This opportunity is funded to support widening participation among students from under-represented groups. In order to apply you must meet one of the University’s Widening Participation criteria. To check your eligibility please click here please get in touch or visit Handshake.
At Katie Dale-Everett Dance, we create inspiring interdisciplinary creative opportunities for all to discover more about themselves and others, leading to kinder, better-connected and healthier communities. We approach this often by co-creating with people who have had limited or no access to the arts before.
Our core values when making and programming where we take our work is to:
– Inspire creative engagement within all communities, including those currently disengaged.
– Advocate for the arts as a tool to improve physical and emotional wellbeing.
– Provide accessible, inclusive and meaningful ways for people to share their stories and participate.
We tour work to untraditional performance spaces including schools, libraries, community centres, homeless shelters, festivals, bespoke bookings for arts organisations and their communities and our hope for 2025 family hubs and hospitals. We have also toured to theatres.
The Micro-internship:
This internship is for two choreography and/or dance performance students who would like to be part of a research and development week. All hours will be spent in the rehearsal room where we will be re-looking at a piece I started to develop in 2019 called ‘Empa’.
‘Empa’ is an intimate participative installation using virtual reality and dance to tackle questions of communication, including: how we see each other and ourselves and also how communities come back together after lockdown and during the current loneliness pandemic.
Find out more here: https://katiedale-everettdance.co.uk/projects/creative-projects/empa
Skills / Personal Attributes required:
Improvisational skills,
Movement memory,
Performance skills,
Interest in immersive technology,
Collaborative,
Open to discussion/inputting ideas
Dates:
Dates if funding is successful: Monday 18th August – Friday 22nd August 2025.
Back-Up dates if we have to reapply: Monday 27th October – Friday 31st October 2025.
This opportunity is only available to current 1st and 2nd year students.
Micro-internship Outcomes:
Gain a practical understanding of how your developing skill set is valued and can contribute to creative works, community engagement and international collaboration and research.
Gain experience in cross-disciplinary collaborative and industry practices.
Learn about community-led arts engagement.
Gain experience in immersive technology and how this can be used within a dance project.
Understand how funding for arts projects is secured and managed.
Learn how to work effectively as a small team, with a focus on teams that bring unique skill sets together.
Develop a network within arts, technology, innovation and wellbeing.
Gain recognition for your work and create material that can feature within your portfolio.
To apply:
Send a showreel/video of yourself dancing.
Write a short expression of interest (no more than A4) about why you are interested in the role and what you hope to gain from it.
If you have any questions or need anything in a different format, please contact us on katie@katiedale-everettdance.co.uk.
Eligibility:
*This internship opportunity is part of the Micro-Internship Scheme and will be 30 hours in duration, to be completed within 2-6 weeks.
This role will be paid at £13.68 per hour (inclusive of holiday pay).
You will need to be enrolled on a course, and studying at Falmouth University during the 2024/25 academic year.
You will be asked to provide evidence to demonstrate your right to work in the UK if selected for this position.
You must be at least 18 years of age and living within the UK at the time of undertaking the micro-internship.
📸 by Sophie Newton
