National Dance Project Production Residencies for Dance Grant

Production Residencies for Dance (PRD) enhance partnerships between artists and residency sites to prepare new works for touring.

More about NDP PRD Grants

PRD grants support late-stage, technical residencies where artists, in collaboration with residency partners, can access technical facilities and staff and gain significant artistic, directorial, and/or dramaturgical input to produce works that are more fully realized and ready to tour. Production residencies take place either prior to a premiere or post-premiere and prior to the work's tour.

Background

In a 2009 study supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, NEFA found that U.S. dance work is often premiered before it has been fully produced and tours before it is ready, making the work less competitive internationally and placing both artists and audiences at a disadvantage. Late-stage production residencies surfaced as the least developed and most under-resourced type of residency opportunity available. In partnership with The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, NEFA launched Production Residencies for Dance as part of its National Dance Project in 2010.

Eligibility

• PRD is an evolving part of the NDP program, and is currently open to invited NDP Production Grant recipients.
• Projects must have a U.S. residency partner.
• Residencies must take place between the fall following the work's Production Grant award and the beginning of the work's tour.

Funding Criteria

The production residency should:

• Make a significant impact on the refinement of the new work during the later stages of its development.
• Be part of a coherent development process that aims toward a premiere-ready and/or tour-ready work.
• Reflect a strong relationship and/or level of investment between the artist and residency partner.
• Enable the artist to focus primarily on the new work rather than teaching or conducting other outreach activities unconnected to the development of the work.
• Preferably be at least one week or more in length.

PRD support is not intended for residencies that take place earlier in the development process or focus primarily on research and development or teaching.

Deadline

Application deadline by invitation only.

Contact

Questions about the program or eligibility:
Sara C. Nash | Program Manager, National Dance Project
snash@nefa.org | 617.951.0010 x512

Questions about the application process or grant forms:
Cheri Opperman | Grants Coordinator, National Dance Project
copperman@nefa.org | 617.951.0010 x524

Steven Skerritt-Davis | Program Coordinator, National Dance Project
sskerrittdavis@nefa.org | 617.951.0010 x521