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Career Transition For Dancers-Maryellen Langhout

October 1, 2012 by Ashley David

Today we are pleased to announce a partnership with Career Transition For Dancers! In the coming months you’ll be hearing more about this wonderful organization as we post a regular feature highlighting the work that they do in their offices across the country.

We begin with an interview with Maryellen Langhout, LPC, NBCCC – the career counselor in the Chicago office…

Maryellen Langhout, Chicago Career Counselor, LPC, NBCCC

1. What is Career Transition For Dancers?

Career Transition For Dancers is the only nonprofit organization in the US solely dedicated to the career needs of dancers. With offices in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and a mobile National Outreach Project, we have helped thousands of dancers take their first steps in discovering rewarding second careers.

Career Transition For Dancers arose out of a partnership of several foundations and unions, including the National Endowment for the Arts, AFL-CIO Labor Institute for Human Enrichment, and Actors’ Equity Association. Under the leadership of Agnes de Mille, this partnership led to the development and presentation of a conference held in 1982 at Lincoln Center to discuss the need to assist dancers both during and at the end of their careers. The goal of the conference was to find ways to help dancers make use of their individual backgrounds, talents and skills on and off the stage.

2. How did it get started?

Career Transition For Dancers was founded in 1985 by Edward Weston and was originally administered as an initiative of The Actors Fund in New York City. The program was also supported by Actors’ Equity Association, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, American Guild of Musical Artists, and the Screen Actors Guild. The funding provided by these organizations continues today. The original program provided career counseling and scholarship support for the members of these unions who were in the process of transition. In 1988, Career Transition For Dancers became a self-governing 501(c)(3) organization with a refocused mission to help all dancers, not just union members.

3. What is your role in the organization? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Editorial Tagged With: actors fund, career counseling, career transition for dancers, chicago cultural center, dancers, hubbard street dance center, lou conte dance studio

Dance Spaces In Chicago, DanceBridge Program & More

April 24, 2012 by 4dancers

If you are a Chicago-based dance artist or choreographer, this is for you.

4dancers spent some time looking into dance programs and spaces that are affiliated with the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events. We talked with Emmelia Halpern-Givens, Dance Programs Assistant at the Chicago Office of Tourism & Culture and she shared some great information about resources that those in the dance community here have available to them here…

Here is Emmelia with a closer look:

DanceBridge is our incubator program. We run 3 sessions a year (Winter, Summer and Fall) and send out an open call to Chicago based artists/companies, then pick between 2 – 3 artists each session. They’re given 3 months of space to work, followed by 2 nights of an informal showcase where they split profits between themselves and our box office. The work is usually an excerpt or a work-in-progress, and we offer lighting and sound as well as room for about 85 people each night.

I think it’s an awesome program because it’s free space! Plus, it allows lots of artists opportunity to be in that space, whether as a choreographer or a dancer. Also, because it’s at the Chicago Cultural Center which is a public building, I think it offers visibility to new audiences who just kind of walk in the night of the showcase and decide they’re here, so why not see the performance? I think the accessibility of the space is a great benefit to the program itself.

The dance studio is on the first floor (Randolph entrance) and overlooks Michigan Ave/Millennium Park… could you ask for a better view? Nothing better than walking through the park after rehearsal.

It also has marley floors and thick walls. In terms of privacy in a public building, it holds up well. It has one glass door on the south side and we have a folding screen in the studio to for artists to move if they feel it necessary, otherwise you’re generally on your own.

We also have 2 application based programs for the theater department.

Our studio theater, which is located in the Chicago Cultural Center runs an incubator program where companies get the space for a month and then perform in a one night showcase at the end. Again, like the DanceBridge program, the performances are generally pretty bare bones but still get great turn outs and we’ve had companies do incubators and several years later make it into the Storefront theater for a 6 week run. (Striding Lion Performance Group performed in this programming in 2009.)

Our storefront theater is just across the street in the Gallery 37 building, it’s a 99 seat black box that presents between 8-10 companies a year. Companies get between 3-6 week runs. This year we have Chicago Dance Crash doing a 6 week run in our space followed by Khecari doing a 3 week run. For dance companies, that’s huge! The reviews will have time to land before the run closes.

For more information about these programs/spaces, visit the DCA Theater website.

 

Filed Under: Dance Spaces Tagged With: chicago cultural center, chicago dance, chicago dance crash, chicago dance space, chicago department of cultural affairs, dancebridge program, khecari

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