CURRENTLY ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
FOR 2012 INTERNSHIP PROGRAM!

The Yard is currently accepting applications for the 2012 Internship. If you are interested in applying please visit the info page here.
All application forms and supported materials should be emailed to Michele Sasso, our Director of Communications & Artist Services at MicheleSasso@dancetheyard.org no later than Thursday March 1st, 2012 by 5pm EST.

About Residencies at The Yard

The Company Residency and Bessie Schönberg Individual Choreographers' Residency are the artistic center of The Yard's programming.  These 4-week residencies provide artists with housing, work space, stipends, technical and administrative support, artistic mentoring, concert performances of new work and the time and freedom to explore their craft without interruption or outside obligation.  Yard founder Patricia Nanon envisioned the residencies as a "playground without walls... a place to explore, experiment, construct." Alumni of Yard Residencies include MacArthur and Guggenheim recipients, Paul Taylor and Fulbright fellows, Bessie award winners, and many others who have gone on to become luminaries in the world of dance.  Choreographers refer to The Yard as an "artistic nurturing ground." (See Alumni)

A yearly panel selects two companies for the Company Residency and four independent choreographers and eight dancers for the Bessie Residency. Recent selection panels have included Debra Cash, Lucinda Childs, Richard Colton, Blondell Cummings,Carmen de Lavallade, Naomi Goldberg Haas, Elizabeth Keen, Nicholas Leichter, Carla Maxwell, Gus Solomons jr, Linda Tarnay, Laurie Uprichard, Edisa Weeks, Nina Winthrop, and Elizabeth Zimmer. The residencies are supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Jerome Robbins Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, Capezio, the Scripps Foundation, and the Jerome A. and Estelle R. Newman Assistance Fund.

Company Residency 2011
HT Chen & Dancers

Bessie Schönberg Choreographers' Residency 2011

The Choreographers
Julia Eichten
Charlotte Griffin
Cori Olinghouse
Kate Watson Wallace

The Dancers
Tiana Fridley
Clinton Edward Martin
Haylee Nichele
Lindsay Reuter
Joshua Stansbury
Zachary Svoboda

Alternate Dancers
Genna Baroni
Andrew Chapman
Katrina Cunningham
Wen Chun Liu
Lauren Muraski
Tara Sheena

Other Artists’ Residencies
In addition to the longstanding legacy residencies, The Yard’s presenting activities frequently incorporate creative retreats for artists.  Performers and companies are invited to stay at The Yard developing new work or rehearsing intensively, often concluding their retreats with public performances. Artists who have been in residence at The Yard in recent years include Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal, Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company, Nora Chipaumire, André De Shields, Margie Gillis & Paola Styron, the Limón Dance Company, Gus Solomons jr & Carmen de Lavallade with Paradigm, Taylor 2, and Urban Bush Women.

Artists in Residence in 2011

Doug Elkins, Choreographer
Pig Pen Theatre Co.
Bangin Sid, Musical Performance Artists
John Moran, Dance Theatre
Deborah Damast, Dance Educator

“The Yard experience was one of the best I had in my early years. The people I worked with there have been very influential in my career. The piece I made was my first real breakthrough in dance, so it was a really big summer for me.”
Susan Marshall, choreographer, MacArthur Award recipient