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Total six choreographers recommended by WDA¡VAP will be selected to attend the Young Choreographer project, four of them to be in Kaohsiung and two to be in Taipei, Taiwan in 2007. Additional five Taiwanese choreographers will be selected to join the event. The funding is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, Taiwan, the Culture Bureau of the Kaohsiung city and the Chin-Lin Foundation for Cultural and Arts in Taiwan. The July location will be in the city of Kaohsiung, which is in the south of Taiwan and second one will be in Taipei as the part of Taipei Dance Elite Academy (TAIPEIDEA) held in Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA). The Tentative schedule for 2007 are: The one in Kaohsiung city from July 9 ¡V 29 with a performance in the main stage of Culture Center on July 28 and 29; and the one in TAIPEIDEA is scheduled to be from August 6 - 25, with a performance on August 25, in the end of the project in each site.
Choreographers will be selected from names recommended by WDA-AP country delegates. The deadline for the recommendation from each country delegate is April 16 with all documents required below completely sent to Taiwan. The housing, local transportation, dancers, studios, publicity, production and office assistance are offered and a total of NT$30,000 (about US$800) for the honorarium will be provided. Airfares is not covered.
The selected choreographers will have to set the dance on the Taiwanese dancers who will have been selected in Taiwan. It is recommended that only young choreographers who feel they can meet the challenges and stresses of producing a work in unfamiliar circumstances (and with unfamiliar dancers) should apply. The panel in each country and in Taiwan will also be making their selections based on potential to be a significant contributor to the field in the future.
Each WDA¡VAP office will facilitate the selection process in its own country. The selection panel will be WDA¡VAP network chair(s). Expressions of interest should address the following points:
¡P What you would gain from a professional experience such as this
¡P Why you would like to work in the Asian environment
¡P A brief concept of a work you might make
¡P A 10-line biog and a resume/CV
If you are short listed, you will be required to forward a DVD or a VCD or a video (not Pal) of recent choreography, either with one dance or several excerpts (less than 20 minutes). You may also be invited to send up to three photos of your work, a requirement which is not compulsory, but is preferred by the Taiwan selection panel.
Expressions of interest should be EMAILED to the WDA¡VAP office of each country by April 1.
Choreographers will be informed by Taiwan Office by April 20 about whether their names have gone forward to Taiwan, and final selection will be announced by May 1, 2005 on the homepage of WDA-AP website at http://www.wda-ap.org and through a letter from the office of Dr. Anis, the President of WDA-AP to each country delegate. Download Registration Form
For information about the Asia Young Choreography Project, please visit http://www.wda-ap.org or contact the project assistant, Monique Chiang at the Chin-Lin Foundation for Cultural and Arts in Taiwan (email: yy_monique0210@yahoo.com.tw).
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