Choreolab 2025
Footnote’s two week long professional development event is back for another summer, and its bigger and better than ever.
For 2025, we are changing the way the workshops are run and how you can be involved as an artist. We have added more workshops around a broader range of subjects to develop your artistry outside of your movement practice. We have also changed the way that you can apply for the workshops across the two weeks, to make it more accessible for artists.
Choreolab 2025
6th-17th January
Tapere Nui, Te Auaha
65 Dixon Street, Te Aro, Wellington
The Tutors
Lea Ved
Lea Ved (1991, USA) is an independent choreographer and dance artist based in the Netherlands. She graduated from The Juilliard School and has danced internationally with Nederlands Dans Theater, The Royal Swedish Ballet, RUBBERBANDance Group, and as a guest with Kidd Pivot. Her choreographic work and research developed alongside a rich dance career — in reflection, deviation, and inquiry. Her creations are exploratory and investigative in nature, seeped between the detail of form and a cultivated improvisational practice. Her more notable works as a choreographer have been produced by Göteborgsoperans Danskompani, NDT, Korzo Theater, Heavy Hitters Breakdance Crew and CaDance Festival. She will be a house choreographer for Korzo Theater in January 2025.
Workshop - embodying poetic state
We will awaken a physical language through a guided landscape of improvisation, first starting in specific subtlety, attention to functional detail, its play, our rhythms. we identify our form, so to be able to deviate from it, to distort, to dis-figure, to de-form. we will grow from an intimate sphere towards an outward charge, from the floor and through space, from individual attention and then with input from one another. perhaps i will offer choreographic material to investigate, to play, to make one's own. in the plentitude of words to describe physical philosophy, i am personally interested in individual expression, intuition, choice making. my aim is to create the creative parameters, which allow the mind to plug in, the body's intelligence to speak, and for expression to find duration.
Ross McCormack
Ross is a New Zealand Arts Laureate, a celebrated performer and renowned choreographer. Currently Auckland-based, Ross is a graduate of the New Zealand School of Dance, he went on to dance with the Douglas Wright Dance Company, Royal New Zealand Ballet, and Australian Dance Theatre, among others. He founded MuscleMouth dance company, and has choreographed and directed works that have been performed around the world.
Workshop - Body Orders
Movement as an organising tool.
This is often how I see my work, The body/mind, The performer under a cacophony of orders as it moves to arrange and organise its place in the space. A Dance of Soft Conflicts.
Inside this workshop I would like to elaborate on what I call 'body orders', See if together we can better define this idea. Set up and breakdown movement pathways inside what I call 'The Organising Tool' Show how I see the body moving to organise itself against a hierarchy of object, body and text.
Joshua & Tyler Carney-Faleatua by Andi Crown
Joshua & Tyler Carney-Faleatua
Fale and Tyler both work as independent dance artists as well as creating work together through their company, Threading Frames. Centering around the integration of dance and film, they are the recipients of the Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Springboard award 2024 where their work has been presented in Aotearoa, Australia, Netherlands, Greece, Sweden, and France. Fale’s background in breaking, krump and contemporary dance has led him to collaborate with various companies such as Chunky Move, Ta’alili, Stephanie Lake Company, Movement of The Human, Footnote New Zealand Dance and New Zealand Dance Company. He has also shared his movement practice with the University of Melbourne, The University of Auckland and Unitec Institute of Technology. Meanwhile, Tyler has collaborated with Marina Abramović, Michael Keegan-Dolan, Luke Murphy, Ta’alili, Footnote New Zealand Dance and New Zealand Dance Company. She has additionally been invited to choreograph and share her movement practice with institutions like Rambert School, The New Zealand School of Dance, Unitec Institute of Technology, Ev & Bow, and Brent Street.
Workshop - Threading Frames - Creative Process
Threading Frames blends dance, theatre, storytelling, and film driven by a deep curiosity about the human body as a vessel of expression. Our work explores how movement can serve as the primary narrative tool within cinematic contexts. We will offer insight into our creative practice, with a focus on world-building and sharing not just techniques but the deeper conceptual work that drives our creations, offering participants a hands-on experience of how we shape ideas into something tangible. Together, we’ll dive into the intersection of movement and cinematography, sharing insights from both our filmmaking and post-production perspectives. We’ll share how our dance background informs our approach, while also embracing the endless possibilities film can offer. There’s no need to wait for a big stage or a lot of financial backing—your surroundings already offer opportunities for you to express your unique vision, so let’s get creative together.
Braedyn Togi
Braedyn Togi
Braedyn is a multi disciplinary artist born in Aotearoa and currently based in Pōneke (Wellington). A dancer, choreographer, clothing designer, mentor, and his passion within the arts is fuelled by Pacific peoples.
https://www.instagram.com/braedyntogi/
Workshop - Mindful Movement
We will unpack as best as we can our 'truest' forms of movement.We will incorporate breath, talanoa, shared experience and staying with movement long enough to better serve ourselves.
Tyler Carney-Faleatua by Joshua Carney-Faleatua
Tyler Carney-Faleatua
Tyler is a dancer, filmmaker and facilitator who has been working across Aotearoa, Australia and Europe for the past decade. She has collaborated with various artists, choreographers and companies including Marina Abramović, Michael Keegan-Dolan (Teaċ Daṁsa), Luke Murphy (Attic Projects), Ta’alili, New Zealand Dance Company, Footnote New Zealand Dance and Atamira Dance Company. Her journey as a dancer has led her across the globe, performing and touring in live shows across Aotearoa, Australia, France, Austria, Ireland, United Kingdom, USA, China, Germany and Switzerland. Beyond her performance career, Tyler has been invited to share her movement practice with institutes and companies such as Rambert School, The New Zealand School of Dance, Unitec Institute of Technology, Ev & Bow and Brent Street. She is the co-director of Threading Frames alongside Joshua Faleatua who is both her life and collaborative partner. Their award winning work centres around the integration of dance, theatre, storytelling and film which has been presented across Aotearoa, Australia, Netherlands, Greece, Sweden, and France.
Workshop - In Motion
Let’s prepare our bodies for the day ahead with a session that dives into my personal movement practice and creative interests. Together, we’ll explore momentum-based pathways to expand our mind, bodies and our physical availability. In our sessions, I’ll share some tools and ideas I’ve been exploring, influenced by my background in improvisation, contemporary dance, and waving. I hope to foster a supportive and safe atmosphere while we dive into a range of textures and concepts to inspire our flow.
Kate McIntosh by Thor Brødreskift
Kate McIntosh
Kate McIntosh (1974) is an artist who practices across the boundaries of installation and performance. Her works often focus on the physicality of both performer and public, the manipulation of objects and materials, and the development of direct relations between spectators. She has ongoing fascinations with the sensory, transformation, collectivity, animal-human connections, destruction, mess, humour, care. Originally from Aotearoa New Zealand and trained in dance - since 2004 McIntosh developed an internationally recognized body of stage and trans-disciplinary work which tours extensively in Europe as well as to Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.
https://www.spinspin.be/practice/kate-mcintosh/
Workshop - Audience guidance, agency & bewilderment
This workshop explores immersive performances, and how to bodily engage audiences. We start by looking at some of Kate McIntosh’s previous works, which propose tactile and social encounters between strangers. We discuss the ethics, possibilities and pitfalls of audience interaction - thinking about agency and autonomy, transgression, exposure, implicit and explicit instructions, refusal, and sensorial situations. After our conversation, workshop participants imagine and discuss their own immersive proposals. This masterclass is good for anyone who’s making performances (or curious about that process) and anyone exploring relationships with audiences. It’s also good for those who are curious about how works like In Many Hands (2016) and Lake Life (2023) and Worktable (2011) were made.
Workshop Schedule
6 - 17 January 2025
WEEK ONE (6th-10th January)
9.30am - 11am: In Motion - Tyler Carney-Faleatua
11.30am - 1.30pm: Mindful Movement - Braedyn Togi
2.30pm - 4.30pm: Audience guidance, agency & bewilderment - Kate McIntosh
WEEK ONE WEEKEND (11th-12th January)
10am - 12pm & 1pm - 3pm: Threading Frames creative process - Joshia & Tyler Carney-Faleatua
WEEK TWO (13th-17th January)
9am - 1pm: Embodying poetic state - Lea Ved
2pm - 5pm: Body Orders - Ross McCormack
Pricing
This year we are introducing a new pricing structure for Choreolab, to add more flexibility and accessbility to participants.
Option 1: All-in - this is for the entire two weeks, all workshops included. $400
Option 2: Per-workshop (this is for a full week of workshops, not per-session)
In Motion with Tyler Carney-Faleatua - $75
Mindful Movement with Braedyn Togi - $100
Audience guidance, agency & bewilderment with Kate McIntosh - $100
Threading Frames - Creative Process with Tyler Carney Faleatua & Joshua Faleatua - $100
Embodying Poetic State with Lea Ved $200
Body Orders with Ross McCormack $150
All costs are for the week of workshops, and include GST
*Fee is non-refundable. We will consider transfers case by case.
If you have any questions about Choreolab, please email Footnote's Artistic Director, Anita Hunziker anita@footnote.org.nz
Applications for Choreolab 2025 close on Sunday 17 November 2024
Payment must be made by 14th December 2024