The Two Summer, Low Residency Track is designed for mid-career artists, teachers, and dance professionals who must study in a limited time frame that accommodates their employment/performance schedule. Acceptance into this track will be determined through a review of accredited professional experience and artistic maturity by a panel of Hollins faculty and professionals in the field. Twelve credits toward the degree will be granted in recognition of appropriate professional work as evidenced by works presented to date (choreography and/or performance), grants and fellowships received, continued dance education, and/or teaching residencies, professional references, and letters. A portfolio of the work will be compiled during the course of study

Application deadline: December 1

Sample Schedule

Summer I
Location: ADF

• Mentored Studio Practice, 4 (daily M-F)
• History/Theory/Criticism, 4 (T/Th 4-7)
• Graduate Seminar, 2 (Sat 9-1)
• Contemporary Body Practices I, 2 (Wed 4-7)

Location: Hollins

• Digital Imagination
• Visual and Sound Performance Practices, 4 (M-F 1-4)
• Contemporary Art Practices: Past/Present: Contemporary Art practices and the Historical Imagination, 4 (M-F 9-12)
• Special Topics: Poetry into Performance
• Special Topics: Improvised Media
  

Fall

• Portfolio Development, 6
• Off-site directed study/review, 2

J-Term

• Two-day January retreat in NYC

Spring

• Portfolio Development, 6
• Off-site directed study/review, 2

Summer II
Location: ADF

• Mentored Studio Practice, 4 (daily M-F)
• Special Topics: Pedagogy: Ok, Now; Shifting Grounds of Discourse (2)
• Special Topics: Relational Aesthetics and Dance Making (2)
• Special Topics: Guerrilla Presenting in the 21st Century (2)
• History/Theory/Criticism, 4 (T, Th 4-7)
• Graduate Seminar 2 (Sat 9-1)
• Graduate Critique 2 (Wed 4-7)
• Thesis Forms II, 6 (tba)
• Thesis Concert and Portfolio Presentations at American Dance Festival

Location: Hollins

• Contemporary Art Practices II, 2 (M,W,F 9-12)
• Graduate Seminar 2 (Sat 9-1)
• Thesis Forms II, Final Review, 2 (tba)
• Portfolio Presentations