The three days include;

· Daily classes in Ballet and Contemporary techniques.

· Learning and development of Repertoire, Choreography and Body Conditioning.

· Discussions and advice on future careers in dance.

Mon 16th, Weds 18th, Thurs 19th August 2010.

10.00am – 3.00pm.
Create Dance Studio, 8 Eckersley Road, Chelmsford, Essex, CM11SL.

Led by Robert Gentle.
£30.00 per person– This is a reduced rate subsidised by Youth Dance
England East and Chelmsford Borough Council.

Places are limited. Participants must have some dance experience.
Please contact 01245 346036 or email robert.gentle@dancedigital.org.uk

Forgetting Natasha tells the intimate and touching story of one woman’s struggle to cope with dementia. Both poetic and poignant, the dancers enact her memories and fears through text and movement. The projected images and animation compliment the live elements of the piece by reflecting Natasha’s quest to remember her past.

Go to State Of Flux website

His position as an Associate Artist at the Center for Art and Media ZKM in Karlsruhe in 2000-2001 has been important for the development of projects, such as the interactive road movie 66movingimages (1998 – 2001).

In 2000 and 2001, he was an Artist-in-Residence at Arizona State University, Phoenix [USA], where he also held a series of workshops focussing on telematic performance productions.

He has also been a Researcher for Inside Knowledge Movement at the Amsterdam School for the Arts (AHK), a two-year (2008-2010) collaborative, interdisciplinary research project into new methods for the documentation, transmission and preservation of contemporary choreographic and dance knowledge.

Finally, Ziegler has collaborated with Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts in Bangalore, a leading Indian Institution in the interdisciplinary area of dance an media.

Ziegler won the first “Young Art and New Media Award” in Munich, was Nominee for Monaco Dance Forum Award, Monaco 2006 and won various Design Awards (I.D. Magazine 2000/2001 and “New Voices New Visions”, New York 1996).

Some of his most interesting pieces include the interactive film Rickshaw Bangalore (2008), the Theater installation / Multimedia Opera Forest 2 – Another Midsummer Night’s Dream (2007), and the recent site-specific promenade performance presented with film installation and live music For Pina (2010), dedicated to Pina Bausch.

Rehearsals will commence early February 2011.

Deadline for applications: 16th July 2010 (auditions will take place at the end of July).

Please click here for details on how to apply.