2009 NEA Arts Journalism Institute for Dance Criticism

June 20 to July 11, 2009

  DEADLINE EXTENDED - materials due April 10th

With support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Dance Festival announces the 2009 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 20 to July 11, 2009.

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 Friday, April 10, 2009. Please mail materials to:

NEA Arts Journalism Institute for Dance Criticism
ADF Box 90772
Durham, NC 27708

For more information please call David Byrd at (919) 684-6402

or email dbyrd@americandancefestival.org.

www.americandancefestival.org