Co|Lab

What is Co|Lab?

Co|Lab is a community choreography laboratory in which local artists and community members, ages 18+, of all backgrounds and abilities collaborate alongside Dance Exchange artists to create an original dance work. The Co|Lab program culminates in a performance at Dance Exchange. 

This year, Co|Lab will be led by Lead Artists Corina Iona Dalzell and Judith Bauer, in collaboration with other Dance Exchange artists. 

What is the rehearsal and performance schedule?

Rehearsals

Saturday, October 5 @ 3:00-7:00pm
Saturday, October 12 @ 3:00-7:00pm
Saturday, October 19 @ 3:00-7:00pm
Saturday, October 26 @ 3:00-7:00pm
Tuesday, October 29 @ 7:00-9:00pm
Wednesday, October 30 @ 7:00-9:00pm
Friday, November 1 @ 7:00-9:00pm
Saturday, November 2 @ 3:00-9:00pm

What can I expect in Co|Lab?

Co|Lab invites participants into a collaborative process for devising a new dance work that draws on the contributions of each participant. Co|Lab isn’t about “learning dance moves” but about creating a dance together that draws on our unique stories, bodies, and movement experiences. While each Co|Lab rehearsal will be slightly different, you can typically expect to…

• Get your body moving during a guided warm up that invites choice-making and supports you in adapting movement to your own body. 

• Explore the Dance Exchange Toolbox as well as other collaborative ways of working that include both dance-making and other art forms  

• Share your movement ideas and knowledge and learn from others in the room.

• Draws on contributions of the community that forms through Co|Lab

• Have an opportunity to bring your creative and movement experiences to the making, as well as learn from others in the room

• DX choreographic tools, link to the DX Toolbox and new artistic processes that the guest artist is bringing

• Experience joy of moving and performing with other people and expand your movement experience  

What is the tuition for Co|Lab?

$300. Co|Lab General Tuition
$275. Earlybird (register by August 20)
$280. Returning Co|Lab Participant (if you have previously participated in a past DX Co|Lab)
$250. Earlybird Returning Co|Lab Participant (register by August 20, if you have previously participated in a past DX Co|Lab)

Limited scholarship opportunities are available. If price is a barrier for you, please let us know in your registration. 

Refund Policy

If you cancel your registration on or before the Early Bird Deadline, you will receive a full refund. If you cancel your registration after the Early Bird Deadline, you will not receive a refund but your payment can be credited to a future Organizing with Artists for Change Institute or Co|Lab within one calendar year. Please email registration@danceexchange.org. 

COVID-19 Policy

To keep our intergenerational community safe, masks and social distancing are encouraged during Dance Exchange classes. Read our updated COVID-19 policy here.