Curated by Good Women Dance Collective, Dancefest @ Nextfest is now accepting submissions for the 2018 edition (May 31- June 10)! The series features emerging dance and performance artists from around Edmonton and across Canada. Who can apply? Dancefest is geared towards emerging choreographers under the age of 30 who are pursuing a professional …
Learn from accomplished New York City-based choreographer, David Neumann in this two-hour session at GWDC. He’s in Edmonton working on the Citadel Theatre’s Hadestown production. What does it mean? A workshop with David Neumann will have the participants working together to disentangle the relationship of movement to text …
See what’s been percolating in the first GWDC artistic residency of the 2017/2018 Season. In the residency with Edmonton actor, dancer and mmmcollective co-creator, Zoe Glassman, is expanding her piece, Doc by Lou. She’s developing it into a more complex multi-disciplinary performance, supported by live sound composition and close mentorship from GWDC’s Ainsley …
We’re accepting applications for our 2017/18 Residency program. The multi-week opportunities include: Rehearsal Space Access to our space at the Ruth Carse Centre Dance (11205-107 Ave) which is 48’ by 43’, has sprung Marley flooring and floor to ceiling mirrors. Creative Guidance/Mentorship From any and all of the collective …
The curator for Toronto’s Dancemakers will teach contemporary technique workshop on March 2-3 at 10-11:30am. Workshop: do it if it can’t be done Through scores that invite us to attempt the impossible, we will find our way most directly into our habitual movement patterns and work to both indulge and destroy them. We …
Montreal-based Parts+Labour_Danse are leading three days of contemporary dance instruction presented by GWDC in partnership with The Chinook Series. The company’s co-creators Emily Gualtieri and David Albert-Toth will be instructing the two daily sessions on February 8 through 10: Technique Class – Reinvention – with Emily Gualtieri I see technique as a …
GWDC artist, Alida Nyquist-Schultz, prepares for the last week of rehearsals and final phase of creation with MAYDAY Danse‘s Mélanie Demers before the world premiere of the new work… I had no idea what to expect when re-entering the rehearsal process for Mélanie’s work after leaving it for …
