Presenters

http://www.nycitycenter.org

New York City Center provides special services to the many companies that perform here annually including Alvin Ailey® American Dance Theater, Paul Taylor Dance Company, and American Ballet Theatre. City Center presents, co-presents, and commercially rents the Mainstage theater, and is the long-time home for Manhattan Theatre Club, with its full season of plays and "Spring Boards" series in City Center's Stage I and Stage II theaters.

http://mttremperarts.wordpress.com

Nestled in the Catskill Mountains and founded by photographer Mathew Pokoik and choreographer Aynsley Vandenbroucke, Mount Tremper Arts is a center for contemporary performance and visual art.

Artist-run, MTA is dedicated to providing a rich and nurturing, yet challenging, environment for its artists and audiences. It serves this mission by hosting events that give time and space for in-depth work and dialogue. These events include a summer festival, performances, exhibitions, lectures, classes, workshops, residencies, and informal gatherings.

http://www.movementresearch.org

movement research is one of the world's leading laboratories for the investigation of dance and movement-based forms. Valuing the individual artist and their creative process and vital role within society, Movement Research is dedicated to the creation and implementation of free and low-cost programs that nurture and instigate discourse and experimentation. Movement Research strives to reflect the cultural, political and economic diversity of its moving community, including artists and audiences alike.

http://www.joyce.org/soho_overview.html

At Joyce SoHo, a three-story former firehouse in New York's SoHo district, you'll discover an intimate venue of just 74 seats—one that brings you exceptionally close to every performance. Joyce SoHo's three beautiful studios are exclusively available to independent choreographers and non-profit dance companies for rehearsals and performances at highly subsidized rates. This venue offers a truly unique opportunity for artists to develop their work and for audiences to experience emerging artists.

http://www.joyce.org/

The mission of The Joyce Theater Foundation is to serve and support the art of dance and choreography, promote the richness and variety of the art form in its fullest expression, and enhance the public interest in, and appreciation of, dance and the allied arts of music, design, and theater. Our programs embrace the entire spectrum of movement styles and traditions, from the time-honored to the untried, and are designed to encourage, sustain, and educate a diverse audience.

http://web.joespub.com/

Joe's Pub at The Public Theater debuted in October 1998 and has quickly became one of New York City's most celebrated and in-demand showcase venues for live music and performance. With its genre-blind booking and vast diversity of interests, the stage at Joe's Pub gives voice to a world of varied and stellar artists. With impeccable sound and lights, the warm and intimate candlelit atmosphere of Joe's Pub is filled with plush velvet couches, softly glowing lucite tables and gorgeously understated architecture.

www.issueprojectroom.org

Acknowledging the critical deficit of art centres in our culture, The Issue Project Room emerges as a vital meeting place for the most disparate forms of creativity whose sole criteria embodies the integrity and spirit of artistic expression and exploration. The Issue Project Room provides an open and versatile environment where both established and emerging artists can conduct, exhibit and perform new and site-specific work according to their respective visions.

http://www.dtw.org

One of America’s preeminent performing arts institutions, Dance Theater Workshop maintains an uncompromising mission to identify, present, and support independent contemporary artists and companies to advance dance and live performance in New York and worldwide. Dance Theater Workshop is a center for the development and presentation of contemporary dance and performance, and for the artists who create it. Dance Theater Workshop fully presents over 110 performances by some 45 different artists and companies each year.

http://www.dixonplace.org

Dixon Place, a home for performing and literary artists, is dedicated to supporting the creative process by presenting original works of theater, dance and literature at various stages of development. An artistic laboratory with an audience, we serve as a safety net, enabling artists to present challenging and questioning work that pushes the limits of artistic expression. With a warm, nurturing atmosphere that encourages and inspires artists of all stripes and persuasions, we place special emphasis on the needs of women, people of color, youth, seniors and lesbian/gay artists.

http://www.danspaceproject.org

Danspace Project fully presents twenty-five to thirty weeks of contemporary dance (including local, national, and international artists) each season (September through June), providing artists with technical, promotional, and front-of-house support. Danspace has presented a number of artists at early stages of their careers including Bill T. Jones, John Kelly, Bebe Miller, and David Rousseve. Danspace Project also serves more established artists; artists such as Meredith Monk, David Gordon, and Eiko&Koma find a supportive milieu for showing site specific work or work in development.