Dance Art Foundation delivers self-initiated programmes, strategic partnerships and collaboration, and cross-sector consultancy, working with exceptional and visionary artists and thinkers whose expertise draws on progressive international dance practice, knowledge and thought. Our current programmes include:
Breathing Space dance-in-health
Breathing Space is the celebrated dance-in-health initiative that nurtures and supports public health through dance. It comprises a popular programme of workshops, residencies and performances for those whose lives are affected by illness and life-changing conditions, and promotes dance as a creative and enriching way to cultivate wellbeing. Breathing Space was launched in 2002 by Dance Art Foundation Artistic Director, Joe Moran, who continues to lead the programme with an outstanding team of project artists working nationally. Read more
Critical Dialogues
Dance Art Foundation is developing a series of critical dialogue initiatives aimed at developing engagement in dance as a contemporary art form, and informed and inquiring audiences for new and adventurous work.
Dance Performance
Dance Art Foundation curates and presents works by independent dance artists. Its annual programme of dance at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital is presented in atriums spaces and on wards and is curated by Associate Curator, Kirstie Richardson. The Outsider Dancing performance series that features works from the edges and margins of international dance will return in 2010 with a weekend of gallery-based dance: www.outsiderdancing.com. Recent programme partners include the National Portrait Gallery, Herald St and Wilkinson Gallery on Vyner Street.
New Choreography Project
Dance Art Foundation’s New Choreography Project is an ambitious professional development initiative to support new choreography and experimental practice that will be launched in 2010. It aims to offer unrivalled access to the knowledge, skills and experience of leading international choreographers through a diverse programme of workshops, Masterclasses, study groups and mentoring. Technical and artistic excellence will be fostered within a context of rigorous critical reflection and an informed engagement with critical theory and wider cultural debate.
