2024 Research Residency

2024 Research Residency
Call for Submissions

Research Residency Runs February-April 2024
Winnipeg, MB

The Research Residency is a program designed to support the kinesthetic and choreographic inquiries of artists from all disciplines engaging in dance and/or movement-based research by providing resources such as artists fees, studio space, and public presentation and discussion opportunities. The purpose of the residency is to allow for in-depth research, critical thinking, risk-taking, professional development, skill enhancement and an exchange of ideas, without the pressure of a finished work or conclusion.

Three (3) artists or artistic teams will be selected to participate in the 2024 Research Residency via the following application process. No less than two (2) of these teams will be Manitoban-led, and up to one (1) of these teams will be out-of-town-led. The Residency will take place in Winnipeg, MB. We encourage applicants from local and national contexts to apply. *YLDE is happy to provide letters of support for selected out of town artist(s) seeking additional funding to cover travel and living costs while in residence.

Young Lungs Dance Exchange (YLDE) is committed to the principle of equitable access and strives for a fair, cooperative, respectful, and safe environment that protects and promotes human rights and affirms the dignity of all persons. A minimum of one (1) Black, Indigenous, or artist of colour (or artistic team-lead) will be selected of the three (3) projects. We encourage you to self-identify.

YLDE has funds set aside to support a portion of accessibility-related costs. We are happy to work together with artists to secure the appropriate and necessary budgeting requirements.

Applications will be reviewed and chosen by a selection committee.

Context and Criteria

Resources facilitated by YLDE during the residency:

  • A budget of $4,000 for artist fees, travel costs (if applicable), and additional labour and/or materials 
  • Access to an accessible studio space (up to 40 hrs) provided by YLDE
  • Concluding roundtable discussion regarding the research undergone during the residency
  • Public presentations of the research
  • Video and Photo documentation of research presented
  • Research will be considered in both written and visual essays published on the YLDE website

Each artist/group is required to adhere to the following:

  • All artists involved must be available for, and demonstrate/share their research at the public Research Presentation, on Saturday April 20, 2024, as well as being available for the public Endnote Essayist Presentations and Discussion, on Sunday April 21, 2024
  • Participate in public discussion/talk back sessions on the artist’s research
  • Share their process with two essayists-in-residence (a writer and a visual artist/photographer), and other participating artists-in-residence through studio visits, cohort meet-ups, and postmortem 
  • Submit a final report at the end of the residency detailing activities, experience, and feedback

Submission Guidelines

To apply, please submit the following information in PDF form by email with the subject line: Research Residency Submission to younglungs.wpg@gmail.com 

DEADLINE TO APPLY:  Friday, December 1, 2023

1.Contact information: Full name, preferred pronouns, email, address, phone number.

2. A description of the research inquiry (800 words max.): Explain the inspiration for your inquiry, how it fits into your current practice. Discuss your research questions and your proposed research process.

3. CV (two-pages max. per CV): For collaborations, please include one CV per collaborator.

4. Biography of the lead artist(s) (each 250 words max.): If you are selected, this text will be used for promotional purposes (press release, website, social media, etc.).

5.  Two items of support material: This can include recent dance or movement work/research, or relevant materials to provide context for your research proposal. Support material can be sent in the form of weblinks (Vimeo, Youtube, bandcamp) or attached PDF documents or small files with your emailed application. (***Google Drive links and not PDF documents will not be accepted.***) The jury will be asked to spend no more than 8 minutes on each submission’s support material. Please provide information on what you would like the jury to focus on if you are providing material that is longer than 4 minutes/1 written page/5 images each.

6.  Budget: This is a critical part of the application. Make sure you are allocating enough funds towards maintaining a professional rate for all collaborators. YLDE suggests using the following guideline for dance artist fees – The CADA/West recommended MINIMUM for an hourly wage is $30.00/hr for professional artists. Materials, mentorship/consultation, travel costs, and specific requirements should also be considered in the budget. Note: YLDE covers up to 40 hours of studio rental outside of $4,000 artist fee.

For questions, including further accessibility funds information, please do not hesitate to contact Zorya Arrow at younglungs.wpg@gmail.com.

Young Lungs Dance Exchange is a not-for-profit artist-run support organization committed to the development, creation, and presentation of contemporary dance and performance on Treaty 1 Territory, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

More information about Young Lungs Dance Exchange at www.younglungs.ca.

The 2024 Research Residency is made possible with the generous support of Winnipeg Arts Council and Manitoba Arts Council, and Canada Council for the Arts.

MOVE + SWEAT + PARTNER

MOVE + SWEAT + PARTNER

NEW DATES!

A two-day workshop with Alex Elliott and Emma Dal Monte for dance artists of all levels and styles.

December 19 + 20, 2023
11am-3pm
At Théâtre Cercle Molière, 340 Boulevard Provencher

(For building accessability info click here https://www.cerclemoliere.com/en/plan-your-visit/accessibility)

Payment is sliding scale –  $5-$50 per day.
Click here to register!

About the Workshop:

Alex and Emma will lead a high-intensity physical partnering workshop. “Our time together will begin with a check-in, followed by a movement warm up led by Emma, including weight sharing, to prepare you to learn a duet by Alex. Alex’s choreography is exciting to learn. It involves two people physically affecting each other. It requires cooperation and essential resistance. The result is a series of movements all tied together through action-reaction. We will conclude by sitting in a circle and talking about Agreement Making: How do we work together in rehearsal? How do we work for choreographers? How do we work in a collaborative environment? How do we make sure we get paid? Our goal is for us all to feel energized as we move into our future projects.”

Workshop schedule:

Tuesday, Aug 29
11am-12pm – warm up with Emma
12pm-1pm – partnering choreography with Alex
1pm-1:40pm – lunch
1:40pm-2:40pm – partnering choreography with Alex
2:40pm-3pm – agreement making conversation with Alex

Wednesday, Aug 30
11am-12pm – warm up with Emma
12pm-1pm – partnering choreography with Alex
1pm-1:40pm – lunch
1:40pm-2:40pm – partnering choreography with Alex
2:40pm-3pm – agreement making conversation with Alex

About Alex Elliott:

After performing her own work in New York, Alex Elliott and Hurricane Sandy came face to face. Physically demanding and emotionally charged, her work made it back to her hometown of Winnipeg and beyond. Her dances have been produced in New York, Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, and Halifax. Alex thanks Tedd Robinson for his ecstasy charged commission Logarian Rhapsody. She is the Director of Art Holm, a multidisciplinary performance series in Winnipeg that showcases talented performing artists.

Link to Ellipsis 2.0 teaser by Kayla Jeanson: https://vimeo.com/815535031/d9c36ed4fd

Alex Elliott in *CONDUCT by Alex Elliott and Dasha Plett. Photo by Leif Norman.

About Emma Dal Monte:

Emma Dal Monte is a Montreal based professional dance artist and teacher originally from Nanaimo, BC.  Emma is a graduate of the School of Contemporary Dancers, her training also includes intensives at Arts Umbrella, Modus Operandi, Kaeja d’Dance. She co-produced Bloom during an internship with MascallDance and apprenticed with Sinha Danse in 2018. As a dancer, Emma has worked professionally with @tendance/C.Medina (Vienna), Alexandra Winters, Roberto Mosqueda (León), Le Fils d’Adrien Danse (Quebec City), Jasmine Ellis, Sinha Danse (Montreal), Stephanie Ballard, and MascallDance (Vancouver) Odette Heyn Projects, and was a cast member of WCD’s Verge for three years. Emma has the joy of teaching recreational and pre-professional students of all ages. She was previously on faculty at the School of Contemporary Dancers in their Junior Professional Program and General Program, and was an occasional rehearsal director for their Professional Program. She has recently relocated from Winnipeg to Montreal and is looking forward to furthering her experience as a teacher and interpreter in a new city. 

Emma Dal Monte. Photo by Mark Dela Cruz. Choreography by Alexandra Winters.

YLDE thanks Winnipeg Arts Council, Manitoba Arts Council, and Canada Council for the Arts for their continued funding support.

Cover Image – Neilla Hawley and Justine Erickson in Ellipsis 2.0 and Alex Elliot in CONDUCT. Photos by Leif Norman. Full credits below.

CONDUCT
Alex Elliott – Choreographer + Dancer, Dasha Plett – Composer + Co-Creator, Max Mummery – Lighting Designer, Jillian Groening – Artistic Advisor, Ali Robson – Movement Dramaturge, Brenda McLean – Costume + Set Designer, Claire Sparling – Cutter + Sewer, Leif Norman – Photographer

Ellipsis 2.0
Neilla Hawley – Dancer + Collaborator, Justine Erickson – Dancer + Collaborator, Alex Elliott – Choreographer, Dasha Plett – Composer + Sound Designer, Max Mummery – Lighting Designer, Jillian Groening – Artistic Advisor, Ali Robson – Movement Dramaturge, Brenda McLean – Costume + Set Designer, Claire Sparling – Cutter + Sewer, Leif Norman – Photographer

Oblique/Switch & Ensemble Improvology with Meagan O’Shea


Oblique/Switch & Ensemble Improvology with Meagan O’Shea
A workshop for all improvisers

Saturday, October 28, 2023
11am-2pm
At The Output, 2nd Floor, Video Pool Media Arts Centre, 100 Arthur St.

(For building accessibility info click here)

Payment is sliding scale –  $5-$50

Click here to register!

About the Workshop:

O’Shea’s Oblique/Switch is a generative research practice that frees the body-brain and encourages unexpected relationships between ideas.

Ensemble Improvology proposes a shared lexicon of parameters that allow for the unimaginable yet expected to emerge in spontaneous choreography.

In this 3 hour workshop we’ll warm up the solo body, sourcing our own material and expanding to the social and group body. Then we’ll move into Ensemble Improvology, introducing parameters to create shared vocabulary and lexicon before moving into open scores where everything is possible.

About Meagan O’Shea (she | they) Canada/Germany:

Working across forms and borders, queer, contemporary dance+ artist Meagan O’Shea devises “Uplifting, energetic and totally out of the ordinary” performances for real and imagined spaces.

Working with Oblique/Switch as a generative research method to reach beyond the Obvious/1st Impulse and Opposite/2nd Impulse to discover The Oblique/3rd Impulse; the potential to disrupt dominant paradigms, and offer an alternative to binary systems, she creates content-driven, problem-finding, contemporary solo work, treating the process like a science experiment, she uses body and the interaction with the audience as test site.

Meagan’s award-nominated solo work has been presented across Canada, in New York, Mexico, Morocco, Spain, Ireland, Finland, Austria, Greece and Germany. Meagan has also refined an ensemble improv practice through the ongoing “dance like no one is watching” performance project, which animates/disrupts public space, has included over 200 dancers and reached 30,000 incidental audience. She is currently working on Anatomalia (anatomy+anomaly+femalia), 7 choreographies set in immersive, installed environments tracking the transformation in healing trauma to find joy.

Meagan teaches Interdisciplinary Solo Making and Ensemble Improv in North America, Europe  and beyond. In 2007 Meagan founded Stand Up Dance as a platform to amplify her vision, giving voice to her own work and that of other artists and communities. She has created art and possibility in her roles as co-founder/co-artistic director of hub14 in Toronto, International Associate Artist at Dance Ireland, Associate Artist at Theatre Direct, Artistic Collaborator at BIDE, and as guest artist at many international residencies. She is a recipient of the KM Hunter Award in Dance and twice been shortlisted for the Guggenheim Fellowship.

YLDE thanks Winnipeg Arts Council, Manitoba Arts Council, and Canada Council for the Arts for their continued funding support

Photos: Supplied by artist, Meagan O’Shea

YLDE Annual General Meeting

YLDE Annual General Meeting
And Community Gathering

Sunday, October 22 – 2pm, 2023
Artspace Board Room (4th floor), 100 Arthur St.

Please register HERE

This event is FREE, and all are welcome to attend.

We will have refreshments and be reflecting on our 2022-2023 year of programming.

YLDE thanks Winnipeg Arts Council, Manitoba Arts Council, and Canada Council for the Arts for their continued funding support.

2023 Research Residency Showing, artist Kevin Fraser with collaborators Reymark Capacete and Juanita Garzon, photo credit: Jillian Groening

Cover Image – 2023 Research Residency Showing, artist Oriah Wiersma, photo credit: Karen Asher

Performance by Jaime Black-Morsette

Performance by Jaime Black-Morsette

Saturday, September 30 – 2pm
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation – Winnipeg Location TBD 
Free Public Performance

Reserve your spot here!

This performance will draw from inspiration gained while in process earlier in September during Home/Body, Home/Land, a workshop series lead by Jaime Black-Morsette, exploring the interconnections between our bodies and the land. This series of workshops is taking place at Broken Head Wetland Interpretive Trail, Lake Winnipeg, Oodena Celebration Circle at The Forks, Camp Mercedes outside the Human Rights Museum, and in a studio at Artspace downtown.

Jaime reflects on/responds to current issues facing us locally, such as the call to action to search the Prairie Green landfill for the remains of Indigenous women Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran.

Jaime Black-Morsette is a multidisciplinary artist of Anishinaabe, Métis and European descent. Black’s art practice engages themes of memory, identity, place and resistance and is grounded in an understanding of the body and the land as sources of cultural and spiritual knowledge. Through her art she works to inspire dialogue around social and political events and issues, and to create space for reflection. She is particularly interested in feminism and Indigenous social justice, and the possibilities for articulating linkages between and around both. Her REDress Project, confronting the scourge of violence against Indigenous women and girls, has been featured in venues across Canada and the United States, including at the National Museum of the American Indian/Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, D.C.

YLDE thanks Winnipeg Arts Council, Manitoba Arts Council, and Canada Council for the Arts for their continued funding support.

Headshot Image of Jaime Black-Morsette: Supplied by the artist



Cover Image: They Tried to Bury Us, Artist: Jaime Black-Morsette, Photo Credit: Megan Mousseau

Cultivating a Spiritual Practice

Cultivating a Daily Practice
Exploring your movement curiosities of the day

Four Monday Sessions – Sep. 18, 25, Oct. 16, 23, 2023

September 18 & 25 – 10am-1pm – At Drop-In Dance Winnipeg, 1381 Portage Ave.
October 16 & 23 – 10am-1pm – At The Output, 2nd Floor, Video Pool Media Arts Centre, 100 Arthur St.

This is a free and casual drop-in style work/play space.

Click here to Register

About the Sessions:

How wonderful it is to do what we do in community with others! These sessions are an opportunity to cultivate curiosity in our individual practices by exchanging with other movement based artists working in Winnipeg. These four sessions are designed as a flexible work/play room for you as a mover/dancer to explore your ideas, present scores or frameworks to play with as a group, share a movement technique you’ve learned, share a work-in-progress for feedback, engage in a dialogue and connect as a community in a casual and practical setting. Each session will be guided by the curiosities brought forth that day by participating artists.

These sessions will be facilitated by Zorya Arrow, who will shepard the sessions towards the following structure:

10:00am-10:15am Solo warm up and chat
10:15-10:30 Share what you are interested in and make a plan for the session
10:30-11:30 Experiment/share/do/teach/learn together
11:30-11:45 Break
11:45-12:45pm Experiment/share/do/teach/learn together
12:45-1:00 Wind down/cool down/chat

Cultivating the creative spark through togetherness, these sessions are meant to bolster an artist’s practice while building community through gathering in an exchange of ideas.

About Zorya:

Zorya Arrow is an artist of European ancestry, working and living as a dancer, choreographer, teacher, actor, director, filmmaker, advocate, social dancer, clown, and storyteller. She is passionate about working in experimental and trans-disciplinary contexts which include elements of collaboration and equitable access. An example of this is her choreographic work with a mixed ability cast in Antigone with Sick + Twisted Theatre, AA Battery, and The Mariachi Ghost. This summer, she received “Best Performance” at the Gimli International Film Festival for her acting role in the feature film, Arutinae, by local filmmaker Erin Buelow. Zorya is a movement instructor for the University of Winnipeg’s Department of Theatre and Film, and holds an honours degree in Dance from the University of Winnipeg, in affiliation with The School of Contemporary Dancers Senior Professional Program.

YLDE thanks Winnipeg Arts Council, Manitoba Arts Council, and Canada Council for the Arts for their continued funding support.

Research Residency artist Kristy Janvier (Left) and collaborators, photo credit: Leif Norman, 2017

Cover Image – Participants in “Presence Action Support: Movement Workshop with Ali Robson”, photo credit: Zorya Arrow, 2022

HOME/BODY, HOME/LAND

HOME/BODY, HOME/LAND

A four-day, site specific performance workshop with Jaime Black-Morsette that will take us from wetland to cityscape. 

September 9, 10, 23, 24, 2023

with a Performance by Jaime Black-Morsette on September 30, National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

Click here to register! 

Free/Pay by Donation. All proceeds going to the Search the Landfill efforts.

About the Workshop:

Join artist Jaime Black-Morsette in this four-day workshop exploring the interconnections between our bodies and the land. Together we will learn to feel and draw on the histories held within ourselves and within the land, and the power of these histories to move us. This workshop will also reflect on/respond to current issues facing us locally, such as the call to action to search the Prairie Green landfill for the remains of Indigenous women Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran.

Geared for dancers, performance artists, activists and those interested in the connection between our bodies and the land as well as land-based art practices. We welcome youth, adults, and elders.

As lunch is provided, when registering for the workshop, please indicate any dietary restrictions. Please also include any access needs that you have as well as transportation resources and requirements, ie. access to a vehicle and how many seats, or if needing a ride.

For access information email younglungs.wpg@gmail.com

Schedule:

NOTE: Participants do not have to be available for all four days to participate.

September 9 – 11am-3pm 

Meeting at Broken Head Wetland Interpretive Trail (1 hour North East of Winnipeg) at 11am and moving locations from there. Bring your swimwear! YLDE will have room to transport 7 participants, leaving the city from downtown at 10am-arriving back in the city at 4pm​.​ You are ​also ​welcome to attend using your own transportation.

September 10 – 11am-3pm

Meeting at Oodena Celebration Circle, The Forks, Winnipeg, and moving to Camp Mercedes and around The Forks area

September 23 & 24 – 11am-3pm

The Output, Video Pool Media Arts Centre, Artspace, 2nd floor, 100 Arthur Street

In addition, on September 30 – 2pm

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation – Winnipeg Location TBD 

Free Public Performance by Jaime Black-Morsette

About Jaime:

Jaime Black-Morsette is a multidisciplinary artist of Anishinaabe, Métis and European descent. Black’s art practice engages themes of memory, identity, place and resistance and is grounded in an understanding of the body and the land as sources of cultural and spiritual knowledge. Through her art she works to inspire dialogue around social and political events and issues, and to create space for reflection. She is particularly interested in feminism and Indigenous social justice, and the possibilities for articulating linkages between and around both. Her REDress Project, confronting the scourge of violence against Indigenous women and girls, has been featured in venues across Canada and the United States, including at the National Museum of the American Indian/Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, D.C.

YLDE thanks Winnipeg Arts Council, Manitoba Arts Council, and Canada Council for the Arts for their continued funding support

MOVE + SWEAT + PARTNER

MOVE + SWEAT + PARTNER

A two-day workshop with Alex Elliott and Emma Dal Monte for dance artists of all levels and styles. 

August 29 + 30, 2023
11am-3pm
At Théâtre Cercle Molière, 340 Boulevard Provencher.
(For building accessability info click here https://www.cerclemoliere.com/en/plan-your-visit/accessibility)

Payment is sliding scale –  $5-$50 per day.
Click here to register!

About the Workshop:
Alex and Emma will lead a high-intensity physical partnering workshop. “Our time together will begin with a check-in, followed by a movement warm up led by Emma, including weight sharing, to prepare you to learn a duet by Alex. Alex’s choreography is exciting to learn. It involves two people physically affecting each other. It requires cooperation and essential resistance. The result is a series of movements all tied together through action-reaction. We will conclude by sitting in a circle and talking about Agreement Making: How do we work together in rehearsal? How do we work for choreographers? How do we work in a collaborative environment? How do we make sure we get paid? Our goal is for us all to feel energized as we move into our future projects.”

Workshop schedule:
Tuesday, Aug 29
11am-12pm – warm up with Emma
12pm-1pm – partnering choreography with Alex
1pm-1:40pm – lunch
1:40pm-2:40pm – partnering choreography with Alex
2:40pm-3pm – agreement making conversation with Alex

Wednesday, Aug 30
11am-12pm – warm up with Emma
12pm-1pm – partnering choreography with Alex
1pm-1:40pm – lunch
1:40pm-2:40pm – partnering choreography with Alex
2:40pm-3pm – agreement making conversation with Alex

About Alex Elliott
After performing her own work in New York, Alex Elliott and Hurricane Sandy came face to face. Physically demanding and emotionally charged, her work made it back to her hometown of Winnipeg and beyond. Her dances have been produced in New York, Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, and Halifax. Alex thanks Tedd Robinson for his ecstasy charged commission Logarian Rhapsody. She is the Director of Art Holm, a multidisciplinary performance series in Winnipeg that showcases talented performing artists.

Link to Ellipsis 2.0 teaser by Kayla Jeanson: https://vimeo.com/815535031/d9c36ed4fd

Alex Elliott in *CONDUCT by Alex Elliott and Dasha Plett. Photo by Leif Norman.

About Emma Dal Monte
Emma Dal Monte is a Montreal based professional dance artist and teacher originally from Nanaimo, BC.  Emma is a graduate of the School of Contemporary Dancers, her training also includes intensives at Arts Umbrella, Modus Operandi, Kaeja d’Dance. She co-produced Bloom during an internship with MascallDance and apprenticed with Sinha Danse in 2018. As a dancer, Emma has worked professionally with @tendance/C.Medina (Vienna), Alexandra Winters, Roberto Mosqueda (León), Le Fils d’Adrien Danse (Quebec City), Jasmine Ellis, Sinha Danse (Montreal), Stephanie Ballard, and MascallDance (Vancouver) Odette Heyn Projects, and was a cast member of WCD’s Verge for three years. Emma has the joy of teaching recreational and pre-professional students of all ages. She was previously on faculty at the School of Contemporary Dancers in their Junior Professional Program and General Program, and was an occasional rehearsal director for their Professional Program. She has recently relocated from Winnipeg to Montreal and is looking forward to furthering her experience as a teacher and interpreter in a new city. 

Emma Dal Monte. Photo by Mark Dela Cruz. Choreography by Alexandra Winters.

YLDE thanks Winnipeg Arts Council, Manitoba Arts Council, and Canada Council for the Arts for their continued funding support.

Cover Image – Neilla Hawley and Justine Erickson in Ellipsis 2.0 and Alex Elliot in CONDUCT. Photos by Leif Norman. Full credits below.

CONDUCT
Alex Elliott – Choreographer + Dancer, Dasha Plett – Composer + Co-Creator, Max Mummery – Lighting Designer, Jillian Groening – Artistic Advisor, Ali Robson – Movement Dramaturge, Brenda McLean – Costume + Set Designer, Claire Sparling – Cutter + Sewer, Leif Norman – Photographer

Ellipsis 2.0
Neilla Hawley – Dancer + Collaborator, Justine Erickson – Dancer + Collaborator, Alex Elliott – Choreographer, Dasha Plett – Composer + Sound Designer, Max Mummery – Lighting Designer, Jillian Groening – Artistic Advisor, Ali Robson – Movement Dramaturge, Brenda McLean – Costume + Set Designer, Claire Sparling – Cutter + Sewer, Leif Norman – Photographer

Dance Day Party

Dance Day Party

Celebrate International Dance Day by movin’ and groovin’ with all your friends. Enjoy DJs, dancing, and door prizes, all in one place with Young Lungs Dance Exchange.

Saturday April 29, 2023
8:00 PM until late
The Good Will Social Club – 625 Portage Avenue (accessibility info here)
$20

Please click here for tickets. Come dance the night way!

Your support helps us continue to assist movement artists through providing research creation opportunities, workshops, and training opportunities throughout the year. Thank you for helping make dance collaboration and creation possible.