● The Academy invites dancers from the partner countries: Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia,Poland, Romania and Sweden. The 10 days of training, development and artistic research will take place under the mentorship of an international team of dancers-choreographers. The course will end with a presentation of the participants’ work on the stage of Cricoteka – the Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor, as part of the ROLLERCOASTER dance presentation programme.
● At the end of the Academy, the 3 mentors will offer a paid scholarship to selected dancers, 3 in total, to create a short stage piece with their mentors – through an online workflow – for the rest of the year. The selected dancers will receive a scholarship of €2000 each. We will help them with contacts to present their short stage creations.
● The Summer Dance Academy aims to bridge the gap between dance artists from different countries and provide them with significant experience to help them advance their careers in the international dance scene.
MENTORS:
Francesco Scavetta – born in Italy, Scavetta studied at National Academy of Dance of Rome, graduated in Theatre and Performing Arts and Post-graduated in Sciences of Communication. He is the founder of Vitlycke-Centre for Performing Arts (Sweden) www.vitlycke.org. Scavetta has been giving workshops amount others at: P.A.R.T.S./Brussels, IMPULSTANZ/Wien, Henny Jurriëns Foundation/Amsterdam, SEAD/Salzburg Experimental Dance Academy, Greenwich Dance/London and in many dance/theatre festivals in 46 countries around the world. Has developed a reputation on the international dance scene for his wildly inventive work, playful humour and subversive intelligence and his company is at the forefront of the Nordic dance scene. In 1999 he established in Oslo, together with Gry Kipperberg, the dance company Wee and, since then, has produced 23 performances and experienced an extensive international activity, touring in 37 countries -in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, North, Central and South America. Wee’s creations have changed in format and aesthetic, yet they have continuously explored what theatre and performance can mean in contemporary life and what kind of dialogues they can open with the audience. Scavetta’s theatricality has often been associated with the atmosphere of a weird dream or to a playful world of a child: strange, funny, poetic and, at the same time, surprising. The core of the company’s investigation deals with fragility and paradox, epiphany and dream, empathy and surprise, avoiding narrative and physical cliché, while questioning reality and identity with humoristic disbelief. “Wee creates performances that can engage and amaze, can evoke empathy and twist expectations, that can be both poetic and unusual, and that we experience as a challenge first of all for ourselves: that surprises us, as much as it talks to us and about us.”
Eryk Makohon – pedagogue, choreographer, creator and leader of Krakow Dance Theater, lecturer and vice-dean of the Department of Dance Theater at the Stanislaw Wyspianski National Academy of Theater Arts in Krakow. He also lectures at the Faculty of Directing and Dramaturgy. PhD in the discipline of theater and film arts. Creator of dozens of performances and co-creator of many educational and artistic projects in Poland and Europe. Graduate of elementary and secondary music school, architecture at the Kraków University of Technology and studies in dance theory and criticism at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. As a dancer, he has worked at DF Dance Theater, Jacek Luminski’s Silesian Dance Theater and the Krakow Dance Theater, which he created. He has performed on stages in Europe, Asia and North America. As an educator and choreographer, he has been working with the city’s KTO Theater for more than a dozen years, and is the creator of the movement in the performances of the last dozen seasons, shown and awarded at many theater festivals around the world. As the choreographer of the Krakow Dance Theater, he consistently builds a distinctive aesthetic, whose foundations are the body architecture, the visual plasticity of the image and the pre-expressive level of the dancers. Together with Pavel Lyskova, he is the creator and curator of the program „Rollercoaster,” a series of dance performances that has been carried out at the Cricoteka Center for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor in Krakow since October 2018.
Lia Ujčič – is a movement artist from Slovenia mainly interested in movement improvisation and choreography. She studied at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance (BA(Hons), MA). As a performer and choreographic assistant, she extensively worked with Tanz Company Gervasi. Artistically she collaborated also with Laura Witzleben, Christina Comtesse, Mark Bruce Company, Mad Dogs Dance Theatre and on film in Paul Thomas Anderson, Thom Yorke and Damien Jalet’s ANIMA. She has been for many years a member of the Ferus Animi // Terra Nova movement research collective. Lia is now dancing with Compagnie Linga and her latest choreographic work “Some things touch”, in collaboration with András Engelmann, is currently on tour in Europe.
●The project is carried out within the framework of Beyond Front@: Bridging Periphery is a Creative Europe project (2023-2026) created by Central Europe Dance Theatre – CEDT (Hungary), Bunker (Slovenia), Hrvatski institut za pokret i ples – HIPP (Croatia), Krakow Dance Theatre (Poland), M Studio (Romania) and Vitlycke – CPA (Sweden) to foster local development of the contemporary dance fields.
Who is the SDA for?
The Summer Dance Academy is open to dance professionals, dancers, choreographers and practitioners of movement activities. We are primarily, but not exclusively, looking for dance artists with stage experience. We invite artists from Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania and Sweden to apply (from the applications we will select 2 people from each country).
Time and place
18th August 2024 – arrival in Krakow
19th-27th August 2024 – workshops/creative process
28th August 2024 – open presentation for the public
29th August 2024 – departure
Place: Cricoteka – the Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor,
Krakow, Poland
What do we provide?
Krakow Dance Theatre provides:
● accommodation for 11 nights (18-29 August 2024);
● catering during the stay.
● subsidized travel expenses (up to the amount of 130 euros)
How to apply? You can apply via Google Form (click here) by completing the following information:
● educational background (completed studies, courses and workshops);
● professional experience;
● video material that best represents your work; please provide a link to the
material on virtual drive/YouTube/vimeo.
Please submit your application by 20th June.
We will announce the results of the open call by 30th June.
We encourage you to follow Krakow Dance Theatre on Facebook and Instagram where we will keep you up to date with the events of the project and the dance presentation programme ROLLERCOASTER.
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Any questions?
Write to us! Krakow Dance Theatre – Beyond Front@ project:
krakowdancetheatre.bf@gmail.com
