The New York Dance Festival Artistic Fellows are selected from a very competitive field of applicants who seek an expanded opportunity for critical growth and evaluation. The courses are interwoven with the New York Dance Festival, providing an incredibly fertile ground for candidates to learn and apply theories from their course of study. This highly interactive dance opportunity was created as the model for the International Dance Education Initiative, and has been specifically designed to give participants an effective overview of dance through the application of lessons learned. This goal is achieved by experiencing numerous areas of dance simultaneously, and under the very diverse tutelage of the Master Teachers of the New York Dance Festival.
Choreographic Apprentice
• Objective 1 (Dance Performance) includes but is not limited to: studying
dance from the performer’s perspective, with opportunities to perform in various mediums. 
Study will include ballet, modern, jazz, tap, and ethnic. The pursuit of excellence in this area will allow for better understanding and success in the next objective.
• Objective 2 (Composition Study) is the study of choreography as an art form. This program will review the foundational principals of choreography, then move to more
complicated applications of creating work. Primary study will focus on creating small group works, and acquiring the tools necessary to accomplish this. This perspective requires commitment to constant learning, exploration, and personal and professional development on the part of the aspiring choreographer.
Choreographic Residency
• Includes Objectives 1 & 2 listed in “Apprentice”
• Objective 3 (Dance Education) is based upon NYIDE’s philosophy that successful teaching requires paying equal attention to the body, mind and heart of every student. In this methodology, candidates will do detailed course study in the discipline (art) of teaching, beginning with the principles of teaching fine arts dance and then move on to more complicated applications including adjustments and corrections. Study will include teaching ballet, modern,
jazz, and tap.
• Objective 4 (Business Administration and Design for the Arts) uses the New York Dance Festival as a classroom in
Business Administration. The candidate will see
programming and projects from conception to
completion, learning how only good business
practices allow for corporations or arts
programming to flourish. They will get
to see methods that help an idea become
a profitable product. Candidates also
learn how to design the packaging
necessary to sell that product.
Teacher Training
Our Teacher Training course is heaven-sent. The design is constructed to allow teachers to shed their fear of ridicule, in exchange for the opportunity to ask those simple
questions that they’ve always wanted to ask. Teacher Training participants work in the studio side-by-side with our international faculty, getting an 
intimate and hands-on opportunity to learn the details of physical correction, material design, and instruction delivery. Participants
get to re-adjust a person, moments after the master
teacher, allowing for the highest amount of retention
and understanding. Likewise, participants will get to sit
in on selected meetings, faculty planning, and press
opportunities, getting direct business application.
Please feel free to share this opportunity with any worthy dancers, choreographers, and teachers, and please use the 2008 NYDF Application below to apply. You may reproduce the application as many times as you need. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at (315) 252-4420, or at brian@nyide.com.
