{"id":51050,"date":"2024-03-06T15:16:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T20:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.balletx.org\/?p=51050"},"modified":"2024-04-05T16:10:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T20:10:17","slug":"a-global-hub-for-dance-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.balletx.org\/a-global-hub-for-dance-makers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Global Hub for Dance Makers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Global Hub for Dance Makers<\/strong> by Carolyn Merritt<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot a lot of companies are giving this opportunity to young makers,\u201d Associate Artistic Director Tara Keating notes, when I ask what makes BalletX\u2019s Choreographic Fellowship program so important. This spring marks the 9th annual world premiere by a BalletX Choreographic Fellow, a remarkable accomplishment for a company still shy of two decades. In pairing two women dance makers from different corners of the globe \u2014 Fellow Nicola Wills hails from Australia and mentor Jennifer Archibald from Canada \u2014 the 2024 Fellowship further solidifies the company\u2019s place as a world hub for new dance and its creators.<\/p>\n<p>BalletX launched the Choreographic Fellowship program in 2016 both to amplify its mission, of presenting contemporary ballet world premieres, and to connect with and cultivate young artists in the process. From the company\u2019s inception in 2005, co-founders Christine Cox and Matthew Neenan sourced their connections with established choreographers, commissioning renowned artists to set work on their nascent company, effectively putting their dancers, the company, and Philadelphia on the map. Establishing touch points with new voices and \u201cdiscovering people who might not be discovered\u201d otherwise are among the rewards for BalletX, while the field witnesses an infusion of fresh talent, elevated from the sidelines to center stage by an undeniably dazzling troupe of dancers. At the same time, the Fellowship\u2019s emerging and established choreographers find support and purpose in the roles of mentee and mentor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can be lonely\u201d is perhaps an unsurprising depiction of the role of choreographer, and still I am caught off guard by Jennifer Archibald\u2019s confession. Even as choreography has evolved to include greater collaboration, the choreographer is still the one who stands in front of the room, makes the final decisions, and has their name attached to the work in a way that dancers rarely do. Serving as a mentor with a company the size of BalletX, Archibald observes, everyone can be in the room together, the process becomes more intimate, and the dynamic takes on the feel of a \u201ctight-knit family,\u201d a sentiment Wills echoes in our Zoom chat. The opportunity to be nurtured is a rare gift, and this applies equally to the creative process and the business of dance. 2017 Choreographic Fellow (and 2021 Guggenheim Fellow) Tommie-Waheed Evans found validation and practical skills through the program: \u201cpeople took notice of what I was doing\u201d and \u201cthe experience really prepared me for the future commissions I received.\u201d Wills expands on this, professing gratitude to be in the hands of \u201csomeone based on this side of the world, and a woman, to gain her unique outlook on pursuing this career,\u201d while Archibald similarly underscores the importance of \u201cbuilding rapport among women in an industry that has been so male dominated.\u201d That BalletX receives more applications each year speaks to the need for programs like the Choreographic Fellowship, where artists can form relationships across generation, experience and culture, where they can be vulnerable and open to new ideas, and where they can continue to evolve and grow.<\/p>\n<p><em>The BalletX Choreographic Fellowship is supported by the Wyncote Foundation, at the recommendation of David Haas.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Global Hub for Dance Makers by Carolyn Merritt \u201cNot a lot of companies are giving this opportunity to young makers,\u201d Associate Artistic Director Tara Keating notes, when I ask&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1184,"featured_media":51052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-choreographer","category-program-notes"],"acf":[],"cp_meta_data":{"_edit_lock":["1712347800:1184"],"_edit_last":["1184"],"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_mepr_unauthorized_message_type":["default"],"_mepr_unauthorized_message":[""],"_mepr_unauth_login":["default"],"_mepr_unauth_excerpt_type":["default"],"_mepr_unauth_excerpt_size":["100"],"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":["218"],"_yoast_wpseo_content_score":["30"],"_yoast_wpseo_estimated-reading-time-minutes":["3"],"_yoast_wpseo_wordproof_timestamp":[""],"_eael_post_view_count":["1070"],"_thumbnail_id":["51052"],"_wp_old_date":["2024-04-05"],"_elementor_page_assets":["a:0:{}"]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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