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2018 AIR recipient Katie Faulkner.
Support an Artist in Residence!
One of the ways we ensure the future of dance is through our residency programs, which provide free space for choreographers and companies to create and rehearse. Residencies are a critical tool for choreographers, who spend countless hours in the studio creating, designing and revising the art that is eventually witnessed by the public in performances. With grants dwindling and space difficult to find, artists are increasingly looking to community hubs like Shawl-Anderson for support.
$16 provides one artist with one hour of rehearsal space
$64 provides four artists with one hour of rehearsal space
$112 provides one artist with one weeks worth of rehearsal space
$400 provides one artist with half the rehearsal space provided by their residency
ARTISTS IN
RESIDENCE
(AIR)
If you are interested in applying for the program, applications will be available here in June 2022 for the 2022-23 program (Sept 1, 2022 - June 30, 2023). Scroll down on this page to see the previous application information. To be added to the email list, write to Jill Randall.
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2020-2022 ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
Kara Davis/
project agora
ARTIST STATEMENT
In my choreography, I am drawn to the intersection of set material with improvisation because I feel the collision of predictability and random occasion most accurately expresses the trajectory of any given human life. My feeling body is far more creative than my conscious mind. When making work, I follow what feels right based on my connection to myself as well as the individuals I am working with, and a piece presents itself. I invite the dancers in front of me—human bodies in motion, marked with the chaos of memory, generational histories and herstories, and the impact of unseen outside forces—to enlist their intuitive impulses as we search for the shores of a piece’s arrival. In my process I enlist my collaborators’ differences as a source of expressive power inside the work’s subject matter. I will building work that will premiere in June 2020 at Dance Mission Theater.
BIO
Kara Davis, Co-Artistic Director of project agora, danced for Atlanta Ballet, Ohio Ballet, and Ballet Jörgen in Toronto, Ontario. She is a founding member of KUNST-STOFF and Janice Garrett & Dancers, both of whom she danced for ten years. Her choreography and dancing have received multiple Isadora Duncan Awards and nominations. Her choreography has been presented at the ACDA Nationals at the Kennedy Center, YBCA, SF MOMA, SF International Arts Festival, Bates Dance Festival, and Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Davis has taught and choreographed at LINES Dominican University and Training Program since 2005.
Established Artist Residency
Carmen Roman
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work is deeply rooted in Afro-Peruvian culture. I use traditional dance genres within Afro-Peruvian culture as the basis to create and add movements inspired by modern dance and other dances of the African Diaspora. I am interested in the intersection of dance and spirituality, creating ritual through song, dance, and rhythm. I am interested in decolonizing space, spiritual practice, and the body. Performing in public spaces to reclaim and activate space. I explore within Afro-Peruvian dance aiming to connect to my roots and make Afro-Peruvian culture known across cultural boundaries.
BIO
Carmen was raised both in Lima, Peru, and in the Bay Area. She is the founder and artistic director of Cunamacué, a dance company that promotes the continuity of Afro-Peruvian culture. As a choreographer, her work is deeply rooted in Afro-Peruvian dance vocabulary fused with movements inspired by other dances of the African Diaspora and modern dance using her practice as an art form and vehicle for self-expression. Carmen has published dance research in the African Performance Review (2013). In 2015-2016 she was awarded a U.S. Fulbright Fellowship in Dance to Peru. Her dance documentary “Herencia de Un Pueblo (Inheriting a Legacy )” shot in El Carmen, Peru was awarded Best Documentary and Best Cinematography at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival (2016). Carmen holds a B.A. in Dance from San Francisco State University and an MFA in Dance from Mills College. www.cunamacue.org
Established Artist Residency
Audrey Johnson
ARTIST STATEMENT
I make work with the belief that embodiment is a survival practice in the midst of climate, political, and human rights crises. I believe that movement is healing and generates transformation on the personal, cellular level, and in the collective, macrocosm. I create to remember my self, and to call in intuitive and ancestral knowledge. I make space for excavating unknown knowns, and I write a future into space that I want to be a part of. My work honors Black feminism in its praxis, and looks to the textures of Earth for physical memory.
BIO
Audrey Johnson is a movement artist with roots from Plymouth and Detroit, MI, currently living in Berkeley, CA. Her work sources black feminist metaphysics, afrofuturism, time travel, geology, and joy as embodied resilience practices and survival strategies. Audrey currently dances with GERALDCASELDANCE, was a collaborator for three years with Harge Dance Stories under the artistic direction of Jennifer Harge (Detroit), and has also worked with choreographers Biba Bell (Detroit), Dafi Altabeb (American Dance Festival), and Stephanie Hewett (San Francisco), among others. Audrey is a co-founder of Collective Sweat Detroit and holds a BFA in Dance with Honors from Wayne State University.
Emerging Artist Residency
Kristen Rulifson
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am currently in research of decay and regeneration, and the in-between spaces of life and death. I am inspired by the erotic nature of soil, warmth, and dampness, and how these darks spaces of digestion serve us. How can one embody their own decay? How can we be with our shared, collective morbidity? As much of my understanding of these questions comes from lived experiences relating to cancer, addiction, and loss, I am looking to termites, mushrooms, and salamanders as my teachers to research a process that is strongly rooted in memory, fear, and shame. I am inspired to make work that connects us with our humanity and interconnectedness with the environment. I strive to create spaces that surface visceral remembering and provide opportunities for integration of stories that don’t follow a linear narrative.
BIO
Kristen Rulifson is dance maker and wellness educator. She received her Bachelor's from UC Davis in Neurobiology Physiology and Behavior and Dramatic Arts (2014). She then worked as a health educator in Sacramento and developed a touring youth dance company largely composed of immigrants and refugees sharing their individual and collective stories through hip hop and spoken word. She has since trained in the Life-Art Process at the Tamalpa Institute and co-developed Naturally Expressive Leaders, an organization that offers Somatic Leadership camps for youth. Kristen shares her passion for dance as a Teaching Artist in schools and performer. She has collaborated and performed with Scott Wells & Dancers, Echo Theatre Suitcase, Piñata Collective, Artship, amongst others while co-directing an absurdist dance-theatre company called FloorPlay. Outside of the United States, her work has been received in Mexico, Turkey, and Canada.
Emerging Artist Residency
Erin Yen
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am curious if understanding through the dancing body can help pave the way for a sustainable future with technology. Currently, I am considering the body as (itself) a piece of technology, one set out to absorb and make sense of all data with which it interacts. There is too much data, so what comes to the forefront are questions around balancing subjectivity and objectivity within any processing individual. Do I train towards expert expression of specifically tailored fantasies, or do I encourage pathways that challenge the breadth of individualized sensation within clarified worlds? In my work, we try both.
BIO
Erin Yen shares a personal practice which investigates one’s understanding of self and ‘other’ (in a growing age of technology.) She is a Bay Area transplant, bringing with her an eclectic movement training which begun in Chicago. She is lucky to have absorbed many grooves, incorporating styles from tap to ballet and Cunningham to Gaga in her body history. Erin holds a BFA with Distinction in Dance from The Ohio State University. She has performed works by artists Ohad Naharin, Bebe Miller, Johannes Weiland, and Eddie Taketa, and she has danced with companies such as Alvin Ailey and BalletMet. Erin is fluent in the Laban Systems of Movement Analysis, and was the first to use Labanotation to document a piece of Doug Varone’s work, Possession (‘94.) Her choreography continues to consider physical effort alongside logical design in hopes of clarifying the body’s relationship to continued technological processes. Clashes are imminent. yenerinc.wordpress.com
New Voices
Residency
Frankie Lee Petersen III
ARTIST STATEMENT
.fLEE dance stands for the acronym fleeked, loving, enlightened & educating. The purpose is to bring glory to God the Father, the Son & the Spirit.
BIO
Frankie received his BFA from UNCSA & has trained with the Zion Dance Project, the Merce Cunningham Trust, The Dance Company Experience, Springboard Danse Montreal, Shen Wei Dance Arts & American Dance Festival. He has danced for Zaccho Dance Theater, Oakland Ballet, dawsondancesf, Helen Simoneau Danse, Antonio Brown Dance, Gaspard & Dancers, Rising Rhythm, Rawdance SF. He is an Izzie Award Nominee, Webby Award Winner & has choreographed for the Bay Area Ballet Conservatory, Gritty City Repertory Youth Ensemble, Alabama State University, Alvarado Elementary School, June Jordan School of Equity, Design Tech High School, Dance Mission Grrrl Brigade & Zion Dance Project. He was recently an Adjunct Professor at Mills College & also teaches for the Bay Area Ballet Conservatory, the Boys & Girls Club of San Francisco, Dance Mission Grrrl Brigade, and LINES Dance Center.
Black Choreographers' Festival Residency
Natalya Shoaf
ARTIST STATEMENT
i am a freelance movement analyst— as a dancer, choreographer, and teacher of my passion for movement, i focus on the embodiment of ideas as a way to tap into individuals interpretation of their lived experience through their innate movement.
BIO
Natalya Shoaf was born and raised in Southern California where she began her dance training and later attended Los Angeles County High School of the Arts. Natalya currently resides in the Bay area as she finishes out her senior year in the Alonzo King LINES Ballet BFA program at Dominican University of California. She attended Springboard Danse Montreal in 2017 and now has had the opportunity to attend the Addo Platform summer intensive as a scholarship recipient. She has performed works created by dazaun.dance, maurya kerr, gregory dawson, david harvey, katie scherman, bobbi jene smith, alex ketley, peter chu, ohad naharin, and many more.
Black Choreographers' Festival Residency
Jen Meller &
Lili Wecker
ARTIST STATEMENT
Our work dreams new futures. We look to dance-making to uplift queer, feminist identities, increase space for marginalized voices, and create avenues for female and gender-nonconforming bodies to be the subjects of our own lives. We seek connection between the ancient and the futuristic, asking questions about what the future could include if post-industrial, patriarchal capitalism did not regulate and contain our bodies, psyches and relationships. Constructing performances allows us to invigorate new self-conceptions and to populate a world onstage that is radically inclusive, cooperative and experiential, and privileges human need and connection between our somatic selves and the earth we are from and towards.
BIO
Jennifer Meller comes from a long line of visual artists and performers. She studied design at Parsons School of Design and music at California Institute of the Arts where her focus was on world music and dance. As a professional musician, she played and recorded with numerous artists and composed music for film and dance. She currently teaches Baroque Dance at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center and other Bay Area institutions, directs her own historical dance company. Lili Weckler was the recipient of a Fleishhacker Grant in 2018, was a participant in ODC’s Pilot 68 in 2017, and appeared in SPF Festival in 2016. Her work was written about in the SF Chronicle and the J Weekly. She holds an MFA from the California Institute of Integral Studies, attended the Lecoq School in Paris, toured with Bread & Puppet Theater, and founded HATCH Performance Collective. Her teaching history includes East Bay Gyrotonic, LINES Ballet, Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, the Brightworks School, New Conservatory Theater Center, and for the SF Mime Troupe’s Youth Theater Program. http://liliwecklerunhinge.com/ sfrenaissancedancers.org
Creative Dialogue Residency
with Randee Paufve
Claire Calalo Berry
ARTIST STATEMENT
My dance company, for change dance collective, has worked together for the past ten years. The deeply collaborative methods we have cultivated, allowing all of the dancers to act as choreographers and have ownership over the work, are sacred to me. The challenge I now face is how to be unafraid of my individual artistic vision, while also honoring the artistry and autonomy of my collaborators. I have
been intrigued by the ecological concept of pyriscence: the maturation and release of seeds, triggered by fire or smoke, and a larger theme around fire and it's transformational, destructive, and potential energies. www.forchangedance.org
BIO
Claire Calalo Berry is the founder of for change dance collective, a dance company that seeks to make work through a process that reflects the ideals of socially conscious art. Calalo Berry graduated from Santa Clara University with degrees in Dance and Biology, and holds an MFA in Dance from the University of California at Irvine, where she studied with Donald McKayle, Loretta Livingston, Jodie Gates, and other esteemed faculty. There, she first began to cultivate a choreographic method she refers to as “democratic dance-making,” which attempts to explore deeply collaborative practices within the context of professional concert dance. She teaches at the Performing Arts Academy of Marin and has been an Adjunct Lecturer in modern dance and
choreography at Santa Clara University. Her professional performance credits include works by Tandy Beal, Angela Demmel, Sue Li Jue, Nina Haft, Nhan Ho, Kristin Damrow, and Lauren Baines.
Creative Dialogue Residency
with Nina Haft
PAST ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

2019
Established Artist Residency
Byb Chanel Bibene | Embodiment Project | Epiphany Dance Theater | Megan Nicely
Emerging Artist Residency
Liv Schaffer | randy reyes
New Voices Residency
Rebecca Morris
Frank Shawl Residency
Jessica Damon | Wax poet(s) | Andrew Merrell & Shaunna Vella
Black Choreographers Festival Residency
Shawn Hawkins | Joslynn Mathis Reed
Deaf Dance Festival Residency
Urban Jazz Dance/Antoine Hunter

2018
Established Artist Residency
Erika Chong Shuch | Katie Faulkner
Emerging Artist Residency
Julie Crothers
New Voices Residency
ragbag
Frank Shawl Residency
ka.nei.see collective | Nol Simonse
Black Choreographers Festival Residency
Visceral Roots Dance | Dazaun Soleyn
Deaf Dance Festival Residency
Urban Jazz Dance/Antoine Hunter

2017
Iu-Hui Chua
Xochitl Colmenarez
Kim Ip
Dohee Lee
Mix'd Ingrdnts
Karla Quintero
Simpson/Stulberg Collaborations
2015-
2016
2015
Fog Beast | Lisa Hyde
Mid to West Dance Collective | Jessi Barber | Melanie Cutchon | Emmeline Gonzalez-Beban & Ramon Pulido
2016
Christy Funsch | Lauren Baines | Mariah Steele | Heidi Carlsen | Claudia Anata | Aura Fishbeck | Katherine Hawthorne

2012-
2014
2012
Anne-Rene Petrarca | Peling Kao | Fog Beast
2013
Rebecca Wilson | Troy Macklin | Ashley Trottier & Jochelle Pereña | Kevin Paul Hockenberry
2014
Kate Jordan | Stranger Lover Dreamer | Tanya Chianese | Tyler Eash | Daria Kaufman
Rogelio Lopez

2005-
2011
2005
Nina Haft | Carol Kueffer
2006
Paufve Dance | Dana Lawton
2007
little seismic dance
Jane Schnorrenberg & Kegan Marling
2008
ahdanco | Aileen Kim | Marcia Cantillana
2009
Mo Miner | Nina Haft & Co.
2010
Dandelion Dance Theater
2011
Valerie Gutwirth | Nadia Oka
Janet Collard | Anne-Lise Reusswig
COMPANIES IN
RESIDENCE
(CIR)

Paufve Dance
in residence 2006-2020
Director: Randee Paufve
Paufve Dance was founded in 2003 to support the work and vision of choreographer Randee Paufve, and to further explore avenues for movement research, live performance and community outreach. Paufve’s choreography challenges ideas about contemporary concert dance through site-specific solo explorations and collaborations with artists who bring a broad spectrum of inquiry to live performance. The work both reveres and smashes against form, engaging with processes and performances that aim to reflect our world as it is, at this moment. Paufve Dance is committed to choreography as a potent medium for expression, with the belief that dance can capture, describe and illuminate every aspect of the human condition. paufvedance.org

Nina Haft & Company
in residence since 2010
Director: Nina Haft
Nina Haft & Company is an Oakland-based contemporary dance group. Taking a ‘live cinema’ approach to performance, Artistic Director Nina Haft integrates movement, sound, light and space into evocative works that foster a deeper understanding of place. Nina Haft & Company is known for the Dance in Unexpected Places Series, which has presented cultural commentary and site-specific performances in dockyards, synagogues, parking lots, libraries, train stations, bars, government buildings, historic Mountain View Cemetery and other liminal spaces. Nina has presented her work throughout the Bay Area and abroad, including performances in West Wave Dance Festival, Bare Bones, 8x8x8, ODC’s 24 Views, the Bay Area Dance Series, Festival at the Lake and at numerous other venues.
ninahaftandcompany.com

ahdanco
in residence since 2014
Director: Abigail Hosein
ahdanco is a modern dance company founded in Oakland in 2002. Their mission is to design universal dances that enhance empathy by exposing that which is brilliant and dark within the individual and communal human psyches. Hosein's choreography contains lush, fluid movement paired with dissonant details to reflect the sense that life consists of ease accented with discord. ahdanco works with dancers of different ages, backgrounds, sizes, styles of moving, experiences, injuries and abilities to create a picture of realism within a sometimes esoteric art form. Their goal is to give the audience an overall sense of familiarity with the experience they are viewing by delivering “a well-chosen imaginative vocabulary which produce[s] choreographies with emotional resonance.” - Rita Feliciano ahdanco.org

Dana Lawton Dances
in residence since 2016
Director: Dana Lawton
Dana Lawton Dances' mission is to celebrate social diversity and develop meaningful collaborations with other artists. The company ranges in age from 25-70. Working with dancers of diverse ages offers a unique perspective into the rich multiplicity of human lives, provides the audience with a new perspective on what constitutes a dancer, and inspires people to re-imagine what is possible at any age.
danalawtondances.org
Artists in
Residence
(AIR)
SADC offers three distinct residencies that are open to applications from the public. None of these awards require a final piece or other product. These residencies offer the gift of time and space. Artists can use the awarded hours throughout 2020.
Choreographers of all dance styles/forms are welcome to apply.
Established Artist Residency
(50 hours)
This residency is for artists who have been making work for at least 5 years. Artists can use the awarded hours throughout 2020.
Emerging Artist Residency
(30 hours)
This residency is for an artist (of any age) who is within the first 5 years of making work. The choreographer will be given 30 hours of studio time at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center to experiment, create, rehearse, and dialogue.
New Voice Residency
(30 hours)
This residency is for dancers who have primarily worked for many years as performers and collaborators with other choreographers; it supports a professional performer who is interested in shifting focus and would like to explore their own voice as a choreographer.
Creative Dialogue Residency,
(50 hours) new this year!
This residency pairs a local choreographer with Randee Paufve or Nina Haft, the artistic directors of two of SADC's Companies in Residence. The goal is to have access to a colleague and mentor for conversation, suggestions, dialogue, feedback, and more. The goal is support and growth.
Artists will receive 50 hours of rehearsal space at SADC. In addition, Nina or Randee will be available for 10 hours to attend rehearsals, meet for coffee, attend a show together at SADC, etc. The residency can take many forms and will be collaboratively designed in order to best serve the resident.
Dates of Creative Dialogue Residencies:
Nina Haft: January 1, 2020 - June 1, 2020
Randee Paufve: September 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020
Artists with 2-3 years of making work are eligible to apply. (Choreography made in college cannot be counted within these 2-3 years; graduate level work can be counted.)
Interested choreographers can submit an application to work with both Randee and Nina, and can also apply for the Emerging or Established Artist Residency (same application, additional questions, no additional application fee).
2020 AIR Guidelines
(2020 residencies have been awarded)
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Applications are due by October 1st, 2019
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The panel will review applications in October, and all applicants will be notified by November 15, 2019 by email.
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Available hours for residency use are Mon-Fri: 9am-9pm, Fri: 9am-7:30pm, Sa-Su: 9am-4:30pm
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PLEASE NOTE: The time slots with the most availability are Monday-Friday from 9am-4pm.
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The time slots that are available, but fill quickly due to high demand are:
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Monday-Thursday 7:30pm-9:30pm
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Saturdays 9am-4pm
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Sundays 11:30am-4pm
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If you applied previously and were not selected, you are encouraged to re-apply.
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If you have been an Artist in Residence in the past, you may apply for a second residency after your last one. (For 2020, Artists in Residence from 2017 and earlier may apply.)
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Dancers currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate dance program are not eligible to apply.
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There is $25 fee to apply. (The value of the residencies range from $480 to $1600.) This fee directly supports the cost of running the AIR program at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center. The fee is paid online when you submit your application
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SADC is committed to helping all interested artists apply for the 2020 Artist in Residence Program. No one is turned away for lack of funds. Please contact Jill Randall at jill@shawl-anderson.org for information about financial assistance.
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From August 20th through September 20th, Artistic Director Jill Randall can review any drafts of applications and offer feedback. (Jill is not on the selection panel.)
Email Jill at jill@shawl-anderson.org and provide a Google Doc with the draft of your responses and video links. She will review the drafts and offer feedback within a week via email or document comments.
Applications Accepted By Invitation Only
Urban Jazz Dance/Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival Residency
(50 hours)
Shawl-Anderson Dance Center is pleased to be hosting a 50-hour residency with choreographer Antoine Hunter (Urban Jazz Dance) in preparation for the annual Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival.
Black Choreographers Festival Winter Residency
(25 hours from December-February)
The Black Choreographers Festival and Shawl-Anderson Dance Center are partnering together to support one artist each year, who will be presented in the February festival. The selected artist will receive 50 hours of studio time.
The Frank Shawl Artist in Residence
(20 hours)
Continuing the work of Co-Founder Frank Shawl and his support of Bay Area artists, the Directors of Shawl-Anderson Dance Center will personally select one artist for a 40-hour residency. The Directors will select an artist based on observation of an artist’s work, artistic curiosities, and commitment to the Shawl-Anderson Dance Center community and/or greater Bay Area dance ecosystem.