Producer for stage production

I am an emerging choreographer. Having recently completed an MA in dance theatre, I am faced with simultaneously needing to platform my work and raise the funds to do so. The Baxter Dance Festival is providing me with this platform by accepting my proposal for its Main Dance Festival in October. I have conceived a piece, but need the funds to make it happen.

A la the remarkable Tim Greene initiative, who succeeded in raising R1 000 000 by getting 1000 people to come on board with R1000, I am inviting 64 people to come on board as producers of my choreographic debut piece, "nine". I am asking R500 per person, which will amount to a total of R32 000. This will cover the fee costs of a dancer, composer, lighting artist and choreographer and administration. You will receive credit in the programme as a producer. The money can be a loan or a donation. If a loan it will be paid back as soon as the company receives funding.

Warmest thanks,
Ruth Levin
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"nine"

Be awed by the possibilities of the moving body and captured by an original score composed by the exquisite Neo Muyanga of Blk Sonshine fame.See dancer, Simone Muller, moving within patterns of light. In balancing her body against light and music, her dance is one of astonishing speed and subtle motion. "nine" is about the potential that exists in space. The dance creates a prism of patterns that reflects the movement in universal space and echoes human experience of the world. Muller's delicate and fiery movements are encased in a sculpture of light and given flight through Neo Muyanga's score and Ruth Levin's riveting choreography.

Ruth Levin has an MA in Theatre and Performance (Dissertation with Distinction) from the University of Cape Town. She trained at The Drama Centre in London, graduating in 1996. From 1997 to 2001, amidst working as a professional theatre director, she received mentorship in the form of dialogues, workshops and feedback from the world-renowned director Peter Brook and poet and playwright Adrian Mitchell. In January 2000 Ruth was one of 16 participants invited to be on the Directors' Course 2000 at the Royal National Theatre. Here she was instructed by the top industry professionals, among them, Thelma holt, Katie Mitchell, Alan Rickman, Ian Rickson, Trevor Nunn, Dominic Dromgoole and William H. Macy. Thereafter Ruth worked as Assistant Director at the Royal Shakespeare Co. on David Greig's trilogy, Victoria under Ian Brown, where she was given great liberty in directing large sections of the work, thereafter at The Royal National Theatre on Ibsen's Peer Gynt under Conal Morrisan and Trevor Nunn. She was assistant director on projects at the National Theatre Studio with directors Annie Castledine and Nancy Meckler and actor Antony Sher. Later London directing credits include Yerma by Lorca in Oxford and the British premiere of the controversial Murder by Hanoch Levin at the Gate Theatre London. Ruth ran numerous workshops at London's Actors Center as well as teaching acting and Shakespeare at the Oxford School of Drama and Italia Conti Academy. In October 2002 Ruth returned to Cape Town. She has taught movement and physical theatre at UCT, Stellenbosch University, and College of Music, AMAC and City Varsity. In 2003/2004 Ruth facilitated Magnet Theatre's outreach program in Khayelitsha. For the Baxter's Playground she directed Edmond by Mamet and The Lighthouse Keeper's Wife by Fourie. For PANSA new writing festival she directed The Apple Tree by Spanoudes and Act of Morality by Kench. Ruth is the director and co-creater of the sell- out production Porra, with Sonia Esguiera. Her production of Mike Van Graan's Two To Tango opened at the Liberty On The Square in Jhb, thereafter moving to the Grahamstown festival and On Broadway in Cape Town. Dance theatre productions include Beauty Censored and Eros & Doors. Ruth will be exhibiting Beauty Censored at the Out The Box festival in September and "nine", a dance piece on the Main for the Baxter dance festival in October.