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Michigan
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
MIDWEST REGIONAL ALTERNATIVE DANCE FESTIVAL
The Midwest RAD Fest is a juried event at the Epic Center in Kalamazoo, MI, featuring the best in modern, post-modern, and contemporary dance from all over the country. No other festival in the region offers emerging and experimental artists the opportunity to present their works (without financial commitment), opportunities for professional development (master classes, lectures, discussion panels), and free networking events.
RAD Fest presents five different live performances (four professional, and one youth performance), a Dance for the Camera film series, six master classes and workshops, a discussion panel, and several different networking opportunities for artists. Most visiting artists receive a travel stipend, and all artists receive free promotional and media coverage. Additionally, RAD Fest offers audience development events (open rehearsals, Q&A sessions, open lectures, interactive performances).
In 2011, Western Michigan University’s Department of Dance developed the National Choreography Competition to identify and recognize emerging choreographers and bring their works to campus. Entries will be reviewed by WMU Department of Dance faculty, who will select no more than three finalists. The Kalamazoo and Western Michigan University communities will vote for the winner.
ISLAND HILL HOUSE ARTIST RESIDENCY
The Hill House Artist Residency supports talented artists with a two-, three-, or four-week stay in a semi-secluded log cabin near East Jordan, Mich. It includes a well-stocked kitchen, a selection of instruments, and some basic recording gear, as well as opportunities for community exchange through performance, readings and workshops (by request). Emerging musicians are offered a small stipend to aid in professional development. Artists age 21 and older from anywhere in the world may apply. Solo artists as well as collaborating teams of up to four people may apply.
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY WHARTON CENTER ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
Wharton Center’s artists-in-residence programs provide a nurturing environment for students to engage in the creative process and to discover the fundamental value of the performing arts.
During a multi-day stay on campus and in the community, an artist-in-residence shares expertise and insights on creativity during close interaction with youth and adult learners.
Minnesota
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA NORTHROP THEATER MCKNIGHT FELLOWSHIPS FOR DANCERS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS
With the generous support of the McKnight Foundation, Northrop awards fellowships to individual mid-career dancers and choreographers, a cornerstone of the McKnight Foundation’s arts program since it began in 1981. The foundation recognizes that the arts cannot flourish or enhance community life without the ideas, energy, and drive of individual artists, and that artists cannot make these contributions without unfettered creative time. Fellowship awards are made in 10 disciplines through arts organizations and presenters.
Three choreographer fellowships of $25,000 are awarded annually to Minnesota choreographers. The unrestricted awards can help an artist set aside periods of time for study, reflection, experimentation, and exploration; take advantage of an opportunity; or work on a new project.
As a fully accredited member of the Alliance of Artists Communities and RES ARTIS: International Association of Residential Art Centres, the Anderson Center provides retreats of two to four weeks from May through October each year enabling artists, writers, and scholars of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishment to create, advance, or complete works-in-progress. A rotating peer review panel of professional artists, writers, and scholars annually screens and selects all applicants. The largest program of its kind in the Upper Midwest, it has, since the center opened in 1995, served more than 700 artists, writers, and scholars from more than 45 states and 40 foreign countries.
Tofte Lake Center is a creative retreat center for artists, scholars, and thinkers of all disciplines located on the shores of Tofte Lake, a beautifully secluded lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of Minnesota. From June through September, TLC offers creative residencies for individuals, artistic groups, and organizations who seek to create work in residence in a natural setting with arts facilities and comfortable cabins.
NEW YORK MILLS REGIONAL CULTURAL CENTER
The Arts Retreat artist residency program of the Cultural Center in New York Mills focuses on providing dedicated artists time for creative development and exploration. The program offers a unique taste of life in rural Minnesota while allowing the artists virtually uninterrupted time in which to immerse themselves in their artwork. Artists from all disciplines (performance, written, audio and visual media) will be considered for a residency. The selection committee awards residencies to artists based on artistic merit and commitment to the arts.
PRESENTERS
Each Showcase Artist receives a $1,000 commission to create a new work, finish a current work in development, or significantly re-envision a past work. It includes a performance venue with full tech support including lighting design, technician and stage hand, and operator; and marketing support.
The Twin Cities 9x22 Dance/Lab is in its 12th year and has become known as a place where both seasoned and new choreographers can present and discuss works with an informed and engaged audience. A discussion moderated by choreographer/curator Laurie Van Wieren follows each dance work, giving audience and choreographer alike the opportunity to react and explore the work together. Each month, three choreographers show works of varying styles and experience.
A festival of live stage performance, including theater, dance, and performance art; puppetry; spoken word; and storytelling.
The Twin Cities Tap Festival brings together national and local tap professionals to share and learn about rhythm, music, and the art of tap dance. A hub for dance arts in general, the Twin Cities Tap Festival shines a spotlight on Minnesota’s tap community. The festival fosters learning, inspiration, creativity, and innovation and provides a venue to showcase local tap companies, dancers, and choreographers. It includes classes, workshops and performances focused on the ever-evolving American art of tap dance.
ART SHANTY PROJECTS
Art Shanty Projects is an artist-driven temporary community exploring the ways in which relatively unregulated public spaces can be used as new and challenging artistic environments to expand notions of what art can be. The Art Shanty Projects supports visual artists, musicians, composers, puppeteers, architects, poets, scientists, dancers/choreographers, writers, fisher-people, naturalists, vocalists, spoken word artists, craftspeople, storytellers, actors, playwrights, etc.
Heavily influenced by this favorite winter pastime, Art Shanty Projects' On-Ice Program brings hundreds of artists and thousands of curious visitors out to fend off brisk wind chills and deep snowfall in the name of art and community. Artists create a variety of imaginable shanties, engaging the community in anything from knitting to science to karaoke. The broad and diverse audience includes lake residents, ice fisher people, suburbanites, city dwellers, fellow artists and passing snowmobilers. On-Ice Program artist stipends are provided for selected projects to offset the costs of creating and staffing during required program hours.
Missouri
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS (COCA)
As the fourth largest community arts center in the country, COCA connects the Missouri community to the arts through programs that emphasize social and artistic diversity, economic and cultural accessibility, hands-on experience of the artistic process, and high quality faculty. COCA annually serves more than 50,000 area residents of all ages through multidisciplinary, multicultural arts programs that include educational classes, camps and workshops, both on-site and in community venues. COCA Dance Residencies are offered in choreography, contemporary, Haitian/Afro-Cuban, hip-hop, jazz, modern, and West African.
PRESENTERS
Springfield Dance Alliance brings quality dance works to the Springfield area. With the exception of the Community Dance Slam concert choreographers are required to cast current dance alliance members should their works be selected for an event. This ensures more performance opportunities for local dancers. All work must be submitted to and approved by the alliance’s board of advisers. Specific performances have their own submission guidelines and deadlines.
Montana
PRESENTERS
MONTANA PERFORMING ARTS CONSORTIUM
During its first nine years, the Montana Performing Arts Consortium, formed in 1981, arranged more than 50 tours of performing arts events and saved presenters more than $900,000 on reduced fees for block-booked events. Such savings have not only increased the number of events presenters were able to offer, but also stimulated audience growth.
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK ARTIST RESIDENCY
The Glacier National Park artist-in-residence program offers professional artists four weeks of focused time to creatively explore the natural and cultural resources of this astounding landscape while pursuing their artistic goals. It also allows artists the opportunity to share their works with an international audience through educational programs and exhibits.
Nebraska
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
BEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS
The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts provides residency opportunities to artists from around the world, to develop new ideas, expand their practice, and engage the community. Residency opportunities are open to national and international artists 21+ years of age, showing a strong professional working history. A variety of disciplines are accepted including, but not limited to, visual arts, media/new genre, performance, architecture, film/video, literature, interdisciplinary arts, music composition, and choreography. Bemis welcomes internationally based artists to apply. A working knowledge of English is helpful for international artists as an interpreter will not be provided.
Art Farm was officially established as a non-profit artist residency organization in 1993. A residency at Art Farm can be from two weeks to five months, depending on the artist’s project proposal. Recommended residencies of between eight to 12 weeks usually give artists enough time to adjust to the environment and complete a body of work. Closer to 12 weeks is recommended for large outdoor projects.
Nevada
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
GOLDWELL OPEN AIR MUSEUM RESIDENCY
Goldwell Open Air Museum seeks to continue Albert Szukalski’s art-making vision in the area by offering artist residency and workspace programs to challenge and support the creative growth of artists from a variety of disciplines. The artist residency at Goldwell offers the gift of time, space, and solitude to competitively selected individuals working in all artistic disciplines.
ST MARY’S ART CENTER ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM
St Mary’s Art Center offers three types of multi-disciplinary artist-in-residence programs throughout the year.
Resident Artist Program: This is a placement, juried by a panel of acclaimed artists and critics, with a minimal fee ($800 per month) payable by the selected winning artist. Eight artists will be selected for these juried residencies each year.
Scholarship Residency Program: Is free and by invitation only. Artists are recognized and awarded these residencies supported by St. Mary’s Art Center. Five artists receive the scholarship residency each year.
Mini/Micro Residency Scholarship for students:
A new micro or mini residency program for arts students provides two to seven days in residence to focus on a project. The artist stays in resident rooms with a private studio and have the use of creative spaces. Student artists are recognized and awarded these residencies supported by St. Mary’s Art Center. Four student artists receive the scholarship residency each year. The work completed may be shown at the Art Center during the year.
New Hampshire
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
The colony provides time, space, and an inspiring environment to artists of exceptional talent. A MacDowell Fellowship consists of exclusive use of a studio, accommodations, and three prepared meals a day for two weeks to two months. There are no residency fees. MacDowell encourages applications from artists representing the widest possible range of perspectives and demographics. The sole criterion for acceptance is artistic excellence.
New Jersey
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
NIMBUS CHOREOGRAPHIC RESIDENCY
Two emerging choreographers will be selected from a competitive application process for the Nimbus Choreographic Residency. The two choreographers are each given 40 hours of studio time for rehearsals. Selected choreographers will present their works alongside Nimbus Dance works as part of the company’s Jersey City (N.J.) season: Unplugged in February 2016.
New Mexico
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
SFAI’s international Artists and Writers Residency Program continues to grow and expand to serve the needs of artists and foster invaluable relationships with artists and organizations in the local communities and beyond in the support of innovative thinking and creative risk taking.
The competitive selection process for residencies at SFAI is primarily based on the applicant’s ability to creatively and critically engage with the theme of the residency season for which they are applying. The selection focuses on the professional experience of the artist, the quality of their past work, and their potential to sustain productive residency at SFAI.
NEW YORK
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
NEW YORK CITY BALLET CHOREOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE
The New York Choreographic Institute was founded in the Spring of 2000 by Irene Diamond and Peter Martins. The institute promotes the development of choreographers and dancers involved in classical choreography by providing opportunities to develop their talents.
BALLET HISPANICO INSTITUTO COREOGRÁFICO
The Instituto Coreográfico was launched in 2010, by Ballet Hispanico’s Artistic Director Eduardo Vilaro as a choreography institute for Latino artists to create culturally specific work in a nurturing learning laboratory of dance. Through the Instituto Coreográfico, Ballet Hispanico encourages the development of Latino leaders and the creation of new works of art that expand a cultural dialogue.
Baryshnikov Arts Center’s artist residency program supports artists by providing space for creative investigation. Each year, Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) hosts approximately 30 artists in residence to develop ideas, projects, and collaborations. Support can include three weeks of free studio time, honoraria, technical and administrative services, advocacy, and work-in-progress showings. BAC residencies are a pressure-free environment for artists, who are encouraged to focus on their current priorities without the expectation of delivering a finished product. However, works created there often go on to premiere at venues around the world — including BAC’s own stages.
THE JOYCE THEATER ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
In 2012, The Joyce Theater Foundation launched a new artist-in-residence initiative, made possible, in part, from a generous grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The first of two funded tenures, the residency will provide a free rehearsal studio, administrative space, office services, and an annual salary with benefits for a two-year period. This residency was designed to allow choreographers to focus on artistic efforts and to establish a daily choreographic practice while also infusing the Joyce’s operations with their ongoing insights. The Joyce Theater also offers Creative Residencies; these artists are selected by a team of Joyce staff members.
Since 2005, the Dance Omi International Dance Collective has brought together ten accomplished dance artists from around the world for three weeks of creative exchange each summer. Though the program culminates in informal showings on the Omi campus, the emphasis is not a performance product; rather, a gently facilitated process of experimentation and collaboration. This exploration is enhanced by providing resources that dancers and choreographers often lack: space, time, and other artists with whom to work. Under the direction of the Dance Omi director and an alumni guest mentor, residents learn from each other’s creative processes and the freedom to play. The result is a model of creative process and community building that envisions consequences for the participants beyond the sphere of art making. Professional dancers/choreographers of ALL styles (modern, ballet, improvisation, ethnic dance forms, etc.) are encouraged to apply.
THE CENTER FOR BALLET AND THE ARTS
The Virginia B. Toulmin Fellowship for Women Choreographers is designed to support the work of and broaden the opportunities available to women in the world of ballet. The fellowship is open to emerging and mid-career female choreographers interested in pursuing a project in support of the center’s mission of generating new ideas and new ballets, bringing vitality to ballet’s history, practice and performance in the 21st century. The Virginia B. Toulmin Fellow at New York University is in residence for four months in either the fall or spring academic semesters.
ARTISTS IN FLIGHT PERFORMANCE SHOWCASE
New York dancemakers have an opportunity to showcase their works in New York. Aries In Flight is hosting its first Artists In Flight Performance Showcase at TADA! Youth Theater February 2016. Choreographers of all types of dance are invited to submit their work. There is a $10 application fee and $100 participation fee to perform, if accepted. Participants will receive photos of their work, a DVD/ video of the performance and the opportunity to showcase their work in front of a potential crowd of 100 people.
KAATSBAAN INTERNATIONAL DANCE CENTER
Residencies are recognized as one of the most effective ways to provide a productive and creative working environment for dance companies, choreographers, dancers, composers, and all dance related artists. The residency program is the heart of Kaatsbaan’s mission and is open to national and international, emerging, mid-career, and established dance professionals.
Residencies can be for a weekend or multi-weeks in length. Studios, housing in the Dancers’ Inn, and kitchen facilities in the Gate House are available on site. Kaatsbaan is a year-round operation presently able to accommodate up to 40 residents. The black-box theater is available for open rehearsals, to showcase works in progress, and for evening performances.
Choreographers are writers according to BDL. They need dancers, space, and time to craft their stories. But in a city like New York that can come with a hefty price tag. BDL provides dancemakers with all three of these vital elements – free of charge. Just like other writers need their privacy and a safe place to fail, BDL gives authors of dance the artistic freedom to create from the ground up. In doing so, BDL fosters creativity, ingenuity, risk-taking, collaboration, mentorship, and the future of dance on Broadway and beyond.
Accepting young choreographers’ applications for 2016 Throughline Showcase. Brooklyn Arts Exchange’s TALL (Teen Artists, Learners and Leaders) Council in conjunction with Youth Education at BAX is seeking artists ages 15-25. Throughline is an interdisciplinary showcase for a spectrum of youth artists to artists who are in the early stages of their career. Poets, dramatists, choreographers, videographers, performers, and visual artists will be able to share works-in-progress, participate in an artist talk back, receive audience feedback and network with fellow artists and art appreciators. There is no application fee but preference will be given to pieces that engage with both challenging content and form.
Movement Research’s artist-in-residence program (AIR) is a two-year program providing commissions, rehearsal space, performances, and related opportunities designed to support the individualized creative process of selected artists. AIR artists are chosen by a rotating artist panel.
BROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE ARTIST IN RESIDENCY
BAX AIR is tailored to each artist’s unique needs, process and artistic practice. Its structure develops peer support, collaborative problem-solving and constructive criticism. Each 2015-16 artist-in-residence receives 300 free hours of rehearsal space and an annual stipend of $3,000.
AIRs have priority for BAX studios, and are asked to plan their space needs in three-month blocks. Throughout the residency, each artist has a monthly one-on-one consultation with Artistic Director Marya Warshaw, and group meetings with all six artists every six weeks. Following performances at BAX, BAX often assists artists in delivering their vision to a broader audience by co-producing their work in other venues, or establishing relationships with producers and funders that will allow them to move forward.
The Breaking Glass Project was founded in 2013 to provide a comprehensive multi-part platform for young emerging female choreographers between the ages of 18 and 30 working in all dance genres. The project is based on the concept of nurturing, supporting, and cultivating the next generation of female artists and providing something more supportive than a single performance opportunity.
Now in its 6th year, the Current Sessions has built a reputation as an organization that offers experiences for dancemakers, their collaborators, and spectators alike. Session after Session, passionate artists come together from New York City, the U.S., and abroad to develop new relationships; a three-day festival of curated performances, movement workshops, and an open forum/discussion allow accepted artists to exchange in both conversation and craft.
ShowDown is a performance and feedback series for works-in-progress at Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center at 280 Broadway. The program provides emerging and mid-career dance artists an opportunity to show unfinished work in an informal, welcoming setting. Artists sign up to present their works through a non-curated lottery process. A feedback session following the performances is facilitated by a noted guest choreographer, providing crucial coments to aid in the development of participating artists’ work.
This series supports the development of emerging dance and performance artists whose work demonstrates risk, relevance, and rigor. Emphasizing the articulation of a choreographer’s ideas in both movement and language, Work Up artists are selected through a two-tiered application process including a written submission and a live audition. Twelve works will be chosen for presentation on four shared programs in April 2016, each featuring three artists.
The REVERBdance Festival, a critically acclaimed national and international contemporary dance festival, awards choreographers and dancers with funding, commissions, workshops, marketing, and an audience reaching hundreds of people. This highly curated dance festival has been produced annually in New York since 2005 at SUNY Purchase College, The Ailey Citigroup Theater, Manhattan Movement and Arts Center, and, most recently, The Baruch Performing Arts Center. This program has a very successful track record reaching more 7,000 audience members.
STEPS ON BROADWAY PERFORMANCE LAB
The Performance Lab Series is an opportunity to present completed works, works in progress, or experimental concepts in a highly curated, audience critiqued, studio/theater setting. Produced two to three times a year, each lab is tentatively scheduled for one performance, the number of applicants and acceptances determining the necessity of an additional performance. Pieces are selected on their own merit and the overall content of the show to ensure a well-balanced and inspired evening. If a piece is not selected, artists may re-submit as every evening is different. Early submission is recommended as space is limited.
Gowanus Art + Production is the art division of the Gowanus Hospitality Group, home to the Green Building, 501 Union, and Sky Gallery. GAP supports artists from an array of disciplines, who create technically proficient, relevant and meaningful art that engages our local audience. GAP creates non-traditional theater experiences in inspiring spaces that reliably provide artists and audiences memorable artistic experiences. GAP curates an ongoing season of evening-length performances in dance, music, theater, opera, and other arts events throughout the Gowanus Hospitality Group venues. GAP hosts a quarterly live art showcase featuring a variety of artists selected from submissions.
KAT WILDISH PRESENTS PERFORMING IN NEW YORK SHOWCASE
The opportunity to be onstage in the heart of the dance world is rare. Master ballet teacher Kat Wildish believes every dancer deserves the chance to achieve the dream of performing, regardless of age or level. Since 2008, hundreds of diverse choreographers and thousands of international dancers have been featured. After 20 successful shows in midtown Manhattan, The Performing in NY Showcase is moving to the expansive Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College. Interested choreographers should submit a resume and video by mail to: kat@katwildish.com
KAT WILDISH PRESENTS NYC FESTIVAL OF DANCE SCHOOLS
The NYC Festival of Dance Schools, launched in 2011 by master ballet teacher Kat Wildish, showcases the top talent from the tristate area’s most prominent studios. Wildish provides performance opportunities to small companies and adult students. Recognizing the benefit of stage time in young dancers’ training, the NYC Festival of Dance Schools gives that chance to dance to those in professional schools and universities. The program presents up-and-coming talent from the heart of the dance world in a supportive environment.
THE YOUNG CHOREOGRAPHERS FESTIVAL
The Young Choreographer’s Festival presents the work of some of rising 18- to 25-year-old choreographers in all genres of dance at Symphony Space in NYC fostering talented young artists by providing them with the tools, education, resources, and platform to successfully pursue a career in dance. YCF’s Educational Programming Element puts young choreographers directly in contact with established professionals. Selected choreographers are matched with a mentor to help them throughout the process; also provided are private workshop classes, a talk back panel, and rehearsal space.
GO!, STREB’s Emerging Artist Commissioning Program, housed at SLAM, accepts proposals from artists whose work is movement-based, including choreographers, aerialists, and circus artists. The program creates a pool of artists who can capitalize on the resources distinct to SLAM so that, either literally or conceptually, the space’s special and unusual characteristics and qualities inform and inspire new and exciting creative experiments. GO! artists have various opportunities to showcase work throughout its development and receive feedback from both STREB and audiences. Selected artists receive a grant and a specific amount of time, space, and resources tailored to the nature and scope of each particular project.
JAZZ CHOREOGRAPHY ENTERPRISES NEW YORK JAZZ CHOREOGRAPHY PROJECT
Jazz Choreography Enterprises is seeking submissions for the spring 2016 production of the New York Jazz Choreography Project. The performances at the Salvatore Capezio Theater at Peridance are April 9 and April 10, 2016.
The Split Bill series presents 12 to 16 artists for two-night runs four times per year (a percentage of box office proceeds is given to participants). The Collaborations in Dance Festival (CollabFest) runs in the fall presenting 20 to 30 artists or companies over four nights (unpaid). Never Before, Never Again is our improvisation festival that runs in the winter presenting 20 to 30 artists or companies over four nights (unpaid). The Comedy in Dance Festival runs in the spring presenting 20 to 30 artists or companies over four nights (unpaid). The Summer Shake-Up runs mid-week in the summer presenting both invited and submission-based work up to 15 minutes (unpaid).
When not in use for resident artist projects, The Chocolate Factory provides support to visiting dance, theater, music, visual, and multi-disciplinary artists in the form of dedicated access to the theater’s space and technical equipment, substantive creative residency periods, commissioning funds, and administrative support. Visiting artist projects are curated by Artistic Director Brian Rogers.
THE EDWARD F. ALBEE FOUNDATION
The Edward F. Albee Foundation serves writers and visual artists from all walks of life by providing time and space in which to work without disturbance. Using only talent and need as the criteria for selection, the foundation invites any and all artists to apply. The center is open from mid-May to mid-October and can accommodate comfortably up to five persons at a time. Residencies are for both four- and six-week periods of time. The standards for admission are, simply, talent and need.
Traditional residencies are open to creative and non-fiction writers, activists, and artists of all disciplines — including composers, filmmakers, and visual artists who do not require exceptional facilities. Each session is four weeks long and includes up to 15 residents. Other than transportation and the $25 application fee, there is no cost. Guest quarters are simple and comfortable. Writers are lodged in individual bedroom/studies in the Main House or the Grey Cottage. Visual artists and composers work in nearby studios. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are provided.
THE CUNY DANCE INITIATIVE (CDI)
The CUNY Dance Initiative is a new residency program providing rehearsal and performance space on CUNY campuses. With lead funding from the New York Community Trust, the CUNY Dance Initiative takes advantage of underutilized facilities on college campuses while integrating New York City’s dance community with the public university system. The CDI offers subsidies to participating CUNY colleges to assist with artist fees, rehearsal expenses, and production, marketing, and administrative costs.
PRESENTERS
THE AMERICAN SWISS BALLET COMPANY STUDIO SHOWCASE
In 2012, the American Swiss Ballet Company opened a ballet academy in New York City and has provided the same quality dance training and education as its flagship school in Switzerland, which was founded in 1996. The American Swiss Ballet Company Studio Showcase is open to emerging or established choreographers connecting dancers and choreographers internationally for creative cultural exchange. All the dance styles are welcome.
BROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE UPSTART FESTIVAL
Since 2009, the Upstart Festival has ushered in fresh talent with a festival of performances and roundtable discussions. Designed to give creators of dance, theater, and performance works, who have no more than three years of experience showing their work in New York City, an opportunity to present work and to facilitate networking opportunities that pave the way for fruitful artistic careers. Originally the brain-child of Shannon Hummel (former BAX artist-in-residence), the festival is currently curated by dance/video artist and former BAX artist-in-residence Jillian Peña and Founding & Executive Director Marya Warshaw.
It’s Showtime NYC celebrates and promotes New York City street culture by providing performance and professional development opportunities to street and subway dancers as a legal alternative to dancing in subway cars.
North Carolina
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
The Wildacres Residency Program began in 1999 and over the past 16 years has hosted nearly 500 writers, artists, musicians, and others. Participants stay in one of three comfortable cabins located 1/4 mile from the conference center. Past residents have found the setting conducive to their work. The program will have about 70 one- and two-week residencies available from April through October. Sessions begin each Monday afternoon and conclude on Sunday or early Monday morning. The program allows individuals solitude and inspiration needed to begin or continue work on a project in their particular field.
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ADF’s programs are developed based on its mission to encourage and support the creation and presentation of new modern dance works by both established and emerging choreographers. Each year, ADF offers a six-and-a-half week series of performances and residencies by major established companies and emerging artists from around the world.
North Dakota
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Northern Plains Dance is a non-profit organization in Bismarck, N.D., that provides dance training for students ages three to adult. NPD performances provide opportunities for audiences in the Bismarck area to experience and understand dance performance’s power to communicate aspects of the human experience. Each February NDP hosts a Choreographers’ Showcase, uniting visual artists, choreographers, and musicians from around the country in an exciting and dynamic performance unlike any other.
Ohio
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
As one of only a handful of stand-alone dance-only presenters in the United States, DANCECleveland continues to curate a dance series that brings world-renowned dance companies to northeast Ohio for performances, master classes, educational residencies, and lectures.
UNIVERSITY OF AKRON and DANCECLEVELAND CENTER FOR CHOREOGRAPHY
The University of Akron and DANCECleveland announced in May 2015 that they will launch a new center for choreography — only the second in the nation — where the country’s finest dance professionals will create new work.
As a research and development laboratory for the arts in all disciplines, the Wexner Center has offered significant support to artists in myriad ways since its inception in 1989. Residencies and commissions sponsored by the Wex have allowed hundreds of artists working in all disciplines from around the globe to create new works or explore new creative directions. The center’s support for artists underscores a core commitment to inspire cultural curiosity and fuel the creative expression of our time, while complementing Ohio State’s mission as a leading research institution. Works produced under the auspices of Wexner Center residencies and commissions often premiere there and then travel the globe, frequently allowing for meaningful interaction among the artists, the university community, and the public at large.
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As one of only a handful of stand-alone-dance-only presenters in the United States, DANCECleveland continues to curate a dance series that brings world-renowned dance companies to northeast Ohio for performances, master classes, educational residencies and lectures.
Ohio-based professional and pre-professional choreographers/performers are eligible to apply for the OhioDance Festival. Chosen applicants produce professionally staged and video-documented performances; receive valuable input and feedback from dance professionals, producers, audience members and critics; and work with a marketing and public relations professional to promote work through a variety of media outlets. A panel of dance professionals outside of Ohio chosen by OhioDance adjudicates the pieces to be performed through portfolio review. OhioDance seeks pieces that represent a diverse range of aesthetics and artistry, as well as dance that is engaging to the general public. At least one piece will be chosen from the following categories: ballet, contemporary, social, or world dance forms.
Oregon
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
NW Dance Project is committed to working with artists of diverse experiences and backgrounds, and utilizes the Pretty Creatives Project as a way to develop new voices in dance. Selected choreographers participate in a six-day summer residency. During the residency period, selected choreographers will be offered two three-hour daily creative periods with each of the two groups of dancers. During these sessions they will have an open forum to create and develop new choreographic material. An informal presentation of the resulting works-in-progress or completed works will be shown at Lincoln Performance Hall. Choreographers will be asked to work with all LAUNCH dancers, but the developed piece can be set on a smaller group of dancers. Northwest Dance Project’s Artistic Director Sarah Slipper guides this residency.
Every winter from January through March, creative individuals and collaborative groups are awarded the gift of time and space at a beautiful arts center in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains near Sisters, Ore., for month-long residencies. Residencies are open to national and international artists in any discipline including 2-D, 3-D, installation, film, digital, photography, music, dance, theater, and literary, as well as creative thinkers in engineering, design, and the sciences, who have emerged and established themselves beyond university training. Caldera also accommodates parent-artists.
The Crater Lake Science & Learning Center, in collaboration with the Crater Lake Natural History Association and the Friends of Crater Lake National Park, coordinates and delivers the artist-in-residence program, which provides an opportunity for two eligible artists to spend up to two weeks of the fall. Another two artists spend up to two weeks in the winter at Crater Lake National Park to pursue their particular art form while being surrounded by the awe-inspiring landscape of the park. Artists receive housing in the park to work on projects. Writers, sculptors, photographers, painters, dancers, cinematographers, musicians, composers, and other visual and performing artists are invited to apply for this opportunity to draw upon the multifaceted qualities of the park for inspiration. All of these artists translate the national park’s purpose, as a place of pleasure and preservation, into creations that bring others enjoyment and a deeper understanding of the parks.
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PDE is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization devoted to showcasing young dancers interested in pursuing a career in dance. PDE performs two to four programs a year, which always include, family classics, a yearly spring performance, focusing on dance interpretations of literary classics and a showcase of original choreography in its Valentine’s benefit performance and auction, Dances from the Heart. PDE strives to educate by taking members to see nationally and internationally acclaimed dance companies and regularly bringing guest dancers, choreographers, and designers to Newport to work with PDE members and give workshops open to the public.
Pennsylvania
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BALLETX CHOREOGRAPHIC FELLOWSHIP
Each season, BalletX Artistic Director and Co-Founder Christine Cox, Associate Artistic Director Tara Keating, Co-Founder Matthew Neenan, and an expert panel of dance leaders selects one promising choreographer to create a world premiere work on the BalletX company.
The CEC is a unique arts community center that provides rehearsal, audition, workshop, and performance space for a broad cross-section of artists from aspiring commercial dancers, models and musicians, to the up and coming modern dancer choreographers, to some of the city’s best-known and celebrated artists. Through its open access, artist resource services, performances, and arts education programs, the CEC is one of the most utilized performance spaces in the city.
As Founding Artistic Director and Producer Robin Staff of DANCENOWNYC understands the need for urban artists to have space that will encourage the development of their craft. Kirkland Farm, with its two barn studios, three-story guest house, and sprawling landscape, has made it possible to offer artists and friends in the field of dance an inspiring haven in which they can come together to process, create, and just escape the pressures of city life for a few days and continue the Kirkland legacy of the farm as being a home to the artistic community. Kirkland Farm, a non-profit presenting organization, is located 76 miles from NYC and 56 miles from Philadelphia.
Silo at Kirkland Farm provides guest artists and friends free use of the Silo studios, housing in the guest house for a minimal contribution to help cover basic upkeep, and rare and focused creative time at an historic farm in the heart of Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley.
Mascher Space Co-op is a home for new dance in Philadelphia. Artist-imagined, artist-founded, artist-shared and -run, Mascher provides space that is affordable and versatile. A community of support that cultivates a flow of ideas and modes of deep problem solving and inquiry, it is bound not by aesthetics, but by a common commitment to working cooperatively and sharing administrative tasks and resources. Mascher nurtures the development of its artists-in-residence at various stages in their careers, lines of research, and explorations.
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The Spiel Uhr Series was established in the 1980 as a presenting platform of Group Motion to provide opportunity for new work or work-in-progress to local, national, and international artists as well as Group Motion company members. The series has been a vital and instrumental Philadelphia resource, supporting both new and established artists in exploring and making new performance work in dance, music , theater, video and multimedia. A low tech to medium production of diverse programming is presented twice a year, usually in December and February at the Community Education Center Meeting House Theater. Limited rehearsal space is available at the CEC during the week prior to the performance. Curatorial and programming choices are made by Artistic Director Manfred Fischbeck.
Rhode Island
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Since opening in 1999, MASS MoCA has become a premier center for making and showing art of our time. An essential and integral part of MASS MoCA’s mission: more than 40 weekends of live events staged year-round, including popular music, contemporary dance, alternative cabaret, world music dance parties, outdoor silent films with live music, documentaries, avant-garde theater, and music festivals. More than 500 artists have participated in extensive artist-in-residence and technical workshops.
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ISLAND MOVING CO’S GREAT FRIENDS TOURING PROJECT
Island Moving Co.’s Great Friends Touring Project brings IMC to new audiences and brings new audiences to dance. Each year, for the Great Friends Dance Festival in July, a resident company is invited to Newport for two weeks of studio time and performance, in return for a reciprocal performance in their home venue. The touring project is meant to create new opportunities for touring by small and midsize companies. The network has grown with performances in five new cities.
South Dakota
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BADLANDS NATIONAL PARK ARTIST RESIDENCY
The artist-in-residence program at Badlands National Park was founded in 1996 and is open to all professional artists. Writers, composers, and all visual and performing artists are invited to interpret this wind-swept environment through their work. The program provides time for artists to get away from everyday responsibilities to focus on their surroundings and their medium.
Tennessee
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NEW DIALECT CHOREOGRAPHER’S LAB
Emerging and established choreographers are offered a residency with the dancers of New Dialect, where they will have the opportunity to research their movement language on a versatile company of dancers and present their work in progress.
Circle Modern Dance offers various choreographer workshops for new and more experienced choreographers.
Texas
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DANCE GALLERY INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
The Dance Gallery International Festival, created in 2007, has showcases in two states New York and Texas. The Dance Gallery Festival partners with Sam Houston State University and Andy Noble serves as associate artistic director. As a part of this partnership, Sam Houston State University offers paid guest artist residencies to select participating companies. These one-week residencies include choreographing a new work on Sam Houston’s upper-level students to be performed on the fall concert as well as teaching technique and choreography classes. A juried panel comprised of Sam Houston faculty and area artists selects the resident artists.
The Dance Gallery Festival is proud to continue with Level UP. Level UP serves as a performance showcase for three talented dance companies/choreographers that are ready to advance to the next level in the development and promotion of their work. Each company receives 25 minutes of performance time at the prestigious Ailey Citigroup Theatre and a commission fee.
Utah
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The loveDANCEmore series of community events hosted by Ashley Anderson Dances in the Salt Lake City dance community intends to ask what its dance practices are, what performance can be, and, most importantly, how dance organizations can support one another.
loveDANCEmore offers Mudson, a semi-annual works-in-progress series, which supports new choreography in Salt Lake City. Since its inception in 2010, Mudson has fostered the creation of more than 100 new dances.