NYC Performing Arts Spaces Blog

Free Space in Tribeca as Your "Blank Canvas"

Posted by Emily Bowles, 1 week ago - 0 comments

Tags: rehearsal space, theatre, residencies, call for applications, free space, music, dance

Space on White, a new facility in Tribeca, is seeking an innovative, artistic NYC organization to be its resident company.  And they hope to find one through a video contest that they are calling "The Blank Canvas Giveaway"!

 

If you are an artistic, theatre, dance, music or production company looking for a rehearsal and performance "home", develop a short performance skit on video (1-4 minutes), showcasing your organization’s talents and mission while answering Space on White's prompt question: “What could you do with Space on White as your blank canvas?”  More contest details are available here.

 

There will be two winners chosen: 

 

FIRST PLACE (by judges' vote): 80 hours of free space at Space on White, as well as a residency, which includes publicity through Space on White, storage space, and more.

 

SECOND PLACE (determined by highest number of views on the Space on White YouTube channel): 50 hours of free space at Space on White.

 

Click here for contest details and more information about Space on White.

Con Edison Musicians' Residencies - DEADLINE IS FEB 26!

Posted by David Johnston, on February 2, 2010 - 0 comments

Tags: musicians' residency, composers, arts service orgs, free space, rehearsal space

For those musicians and composers in your life, taking up space in your apartment with their noise-making...  steer them to our Con Edision Musicians' Residency:  Composition Program, which is currently taking applications. We're putting six composers in residence in three facilites; Turtle Bay Music School, Florence E. Smith Community Center in Corona, Queens and Flushing Town Hall in historic Flushing.  (Site of the Flushing Remonstrance.  You've never heard of it?  Click here and find out.) 

 

Many thanks to the Clyde Fitch Report and American Opera Projects for the shout outs.

 

In other news...if you haven't already seen it, check out the New York Innovative Theater Foundation's latest study, a ground-breaking demographic survey of Off Off Broadway artists.

 

Dancers: Need a Last-Minute Space to Rehearse?

Posted by Emily Bowles, on November 4, 2009 - 0 comments

Tags: rehearsal space, dance/nyc, dance space line, fractured atlas

Dance/NYC, Fractured Atlas and DanCAcT have launched the new Dance Space Line, providing up-to-date information on available rehearsal dance space each morning.

 

Call in to hear the recorded message (1-888-DSL-DNYC, a/k/a 1-888-375-3692) or follow the Dance Space Line on Twitter to receive updates.
 

For detailed information on hundreds of dance rehearsal spaces in all five boroughs, use www.nycDanceSpaces.org.

Dance Space Needs Assessment Survey

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

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

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.

New Dance Space Needs Assessment Study

Posted by Kirsten Nordine, on September 14, 2009 - 0 comments

Tags: rehearsal space, dance companies, choreographers, studies

Fractured Atlas has received a grant of $41,500 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to enable its NYC Performing Arts Spaces program to conduct a study assessing rehearsal space needs and availability for professional, New York City-based, single-choreographer dance companies, with a focus on mid-career choreographers.

The NYC Performing Arts Spaces study seeks to help solve a problem experienced particularly by these dance companies as they prepare for touring or New York City seasons.

Optimally, these dance companies want consistent, affordable, well-located rehearsal space, but are not in an organizational or financial position to afford or maintain their own space. The study would examine the need and demand for rehearsal space among professional dance companies without their own rehearsal facilities, the barriers to the effective use of existing spaces, and the potential enhancements or changes in policy that could result in an increased supply or use of existing spaces. If warranted, the study would ascertain whether one or more new or renovated dedicated rehearsal facilities would serve the existing and projected space needs of dance companies.

Read the full announcement here.

More about NYC Performing Arts Spaces' studies.