Dance of Personal Origin // DOP – Training 2024/25

“A unique experience of higher ed. In contemporary dance with a focus on improvisation”

DOP – _Higher education training is a structured course of study in contemporary dance, research and the integration of physical vocabularies for live performance, with a particular focus on improvisation and an openness to multidisciplinary practices.

DOP is geared to all dancer/artists between 18 and 40 years old who have already completed their training and have the desire to mature and develop an artist’s profile through experiences and studies articulated on a non-typical academic basis. The course aims to provide practical and theoretical tools to nurture and develop one’s own research work, to stimulate reflection on one’s artistic journey and to generate links between various experiences in dance and theatre in relationship to different visions and methods of choreographic composition and improvisation.

DOP offers a course of 9 intensive appointments of practical-poetic training on a monthly basis, from October 2024 to June 2025. The course takes place at Studio Company Blu and Teatro Limonaia, Sesto Fiorentino (Florence Italy).

TEACHERS
Charlotte Zerbey, Alessandro Certini, Lilo Stahl, Julyen Hamilton, Renate Graziadei, Otto Ramsted, Jurij Konjar, Elena Giannotti e Massimiliano Barachini, Katie Duck

PARTICIPATION AND SELECTION
Participation is limited in number upon selection
Attendance is mandatory for the entire course
It is intended to constitute a stable and heterogeneous group (aged between 18 and 40).

PROGRAM DATES:
The DOP program includes an appointment of 5 days per month, from October 2024 to June 2025, for a total of 9 weeks: 240 hours.

Saturday 1.00pm – 6.30 pm (30 minute break)
Sunday 10.00 – 16.00 (60 minute break)
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 10.00 – 16.30 (60 minute break)

DEADLINES
To apply it is necessary to send an email to: [email protected]
by Tuesday May 7th 2024 – Subject: DOP – Training 2024/25

Attachments:
A short motivational letter
C.V.
2 photographs (one portrait and one dance)
Short video link (if available)

An information and selection meeting will be held on 19 May 2024

DEADLINE TO APPLY: 7 May 2024
DEADLINE ADVANCE PAYMENT (early bird): 5 June 2024
DEADLINE REGISTRATION: 31 July 2024

WHERE
Company Blu Studio > via Luigi Cadorna, 18 – Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy
Limonaia Theater > via Antonio Gramsci, 426 – Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION WRITE TO: [email protected]

FULL PROGRAM
https://www.companyblu.it/formazione.html