the core and specific learning in the outline table.

An international panel will consider and evaluate all submissions based on Master Class Outline submitted.

Please fill out the online application form then download the outline and send the outline to masterclass2016wdaap@gmail.com ( please use your full name as the file name of outline)

Contemporising the Past: Envisaging the Future

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Refereed Proceedings of the 2014 World Dance Alliance Global Summit

Edited by Cheryl Stock & Patrick Germain-Thomas

Available online: http://ausdance.org.au/publications/details/contemporising-the-past-envisaging-the-future

With a strong emphasis on the interconnection between theory and practice, and how past/present intersections inform the future, these thirty-one articles by artist/scholars and artist/teachers profile current dance research from thirteen countries.

The papers coalesce around five sub-themes:

‘In exploring the cognitive and the sensory, the rational and the instinctive, the explicit and the implicit, these writings create and celebrate common and differentiated dance understandings—at times directly and provocatively, and at times liminally and poetically.’ —Cheryl Stock, AM

*These refereed Conference Proceedings have been published according to international academic research standards with double blind refereeing of full papers followed by an editorial process of revisions.

© 2015, World Dance Alliance and Ausdance
Copyrights for individual papers are held by the authors.

ISBN 978-1-875255-20-7

Call for Interest for The Corner Dance Lab 2016

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Want to challenge yourself in dance with some of Australia’s leading practitioners? For the third year running international dance identities will ascend on the historical Federal village 30 minutes inland from Byron Bay for the annual dance event, The Corner Dance Lab 15 – 23 January 2016. Philip Channells, Creative Director of Dance Integrated Australia, and Gavin Webber, Co-director of The Farm Company, bring together an exciting line up of dance practitioners, musicians and visual artists from the local area, interstate and abroad for a practice-led dance laboratory at Jasper Corner (Federal Hall) on the NSW North Coast of Australia.

The 9-day dance lab is a skills development and performance making intensive suitable for emerging and established dance artists from diverse backgrounds, different embodiment and life experience wanting to challenge themselves physically, intellectually and artistically.

The Corner Dance Lab promotes the individual while occupying a supportive participatory environment and encourages constant dialogue and communication to feed the artist.

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The Corner Dance Lab is based around a basic philosophy of utilising communication as a creative tool. What better way to approach dance?

Call for Expressions of Interest open 1 October and close 20 December 2015. The Corner Dance Lab 2016 is supported by the NSW Government through Arts NSW and is endorsed by the World Dance Alliance. Dance Integrated Australia is an Associate Organisation of Ausdance NSW. For more information about The Corner Dance Lab, see http://goo.gl/eGpXLl

Journal of Emerging Dance Scholarship Call for Papers

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The fourth edition of the Journal of Emerging Dance Scholarship has extended the deadline for paper submissions until 18 January 2016. For postgraduate students and those within 5 years of finishing a doctoral or master’s degree, this is an opportunity to have your research blind-reviewed by two professional dance scholars (Linda Caldwell, Professor and Coordinator of Doctoral Studies in Dance, Texas Woman’s University, United States, and World Dance Alliance-Americas, and Urmimala Sarkar, Associate Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, and World Dance Alliance-Asia Pacific) as you prepare for future publications. The author retains her or his copyright within this open access format.

If you have questions, please contact Linda Caldwell at lcaldwell2@twu.edu.

Download the call for papers.

Call for Proposals for Showcase Performance

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Dance Routes – Danced Roots: Connecting the Local and the Global

Seoul, Korea – 2016

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JANUARY 10, 2016 (Extended to February 10, 2016)
(You will be notified in 6 days after application)

ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION: MARCH 10, 2016

The Showcase provides a concert platform for professional choreographers and performers, and pre-professional artists training in dance academies. The performances will take place in the theaters located in the ShangShin Univeristy or Arko Theater and will be open to registered participants of the WDAAP event and the general public.

Dance works presented may not exceed 10 minutes in length.

An international panel will consider and evaluate all submissions based on criteria in relation to the quality of the work submitted and accompanying documentation. Proposals for the Showcase will be submitted online and should comprise the following:

  • 100-word bio of the choreographer/director (primary presenter)
  • 250-word statement that shows the genesis of the work to be presented
  • 10 minute (maximum) on-line (Vimeo/YouTube) sample of recent [continuous] performance or rehearsal footage of the choreographer/director’s work. Excerpts and promotional footage will not be considered. Applicants must submit password-protected links to their sample work.

Applicants are responsible for all licensing agreements – music and otherwise – necessary both to post the work online for consideration and to present it. Sample work may be different from the intended showcase work but both must fall within a 10-minute (maximum) time frame.

In addition, the applicant will submit the following on the online form:

  • choreographer/director’s name
  • designation of Emerging Choreographer (ten years or less in the field) or Career Choreographer (over ten years in the field)
  • contact email, telephone number, institutional affiliation (if applicable), mailing address, names of performers/collaborators

All choreographers/presenters whose work is accepted for the showcase performance must be registered members of World Dance Alliance – Asian Pacific.

Click Here to download the application form with information about submission.

Call for Proposals for International Choreolab

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Dance Routes – Danced Roots: Connecting the Local and the Global

Seoul, Korea – 2016

SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR CHOREOGRAPHER : CLOSED
SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR DANCER EXTENDED: FEBRUARY 10, 2016
(You will be notified in six days after application)

ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION: MARCH 10, 2016

The International Choreolab is designed for four emerging and mid-career choreographers to work intensively for almost one week under the mentorship of one Korean established dance artist and one internationally known choreographers (to be announced) resulting in a public showing of works in progress. Several dancers with various dance backgrounds and skills will work with each choreographer.

Please note that the event registration fee for all successful choreographers and dancers selected will be waived. All other costs, including travel, are the responsibility of the recipient. WDAAP-Korea will provide lodging for the four choreographers. The dancers are responsible for the costs of their accommodation. Also, the project is quite intensive in effort and time. Please note the Choreolab will run from 14 to 20 July 2016, one week prior to the main Dance Routes – Danced Roots event which is planned to be 21-24 July 2016.

Apply as a Choreographer for the Choreolab

Applications for the mentored CHOREOGRAPHER should include:

  1. Name, phone number, email address, mailing address
  2. Institution affiliation or individual
  3. Bio of no more than 150 words
  4. Statement of the perceived benefits from engagement in the Choreolab, no more than 250 words
  5. A link to an online video of a work sample, 8-10 minutes of one or two works. Please be mindful that the sample is:

A) clear (not too dark)
B) showing group work, not solo work, as this is what the tasks will be about
C) sufficient in length for judging the resolution of a choreographic idea

  1. CV, focusing on dance training, choreography, awards and/or reviews
  2. Any other applications for the symposium, showcase, Pecha Kucha or evening performance in the Dance Routes – Danced Roots event in Korea in 2016? If Yes, please state which one(s).

Apply as a Dancer for the Choreolab

Applications for Choreolab DANCER should include:

  1. Name, phone number, email address, mailing address
  2. Institution affiliation or individual
  3. Bio of no more than 150 words
  4. Statement of the perceived benefits from engagement in the Choreolab, no more than 150 words
  5. A link to an online video of dancing sample, 8 minutes maximum. Please be mindful that the dancing sample is:

A) Clear
B) Easy to recognize the applicant in the sample

  1. CV, focusing on the dance training, performance experiences, awards and/or reviews
  2. Any other applications for the Dance Routes – Danced Roots event in Korea in 2016? If Yes, please state which one(s).
  3. Dancers need to arrive by the night of 7/13. The final showing of Choreolab will be on 7/21 or 7/22.

Please indicate clearly the category of your application, CHOREOGRAPHER or DANCER. If you intend to apply both, please send two applications separately. Please submit the applications to Jin-Wen Yu, jinwenyu@wisc.edu and Nanette Hassall, n.hassall@ecu.edu.au.