YDANCE, Scottish Youth Dance, the national dance organisation for children and young people in Scotland – is seeking contemporary dancers aged 16 to 21 for the dance training programme, the Project Y Performance Course.
Spending four weeks during the summer as a member of the Project Y Company, dancers will work with four choreographers to create and rehearse four new dance works before performing in venues across Scotland in the annual Project Y Tour.
The Project Y Performance Course 2018 will run for four weeks starting on Monday 2 July.
The first three weeks will be based in Glasgow to create and rehearse with the choreographers.
On the fourth week, the company will tour and perform in venues across Scotland.
Applications are now open.
www.ydance.org
FOUR of Scotland’s leading education and arts institutions are joining forces in a new collaboration that marks the turbulent year of 1968.
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, The Glasgow School of Art, the University of Glasgow and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra are to stage an event and exhibition at Tramway, Glasgow in March 2018.
Last Futures will showcase the country’s "most exciting emerging talent as they celebrate and question the socio-political movements which made 1968 a year that changed history."
The exhibition opens on March 17 with the opening night for the performance and exhibition on March 18.
Last Futures runs until March 25 and will bring together hundreds of artists, academics, curators, performers, writers, musicians and designers. Four composition students from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland will write new works for Last Futures.
The pieces will be performed by Royal Conservatoire musicians and members of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
This is the third collaboration between the institutions.
In 2016, New Dreams celebrated the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death with music, drama, dance and visual art inspired by themes in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
In 2013, MONAD, which was supported by Scottish Ballet, commemorated the centenary of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring.
www.rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice
THE Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has received the results of its commissioned survey of Fringe workers.
497 people took part in the survey from 60 different organisations, in roles ranging from Front of House to Box Office, Technical to Bar and Catering.
The results have now been published.
Shona McCarthy, Chief Executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, said: "As the organisation that underpins the festival, it is encouraging to hear that 90% of respondents would choose to work at the Fringe again, and that 83% were satisfied or very satisfied with their overall Fringe experience.
"The Society is mindful, though, that work still needs to be done to ensure everyone’s Fringe experience is as positive as it can be."
www.edfringe.com
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