Contemporary Performance

Summer School 2012

COURSE INFORMATION
Course Aims
This five-day summer school is designed for people aged 17 plus interested in advancing skills in contemporary dance, improvisation and composition. It may be useful for anyone wishing to pursue a pathway to further training or explore a career in dance performance. The course is appropriate for people with previous dance experience including students of dance and working artists. Maite Delafin, the course leader, specialises in release and flying low technique which she uses as the basis for developing technical and creative skills. Students will have the opportunity to work individually and in groups, and will be guided through a challenging experience that stretches their own abilities. The course aims to introduce a variety of methodologies and techniques which can be used to create original dance sequences and develop performance skills. By the end of this intensive short course, students should have: explored different approaches to creating and composing dance performance developed their understanding of body, movement and spacial awareness strengthened their contemporary dance technique had the opportunity to develop personal creative ideas individually and in groups

Venue, Date and Cost

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Speirs Locks Studios 210 Garscube Road Glasgow G4 9RR 13 - 17 August 2012, 9am to 5pm daily 450

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Course Content
This inspiring and challenging summer school will be led by experienced dancer and choreographer Maite Delafin who teaches contemporary dance on the undergraduate drama programmes at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. This short course will be suited to you if you are interested in the exploration of contemporary dance concepts and styles, and hope to strengthen technical and creative skills. Each day will begin with practical floor work sessions based on organic movement fundamentals. Using breath and sound, students will warm-up and expand the joints and muscles, preparing the body and mind for work. Experimenting with polarity and opposition within movement, students will explore planes, lines and curves of space, aiming to create organic and fluid dance. You will be led through physical and musical landscapes exploring different rhythms, dynamics and movement qualities. Throughout the week students will gain an understanding of skeletal structure in order to develop sophisticated body awareness. During the creative sessions students will explore the range of movements of the joints within the possibilities and restrictions of the bodys anatomy. Individuals will be encouraged to play with possible combinations of movement, aiming to break body patterns and habits. In a supportive and open environment you will explore and experiment using contemporary techniques to develop a personal language of dance. Working individually and within a group, students will also have the opportunity to try out their own ideas and experience other students style of working. Different approaches to generating movement will be used to create a body of material. This will be processed through a variety of composition activities to create short performances. The summer school will conclude with an informal presentation of the work created during the week for an invited audience followed by a structured feedback and reflection session aiming to provide ideas for development and improvement. The performance will take place on Friday 17th August at 3pm at our Speirs Locks Studios campus. The short course will provide a fun, supportive and challenging environment in which all students can explore and learn.

Course Leader

Maite Delafin
Maite is a French/Uruguayan Artistic Director, performer and teacher who has been based in Edinburgh since 2007. She is the Artistic Director of Nux Company and teaches at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Dance Base. She is also part of Poorboy Theatre Ensemble directed by Sandy Thomson. Maite trained in Contemporary Dance, with a focus on release technique, in Paris with Corinne Lanselle and Nathalie Pubellier inter alia, and in Barcelona with Alexis Eupierre, Cecilia Colacrai and Damian Munoz.

Student Preparation
Before you attend: This course is most suitable for people with previous dance experience. An open mind and an interest in creating exciting new performance collaboratively is essential. Students may be contacted one month prior to the summer school start date with an initial task to bring with them for the beginning of the course. While attending you should: Students should dress appropriately in loose and comfortable clothing that covers the body. Please be prepared to work without shoes on our specialist dance floors. Students should bring water as activities in this course will be physical. Students should also bring a notepad and pen to make notes during classes. At the end of the course students are expected to participate in a full evaluation of their experience to help us understand how you benefitted from your experience and also how we might develop our courses in the future.

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Further Study
Over the summer the Royal Conservatoire is running courses in Choreography and Dance and Film which may be of interest to you: Choreography 30 July - 3 August 2012 An intensive five-day course suitable for people interested in developing and advancing skills in choreography and composition. Working with an experienced dancer and choreographer you will explore different techniques and methodologies for creating original material and put your skills into practice working with a small group of dancers. Dance and Film 6 - 10 August 2012 An intensive five-day course suitable for dancers and film-makers interested in developing experience and skills in creating dance for film. Working with an experienced dancer, choreographer and film-maker you will explore different approaches to creating dance performance for film, both from a dancers and film-makers point of view. Full course details can be found on our website www.rcs.ac.uk/shortcourses/dance

Further Questions
If you have any further questions about the content of this summer school then please do not hesitate to get in touch with the Short Courses team at the Royal Conservatoire on +44 (0)141 332 4101 or via shortcourses@rcs.ac.uk

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The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland provides vocational education at the highest professional level in dance, drama, music, production and screen. We are one of very few internationally, and the only one in the UK, offering this breadth of artistic disciplines. We have almost 800 students from around the world studying our specialist undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes including Acting, Modern Ballet, Music, Opera, Jazz, Contemporary Performance Practice, Technical and Production Arts, Digital Film and Television, Musical Theatre and Classical and Contemporary Text. The Royal Conservatoire offers students an extraordinary blend of: intensive tuition; all round support and care to each individual; a rigorous performance schedule; and the space to collaborate with others across the disciplines if they wish. Both students and staff are prolific in creating truly innovative work. Alongside our undergraduate and postgraduate provision we offer an inspiring programme of evening and weekend classes, short courses, summer schools and a comprehensive programme of Professional Development. Map of Glasgow centre showing our location
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