The Ann & Weston Hicks Choreography Fellowship

PROGRAM FEES

Program Tuition Fee | Underwritten

Hicks Choreographers are not charged tuition as the fellowship is underwritten by the program sponsors’ endowment. A modest honorarium to help selected choreographers and dancers fully participate is provided; details will be described in the acceptance package.

Participation Requirements & Policies

Jan 27 at 11:59pm EST | Priority Deadline | $45 processing fee
Feb 24 at 11:59pm EST | Regular Deadline | $50 processing fee
After Feb 24 | Rolling Basis* | $55 processing fee

Acceptd offers financial assistance to applicants who meet application fee waiver requirements. Applcation fee waivers are subject to approval by the Acceptd Support team and are granted based on proper documentation, when provided in advance of an application submission. Contact Acceptd Support.

*Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis by Program Directors and School staff; with admittance status sent by email on a rolling basis. 

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• Clicking BEGIN YOUR APPLICATION takes you to Acceptd, our application portal where you will upload materials described below.
• Review the Application Guidelines located there in order to submit a complete and competitive application.
• Before submitting, review your work carefully, as only complete applications are considered for acceptance.
• If you need any assistance, contact school@jacobspillow.org.

Required Program Application Materials to Upload

1. Audition Video

Footage must be of clear viewing quality. Media-enhanced, highly edited, or promotional type videos are not reviewed. use one of the following file types to successfully upload your video(s): MP4, M4V, AVI, FLV, MOV, WMV, MPG, MPEG, M2V, MKV, and WEBM.

• Verbal self-introduction, 2 minutes maximum
  • Introduce yourself
  • Share: your current choreographic interests, your choreographic strong points and deficits, how you envision this program impacting your choreographic work, the choreographic projects you envision for yourself in the near future, and whose work interests you today, in dance and in one other art form.
• Work Sample no. 1
  • This work should be the piece that you feel best represents you today.
  • Share the complete work, no excerpts
  • Provide title, credits, when and where performed
  • The footage can be from a studio, performance, site-specific, zoom, or other venue shoot.
• Work Sample no. 2
  • This work should be no more than three years old
  • Share the complete work, no excerpts
  • Provide title, credits, when and where performed
  • The footage can be from a studio, performance, site-specific, Zoom, or other venue shoot.
• Work Sample no. 3 is optional
  • A complete work, or an excerpt, of your choice, viewed only if questions arise that may be answered by seeing another work sample
  • Not to exceed 10 minutes in length

2. Written Statement of Proposed Artistic Inquiry

In 200 words or less, please share:

• • The proposed creative/artistic inquiry you wish to explore during the program. Focus on the choreographic idea(s) to be explored; it is not necessary to have such details as music/composer, length of work, number of dancers, costuming, and other production elements outlined at this point.
  • Finish this statement: “This summer, in thinking about what I know how to do and what I haven’t yet had the opportunity to explore in my life as a choreographer, I’d like to…”

3. Headshot

4. Résumé/C.V.

5. Support Material

1. 1. Selected samples of programs, reviews, and/or articles about your work combined into one PDF document. 

BEGIN YOUR APPLICATION