Performance Criticism Workshop Research and Development
Academic Year:
2012 - 2013 (June 1, 2012 through May 31, 2013)
Funding Requested:
$496.00
Project Dates:
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Applicant(s):
Overview of the Project:
This application seeks funding for a research and development trip to explore the possibility of taking students, on an annual basis, to New York City. The purpose of this annual program, which would be taught as an independent study in conjunction with my Winter term course, Reading and Writing Dance Criticism, would be an immersive performance criticism workshop. The workshop would be held the first weekend of every winter semester, coinciding with three New York dance/performance festivals: American Realness, DanceFocus, and COIL. Securing funding for attending these festivals in January 2013 would allow me to explore the feasibility of this program; meet with festival directors to discuss the possibility of additional programmatic elements that could be added, specifically interviews with arts presenters and artists; and to gauge whether the Michigan program should center on just one festival or move across all three. Other logistical questions to answer include approximating how many days the program would need to last for the students' to get full benefit, while also keeping cost at a minimum.