| program
overview |
CHIME
ACROSS BORDERS
CHIME Across Borders arranges for choreographer-mentors of renown
to work in San Francisco with a group of local choreographers
over the course of one year. Developed along the valued principles
that have guided both CHIME in the San Francisco Bay Area and
CHIME in Southern California, CHIME Across Borders creates the
opportunity for a sustained and intimate exchange between an
established master choreographer and Bay Area mentees.
CHIME Across Borders is available to all professional
choreographers of all dance styles.
THE
CHIME ACROSS BORDERS CHAIR
CHIME Across Borders selects a mentor of great vision and experience
to serve as the program’s Chair for one year, introducing
our working artists to national and international masters of
dance. The Chair comes to San Francisco for a number of weeks
in residence at the Margaret Jenkins Dance Lab (MJDL), and creates
a year-long program of activities including the periods before
and after their visits.
For 2011, the MJDC has invited Ralph Lemon
to serve as Chair. Mr. Lemon will design a series of mentorship
activities, structured over the course of a full year, for a
maximum of three selected mentees.
|
HOW
TO APPLY
The CHIME Across Borders application is a two-part process.
All interested applicants are first asked to submit a Letter
of Intent by September 1, 2010. A limited number of artists
will then be selected and notified by October 1, 2010, and
invited to submit a full application and work sample by November
1, 2010.
Download the Letter of Intent instructions and program guidelines
here.
(You will need the Adobe
Acrobat Reader)
LEARN MORE
Margaret Jenkins answers your questions about the program
and year of activities with Ralph Lemon. Learn how to write
a strong Letter of Intent and what to expect from the second
round of the application process.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Margaret Jenkins Dance Lab
301 8th Street, #200 (at Folsom), San Francisco, CA 94103
1:00 – 2:30 PM
Interested applicants are
strongly encouraged to attend. |
|
Message from Margaret Jenkins:
I'm delighted to announce that Ralph Lemon, multimedia and
movement artist, will serve as the Chair of CHIME Across Borders
for 2011. CHIME Across Borders is an opportunity for dance-makers,
dancers and a master choreographer to be in vigorous dialogue
with one another about making work, to step outside one’s
comfort zone and be prepared to engage in, and be present for,
the unexpected.
I have known Ralph and his work for a number of decades - from
his early years of having a more traditional company, then his
international explorations in The Geography Trilogy,
through his current fertile independent period. Ralph is a true
innovator in our field, constantly asking provocative and touching
questions about ways to continue - questions like “What
is the belief network of your art practice, the belief system
in your thinking and in the chemical responses of your body?”
I was present throughout the entire first year of CHIME Across
Borders with David Gordon as Chair. It was a remarkable opportunity
for me, as witness, to be mentored as well, to let go of assumptions
about what works for me, to allow myself to not know the answers
to the questions posed, to surrender and to be a student. For
those of us who might be considered established choreographers,
it is incumbent on us to recognize the unique opportunity that
CHIME Across Borders provides—the opportunity to shed, or
temporarily put aside, what we think we know and make room for
the experiment that comes from being mentored.
I look forward to this next year, this new challenge with Ralph.
Margaret Jenkins
|
|
