Introducing :

Working Better for Better Work

FACT/SF’s Inaugural Admin Skills Workshop for Working Dancers

  • This spring, FACT/SF will run our first ever administrative skills workshop, Working Better for Better Work, to help dancers gain the practical skills needed to support a thriving career as a working artist.

  • The workshop will be taught by Artistic Director Charlie Slender-White and will include instruction on grant writing, marketing, budgeting, and more.

  • Instruction will be offered via Zoom from June 1st - July 1st. Please see below for more detailed schedule information.

  • Attendance will be limited to 10 participants so that each artist can receive as much individual attention as possible. As of April 7th, the workshop has ten more spots available. Please see below to sign up.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

OVERVIEW

Working Better for Better Work was developed in response to the lack of practical

DAILY SCHEDULE & DETAILS

June 1 - July 1
Mon/Wed, 3-5PM
Virtual via Zoom

  • June 1: Session #1

  • June 3: Session #2

  • June 8: Session #3

  • June 10: Session #4

  • June 11-21: Break (Assignment due June 15th)

  • June 22: Session #5

  • June 24: Session #6

  • June 29: Session #7

  • July 1: Final Session

TO Sign-Up

Working Better for Better Work is designed for working professional dancers. We are warm and open to you as a participant, and we want to learn more! To sign up, please fill out this form, which asks for your basic information and a description of how the workshop will be useful to you at this juncture of your career.

Within two weeks of signing up, applicants will be contacted by FACT/SF regarding their participation in the workshop.

TUITION

$280 (applications received by May 4)
$360 (applications received after May 4)

  • Participants are accepted on a rolling basis until the workshop has reached capacity (10 students max).

  • Once participants have been confirmed, they will need to pay a $55 security deposit to reserve their spot. Security deposits are non-refundable.

  • Remaining tuitions are due by Monday, May 25, 2026.

SELECTED PARTICIPANTS

Once notified of acceptance and successful processing of full tuition, participants will receive a Welcome Page, which will include a detailed syllabus and work samples from FACT/SF.

QUESTIONS

If you have any questions or would like like to inform FACT/SF of any access needs, please email us at rbermudezsanders@factsf.org. Or, call 415.349.0771.

ABOUT THE TEACHER

Charles Slender-White. Photo by Robbie Sweeny.

CHARLES SLENDER-WHITE has been a Countertechnique practitioner for 20 years, and became a Certified Teacher in 2012; there are 60 Teachers worldwide. Charles has taught Countertechnique at the American Dance Festival, Velocity Dance Center, University of Calgary, Loyola Marymount University, the University of San Francisco, CSU East Bay, L’Artere (Quebec City), Circuit-Est (Montreal), Love-In (Toronto), Chunky Move (Melbourne), and at numerous dance centers throughout the SF Bay Area. He began his dance career in 2006 with Tatiana Baganova’s Provincial Dances Theatre in Yekaterinburg, Russia. In 2008, he returned to his native California to start FACT/SF in order to make his own contributions to innovation and excellence in contemporary dance. Over the past 157 years, Charles has created 42 works, with commissions by the US Department of State, ODC Theater, CounterPulse, Acid Rain (Chelyabinsk), Dialogue Dance (Kostroma), the Yekaterinburg University of the Humanities (Yekaterinburg), and others. Described as ‘utterly absorbing’ and ‘mesmerizing’ (SF Bay Guardian), Charles’ work with FACT/SF has been performed throughout California, in Portland (Oregon), Seattle (Washington), Durham (North Carolina), Sofia (Bulgaria), Belgrade (Serbia), Zagreb (Croatia), Skopje (Macedonia), and in 7 cities across Russia, working with the US Department of State to share contemporary American culture with local Russian communities as part of their ‘American Seasons’ Program. From 2021-2022, Charles served as ODC Theater’s Resident Strategist for Curation and Creative Partnerships, and he co-curated the 2022 ODC Theater Season with amara tabor-smith. Throughout 2012, he was a mentee of Elizabeth Streb as part of CHIME Across Borders at the Margaret Jenkins Dance Lab. Charles graduated with honors from the University of California, Berkeley, with degrees in Dance & Performance Studies and English Literature.

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