Deadline: August 15 2016
The Sibikwa Arts Centre in Johannesburg calls for female choreographers
and performance artists.
“In 2016, the year we mark the sixtieth anniversary of the
Women’s March to Pretoria,” says a Sibikwa representative. “The Sibikwa Arts
Centre is, in addition to its general target market, unashamedly focusing on
young women and girls initiating special short skills vocational training and
creating new plays relevant to and about girls and young woman. In its quest to
always unearth and nurture young talent, Sibikwa’s Dance Season will empower
young, female choreographers and performance artists by giving them the
opportunity to create new work and showcase it at the Dance Factory.”
The Sibikwa Arts Centre calls out for young female
choreographers and performance artists between the ages of 20 and 35 to apply
for its new choreographic programme, Thunya
Lerole, kick up the dust, and that is exactly what Sibikwa is expecting in
the form of new exciting, even electrifying dance productions or performance
art.
This is an invitation to those who can work independently
and have a passion for using dance as a creative medium for communicating with
the world. Three young female choreographers and one performance artist will be
given the opportunity to create a new work of 20 to 30 minutes which will be
showcased during Sibikwa’s Dance Season at the Dance Factory in Newtown on October
22, 2016.
The call is for choreographers in the following categories: Emerging
artists; Young artists; Established artists, and Performance artists.
There is a commission fee for each category but given the
nature of the commission, the choreographers should think in terms of one to
three dancers. Preference will be given to choreographers and performance
artists who include female dancers in their ensemble.
Submissions- including a CV/history of work career, short
video clip of work/ three photos of previous works, a reference letter from
someone within the industry and any press clippings/mentions of your work-
should be emailed to projects@sibikwa.co.za
before August 15, 2016.
All entries will be adjudicated by a panel and decisions,
which are final, will be available on August 21 2016. Only successful
applicants will be contacted.
(This information is
published in full on the Arts & Culture Trust’s blog – see http://www.act.org.za)
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