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Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity
Apply to participate in a three-week intensive to train, rehearse, and perform Stephanie Lake's Colossus, a large-scale contemporary dance work for 50+ dancers.
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Get matched →Led by Stephanie Lake Company, this three-week intensive brings together a large ensemble of contemporary dancers to train, rehearse, and perform Colossus, Stephanie Lake's internationally acclaimed work for 50+ dancers. Colossus is a monumental work in which 50 dancers become a single, continually transforming organism. Through the teaching and performance of this large-scale work, participants will engage with Lake's choreographic language while developing precision, stamina, spatial awareness, responsiveness, and trust.
The program combines rigorous professional training, fun and fast paced rehearsals, artistic development, and performance, offering firsthand experience of Stephanie Lake Company's creative practice and strengthening the technical, interpretive, and collaborative skills required for contemporary dance.
This program is intended for emerging, early-career and professional contemporary dancers interested in rigorous physical practice, large-scale ensemble performance, and collaborative choreographic process. Open to artists based anywhere in the world. Applicants should demonstrate strong contemporary dance training or equivalent experience, physical coordination, stamina, musicality, and spatial awareness, the ability to learn and retain complex movement material, a responsive and expressive performance presence, and openness to rigorous rehearsal and choreographic processes. No specific degree or formal credential is required. Dancers who have previously participated in a Colossus production are welcome to apply.
This program and all correspondence are conducted in English. Basic English-language proficiency is required. Participants must attend all elements of the program for its full duration; variable participation dates cannot be accommodated.
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Banff Centre Arts Scholarship covers tuition plus a contribution towards accommodation and meals. Canadian Indigenous Arts applicants receive a scholarship that covers the full cost of tuition, accommodation and meals. All meals and private bedroom accommodation in a shared facility are provided.
Complete application at http://url.banffcentre.ca/bh0f57. Complete the Financial Aid section when uploading supporting materials to be eligible for Banff Centre scholarship.