COLLABORATION! Dance & Music
SEATTLE
October 8 & 9, 2010
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APPLICATION PROPOSAL & GUIDELINES

COLLABORATION! Dance & Music 2010
Freemont Abbey | Seattle, Washington

POSTMARK | EMAIL DEADLINE
May, 26th, 2010

CLICK HERE ~~ 2010 APPLICATION

QUESTIONS? Email Lorien Fenton,
Producer Dance Outre, and Director COLLABORATION!
or Karin Stevens, Dance Currator, Freemont Abbey

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DANCE OUTRE'S "COLLABORATION!" MISSION

The mission of Dance Outre, the producers of COLLABORATION!, is to give choreographers and composers -- and their partnering dancers and musicians -- a performance opportunity to present new collaborative work to a broad audience in a professional environment. And to educate the community at large about the diversity of dance and music, especially the collaboration of choreography and composition elements, and dance-making as a whole.

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REQUIREMENTS

-- Choreographers will adhere to the "performance time limit" set for each choreography (to be determined by the Producers after choreographer and composer teams have been chosen). Performance times will range from 6 minutes for a solo/duet with compaoser and 10 minutes for a larger group piece.

-- Choreographers will attend a MANDATORY Production Meeting; Saturday, June 5th from 4:00 to 6:00 pm (place to be determined).

-- Choreographer, along with their composer, will attend a MANDATORY photo shoot, on Sunday June 6; (place to be determined).-- Choreographer, along with composer, dancers and musicians, agree to sell 20 pre-show discount tickets to help cover the cost

-- Choreographer, along with their composer, will attend a MANDATORY photo shoot, on Sunday June 6; (place to be determined).

-- Choreographer agrees to present their choreography, and composer their music composition, THREE WEEKS before the live show by video. This "Pre-showing" determines placement in the live show.

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SUBMITTING YOUR PROPOSAL APPLICATION

TO BE CONSIDERED AS A CHOREOGRAPHER FOR COLLABORATION! Dance & Music 2010, SEATTLE, COMPLETE THE APPLICATION FORM AND PROVIDE MATERIALS.

PLEASE NOTE: The COLLABORATION! Producer is developing a "pool" of Composers who are ready to work with a choreographer for this performance. The Producer will assign choreogrpahers a composer, rather than choreogrpahers searching for one themseves.

Please submit Word or PDF version of filled in Proposal File plus access to video of works by DEADLINE of May 26th, 2010 to: Lorien@DanceOutre.org
OR MAIL TO:
COLLABORATION! Seattle 2010
c/o Dance Outre
PO Box 2598, San Rafael, CA 94912

IMPORTANT: MUST arrive in PO Box by May 26th.

PROPOSAL APPLICATION FORM CONTENT

CALL FOR CHOREOGRAPHERS

1) Bio/Resume of Choreographer.

2) Style of dance you propose to create (ballet, jazz, ballroom, tap, fusion, aerial, modern, Tango, hip-hop, swing, kathak, bellydance, dance theater, etc.).

3) Descripe your proposed choreographic work.

4) Please describe briefly the style of music (jazz, rock, soundscape, Hip-hop, salsa, drumming, swing, classical, etc.) you are hoping to choreograph to, so we can pick the composer from our roster that best suits you.

5) Is your dance a Solo, Duet, Trio, or 4 or more in a Group piece? (circle 1)
--Solo-- | --Duet-- | --Trio-- | --Group--
If "4 or more = Group," and if your answer is group, please specify number of dancers.

6) By submitting this application do you commit to sell 20 pre-show discounted tickets?

7) List of planned/booked/likely performances 3 months before and 3 months after COLLABORATION!; as well as the type of performance (festival, company season, etc.) and length of run.

8) Please submit your videos online and provide a link OR mail a DVD of recent choreographic work(s); If mailing a DVD please label with choreographers name, address and phone number as well as name of dance(s) on disk. Also, PLEASE NOTE SPECIFIC VIEWING INSTRUCTIONS for DVD.

9) Choreographer Contact Information:
NAME:
ADDRESS:
CITY, STATE, ZIP:
HOME PHONE :
CELL PHONE:
WORK PHONE:
EMAIL:
WEB SITE:

10) SASE for return of materials (if mailing and you would like us to return your media).

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CALL FOR COMPOSERS

Are you a composer who would like to apply to be in our "pool of composers?" Please submit the FOLLOWING INFORMATION by the deadline of May 26th.

a) Composer Contact Information:
NAME:
ADDRESS:
CITY, STATE, ZIP:
HOME PHONE :
CELL PHONE:
WORK PHONE:
EMAIL:
WEB SITE:

b) Please provide online access to recent compositions or mail a CD. If mailing a CD, please label with composers name, address and phone number along with the title of composition(s).