TalentDevelopment

Master's programme

courses, master classes and workshops; a breeding ground for professionals

As a centre of expertise for professional dancers, choreographers and students of dance, Danshuis Station Zuid is throwing its doors wide open with its programme of courses, master classes and workshops. Daily public dance training sessions in classical ballet and modern dance are a part of the programme, as are our workshops for young dance makers by renowned choreographers.

These daily sessions will start in 2010. Although we offer them on a structural basis, the training sessions do not form a course and participants are free to decide which sessions they would like to participate in. The sessions are scheduled for the mornings, from 10:30 am to 12:00, and they will be available to advanced students of dance and professional dancers.

In addition to these daily sessions we will be offering a periodic programme of master classes around topical forms of dance. These highly inspiring sessions will be open to professional dancers and advanced students of dance. For each of these master classes we will be attracting established dance specialists.

Guy Cools

In addition, we will be setting up a series of workshops specifically aimed at dance makers for the spring of 2010. During this period, the well-known dance dramaturge Guy Cools (who works with choreographers Akram Khan and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui) will be coming to stay with Danshuis Sation Zuid for two week-long visits. The morning programmes will each be available to around 20 dance makers. During the afternoon sessions, four of them will receive a tailor-made individual dance maker’s coaching session. If you are interested please contact our dance house.

Dans Coaching

Completely personal, or online

The personal coaching of professional choreographers within our work field is high on the Danshuis Station Zuid agenda. For this part of our dance coaching programme we intend to work with a group of people who will offer their services as coaches, mentors or dramaturges to participants for their personal development, the transfer of experience, and their intellectual enrichment.

This dance coaching is offered on an individual basis, so it is completely geared towards the needs of the participant. Whatever the participant needs will determine the course. This means that the coaching we offer can range from assisting with a project, help during a process of creating dance, or support in the development of dance concepts, to a joint reflection on the participants’ achievements. But it could just as easily deal with developing managerial skills or business leadership for dance projects. The possibilities are endless.

We offer this form of dance coaching on request and by invitation only. Please contact our dance house for further information.

Aside from this personal coaching, Danshuis Station Zuid will be starting its online dance coaching in the autumn of 2009. Through our website www.centraaldansstation.com a unique site will become available for the transfer of knowledge and the exchange of experiences between dance amateurs, dance professionals, dance makers and other dance enthusiasts.

Dance Laboratory

The place for research

Danshuis Station Zuid’s Dance Laboratory is a place for professional dance makers’ research that is not intended directly for dance productions or a public performance. Our Dance Laboratory offers professionals the opportunity to take a close look at the research questions that are specific to their process of creation. We will be inviting both emerging artists and experienced ones. Artists will also be able to submit their own projects for our Dance Laboratory.

The Dance Laboratory can deal with all kinds of things. The coherence between musical composition and the composition of movements for example, or a research into new musical sources within dance; a renewal of the participant’s creative inspiration or the development of new dance techniques. Based on their personal research question and with guidance from well-known professionals, established artists as well as young talent will have the opportunity to work on their growth within this setting.

A good example of a laboratory project is the research into the relationship between musical composition and the composition of dance in ‘Arr.’, a project that ran between 2007 and 2008 in which we collaborated with Productiehuis Brabant and MuziekLab Brabant. We estimate we will have room for three such research projects each year, and we are open to suggestions.