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• ATC Program Detailed program of our Alternative Technique Classes and bios of the teachers.
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• Season Finale Presentation of our Season Finale.
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Artistic Mandate

Series 8:08 seeks to promote the professional and creative development of professional Canadian dance artists, to build a strong sense of community amongst these artists, to support processes that lead to successful presentations of new Canadian dance works, and to build a knowledgeable and appreciative audience for new dance.

We organize innovative workshop and performance events that pursue these goals through 3 programs:

• The Alternative Technique Classes or ATCs are innovative training workshops taught by established dance professionals. These are not dance technique classes in the usual sense, but rather opportunities to explore alternative techniques and practices as well as the creative vision and processes of particular dance artists.
• The Choreographic Performance Workshops or CPWs are showings of short works-in-progress by professional dance artists. They have an opportunity to show their work, receive a DVD of their performance, written feedback from the audience, as well as more extended feedback from an established choreographer hired by Series 8:08 as Resident Outside Eye.
• The Season Finale is an annual presentation of three to four premieres. The pieces are curated and commissioned either from works-in-progress previously shown at the CPWs, or with one of the artists teaching the ATCs. The presentation has full production values and marketing support.

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History

Series 8:08 was founded in 1992, when the considerable energies and diverse needs of a large group of Toronto based dance artists coalesced. When our first performance workshop was held in February of that year, it marked the realization of two great community dreams: the inauguration of an ongoing process-oriented performance series, and the beginning of a new artist-driven dance service organization that would respond directly and creatively to the needs of our local artists, community, and audiences.

Series 8:08 has grown considerably since its early days, expanding into new areas of programming and gaining recognition as an important local resource for audiences and artists. Yet, even as we change in response to our developing community, we continue to be guided by our origins, consistently committed to individual, community, and audience development.

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Our Funders

Our performances and workshops are made possible by grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council. We also acknowledge the support of the Dance Umbrella of Ontario.

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Series 8:08's Staff

• Yvonne Ng	Artistic and Managing Director
• Yves Candau	Administrative Director
• Tracey Norman	ATC Program Manager and Outreach Coordinator
• Tanya Crowder	CPW Program Manager
• Cara Spooner	Program Assistant
• Stuart Baulch	Technical Director
• Brittany Duggan	Blog Manager
• Omer Yukseker	Photography

Series 8:08's Board

• James Beamish

• Karen Duplisea

• Jade Sakamoto

• Kathleen Smith

Past Artistic Directors

• Sarah Chase	1992 – 1994	Founder
• Michael du Maresq	1992 – 1994	Founder
• Michelle Silagy	1992 – 1994	Founder
• Jessica Runge	1994 – 2004	ATC Program Founder
• Susan Lee	1994 – 2005

Past and Present Volunteers

Many thanks to Emma Bartolomucci, Dawne Carleton, Craig Chambers, Jesse Dell, Katya Kuznetsova, Suzanne Liska and Corrie Sakaluk for their support.

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Series 8:08's Partners

Arts Management Services provided by the Dance Umbrella of Ontario.

We work in partnership with Harbourfront Centre to offer workshops with world class artists in our ATC Program, and are grateful to Tina Rasmussen and Lynanne Sparrow for making this possible.

This 2011/12 season we are thrilled to initiate a new partnership with Hub 14, with two residencies for selected Take Two artist, who will be provided with a maximum of 15 hours of studio each, to further research their artistic processes.

We also have a partnership with The Chimera Project, for their FRESH BLOOD festival. One outstanding choreographer, selected by Series 8:08 from the Choreographic Performance Workshops, will be presented in FRESH BLOOD 2012 on March 16^th and 17^th.

This year we are also organizing an ATC workshop in partnership with the Dancemakers Centre for Creation. Shannon Cooney will be teaching Dynamic Expansion on Friday September 30^th and Saturday October 1^st.

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Other similar minded organizations in Canada

• Artists' Health Centre Foundation (AHCF)

• Association for Contact Improvisation (ACI, in Montreal)

• Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists (CADA)

• Canadian Dance Assembly (CDA)

• Circuit Est - Centre Chorégraphique (in Montreal)

• Dancer Transition Resource Centre (DTRC)

• Studio 303 (in Montreal)

• Training Society of Vancouver (TSV)

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