Directing/ Mentoring Solo or Group Work
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This Programme is a bespoke programme for Choreographers at early stages who want to further develop an idea or existing work. The timeline and course will be designed specifically for the needs of the choreographer.
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Bring your choreographic ideas and concepts to life
Research and resources to support the work
Advice on how to translate your ideas, concepts, and feelings into movement
Deeper understanding of your creative and choreographic processes
Guidance on your creative research to continue to fuel your inspiration
Staging advice (lighting, props, music)
Guidance for Performance opportunities
Opportunity to share your work-in-progress to an audience
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In order for an application to be considered, the artist must comply with the following criteria:
Being a dance artist of any traditions/ expression developing work on their own body/ others
Having at least 3 years of dance training experience
Early stages of ideas/ themes for their creative work
There is no age limit and we are very interested to hear from different generations of artists.
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Price upon enquiry
Physically
We will track your movement progression and stylistic growth. You will have access to weekly pre-recorded classes and will have a check-in with Alleyne Dance halfway through the training to talk about how the sessions went and any questions you have to help for your last half of the programme.
We will work on:
Isolations of the body, focusing on where movement begins & how the body responds
Hands focusing on how the hands create texture, imagery & memory in movements
Spirals focusing on distorting the body, exploring momentum & fluidity in movement
Breath focusing on texture of movement & allowing the breath to initiate movement; exploring moments of more effort & moments to do less; acknowledging when to release & do less
Undulation focusing on qualities, finding a groove in movement; exploring how the physicality can create an emotion
The Programme
Our first meeting together will allow us to get to know one another and get a deeper understanding of the work you want to create or develop within this programme. We want to ensure we know what the final feeling of your work should be and your future goals and dreams as a choreographer. From there we will talk about what we can offer throughout this programme to guide your creative process and devise a timeline that suits the progression of your work.
Artistically
We will continue to unpick the aims for your work and create a structure with the ideas of your work during our one-to-one sessions. You will be presented with questions and investigative tools to further your creative research and movement language, such as:
What is the work about
What is the audience taking away from the work
Where can the work be presented
Why are you making the work
Images, sounds and stories that inspire the work
Setting and mood of the work
From here we can explore different movement qualities and music devising.
Towards the second half of the programme, after most of the movement and concept research, we will want you to look at the work as a whole by:
Connecting each section and element together to create a full piece
Lights, costume, and staging for the work