Oxygen 24-25 Online Information Events

Oxygen is Pagrav Dance Company's Emerging South Asian Dance Artists Programme

In 24-25, the programme will run between October 2024 - March 2025.

As part of the callout and application process for the 24-25 Oxygen Programme, Pagrav Dance are hosting two online information sessions. These will take place via Webinar on Google Meet, on:

• 22nd July 2024, 12-1pm

• 8th August 2024, 12-1pm

Full information on the Programme and application process can be found here. Please book your free place for one of the information sessions via this page.

About Oxygen

Pagrav Dance will support and enable a new generation of South Asian artists and creatives to be aware of, explore, understand and improve their own practice. We will also support professionals currently working in this space through residencies, shadowing and mentoring opportunities. In turn, this will encourage them to consider expanding their portfolio as performers, teachers and more importantly makers.

Oxygen will build on the existing work that Pagrav Dance Company already provides to individual artists and creatives. For the last ten years we have informally supported South Asian creatives with discrete, sensitive and confidential support through ongoing mentoring and coaching. Oxygen enables PDC to both codify and structure this area of our work, as well as expand the offer to more South Asian creatives.

Over a 6-month period, we will undertake a series of interventions that will embed this way of working across our organisation. Activities will include:

• Residencies: Bespoke residencies hosted at the Pagrav Dance Company Studios. Focussed on having the time, space and support to develop your practice, whilst immersing yourself in dance.

• Coaching and Mentoring: Person centred bespoke coaching and mentoring with an industry expert.

• Training and Shadowing: Intensive masterclasses, workshops and seminars that span from producing and curating to body conditioning, Choreography and Tal. For the practical intensives Urja Desai Thakore will bring different aspects of Indian classical dance and participatory arts knowledge to the studio, offering guidance and supporting artistic curiosity. Shadowing opportunities through Pagrav Dance will enable artists to experience, first-hand, their career opportunities in relation to participatory arts.

We will select 5 dance artists through our open call. Artists will be asked to fill in the online Expression of interest.

Oxygen is for dance artists (including teachers) who:

• Have been working in a professional setting for a minimum of 3 years (occasionally less experienced artists are included)

• Are based in the UK

• Are working with South Asian Dance at the core

• Can demonstrate how Oxygen will benefit them

• Are ambitious to challenge themselves, their peers and us

In this project we cannot support:

• Undergraduates

• Those based outside the UK

• Artists with less than 3 years professional experience

• Travel costs