Made in seattle

Velocity’s Regional Creative Incubator is focused on introducing and connecting West Coast experimental dance artists with each other and Seattle audiences. This sentiment is particularly rooted in helping artists develop long standing relationships for future regional and national partnerships.

In this program, Velocity provides time, space, and money to research a new dance idea, and is introduced to the regional landscape of funding, grant cycles, and donor cultivation through the process of making and performing a new, 30 minute work at a residency at SFD+I and performance at a fully produced festival. The Regional Artist in Residence Program aims to expand the producing skills of the artist and increase the technical scale of the work.

HOW IS THIS PROGRAM CURATED?

Emerging Creative Incubator is curated by the Velocity curatorial team through open application. They will review each application and score proposals using the below criteria, with scores from strongly meets criteria – somewhat meets criteria – does not meet criteria.

The highest scoring applications will be advanced to a discussion stage, where the panel will curate three projects for the program. Beyond scoring, the curators’ will be selecting based on what three pieces together create a varied and exciting collection of works for the event.

WHAT IS THE APPLICATION SCHEDULE?

Early Summer – Applications Launch

Late Summer – Artists are informed of the panels decision

Early Fall – Artists are announced

January/February – Residency + Performance

WHAT DO WE MEAN BY "EMERGING"

We define emerging artists as individuals or creative teams who have been making work outside of educational institutions in the Greater Seattle Area for 5 years or less. We understand that there is nuance to this criteria, so we invite you to clarify on your application how you believe you meet this criteria.

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*JennyPeterson + KaitlinMcCarthy, NextFest 2022, Photo byJenny Peterson

The Bridge Project is one of Velocity’s longest running Artist Programs. Click through the links below for more information about past iterations, as well as links to the original archived webpages.