The goal of the Incubator dance residency program is to contribute to the future of American dance by supporting the creation of daring new choreographic works. There is powerful value in nurturing artists and companies that have something new to bring to the world but need the space, resources and support to flesh it out. ADI has established the Incubator as a way to provide a literal and emotional space around forward-thinking artists in order to cultivate and introduce new important works to the world of American dance. The Incubator provides two types of residencies:
National Incubator invites artists and companies from outside of the DC area for a 1-3 week rehearsal period culminating in a weekend performance of their work for the ADI audience.
Metro Incubator provides artists from the metro DC free rehearsal space for eight months to collaborate pressure-free on a piece of original work. At the end of the eight months, these resident artists will showcase their new work to the ADI audience.
2011/2012 Incubator Artists
National Incubator: David Neumann
Restless Eye
February 9 at 7:30p
Master Class: February 10 at 5:00p
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David Neumann has been a featured dancer in the works of Susan Marshall, Jane Comfort, Sally Silvers, Irene Hultman, Cathy Weiss, Big Dance Theater, and the late club legend Willi Ninja. He was a member of Doug Varone and Dancers, and an eight-year original member and collaborator with the Doug Elkins Dance Company, with whom he toured nationally and internationally.He continues to perform and choreograph for theater, opera and film working with such directors as: Hal Hartley, Laurie Anderson, Robert Woodruff, Lee Breuer, Peter Sellars, JoAnn Akalaitis, Chris Bayes, Mark Wing-Davey, Daniel Sullivan, Les Waters and Molly Smith. Recent and upcoming projects include: creature movement on ʻI Am Legendʼ with Will Smith, performing in ʻBeckett Shortsʼ with Mikhail Baryshnikov at New York Theater Workshop and choreographing ʻThe Bacchaeʼ at the Public Theater. As artistic director of advanced beginner group, Neumannʼs work has been presented in New York at PS 122, Dance Theater Workshop, Central Park SummerStage (where he collaborated with John Giorno), Celebrate Brooklyn and Symphony Space (where he collaborated with Laurie Anderson) and The Whitney. His work has also been presented at the Walker Art Center and MASS MoCA. Heʼs currently a professor of Theater at Sarah Lawrence College and a guest lecturer at The Yale School of Drama. LEARN MORE…
Metro Incubator: Tzveta Kassabova
May 12 at 7:30p and may 13 at 2:00p
Tzveta Kassabova believes that dance is a visual art form. She has always been fascinated by the concept of space, and is constantly trying to address it, both in her choreography and design. Tzveta was born in Bulgaria. At different times she has been a gymnast, physicist, and meteorologist. As a member of DanceWeb she took part in the Vienna ImpulsTanz in 1997 and 1998. She came to the U.S. in 1999 as a graduate student at the University of Maryland to study Meteorology. In 2004 she moved to New York, after an exciting summer at ADF and residency in The Yard. As a dancer, Tzveta has been part of Ed Tyler, Sara Pearson/Patrik Widrig and David Dorfman Dance companies, and has performed in works of Mark Haim, Nancy Bannon, Maurice Fraga, Zoltan Nagy, Joshua Bisset, Netta Yerushalmy, and Colleen Thomas, among others. Her work as a choreographer has been presented at CSPAC(MD), Dance Place(DC), Test!0 (Croatia), NBU(Bulgaria), Judson Church(NYC), Dixon Place(NYC), Mulberry Street Theater(NYC), Artomatic. She received a Metro DC Dance Award (2008), the Prince George’s Arts Council grant (2009) and Maryland State Arts Council award (2010 and 2011). She holds three Masters degrees. Tzveta loves creating costumes, video projections, set designs and installations for her work.