The Yard announces residencies and apprenticeships

2009 Company Residency at The Yard
Application deadline: April 7, 2008

Guidelines and application

The Yard Company Residency is an opportunity for working dance companies to spend four weeks creating new material undisturbed by outside obligations. The residency includes housing, work space, a company stipend, technical and administrative support, mentoring, and concert performances of new work.

2008 Company Residents are Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance and Charles Anderson's dance theatre X.

"The depth and amount of choreography we were able to achieve at The Yard were outstanding; we were able to eat, sleep, and breathe our art! Living together 24/7 bonded the company, and that experience directly fed the richness of our choreographic process. The beautiful and peaceful studios, house, land, and island, made working hard feel like a vacation." -- Chris Elam, Misnomer Dance Theater (The Yard, 2007)

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Perform at The Yard this Summer

Doris Humphrey Dance Apprenticeship with Gail Corbin

Auditions: April 21, 2008
6:00 - 9:00 pm
New York City

Registration form

The Doris Humphrey Dance Apprenticeship is an opportunity for Yard interns to perform a reconstruction of Doris Humphrey's classic Water Study under the direction of Gail Corbin. In addition to regular internship duties, apprentices will receive intensive training in Humphrey/Weidman/Limon technique. Water Study will be included in a concert of contemporary and classic masterworks of Modern Dance at The Yard, August 22-24.

Professional dancers who have already completed their college dance studies and have an interest in exploring early classic modern dance are encouraged to apply for this internship.

Yard interns receive housing, the opportunity to take company and/or community classes at The Yard, free admission to all Yard events and receptions, and use of rehearsal space when available.