EOI: Peer Led Dance and Mental Health Creative Development - by Grace Dance Company and Schizy Inc
DESCRIPTION
Please find below an Expression of Interest form for the Grace Dance Company // Schizy Inc Peer Led Dance Mental Health Creative Development.

The dancer cohort will comprise 6 young female identifying people with lived experience of the public mental health system (between the ages of 18-30). The participating cohort will identify with dance as a meaningful way of communicating, seeking to reconcile their artistic practice with their own lived experiences of mental ill health. The creative development will be collaborative and peer led, focussed on integrative peer support with improvisation and other dance practices. The program will be guided by Hannah Friebel, Lived Experience Consultant and Artist. You can find more info about her practice at www.hannahgabriellefriebel.com or www.sincerelysurvivor.org

This will be a paid opportunity for dancers to support the creative development of a work, with the aim to apply for additional funding to perform at La Mama Theatre in late 2022. There will be a work in progress showing at the end of the development process, and the 6 cohort members will be invited to pursue additional professional development to practice as Peer Mental Health and Dance Practitioners through Grace Dance Company.

The location of the development will be at the St Cath's Arts Precinct, Caulfield South, requiring face to face attendance (covid pending) every Friday afternoon for the 10 week development period May-July.

Expressions of Interest will close on the 31st March 2022, with an introductory workshop/information session held soon after.

ABOUT
This project is supported by funding from the Ducas Paul Foundation and Vic Health in partnership with Grace Dance Company and Schizy Inc.

Grace Dance Company has a mission to care for dancers and communities through artistic practice and cultural storytelling, with strong mental health inclusion priorities. The Company seeks to advocate for a future of sustainable and diverse dance practice. Their debut work featured as an award winning dance film about mental health in 2020 in partnership with Sincerely Survivor - find more info at https://www.sincerelysurvivor.org/the-dance-film

Schizy Inc is a lived/living experience-led arts organisation based in Melbourne/on Wurundjeri, for creatives with diverse mental health to reclaim stories and find pathways into the arts sector. More information can be found at www.schizy.org

Please contact Hannah at hannahgabriellefriebel@gmail.com should you require further information or wish to have a conversation about the program before applying.
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What is your interest in being involved in this project? *
Tell me about your dance experience, interest and/or training. *
Do you identify as having lived/living experience of diverse mental health/neurodiversity/the mental health system? *
(Optional response) Can you share a little about your lived experience of diverse mental health?
Tell me about your willingness to explore the connection between your lived experience and dance practice.
Are you interested in performing this work at La Mama Theatre in late 2022? Dates tbc.
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Are you available to meet weekly on Fridays between May and July 2022? * Dates tbc and subject to change *
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Do you have any access requirements? Schizy Inc and Grace Dance are aware of access requirements unique to people with environmental sensory realities. Where possible, we create 'quiet space' environments such as natural or low lighting, and music at a lower volume. We welcome accredited Mental Health Support Dogs and artists are welcome to bring a social support person, if needed.
Share some examples of your creative practice and background and or mental health advocacy (feel free to link in any portfolio or web pages below if you have any)
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