// The Bridge Project //

Performances // January 2013 / 8PM
Choreographer application deadline // TBA
Dancer audition // TBA

The Bridge Project is Velocity’s 3-week challenge program for movement-based artists new to making work in Seattle or who have not been making work for more than three years. This intensive residency offers up to four artists up to 45 hours of free rehearsal space for a new project while working with a cast of auditioned dancers. Additionally, all artists receive the creative, financial and administrative support of a fully produced weekend of performances at Velocity. In programming The Bridge Project, Velocity hopes to enhance the artistic growth of the choreographers, and provide an entry point into the local performance scene for dancers new to the community.

The Bridge Project simultaneously offers dancers an opportunity to bridge studio work and performance while establishing relationships with a choreographer and other dance artists.  Velocity’s Artist in Residence will be a choreographic advisor to all Bridge Project choreographers during the process.

Three to Four Choreographers will receive:

  • Fully produced weekend of performances in Velocity’s Founders Theater
  • Three weeks of rehearsal space at Velocity:
    • Three to four hours a day
  • Costume stipend
  • Velocity produced audition for your cast
    • Performer audition is in November 2012, time + date TBA  in Velocity’s Kawasaki Studio.  Choreographers must be available at this time to teach material and select a cast and to stay afterwards to discuss casting and The Bridge Project.

Interested artists should submit the following by date TBA:

  • Completed application (attached)
  • Professional Resume/Biography
  • Work Sample on DVD or online links with a description explaining what the work sample is, and how it relates to the application.

Bridge Application 2012

Please send all materials/correspondence to:
Velocity Dance Center/ 1621 12th Ave #100/ Seattle WA 98122
Attn: The Bridge Project
Or hand-deliver to Velocity’s office at the above address
Questions? Call Velocity 206-325-8773