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“I Speak Dance” a user’s manual

“I Speak Dance” a user’s manual. Social bonding and making meaning. Identify your university partner.

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“I Speak Dance” a user’s manual

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  1. “I Speak Dance” a user’s manual Social bonding and making meaning

  2. Identify your university partner The mutual benefits are clear, it can help amplify the college/university dance program during a period of fiscal cutbacks, help bring attention to dance on campus and thus their segment of the curriculum, help promote a robust town/gown relationship and help build audiences for your work.

  3. Cross-discipline advantage • At your chosen university or college, you will partner with one dance based and one non-dance based class. The presence of two disciplines sharing the experience expands both the frame of reference and the aesthetic conversation and stretches the impact of dance beyond its current devotees. The combined classes create an opportunity for bonding and bridging social capital.

  4. What do you need? • The artistic ingredients necessary for “I Speak Dance” are an ability to articulate your choreographic point of view, dancers who share a deep enthusiasm and ability to communicate with a diverse public, and a commitment to engendering an inclusive atmosphere. • The program is based on three strategic ideas: mix the constituencies, vary the modes of engagement, make it personal and social.

  5. Recipe • Ingredients: Choreographer; dancers; administrator/event coordinator; production/videographer; space; time • Preparation time: 10-12 hours up front with each university partner • Cooking time: 9-11 hours interactive with partners for each university partner.

  6. The four course meal • The Film “Love on the Run” • Immediate dance, a group choreography • The Unplugged, deconstruction of one work • Performance, “your season here”

  7. It is essential to confirm that all of the scheduled activity dates (Immediate Dance, Unplugged and performance) are included in each participating course syllabus

  8. Cost: @$10,000 per university partnerIncome: participating student tickets Budget categories: • Choreographer, dancers • Activity space rental: rehearsals/events • Travel for university and company participants • Videographer & IT: (web uploads) • Food/hospitality • Ticket subsidies- students and faculty/administrators • Production support • Coordinator for receptions • Printing, DVDs, surveys, classroom materials\ • % Indirect costs (overhead)

  9. analysis • The results: In the first year, responses were gathered following each activity. Questions were designed to elicit memory rather than opinion, feeling rather than critique.Our new dance audience became increasingly fluent in discussing and describing their responses to dance. This was a major goal of our program. • On a final note, only 40% of our student group had ever been to a dance concert before joiningODC’s program and at its conclusion, some 84% said they would come again.

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