Develop Presenting Strategies: Personalized Support Program
Don’t wait for your talent to be discovered! Take your market development in hand by learning how to approach presenters, promote your work and … get results!
Submit your registration (deadline: September 30)
You have created a performance and now find yourself with a new challenge: presenting it. There are several market development strategies to consider suited to your work and your artistic process.
Our personalized support program in dance presenting aims to unlock the mysteries of meeting with key actors who develop programs and seasons.
Once again this year, Suzanne Beaucaire offerts to adapt her expertise to your situation and the presenting horizons of your work. She will help you develop effective market placement for your work whilst respecting the resources available to you!
Objectives
According to your needs, this program will allow you to:
- Validate your professional goals and establish a diagnosis of your presenting status.
- Identify and elaborate relevant tools to present your projects.
- Uncover presenting opportunities for your projects by targeting appropriate markets, and develop personalized strategies to access these markets.
- Learn to effectively present your artistic process and projects in professional meetings, and promotional and special events.
- Prepare a realistic and coherent plan accounting for the globality of your professional activity.
- Maximize the impact of your promotional activities.
- Find solutions for your challenges and/or develop a specific approach to address particular problems.
Performance format
The support is offered online, in an individual format.
The schedule for your meetings will be determined with the assigned trainer, but the entire intervention must take place between October 15, 2024, and March 15, 2025. Make sure you have the time and are motivated, as you will need to be available and committed if you participate in the program.
Requirements
- Have professional status as a choreographer or dance artist.
- Have presented your choreography to an audience in a professional setting
- Have a project ready for presentation.
- Have submitted at least one grant application (regardless of the application being successful).
- Be ready to invest yourself in tasks that will be assigned through the process
- Respond to our call for participants by applying no later than September 30.
No presenting experience?
If you are taking your first steps in market development, we recommend that you register for the professional development session Quebec Presenting Networks and my Positioning.
The number of spots is limited. We will select around eight (8) applications, depending on the number of hours available and the needs expressed by all the candidates. Priority will be given to members of the RQD.
To submit your application :
- Complete your registration form no later than September 30, 2024.
- Respond to our call for submissions no later than September 30, 2024.
Trainer
Suzanne Beaucaire has over 30 years of experience in live arts. Touring agent for the Théâtre Sans Fil for 8 years and Le Carré des Lombes for 12 years, she contributed to their national and international presence and reputation. Suzanne has a distinctive, intuitive approach which she has refined over time, through numerous encounters in a variety of places. Her tools and strategies are finely honed and adaptive to all contexts.
This training, offered by the Regroupement québécois de la danse, is made possible thanks to the financial support of the Gouvernement du Québec, through the Intervention-Compétences program administered by Compétence Culture.
