EOI: Claudia La Rocco Writing Workshop x RD
17 February, 2020
Deadline: Monday 2nd March (11:59pm)
Running Dog is thrilled to be partnering with the 2020 Keir Choreographic Award to support two writers (established or emerging) attending Claudia La Rocco’s writing workshop—‘Creative Differences’—on Friday March 13th (2-6pm). The two successful writers will each publish a written feature in response to the Keir Award program on Running Dog’s main site.
This call out is open to all Australian writers interested in performance, and we welcome submissions from poets, fiction writers, creative non-fiction writers as well as those with a background in dance. Previous experience writing about contemporary art is not a requirement.
The two successful applications will be paid a writer’s fee of $250 as well as an additional $250 to support the costs of travel and attending the program. We welcome interstate and regional applicants. Please note: Running Dog is able to support additional travel costs if required.
Running Dog particularly encourages submissions from diverse writers, including First Nation, queer and/or trans writers, people of colour and writers of all genders and abilities.
If you have any questions, please contact submissions@rundog.art
What will it involve?
You will be required to attend Claudia La Rocco’s writing workshop on the 13th March at Carriageworks in Sydney, and the Keir Performances on the evenings of the 13th or 14th of March (also at Carriageworks, Sydney). You will then be provided additional editorial support to develop a response to these performances, with an expected publication date in April. In line with Running Dog’s ethos and publishing history, the form/genre of this response will be open.
About the workshop:
This is a writing workshop. It is open to anyone who wants to play with words, to see what they can do, and how. How does language live in time and space, whether on the stage, the page, in the body and the mind? Critical writing, creative writing, performance texts… are they really such different creatures? The four-hour session will include some combination of moving/writing warm up; exercises for people to do alone and in pairs; quiet time; and discussion around people’s questions, concerns, experiences, and etcetera. No one need have movement training; everything we do will be adaptable to different abilities and comfort levels. Please wear clothing that you feel good moving and being still in, as well as something to write with and on that isn’t a machine.—Claudia La Rocco
About Claudia La Rocco:
Claudia La Rocco’s work explores hybridity and improvisation, moving between criticism, poetry, fiction, and performance. Her books include the selected writings The Best Most Useless Dress (Badlands Unlimited) and the sf novel petit cadeau (published in print, performance, and digital editions by The Chocolate Factory theater). With musician/composer Phillip Greenlief she is animals & giraffes, an experiment in improvisation that performs with artists from different disciplines and has released the albums July (Edgetone Records) and Landlocked Beach (with Wobbly; Creative Sources). She edited I Don’t Poem: An Anthology of Painters (Off the Park Press) and Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets, the catalogue for Danspace Projectʼs PLATFORM 2015, for which she was guest artist curator. La Rocco has received grants and residencies from such organizations as the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation, and Headlands Center for the Arts, and her work has been presented and anthologized widely. From 2001-2015 she was a critic and reporter for The New York Times, and she is Editorial Director of Open Space, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s live and online commissioning platform.
About the 2020 Keir Foundation Award:
The Keir Choreographic Award is a national biennial award dedicated to commissioning original works and promoting innovative, experimental and cross-artform practices in contemporary dance.
The 2020 artist selection represents a mix of early-career to established practitioners, from states and cities across Australia, with diverse perspectives on and approaches to contemporary dance. The eight selected choreographers plan to explore politically and socially engaged themes—from Indigenous sovereignty and Blak feminism, to Queer diasporas on colonised land, to living with a disability and life in the age of climate change. Presenting work in March are: Alison Currie, Angela Goh, Riana Head-Toussaint, Amrita Hepi, Jo Lloyd, Zachary Lopez, Lewis Major, The Farm. The eight commissioned works will be presented before an international jury of leading dance practitioners at Dancehouse, 3-7 March 2020. Four of the works will be selected by jury to be performed at Carriageworks 12-14 March 2020.
About Running Dog:
Running Dog is an online arts platform that publishes weekly articles on exhibitions and events taking place in Sydney and regional New South Wales. We believe in experimentation, playfulness and rigour in contemporary arts writing, and seek to privilege nuance and contemplation in debate. Above all else, we endeavour to create a multi-vocal space for emerging and established writers who wish to challenge or disrupt the modes of contemporary arts writing. Our contributors include poets, critics, film scholars, musicians and fiction writers.
Running Dog acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the traditional owners of the land that facilitates the creation of this project. This land was never ceded and was taken by violence. We pay our respects to their elders past and present, and their descendants.