The Mill in partnership with Critical Path (Sydney) is offering a position for one South Australian dance artist, to attend a series of two consecutive development projects in Lismore, NSW.
The successful recipient will be supported with $3,000 from The Mill to cover artist bursary, travel to and accomodation in Lismore, NSW. We encourage regional practitioners and those connected to the Northern Rivers area to apply.
Practice Articulation Workshop
July 17 to 19
Artists will explore and share where they find themselves in their practice now, their connections and responsibilities to community, and work to explore how they represent their work (in text, image and when speaking about it) along with what they communicate with others. Finally, they will look at how they can support each other to take their respective practices forward.Claire Hicks, the director of Critical Path will be facilitating the agreed framework for the program, with other guest artists, working together to roll out the activities together across the three days.
Practitioner Gathering - Northern Rivers
July 23 to 25
Day one: Practitioner Exchanges and Mentoring
The idea is not to network, not to sell or to buy, not to SPEED anything. A conversation amongst peers at various stages of their careers should ideally be of interest to both parties and whilst one may be seeking advice from the other, all participants should be open to share and learn.
Day Two: Sector Gathering – FOCUS ON COLLABORATION
Using Open Space Technology (OST). Participants will self-organise to create their own agenda on the day, allowing a dynamic and immediate response to the issues at hand. The process allows free-flowing conversations about the things that really matter to the people in the room. Open Space Technology shifts culture towards a more responsible and pragmatic outlook.
Day Three: Talking and Dancing
With the aim of sharing knowledge and encouraging dialogue, the final day or our series will focus on talks, both in conversations and panel discussions. With contributions from different parts of our broad dance, physical & visual theatre, circus and performance art sector our time together will end with a jam!
Call out deadline: Monday, May 17, 2021 by COB
Dance artists to submit their EOI via email, please include:
Your CV
A 200 word blurb about how this opportunity will benefit you at this stage in your career
Whether you are a regional artist or connected to the Northern Rivers area
For any questions and inquiries contact The Mill Director Katrina Lazaroff
About NORPA and Critical Path
Critical Path and NORPA have been working in partnership since 2018 to deliver practice development opportunities in the Northern Rivers for artists with an interest in choreography.
INFORM, a two-year program (2018-2020), created a space for opening up ideas and broadening skills at the intersection of dance and theatre making. The workshop-labs considered how dance and choreography can underpin an embodied approach to theatre and provided different methodologies for performance making.
Find out more about the partnership here
The partnership continues with the Choreographic Regional Hub – Northern Rivers in 2021.