CHOREOLAB is an eight-week guided process that allows choreographers to create work within a supportive, safe, and inspiring environment. Weekly, the participants will show work in class, and will receive feedback from both the group and the facilitator. Participants will have access to reduced-rate and free studio rentals, and the workshop will culminate on the last session with a low-tech produced show in DNA’s intimate 130-seat theater.

The program offers:
# Weekly showings and feedback within the class community
# The optional opportunity to have showings and feedback videotaped
# Subsidized studio rental discounted to $10/hour
# Free last minute studio space (can be reserved after 7pm the evening before)
# A minimal-tech showing in DNA’s 130-seat theater attended by DNA’s curatorial staff and family and friends of the participants
# A DVD of the final product of the work shown in the theater

Both solo and group works are welcome to be developed in the CHOREOLAB. Participants should arrange to have dancers available during most class sessions to show the work. A detailed schedule of each showing will be developed in class, and dancers will only be needed during the scheduled time slot. Dancers may sit in on feedback sessions, unless otherwise specified by choreographers.


Facilitator:

Monica Bill Barnes is a New York based choreographer and performer. She has created twelve evening-length dance works, numerous site specific events and several cabaret numbers for her company, Monica Bill Barnes & Company ranging from a two-woman vaudevillian traveling show with Deborah Lohse to a dance set entirely to Elvis Presley for fifteen performers ranging in age from 9 to 82. Barnes choreography has been produced in over twenty venues in New York City including Symphony Space, Danspace Project, Dance New Amsterdam, Dance Theater Workshop, Dixon Place, Dancenow/NYC/The Festival, Movement Research at the Judson Church and La Mama. Her work has been presented in 30 cities throughout the United States and aboard. She has enjoyed teaching at Dance New Amsterdam through the Modern Guest Artist Series from 1999 to present. For more information, please visit the website, www.monicabillbarnes.com