Resilient Dancer Programme

Balbir Singh Dance Company (BSDC) is recruiting dancers specialising in Contemporary or Classical Indian dance to join its Resilient Dancer Programme. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a dynamic and creative journey from October 2024 to March 2025, over 10 weekends (20 days total), with potential additional performance opportunities.

The programme will involve gaining insight into Balbir's approach to engaging artists and taking them on a programme of creative growth through interdisciplinary collaborations across BSDC’s strands of work:

- Celebrating Age - Sport & Art - Classical Revisited - An Appetite for Dance Dancers will develop skills, knowledge and understanding in a holistic approach to the arts with such projects as:

Creative Approaches to Health and Wellbeing:

• Unmasking Pain (Durham University and Thomas and Guys Hospital, London)
• NHS Cancer Alliance Breast Cancer Survivors
• Beamish Museum, Clover Cottage dementia project
• Green spaces and environmental connection

Development of existing and new BSDC repertoire:

• - Ramayana, a retelling through numbers - Captured - Indian Biscuits, Tea and Cricket - Outdoor performances

There will also be a focus on Person Centred Care, Mental Health and Wellbeing through Trauma Informed Practice Training Details 10 weekends October to March 2025, 20 days in total, dates to be scheduled Fee £2500 plus expenses if based outside the Yorkshire region.

There may be additional paid performance opportunities.

Location - Yorkshire Dance, Leeds

To apply - send your CV, link to showreel and a Cover Letter outlining your reasons for applying and what you would like to gain from the programme Deadline 30th September, 2024

Email to auditions.bsdc@gmail.com  

https://bsdc-blogs.cargo.site www.balbirsinghdance.co.uk 

BSDC is an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation and is supported by Leeds City Council.