Welcome! We invite you to move through our site and see all the opportunities NCCAkron creates for artists to engage with one another, their communities, the city of Akron, and the national dance ecosystem.
The National Center for Choreography - Akron (NCCAkron) supports working dance artists as they experiment, engage in the creative process, and advocate for their work and for the field.
Photo credits: Above video contains images courtesy Dale Dong Photography, Mike Crupi, and Jonny Riese
Apply Now for the Next CAR Cohort
NCCAkron is excited to announce the next round of open applications for our Creative Administration Research (CAR) program!
The application period opens Monday, September 23, 2024 at 5pm ET and closes Friday, October 25, 2024 at 5pm ET.
The CAR program supports U.S. dance artists and challenges the field to think beyond the boundaries of known, traditional models and “best practices.” This is the third open application period for CAR since its launch in 2020. Through this open application, NCCAkron will welcome a new CAR cohort of up to three Artist Teams.
CAR is made possible through lead funding from Mellon Foundation.
A working session of the Pioneer Winter Collective. (photo Peter Nieblas).
Launch Party for Artists on Creative Administration
Book launch, movie night, and dance party all in one!
Join us for Making Moves: Akron to celebrate the launch of NCCAkron’s second book – Artists on Creative Administration. The evening includes a panel discussion at the Akron Art Museum with regional arts leaders and national book contributors, followed by an outdoor screening/dance party with the Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense presented by The Nightlight Cinema.
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Making Moves: Akron
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Thursday, September 26, 2024
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6:30 – 7:45pm ET Panel Discussion
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8:30 – 10:00pm ET Film Screening
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FREE!
CAR Artist Makini (photo Dale Dong). Movie night at Akron Art Museum
(photo Chris Rutan).
NCCAkron Receives $90,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts
NCCAkron is pleased to announce that the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) approved two Grants for Arts Projects awards.
These grants will support Dancing Lab: Immersive Spaces & Alternate Places ($30,000) as well as upcoming programming including Dancing Lab: Cypher; Dancing Lab: Intergenerational Partners; and a Creative Administration Research Learning Journey in Nashville, TN ($60,000).
Executive/Artistic Director Christy Bolingbroke shares, “This collection of program activity is particularly anchored in the Center’s role as a national convener – to both reflect on the work thus far and to imagine where the dance field goes from here. Less product-focused, these opportunities aim at knowledge sharing and collective research including 25+ artists as well as those of us at NCCAkron as creative investigators. ”
Pictured Left to Right, Top to Bottom: Banning Bouldin (photo Andrea Behrends-Fecht), Amy O’Neal (photo Gabriel Bienczycki), Donald Byrd (photo courtesy of Spectrum Dance Theater), Dianne McIntyre (photo McKinley Wiley), Donna Uchizono (photo Matthew Murphy), Myrna Packer and Art Bridgman (courtesy of Bridgman|Packer Dance), and Raphael Xavier (photo Monica Chang).
OUR IMPACT
NCCAkron aims to foster geographic equity and to fulfill our potential as a national center. We commit to supporting a stronger, more visibly connected network focused on research and development across the dance ecosystem.
