The $7,000 grant is awarded to US-based artists for making cutting-edge dance and movement-based performance work. Queer|Art strongly encourages self-identified women, gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary artists to apply. Named in honor of visionary dance curator, critic, and educator Eva Yaa Asantewaa, the grant is administered through Queer|Art by a panel of queer women and nonbinary judges and seeks to highlight the important contributions queer women and nonbinary artists have made to dance throughout history. This year’s judges include Torya Beard, Ni’Ja Whitson, and Leah Wilks.

Applications for the Eva Yaa Asantewaa Grant for Queer Women(+) Dance Artists are open August 17th – October 4th, 2020. Within the application process, funds can be requested to support work at any stage of development, from concept to presentation. Qualifying work may be dance and/or movement-based performance work of any format. The awardee will be announced in December 2020. 

Learn more and apply here!
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For questions, email Yaa Asantewaa Grant Manager Bree Breeden at bbreeden@queer-art.org.

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Call for Dance Choreographer
​The Elon Dance Program of North Carolina seeks a dance choreographer to create a new solo dance work for the 2021 Spring Dance Concert. Applicants should have professional experience and it is preferred they have experience working with undergraduate students. The selected choreographer will create an original solo work (approximately 8-12 minutes) that will be learned by every Dance Performance and Choreography major (70+). The solo can follow any thematic concept the choreographer chooses but should be created in a way so that it can be performed on stage or in a variety of sites and environments.

Due to uncertainty with future travel, the choreographer will teach the choreography to the students through a pre-recorded video. There will be one virtual master class and opportunities for coaching sessions via an online video conferencing platform so students and the choreographer can have meaningful interactions. Students will record their performance of the solo in various locations with guidance from the artistic director. The videos will be edited into a dance film and shared online. If the Spring Dance Concert takes place on stage, the choreographer will select 4 dancers to perform the solo individually during each of the 4 performance times. The artistic director will communicate with the choreographer regarding the master class, rehearsals, coaching sessions, costumes and other aspects of the production.

Elon, located in Elon, North Carolina, is a dynamic private, co-educational, comprehensive institution that is a national model for actively engaging faculty and students in teaching and learning in a liberal arts based residential campus. To learn more about Elon, please visit the University web site at www.elon.edu. Any questions can be directed to Associate Professor of Dance, Jen Guy Metcalf at 336-278-5672 or jguy@elon.edu

Deadline--September 15, 2020 at midnight
Compensation--The choreographer will receive a stipend of $3,000 for their work, which includes the online coaching sessions and one virtual master class
Application Materials--Please email the following materials to Jen Guy Metcalf at jguy@elon.edu:

• Résumé or CV document
• Links to two separate pieces of choreography (excerpts, full pieces or dance films) each longer than three-minutes
• Proposal for the solo work (this may be in the body of the email or in an attached document) which includes the concept, music or sound score ideas and description of the movement style(s) to be incorporated

Application deadline: September 15, 2020, 5pm

Princeton Arts Fellows, funded in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will be awarded to artists whose achievements have been recognized as demonstrating extraordinary promise in any area of artistic practice and teaching.
The Lewis Center is designed to put the creative and performing arts at the heart of the Princeton experience. This mission is based on the conviction that exposure to the arts helps each of us to make sense of our lives and the lives of our neighbors. We pursue this mission by bringing together a vibrantly diverse community of people with different backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, skills and talents
Applicants should be early career composers, conductors, musicians, choreographers, visual artists, film makers, poets, novelists, playwrights, designers, directors and performance artists who would find it beneficial to spend two years working in an artistically vibrant university community. The department is committed to fostering an academic environment that acknowledges and encourages diversity and differences. The successful candidate will pursue academic excellence in diverse, multicultural, and inclusive settings.

Fellows will be in residence for two academic years at Princeton (2021–22 and 2022–23 with an 84,000 USD salary per year) interacting with our students, faculty and staff as part of the Lewis Center for the Arts and the Department of Music. The normal work assignment will be to teach one course each semester subject to approval by the Dean of the Faculty, but Fellows may be asked to take on an artistic assignment in lieu of a class, such as directing a play or creating a dance with students. Applicants are not required to have prior teaching experience and although the teaching load is light, our expectation is that Fellows will be full and active members of our community, committed to frequent and engaged interactions with students during the academic year.

Princeton Arts Fellows may not hold concurrent teaching positions at other institutions for the duration of the fellowship. This Fellowship cannot be used to fund work leading to a PhD or any other advanced degree. Holders of Ph.D. degrees from Princeton are not eligible to apply. Applicants can only apply for the Princeton Arts Fellowship twice in a lifetime.
All applicants must submit a curriculum vitae, a statement of 500 words about how you would hope to use the two years of the fellowship at this moment in your career, and contact information for three references (should the search committee choose to contact references, please do not request letters or have letters sent in advance of a request from the search committee). In addition, work samples should be submitted online (i.e., a writing sample, images of your work, video links to performances, etc.)
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Please apply online at puwebp.princeton.edu by September 15, 2020, 5pm ETD and reference Requisition D-20-LCA-00008.
Selection will be based on artistic promise and record of achievement; the potential for meaningful engagement with a diverse pool of undergraduate students; and the likelihood of significant contributions to the intellectual and artistic life of the Princeton community.

​2021 Guidelines and Applications for UMEZ Arts Engagement, Creative Engagement, and Creative Learning are live and the application deadline for all three programs is Tuesday, September 29, 2020 for projects taking place anytime in 2021. We are eager to hear about the public art installations, performances on plazas and in parks, online productions, one-on-one and small group participatory projects Manhattan artists and arts groups are planning. 

Dance/NYC’s final round of the Coronavirus Dance Relief Fund for dance making organizations and fiscally sponsored groups closes this Friday, July 3, 2020 at 5:00 EST. Organizations and groups headquartered in the metropolitan New York City area with annual operating budgets between $10,000 and $250,000 are eligible to apply for one-time grants of $2,500 to $5,000. For more information and a full list of eligibility requirements please visit Dance.nyc


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