Boston Dancemakers Residency
Congratulations to 2023-2024 Boston Dancemakers Residency Grantees Simon Montalvo and Laila J. Franklin!
Simon will be using their residency year to develop “a house with no walls: first floor.” It’s a project they describe as “a living archive of transgender and gender non-conforming people’s experiences, shared through movement, objects, and the deep intimacy of what it is to be seen as all you are.”
Laila will be developing her piece BABYBABYBABY during her residency year, a piece she describes as one that “taps into feelings of budding romance, when falling in love is silly and fast and sexy and devastating and you are brilliant and stupid and spellbound.”
The Boston Dancemakers Residency supports Boston-area dance artists who are striving to develop, adapt or reinvent their creative process.
Considered Boston’s most comprehensive dance-focused residency, the Boston Dancemakers Residency is designed to support new work from conception to performance. Produced through a partnership between Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) and Boston Dance Alliance (BDA), this intensive Dancemakers Residency offers incubation elements for research, experimentation, artistic risk-taking, and growth within the dance industry in a customized manner for the artist’s practice. Two choreographers selected for this opportunity will receive support for research, development, rehearsal, production support, marketing and mentorship.
Applications are due Monday, May 27, 2024 by 11 PM.
Applicants will be notified of their acceptance by July 2024.
*Incomplete applications will not be considered.
The Boston Dancemakers Residency is adjudicated by an independent panel based on the artist’s video sample, proposed concept, and the potential impact on the development of the artist’s career and risk taken in the creative process.
Andrea Blesso, Director of Dance & Interdisciplinary Arts, Boston Center for the Arts (andrea@bostonarts.org) is available to answer questions and provide additional information about the residency.
The Boston Dancemakers Residency is made possible with support from the Aliad Fund at The Boston Foundation, Liberty Mutual Foundation, Mass Cultural Council, and National Endowment for the Arts.