IDOCDE Symposium Proposal – When Collaborations Match

- FULL NAME: Sanne Clifford

- PHONE NUMBER: +31 616104775

- TITLE OF THE ACTIVITY: When Collaborations Match

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- DETAILED CONTENT DESCRIPTION (150 words or more):

Types of collaboration between choreographers-dancers and/or teachers-dancers can differ greatly. In this workshop we zoom in on different types of collaborations, using Jo Butterworth’s Didactic-Democratic spectrum model and one of Larry Lavender’s ‘speech acts’ which are called ‘prompts’. With Butterworth’s model we focus on the choreographer-dancer and/or teacher-dancer roles. With Lavender’s prompts we try different ways to approach each other as collaborators.

This means we question ourselves and each other in this workshop:

-        What type of collaborator am I, with which teaching methods and learning approaches?

-        As a choreographer or teacher, how do I approach a dancer? do I ask what I need?

-        As a dancer, how do I respond to a task? How do I use my creativity?

-        As a collaborator in a process: How to respond to the responds?

This workshop is bases on my research graduating at the MA Choreography study in the Netherlands (July 2013). The MA thesis I wrote is called: ‘A choreographer’s approach to a dancer’s creativity in a collaborative choreographic process.

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-SUMMARY OF CONTENT DESCRIPTION (max 60 words; for publishing)                                                                                                                                                                  

In this workshop we zoom in on different types of collaborations, looking into the choreographer-dancer roles and the teacher-dancer roles. We try out different ways to approach each other as collaborators, looking at our habits and what happens if we step outside our comfort-zone.

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- SHORT BIOGRAPHY (max 60 words for publishing (if co-taught all in all max 60 words)

Sanne Clifford is a Dutch dance artist specialised in Choreography (MA, 2013) and Art & Dance Education (MA, 2008). She works as a choreographer, teacher, coach and artistic researcher.

One of her positions is being co-director and house-choreographer at New Dance Company, a platform that takes initiatives to help young choreographers and dancers in their artistic development.

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- AIMED AT WHO (AND HOW MANY PEOPLE MIN /MAX?)

Choreographers, dancers, teachers and dance students

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- TIMEREQUEST:

2 hours

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- TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS (audio, beamer etc):                                                                                                                                                                              

Sound system with mini-jack cable. Beamer or otherwise a flip-over and matching markers.    

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- SPACE NECESSITY (studio size etc):

Dance studio, depending on how many people join the workshop.