Coming up:
Summer Intensives at The Place
Between 4 - 8 August 2008 Stephanie will teach a workshop at The Place's summer school. In this workshop she will explore ideas of combining voice and movement. The summer school is open for everyone with an interest in dance performance, for more information visit www.theplace.org.uk
Centre for Advanced Training at The Place
Stephanie will work with young dancers aged 10 - 18 years, teaching one off workshops, which give insight into her creative process. The Centre for Advanced Training at The Place is a government funded course for young dancers with exceptional potential in dance. To find out more about the programme visit www.theplace.org.uk/cat
Examples of past projects:
The Northern School of Contemporary Dance
Stephanie was a resident choreographer during spring 2007 to create a new ensemble work with the year 3 BA dance students:
'Whiskey girl'
Inspired by the folk music of song writer Gillian Welsh, she directed the students to create their own movement, text and sound materials. The piece was created in a three week long intensive process. Singer Maria Jardardottir assisted her as a voice coach. The piece was performed at the school's Riley Theatre in Leeds.
London Contemporary Dance School at The Place
In March 2007 Stephanie taught a week-long intensive workshop to year 1 and 2 BA dance students, giving insight into her creative practice.
Laban
Between 2003 and 2005 Stephanie created three ensemble works for the third year BA dance students:
‘Just once’ (2005)
'Solos for two' (2004)
'Inside us adaptation' (2003)
The pieces toured to regional colleges and venues. 'Solos for Two' was also performed as part of the International Dance Exchange Ruhr at Pact Zollverein in Essen, Germany (2004) and at Laban as part of an exchange with BA dance students at Palucca Schule Dresden in Germany (2005). The works each were created over an intensive rehearsal period of 5 weeks with the help of company dancers who taught technique class and assisted with the rehearsals.
London Metropolitan University
Stephanie has an ongoing relationship with the BA performing arts course, which includes performances of her company at the university, student visits to her performances at the Southbank Centre, the creation of work with the students and regular teaching.
Stephanie Schober & Dance Company performed 'Inside Us' (2003) and 'Change' (2004) at the university, followed by a post performance talk with the students. The students attended the performance of 'between sound & silence' at the Southbank Centre (2008), followed by a workshop at the university.
In 2006 Stephanie worked with the year 3 students to create:
‘Nine voices, my song’
She collaborated with composer John-Marc Gowans exploring the dancers’ voices and personal movement material. The final production was a combination of singing, mouth-sounds and movements resulting in an intimate performance for nine dancers at Jackson’s Lane Theatre. The students also assisted in the other aspects of production, like costume, lighting design and marketing and were mentored by Stephanie in all four aspects of the project: their coursework, performance, production assistance and essay.
During 2006/7 Stephanie tought body conditioning/ anatomy to the third years, combining theory and practical studies.