Us Folk Artist Development Day, Exeter
Schedule
Mon Jun 08 2026 at 11:00 am to 03:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Exeter Phoenix | Exeter, EN
About this Event
About the Day
The day will start with a dance class led by Richard Chappell Dance, sharing the company’s movement practice. Richard's class starts with mobilising, expanding and stretching the body through repetitive movement patterns and improvisational tasks, connecting to breath. After this, exercises are looped across the studio, connecting dancers to the ground and encouraging continuous passing of weight. Spirals are used to build up momentum, coordination and precision and small phrases connect material together before a full bodied and playful final phrase. Richard's class is designed to be energetic and fun, whilst also being accessible and adaptable for different energy levels and needs.
The second session of the day will be a facilitated discussion on artistic values, where Richard will support artists to identify and articulate the values behind their practices and the motivations for their work, with a strong focus on peer discussion to support how this information may be shared with potential funders, project partners, participants and audiences. Richard will share examples of how RCD’s values and practices are put into writing, to support artists to consider their own information materials.
The final part of the day will focus on partnership development for independent, self producing artists. We will break down RCD’s partnership development practices, with a strong focus on the different ways artists may be able to work with organisations to strengthen funding bids and build clear narratives of activity for self produced projects, whilst growing career momentum for the artist. Time will be allocated to peer discussion to support mapping of potential future partners for each attending artist.
Us Folk Performance
This workshop goes alongside our performance of our new production Us Folk at Exeter Northcott on the 16th June. If you are able to, we'd be grateful if you could come along to support our work there!
Day Schedule, 8th June:
Class: 11am-12.15pm
Break: 12.15pm-12.45pm
Artistic Values Session: 12.45pm-2.45pm
Break: 2.45pm-3pm
Partnership Development Session and Day Conclusion: 3pm - 4pm
How To Book
Please book a place for the day via Eventbrite.
Artists are welcome to attend the full day, or specific sessions depending on their needs. Should you wish to attend some of the sessions throughout the day but not all of them, please book at ticket for the day and email [email protected] mentioning which sessions you will be attending.
Due to the subsidised nature of these session, we would be grateful if artists only sign up if they intend to take part in the sessions and that if schedules change, we are notified as soon as possible.
Access
Should you have any access needs, please do let us know and we will facilitate the necessary support needed to make the session accessible for you.
Where is it happening?
Exeter Phoenix, Gandy Street, Exeter, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
GBP 0.00
