Residency Dates: Sunday, October 05, 2025 - Saturday, October 25, 2025

Application Deadline: Monday, August 11, 2025, at 11:59 PM EST

Scholarships are available that will greatly reduce the residency fee.

Residency Statement

In imagining a three-week period of working together, I suggest:
   We start each day with a warm up – I will lead us through what I have been using as a technical maintenance series for many years.  

Approximately 90 minutes.

We continue with creative ideas:

• I’d like to work on a new piece and would be very happy to have you take part and collaborate in it!  

(There will be a performance opportunity at the end of the 3 weeks).

    • Opportunities for all to create new work and receive feedback.  Suggestions and ideas about space from which to create works utilizing the spatial ideas of Adjacent, Against, Upon; Spatial Relations; A Closed Field
 

• Please come with the idea of creating something (solo or with the other dancers) or to continue with something you already have in progress.  

Let’s look and discuss each other's work.

Application Requirements

Please include the following items in your proposal:

1. Please describe your work, what you’ve been making and what you want to make.  
    2. A video or two of work that you feel most represents your artistry.
    (link to Vimeo, YouTube, or a download via WeTransfer).
    3. A recent resume or CV. 

Residency Dates: Sunday, October 05, 2025 - Saturday, October 25, 2025

Application Deadline: Monday, August 11, 2025, at 11:59 PM EST

Scholarships are available that will greatly reduce the residency fee.

Residency Statement
   Composing can be a deeply solitary act—but the moments of greatest artistic growth in my life have come not in isolation, but in dialogue: when colleagues, collaborators, or mentors challenged me to go deeper, reach higher, and make more meaningful art.

At the Atlantic Center for the Arts, I look forward to being part of that kind of creative community. I’m eager to share techniques, craft, and insight from my own experience—across classical, jazz, folk, and beyond—but just as eager to support artists whose work moves in radically different directions. Whether you’re writing for instruments, voice, electronics, or blending genres, my aim is to help you sharpen your artistic vision while staying true to your intuition and creative voice.

Improvisation and exploration are central to my own process, and I believe many of the deepest principles—of balance, resonance, harmony—transcend genre and even medium. While this residency is designed primarily for music creators, I’m also open to working with an artist from another field whose process overlaps in meaningful ways.

Creating often means stepping into the unknown, and I look forward to stepping into that space together—offering guidance, feedback, and support, and remaining open to discovery myself through the process.

Application Requirements

1. A brief bio or resume.
2. A short statement about what you hope to explore or create during the residency.
3. Two recent work samples that reflect your creative voice and range. These may include audio, video, scores, or any combination, accompanied by relevant context (e.g., program notes or descriptions). Please compile all materials into a single PDF with links to any media you’d like to include.

Residency Dates: Sunday, October 05, 2025 - Saturday, October 25, 2025

Application Deadline: Monday, August 11, 2025, at 11:59 PM EST

Scholarships are available that will greatly reduce the residency fee.

Residency Statement I am interested in working with a cohort to create a space of bravery—where we feel empowered enough to be our bravest selves, to take risks in our artmaking, to embody what it would feel like for us to be fearless in the pursuit of our craft. All genres of writing are welcome (screenwriting, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama), and artists should be interested in pushing themselves out of their comfort zones and engaging in practices that get in touch with their intuitive and spiritual center.
 

Application Requirements

1.  Submit up to 10 pages of writing or a short film no longer than 10 minutes

2.  CV

3.  A letter of intent that answers: Who are you, and what communities are you a part of/do you honor in your work? What are you contending with around fear in your art making? Where is fear stealing your voice? What do you need to be brave in this moment? What is the vision you see for yourself as an artist? How does your artistic practice counter the violence of the state? What does being an artist mean to you?

Residency Dates: Sunday, February 08, 2026 - Saturday, February 28, 2026

Application Deadline: Friday, December 5, 2025, at 11:59 PM EST

Scholarships may be available.

Residency Statement

This residency is focused on the creation and development of a new dance, music, and puppetry work. The work features Camille Saint-Saens' masterpiece, Carnival of the Animals and also a new sister musical work, Stephanie Ann Boyd's Carnival of the Nearly Extinct Animals. As a choreographer, my endeavor here is to build a beautiful new piece involving experienced and curious dance and theater artists. The content of the piece invites thought and action concerning preservation, and specifically the preservation and health of our planet's oceans and marine life. This is an artistic venture with an environmental heart. 

As music and puppetry are also integral parts of this residency, collaboration is central to our work. This residency is an opportunity to explore multi-disciplinary work. 

In addition to participating in the workshop of the Carnival project, resident participants are invited and encouraged to bring their own projects to the ACA. If you have a dance or movement-focused theater piece you would like to explore and develop, you will have time, space, and regular periods of mentored activity. Throughout the three weeks, there will be formal and informal opportunities to talk with each other about the various works being developed.

This residency may be of particular interest to those seeking experience with artistic collaboration, to those interested in climate activism, to those interested in local community engagement, and to those interested in immersive theater.
 Each day will involve a short warm-up in support of the Carnival project, and of the various projects at hand. 

Application Requirements

• Please submit a bio and resumé or CV.

• Please submit a short (1 paragraph - 1 page) statement about what inspired you to apply for this particular residency.

• Please submit a video of up to 5 min. of your dance or theater theater work (you are welcome to include multiple examples, and the work you share could include samples of you as a creator and/or performer).

Residency Dates: Sunday, February 08, 2026 - Saturday, February 28, 2026

Application Deadline: Friday, December 5, 2025, at 11:59 PM EST

Scholarships may be available.

Residency Statement

The climate crisis is upon us, and the arts play a critical role in galvanizing public support for policies that put people and planet over profit. For this residency, I would love to work with fellow musicians as well as artists from other mediums who want to use their unique skillset to help inspire action for our planet. 

Our work will be adjusted in accordance with the interests and skills of our group, but I expect our time together to be spent more or less as follows: 

1) Our main focus will be an upcoming project of my nonprofit, Ocean Music Action. This project combines music and dance to highlight global biodiversity loss. Our work may include music rehearsal of a new piece inspired by various endangered animals, for an ensemble that includes flute, violin, cello, bass, harp, and percussion. The music will be accompanied by dance and visual design, and my cohort will have the opportunity to engage with the other two Master Artists, choreographer John Heginbotham and designer Greg Corbino. We may decide to perform all or part of the work but our goal is exploration, not a complete final product. 

2) Our group will discuss and explore ideas and methods around artivism: activism through art. These discussions may draw upon readings and podcasts that will be shared in advance. I’d be very happy to dive deeper and explore your works-in-progress relating to this topic as well. 

3) We will learn about the natural history and ecology of the geographic region that we’ll be inhabiting for three weeks. We will connect with local conservation organizations for at least one, hopefully two or more, volunteer activities and/or educational opportunities. This residency is best suited to musicians who play flute, violin, cello, bass, harp, or percussion, as well as photographers and/or videographers who are interested in creating work around the fusion of arts, ecology, and climate action. 

Application Requirements

1. A brief bio or resumé.

2. Please describe your work and goals: what you do and what you’d like to do.

3. Two recent work samples that demonstrate range. These may include audio, video, scores, etc. Please compile all materials in a single PDF with links to any media you’d like to include.