ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE
Providing support & opportunities to local artists
For more information on this program and The Performance Project @ University Settlement, please email arts@universitysettlement.org.
The Performance Project @ University Settlement Artists-in-Residence (AIR) are selected for their demonstrated ability to create high-quality work and for their experiential understanding of what it means to create while embedded within the rich complexity of a truly diverse community. Our artists value their process as much as their work and are eager to experiment with their creation process, narrative structures and forms.
Over the course of this residency, we work with our AIR to nurture both their creative work and their relationships with our artist cohorts, Settlement staff and Settlement participants. Together we collaboratively build the skills and scaffolding needed to support creative risk-taking and authentic relationship-building.
The residency is open to performance-based artists including choreographers, theater artists and interdisciplinary performance artists. AIR will be supported in creating a new work within the context of the University Settlement organization and supporting the voices of the various programs’ participants.
Check out this video featuring our 2022-23 Artists-in-Residence, and learn more about our current and past cohorts below:
Artists-in-Residence receive…
- An opportunity to develop a new performance-based project
- A stipend of $2000
- $500 reimbursement towards supplies and technical support for culminating event/performance
- Technical and artistic support with community engagements, and culminating project
- Rehearsal and performance space in Speyer Hall (184 Eldridge Street) based on space availability
Artists-in-Residence are required to…
- Engage with the University Settlement community in a meaningful way as part of their creative process
- Be in regular contact with The Performance Project staff
- Engage with The Performance Project Fellows by presenting a short 45 minute workshop/interaction during one of the Fellows' meetings
- Have a mid-residency sharing of work-in-progress or a public engagement related to artist's community workshops/ engagements (Winter 2025)
- Have a culminating event or performance at the end of their residency (Spring 2025), incorporating aspects of the artist's community engagement
Meet Our Current Artists-in-Residence
The Performance Project @ University Settlement Artists-in-Residence are selected because of the quality of their work and the open, welcoming nature of their process. These artists believe that creativity is a skill set that can be shared and learned. They have also demonstrated a commitment to restoring the notion that everybody has an artistic birthright to reclaim and, in doing so, quality of life can be improved.
Audrey Thao Berger
Audrey Thao Berger is a dancer, meditator, and community organizer exploring the transformative power of movement and embodiment. Her work aims to foster healing...
Deniz Khateri
Deniz is an Iranian-American multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Her works experiment with form and they focus on memory, grief, immigration and the concept...
Yibin Wang
Yibin Wang is a New York-based theater and performance director hailing from Hangzhou, China. Yibin’s interdisciplinary work delves into cross-cultural experience...
sarAika movement collective
Founded by Aika Takeshima (Japan) and Sara Pizzi (Italy), immigrants and queer women in New York. sarAika movement collective advocates for diversity, equity, and...