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U.S. Residencies, Incubators & Presenters
Alabama
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
ADC is a statewide, nonprofit service organization for the Alabama dance community. The ADC’s mission is to promote the study, creation, performance, and enjoyment of dance in all forms.
NETWORKS
The Alabama Dance Exchange is the most comprehensive source of information for Alabama's dance performances, events, classes, and resources.
Alaska
PRESENTERS
A panel of teachers at the Alaska Dance Theatre chose company members for the ADT Performing Company. Auditions are held yearly and company members are given the opportunity to study with a variety of teachers and guest artists. They perform works throughout the year.
Arizona
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
Desert Dance Theatre is a contemporary dance company that was founded in 1979 by four ASU Dance Graduates. Currently, under the artistic direction of Lisa R. Chow and Step Raptis, Desert Dance Theatre has an eclectic variety of dances in the current repertory, ranging from classical, comical to abstract and theatrical.
DEL E. WEBB CENTER MADE IN WICKENBURG ARTIST RESIDENCY
A historic guest ranch in Wickenburg, Ariz., is available for artist residency programs to foster creative, collaborative, and performance projects by established performing artists. Each residency allows companies to pursue new projects, mount work, or collaborate with other artists, free from everyday pressures. The residencies are intended for individual artists or companies wishing to create a new piece of work or add a piece to their repertoire, in preparation for a tour or, at a minimum, multiple performances. Disciplines eligible for residency during the 2015-2016 season include music, dance, theater, and film.
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK ARTIST RESIDENCY
The Artist-in-Residence Program offers professional artists the opportunity to spend three weeks on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon in housing provided by the National Park Service. The North Rim AiR program is seasonal, with five residencies during the summer and early fall. Artists in all genres and disciplines, contemporary, traditional, or folk, who have a genuine interest in contributing to on-going national discussion will be of special interest to the program.
PRESENTERS
The Arizona Jazz Dance Showcase (AJDS) is an annual dance festival hosted of The University of Arizona School of Dance. Designed for intermediate/advanced dancers (recommended for dance students ages 13 and up), AJDS includes performances, dance classes, scholarship auditions for summer programs as well as an audition opportunity for the UA School of Dance for interested high school seniors. The AJDS Invitational Concert, which receives hundreds of submissions, is held in a professionally equipped theater.
Arkansas
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
BALLET ARKANSAS VISIONS CHOREOGRAPHIC COMPETITION
VISIONS began as the vision of Ballet Arkansas’ Artistic Director Michael Bearden, who wanted to give choreographers an opportunity to have their works seen and appreciated by audiences and the dance community, as well as the opportunity to have their choreography fully produced.
California
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
ODC is a groundbreaking contemporary arts institution with longstanding roots in the San Francisco community. Formed by Brenda Way in 1971 as a collective of artists at Oberlin College in Ohio where the name ODC originates (Oberlin Dance Collective), in 1976, the collective moved to San Francisco. In its 25th year, the pilot program encourages the artistic and professional development of choreographers by providing a performance venue and a framework for self-production and promotion.
SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF DANCE CHOREOGRAPHIC RESIDENCY
With guidance from the faculty’s resident choreographers, six aspiring choreographers will create their own works on other dancers, which will be shown the faculty and students at the end of the session. This is an opportunity to gain new insight into the choreographer’s perspective on the collaborative process.
Footloose is an arts-presenting organization that produces original theater, dance, music, comedy, and multimedia works with artists and technologists from all fields, especially emerging and established women artists. The company provides resources for artists to develop their works from initial through exhibition stages to promote their professional careers.
The Artists in Motion is Footloose Presents’ performing arts residency program culminates in a showcase where the artist may also invite guest artists to share the bill. This year-round series features live performances of dance, theater, music, spoken word, and multimedia hybrids. Artists are considered for a variety of venues and programs and are offered free rehearsal space, publicity and marketing, technical and administrative support, and mentoring on how to self-produce.
ASIA PACIFIC PERFORMANCE EXCHANGE
The Asia Pacific Performance Exchange (APPEX) is an international residency program with a particular focus on American and Asian artists. APPEX programs (1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2006 and 2010) have brought together more than 250 traditional and contemporary artists of varying disciplines from America and throughout Asia -- from Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, and Vietnam -- for six week long intensive residency sessions on the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus and in Indonesia.
NATIONAL CHOREOGRAPHERS INITIATIVE
Founded and directed by Molly Lynch, Corona del Mar’s National Choreographers Initiative supports and nurtures the process of new choreographic development, while educating and enriching the community through access to the creative process. The National Choreographers Initiative invites choreographers from the southern California community to take part in the process of creating new contemporary ballets and seeing these works performed for the first time.
EXPLORATORIUM ARTISIT RESIDENCY
Since its inception in 1974, the Exploratorium’s Artist-in-Residence Program (AIR) has grown to include hundreds of artists and performers. The museum works with individuals and artist groups who are drawn to collaboration, interested in interdisciplinary dialogue, and open to developing new working methods. Projects have taken countless forms, such as multimedia performances, theatrical productions, animated filmmaking, immersive installations, walking tours, and online projects. The program allows for artists to embed within the unique culture of the institution, affords access to a dynamic and diverse staff, and provides opportunities for cross-pollination with a broad public. While the museum allows room for variance, residencies typically unfold over two years and include both an exploratory and project-development phase.
The Sally and Don Lucas Artists Residency Program (LAP) is designed to offer artists from a range of disciplines an environment conducive to individual and collaborative creative practice. Seeking to stimulate an energetic exchange of ideas between culturally diverse fellows and across varied artistic fields and scholarly disciplines, the residency has earned international recognition as a model of curatorial practice supporting the development of new and challenging contemporary work.
LINEAGE DANCE PASADENA DANCE FESTIVAL
The Pasadena Dance Festival is an award-winning, week-long dance festival that highlights the greater Pasadena/Los Angeles dance community, featuring top teachers and inspiring performers. This annual event features an array of dance classes, workshops, seminars and performances bringing the community together by providing the experience of dance for people of all ages, all ethnicities and all circumstances. The festival kicks off with a showcase of up-and-coming local dance companies followed by a Choreographer’s Showcase, which presents an exciting selection of emerging choreographers.
Push Dance Company seeks existing and created dance works for PUSHfest, which showcases 14 choreographers in two separate programs in the state-of-the-art ODC Theater in San Francisco.
sjDANCEco is a contemporary dance company, based in San Jose, Calif., which presents works by its core choreographers, guest choreographers, and modern dance masters, such as Jose Limon. Its ChoreoProject Awards Concert is a open to local professional choreographers via audition at no cost. Two special awards are given: one where the audience votes for their favorite and the sjDANCEco directors choose their favorite based strongly on choreography. In its eighth year, sjDANCEco recently added an additional ChoreoProject concert.
DJERASSI RESIDENT ARTISTS PROGRAM
Djerassi is an internationally recognized artist residency founded by Stanford University Professor Emeritus, Dr. Carl Djerassi in 1979. The Djerassi Residency hosts cycles of about eight artists for a period of four to five weeks, totaling about 60 artists annually. Writers, composers, choreographers, visual artists, and media artists are eligible to apply. Located north of Santa Cruz near Stanford, Djerassi allows artists to work continuously for a period of a little over a month. The Djerassi experience encourages interaction between the artists involved, as dialogue and interaction is the cornerstone for collegiate artist fellowship. The residency is year round with about seven cycles annually.
HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
The Artist in Residence (AIR) program awards fully sponsored residencies to approximately 45 local, national, and international artists each year. Residencies of four to ten weeks include studio space, chef-prepared meals, comfortable housing, and travel and living stipends when available. AIRs become part of a dynamic community of artists participating in Headlands’ other programs, allowing for exchange and collaborative relationships to develop within the artist community on campus. Artists selected for this program are at all stages in their careers and work in all media, including drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, new media, installation, fiction and nonfiction writing, poetry, dance, music, interdisciplinary, social practice, and architecture.
Dance Camera West aspires to awaken and infuse the public mainstream with a desire for critical creative programming. The vision of DCW is to present the visual language of dance on screen in a way that stretches the imagination and changes the way one thinks about dance. The Dance Camera West Dance Film Festival showcases many forms of dance, including modern dance, post-modern dance, world dance, tap dance, dance theater, ballet, hip-hop, and practically all dance that has been well captured on film. To submit a film visit:
18th Street Arts Center’s Visiting Artist Residency Program hosts artists from across the United States and from around the world. There are four live/work artist studios at the center where artists are in residence from one to three months at a time (sometimes longer). This program hosts artists of all disciplines, as well as art curators, writers, and musicians. It includes invited artists as well as artists selected through an application process.
COUNTERPULSE
CounterPULSE, a non-profit theater, performance space, gallery, and community center with a focus on Bay Area’s provocative performance and dance scene, acts as a catalyst for art and action. Supporting socially relevant and community-based work encourages an exchange of concepts and ideas. The CounterPULSE Residency is for emerging and mid-career artists focused on movement-based performance. The residency period is about four months and residents are expected to stay in the Bay Area during this time. CounterPULSE expects its residents to assist at events where residents will interact with artists and audiences. Beyond a generous stipend, CounterPULSE offers 100 hours of studio space, work-in-progress feedback showings, web presence, an end-of-residency show (with frequent press coverage), long-term support and connections after residency, publicity, technical support, and formal documentation of the work.
Dorland invites residency requests from visual, literary, and performing artists. Residency stays may be as short as one week or as long as three months, based on requests and availability. Residency fees are $300 per week and $1,000 per four-week period. Applications are reviewed monthly.
Through the residency program, Red Poppy Art House invites select artists, performers, and curators to use art house space as a residence for executing proposed creative projects. The ongoing creation of new work, with the often unpredictable turns and exchanges that occur when artists have time and space together, stands as the most impactful element in shaping the culture that characterizes the Red Poppy. While the Red Poppy’s Artist Residency Program does not provide a living space for the artist, it provides a living and growing space for the creative work.
Colorado
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
COLORADO CONSERVATORY OF DANCE
This residency program promotes a vibrant local professional dance community by offering selected artists support and resources to create ambitious new works and have greater impact and success with their work. CCD offers three- to six-month long residencies providing local artists the space to create a new evening of work. CCD selects participants based on their artistic merit, the relevance of the proposed project, and the potential impact of the residency and work on the local community and artist’s career. This program is designed to promote values of innovation, quality, rigor, and mutual support within the dance community.
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER
The James and Rebecca Roser Visiting Artist Program, established in 1995, provides continuing funding to bring artists each year to be resident resources on campus in one or more of the five different artistic areas in which the university has major programs. These residencies are paid for by Student Program Fee Grant funds and are awarded to both faculty and students.
Dance Initiative was organized in 2009 to promote the dance in the Roaring Fork Valley and neighboring counties of Colorado. The non-profit organization serves and supports local dancers in their pursuit of professional and artistic development, projects, and careers. With the opening of The Launchpad in the fall of 2014, Dance Initiative has forged an artist-in-residency program that will host a national, a regional, and a special choreographer to create original work, host open rehearsals, and share the work with the Roaring Fork community.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK RESIDENCY
The artist-in-residence program at Rocky Mountain National Park offers professional writers, composers, and visual and performing artists the opportunity to pursue their artistic discipline while being surrounded by the park’s inspiring landscape. Selected artists stay in a historic cabin for two-week periods from June through September. No stipend is provided.
Residencies at Platte Forum are competitive with more than 100 applications for four slots awarded per year. Each residency provides artist time, space and support to extend a creator’s work and share their ideas with the public. Artistic excellence, innovative ideas for engagement, and collaboration with the public, and a diversity of ideas, genres, and methodologies are paramount in selecting artists for the four slots each season. Residencies are six to eight weeks in duration.
PRESENTERS
Dance Initiative was organized in 2009 to promote dance in the Roaring Fork Valley and neighboring counties of Colorado. The non-profit serves and supports the needs of local dancers in their pursuit of professional and artistic development, projects, and careers. Dance Initiative also strives to cultivate community appreciation for dance by bringing unique and inspiring performance and educational opportunities to the area. Dance Initiative has a performance series called the Spectrum Dance Collection and an annual weekend dance festival called the Spectrum Dance Festival.
Connecticut
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
The Dragon’s Egg, the rehearsal space for the Mystic Paper Beasts, is to be used to encourage the creative development of new work, and the rehearsal of old, in dance and theater; to foster young and old practitioners of these arts; to provide the space and time so that these may more easily be accomplished. It will also be available for various other workshops of a theatrical and/or spiritual dimension, at the discretion of the board. Artistic residencies typically run from two days to nine days.
Florida
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
MAGGIE ALLESEE NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHOREOGRAPHY
MANCC (pronounced man-see) is the only national center for choreography in the world located in a major research institution, and operates from one of the premiere dance facilities in the United States. The center is embedded within The Florida State University School of Dance, and offers unparalleled opportunities for contemporary choreographers to hone their artistic practice and develop new work inside a creative community.
NATIONAL CHOREOGRAPHY INTENSIVE
The RDA National Choreography Intensive (NCI) is a multi-faceted program, providing dancers, emerging choreographers, and seasoned choreographers the unparalleled opportunity to work, study, and create under the guidance of nationally recognized professionals in the fields of music and dance. The NCI provides a vital training ground/working environment for choreographers and a one-of-a-kind experience for dancers to work within a variety of styles and train with some of the best teachers in the world. Applications must be received no later than March.
Residencies average three weeks year-round and are open to visual, media, literary, and performing artists. Facilities include studios for dance/choreography, digital media, film/digital editing, performance theater, and exhibition/installation space. Residencies include housing, studios, and meals. Residents are responsible for travel and residency fee. Artists have the option of participating in public exhibitions/presentations.
THE HERMITAGE ARTIST RETREAT
World-class artistic creators of all disciplines are invited to work at the Hermitage Artist Retreat with a “bank” of six weeks of time and two years to “spend” that time in any increment they choose. Our artists live and work in — and are inspired by — five “Old Florida” buildings that have been lovingly restored into living space and studio space. Fifteen miles of Gulf of Mexico beach stretch north and south. By policy, Hermitage Artists are selected by nomination only. There is no application process; the National Artist Advisory Committee nominates accomplished mid-career artists and fellows are selected from the pool of nominees.
Georgia
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
FULL RADIUS DANCE ATLANTA DANCE FESTIVAL
The Modern Atlanta Dance Festival (MAD) was created by Douglas Scott and Full Radius Dance in 1995 to showcase the diversity and excellence of the local dance scene. The MAD Festival strives to present the best of Atlanta’s modern/contemporary dance.
24 HOUR DANCE
Dancers and choreographers are invited to make a dance in 24 hours. At the beginning of the period, choreographers will be assigned dancers and a space. At the end, all works will be performed. Two works, one selected by audience vote and one selected by a panel of artists, will have the opportunity to open the MAD Festival performances.
The Creatives Project (TCP) is a vital force in Atlanta’s arts community that strengthens and unites arts, education, community, and commerce by creating an arts eco-system that empowers citizens to recognize Atlanta’s potential. TCP patrons donate subsidized housing and free studio space to support artists as they serve Atlanta neighborhoods by generating vibrant and fertile communities poised for economic growth and development. TCP has a variety of residencies. Of particular interest to choreographers is The Goat Farm Arts Center located in the Westside Arts District of Atlanta. The center has multiple performance and exhibition halls and hosts classical and contemporary music concerts, theater performances, film screenings, and art exhibitions. It also houses a library/café, an education center, an on-site organic farm, and a 5,000 sq. ft. sprung floor for dance.
Hambidge provides a residency program that empowers talented individuals to explore, develop, and express their creative voices. Situated on 600 acres in the mountains of north Georgia, Hambidge is a sanctuary of time and space that inspires individuals working in a broad range of disciplines to create the highest caliber works. Hambidge’s Residency Program opens mid-February and closes mid- to late-December through the month of January. Residencies are awarded by juried panels for two to eight weeks.
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SOUTH ARTS DANCE TOURING INITIAITIVE
The Dance Touring Initiative is a three-year project to enhance the presentation of modern dance and contemporary ballet for presenters and audiences. Currently the Dance Touring Initiative is beginning its third cohort of participants as well as providing continued support for the first two cohorts.
Hawaii
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
NATIONAL DANCE WEEK HAWAII CHOREOGRAPHY LAB
The NDW-Hawaii Choreography Lab brings together emerging and professional choreographers, as well as pre-professional dancers from around the world. The week-long movement exploration on the beautiful island of Oahu will allow dancers to work intensively with choreographers to create socially conscious, site-specific work. Three to five choreographers from around the world will be invited to set new (or revisit existing) work on local and visiting dancers.
Idaho
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
Surel's Place, a non-profit artist-in-residency program, offers artists time, shelter, and professional support. Located in Boise, Idaho, and nestled steps from the Boise River, this modern live-work space is at the center of the Surel Mitchell Live-Work-Create District. Surel’s Place mission is two-fold: to offer artists professional support and to provide the public with interesting, accessible, inclusive, and professional art experiences, including performances, readings, exhibits, and workshops. The program is open to professional visual, literary, and performance artists: painters, writers, musicians, architects, filmmakers, and choreographers -- any artist who needs a place to focus.
Illinois
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
HUBBARD STREET DANCE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSIONING PROJECT
The development of new work is of key importance at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. As part of its mission to identify and nurture young choreographers, Hubbard Street 2 (HS2) initiated the National Choreographic Competition in 1999. Renamed the International Commissioning Project (IC Project) for its 15th anniversary, the program continues to provide residencies to choreographers, offering them the opportunity to create original works for HS2’s dancers and to conduct master classes.
The Chicago Dancemakers Forum (CDF) strengthens the field of dance in Chicago overall by supporting deep investigation, bold risk taking, and artistic rigor. CDF provides multi-layered support for Chicago choreographers through its prestigious Lab Artists program, public workshops, events, and residencies, all with strong emphasis on artistic and professional development. The CDF Lab Artist Program makes $15,000 cash grants to choreographers annually. Grants are combined with mentorship throughout the research, development, and performance of a newly choreographed work.
DanceWorks Chicago is committed to building a foundation for the individual artistic growth of dancers and choreographers, providing a laboratory where early career artists propel themselves and the art form to new levels through training, collaboration, mentorship, and performance. Led by Andreas Böttcher and Julie Nakagawa, DanceWorks Chicago fills a niche in the dance ecosystem by investing in the individual artists. Choreographically, DanceWorks seeks new voices while also embracing opportunities to connect with more established choreographers providing mentorship and perspective for all involved.
COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO DANCE CENTER
The Dance Center attracts world-class guests to its performance series and residencies. Visiting artists lead classes, workshops and talks, and choreograph original works. Students get a chance to see our world-class presenting series and perform in their own works.
3Arts Residency Fellowships provide the space for artists to test their mettle, see what happens, and take a breath within environments and communities that are both restorative and stimulating. Each year, 3Arts awardees are eligible to apply for all-expenses-paid, month-long residencies, which include a stipend and airfare at one of four partner sites. Managed by the Alliance of Artists Communities, these residencies are fully accessible and open to artists in dance, music, teaching arts, theater, and visual arts.
THE RUTH PAGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS
The artist in residence program is designed to serve organizations looking for a home base while they grow or expand their artistic and organizational capabilities. The center is committed to nurturing and assisting dance and other performing artists, as well as helping to promote them to expand the audience base for their work, allowing for exchange and collaborative relationships to develop within the artistic community.
CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS
In the Works is the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events residency program that gives emerging and established performing artists the opportunity to test drive new work in a public setting. Each residency is tailored to the needs of the artist or company and their project and takes place in the most suitable DCASE space. Each showing allows audiences to get a behind-the-scenes look at new work by Chicago artists.
More than 150 residencies and fellowships are now offered annually to creative professionals of all types, making Ragdale one of the largest interdisciplinary artists’ communities in the country. Each session, 13 artists-in-residence experience uninterrupted time for dedicated work on a five-acre historic campus beside a beautiful 50-acre prairie, 30 miles north of Chicago. With live/work studios, all meals provided, and unmatched staff support, Ragdale lets artists focus on what’s most important: creating new work.
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DANCE CHICAGO CHOREOGRAPHER’S SHOWCASE
In its 21st season, Dance Chicago will be featuring more than 200 individual acts and more than 1,500 artists in four great theaters during the 2015-2016 season. Applications for the next Dance Chicago season can be found at:
The aMID festival celebrates the underserved performative body of the aging artist and challenges commonly held views regarding the age demographic of a dancer or physical performing artist. The festival accentuates the aesthetic shifts that come with a consistent art/movement practice, as well as those that accompany working with one’s body as it ages and changes. aMID features choreographers confronting their shifting and declining corporeal ability to expose a different and/or alternative technical virtuosity coming from years of performance experience. Conversation and performances will take into consideration what virtuosity, especially as it applies to dance, looks like at different stages within a practice, and the differences between early and late styles within a long running choreographic career. Work presented by aMID expands assumptions of who performs dance, opening the aesthetic conversation to include the aging body.
Indiana
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
Founded in 1977 by Artistic Director Debbie Werbrouck, Patchwork Dance Company is a regional, non-profit, contemporary company dedicated to enriching audiences through performances and outreach programs. Patchwork performs choreography of both nationally recognized and resident choreographers. Patchwork Dance Company regularly hosts residencies of guest artists to enrich the talents and repertoire of the company.
Iowa
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
Grin City Collective’s Artists & Writers Residency Program offers three-week or six-week long residencies for writers, visual, and performance artists on a 320-acre farm in Central Iowa. Residents receive a private studio, bedroom, and a collaborative working atmosphere. Artists over age 21 at any stage of their careers may apply. Grin City features a collaborative, supportive working atmosphere and welcomes artists interested in exposure to rural America and local agriculture and those who wish to share their creative work with this community.
PRESENTERS
Iowa Dance Theatre, a non-profit organization formed in 1983, includes a unique blend of dancers, teachers, choreographers, and art enthusiasts who combine talents to produce high-quality, artistic dance productions. New choreography, new opportunities, and new ideas are sought each year. Dance teachers and choreographers are invited to submit a proposal for a production that will challenge and excite dancers and audiences alike. Iowa Dance Theatre stands ready, upon approval of the proposal, to fully support new choreographic projects to a successful conclusion.
Kansas
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS DANCE DEPARTMENT CHOREOGRAPHIC FELLOWSHIP
The Department of Dance at the University of Kansas invites guest artists who enhance the professional preparation of students. During their residency, choreographers teach master classes, set works on members of the University Dance Company, and help foster connections between dance students and professionals in the dance community.
Kentucky
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
DANCE-FORMS PRODUCTIONS INTERNATIONAL CHOREOGRAPHERS' SHOWCASE
The Dance-Forms International Choreographers Showcase provides emerging and distinguished choreographers opportunities to present their works at dance events worldwide. Dance-Forms provides a complete production package, which includes excellent theaters, lighting, sound, technical assistance, publicity, box office, printed programs, and pre-show rehearsal arrangements.
THE KENTUCKY FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN
Founded in 2006, KFW’s Summer Residency at Hopscotch House has fostered many of Kentucky’s most diverse feminist social change artists and art activists. Artists with varied backgrounds, worldviews, cultural heritages, and sexual orientations are encouraged to apply.
Louisiana
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TULANE UNIVERSITY A STUDIO IN THE WOODS
Flint and Steel are six-week residencies designed to allow artists to join forces with academic partners. Artists will be united with Tulane and Xavier University faculty members to inspire each other in the development of new work, to excite the public, and to fuel social change. Open to visual, musician/composing, performance, literary, new media, and interdisciplinary artists. Both established and emerging artists are encouraged to apply, but a rigorous work ethic and demonstrated ability to work with colleagues and wider audiences are expected. Students are not eligible.
Maine
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
BATES DANCE FESTIVAL EMERGING CHOREOGRAPHERS PROGRAM
Founded in 1993, the Bates Dance Festival Emerging Choreographers Program in Lewiston, Maine, provides gifted U.S.-based choreographers, who are beginning to establish themselves in the field of contemporary dance, with access to the resources of the Bates Dance Festival’s international community of peer artists. Participating dance artists selected by invitation receive a three-week creative residency that includes daily classes and studio time, access to the BDF Archive, Bates College Library, and other college facilities, housing, meals, and an honorarium. Emerging choreographers develop a new work that will be featured on the Different Voices Concert. Participants are selected by invitation.
BEARNSTOWS YOUNG ARTIST RESIDENCY
Bearnstow’s Young Artist Residency Program is a summer-long intensive of excellent dance and dance instruction. This includes full participation in all workshop classes (eight week-long workshops, 25 hours weekly), instruction and mentoring by an international staff of professional dancers and choreographers, participation in weekly informal performances, and a presentation of their own work (choreographed in the summer workshops) in a formally mounted concert at the end of the season.
ACADIA NATIONAL PARK RESIDENCY
The Artist-in-Residence (A-I-R) program at Acadia National Park offers professional writers, composers, and all visual and performing artists the opportunity to pursue their particular art form while surrounded by the inspiring landscape of the park. Each year, the park and its partner, the Schoodic Institute, provides housing to participants for two-week to four-week periods. At this time stipends are not available. Participating artists offer public programs, work with visiting student groups, and donate a representative piece of their work to the Schoodic Institute in support of the A-I-R program. These creative works are later sold or auctioned with the proceeds supporting A-I-R housing expenses and supplies.
PRESENTERS
The Bates Dance Festival brings together an international community of choreographers, performers, educators, and students in a cooperative community to study, perform, and create new work. The festival offers a supportive atmosphere aimed at fostering a creative exchange of ideas, encouraging exploration and providing opportunities to experience a wide spectrum of dance/movement disciplines. Artists, students, and audiences share their knowledge and inspiration through workshops, jams, discussions, informal showings, and performances.
Maryland
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
The Arts and Humanities Artist-in-Residence (AIR) is a joint project of the Departments of Art and English, the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, and the School of Music. Each of these units has components, including the MFA degree, that involve “working art” -- that is, the creative work of a variety of artists, including writers, composers, performers, dancers, and visual artists, to name a few. AIR aims to contribute to the creative educational mission of each academic unit, while simultaneously fostering cross-disciplinary discussion and collaboration.
PEARL DIVING MOVEMENT RESIDENCY
Baltimore’s Pearl Diving Movement Residency supports professional artists making interdisciplinary and multimedia-based work by providing rehearsal space, technical support, mentorship, and a stipend during a month-long residency in March 2016. The dual-track program serves both local and visiting artists and offers time in an environment where research, play, and risk-taking are encouraged. Each residency culminates in a shared public work-in-progress showing. When responding, please use DIVING in the subject line.
Dance Exchange is a Takoma Park, MD-based non-profit arts organization committed to exploring the questions at the center of our lives, using dance-making and creative practices that engage individuals and communities of all ages. Founded in 1976 by Liz Lerman and under the artistic direction of Cassie Meador since 2011, Dance Exchange is an intergenerational company of artists that creates dance and engages people in making art. Dance Exchange serves as an incubator for creative research, bringing ideas to action through collaborations that range from experts in the field of dance to unexpected movers and makers.
AMERICAN DANCE INSTITUTE (ADI)
The ADI Incubator creates a supportive environment that allows artists to explore big ideas and realize their vision during this critical final phase of development. ADI’s Incubator is one of the few dance residency programs in the country to offer late-stage development support for new choreography. Typically one-week in length, each incubator provides selected choreographers and companies with housing, meals, unrestricted use of ADI’s technical resources and staff, public showings or premiere performances, audience feedback sessions (at artist’s request), an artist stipend, and professional photography and video documentation.
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The Artist Partner Program at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Centers curates a multi-arts performance series with regional, national and international artists, and creative innovators. As part of a major public research university, the Artist Partner Program is committed to the creation and investigation of new work and new ways of participating in the performing arts. As part of The Clarice, the Artist Partner Program collaborates with the School of Music, the School of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies, the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library, and Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission in building the future of the arts.
Massachusetts
CHOREOGRAPHIC INCUBATORS & RESIDENCIES
JACOBS PILLOW CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT RESIDENCY PROGRAM
The Creative Development Residency (CDR) Program gives artists the opportunity to focus on creating new work or re-staging important work in the idyllic environment of Jacob's Pillow.
Artists receive free housing on site at the Derby farmhouse, unlimited use of the Doris Duke Theatre and/or studio space, access to the Pillow’s rare and extensive archives, and other Pillow resources such as staff consultation and archival recording. CDRs are typically one to three weeks. An informal showing with an invited audience concludes the residency.
THE YARD OFFSHORE CREATION RESIDENCIES
Offshore Creation Residencies by artists and companies (or otherwise collaborating groups) are the defining paradigm of The Yard. The residency structure is a legacy of founder Patricia N. Nanon’s pioneering work with dance artists beginning in the early 1970s, and it has become a valued local and national resource for artists and community alike.
Unlike other residency communities across the country, the Yard is generally focused on group/company residency, emphasizing the collaborative nature of art-making by creators and performers in contemporary dance, devised theater and music. The Yard supports three categories of residency, which may overlap depending on the artists involved: Offshore Creation Residencies, Community Residencies, and Presentation Residencies.
Boston Dance Alliance’s services to members and the broader dance community include a rentable, portable sprung wood floor, enabling dancers to present their work safely in any setting; the prestigious BDA Rehearsal and Retreat Fellowship; an annual open call audition that attracts more than 100 dancers across a variety of genres; fiscal sponsorship allowing unincorporated companies and dance projects to accept tax-deductible donations to support their work; professional development workshops; access to a high-quality HD video camera so that artists can document their work; and regular discounts to performances, classes, workshops, dancewear, health and wellness services, and more. Boston Dance Alliance also maintains a website that lists choreographic opportunities in the area.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY OFFICE FOR THE ARTS EMERGING CHOREOGRAPHER RESIDENCIES
A Dance Center residency opportunity for emerging student choreographers who wish to develop their choreographic skills through a semester-long, in-depth mentorship with professional choreographers provides a chance to work one-on-one with some of the best choreographers working in the field of dance today.
NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATON FOR THE ARTS (NEFA)
NEFA offers a variety of grants for artists and presenters including Production Residencies for Dance grants support residencies at the end-stage of development where artists, in collaboration with residency partners, can access technical facilities and staff and gain significant artistic, directorial, and/or dramaturgical input to produce works that are more fully realized and ready to tour. Production residencies take place either just prior to a premiere or post-premiere, but prior to the work’s tour.
The Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) accepts applications on an annual basis for its Choreographers’ Residency Program, which provides space for up to three artists during the season. The Choreographers’ Residency program provides free rehearsal and performance space, technical and administrative support, and direct financial assistance to be used at the artist’s discretion. As the host for the selected companies, the BCA helps develop an audience for residency events, enabling the artist to focus completely on the creation of work and immersion in the process. This program adds a support system for dance in Boston and builds the selected dance company’s repertoire to increase the amount of high-quality dance in the region.
The Dance Complex is a central hub of dance, locally, regionally, and nationally, that enables the creation, study, and performance of dance. Its professional, pre-professional, and recreational movers can find a variety of movement and dance classes. The Dance Complex provides access to affordable studio space and programs to help strengthen choreographic, performance, and production skills. The Dance Complex is home to performances, presenting more than 100 concerts a year in its theater and on-site in seven dance spaces.
The E|MERGE Interdisciplinary Collaborative Residency curates performance and visual artists, activists, scholars, and those interested in developing new cross disciplinary forms. E|MERGE works to promote the interchange of ideas, artistic innovation, and the creation of new collaborative models continuing beyond the residency. This residency is ideal for those interested in collaborating across discipline and backgrounds. Applicants must demonstrate a commitment to cooperation and an interest in collective decision-making processes. The residency culminates in a final weekend of performances, panel discussions, writing, research, and other modes of expression. Earthdance enthusiastically encourages participation across social differences including race, sexual identity, gender, age, class, and ability.
The STAR Collaboration invites artists of all disciplines to come away for a semester of focused art making, and to come together with students and teachers to facilitate learning. STAR residents are accomplished artists and educators-at-heart who want to work with young people while expanding the definition of what being an educator means; who are interested in novel, interdisciplinary educational approaches; and who thrive on collaboration with others. STAR artists receive studio facilities, room and board, a monthly stipend, and a materials budget, dedicated, distraction-free time to make art, and opportunities to develop teaching skills through professional development relationships with mentor teachers. By working beside students, informally mentoring and modeling, STAR residents can wield powerful, positive influence on passionate, talented, budding artists.
CAPE COD NATIONAL SEASHORE RESIDENCIES
The Dune Shacks of Peaked Hill Bars Historic District is a 1,900-acre National Register district significant for its association with the historic development of art and literature in America; for its representation of a rare, fragile property; and for its association with the poet Harry Kemp. Since the mid-1990s, the National Park Service has had agreements with non-profit organizations that offer artist-in-residence and writer-in-residence programs in the historic dune shacks. In addition to these opportunities, additional residencies may be available, including architecture, engineering, science, cultural/historic, dance, music, and journalism.
PRESENTERS
The Dance Complex is a central hub of dance, locally, regionally, and nationally, that enables the creation, study and performance of dance. Professional, pre-professional, and recreational movers can find a variety of movement and dance classes. The Dance Complex provides access to affordable studio space and programs to help strengthen choreographic, performance, and production skills. The Dance Complex is home to performances, presenting more than 100 concerts a year in our theatre and on-site in seven dance spaces.