Tropical Image Inc.Studio Share Residency
Please complete and submit  application via website   Thank you.

Open to Body-workers, Yoga instructors, exercise instructors/trainers, Dancers, Small Dance Groups and Choreographers

Individuals/groups may choose Three - Six - Nine or Twelve month residency at the Tropical Image Dance Studio. The studio space features 2 studio spaces with high ceilings; pillar free; Great floor, Male & female restrooms, a CD/ipod player.  One room has air conditioning (Additional monthly fee is required for AC room), fan in the other room. Good heating during the winter.

Resident artists will receive UP to 24 hours per month of rehearsal/private class space, and monthly inclusion of their activities on our monthly newsletter for the time of their rental period, all for a flat monthly fee of $200 USD.

Chosen artists will be responsible for keeping the studio clean, return in as found condition.

Each artist will have six points per week to use the space. Every hour before 5pm counts as one point, and every hour after 5pm, will count as one and a half points. All weekends hours are counted as one and a half points.

Tropical Image is located in Sunset Park, Brooklyn at 283 - 47th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11220 (suite #201)  The nearest subway station is on the "R"  train to 45th St station, Walk over 2 blocks to 47th Street, make a right onto 47th St, walk 1 block to 3rd avenue (we are on the Corner of 47th St & 3rd Ave).

TROPICAL IMAGE INC. , is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization,  devoted to building a better future to our youth by keeping them off the streets, through this residency program, we hope to promote the work and collaboration of and among emerging and established artists from diverse cultures and artistic fields of study, which can enhance the arts knowledge and interest of the young people in our program. 

This program provides a forum which supports the development of artists and their projects by providing them with studio workspace, educational workshops, and performance opportunities that enable them to nurture their ambition, their dream, and talent at an affordable rate that in turn helps us provide and maintain the second  home for the youth in our community & NYC through our GKOTS program (Get Kids Off the Street).

This application is intended to get a sense of you and your work, to see if you would be a good fit with our current programs and procedures.

We accept residents and provide services without regard to race, color, sexual orientation, religion or national origin.  We respect all art forms and welcome the diversity to our studio, making our studio in fact "Brooklyn's Finest Dance Studio"