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 Dancers' Career Development

   

Issue 8 - December 2011 

  

 




  With the help of our generous supporters, in 2011 we have:  
            

*Awarded 61 Company Fund and 42 Independent Trust Dancers retraining grants*Maintained our support for the Clore Fellowship Programme, supporting the 2011/12 Fellow Daniel  De Andrade and pledging our support for 2012/13*Continued our relationship with the BRIT School by offering two work experience opportunities to students*Hosted a five month internship for a Dance graduate*In October the DCD Independent Trust awarded Six Special Retraining Bursaries for outstanding retraining applications from Independent Dancers, including a Wendy Toye CBE Bursary and a special Bettine Goldberg Dance Teaching Bursary*Continued to inform professional dancers of the work of DCD by visiting Dance Companies across the UK*Launched our monthly DCD e-newsletter, circulated to over 1,500 retrained dancers and DCD contacts within the Dance Sector*Received feedback, updates and success rates from our 2011 Retrained Dancer Survey*Continued to build relationships with International transition centres through the I.O.T.P.D meeting in Berlin*Forged links with other European organisations through the EuroFIA conference held in Berlin, Germany in June*Held 74 hours of scheduled one to one phone and face to face consultations with dancers*Continued to develop our Schools & Outreach Programme visiting Vocational dance training schools and colleges  such as Liverpool Theatre School, English National Ballet School and Laban*Continued to develop a formalised a DCD Networking and Mentoring Programme*

 All DCD Staff and Trustees would like to thank all those who support DCD, helping all eligible
professional dancers transition successfully into a post-performance career.
For more information please visit our website.
We all look forward to 2012!




           DCD Retrained Dancers 
            
*DCD Retrained dancer Katie Abbott (previously Randall) responded to our request in the last e-newsletter for updates from DCD retrained dancers. Since her grant from DCD, Katie has gone on to become an acclaimed Drama teacher and has become a Licentiate of Trinity Guildhall. Katie runs Twickenham Theatre Workshop and will be presenting a play that she has written at The Normansfield Theatre, Hampton Wick, in March 2012. Please contact DCD if would would like more information* DCD Retrained dancer Rachel Lancaster has passed her MSc Dance Science in one year with Merit, whilst also working full time. In addition to that Rachel has recently started a new position as Assistant Artistic Director of Corteo, one of Cirque du Soleil's Big Top touring shows managing 65 artists. Well done Rachel!*DCD retrained dancer Vicky Howes has passed all modules of the CBTS course at the RAD.Vicky is now teaching RAD ballet at Lisa Maybank School of Dance*

Congratulations to all of the dancers featured.
Please do keep us updated on any career news
we can feature in this newsletter.
        

 English National Ballet, The Nutcracker. Choreographer: Wayne Eagling.
Dancers of the Company. For more information please visit the ENB website.

  
  

-DCD Image Gallery-


December's Image Gallery images are provided by DCD retrained dancer Laurent Liotardo. Laurent has been a dancer for 12 years, and is currently dancing with English National Ballet. Laurent received a retraining grant from DCD for career support equipment for his continued work as a Photographer. For more of Laurent's images please see his website or visit his Facebook page.

The Images below were taken by Laurent for Dance GB. Scottish Ballet, National Dance Company Wales and English National Ballet are joining forces for the first time in a ground-breaking national celebration of dance inspired by the 2012 London Olympics and the coming together of the British nations for Team GB. For more info please click here.






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 -Trustee Talk-

 

Ken Marchant  
DCD Trustee, Development and Finance & General Purposes Committee Member

I have always had a passion for watching dance. For me, dance
and music combine to give an emotional charge that goes
beyond any other form of communication or entertainment;
 capable of connecting all people of every background.
Those who deliver this magic are, in my eyes,
elevated to super-star status; I am unashamedly,
 an incurable balletomane.

I regarded it as a privilege to serve on the Board of
Scottish Ballet for eight years; seeing it as my chance
to give something back to a profession that gives me so much pleasure; this position also gave me the opportunity
 to serve as a Trustee on the DCD prior to which I
had been totally ignorant of the challenges facing
many dancers when developing their post-performance careers.
The general business skills that I have through a life-long
career in the IT business sector are often those that
cause most apprehension for dancers developing new careers involving business start-up and self-employment.

There have been some wonderful moments as dancers    
who have asked for guidance begin to realise that the “business elements” that they thought would be so complicated can
be grasped as easily as the monthly household budget:
keeping it simple is always a good motto in business.

When I stepped down from the Board of Scottish Ballet I was
asked to stay with the DCD as an Independent Trustee,
serving on the Board, the Development Committee, and
the Finance and General Purposes Committee.

The work is not without its challenges but it is hugely
rewarding and I love every minute of it.




English National Ballet, The Nutcracker. Choreographer: Wayne Eagling. Dancers of the Company. For more information please visit the ENB website.     



DCD Featured Business
of the Month


11:18


Simone Waller, former Independent dancer, is a founder member of 11:18. Simone was awarded a DCD retraining grant in 2002, contributing towards fees for a drama course at The Poor School. 

Formed in London in 2011, 11:18 is a theatre and performance company that makes performance that is inquisitive, engaging and bold. 

We currently specialise in making audio and installation based performances for real train journeys. We like the idea that to be travelling on the train is to be constantly shifting sites. Our first journey was from Queens Road Peckham to Victoria Station in London. On the success of this we are accepting commissions from different sites and festivals around the UK and internationally. In June 2012 we will present a piece in Greenwich in an exciting collaboration with a well-known writer.


We also act as a producing company for the work of our company members and, as such, are experienced in bringing diverse projects to life. We have made devised theatre, physical theatre, community focused events and large-scale site specific performance.


11:18 strives to have a fresh approach to every piece and is always interested in collaborations that help us achieve this.


For more information please email:contact@eleven-eighteen.com or visit www.eleven-eighteen.com

The website was kindly designed by Monkey See Monkey Do www.msmdcreative.com


                                                                        
                                            
 

       

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                   DCD Retrained Independent Dancer of the month 
                         Jennie Morton BSc (Hons) Osteopathy
                               


I began dancing at the age of two at my mother’s dance school, then went into full time training at Arts Educational in Tring, Hertfordshire, aged seven. At the age of eight I was performing a child role in the London Festival Ballet’s production of “La Sylphide” which I continued to do for the next five years. After graduating from the Arts Ed dance course in London, I went on to a 15 year career initially as a classical ballet dancer before moving into musical theatre. As an independent dancer, I was always frustrated by the lack of knowledgeable and accessible support from the health profession when I was injured and often found myself being given inappropriate advice from well-intentioned practitioners who really didn’t understand the complexities and physical requirements of the dancer’s body.

On retiring from dance, I decided to retrain as an osteopath with a view to providing specialist treatment for dancers and other performers. The training was five years and costly so the financial support I received from the DCD was hugely appreciated. I now work at the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine (BAPAM) clinic in London alongside a team of medical and health practitioners all of whom specialise in treating performers. Membership is free to all professional and semi-professional performers.


It has long been my dream to create a strong network of knowledgeable practitioners who can provide specialist support to all dancers and performers so I was thrilled to be appointed as lecturer and module leader for the new MSc in Performing Arts Medicine at University College London. The course trains medical and health practitioners in the specific management of performers’ health and represents the first formal qualification of its kind in the world. In the New Year I will be speaking at several national and international medical and educational conferences to spread the word about the Masters course and to promote performers’ health. The hope is to lift performing arts medicine to the status enjoyed by sports medicine.


The transition from performer to osteopath was a long journey, but I really feel that I am now exactly where I am meant to be. The experience I have as a performer directly informs my work as an osteopath meaning that I can not only treat performers’ injuries, but also look at the underlying technique to prevent recurrence. I am driven by a passion to ensure that the emerging field of performing arts medicine becomes a readily accessible core support to today’s performers and the performers of the future.

           

           

                      Lecturer and Module Leader for the UCL MSc in Performing Arts Medicine
                     Lecturer in Performing Arts Medicine for: The British Association for
                        Performing Arts Medicine and Dance Uk: Healthier Dancer Programme
                               Lecturer in Sports Injuries for ProActive Training Ltd.       

For details of a free assessment at BAPAM please call 020 7404 5888 or see www.bapam.org.uk/perf_clinics.html

 For details about the MSc in Performing Arts Medicine please see: www.ucl.ac.uk/performingartsmedicine or contact Zoe Law at z.law@ucl.ac.uk


English National Ballet, The Nutcracker. Choreographer: Wayne Eagling. Dancers of the Company.
For more information please visit the ENB website.



With thanks to DCD Contributing Company, English National Ballet for the images  featured in this month's issue.
   
                       
If you are a retrained dancer who would like to have images featured in the DCD Newsletter please get in touch.

  
All at DCD wish you all a very joyful Christmas
and Happy New Year.

The DCD office will be closed from
 Wednesday 21st December,
reopening on Tuesday 3rd January 2012.

Please keep an eye on our website in
the New Year for application
 dates and deadlines for 2012.  

Support 
Dancers’ Career Development is kindly supported by:  Combined Theatrical Charities/Acting for Others, Equity Charitable Trust, Society of London Theatre, Rudolf Nureyev Foundation, Cameron Mackintosh Limited.The DCD Fund is kindly funded by the following Contributing companies: Birmingham Royal Ballet, English National Ballet, Northern Ballet, Phoenix Dance Theatre, Rambert Dance Company, Richard Alston Dance Company, Scottish Ballet, Siobhan Davies, The Royal Ballet.

There are many ways that you can help DCD to continue its work. If you, or you know anybody who would like to know more then please do get in touch.

 


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