With support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Dance Festival announces the 2008 NEA Arts Journalism Institute for Dance Criticism for professional print, electronic, radio, and television journalists. This program offers immersion in one of the world’s premiere modern dance festivals with three intensive weeks of performances and seminars, held at the ADF on the campus of Duke University from June 21 to July 11, 2008.
The NEA Arts Journalism Institute for Dance Criticism is designed for professional journalists interested in refining their skills in writing about dance and analyzing choreography. Participants will attend an extensive range of world-class performances, write reviews, observe classes, participate in movement sessions, meet with choreographers, funders, and other dance professionals, and analyze the role of today’s dance critic. As members of the ADF community, accepted applicants will have ample opportunity to converse with the Festival’s special guests, teachers, faculty and choreographers. The Institute covers the expense of tuition, room, board, transportation, and tickets to performances.
Directing the program is dance critic and historian Suzanne Carbonneau, whose writing has appeared in the Washington Post and the New York Times. She holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from New York University.
To apply, applicants must submit the following materials:
- a letter specifying reasons for wishing to attend the Institute
- a résumé
- three samples of dance criticism
- two references, including names, addresses and phone numbers
All applications must be received by Wednesday, April 2, 2008. Please mail materials to:
NEA Arts Journalism Institute for Dance Criticism
ADF Box 90772
Durham, NC 27708For more information please call Concetta Duncan at (919) 684-6402 or email cduncan@americandancefestival.org.
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Read what former participants have to say:
“Even as a seasoned writer, I found the workshops run by Suzanne Carbonneau stimulating and enormously mind-expanding…. She has a rare passion and professional dedication to dance and to those of us who are its chroniclers.”
–Merilyn Jackson, Philadelphia Inquirer. . . . . .
“The three-week fellowship was invaluable and just the right amount of time to
immerse yourself in the field of dance criticism… I highly recommend it.”
–Matthew Erikson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram. . . . . .
“The opportunity to live and breathe dance for three weeks was an unbelievable treat and my experience at
ADF has proven to be entirely memorable, valuable, and unexpectedly useful.”
–Brian Schaefer, Dance Insider____________________
