Open Call for Dance Workshops Workshop I: Synchronous Objects (teacher: Norah Zuniga Shaw, 2-3 April 2011) Workshop II: Whatever Dance Toolbox (teachers: choreographers and dramaturges of BADco., 4-5 April 2011) Who can apply: If you are a dancer, choreographer or technology developer looking to acquire practical experience of working with software tools in creating movement and choreography, you can apply to participate in either one or both of the workshops within the "Algorithmic Reflections of Choreography: From Choreography to Software and Back” event. What is the context: Preceding the workshops on 1 April there will be a one-day symposium bringing together international artists, technologists, methodologists and educators who have been working on developing software tools in the context of choreographic work of The Forsythe Company, Emio Greco | PC, Deborah Hay Company and BADco. The symposium and workshop mark the release of BADco.'s choreographic software suite Whatever Dance Toolbox, created in collaboration with the German developer Daniel Turing. More on individual workshops and teachers you can find below. How to apply and when is the deadline: The deadline for applying is 1 March 2011. The number of participants is limited to 15 for each workshop. You can apply by sending an e-mail to: lovro [at ]badco [dot] hr, stating your interests and including a short bio describing your background. Both workshops are free of charge. Please note that we cannot cover your expenses, but we are happy to help you find convenient travel arrangement and affordable accommodation. --- More on the workshops: Workshop I: Synchronous Objects (teacher: Norah Zuniga Shaw, 2-3 April 2011) Co-creative director with William Forsythe for Synchronous Objects, Norah Zuniga Shaw leads workshops for dancers and interdisciplinary groups focusing on the choreographic visualizations as catalysts for new creativity and collaboration. Participants experience the deep structures and creative scoring ideas contained within William Forsythe's masterwork A One Flat Thing, reproduced through movement and drawing exercises. Themes that are addressed include rule-based art making practices, integration of analytical and creative practices, and connections between computing ideas and dancing ideas. In addition to generating moving ideas, participants are given tools for analyzing performance throughout the workshop, and using these observations and documents as jumping off points for new creation. Norah Zuniga Shaw is an artist and researcher whose work centers on choreographic knowledge as a locus for interdisciplinary and intercultural creativity. She is director for dance & technology at the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD). Shaw's most recent project with William Forsythe and Maria Palazzi, Synchronous Objects, has received numerous honors including features in the New York Times and Communication Arts. - Workshop II: Whatever Dance Toolbox (teachers: choreographers and dramaturges of BADco., 4-5 April 2011) Choreographers and dramaturges of BADco. will guide you through a practical, problem-driven process through their accumulated experience in developing and working with Whatever Dance Toolbox. The workshop will focus in particular on three aspects of its application in dance and choreography: generating and analyzing individual dance material, generating and analyzing the choreography that transpires between the dancers' bodies, and analyzing the split attention produced by the Toolbox. All workshop participants will receive a free copy of WDT to continue working with the tools. BADco. is a performance collective based in Zagreb, Croatia. The artistic core of the group is: Pravdan Devlahović, Ivana Ivković, Ana Kreitmeyer, Tomislav Medak, Goran Sergej Pristaš, Nikolina Pristaš and Zrinka Užbinec. A combination of four choreographers / dancers, two dramaturgs and a philosopher, BADco. has been systematically focusing on the research of protocols of performing, presenting and spectating. Over the last decade it has created over 15 performances that have been featured all across Europe and beyond. --- Algorithmic Reflections of Choreography: From Choreography to Software and Back is part of LABO21 - European Platform for Interdisciplinary Research on Artistic Methodologies, a partner project of BADco. (Zagreb), BUDA Arts Center (Kortrijk), Laboratorium (Antwerp) and University of Circus and Dance (Stockholm). With the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union. The symposium, workshops and installations are supported by Goethe Institut, Ministry of Culture of Republic of Croatia, Office for Education, Culture and Sport of the City of Zagreb, Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences.