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Yes were still tucked away in lockdown/hibernation but we're connected and connecting on zoom still for now...
Virtual Check in and Chat Thursday 11 Feb 3pm-4pm
This informal networking opportunity will continue to be a space for you to share news and ask questions of the steering group and each other. The meeting link will be emailed to all ODF members in advance we will be on zoom for this one.
ODF MEMBERSHIP
We are ready for your ODF membership renewals/applications. Please complete our new membership form which we talked through at the AGM in January. Our aim with the form is to learn more about our members and your interests so we can design suitable opportunities around you.
When you have completed the membership form and it has been received we can send you our bank details for payment. The annual fee for 2021 will be £20. Upon receipt we will then send you your membership card.
At this time we are having to constantly review and adjust what we can offer members with Covid restrictions in place. As soon as we're able to offer more opportunities we will let you know. Please read our presentation on ODF Member benefits 2021 on our website.
To be eligible for ODF membership you should be living and/ or doing some work as a professional dance artist/teacher within Oxfordshire. If you don't meet the membership criteria you can still be on our mailing list. Please get in touch if you have any questions about membership oxford.dance.forum@gmail.com
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CPD WORKSHOPS, CLASSES, TRAINING
PDSW - Artists Exchange Programme
Artist-led by Danielle Teale, the Artists' Exchange Programme (AEP) is an opportunity to develop your practice with the support of your peers. Anyone working in the UK may apply, but there are 12 funded places available (£120 each) for artists based in the south west.
AEP is suitable for mid-career artists. It gives artists the chance to strengthen resilience, reflect on their practice and where they find themselves during COVID times, try out creative ideas and gain tools for growth. In particular this is a time of great change, and the AEP can provide a chance to share fears, or ideas, for evolving your practice. Artists will take away a greater resilience, renewed creative practice, deeper understanding of their values and awareness of their skills and experience.
Dates: 6 March / 25 March / 15 April / 6 May (all sessions online /10am - 1pm)
READ MORE Apply by 15 February 2021
MA/MFA Creative Practice: Dance Professional Practice -
VIRTUAL OPEN DAY 25 Feb
Meet the Programme Leader Naomi Lefebvre Sell (Trinity Laban) and Lead Tutor Heni Hale (ID) online, hear about course content and structure in detail, and ask any questions you may have.
MA/MFA Creative Practice is composed of two strands - Dance Professional Practice strand which is led by ID and the Transdisciplinary strand which is led by Trinity Laban. It is designed to provide a flexible programme of study and an environment of rigorous creative enquiry, supporting practicing artists in their further development.
Studio practice is accompanied by reflective and theoretical study; modules are devised to be conversant with one another, allowing for an interdisciplinary approach to individual research. Areas of study range across perspectives, including theoretical and philosophical underpinning of arts practice, visual
Come along to the virtual open day to find out more: http://bit.ly/SDS-MA-openday
New Adventures - Open Company Class
All classes will be available on YouTube, as well as hosting them on their website. You can join Open Company Class anytime from anywhere!
We will be releasing a class each Wednesday at 12PM (GMT). The first class will be released on Wed 3 February. The classes are aimed at professional dancers and dancers in training, however anyone can try them out and experience our company dance classes. Classes in Ballet, Contemporary, Jazz and Pilates.
Company Chameleon - FREE daily pro classes on zoom
10am-11am Monday - Friday from 8th Feb - 2nd April
With 40 FREE classes over 8 weeks, and a different teacher each day of the week, this new series is an opportunity for professional dancers to push forward their practice like never before!
You must register in advance: book here
Flexer and Sandiland - Weekly professional contemporary class during February
A new online F&S pro class series. Every Thursday 10:00-11:15 (GMT), 11 (CET) 12 (IDT). Book on: www.flexerandsandiland.com Classes combine improv, set exercises and draw on recent R&D.
Daily Open Practice with Charlie Morrissey
You can join Charlie via zoom every weekday at 9am during lockdown. Open Practice is not a class but a space where people can meet (virtually for now) and move together, with camera on or off.
Charlie creates an hour long playlist and everyone dances in their own space to the music.
Monday to Friday 9-10am. £2 or a donation to Wainsgate Dances
Check the Facebook group or email wainsgatedances@gmail.com for links.
Classes currently being offered ONLINE by local teachers:
Susie Crow weekly ballet classes for a range of levels Ballet in Small Spaces
Ségolène Tarte several weekly ballet classes Dancing Convolutions
Tingting Yang offers classes in Chinese Dance online for adults and children
Thomas Page Dances are holding regular open company class online, follow on facebook to see when the next class is
Justice in Motion continue to offer several weekly contemporary classes
Confluence Collective Cafe/Marhaba and Meeting Points
These Oxford based mixed arts groups continue to meet and share virtually. Share a song, dance or poem or else just sit and listen and watch. You will have to be bring your own food and drink. See their facebook pages for more information CONFLUENCE CAFE/MARHABA and MEETING POINTS
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COMMISSIONS & CALL OUTS
SIOBHAN DAVIES STUDIOS - PERCOLATE PROGRAMME
The Percolate Programme offers flexible support to artists working with dance and choreography across disciplines, formats and contexts. They welcome applications that propose all kinds of activity; from independent practice to public presentations of work, in whatever form that is appropriate to you and your project.
There are two deadlines for this round of Percolate. At each deadline we will select two projects for each award - this means two projects supported with £1000 and two with £500 at each deadline.
The next deadline is Tuesday 2 March 2021, 12pm. Read full application details
Pavilion Dance South West (PDSW) Commission -
PDSW are looking to support a Dance Company to undertake R&D on Digital work for Children and their grown ups. Read the full brief here Deadline: 19 February 2021
Live Art Development Agency - Call for participants DIY 2021
DIY is LADA’s flagship artist opportunity and an initiative for artists working in Live Art to take part in unusual training and professional development projects conceived and run BY artists, FOR artists.
DIY 2020 supports over 25 projects, with many of them being hosted online, as well as some hoping to be delivered in person in the coming months.
The Call for Participants webpage will be regularly updated with each projects' information and open call as and when they go live. More projects and calls for participants will be announced over the coming weeks and months. DIY2020
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN for U.Dance Regional Platforms 2021!
U.Dance Regional Platforms, which take place across the UK, offer exciting performance and workshop opportunities to thousands of young dancers each year. Regional Platforms are hosted by a network of partner organisations and take place each spring, showcasing the talents of the region’s young dancers.
We are now welcoming applications for the U.Dance Digital South East Regional Platform 2021, a celebration of dance showcasing the variety and diversity of youth dance from across the South East region.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 12 noon, Friday 26 February 2021
Read more and apply for your group
If you miissed the One Dance UK film making skills webinars? - you catch up and watch online until 26 Feb.
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FUNDING SOURCES
EXHUBERANT TRUST - Small grants for people under age of 30
The Exuberant Trust is a local charity which supports young people (under 30) in Oxfordshire who are developing their interest in the arts: music, drama, dance, art & crafts, multi-media, etc. and who are in need of a small one-off grant (maximum £500) for a specific project or activity.
The Exuberant Trust raises funds by organising concerts throughout the year and from donations received from its supporters. Successful applicants are encouraged to take part in concerts and other activities in support of the Trust. To find out more and apply go to www.exuberant-trust.org.uk
Oxford City Council business support during lockdown.
Oxford City Council Additional Restrictions Grant - This scheme will enable local authorities to pay discretionary grants of up to £2,000 to the following types of business, if eligible:
- Closed businesses that do not have a rateable value
- Business which are severely impacted rather than closed
More information on this and a range of support for businesses is available via the link below: https://www.oxford.gov.uk/supportforbusiness
Arts Council England
National Lottery Project Grants - The fund is open to all individual artists, community and cultural organisations to support arts, museums and libraries projects. This fund is now open. They are keen to support first time applicants.
Who can apply: Individual artists and practitioners, community and cultural organisations, museums and libraries.
What you can apply for: Arts, museums and libraries projects that engage people in England with creativity and culture. Key dates: National Lottery Project Grants is open all the time, there are no deadlines.
Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP)
The fund supports creative practitioners thinking of taking their practice to the next stage to research, have time to create new work, travel, training, develop ideas, network or find mentoring. £18 million of National Lottery funding will be awarded between October 2020 to October 2021, over four rounds.
Funding activity: Research and development opportunities, building new networks, creating new work
Grant range: £2,000 - £10,000
Eligibility: Individual artists and/or creative practitioners. You can find full eligibility criteria in the guidance for applicants. Organisations cannot apply.
Round 9 opened on 11 January 2021 and closes on 12pm (midday), 18 February 2021.
Sign up here for monthly newsletter with the latest from the Arts Council and the arts and culture sector.
Sign up here for the Arts Council weekly Arts Jobs and News e-newsletter
South East Dance also offer 1-2-1 artist support and can read your ACE application before you submit. Email Pip Sayers to book a slot.
Theatre Community Fund
The Theatre Community Fund has been established to support the theatrical artists and professionals whose livelihoods and creative futures have been threatened in the wake of Covid-19. The Theatre Community Fund has currently raised over £500,000 for creatives and artists in need.
HARDSHIP grants in partnership with the The Fleabag Support Fund will open on the 1st of the month for 5 days for the foreseeable future.
Dance Professionals Fund - The Dancers’ Hardship Fund
Who can apply: Professional dancers. Support given to freelance dancers across genres including ballet, contemporary, Black and Asian dance and hip hop including those with portfolio careers, e.g. choreography, who whose work would normally include employment in the subsidised dance sector. The emergency Arts Council support grants have now ended but you can still apply for support from the Dance Professionals Fund
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ARTIST SUPPORT
South East Dance
Mind The Gap is a free-to-access programme which helps dance graduates to transition from higher education into the professional dance industry. Piloted in 2018 as a face-to-face programme delivered in partnership with Hofesh Shechter Company, for 2021 they are running the series of support and advice sessions online, allowing many more new graduates to take part.
Kicking off in January and running for four months, the programme will consist of online talks and lectures from industry experts on topics such as creating budgets, mental health, staying healthy while on tour, how to work with a dramaturg/producer, and where to look for and find work.
To find out more and apply to take part click here.
Freelance Task Force Dance working group -
FTF Dance formed an extremely proactive and creative sub-group within the wider Freelance Task Force. Read more and follow the FTF Dance working group here or write to danceftf@gmail.com to join the mailing list or to ask a question. They will be launching a new website soon and have funding for the team until August 2021.
Swindon Dance - new online space for dance professionals
Swindon Dance is creating a digital space where artists can share their work for audiences to enjoy. The online platform will give artists a stage to perform and the opportunity to share aspects of their work.
The site was launched in Jan and is now live Read more
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EVENTS - LIVE / DIGITAL / STREAMING
Sadlers Wells Digital Stage: Sadler’s Wells Dancing Nation - you watch lots of dance on BBC I player during Feb as part of this digital Festival
The Place & Chisenhale Dance host ‘How Do We Tune Into Sensation?’
A digital festival from 18-21 Feb featuring events that invite you to reflect on felt experiences - asking, when distance is a necessity, how can dance remind us of what makes us feel alive?
Dancin' Oxford Spring Festival 6 - 13 March. Reduced programme, all online - workshops, a talk, several films plus a Baby Boogie disco Live from the DJ Shed.
Don't forget you can reach the steering group via this email with any questions/news to share: oxford.dance.forum@gmail.com
Stay safe and we hope to see you dancing in the real world soon.
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