Who are we?

MICHIYAYA Dance is an all women's contemporary dance theater company based in New York City. Co-founded in fall 2015 by Anya Clarke and Mitsuko Verdery, MICHIYAYA Dance merges the worlds of Clarke and Verdery's background in dance and visual art. Clarke (BFA from Long Island University) uses her experience in choreography, adding visceral and intuitive movement. Verdery (BFA from Carnegie Mellon University) includes her practice in performance and visual art, adding conceptually driven performative work. Together, they produce collaborative and improvisational-based work with their dance artists. MICHIYAYA Dance was recently awarded the 2016 1st place winner for Choreographic Excellence in the 11th Annual International REVERBdance Festival. MICHIYAYA Dance has performed at the Brooklyn Museum, Baruch Performing Arts Center, Dixon Place, CPR-Center for Performance Research, and Infinito Gallery, among others. They have taught master classes/workshops at Earl Mosley’s Institute of the Arts Summer Intensive, LEIMAY, and CPR. They are currently creating their next evening length work titled 'Spline' premiering March 2017. 

 

What are we looking for?

MICHIYAYA Dance is currently accepting applicants for 2017 season internships. We are looking for dedicated and energetic interns for administrative work and pre/post performance assistance. Interns will receive free tickets to upcoming shows and events, free attendance to upcoming MICHIYAYA rehearsals, classes/ workshops, and college credit is available.

Open positions are below:

Administrative Interns:

-research (grants, performance opportunities, contacts)

-organizing data, documents 

Performance Interns:

-Load-in and set-up 

-backstage assistance

-event assistance 

-Load-out and break-down 

If interested, please send a resume and cover letter to directors@michiyayadance.org with the position or positions of interest in the subject line of the email before December 26th, 2016 

Some examples of our recent work:

https://vimeo.com/176793269

https://vimeo.com/182339900

https://youtu.be/7hl7wBDNaWA