CCI - Creating Professional Dance Samples for Grants, Marketing, and Presenters

May 8, 2014, 6:30 - 10:00 PM

Creating Professional Dance Samples
for Grants, Marketing, and Presenters

CCI's first dance-specific workshop will help performers, choreographers, and dance companies develop best practices to produce work samples that make an impression. Do your current reels exemplify the best of who you are and what you do? Do they serve the purpose of the submission? The workshop is taught by three leading performing arts professionals, joining forces for the first time, to offer real world perspectives on what makes certain work samples stand out.

Participants will learn key strategies to select and organize work samples to display artistic brand and creative range, and the technical requirements of shooting and editing performances. The workshop is intended for those artists and companies wanting to increase their chances of booking the job, obtaining the grant, or attracting the attention of presenters.

Bonnie Oda Homsey, Director of Los Angeles Dance Foundation and longtime Chair of Dance for The Princess Grace Foundation USA, notably was a principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company. She co-founded and directed American Repertory Dance Company, noted for a living-museum repertory that toured the Kennedy Center,the  American Dance Festival, DanceAspen, and the New Orleans Center for the Arts. Bonnie has served on national, state, and regional funding panels for over 25 years.

Sarah Elgart is an award-winning, L.A.-based choreographer/director for stage, screen, and site-specific work at the Bradbury Building, The Music Center, and LAX. She has worked with directors, including JJ Abrams and Catherine Hardwicke, and collaborated with composers Paul Chavez of Feltlike, Yuval Ron, and Wilco lead guitarist, Nels Cline. Her work has been funded by the Getty, NEA, and Rockefeller Foundations. Sarah currently writes the column "ScreenDance Diaries" for Cultural Weekly, and is developing new works for later this year.

Ben Johnson is the Program Manager at the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA (CAP-UCLA) in Los Angeles. Previously, he was the Director of Programs at United States Artists (Los Angeles); the Director of Northrop Concerts and Lectures at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; and the Director of Education and Audience Development at the University Musical Society at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has worked at the Ordway Music Theater, and interned at the American Dance Festival and the Walker Art Center.

Enrollment is limited to 30 students.

Date: Thursday, May 8, 2014
Time: 6:30pm - 10:00pm
Location: Japanese American Cultural & Community Center (JACCC), 244 S. San Pedro Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Cost: $55 regular registration

*To enroll in a workshop, you must first become a member of CCI and create a user name and password. CCI membership is free of charge and open to the public.

Cancellation Policy: Full refund on registration fees up to 48 hours prior to workshop date. Fees are nonrefundable within 48 hours of event.

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