Future Movements: Dance Platform is an exciting opportunity for South West dance artists to showcase their new live or screen dance works alongside the premiere of James Wilton’s dance film, 'Adam, Eve, Apple'.

We are looking for graduate choreographers in the early stages of their careers to create a short piece for our Future Movements: Dance Platform on 3rd June 2021. If selected, your work will be shown alongside the premiere of James Wilton's new dance film, 'Adam, Eve, Apple', in front of a live audience at Westlands Entertainment Venue on Thursday 3rd June, 2021 at 7pm. Artists will have the chance to get feedback from the audience and a space for networking, allowing connections that could further their careers.

Deadline for applications: Friday 14th May 2021
*If successful you will hear back from the Future Movements Project Team by Monday 17th May 2021*

What we are looking for?
In total we are looking to programme 3 dance films and 3 live dance performances created by local graduate choreographers, for either the screen or to be performed live, which adhere to government guidelines.

Requirements:
The piece should be no longer than 8 minutes in length.
All pieces (whether recorded or live) should adhere to government guidelines for social distancing in place at the time of performance. We recommend a limit of 6 dancers per piece and to refrain from contact work, maintaining social distancing throughout.

Technical Requirements:
If you are submitting a dance film we will need your final piece/film by Monday 24th May 2021, as we will need the file in advance to upload to our cinema server.
If you are performing a live piece, you will be required to come for a technical rehearsal in the afternoon of 3rd June for 30mins, where the in-house technicians at Westlands will check sound and lighting ques with you and set up prior to the performance later that evening.
Each live performance piece will be limited to 3 lighting ques.
Please note if you are choosing to perform live, the stage space does not allow for lifts due to a low ceiling.

Content/Stimulus:
We want to give each choreographer as much creative freedom as possible, however if you are stuck for ideas or wish to create from a stimulus feel free to use the below statement & ideas from the title of James Wilton’s dance film, 'Adam, Eve, Apple', as a starting point.

'Adam, Eve, Apple' explores our obsession with technology, how it drives us apart and causes us to overlook the world around us.
The work starts in a garden of Eden, with the dancers embracing the natural world, each other and the elements in a duet of expressive and intricate physicality. But, after picking the apple (phone) from the tree, the world deteriorates around them. Adam and Eve remain staring into their phones as they become more insular, withdrawn and isolated from both the wild and each other. Ultimately the film looks to see if the apple will irreparably drive us apart, or if it can bring us back together as well.


Please fill in the application form below with your details, idea for your piece and preference of live performance or record piece to be screened.