Choreodrome 2025 Call-Out

Online Q&A Session: Mon 13 Jan 2025, 5pm - 6pm (To reserve a place at please email choreodrome@theplace.org.uk).

Apply by: Fri 24 Jan 2025

Interviews will take place online in the weeks commencing 3 and 10 March 2025

 Choreodrome residencies will run from 14 Jul – 5 Sep 2025

You can apply for Choreodrome using this form.

Please fill in this Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form.

This information helps us monitor discrimination and harassment and allows us to address any identifiable negative trends.

There was no pressure to have a set result [during Choreodrome]. Because of that, we were able to create a gentle creative environment and worked at our own pace, meeting our needs and care-centred way of working.

- previous Choreodrome Artist

All selected artists receive a commission of £2,500 and 1-2 weeks of studio space. This is the standard package of support.

In addition, we offer a range of support for artists. This might include:

• Producing and marketing meetings

• Free technical equipment hire
• Studio sharings and feedback sessions

• Free weekly artist networking lunches

Our Artist Associate will be on hand for 1-1 studio sessions, dramaturgical advice and feedback sessions.

For all Choreodrome artists, there is the opportunity to present your work in a public work in progress sharing, taking place in September 2025.

We want to hear from Hip Hop artists who would benefit from some focused and specialist producing and creative support to engage in a period of R&D.

We will be offering support to two Hip Hop artists whose work is rooted in social, club or street dances.

In addition to the standard package of support, the selected artists will also receive:

• Tailored support from artist Kloé Dean to be agreed with the artist
• Tailored support from The Place and Artist Associate to be agreed with the artist

About Kloé Dean

Kloé Dean is a visionary storyteller, known for bringing narratives to life on stages and screens worldwide. As a choreographer, movement director, and performing artist, Kloé’s expertise originates from Hip Hop, Funk and Streetdance styles.

Kloé has worked with music artists such as Little Simz (Glastonbury 2024), SAULT, Anne-Marie, Little Mix, Cleo Sol, Ghetts, Ezra Collective, and Kojey Radical. She has also collaborated with brands like Jimmy Choo, Nike, George at ASDA, Marks & Spencer, and Yazoo, and contributed to events including The Brit Awards, The MOBO Awards, and Capital Radio’s Summer Time Ball and Jingle Bell Ball.

Currently a Work Place artist at The Place, Kings Cross, Kloé is the Creative Director and Choreographer of the all-female Hip Hop dance company Myself UK Dance. Her theatre credits include Gully (Royal Court), Floella Benjamin’s Coming To England UK Tour (2024/25), Tambo and Bones and Gone Too Far (Stratford East), Tapped (Theatre 503), and Dorian (Reading Rep). She has also performed at Breakin Convention (Sadler’s Wells) and Ladies Of Hip Hop (New York), and participated in The Sub Urban Danse Festival (Copenhagen).

Kloé has taught at Pineapple, Studio 68, Base, and The Hub, and delivered workshops in Spain, Denmark, and Turkey. She recently curated the Streetdance class timetable at East London Dance Talent House in Stratford. Passionate about education and battling, Kloé has competed both in the UK and internationally, judged battles, and created work for dance crews, schools education establishments.

For this residency, we want to hear from artists who are working across contemporary and classical Indian dance styles (including but not limited to Kathak, Bharatnatyam, or regional Indian folk dance). We will be offering support to two artists whose work aligns with Bradford Arts Centre’s Programming Strands.

Artists selected for this strand will find 1-1 studio time with a practitioner helpful and exciting.

In addition to the standard package of support, the selected artists will also receive:

• 1 week studio space at Bradford Arts Centre

• £750 contribution towards accommodation

• Performance/sharing opportunity as part of Bradford Arts Centre’s autumn season in Sep 2025

• Tailored programme of support from Bradford Arts Centre to be agreed with the artist

• Artistic and producing support from Bradford Arts Centre and associate artists

• Networking opportunities facilitated by Bradford Arts Centre

About Bradford Arts Centre (formerly known as Kala Sangam)

Bradford Arts Centre will open in summer 2025, following a multi-million pound redevelopment, as a major hub for the arts and culture in Bradford. Along with a 200 seat theatre and 5 studio spaces for artists to create work, BDAC will also be home to BCB radio and a café. BDAC aims to bring people and communities together to create and experience high-quality diverse art, to increase understanding and awareness of different cultures, and to provide talent development pathways for young people and emerging artists into a career in the arts.

BDAC programmes and supports artists that fit within their three programming stands – South Asian Now (South Asian artists/organisations or that showcases art forms from South Asia. A priority is placed on presenting work which develops the art form and/or is created by British people of South Asian descent.) This Is Bradford (Artists/ Organisations based in Bradford or who are creating work that is directly relevant to Bradford’s communities) and British Diversity (Artists/ Organisations creating work that reflects the diversity of contemporary Britain).

Supported by the Higher Education Innovation Fund

We want to create a lively space for innovation, experimentation and collaboration by bringing together artists, researchers and communities. 

This booster pack is designed for artists whose practice aligns with the interests and expertise of London Contemporary Dance School staff working as artists, scholars and researchers in dance and beyond.  

The booster pack includes the opportunity to work with an LCDS staff member as a peer expert. Artists should have a clear idea of how their research can be further developed through this exchange. We would like to hear from artists interested in exploring interdisciplinary collaboration, whose work is led by enquiry and/or who might be considering future PhD research.    

Profiles of LCDS staff you can request to work with and areas of interest:

Tom Hastings – performance studies; dance and visual art; decolonisation; cultural memory; cultures of protest; dance and politics; marxism; feminism; working with the archive

Katrina McPherson – practice as research; screendance practice, theories and histories; digital installation and projection in performance; documentary filmmaking; cinematography; directing and collaboration

Efrosini Protopapa – dramaturgy, collectivity and collaboration; choreographic scores; dance and visual arts; performance in galleries, museums and public spaces

Andrew Sanger – anthropology and ethnography, protest and activism, ecology and the more-than-human, queer theory.

Thea Stanton - practice as research, choreography, critical race theory, decolonial and postcolonial feminism, immersive and participatory practices, inclusive approaches and the relaxed methodology.

Lise Uytterhoeven – spectatorship, visual humour, choreography, dramaturgy, performance histories, language and culture.

Sam Wilson – performance and critical theories of society; technology (the digital, posthumanism, etc.); the body, matter, and materialism; the unconscious and psychoanalytic theory; intersections of dance, contemporary music, and sound art.  

In addition to the standard package of support, the selected artists will also receive:

• Mentorship and access to an experienced academic/artist who can support your research, equivalent of 3 days over the two-week residency, including a preparation meeting

• Opportunities to attend workshops or seminars on research-led artistic methods and practice research

• Networking opportunities with other scholars, artists, researchers or professionals working in your area of interest  

• Access to the library at London Contemporary Dance School   

• £2000 to support the development of documentation or any other aspect of your project that strengthens its research dimension

• Consultation and advice on research methodologies, including the presentation and sharing of research enquiry

• You must have been creating performance work in a professional setting for a minimum of 3 years (occasionally less experienced artists are considered)

• You are based in the UK

• You have a piece of work you want to develop, this could be new or existing work

• Your idea should have the potential to be presented in The Place’s Theatre (occasionally other projects are considered)

• Part of the work will be ready to share with us at the end of the residency

• You can demonstrate how the residency will benefit you as an artist

• You are ambitious, want to challenge yourself, your collaborators and us

• You have clear demonstration of additional funding support, or intention to pursue funding and/or partnerships.

We cannot support:

• Undergraduates

• Those based outside the UK

• Artists wanting to re-rehearse existing pieces

How does The Place select participants?

We usually receive a large number of applications to take part. We usually invite 25 artists to interview online.

These interviews will be an opportunity to discuss your ideas and how you will use the commission in more detail. Interviewed artists are offered a fee for their time. All applicants will receive feedback.

The panel reviewing all applications will be The Place’s Artist Development Team, an independent artist, and Bradford Arts Centre and artist representative.

What are you looking for in my application?

• We are looking for innovative research projects that respond to particular questions or issues which are relevant to contemporary society, for example: social and racial injustice, gender identity and other related issues to LGBTQIA2S+ communities, care and wellbeing, ecological sustainability, work for children and families, and other pressing issues affecting society today.

• We are interested in work that is being developed for live and/or digital presentation, and that may in the future have the potential to tour to a range of spaces, including rural village halls, schools, community settings, as well as small and mid-scale theatres, and in our theatre, at The Place.

• We are interested in how your ideas explored might meet and engage an audience and participants locally, nationally and globally in the future

• We are keen to hear from people we haven’t worked with before as well as artists we have existing relationships with

How do you support artists with access requirements?

Once selected, you will be invited to fill out an Access Rider form or to share your access needs with us and caring responsibilities. We will put in place as much as we can to enable you to take part in your residency.

Where we can, we will contribute to access costs, this might include:

• Contributing to an access support worker during your time with us

• Contributing to childcare costs or caring responsibilities so you can attend your interview

• Contributing to costs for a BSL interpreter for meetings or events related to Choreodrome

• Support you to include access costs in other funding applications (e.g. Arts Council England)

• Flexibility on studio time to fit around caring responsibilities

What facilities do you have at The Place?

For information about building and venue accessibility please follow this link.