The Community Engagement Residency offers year-long support (September 1, 2025 – August 31, 2026) for historically marginalized dance and movement artists to engage in a creative process within their self-defined communities. The core values of the residency are equity, dialogue, process, artist autonomy, intersecting art-making and activism, and building meaningful relationships among artists. CER differs from other arts residencies in that it allows artists to deepen their inquiry and relationships with their community without emphasizing product-driven outcomes, like a performance or public event. For full residency description and application, visit https://www.bridgelivearts.org/opportunities
Calls for Submissions
OUT THERE: Call for West Coast Experimental Dance Makers
Velocity Dance Center is proud to announce a call for OUT THERE. OUT THERE is an annual, two week dance festival that bolsters West Coast movement artists for their lineage of making work that innovates our field. This festival is for artists that have the audacity, bravado, and experimental spirit, to vision their work to new scales.
OUT THERE showcases two different weekends with two different artists each weekend– a new, thirty minute work by a Seattle Artist which is made in residence at SFD+I and the Seattle premiere of an existing thirty minute work by an artist from the West Coast Region. This structure fills the need in our community for shared, regional discourse and connection to Seattle artists and touring opportunities for artists in the greater West Coast Region.
Open Call for Tap Dancers
This year, La Mezcla is turning 10! In honor of a decade of community building and culture keeping, we are inviting experienced tap dancers to share the stage with core company members for one special community piece at our upcoming anniversary show in April 2025. Join us at our open company class/audition on Friday, January 24th from 10-11:30am at Brava Theater in the SF Mission District to be considered. We’ll spend time dancing and improvising together as well as learning some La Mezcla repertoire.
Registration and video submission required. BIPOC artists strongly encouraged to apply. If selected, all rehearsals will take place on Fridays from 10am-1pm (exact dates TBD) in the SF Mission District. Performance stipend provided.
See website for full requirements!
Spring RAW Showcase
Sign up to present your work in SAFEhouse Arts’ Spring RAW showcase, an opportunity to show your art in any medium whether its dance, singing, acting, apparatus work, drag and more! Application deadline on January 22, 2-2025. Free rehearsal space is available. Mandatory Community Day/ Orientation is scheduled for February 1, 10:00 am – 1:00pm. SAFEhouse is a place to take risks and fail spectacularly! Please contact Jesse Bie the director of artist relations if you have any questions, jesse@safehousearts.org.
