The initiative will align with or complement local and regional funding opportunities including NEFA’s New England Dance Fund and New England States Touring (NEST) program, as well as The Boston Foundations’ Live Arts Boston and Next Steps for Boston Dance grant programs.
In addition, RDDI: New England Now activities/experiences will be responsive to the ongoing impacts of COVID-19 on the regional arts & culture landscape. RDDI: New England Now activities/experiences will be informed by past RDDI experiences and the 2017 New England Choreographers' and New England Dance Cultural Organizers’ Convenings. NDP endeavors to remain engaged with past RDDI participants when possible to provide additional support to RDDI artists as they continue to develop their artistic practice. Specific impacts for lab artists have included national funding, commissioning of new and collaborative projects, festival residencies, and extended engagements and partnerships with dance organizations. To date, NDP has produced RDDI labs in Seattle, WA (2004), San Francisco, CA (2006), Portland, OR (2006), New England (2007), Minnesota (2011), and Chicago (2016), directly serving 68 artists and companies, raising artists’ visibility, and building networks locally, regionally, and nationally. NDP produces RDDI programs approximately every three to five years in partnership with local dance funders,a local organizational partner, and a local advisory committee. Additional activities before and after the lab complement the focused learning of the intensive and extend the benefits of RDDI to the surrounding community.
RDDI labs involve two tracks: the artist track brings twelve artists from the identified region together to work with six faculty for the full duration of the lab the presenter exchange is a three-day intensive track for curators and presenters designed to prepare up to 25 participants for a full exchange with the artist through showings, meetings, opportunities for dialogue at the end of the lab. Labs are structured as learning communities designed to catalyze existing regional resources and redefine the relationship between artists and organizational partners. RDDI’s core activity is an intensive ten-day dance lab.
NDP created RDDI in 2004 to provide professional development for dance artists in regions across the U.S.
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