Dramaturg Call Out
Dramaturg Call Out
Impelo is seeking a dramaturg to work with them on their National Lottery Heritage funded project based on the Epynt Mountain Clearance of 1940.
Dramaturg Brief:
We are looking for someone that has an experience with and passion for bringing heritage and the arts to new audiences. You would work alongside Lead Dance Artist Bethan Cooper and the local community, bringing to life the stories of those who once lived on Mynydd Epynt (Powys) or those whose families once did.
Person Specification:
Ideally Welsh speaking
Background in drama/storytelling
Experience in creating engaging performed stories
Ideally live in Wales
A connection to dance or have worked with dance before and an understanding of creating movement based narratives
Experience with/enthusiasm for working on participant-led projects
Support the effective evaluation of the project
Fee: £1940 for 10.5 days (to include 6 rehearsal days, 1 performance day, regular meetings with Bethan Cooper and attendance in project related events) between January 2023 - July 2023
About The Role
Role: The Dramaturg will work with the Lead Dance Artist and Project Manager to ensure the cohesion of creative and community voices coming together to explore the heritage and impact of the clearances on Mynydd Epynt, therefore assisting in the creation of a compelling production that will engage audiences
The Contract will be managed by Bethan Cooper, Lead Dance Artist and Impelo.
This project will be delivered in Welsh or bilingually
You will:
With the Lead Dance Artist develop the story/ narrative from the research to create community workshops/ production
Support a collaborative approach to ‘telling the story’ of Mynydd Epynt reflecting the voices of communities, young people and schools taking part.
Work with Lead Dance Artist and other creative professionals to ensure high quality production standards of audience engaged storytelling through dance
Creating together with the Lead Dance Artist the content of community workshops which will create a compelling narrative for the production
Working with dancers and other creative professionals to storyboard, design and shape the choreography of the performed piece
Support the Lead Dance Artist in rehearsals
With participants and creatives develop the brief for digital project legacy
Take part in artist reflection session
Fortnightly or as agreed contract management sessions
About Epynt Project
The project is a co-devised creative response to the impact of the Epynt clearing of 1940 exploring themes of Welsh language, displacement and its intergenerational impact.
There will be a collaborative production process with Welsh speaking communities, young people and professional dancers to develop and perform a dance piece and digital legacy
Project outputs:
12 codesigned sessions with pupils at Ysgol Calon Cymru
4 intergenerational socials/creative conversations with the aim of building trust through eating having fun together and meeting special guests
24 oral histories exploring themes of displacement around transgenerational/ intergenerational trauma
Production of new performance-based work on the Epynt with a mixed cast of professional and non professional performers
2 performances
Digital assets that are co-designed
Teaching resources in line with the New Curriculum for Wales
Evaluation
Press coverage
Project people:
Steering Group - Y Gaer, Brecon - museum, art gallery and library and Impelo
Stakeholders - Freelance creatives, Ysgol Calon Cymru, Menter, National Museum of Wales St Fagans, communities surrounding Mynydd Epynt.
To Apply
Diversity in all its forms makes this and all our projects stronger and we positively encourage deaf and disabled people, African Diaspora people, South East and South Asian people, or people from other ethnically diverse backgrounds to apply.
If you’re interested and would like to know more, have a disability and/or D/deaf access support is required in order to apply please call or email suzy@impelo.org.uk or Lead Dance Artist bethan@impelo.org.uk for an informal discussion
To apply please send a current CV and one of the following:
5 minute audio outlining your relevant professional experience
5 minute video outlining your relevant professional experience
by 30th January 2023 to:
Suzy West
Impelo
T: 01597 824370 / 07563 588467