STREB is pleased to request proposals for its Emerging Artists Commissioning Program

STREB Emerging Artists Commissioning Program
Request for Proposals

DEADLINE: All proposals must be received by July 13, 2009, 5:00pm.

STREB is pleased to request proposals for its Emerging Artists Commissioning Program, funded by the Ford Foundation, the Jerome Foundation and the New York State Council onthe Arts.

The Commissioning Program, housed at the company’s Williamsburg home, SLAM, will accept proposals from artists whose work is movement‐based, including choreographers, aerialists and circus artists.

The goal of the program is to create a pool of artists who can capitalize on the resources distinct to SLAM. Either literally or conceptually, the space’s special and unusual characteristics and qualities should inform and inspire new and exciting creative experiments.

Commissioning program artists will have various opportunities to showcase work throughout its development and to receive feedback from both STREB and audiences.
Selected artists will receive a $2,000.00 grant plus a specific amount of time, space and
resources tailored to the nature and scope of each particular project.

Eligibility and Selection Process

Applicants are asked to submit a DVD work‐sample of proposed or recent work, a one paragraph
project description and a one‐paragraph answer to the question “Why SLAM?”

Please include the date, location and length of work sample. View our website,www.streb.org for more information about our organization. Following the receipt of application materials, two senior STREB Company members will conduct an initial screening. Finalists from this process will be forwarded to Elizabeth Streb,who will make the final selections.

Applicants will be notified in early September 2009. Selected artists will be allotted a fourmonth work period between September 15, 2009‐January 31, 2010 to complete their
project, with an opportunity to showcase works‐in‐progress in December 2009, as part of the Fall SLAM Show. A final performance of commissioned work will take place in February
2010, in a fully produced show.
All applicants must reside in either New York State or Minnesota.

Please mail application materials to:
STREB Lab for Action Mechanics
Attn: Emerging Artists Commissioning Program
51 N. 1st Street
Brooklyn NY 11211