Summer at COMMON: Create & Perform Session 1
Program Dates: June 12 - 24, 2023
Location: COMMON, 1535 N. Dayton St. Chicago, IL 60642
Tuition: $900 (If invited to attend, $250 due at the time of registration on May 12, 2023)
Terence Marling (Artistic Director of COMMON) and Braeden Barnes (Artistic Director of Symbiosis Arts) invite pre-professional and experienced contemporary dancers to join a two-week creative intensive at COMMON.
Dancers will be given daily technique classes and the unique opportunity to participate in the creation of an evening of new work with both choreographers. This intensive offers serious contemporary dancers the chance to elevate their technical training while experiencing a creative process similar to a professional environment. The two-week creative period culminates in a public performance at COMMON.
Daily Schedule
The workshop will be held at COMMON (1535 N. Dayton St. Chicago, IL 60642) on Monday - Friday from 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM.
Sample Daily Schedule
10-11:30 AM Technique/Warm-up Class
12:00 - 5:00 PM Rehearsals
The performance schedule on Saturday, June 24th will differ. Please expect to be available from 2 PM - 10 PM on this date.
FREE video submissions will be accepted until further notice.
You can still send in a video audition. Details are in the registration form.
About Terence Marling
Terence (Terry) Marling has choreographed for more than twenty years. He has created works for Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Hubbard Street 2, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Robert Moses Kin, and Orange County Ballet Theatre, among many others. Terence’s approach to choreography is collaborative and includes improvisation. His work contains humor, subtlety, and a wide dynamic range.
About Braeden Barnes
Braeden Barnes is an award-winning choreographer. His choreography has been featured across the U.S. at companies in Chicago, Las Vegas, New York City, and Atlanta. His work has won the first place “Audience Choice Award” at REVERBDance Festival in New York, as well as first place for “Best Choreography” at YAGP. He has choreographed for numerous companies including Nevada Ballet Theatre, Cirque Du Soleil, Visceral Dance Chicago, Waterstreet Dance Milwaukee, A&A Ballet, Common Conservatory, and New Dances: a collaboration between Danceworks and Thodos Dance Chicago.