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NEA Arts Journalism Institute for Dance“We consider this institute to be the most important of activities in communicating the value of dance to the greater community. After all, it is not easy to verbalize what is generally a nonverbal art form,” said Charles L. Reinhart, American Dance Festival's (ADF) Director. Since 1934, ADF has been the place for modern dancers to see and be seen. For six steamy weeks of the North Carolina summer, companies converge on the Duke University campus to perform and take classes with the masters. ADF has a long history of receiving NEA support, and in 2005, the festival welcomed its first class of NEA Arts Journalism Institute for Dance fellows. During a three-week intensive residency at the festival, journalists attend performances, seminars, and panel discussions focusing on the history of dance and dance criticism. They also have the opportunity to take classes alongside professional dancers.
In 2008, critics were able to see more than a dozen companies perform at the 75th annual festival, including Pilobolus, Doug Varone and Dancers, and Paul Taylor Dance Company. Dance critic and historian Suzanne Carbonneau, the project director, plans the institute curriculum in tandem with ADF’s directors. Critics meet with festival faculty, scholars, visiting choreographers and participate in writing workshops led by established dance critics. “The institute provides an antidote to the isolation in which most dance critics find themselves working,” said Carbonneau. “It not only gives critics the opportunity to exchange ideas about dance writing but also, by virtue of its setting at the American Dance Festival, to take a crash course in the contemporary dance world itself.” 2009 Institute for Dance: June 20 - July 11, 2009. National Endowment for the Arts · an independent federal
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