CALGARY 2018 PANEL & WORKSHOP PRESENTERS PANEL: The Ins ‘n Outs and Roundabouts of a Dance Career PAUL CHAMBERS tried to retire from dance in 2003 but Joysanne Sidimus, founder of the DTRC, talked him out of that decision. Instead, she suggested career counselling through the DTRC. Paul danced for 14 years with Cleveland San Jose Ballet, Alberta Ballet, Banff Festival Ballet, Ballet Jorgen Canada, and Toronto Dance Theatre. TDT was an experience he would have missed if not for Joysanne. Career counselling prompted the understanding for more experience. Paul started to “learn the ropes” of dance administration by serving as the Dancer Representative for Ballet Jorgen Canada and a Regional Representative for the DTRC. Paul was the Program Coordinator at The Banff Centre for four summers. He finally retired to become the Company Manager for Alberta Ballet while studying for the Cultural Management Certificate from Grant MacEwan University. He worked with Calgary 2012 and the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra before becoming the Major Gifts Officer at the Calgary Women’s Emergency Shelter where he still spends his days. His evenings and weekends are with his husband Craig, also a retired dancer, and their 60 goats at Dancing Goats Farm where they produce goat cheese sold in Calgary restaurants and shops. PIL HANSEN (PHD) is a dance/devising dramaturg, a founding member of Vertical City Performance, and an assistant professor of performing arts at the University of Calgary. She has a background as general manager and international touring manager in Scandinavia and Canada (Dansekontoret, Puppetmongers Theatre, Kaeja d’Dance) and she teaches Performing Arts Management. She has dramaturged 27 premieres and remounts, including award winning and both nationally and internationally touring works. Her artistic and scholarly research examines cognitive dynamics of memory and perception in creative processes. This work has been published widely in 38 journal articles, book chapters, and edited volumes. Her latest books are Modes of Agency, Awareness and Engagement (Palgrave 2015) and Performing the Remembered Present: The Cognition of Memory in Dance, Theatre and Music (Methuen Bloomsbury 2017). Current and recent artistic collaborators are: Kaeja d’Dance, Theatre Junction Grand, Toronto Dance Theatre, Ghost River, and Public Recordings. ERIN O’CONNOR is currently the General Manager of the Calgary Film Centre where she oversees business development, operations and facility management. Prior to this position, Erin was an Arts Management Consultant providing advisory services, project management and administrative support to projects across Alberta. She has consulted in all areas of the creative industries including visual arts, theatre, music and dance in strategic and business planning. Erin was the Executive Director of One Yellow Rabbit and Managing Producer of the High Performance Rodeo, Calgary’s International Festival of the Arts, and one of the largest annual events of its kind in Western Canada. In this leadership role, she developed organizational capacity and funding initiatives by utilizing her training and experience in financial and organizational management. Erin has deep experience in the performing arts and is known for her passion, professionalism, and dedication combined with strategic leadership and management skills.