Northrop's McKnight Artist Fellowship Program Announces New National Residencies Program With Four National Partners

The McKnight Artist Fellowships for Dancers and Choreographers, a program of Northrop at the University of Minnesota, announces a new choreographic residency program in partnership with four national partners: the American Dance Festival (Durham, NC), the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (Tallahassee, FL), Tofte Lake Center (Ely, MN), and FringeArts (Philadelphia, PA).

Each year the McKnight Fellowship Program awards unrestricted $25,000 fellowships to three Minnesota choreographers. Now, in addition to the cash award, choreography fellows may also apply for a McKnight-sponsored residency with one of Northrop and McKnight's national residency partners. The residencies provide time and resources for the development of new choreographic work as well as garnering a national profile for the fellows.

The 2012 McKnight Choreography Fellows have been awarded the following residencies for the 2013-14 season:

Carl Flink will spend six and a half weeks in residence at the American Dance Festival (ADF) in Durham, NC in June-July 2014. Flink will create a new work using dancers from the prestigious ADF Six Week School. His new work will premiere at the Festival on a shared evening. The ADF, founded in 1934, is an international magnet for choreographers, dancers, teachers, critics, musicians and scholars, and has been deemed "one of the most important institutions in the history of American dance" by Washington Post.

Ananya Chatterjea will spend one week in residence with her company Ananya Dance Theatre at the Tofte Lake Center in northern Minnesota in July 2014. Tofte Lake Center is a creative retreat center for artists, scholars and thinkers of all disciplines located on the shores of Tofte Lake, a beautifully secluded lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of Minnesota. TLC is currently building a new dance/theater rehearsal space that will be ready this summer.

Aparna and Ranee Ramaswamy will be in residence at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) for two weeks in 2014. MANCC is embedded within The Florida State University School of Dance and offers unparalleled opportunities for contemporary choreographers to hone their artistic practice and develop new work inside a creative community.

Our fourth national partner is FringeArts in Philadelphia, whose urban residency program, The Lab, is a resource for artists to engage in research, development, and shared practice. Residencies at FringeArts will be available to future McKnight Choreography Fellows.

The McKnight Artist Fellowships for Dancers and Choreographers, McKnight International Fellowship, and the McKnight National Residency program are funded by The McKnight Foundation and administered by Northrop at the University of Minnesota.