About danceLAB
danceLAB is a new professional dance collective and residency program for dance makers and movers from around the country taking place in Victoria, Texas! The inaugural danceLAB took place from June 10-29, when over a dozen dance artists convened for a three week residency!
danceLAB emerged from the imagination of Brenda Tally and Michael Landez after noticing that there were a great number of professional dance makers and movers looking for opportunities to be a part of creating new original work and finding community with other emerging artists.
The danceLAB collective believes in celebrating experimentation, justice, and technical dynamism through the tireless pursuit of intellectual and socially informed dance making. The community of Victoria, Texas has a long-standing reputation for supporting the arts, culture and creative expression. For this reason, and through partnerships with local organizations such as Ballet Academy of South Texas and the Nave Museum we know Victoria is the ideal home for danceLAB 2024. Your generous donation can guarantee our success.
danceLAB is currently comprised of a team of Co-Primary Investigators, Research Associates, and Technicians, forming an artists’ collective that aims to create work across varied movement forms and aesthetics including but not limited to concert dance, installation and interactive performance, and screendance.
Most importantly, danceLAB includes YOU! The dance lover and spectator that follows us and moves with the community in new and exciting ways.
WHO
danceLAB will be structured as a 3-week summer dance residency that is tuition-free. danceLAB is a collective, a lab, and a residency program. At danceLAB, we believe in the importance of collective and collaborative processes in art making. We also believe in the power of dance as a tool of, for, and as research.
WHAT
June 10-29, 2024
when
204 Main St, Victoria, TX 77901
where
danceLAB fulfills three main branches of engagement:
(1) The summer residency is geared towards college and early-career dance artists that may be looking for an outlet to find continuing technical and performative opportunities outside of their academic programming.
(2) The collective research model is shaped to engage with artists and dance-makers that want to try new things, play with form, and consider what dance could be without the crushing demands of presenting institutions.
(3) The lab model offers a way to consider how dance is not just an aesthetic object, but is a tool for understanding the world, and how we relate to one another in it. We invite you to embrace the possibility that dance leads to a way of knowing that can only be described as research.