03/13/2026
Applications are now open for our inaugural Moving Artist Residency hosted in collaboration with Mendocino Dance Project! We are pleased to announce this opportunity is fully funded — housing, travel, and food will be covered.
Residency Dates | July 1- Aug 2
Submission deadline | April 26th
The Moving Artist summer residency is built for people who work with/within the body through performance, dance, ritual, and moving/alchemizing one thing into another — for those interested in embodying and working with the timescapes, legacies, ruptures, and knowledge of the present moment. This residency also holds a unique opportunity to take creative work off the ground and into the towering redwood trees on the Mendocino Coast.
For a week of the month-long residency, artists will have the opportunity to participate in a week-long workshop with the Mendocino Dance Project. During this time, artists will take their work off the ground and into the towering redwood trees, exploring vertical dance as a meeting point between body, gravity, and landscape. Through research, improvisation, and collaboration, artists will investigate movement suspended in space, reimagining dance beyond the horizontal plane and engaging the redwoods as both partner and stage. These rare and unique trees are the tallest trees in the world, echoing history, teaching resiliency, and giving us the opportunity to listen to our own bodies and to the land.
To all the Indigenous artists, BIPOC artists, LGBTQIA and two-spirit artists, neurodiverse artists, artists on the margins: we especially invite you to apply. We especially welcome those whose work engages justice, land, lineage, ecology, body, resistance, healing, or collective memory—but your work doesn’t need to fit neatly into any one box. If you’re called to this place and moment, we want to hear from you.
Click link in our bio for more information or visit our website and sign up for our Info session on April 14th!
