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U.S. Residencies, Incubators & Presenters (3)
Vermont
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
Vermont Performance Lab (VPL) is a new type of performance incubator located in rural southeastern Vermont. VPL provides a new resource in the performing arts field for regional and national artists to focus on the creative process in relation to community; opportunities for collaborative research with scholars, students, local experts and community members; access to state-of-the-art dance and recording studios, community spaces and non-traditional performance sites; and support and facilities for choreographer-composer collaboration.
Each year the Lab Program supports six to ten artists/projects through artist residencies that support various stages of the creative arc from research and development to fully realized productions. The lab embraces diversity, innovation, and experimentation, and seeks artists whose practice aligns with its values and approach.
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE INTERDISCIPLINARY CHOREOGRAPHER RESIDENCY PROGRAM
Movement Matters is a 44-month institutional exploration of how human bodies literally and metaphorically shape the physical and political worlds. Through reciprocal arrangements between emerging artists in the field of dance and Middlebury College professors from across the curriculum, Movement Matters fosters artistic creation and curricular development at the pedagogical nexus of embodied learning and scholarly interests with a special emphasis on increasing global understanding. Faculty and students participate in traditional research as well as engage with their material through physical and choreographic problematizing. Students in economics might probe similarities between business negotiations and contact improvisation sessions, or faculty in foreign language departments could develop non-verbal communication exercises to enhance cultural competency.
Each month, VSC welcomes more than 50 artists and writers from across the country around the world to our historic campus in northern Vermont. All residencies include a private room in modest, shared housing, 24-hour access to a private studio space in one of six medium-specific studio buildings, three communal meals per day (plus fresh fruit, coffee/tea/cold beverages, and cereal available around the clock). Applications are accepted year-round.
Marble House Project provides participating residents with a unique experience where they can develop, practice, and evolve in their specific fields. Each program will consist of six to eight artists at a time, creating small, dynamic interactive groups. Marble House Project provides private bedrooms, food, and studio space. Residents are responsible for all transportation and material costs.
HEMERA FOUNDATION TENDING SPACE FELLOWSHIPS
The Tending Space Fellowship Program for Artists was developed with the view that art has the capacity to infuse the experience of everyday life with awareness. The aim of the program is to nurture the creative practice of seeing things as they are, to cultivate that awareness, and to live and create from this insight. Qualified applicants will be artists who are rigorously committed to their art form and who have a demonstrable interest in contemplative practice. Tending Space Fellowships are open to visual and performing artists and writers. Ten fellowships are awarded annually. The program is open to domestic and international applicants.
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SOUTHERN VERMONT DANCE FESTIVAL
The Southern Vermont Dance Festival aims to create awareness and promotion of performing arts in Southern Vermont and across New England, in addition to offering a summer training opportunity for dancers at all levels of movement and interest.
Virginia
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS RESIDENCY
Admission to VCCA is highly selective, based on a review of applications by panels of professional artists. There are separate panels for each category (poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, playwrights, performance, film and video artists, painters, sculptors, photographers, installation artists, composers, and cross-disciplinary artists) with more than 50 panelists serving at any one time. These panelists undergo periodic review to ensure that selection to VCCA is being made by the highest caliber artists in each discipline. Panelists are also rotated regularly to ensure that particular styles or tastes are not continuously represented. The basis for admission by an application is professional achievement or promise of achievement.
Washington
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
Centrum’s Artist Residency Program, established in 1980, is a resource for artists and creative thinkers of all genres. Located on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, in the beautiful and inspiring setting of Fort Worden State Park, it is nestled in the Victorian seaport and arts community of Port Townsend. Residency projects can be of a single genre or multidisciplinary, and might be the creative work of an individual or encompass the collaborative work of a group. In partnership with Washington State Parks, Centrum offers an opportunity for selected artists to live and work in this breathtaking setting at a significantly reduced cost.
JACK STRAW ARTIST SUPPORT PROGRAM
The artist support program has been assisting artists working creatively with sound since 1994. Artists of every genre and style have been represented, including writers, choreographers, multidisciplinary artists, theater sound designers, radio producers, film makers, visual artists, and musicians and composers of all types. Every year, up to eight artists are awarded twenty hours of studio recording and production time with a Jack Straw engineer. An additional twelve artists receive matching awards for studio time as part of our artist assistance program.
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CHOP SHOP BODIES OF WORK CONTEMPORARY DANCE FESTIVAL
Chop Shop’s mission is to offer insight on contemporary dance and its creative process, in order to forge deeper connections between artists and audiences through presentation, education, dialogue, and experience. The festival is committed to promoting work that is accessible to a diverse audience, comprised of both new and experienced dance viewers, and educating the community-at-large through free outreach classes offered through our innovative Experience Dance Program.
WASHINGTON, D.C. and the METROPOLITAN AREA
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
The Millennium Stage Local Dance Commissioning Project (LDCP) supports the local dance community by nurturing the creation of new dance works and presenting those new works to a wide audience via the Millennium Stage, the Kennedy Center’s free daily performance series.
ADI’s Incubator is one of the few dance residency programs in the country to offer late-stage development support for new choreography. Selection criteria: work must be contemporary, daring, forward-thinking and new, artist(s) must demonstrate artistic excellence, work must be at a stage of development that can utilize ADI’s technical resources.
CityDance OnStage Ignite seeks out future choreographic stars and provides them resources to create and present new works. Artists receive marketing, public relations, and administrative support, in addition to free rehearsal space at the CityDance Center at Strathmore in suburban Maryland.
BALLETNOVA CENTER FOR DANCE ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
Consistent with its mission to provide a center of dance excellence, BalletNova Center for Dance (BNCD) partners with leading dance artists in the community. Through these artist-in-residency partnerships, emerging and established local artists receive opportunities to rehearse, perform, and increase their support base through use of BNCD’s studios and theater at reduced rates. In exchange, BNCD students, both youth through adult, have access to quality master classes, performances, and workshops offered through resident company members.
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Dance Place’s annually curated choreographers’ showcase features some of the best new works by established and emerging choreographers. Discover choreographers and dancers who are new on the horizon and what ideas are driving dance today.
Joy of Motion Dance Center’s annual Dance Project engages dance artists throughout the Washington, D.C., area, providing a platform to present new works of all styles and genres.
THE CLARICE SMITH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
The Clarice nurtures dance in the region by hosting in partnership with Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission the Annual Choreographers’ Showcase, which The Washington Post called “a rite of passage in the DC area dance community.” Residents of Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia, 18 years of age and older, may apply to audition new dance works before adjudicators. Six finalists receive an honorarium of $800 and present their work in a full concert.
VelocityDC is a special partnership between the Dance Metro DC, Shakespeare Theatre Company, and Washington Performing Arts. Designed to showcase and promote the exceptional artistic quality of the Washington, D.C., region’s dance community, Velocity DC positions Washington as a top arts and dance destination nationwide. The festival occurs in the fall and applications are due in April.
BALLETNOVA CENTER FOR DANCE GLOBAL DANCE SHOWCASE
Funded by the Arts Council of Fairfax County, this showcase aims to highlight the diversity of dance present in Northern Virginia and the Washington, D.C., metro area.
West Virginia
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
The Aurora Project offers three to six week residencies for up to nine artists and scholars per session. Private studios are open 24/7; simple, comfortable accommodations and three meals a day are provided. Residents are selected based on their applications and support material submitted in July and reviewed by peer panel in August. Announcements are made in October for residencies scheduled from March through December of the following year. The residencies are available to artists at any stage of their career, but are not open to students. A waiting list is maintained.
Wyoming
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
The Ucross Foundation, located in Ucross, Wyo., is a nonprofit organization that operates an internationally known retreat for visual artists, writers, composers, and choreographers working in all creative disciplines. The Ucross Foundation residency provides living accommodations, individual work space, and uninterrupted time to approximately 85 individuals a year.
Teton Artlab assists artists by providing studio space, exhibition and performance opportunities, and access to shared resources. The residency program is in one of the world’s most unique landscapes, the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. This area includes both Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks.
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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
Artists have created art in national parks since the late 19th century when famed Hudson River School painters captured the majestic views of our nation’s western parks. Today, the sights and sounds in national parks continue to inspire artists in more than 50 residency programs across the country.
Whether staying in a remote wilderness cabin at Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska or contemplating history at Herbert Hoover National Historic Site in Iowa or working in a contemporary studio overlooking the stone-lined fields at Weir Farm National Historic Site in Connecticut, these programs provide artists with unique opportunities to create works of art in varied natural and cultural settings.
There are programs for visual artists, writers, musicians, performers, and other creative media. Programs vary, but residencies are typically two to four weeks in length and most include lodging. Often artists are invited to participate in park programs by sharing their art with the public.
Each park in this directory has its own application process and timeline, so visit the specific park’s website for further information.