Since 2009, the Bard Dance Program has hosted an in-residence dance company bringing their technique and composition to the academic program in the form of teaching, educational licensing projects, master classes, full-Company production residencies, and public performances.
ADF's Quilan "Cue" Arnold teaching at Bard. Photo by Karl Rabe
Current Partnership
American Dance Festival
Beginning in fall 2018, the Bard Dance Program embarks on a partnership with the American Dance Festival (ADF). Through coursework, artist residencies, performance opportunities, and public dialogs, students encounter a range of well-respected artists who put research and inquiry at the center of their professional practices. ADF’s critical lens for 2018 was to examine how two influential roots of modern dance—the African diaspora and Western European dance traditions—operate within contemporary practice.
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2015–2018
Trisha Brown Dance Company engaged in an extensive, two-year residency that included teaching, educational licensing projects, master classes, full-company production residencies, and public performances to cultivate a curriculum that embodied the artistic practice of its founding artistic director, Trisha Brown. Courses included dance technique and composition, ultimately incorporating interdisciplinary studies with other forms including music and the visual arts. Each year, students learned repertory for public performance. -
2009–2015
Beginning in fall 2009, the Bard Dance Program embarked on a partnership with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company to offer new classes in technique, creative structure, and critical analysis. After BTJ/AZ’s merger with Dance Theater Workshop, renamed New York Live Arts, the partnership expanded considerably. Regular offerings included technique (two levels, offered four days a week), repertory, composition, junior seminar in professional practice, and Senior Project oversight and advising.
