LDP Seminar 1: Making Dance Work - Knowing your Practice
Event Information
About this event
Overview of seminars
Making dance work!
A season of seminars & social evenings by dance professionals
Join Leeds Dance Partnership every month to enjoy a series of free talks by dance and arts industry experts designed to help develop your dance career. Whether a professional or enthusiast, everyone is welcome. You can attend in person at Yorkshire Dance in central Leeds or join us for the livestream online. Free drinks and biscuits worth the visit alone!
Seminar subjects
Each seminar focuses on key themes and includes a range of subject areas such as building and demystifying networks and partnerships, knowing your practice and working with other artists/artforms. Our speakers are all experts in their field and include Gary Clarke (Gary Clarke Company), Rachel Fullegar (Gracefool), freelance fundraiser Pam Johnson, digital innovator Sean Clarke (Test Card)
Seminar 1 - Tuesday 29th June 6.30pm - 9.30pm
Making dance work! Knowing your Practice/Articulating your aims and objectives
Host - Joseph Mercier - Choreographer, Performance Maker and Lecturer at Northern School of Contemporary Dance
With choreographer Gary Clarke and marketing expert Julia White (Yorkshire Dance).
How do you communicate to audiences and other creative professionals what you do? How do you get others to understand the work you are creating? This seminar takes an honest look at getting your message out there, adapting it to different audiences and recognising how to best promote your work. Both Julia and Gary have extensive experience within the industry and have insights to offer on how you might communicate the story of your work.
6.30pm - 7.15pm- First seminar drinks and social
7.30pm - 9pm – Speakers talks & Q&A with audience
9pm – 9.30pm - An opportunity to network with each other and discuss topics further with guest speakers.
This event will take place within current Covid-19 guidelines. You will be required to wear a face covering (unless exempt) and practice social distancing. You will also be asked to sign into the venue with the NHS Track and Trace app or leave your details. Please do not attend if you have Covid-19 symptoms or are waiting for the results of a Covid-19 test.
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NB - This event will be streamed live to an online audience
Organiser Leeds Dance Partnership
Organiser of LDP Seminar 1: Making Dance Work - Knowing your Practice
Leeds Dance Partnership delivers a range of initiatives, projects and commissions to grow and develop dance in Leeds and the wider North. Its core aims are:
- To create a climate where shared visions can be realised; seek ways to support the independent dance sector; establish capital needs in the city; and advocate effectively for dance in Leeds
- To develop the workforce of the sector to ensure that future generations of dance leaders can thrive in Leeds and the North
- To reimagine the relationship between artists, producers, venues and audiences, bringing these together with national developments in the future of showcasing
- To focus on building venue capacity for programming dance and growing audiences
Future Goals
Leeds Dance Partnership is currently fundraising to deliver a second strand of work focusing on:
- Supporting a cohesive learning and engagement offer across Leeds and the North, working with Bridge organisations, local cultural and education partnerships, Artforms Leeds and Leeds Dance Network
- Working with universities in the region to develop a cohesive approach to research and intelligence
- Investigating ways in which dance can further impact health and physical activity and cross over with sports development, in association with Sport Leeds Board, Public Health and others
