Community dance foundation People Dancing has teamed up with Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre to offer a residency for a disabled dance practitioner currently working in the arts who is looking to develop his or her creative practice.
Part of the 11 Million Reasons to Dance project, the scheme will run for five days from February to July 2018 and will be funded by Arts Council England’s strategic touring programme. It will culminate in a presentation or film about the residency.
The project aims to play a role in developing thinking around disability in the arts. It will be tailored to suit the needs and ideas of individual applicants.
The successful candidate will have the chance to work alongside the Belgrade to develop change around accessibility, ensuring disabled people are central to developments, contribute to developing wider and deeper community engagement and growing work for and by disability artists in Coventry, work on a site-specific theatre project due to be performed in July 2018 and connect with schools from across Coventry.
Applicants should have a minimum of three years’ experience of working in dance or the arts, good connections to Coventry and experience of supporting and leading workshops with community groups.
11 Million Reasons to Dance is a special commission for Coventry as part of People Dancing’s national programme to profile positively deaf and disabled people who dance.
Applications should be submitted by 5PM on Friday 2 February to both Vanessa Oxsping at [email protected] and Hannah Barker at [email protected].