The DanceNOW Challenge

“A worthy challenge for choreographers: how to say more with less" -  Dancing Perfectly Free

Apply to Participate

The 2010 Festival at Dance Theater Workshop, September 7-11
DEADLINE: MAY 1, 2010

In 2010, The Festival at Dance Theater Workshop will not only showcase the work of innovative contemporary dance makers, but comes with an artistic challenge that will be rewarded with additional resources to help develop your artistic voice and continue to offer our audiences new and high quality work. As a participant in the 2010 DanceNOW Festival, we ask you to adopt DanceNOW's 'less is more’ attitude, and create a new work that is seven minutes or less while maintaining a concise, clear and complete artistic message. This work may be an excerpt from a larger one, but must stand on it’s own. We hope this incentive, which imposes limitation to generate creativity, will inspire and inform your creative process. A panel of peers and advisors will select three artists who best meet the DanceNOW Challenge from the DanceNOW Festival at DTW, and will be awarded a free, week-long residency at Silo. Each of the three winners will be provided with a $1,000 residency stipend, a paid master class at DeSales University and the opportunity to introduce their work to Bucks County, Pennsylvania through Silo’s Preview Performance Series. We are very excited about moving the annual Festival event forward with a renewed purpose that we hope will offer innovative dance makers inspiration as well as real resources to grow your work.  We invite you to apply through our on-line application, accessible here.  Deadline: May 1, 2010

Please note: Only artists who have been previously presented by DanceNOW [NYC] may apply to participate in The Festival at Dance Theater Workshop and take the DanceNOW Challenge. All other artists should apply to the Raw Festival, scheduled for April 10 at NYU’s Tisch School for the Arts. If you have any questions about application procedures, please contact Producer Sydney Skybetter, at sydney@dancenownyc.org. The deadline for consideration in the Fall Festival is May 1st, 2010. Early applications are encouraged.


 

The DanceNOW Festival

If it’s Autumn in New York, then it must be DanceNOW - The Dance Insider 

Seven-Minute Windows Into Many Different Worlds … An ambitious operation – The New York Times

A goldmine of artistic ventures … little bits of gold mined from a field of plenty  - Maura Nguyen Donohue

It’s speed-dating for dancegoers  – Dance View Times

Keeps NYC healthy – OffOffOff.com

Whether you're a seasoned dance-goer or have never seen a dance performance, the DanceNOW Festival is the only way to experience the awesome scope of the NYC dance scene, including the brightest, hippest, smartest, sexiest and most stunning hip hop, theater, pointe, and contemporary dance companies in NYC today. Each fall, the destination event gathers the ‘best of the best’ from all over the city to perform in New York City's most comprehensive dance festival, offering audiences the opportunity to connect with artists they know and love, while participating in an element of surprise [and risk] that has exemplified the DanceNOW Festival spirit since 1995.

2010 DanceNOW Festival is scheduled for September 7 through 11 at Dance Theater Workshop.
Full Details will be available by July 1, 2010.