Professional development is essential to building a resilient dance field. Dance/USA strives to ensure that dance professionals have equitable access to the latest information and innovations on which to build our collective future. Through convenings, collaborative partnerships, and presentations, we connect our members to a wide range of ideas, leaders, and opportunities.
Information on Dance/USA’s exclusive professional development opportunities, which include convenings, webinars, trainings, and office hours, may be found by exploring both our Conference and Leadership and Learning pages.
Below, we also host a user-generated listing of opportunities from members and affiliates. For more information on getting your upcoming professional development opportunity listed and applicable fees (listings are FREE for Dance/USA members), please contact our Membership Team.
Becket, MA (partially remote)
Enhance your choreographic voice and cultivate community with the Jacob's Pillow Curriculum in Motion® Institute – a unique career development opportunity for emerging, mid-career, and seasoned choreographers. We believe that Artist Educators play a central role in community building. In the 10-month Institute (Fall 2024 through Summer 2025), we train in the Curriculum in Motion® method, a transformational dance integration method in which choreographers and community partners investigate how dance can be used to honor a community's questions and needs. The Institute is directed by Celeste Miller, Kimberli Boyd, and Michael Richter.
Priority deadline: April 1, 2024. All who apply by that date and are accepted will receive a 10% discount on program tuition.
For more information: Jacob's Pillow Curriculum in Motion® Institute
La Biennale di Venezia, Venezia, Italy
16 dancers between the ages of 18 and 28 will be selected along with 2 choreographers, for an intensive immersive residency in Venice: a unique three-month programme to study under the mentorship of great international masters, develop their personal artistic skills, and acquire the practical capabilities required to break into the dance market – from the creation of a portfolio to contracts, and including commissions and intellectual property rights.
Deadline: 8th March 2024
For more information: https://www.labiennale.org/en/news/biennale-college-danza-new-call-applications-open-until-8-march
The Dancing Wheels Company Cleveland, OH
Inclusive dance meets accessible instruction with Dancing Wheels Teacher Certification program. Learn how to physically integrate your dance class no matter what style or level you teach. Join the teacher certification program at our studios in Cleveland, Ohio happening July 8–12, 2024! Tuition is $1,250. In this program, participants will be taught how to apply the fundamental principles of Dancing Wheels' innovative methodologies to include physically integrated techniques in their own dance practices. Level 1 participants are assessed on established learning outcomes. Certification is for three years and requires recertification at 3-year intervals.
For more information and to apply, visit https://dancingwheels.org/professional-training/teacher-certification/level-1-certification/
Application deadline: June 10, 2024
Full Radius Dance
Atlanta, GA
ln most all professional dance training assumes a set of norms, paradigms, and aesthetics applicable only to people without disabilities. Full Radius Dance has created a methodology of rigorous dance training that serves both dancers with and without disabilities. Join us in Atlanta, GA for an in-person, weeklong summer intensive! It will be a deep dive into the Full Radius Dance technique as well as related topics such as partnering for diverse bodies, improvisational skills, terminology, etc.
Please visit https://fullradiusdance.org/__intensive_2024 for more information and/or to apply.
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