Indigenous Artists in Residence

Indigenous Artists in Residence

This two-year program is a responsive and flexible training opportunity offered to established Indigenous artists. Training across all the School’s core programs is possible, with curriculum determined by the resident artist in concert with the teachers and leaders at NTS. The residency culminates in the development of the artist’s own artistic project.

Context

As a national institution, NTS has a duty to understand its role in the ongoing reconciliation process that is unfolding across the country, as well as a duty to foster strong ties to Indigenous nations. To this end, NTS is developing training opportunities to provide artists with expanded access to our resources and to give them dedicated space at the School for Indigenous practices. The Indigenous artistic resident will bring to the School an already-developed artistic approach and will benefit from time, space, expertise, and resources available at the School. For its part, and aware that its current methods do not specifically include Indigenous artistic practices or art forms, NTS recognizes and honours diverse approaches and paths supported by these artists. The School is eager to undergo this learning process and is confident that it will have a lasting influence on its pedagogy.

Who Should Apply:

The residency is available to Indigenous artists with 5+ years of professional practice in the performing arts.

Applicants should:

  • Be seeking to advance specific elements of their craft;
  • Have a strong sense of their artistic approach and practice;
  • Believe in the power and usefulness of lifelong training;
  • Be seeking to learn and share their own experiences with the community of the School.

Structure of the residency:

The program lasts 18 to 24 months and includes:

Immersion in the training programs of the five theatre disciplines offered at NTS;
The opportunity to develop a personal artistic project in the second year;
A direct impact on the ongoing transformation of the National Theatre School.

Year 1:

  • A rich and specialized training program, created in response to the specific interests of each artist;
  • Artist proposal of a project to develop over the course of Year 2;
  • Continual discussion and exchange about best practices and learning that could help NTS open itself to Indigenous artistic methods.

Year 2:

  • Reduced time in training to allow the development of a creative project;
  • Teaching and training at NTS;
  • Comprehensive post-mortem aiming to spread what was learned throughout the School.

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