NYC Performing Arts Spaces Blog

Making Moves in Jamaica

Posted by Emily Bowles, on December 18, 2009 - 0 comments

Tags: dance companies, performance opportunities, queens, rfps

About a week ago, I got the chance to get out of Midtown for a couple of hours and visit the Jamaica Performing Arts Center in Jamaica, Queens.  The General Manager there was nice enough to give me a tour of the newly-renovated facility, which is in a beautiful 1858  landmark building (the former First Reformed Dutch Church of Jamaica).  The building houses a 400-seat performance space as well as rehearsal space.  (Check out the listings here.)

The Jamaica Performing Arts Center will also be hosting Making Moves, a day-long dance festival taking place on May 1, 2010.  It's part of Jamaica Flux: Workspaces & Windows 2010, the third edition of Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning’s site-specific, public art exhibition. There are three opportunities for dance companies, ranging from a 15-minute performance with a $200 stipend to a 45-minute piece with a $3,500 stipend.  Go to their website to read all the details and check out the RFP:  http://jcal.org/performing_arts/MakingMoves.html  For interested groups, tours of the facility will be given January 5-8, 2010.  Applications are due January 18, 2010.

Image courtesy of Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning

Last Chance

Posted by David Johnston, on December 10, 2009 - 0 comments

Tags: dance companies, dancers, dance service organizations

It's not too late to sign up to receive our Dance Space Needs Assessment Survey.  If you're a dance facility or choreographer in NYC, and want your voice heard, go to this link and sign up.  We'll be sending out the surveys very very soon, and sign up will stop once it goes out.  So, if you make dance in New York City - or you provide space for dance in New York City - go to this link and make sure we hear from you. 

Dance Space Needs Study

Posted by David Johnston, on November 18, 2009 - 0 comments

Tags: dance companies, dancers

There's still time to sign up for our Dance Space Needs Study.  Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we're looking at space needs for mid-size dance companies in New York City - what's needed, what's available, and what's missing.  If you are a choreographer/dance maker in New York City - or if you operate and maintain a dance rehearsal facility in New York City - we want to hear from you.  We're in the process of finalizing and testing the surveys now.  Go to this link and sign up if you'd like to participate in this important study.  Final surveys will be going out soon!

Dance Space Needs Assessment Survey

Posted by David Johnston, on September 30, 2009 - 0 comments

Tags: rehearsal space, dance companies, dancers, dance service orgs

If you're a choreographer in New York City - or if you operate/administer a dance facility - we'd love to hear from you.  We will be sending out surveys in the coming weeks to assess space needs for dance in New York City.  If you'd like to sign up to receive the surveys, go here and fill out the information. If you want to learn more about this important study for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, check out the press release.

Grab Your Shades and Some Good Walking Shoes, it's the FAB Festival and Block Party

Posted by David Johnston, on September 24, 2009 - 0 comments

Tags: dance companies, nonprofit organizations, discounts, east village, free event, theatre groups, arts service orgs, fourth arts block, lower east side, theater service orgs

Our friends at Fourth Arts Block are throwing a party this weekend, with performance previews from groups like Eva Dean Dance, Metropolitan Playhouse, and the New York Neo-Futurists, along with a lively indoor/outdoor program from DanceNOW.  You can silk screen t-shirts, take beginning salsa lessons and enjoy discounted Block Party shopping.  So head down there this Saturday from 1 to 7 PM, and enjoy the free stuff and street life.  And months from now, when your friends are talking about the great show they saw, you can be ultra-hip and supercool and talk about seeing the free preview last September.