// ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE + CREATIVE RESIDENT PROGRAM//

Purpose
The A.I.R. program serves the needs of accomplished professional dance and movement-based artists or collaborative teams engaged in the process of research / creation by providing free space and time for work, reflection, and community interaction. The Artist in Residence also interfaces with other Velocity programs throughout the year.

The A.I.R. is required to show work in at least one Velocity program in their year in residence, and acts as an advisor for The Bridge Project choreographers. Additionally, the A.I.R is also invited to devise with Velocity on-site or outreach activities that support their creative process while fostering meaningful links between the Artist-in-Residence and the community. These opportunities may include performances, curated exhibitions, community conversations, open rehearsals, classes, media projects, humanities events or other formats.

This year Velocity has also expanded its Residency program to include 2-4 annual Creative Residents.  Beginning in 2012, two to four Creative Residents will be selected from the A.I.R. application pool for shorter, self-directed residencies.  Residency outcomes include interactive events, exhibitions, installations, and performances; all designed to support the creative process of selected artists.  If you are interested in participating in 2013 please send a letter of interest to Tonya Lockyer.

Location
The center of Seattle in the heart of the Capitol Hill Arts District within Seattle’s premier art center dedicated to contemporary dance and performance. Velocity functions as an education, performance and movement laboratory with three studios and a studio theater. It does not offer living accommodation.

Duration
Each year, one A.I.R, at no cost, is provided with studio accommodations of approx. 150 – 300 hours a year over a 6-12 month period.  From the A.I.R application pool, 2-4 Creative Residents may also be selected for shorter self-directed residencies. Creative Residents receive, at no cost, studio accommodations compatible with available studio space, facilities and resources up to a maximum of 80 hours a year during the following annual sessions.

  • Session I: Jan 1-July 8
  • Session II: Aug 8-Sept 8
  • Session III: Sept 8-Jan 1

Possible Outcomes
Performance, Interactive events, Exhibitions, Workshops, Installations or other related activities designed to support the individualized creative process of selected artists.

 Application Guidelines and Criteria

  1. Selected Seattle-based artists will be required to discuss their proposals with Velocity’s Executive/Artistic Director, and may be asked to submit an application. Proposals for self-directed creative residencies must be compatible with available studio space, facilities and resources.
  2. Out of Town Applications: 2 work samples, 1-page resume, references, and a 300-400 word statement describing your work plan while in residence. In the statement include:

 

  • are you applying to be A.I.R, a Creative Resident, or both?
  • personal and artistic goals for the residency period.
  • motivations that are a critical part of your process as a whole or for the proposed residency.
  • questions, concepts, materials, processes, structures, external sources or subjects central to your current work.
  • ways you might be interested in interfacing with other Velocity programs.

Past Velocity A.I.R.’s: Crispin Spaeth (2007), Molly Scott (2008), Mark Haim (2009), Amelia Reeber (2010), Amy O’Neal (2011), zoe/juniper (2012)


// A.I.R. 2012: Zoe | Juniper //

 

Zoe|Juniper  is driven by the idea of mythologizing the experience of our senses; creating performances and visual art that challenge the viewer’s perception of time and perspective as well as allowing their work’s intention to be spacious enough for empathetic experiences to emerge. Their work realizes and exists in the state of liminality- the sense of being ‘in-between’. By working across different disciplines, Zoe Scofield and Juniper Shuey filter our sensual experiences into the mediums that best embody a facet of the myth their overall concept is based on.

The collaboration between Juniper and Zoe is defined by having visual and choreographic designs work in tandem so that aesthetics and form become seamless. The purpose of their collaboration is to immerse the audience in the conjunction of the physical and fantastical realms.

As a visual artist and choreographer, Juniper and Zoe are drawn together as collaborators by their respect for and subverted use of classical form, aesthetic clarity and the desire to create a sense of heightened reality. Zoe Scofield and Juniper Shuey began their collaboration in 2004 with; I am nothing without you, for On the Boards’ NW New Works Festival 2005.  Spectrum Dance Theater, the Frye Art Museum and Ten Tiny Dances have commissioned the in company 2007, 2008 and 2009 respectively.  Zoe, Juniper and composer/ musician Morgan Henderson were the co-creators of the Secret of Gold Festival in 2006, an annual multi-disciplinary arts festival in Arlington, WA. They received a NPN Creation Fund and Residency commission, and a National Dance Project Production Grant (2008-2009) for their work the devil you know is better than the devil you don’t.. zoe | juniper are recipients of an Artist Trust Fellowship and GAP grant and received a National Dance Project Production Grant  (2009-2010), NPN Creation Fund and Trust for Mutual Understanding and Dance Theater Workshop Suitcase Fund Grant  for A Crack in Everything which Premiered in 2011 at Jacob’s Pillow and will tour throughout 2013.

2012 Creative Residents

The 2012 Creative Residents are Kate Wallich, Catherine Cabeen and Shannon Stewart.

The 2012 Velocity Creative Residents’ Projects

Kate Wallich One Plus Northwest New Works, On the Boards June 9-10
www.wallich.tumblr.com
2 Young Choreographers to Watch in Seattle
Shannon Stewart after a successful run in Seattle An Inner Place that Has No Place heads to Portland June 1, 2, 2012 | 8PM, The mOuth, 810 SE Belmont

http://feetlikebirds.blogspot.com/

An Inner Place That Has No Place Unravels Memory
Catherine Cabeen Northwest New Works, On the Boards, June 8-10
catherinecabeen.com
“Catherine Cabeen: a top-tier dance talent in Seattle”

LINKS to A.I.R. ALUMNI

Crispin Spaeth: http://www.spaethprojects.com/dance/
Molly Scott: http://www.scottpowell.org/
Mark Haim
Amelia Reeber: http://www.ameliareeber.com
Amy O’Neal: http://www.tinyrage.com