Decidedly Jazz Danceworks was born to reclaim the spirit of the jazz dance form and evolve the art forward. Our artists are challenged to perform original choreography each season and rewarded with the opportunity to truly evolve jazz dance.

Auditions 2013

Decidedly Jazz Danceworks (DJD) is seeking male and female dancers for the Company as well as our Professional Training Program for the 2013/14 season.

Decidedly Jazz Danceworks employs 8-12 professional dancers annually on a 33-42 week contract. Contracts include health benefits, chiropractic, physiotherapy, and health club/yoga studio memberships.

Dancers interested in auditioning for Company positions must be at least 20 years of age, have a passion for jazz dance and jazz music, plus strong technique and great personal groove. Dancers auditioning for the Professional Training Program must be at least 18 years of age, and interested in furthering their knowledge of jazz dance and the work of DJD.

Contact us to audition

Please email Joanne Baker prior to the audition date to register your intent to audition. Indicate the city where you will be auditioning and whether you will be auditioning for the Company or the Professional Training Program. Applicants are welcome to be considered for both.

Dates/Locations

Bring Jazz shoes (soft or hard soles) plus 8X10 headshot and your resume. The photo will not be returned.

Saturday, February 23 – Toronto
Metro Movement
833 Broadview Avenue
Toronto ON
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Smart Data – Getting Your Data Working for You

Delivered by Young Associates

Date: Thursday, February 21, 2013 | 2:00 – 5:00pm

Location: Council for the Arts in Ottawa – Micaela Fitch boardroom
2 Daly Avenue, Ottawa ON K1N 6E2

Managing Your Data: Making it Work for You and Your Organization
What is a database? What do I want to get out of it? What data is relevant? How can I create consistency? This 2 hour seminar from Young Associates is designed to provide an overview of good database management practices for the arts and cultural sector. The seminar will cover goal setting, policies and procedures, and tips and tricks, and is geared to those working in both a spreadsheet or relational database environment.

Managing Data: Peer Exchange
The seminar will be followed by a 1 hour peer exchange. Stay and share best practices, challenges, goals, and questions around data management with your community members, and discuss case studies presented by the instructors.

The session is FREE

To Register: http://smartdateottawa.eventbrite.ca

Funded with support from the Canada Council for the Arts and Ontario Trillium Foundation

French to follow

First Peoples’ Artists Forum

An essential stage of development for the local First Peoples’ arts community is the delivery of a gathering that will bring together First Peoples’ artists and the cultural knowledge keepers of the region. The gathering will offer a platform to the First Nations, Inuit and Métis arts community to dialogue, share information, and generate ideas to effect action and development for the First Peoples’ community in the NCR . This will be a facilitated gathering that will make use of a dynamic dialogue process to reach the following outcomes:
1. Create common understanding of the current issues related to recognition, awareness, commemoration, reclamation, investment and access to First Nations, Inuit and Métis arts, heritage and culture in the National Capital Region;
2. Identify the relative importance of the issues and establish clear and workable priorities to focus resources and ensure action in addressing the issues;
3. Formulate a working document of the forum that formalizes the priorities, to inform and direct future initiatives in the development of the First Peoples’ art and culture in the NCR in the following ways:
a) Enhance the First Peoples’ arts and culture community by creating opportunities for artistic knowledge and skills exchange.
b) Support the transference of cultural knowledge and practices through the learning, doing, and expression of works of art and performance.
c) Create more opportunities, at all levels, for the practice and presentation of First Peoples’ art and culture in the NCR.
The gathering will also offer the opportunity to maximize networking development by building a contact list of artists, arts organizations, and key public and private sector partners.

Background:

The Ottawa 20/20 Arts and Heritage Plan was approved by Ottawa City Council in 2003. In addition to 20-year strategic directions, the Plan identified strategies, policy statements and a first five-year action plan. The Plan was to be renewed every five years, and a renewal process began in August 2009.  This renewal process brought together the strongest diversity of representation and participation ever for municipal cultural planning purposes in the area.  Voices of First Nations’, Inuit and Métis individuals and communities; representatives of the Anglophone and Francophone cultural mosaic; diverse citizenry from rural, suburban and urban neighbourhoods; new Canadians and arts, heritage, festival and fair representatives were heard. Continue reading →