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Rose Choreographic School is an experimental research and pedagogy

The theories and practices of learning

project. We support a cohort of 13 artists to explore their singular choreographic enquiries and to collectively imagine a school through which knowledges and practices can be developed and shared. There is no set curriculum or syllabus, and no predetermined outcome; the focus is on coming together as a community of artist researchers to discover the conditions we need for speculation and articulation. Applications for this first cycle are now closed. Information about the first cohort is posted on the People page.

We propose a postdisciplinary

This is a key term for us – linking our interest in educational practices that exceed academic disciplinary boundaries together with the critical rethinking of medium specificity and the notion of a dancerly discipline.

approach to the question of the choreographic and engage with artists from all practices and inclinations for whom the concept of the choreographic is a central concern.

Each cycle of the School lasts two years, during which we offer access to studio spaces, mentoring and a research budget. The Artistic Faculty

There is a permanent Faculty consisting of the Head and Assistant Producer

The Artistic Faculty will change with every two-year cycle

We will also invite visiting artists and make connections with the wider staff teams of Sadler’s Wells

Artists in the School can also nominate their own mentors

for this first cycle are Alesandra Seutin, Trajal Harrell and William Forsythe and they will invite engagement with their own research concerns and practices through workshops and seminars. There is also a podcast series thorns which can be found on our Publications page. We are already working with the cohort to develop a schedule of regular onsite and online meetings to enable us to develop processes of critique and support.

We are also working in partnership with Goldsmiths, University of London to support a fully funded CHASE (Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-East England) collaborative doctoral award on “The four-plus-dimensional Materialities

to regard and treat the fabric of the choreographic as committedly composite and variously unstable and unbounded.

of the Choreographic”. Applications for this have now closed.

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For more information visit the Glossary or Publications page where we expand on the ideas underpinning this project.