ODC
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE APPLICATION
2015-2018
PROGRAM INFORMATION
Four individual dance artists are offered commissioning, critical discourse around their work, national
networking, administrative guidance, and performance opportunities over three years.
The Artist-in-Residence Program at ODC Theater offers a crucial developmental opportunity for San Francisco
Bay Area mid-career dance artists. These artists bring wonderful expression, variety, and quality to our
region’s cultural life and with adequate resources can make long term contributions to the field. The ideal
candidate has been professionally choreographing for a minimum of five years, demonstrates a clear and
distinct artistic vision through compelling work, and possesses an appetite for critical discussion.
ODC Theater’s residency is marked by three distinguishing characteristics:
1) Commitment to longitudinal artistic development
2) Commitment to infrastructural development over time
3) Commitment to long term, professional sustainability
Artists-in-Residence are eligible for the following opportunities designed by ODC in collaboration with funders
and presenters nationwide:
• Creative Space. Resident artists are allotted 80 hours of fully subsidized space annually for the duration of
the residency at the ODC’s Mission District campus in which to create and rehearse.
• Choreographic Response Teams (CRT). Each core Resident Artist develops a two person CRT to promote
greater intellectual breadth for the artists; enough diversity of response to provoke artistic decision making by
the artist; and access to senior dance artists and mentoring relationships that are trustworthy and stimulating.
The two person feedback teams, who receive stipends for their participation, offer a thought-provoking
context for the process of realizing a new work. The team becomes conversant with the artists’ intentions and
acts as catalyst for reflection. The make-up of a CRT will be comprised of one member from ODC artistic
leadership – Brenda Way, KT Nelson, or Kimi Okada – and another professional of the choreographer’s
choosing. To date, in addition to the required ODC artistic staff member, artists have chosen a casting director,
choreographers, dramaturges, a playwright, a designer, and a poet.
• Administrative Support & Mentorship. The parameters include one-on-one sessions throughout the
year with Deputy Director Christy Bolingbroke – covering strategic planning, capacity building,
fundraising, artistic planning, marketing and budget management, as well as other opportunities as they
arise; a mandatory annual one-day retreat with the entire cohort, artists’ CRTs, and ODC staff and an
Administrative Fellow or high-level work exchange student subsidized by ODC. In addition to these
specific activities, resident artists also have the opportunity to learn from and liaise with other ODC team
members including Writer-in-Residence Marie Tollon.
• Technical Residency Weeks. Each resident artist will receive at least one technical residency week during
the three-year residency period. This includes fully subsidized time and technical labor in the Theater to work
with collaborators and designers to better realize a work’s production elements. It also includes an artist
discretionary fund that may be used for dancers, collaborators, documentation, etc.
ODC
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE APPLICATION
2015-2018
• Commissions & Performances. Each resident artist will be awarded at least one $5,000 commission during
the course of his/her residency. ODC works with the artist to leverage this financial commitment to secure
additional funding. The work will premiere on ODC Theater’s mainstage either as a presentation or copresentation. Additional performance engagements – fully presented or co-presented – will be scheduled or
booked as artistic plans align.
DEADLINE TO APPLY: Applications must be received by 5pm on MONDAY, MAY 18, 2015. Applications
should be emailed or hand-delivered to:
ATTN: ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM, 351 SHOTWELL ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110
QUESTIONS? Contact ODC Deputy Director for Advancement Christy Bolingbroke at christy@odcdance.org
CHRISTY WILL ALSO BE OFFERING PUBLIC OFFICE HOURS WILL ALSO BE OFFERED TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT THE
PROGRAM OR THE APPLICATION. SEE SCHEDULE BELOW.
DATE: Wednesday, April 29
TIME: 1-3PM
LOCATION: Mélange Market
DATE: Monday, May 4
TIME: 12-2PM
LOCATION: Mélange Market
DATE: Tuesday, May 5
TIME: 2-4PM
LOCATION: Mélange Market
DATE: Friday, May 15
TIME: 9-11AM
LOCATION: Mélange Market
ODC
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE APPLICATION
2015-2018
ARTIST NAME: __________________________________________
COMPANY NAME (if applicable): _____________________________________
ARE YOU AN INCORPORATED NONPROFIT: YES
NO
IF NOT, ARE YOU FISCALLY SPONSORED: YES
NO
IF YES, BY WHO: _______________________
IF NOT, ARE YOU INTERESTED IN SEEKING INCORPORATION AS A STRATEGIC GOAL DURING THE RESIDENCY?
YES
NO
1.
IN COMPLETE SENTENCES, DESCRIBE YOUR WORK AND ARTISTIC VISION IN FIFTY (50) WORDS OR
LESS.
2.
PLEASE ATTACH AN ARTIST BIOGRAPHY. (250 words maximum)
3.
PLEASE ATTACH A PERFORMANCE HISTORY (INCLUDING DATES, VENUE, and WORK) DATING BACK
FIVE (5) YEARS AND NOTING ALL WORK PREMIERES. (2 pages maximum) For example…
March 6-7, 2012
Roundhouse Performance Centre – Vancouver, Canada
Line Between
December 4-6, 2011
ODC Theater – San Francisco, CA
Line Between (premiere)
March 2011 (multiple dates)
YBCA – San Francisco, CA
Listening Last (collaboration w. KT Nelson, premiere)
November 5-7, 2010
ODC Theater – San Francisco, CA
ODD (collaboration w. AXIS Dance, premiere)
4.
PLEASE DESCRIBE YOUR CURRENT SUPPORT “STAFF” OR SYSTEM, I.E. YOUR BOARD, ANY PAID OR
VOLUNTEER ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANCE, ETC.
(200 words max)
5.
WHAT ARE YOU HOPING TO ACCOMPLISH THROUGH THE RESIDENCY? HOW WILL THINGS BE
DIFFERENT OR SOMEHOW ADVANCED AFTER THREE (3) YEARS?
(300 words max)
6.
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE ODC’S ROLE IN THE DANCE ECOLOGY – LOCALLY AND NATIONALLY?
HOW DO YOU IMAGINE YOU WOULD RELATE OR FULFILL YOUR ROLE AS A RESIDENT ARTIST AT ODC
AND BY EXTENSION, AMBASSADOR FOR THE FIELD? (500 words max)
7.
PLEASE INCLUDE VIDEO SAMPLES OF TWO (2) DIFFERENT WORKS FROM THE PAST FIVE (5) YEARS.
Providing the entire work on Vimeo is preferable with viewing instructions identifying a specific five (5)
minute excerpt by timecode in each piece. (DVDs will also be accepted, but not returned.) Additional
notes should name the performers, collaborators, production information (music, sets, lighting, venue,
etc…) and an explanation of how this work demonstrates the applicant’s artistic vision or is
quintessential of the artist’s work.