The Sacatar Foundation, a US 501c3 nonprofit corporation,
administers an international arts residency program in Bahia, Brazil. In
partnership with Dance/USA Philadelphia, Sacatar will offer eight-week
residency Dance Fellowships throughout 2014 to its beachside estate, the
Instituto Sacatar, on the island of Itaparica, across the bay from
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
Individual dancer/choreographers and small ensembles of up to three
dancers may apply. For this Application Process, all applicants must be
legal residents of the United States.
Through this initiative, Sacatar intends to award Fellowships to up
to eight dancer/choreographers in 2014. Philadelphia-based artists are
encouraged to apply. Fellowships that are offered to Philadelphia
artists will be supported in part by Dance/USA Philadelphia.
Casa Grande, the residency / home of Sacatar Fellows
Available to individual dancer/choreographers and to small ensembles of up to three dancers, the Fellowships will provide:
Roundtrip airfare between the USA and Salvador, Brazil
Private bedroom(s) with attached bathroom(s)
Exclusive use of the dance studio
All meals (except Saturday evenings, Sundays and Brazilian holidays)
Logistic support
Through the support of Dance-USA Philadelphia, there will be an
additional stipend of US$1000 (one thousand dollars) for each
participating dancer based in Philadelphia.
Bahia, Brazil is a potent place for dancer/choreographers to seek
inspiration and knowledge. There are deep traditions in the
African-based religions practiced in Brazil, in which dance is
considered the incarnation of the gods, the earthly manifestation of the
the divine through human movement. These religious traditions challenge
and inspire contemporary dance. The island of Itaparica maintains
strong manifestations of:
Candomblé, a matrilineal Afro-Brazilian religion practiced throughout
Brazil in which individuals in trance dance the movements of the
African gods known as orixás;
Egun-gum, a very different patrilineal African cult in which the
incarnated ancestors take the form of towering puppet-like figures. The
egum tradition emerged from Nigeria and is uniquely practiced in Brazil
on the island of Itaparica.
In addition, through this project, selected dancer(s) will be provided additional support in order to participate in:
Vivadança, an annual month-long international contemporary dance festival to be held in April 2014;
Plataforma Internacional de Dança, a festival of experimental Latin American dance scheduled for Nov-Dec 2014.
PROPOSED RESIDENCY SESSIONS:
Sacatar intends to award Fellowships to qualified individuals and
small ensembles of two to three dancers for the following eight-week
sessions:
17 March – 12 May 2014
with participation in the Vivadança International Dance Festival, held in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
26 May – 21 July 2014
4 August – 29 September 2014
13 October – 8 December 2014
with participation in the Plataforma Internacional de Dança, an
international festival of contemporary Latin American dance, held in
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
At its discretion, Sacatar will award up to eight Dance Fellowships
in 2014 from among the applications received through this initiative
with Dance-USA Philadelphia. You do not need to be a resident of
Philadelphia in order to apply.
HOW TO APPLY
Applicants for the Sacatar Fellowships 2014 in Dance and Choreography
must be legal residents of the United States. Dancer / choreographers
of other nationalities or US citizens residing outside the United States
may not apply for these Fellowships.
HOW TO APPLY
Applicants for the Sacatar Fellowships 2014 in Dance and Choreography
must be legal residents of the United States. Dancer / choreographers
of other nationalities or US citizens residing outside the United States
may not apply for these Fellowships.
Deadline for submissions: 16 September 2013
by midnight Pacific Standard Time
TO APPLY, please submit the following materials to
danceapps@sacatar.org:
APPLICATION FORM for SACATAR FELLOWSHIPS 2014 in Dance and Choreography, available as a DOWNLOAD at
www.sacatar.org,
under APPLICATION. Please fill out the PDF form electronically, or
print and fill it out by hand, then sign, scan and email the signed
application form with the application materials requested below.
PROFESSIONAL RESUME(S) (curriculum vitae) for each dancer under
consideration, including significant achievements, awards, residencies,
etc.
-DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT you expect to work on while in residence
at the Instituto Sacatar. If you have a specific community-oriented
idea, please explain. In the first week of each residency session,
Sacatar Fellows present work to local artists who may be interested in
collaborating. Remember that once in Bahia, things may change.
Flexibility and improvisation are essential! For the above-mentioned
festivals, the awarded dancers will be provided additional support to
administer workshops and present new works, potentially in collaboration
with local dancers and in conjunction with the festival sponsors.
Please note that the ‘Plataforma Internacional de Dança’ specifically
supports experimental incursions into Latin American dance traditions.
You may wish to propose a project specific to that theme.
-WHY BAHIA?: as a word document (.doc ) or as a .pdf please state, in
fifty words or less, why this opportunity to work in Bahia, Brazil, is
of interest to you and how you think an experience in
Bahia might affect your professional development.
-SAMPLES OF RECENT REPRESENTATIVE WORK: Please submit up to four
videos of recent choreographic work, dance videos or dance performances.
Each sample should not exceed five minutes. You may submit link(s) to
video samples or upload video sample(s) directly.
To submit a link to video samples, list all links on a single pdf or doc
file. For each site, list the URLs for pages to be shown. Include any
necessary information on required plug-ins, passwords or navigation
paths.
To upload a video file directly, acceptable file types are avi, flv,
mov, mp4, mpeg, rm and wmv. Your video sample(s) must be in one of these
acceptable file types. File types such as VIDEO_TS.BUP, VIDEO_TS.IFO
and VIDEO_TS.VOB will not work. Submit each video sample individually.
In order to be uploaded, videos must meet the following minimum
requirements:
Resolution: at least 480 x 360
Frames per second (fps): at least 12
While the above requirements are minimum, submitting your video in
mp4 (H.264) format at 640 x 480 with mp3 audio will allow for efficient
uploading while showing your clips to best advantage.
No matter how you submit your work samples, please include a written
explanation in .pdf or .doc for each work sample submitted to
contextualize the work and your participation and/or contribution to its
realization. For small ensembles of up to three members, please specify
the participation and/or contribution of each of the dancers under
consideration. It will greatly facilitate the evaluation of the work
samples if you include a ‘head shot’ of each applicant for ease of
identification.
-TWO PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES: Please provide the names, current
positions, email addresses and telephone numbers of two professional
references whom Sacatar may contact to discuss your candidacy and
qualifications.
-APPLICATION FEE: US$20.00 for individual dancer / choreographers;
US$35.00 for ensembles of up to three dancers. Payable through Paypal at
www.sacatar.org under PARTNERSHIPS or directly at
www.paypal.com to the email
info@sacatar.org.