24 JULY - 2 AUG

Participants will receive training in outdoor movement based interactive performance and outdoor dance using contemporary and traditional Indonesian dance amongst others. Subsequently as a collective the participants will be led through a creation process to develop dance and movement work for outdoor performance, culminating in an informal sharing of the resulting experiment at the start of Multifaceted, Articulation’s gathering of artists, companies and stakeholders in outdoor arts. This year the theme of the Articulation gathering will be exploring the evolution of multidisciplinary outdoor arts practice.

 

Participants should have experience in performing outdoors and/ or dance. There is no requirement for experience or skills in outdoor performance AND dance but an interest in both is essential. 

 

Surge will provide 

• A bursary of £270 per participant 

• Training in outdoor arts and dance

• Entrance to Multifaceted 

• Applicants based in Scotland may apply for travel costs to Glasgow (these funds are limited and priority will be for those travelling from outside the central belt)

 

To apply please send a short biography and your reason(s) for applying (Max 500 words in total) to alan@surge.scot by Monday 8th June. You must be available for all times and days.

 

If you require further information please email Alan on the email above.

 

Biographies

 

Gianti Giadi (Gigi) 

 

Gigi is a choreographer, dancer, artistic director, and educator, and the founder of Gigi Art of Dance, Gigi Dance Company, and Gigi Foundation (since 2009). A Lasalle College of the Arts (Singapore) graduate and former lecturer, she holds a BA (Hons) 

and multiple teaching certifications in CSTD Contemporary, Modern Jazz, and Musical Theatre (BDC, New York). Trained in RAD Ballet, Traditional Indonesian, Bharatanatyam, and Hip Hop, Gigi mentors six in-house crews, including Gcrew and G.O.Honoured as a Singapore Tourism Board cultural ambassador in 2018, she bridges diverse cultures through her art. 

 

An associate artist with Maya Dance Theatre, she collaborates with 

Diverse Ability Dance Collective and mentors G-Star, a Down-syndrome dance group. Awarded Performing Arts Ambassador of Indonesia, Gigi’s latest touring work ALIH explores life, human connection, and mind-body unity. Her mission is to empower all through 

inclusive, expressive movement.

 

Alan Richardson

 

Alan has worked in the outdoor arts sector for 35 years as a producer, 

director, teacher, performer, and musical director. He has led outdoor arts training in Porto (European Capital of Culture 2001) and Liverpool (Hope St LTD) and programmed street theatre festivals in Porto, Liverpool, and Glasgow. His devised and directed performances have toured internationally with great success.

 

Currently Director of Surge, Alan promotes outdoor arts, physical theatre, and circus across Scotland. His work includes professional development, residencies, outreach programmes, and Surge Festival, Scotland’s largest outdoor arts festival held each July in Glasgow

 

Melanie Jordan

Melanie is a multi-award-winning director, actor and theatre maker based in Glasgow. Trained at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh and Ècole Philippe Gaulier in Paris, she is the resident Physical Theatre Practitioner with Surge and co-Artistic Director of physical theatre company Jordan & Skinner. Melanie teaches clown and physical theatre across Scotland and internationally. 

 

Directing credits include Once You See the Smoke by Scottish Youth Theatre National Ensemble 2020, Slug by Visible Fictions and Imaginary Forests by Rowenbank Circus. Theatre-maker and performer credits include A Brief History of the Fragile Male Ego, At a Stretch and Sanitise by Jordan & Skinner.