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ROOM TO MOVE is a 70 hr residency program for artists focused on choreographic research, reflection and criticality. This is an opportunity for artists to develop and critically examine specific aspects of their choreographic practice and/or an existing work within a supported context. This initiative aims to stimulate new modes of embedding reflexivity and criticality in the creative process.

HOW IT WORKS

This residency is about taking the time to work on and test material. It is an opportunity to critically analyse what works, what doesn't quite work yet, what is yet to be invented, so that you understand what to do next. You will work with Dancehouse to define the critical examination frames and tools that you will need: outside eye, dramaturgical support, public showings, critical feedback.

WHO THIS IS FOR:

Choreographic artists with an established practice
Artists from other art forms working on projects with choreographic focus
Artists with dance for screen projects
Artists with off-site/site-specific projects
Artists who want to research a new choreographic idea or develop further an existing one
Artists interested in developing tools and skills to better analyse and understand what they are doing.
Artists interested in entering in critical conversation about their work and processes with peers, unfamiliar perspectives and the general public.

You must be or become a Dancehouse member in order to be considered for this program. You agree to share your findings with the broader community.

WHAT WE ARE OFFERING:

70 hrs in-kind space (to be used within a one month period).
Access to Dancehouse's existing lighting and sound equipment
Limited time with a dedicated technician
Access to outside eyes, provocateurs, dramaturges
Critical conversations
Public showing and critical discussion
Public program activities around the artist's project as a way of expanding the artist's thinking and reflection (activities generation their own income)

FACILITATOR'S BIOGRAPHIES

Alison Croggon is a fantasy novelist, poet and critic who lives in Melbourne, Australia. She writes in many genres, including criticism, theatre and prose. She is the author of the acclaimed young adult fantasy quartet, The Books of Pellinor. She has until very recently published reviews and critical texts on her blog, Theatre Notes, and more recently on her Tumblr. More information on Alison Croggon can be found on her website.

Becky Hilton is an Australian dancer and performer. She also teaches, choreographs, re-stages and writes about dance. Over three decades she has collaborated with a range of Australian and international artists including Russell Dumas, Stephen Petronio, Michael Clark, Tere O'Connor, Jennifer Monson, John Jasperse, DD Dorvillier, Margie Medlin, Lucy Guerin, Mathew Barney, among others. Some of her current collaborators include Chrysa Parkinson, Ben Speth, Tino Sehgal and Xavier Le Roy. Becky works with dance in a range of situations and environments including, but not limited to, dance companies, universities, community organisations and arts festivals. Becky has regular teaching engagements at the University of Melbourne, Dancehouse, PARTS Belgium, DOCH Sweden, Scenekunstskolen Denmark, University of Sonora Mexico etc. Her writing has appeared in the Routledge Dance Studies Reader, Writings on Dance, the Swedish Book of Dance History, Oralsite.be, Movement Research Journal etc. Becky serves on the Dancehouse Board, was a member of the inaugural Keir Choreographic Award jury, advises on dance for MPavillion, Kaldor Public Art Projects and mentors, formally and informally, a range of young artists. As the recipient of a Fellowship from the Dance Board of the Australia Council, she is writing a book on DANCERNESS.

Jana Perković is a performance and dance writer, dramaturg and urbanist. Her work focuses on the intersection between urban policy and arts, immersive design and performance practice, and geographical theories. She is a sessional lecturer in Performance Studies at Victorian College of the Arts, and teaches at Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne. Her writing on performance has appeared, among others, in The Guardian, RealTime, Exeunt Magazine, Dancehouse Diary, Crikey. She has been the Literary Manager for MKA Theatre of New Writing since 2012. She also sits on the Green Room board for Hybrid and Alternative Performance, Puppetry and Circus (HAPPC), and is a member of Artistic Counsel for Malthouse Theatre.

Lim How Ngean is a performance-maker, dramaturg and dance researcher. In recent years he has dramaturged dances for critically acclaimed choreographers Daniel Kok, Joavien Ng, Kuik Swee Boon and Ming Poon (Singapore), and Pichet Klunchun (Thailand), and, Amrita Performing Arts Group (Cambodia). In 2014 How Ngean was conferred his Phd from National University of Singapore, entitled Choreographic Modernities: Movement, Mobility and Contemporary Dance from Southeast Asia. In February 2016, How Ngean will present his new performance What Price Your Dance? in Kobe, Japan. He also initiated the Asian Dramaturg's Network, with its inaugural symposium in Singapore, April 2016.

Philipa Rothfield is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy program, La Trobe University. She is a dance reviewer for RealTime arts magazine and Momm magazine, Korea. She is co-convenor of the Choreography and Corporeality working group, International Federation of Theatre Research. She has been dancing on and off for some decades. As a philosopher, she writes on French philosophy, political philosophy, feminism and postmodernism, specialising in philosophy of the body. She is currently writing a book on dance and philosophy. She has published on dance in relation to Merleau-Ponty, Whitehead, Nietzsche, Klossowski and Ravaisson. She is Dancehouse's Creative Advisor.

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RESIDENCIES FROM AUG TO DECEMBER

You must be or become a Dancehouse member in order to be considered for this program. You agree to share your findings with the broader community.

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