Survey on Dance Residency Opportunities
Are you a dancer or choreographer who is interested in time and space to create new work? Do you wish there were more creative residency programs for dance? The Alliance of Artists Communities is conducting a survey and would like to hear your voice on how to make the residency field even more supportive for dance artists.
Flamenco Arts Company (1998-) trains flamenco dancers and occasionally flamenco musicians in our studios and we maintains a traditional professional dance and music company. In 2010 we are training some 30 dancers in traditional flamenco. I am Music Director and value a visiting master choreographer and master musician at one thousand daily. Yesterday we were asked to provide a one-hour workshop for middle schoolers for March 2011. We estimate teacher and accompanist $400 for one hour which includes travel. We believe no middle schooler will decide to study flamenco seriously but some adult associated with the event might become interested. I had toured California and Arizona doing school assemblies (30,000 kids reached yearly) and concerts or community and university workshops. I had never been able to evaluate the impact of these exciting presentations. A dance residency should allow gestation time as a choreographer or creator must know the potential of new dancers, musicians, associated professionals and venues. Professional dance training is in private schools, rarely public.
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