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Sugar Salon: Women Choreographers Stir Things Up!
2008 Applications now available!

Call for Proposals: Sugar Salon 2008/09

The Williamsburg Art neXus (WAX) in partnership with The Barnard College Department of Dance of Columbia University announce a call for proposals for the 2008/09 Sugar Salon residency, mentorship, and performance program. Three participants will be selected through this competitive review process, and will join featured choreographer and peer/mentor, Jane Comfort (AD, Jane Comfort and Company), as participants in the 2008/09 program.

Sugar Salon addresses gender imbalance by creating career building opportunities for women: commissioning the work of emerging and established female choreographers in a context that encourages mentorship, resource sharing, enhanced self-promotion, and long-term planning. Sugar Salon matches an established mentor choreographer with three women in varying stages of their career. Participants are selected through a competitive review process, and receive a three month rehearsal residency, a creative stipend, open rehearsal / panel / lecture demonstration opportunities for the work in progress, full presentation in a professional NYC theater of completed work, and a subsequent, additional opportunity for an adjunct faculty position with Barnard College to set work on their student body.

Applications can be downloaded from http://www.wax205.com/sugar.php or requested via email from lani@wax205.com. Applications along with work samples and requested supplemental materials should be submitted to:
Mary Cochran
Department of Dance of Barnard College
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027-6598
Attn: Sugar Salon

Requested application materials must be RECEIVED by 5pm on Wednesday, April 30, 2008. Applications received at the WAX office will NOT be accepted.
Past Sugar Salon Artists:
2006/07 Susan Marshall (Mentor), Ivy Baldwin, Yanira Castro, Dana Ruttenberg
2007/08 Donna Uchizono (Mentor), Renée Archibald, luciana achugar, Heather McArdle