Application for Choreographers / Deadline September 1, 2024, 11:59pm
Velocity invites Seattle-based emerging choreographers to apply for Bridge Project 2025, presented this year in partnership with Base Experimental Arts + Space.
Bridge Project is the first step on Velocity’s ladder of core residency programming and is designed to bridge an initial connection between Seattle’s emerging dance artists and Velocity and its audience. Every year, this six week residency offers three choreographers up to 50 hours of rehearsal space each to research and present a new 20 minute dance work. Velocity provides each choreographer with an artist stipend, rehearsal space, + creative, financial, and administrative support during the research and presentation process.
This program is for movement-based artists who have been making work in the greater Seattle area for 5 years or less and self-identify as an emerging dance artist. Ideal applicants are interested in connection, mentorship, and challenging/deepening their choreographic process.
This program aims to expand their skills on the following:
- Artistic mentorship: mentorship and community support to make artistically innovative projects.
- Financial resources: fees to pay yourself, your collaborators, and your project expenses
- Reciprocal Relationship Building: understanding your part in the larger ecology, and how to work collaboratively to connect and sustain your career within your ecosystem of artistic collaborators, local and national presenters, funders, and audiences.
- Business Development: how to manage projects and undertake long-term collaborations and career planning.
Selected choreographers will receive:
- 50 hrs of rehearsal space at Base
- Artist Stipend of $1500
- Lighting design by Velocity technical staff
- Mentorship and production support from Velocity staff and Curating Artist in Residence
- 4 in-person performances that are fully produced
- Documentation + Photos of the new work
Important Dates [selected choreographers must be available for all of the following]:
- Sun, SEP 1 | 11:59pm – Applications Close
- Fri, SEP 27 | 12-1:30pm – Production Meeting about Budget, Funding, Rehearsal/Audition Collaboration
- Fri, OCT 18 | Production Meeting- Framing, talking about your work and contextualizing.
- JAN 1-FEB 2 | Artists will schedule their own times with Creative Producer no less than 50 hours for the 5 weeks– Intensive residency @ Base
- Sat, JAN 18 | 12-4PM – Production showing @ Base
1 hour for each artist - showing and then discussion with designers
All artists present for each artist
- FEB 3-4 | TBD – 2-hr tech rehearsal @ Base
- Tues, FEB 5 | 6:30pm – 3-hr tech run @ Base
- Wed, FEB 6 | 6:30pm – 3-hr dress rehearsal @ Base
- FEB 7-9 | 7:30pm [Saturday 2pm + 7:30pm] – Performances @ Base
The Bridge Project 2025 is presented by Velocity in partnership with Base Experimental Arts + Space. Support for this year’s program comes from our awesome community of individual donors.
This application will close on September 1, 2024 at 11:59pm, and we are not able to accept late applications.
If you have questions or would like to speak to someone about your application, please contact Amy O’Neal: amy@velocitydancecenter.org
All received applications will be reviewed through a panel process. The panel will be comprised of Velocity Curating Artist in Residence Amy O’Neal, Creative Producer Shane Donohue, Nia Amina Minor, and Hannah Simmons. Panelists will review each application and score proposals using the below criteria, with scores from strongly meets criteria - somewhat meets criteria - does not meet criteria.
The highest scoring applications will be advanced to a discussion stage, where the panel will curate three projects to select for this year’s cohort. Velocity staff + CAiR will be available to provide feedback on unsuccessful applications upon request.