Publications for College Faculty, Artists and Students

Potential applicants may wish to review the following materials, which explore issues that are pertinent to college dance departments and provide an overview of the impact of AMDCC and NCCI’s reconstructions over the past six years. To order these materials, email danceusa@danceusa.org

Dance from the Campus to the Real World (and Back Again): A Resource Guide for Artists, Faculty and Students (2005) The culmination of four years of activity and dialogue with college dance departments, this up-to-date guide bridges the perceived gap between the academic and professional fields. It orients faculty and professional artists about how to plan for residencies and negotiate job contracts, and it prepares students for life in the professional world after graduation. Table of Contents Purchase price: $20 each or $15 each for bulk orders of 10 or more copies.

Artist–College Collaboration: Issues, Trends and Vision, by Suzanne Callahan. Developed from college faculty and professional artists in a series of national forums, the report documents the profound changes in ways of working that are facing artists and college dance departments, and makes recommendations about steps that might be taken to increase the quality of collaborations for both working artists and colleges.
Click here to read the Executive Summary (168k PDF). Click here to order the complete report.

Reports on NCCI Funding
These three publications capture the effect that prestigious dance artists had on campuses across the country, not only through their profound engagement with students, but also in the waves of activity they generated on the local level:
- National College Choreography Initiative: Bringing it Home – A Third Wave of Creative Collaboration. Round 3, 2004-05.
- National College Choreography Initiative: Encore – A Second Round of Success Round 2, 2003-04
- National College Choreography Initiative: Supporting the Past, Present and Future of American Dance