What's the next stage? A residency at Pittsburgh's Kelly Strayhorn

Pittsburgh's Kelly Strayhorn Theater announces a call for applicants for the 2013 Next Stage Artist Residency Program. The Next Stage Residency supports the creation of new work by choreographers. Next Stage gives talented choreographers the opportunity to explore and develop new material in the historic and beautiful Kelly Strayhorn Theater.

Application Deadline: Friday, November 30, 2012

Selected choreographers receive a one-week creative residency with a presentation showing of the work at the end of the residency week. Choreographers are required to participate in all residency activities.

For complete programmatic and application details, click here.

DiP: New residency program at Gibney Dance

Gibney Dance Center launches another innovative program for New York's dance comunity--DiP, a new residency designed to provide continuous access to a studio space and production office to mid-career NYC-based dance makers. Artists will be selected for residencies of 2-4 weeks at Gibney Dance Center beginning in September 2012.

DiP DEADLINE:  Wednesday, May 16, 6pm

Get complete information and apply here.

Gibney Dance Center develops residency program

Center Line: Choreographic Residences II

at Gibney Dance Center

Wednesday, March 14, 6:30pm 

Free admission

Based on previous feedback from our first Center Line: Choreographic Residencies town hall and extended research, Gibney Dance has created a plan for Dance in Process (DIP). As we lay the groundwork for this new residency program, we want feedback from the dance field on the elements that contribute to a great creative experience. Those present at Center Line will have an opportunity to learn about the program plans and offer suggestions. New and returning attendees are welcome to share their perspectives. This edition of Center Line will be moderated by Dana Whitco.

Gibney Dance Center (Studio 3)
890 Broadway, 5th Floor (between 19th and 20th Streets), Manhattan
(map/directions)

RSVP at rsvp@gibneydance.org or 212-677-8560.

The Field to artists: Get writing!

Writing Project Descriptions and Artist Statements

presented by The Field

Instructor: Beth Morrison

Tuesday, April 10 and Thursday, April 12, 6:30-9pm 

Project descriptions and artist statements are the backbone of artists' materials. Whether you're applying for a grant, residency or performance, or putting together your press kit, solid writing that describes your work and expresses your creative voice is key. This workshop provides examples from other artists, and gives participants a forum to develop their writing and receive feedback. 

$80/$50 Field Members

For more information on this and other workshops from The Field, click here. 

BETH MORRISON PROJECTS (BMP) identifies and supports the work of emerging and established composers and their collaborators through the commission, development, and production of their work, taking the form of opera-theatre, music-theatre, and multi-media concert works. Relying on the core values of collaboration, exploration, experimentation, artistry, and excellence, BMP provides a nurturing structure that allows artists to push the boundaries of their art form. Founded in 2006, BMP rapidly developed a reputation for “envisioning new possibilities and finding ways to facilitate their realization.” (New York Times) In 6 years, BMP has commissioned, developed, and produced more than 24 operas and music-theatre pieces that have premiered or been performed in New York, across the country, and around the globe. The Wall Street Journal said, "Ms. Morrison may be immortalized one day as a 21st-century Diaghilev, known for her ability to assemble memorable collaborations among artists." BMP’s ability to recognize emerging talent, invest in the vision of living composers and their collaborators, and partner with presenters to bring new work to life has allowed it to become vital in the landscape of new music and opera.

The Field
161 Sixth Avenue, 14th Floor, Manhattan
(directions)

DMAC offers choreography residency

DMAC (Duo Multicultural Arts Center)--at 62 East 4th Street, between 2nd Avenue and Bowery in the East Village--is offering residencies to choreographers beginning September, 2011 through August, 2012. The residencies are for choreographers to create new works. Each residency will last approximately 8 weeks. At the conclusion of the residency the choreography will be given the opportunity to showcase the work in progress before an audience.

To download the application please click here.

AUDIO PREVIEWS: Marya Warshaw and Levi Gonzalez

L-to-r: Marya Warshaw

with luciana achugar and Michael Mahalchick

(Photo: Angele Jimenez)

 Levi Gonzalez (Photo: Alex Escalante)

Levi Gonzalez (Photo: Alex Escalante)

AUDIO PREVIEWS

Founder and Artistic Director Marya Warshaw

talks about Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX)

Click (6:20)

Dancer-choreographer Levi Gonzalez

talks about BAX and his new work

Click (5:28)

intimacy

A Solo Dance by Levi Gonzalez

April 29-May 1

(Friday-Saturday, 8pm and Sunday, 6pm)

In his solo, intimacy,  Levi Gonzalez attempts to bring the practice of making into the moment  of live performance. In constructing material for this work, he  prioritizes instinct over concept, cultivating sensitivity to what  resonates with him on a visceral level. By exploring the idiosyncrasies  of his own interests in movement and performance, he builds a structure  that exposes his own personal relationship to the form. Often framing  the action with language, he establishes a directness with the spectator  that resists metaphor, while still leaving space for the engagement of  the imagination. Ultimately the work examines the intimacy of the  relationship between performer and audience, and how we navigate this  shared experience. The solo is being developed in collaboration with  dramaturg Susan Mar Landau.

More information and ticketing here

Join BAX in celebration of 20 years
of arts and artists in progress!

Thursday, May 5, 7:30pm

Prospect Park Picnic House

Prospect Park West at 5th Street, Brooklyn

(directions)

hosted by George Emilio Sánchez and Christalyn Wright

performances by

    LAVA
    Famous Accordion Orchestra
    Mike Albo
    Faye Driscoll
    BAXco Youth Dance Company
    (performing choreography by Nami Yamamoto)
    Drew Petersen
    and more...

BAX Arts and Artists in Progress Awards

Awardees have revealed and transformed our creative world. By  instigating and enduring change they have deepened the definition of  their field and paved the way for others.

The PASSING IT ON AWARD creates a complete cycle where a panel of peers  chooses the awardees and the awardees choose someone who demonstrates  some of the same qualities that they, themselves, were chosen for.

awards presented by Marya Warshaw, Founder and Executive Director, BAX

artist award: Gus Solomons jr, choreographer and co-founder, PARADIGM passing it on to Malcolm Jason Low

arts educator award: Terry Greiss, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Irondale Ensemble Project passing it on to Leese Walker

arts manager award: Leslie Strongwater, Associate Artistic Director, Dixon Place passing it on to Andy Horwitz

honorary award: Long-standing theater/dance partnership between the Brooklyn New School (BNS) and BAX, with José Joaquín García as lead teaching artist

All program, directions and ticket information online here

Merger agreement: DTW & BTJ!

Dance Theater and Bill T. Jones Troupe to Merge

by Kate Taylor, The New York Times, December 1, 2010

Answer this call...for residency proposals

EMPAC Open Call for Artist in Residence Proposals

by Andy Horwitz, Culturebot, October 21, 2010

Solo in Queens

Yesterday, I attended Dance in Queens 2010: Solo Flight--a showing of works-in-progress developed at TOPAZ ARTS in partnership with the Queens Museum of Art. Hosted and introduced by TA's co-director Paz Tanjuaquio, the program featured solos choreographed by Dina-Verley Sabb-Mills, Ursula Eagly (danced by marvelous Lindsey Dietz Marchant) and Daniel Charon.

I won't review these unfinished pieces. (Charon considers his dreamy This Much I Do Remember "fairly finished, because in my life, I like to move on to other things.") But I will say that the entire event, including the Q&A, was gracious and enjoyable.  And I do want to introduce you to an interesting artist who was new to me. 

Dina-Verley Sabb-Mills, from Philadelphia, is an MFA graduate of Temple University. Her piece--A (happy) Life, set to music by Corrine Bailey Rae, Kanye West and Miles Davis--calls to mind something of the stylish stage presence, agility and vigor of Camille A. Brown but with an insightful psychological honesty and vulnerability that's all her own. Sabb-Mills demonstrates the near-impossible juggling act of coping with trauma while trying to live one's public life, putting on the public face day after day. Made after a period of grief, demanding change and disconnection from her dancing, this solo is really one hell of a way to come back. It represents a personal turning point, for sure, but if it also hints at the strengths she will bring out in the future, then keep watch. Here's her website and schedule of upcoming gigs.

Gibney Dance Center to open September 1

Choreographer Gina Gibney, artistic director of Gina Gibney Dance, today announced plans to greatly expand both her studio space and the range of programs designed to serve the rapidly growing needs of New York's dance and performance community. Her Gibney Dance Center will open on September 1.

Gina Gibney (c)2010, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

For two decades, Gibney has maintained Studio 5-2 at 890 Broadway for company rehearsals and a full roster of professional and specialty classes. Now, with the support of Eliot Feld's Ballet Tech Foundation, Gibney has acquired two more spaces in the building, also known as The Lawrence A. Wien Center for Dance and Theater.

In addition to Studio 5-2 (renamed Studio 3), Gibney Dance Center will be home to two new studios:

Studio 1--a 36' x 36' rehearsal studio and production office designed and equipped for rehearsals and residencies for dance and theater groups

Studio 2--20' x 36' workspace for small group rehearsals, exploratory work and special creative programs; affordable for independent artists and small dance groups

Building on her long track record in community service and innovation, Gibney plans to launch two new programs:

boo-koo--a space grant program that will provide choreographers with rehearsal time and technical assistance in exchange for community give-backs, such as free workshops or performances for audience with limited exposure to the arts

One-Shot--a web-based, solo performance relay curated by Sarah Maxfield. Each participating artist receives six hours of rehearsal time at GDC, during which he or she will create a solo performance specifically for the Internet. Each web-based solo will be premiered online, and remain available in a web-based catalogue for performance viewing at any time.

For Gibney Dance Center rental inquiries, contact Michele Wilson at 212-677-1818 or michele@ginagibneydance.org.

Jerome Robbins Bogliasco Fellowship in Dance

The Bogliasco Foundation is pleased to announce that, thanks to a generous grant from the Jerome Robbins Foundation, it will offer its sixth annual Special Fellowship in Dance to an American choreographer during the 2010-11 academic year at the Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities, near Genoa, Italy. The one-month residency is intended for a single choreographer working on material for a future piece or on a solo work.  Bogliasco Fellows in Dance have access to a private studio with a sprung dance floor.  Applicants are expected to demonstrate significant achievement commensurate with age and experience.

Under the terms of this award, the recipients travel expenses of up to $1,000 will be paid and s/he will also receive a stipend of $1,000.  Bogliasco Fellows are provided with full room and board, and given studios/offices with computers and internet access.

The Bogliasco Foundation grants approximately 50 residential Fellowships during the academic year to qualified persons doing advanced creative work or scholarly research in the various disciplines of the arts and humanities.  Fellows come from many different countries and may be accompanied by spouses or spouse-equivalent companions for all or part of their stay.  They are housed in three villas, all of which offer spectacular views of the Mediterranean and Ligurian coastline, an inspiring setting that has proved to be a powerful stimulant for reflection and creativity.  Any choreographer who is interested in being considered for this special Fellowship needs to submit an application by January 15, 2010 for the fall/winter semester and April 15, 2010 for the winter/spring semester.   Announcements as to the recipients of all Special Fellowships are made on July 1.

We encourage interested candidates to visit the Foundations website for more detailed information about how to apply to the Bogliasco Foundation’s Fellowship program.

Dunning on Berkshires dance oasis

Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Residencies - In Berkshires Oasis, Fresh Talents Still Flourish
by Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times, August 14, 2008

Queens Summer Residency for Choreographers

Call for Proposals for Dance in Queens: Summer Residency 2008

Deadline: April 25, 2008 (postmarked)

TOPAZ ARTS and Queens Museum of Art announce a call for artist proposals for the sixth annual Dance in Queens summer residency and performance series. Four choreographers will be selected from a competitive application process. Awardees will receive free rehearsal space, a stipend of $500 and a public presentation of their work at the Queens Museum. New this year, rehearsals will take place both within the galleries of the museum and at TOPAZ ARTS during June-August 2008. Choreographers from all five boroughs of New York City may apply.

Click here to download current guidelines and application form.

Application seminar & walk-through at the Queens Museum of Art
Saturday, March 22 (3:30pm) with Paz Tanjuaquio (Topaz Arts) and Hitomi Iwasaki (Associate Curator QMA)

Applicants are strongly encouraged to attend this free application seminar. This is an opportunity to tour the museum where rehearsals and performances will take place. The application process, review criteria, and questions will be covered. Learn how proposals can be strengthened and see the available galleries that can be used as a performance space. For directions to Queens Museum of Art, click here.

Dance in Queens residency began in Summer 2003 as a collaborative project between TOPAZ ARTS and Queens Museum of Art. Dance in Queens is funded, in part, by American Express, Independence Community Foundation, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

TOPAZ ARTS, Inc. founded in 2000 by artists Todd Richmond and Paz Tanjuaquio, fosters the creative process, producing new works and provides public programs for contemporary dance, new music and visual arts. TOPAZ ARTS maintains a 2,500 sq. ft. multidisciplinary arts center in Woodside, Queens which includes a dance rehearsal space, audio room, and gallery. Providing affordable space, technical support, residencies and presentation opportunities, TOPAZ ARTS enables artists to realize their projects and the process shared with audiences. For more info, click here.

The Queens Museum of Art was established in 1972 to provide a vital cultural center in Flushing Meadows Corona Park for the borough's unique, international population. The Queens Museum of Art is home to the Panorama of the City of New York, a 9,335 square foot scale model of the five boroughs, and a collection of Tiffany glass from the Neustadt Museum of Tiffany Art. The museum presents changing exhibitions of modern and contemporary art that reflect the area's cultural diversity. Click here for more information about upcoming exhibitions and events.

TOPAZ ARTS, Inc.
Co-Directors: Todd Richmond and Paz Tanjuaquio
ph/fax: 718.505.0440
info@topazarts.org

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.

Committee formed for Watermill Center residencies

Watermill Fall ‘08 and Spring ‘09 Residences to Be Selected by Committee from the Humanities and Sciences, Plus Founder Robert Wilson and Watermill Center Creative Director

Proposals due May 31

Located in a secluded, natural setting in Southampton, Long Island, New York, the Watermill Center is a one-of-a-kind laboratory for artists, students and individuals of all ages and backgrounds to explore the creative process. Through cross-disciplinary exploration, apprenticeship-style training with master artists, and creative exchange, the Center supports new work in all artistic disciplines, with a primary focus on inspiring a new generation of performers, artists and global citizens. This July, for the first time, a committee of eminent individuals from a diversity of fields will come together to select artists for the Center's prestigious residency program for Fall 2008 and Spring 2009.

The New York Times has called Robert Wilson “a towering figure in the world of experimental theater” and the Watermill Center “Wilson’s 21st Century Academy.” Wilson founded Watermill in 1992 and designed the building and grounds. The six-acre site also houses Wilson’s archives and his extensive art collection. Over the first 15 years of Watermill's existence, Wilson has developed most of his own work there, in addition to collaborating directly with other artists as host of Watermill's residencies. Many of the world’s most celebrated artists have participated in Watermill's programs, including Wilson peers and collaborators Trisha Brown, David Byrne, Lucinda Childs, Philip Glass, Isabelle Huppert, Jeanne Moreau, Lou Reed, Miranda Richardson, Dominique Sanda and Susan Sontag, to name a few.

Yet, the Watermill Center was always meant to exist apart from Wilson, to retain the spirit and methodology of his work well beyond his own career and lifetime by offering other, younger artists a place and resources to practice the essentials of Wilson’s approach for years to come. By furnishing emerging artists with the Center's unique environment for creation and exploration--including a network of peers, mentors and like-minded institutions--Watermill serves as a springboard for the future of the avant-garde. Since Watermill’s new facilities were inaugurated in July 2006, the Center’s Fall and Spring residency programs have hosted young artists of numerous cultural, social and religious backgrounds.

The appointment of a committee to select residencies for Fall 2008 and Spring 2009 is another move toward the future of Watermill. It will involve a highly talented group of people in curating Watermill programs. Their background in disciplines such as visual arts, performing arts, education/social sciences/sciences/politics, business/administration, journalism/literature, music/opera, film and entertainment will provide expertise in view of the widest possible range of applicants. The committee will consist of 16 members, eight of whom will be required to join Wilson and Watermill Creative Director Jörn Weisbrodt for the selection proceedings each July.

To date, the following individuals have agreed to be part of this inaugural committee: Marina Abramovic, Performance Artist, Serbia; Marie Claude Beaud, curator and Director of the Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg; Jonathan Safran Foer, Writer, USA; Alanna Heiss, Director PS1, USA; Dr. Jürgen Kluge, Director, McKinsey and Company, Inc., Germany; Xavier Le Roy, Choreographer and Performer, France; Albert Maysles, filmmaker, USA; Michael Morris, Co-Director, Artangel and Director, Cultural Industry UK; Gerard Mortier, General Manager of the Opera de Paris and General Manager elect of the New York City Opera, Belgium; Ida Nicolaisen, Anthropologist and President of the United Nations Permanent Forum of Indigenous Issues, Denmark; John Rockwell, Journalist, USA; Christoph Schlingensief, Film Maker, Visual Artist and Theater and Opera Director, Germany; Richard Sennett, Sociologist and Cultural Critic, New York University and London School of Economics, USA; Nike Wagner, Artistic Director, Kunstfest Weimar, Germany.

The committee’s selections will be based on artistic quality, originality and
collaborative/interdisciplinary nature. Committee members will look for diverse projects that fit within the facilities that the Center has to offer, and to applicants who demonstrate that the time at Watermill will be of significant benefit to the processes of their projects. The committee will also look for proposals that question, define and redefine the mission of the Watermill Center and centers for the arts and humanities in general. The Center is founded upon the conviction that the arts of the stage need to draw inspiration from all arts as well as from social, human and natural sciences; Watermill therefore embraces anyone from those fields with a strong interest in dialogue with the theater.

As part of the experience, all Watermill artists-in-residence are required to lead at least one lecture, master class, workshop, open rehearsal or other public event for local community members (adults and/or children) to provide insight into the creative process.

The residencies will take place in various durations between September 8 and December 12, 2008 (Fall), and between March 16 and June 12, 2009 (Spring). Proposals are due May 31; selected projects will be announced at the end of July 2008.

For information and an application, click here for Watermill Center.

Estelle Woodward Arnal and Levi Gonzalez: Body and Soul podcast

Estelle Woodward Arnal (Director of Artist Services, Dance Theater Workshop) and Levi Gonzalez (dancer-choreographer) join me today to talk about DTW's Outer/Space Creative Residency Program.

Levi Gonzalez is an independent choreographer living and working in New York City who has created a body of solo and group choreographic projects. He is interested in presenting work in a variety of venues and contexts, from small and intimate spaces to more traditional stages. Often the placement of the work in a certain environment shapes the content. Gonzalez is interested in furthering a dialogue of ideas about the body in society-at-large and about how we experience physical presence. He has gradually distanced himself from dance that concerns itself with the abstract designing of movement as an end in itself and towards work that addresses performance and the power and meaning of embodiment in daily life. His work and his choreographic collaborations with Luciana Achugar have been presented by Movement Research at Judson Church, Dance Theater Workshop, The Kitchen, Danspace Project, PS122, Dixon Place, and PS1 Contemporary Art Center. He has performed extensively with Donna Uchizono Company and John Jasperse Company, as well as ChameckiLerner, Jeremy Nelson and Dennis O’Connor. Additionally, he has worked for Michael Laub’s Remote Control Productions in Europe. Levi teaches technique and composition at Movement Research and with Dean Moss at The Kitchen. He was a Movement Research Artist in Residence from 2003-2004 and a 2006 NYFA Fellow in Choreography. He is an editor of Critical Correspondence, an online publication, and facilitates artist dialogues through Dance Theater Workshop’s Fresh Tracks Residency.

LINKS:

Dance Theater Workshop http://www.dancetheaterworkshop.org

Movement Research (for Levi Gonzalez' upcoming workshop, "The Practice of Presence") http://www.movementresearch.org

Critical Correspondence
http://www.movementresearch.org/publishing/

Body and Soul is the official podcast of InfiniteBody dance blog at
http://infinitebody.blogspot.com. Subscribe through iTunes or at
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Artist of Color Performance Residency Program

The NCCC/NPN Artist of Color Performance Residency Project is a partnership between the National Performance Network and the Network of Cultural Centers of Color that subsidizes the touring of work by artists of color across the United States. The program is intended to expand the pool of artists of color who are presented in the United States and enables artists to reach out to new communities through Performance Residencies.

Who Can Apply

Artists of color and presenters who are engaged in a minimum one week (5-7 days) Performance Residency (see guidelines). Both artists and presenters must be US based. Artists must live at least 100 miles out of the presenting community where the Performance Residency is taking place. See subsidy guidelines for more eligibility criteria.

Subsidy Amount

Up to $5,000 towards Artist’s Fees for the Performance Residency.

Winter Fiscal Year 2008: February 11, 2008
For projects occurring between July 1, 2008 and December 31, 2008

FAR Space Grants from The Field

Field Artist Residencies provide rehearsal and showing space grants to performing artists to develop new pieces, find new ways to generate material, work on collaborative ventures, or anything that would benefit from time and space. Deadline: August 15.

For further information or applications, click here or call 212-691-6969.