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About Residencies at The Yard
The Company Residency The Bessie Schönberg Individual Choreographers' Residency The Company Residency and Bessie Schönberg Individual Choreographers' Residency are the artistic center of The Yard's programming. These 4-week residencies provide artists with housing, work space, stipends, technical and administrative support, artistic mentoring, concert performances of new work and the time and freedom to explore their craft without interruption or outside obligation. Yard founder Patricia Nanon envisioned the residencies as a "playground without walls... a place to explore, experiment, construct." Alumni of Yard Residencies include MacArthur and Guggenheim recipients, Paul Taylor and Fulbright fellows, Bessie award winners, and many others who have gone on to become luminaries in the world of dance. Choreographers refer to The Yard as an "artistic nurturing ground." (See Alumni) A yearly panel selects two companies
for the Company Residency and four independent choreographers and
eight dancers for the Bessie Residency. Recent selection panels
have included Debra Cash, Lucinda Childs, Richard Colton, Blondell
Cummings,Carmen de Lavallade, Naomi Goldberg Haas, Elizabeth Keen,
Nicholas Leichter, Carla Maxwell, Gus Solomons jr, Linda Tarnay, Laurie
Uprichard, Edisa Weeks, Nina Winthrop, and Elizabeth Zimmer. The
residencies are supported by the National Endowment for the Arts,
Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Jerome Robbins Foundation, Harkness
Foundation for Dance, Capezio, the Scripps Foundation, and the Jerome
A. and Estelle R. Newman Assistance Fund. Alternates
Other Artists’ Residencies Gabrielle Demeestere, filmmaker “The Yard experience was one of the best I had in my early years. The people I worked with there have been very influential in my career. The piece I made was my first real breakthrough in dance, so it was a really big summer for me.”
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