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Boston-based contemporary dance company Boston Dance Theater (BDT) announces an open call for submissions from national and international choreographers. The company will identify a choreographer from the pool of applicants who will have an opportunity to create an original work on BDT Trainee dancers during BDT’s 2022 summer/fall season. 

REQUIREMENTS

BDT is committed to working with artists of diverse experience and backgrounds, and will utilize this application process as a way to discover and help develop voices in dance. We invite choreographers to put forward a proposal for a new group work, highlighting a particular aspect of one of the following topics, directly or indirectly, in process or product: Climate change; Underrepresented cultures and/or identities in dance; or, Lessons from the pandemic.

The new work must:

- Be 15 minutes in length

- Be set on all current BDT Trainees

- Be a completed work by the end of the residency period

- Be rigorously researched through the body before and during the creative residency

- Take risks choreographically and presentationally

- Resonate with BDT’s mission and values

- Embody values of rigour, relevance, audacity, and progressivity, opening up dialogue across cultural, social, and political boundaries

THE RESIDENCY

Includes:

- Honorarium

- 10 days of rehearsal time with dancers (27 hours total)

- Presentation in a virtual setting (TBD)

- Professionally filmed video of the performed work

HOW TO APPLY

Applications open TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2021. Submissions deadline is TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2021 11:59pm EST.

To apply for consideration, choreographers must send:

Application

No application fee.

COVID-19

BDT is accepting submissions from both national and international choreographers.

Boston Dance Theater is a pod and we are strictly adhering to all health and safety restrictions outlined by the Town of Brookline, the state of Massachusetts, and the CDC for COVID-19 for current rehearsals and events, including: maintaining social distance, masks worn at all times, frequent handwashing, sanitation products available for use, members are vigilant for symptoms and stay home if sick, members check temperature daily before entering the studio, frequent COVID-19 testing. 

It is our hope that the residency will take place in person, pending a thorough vetting process. 

Artist housing will not be provided.

For further information, visit our website our email bostondancetheater@gmail.com. ?