![]() ![]() Specific impacts for lab artists have included national funding, commissioning of new and collaborative projects, festival residencies, and extended engagements and partnerships with dance organizations. ![]() To date, NDP has produced RDDI labs in Seattle, WA (2004), San Francisco, CA (2006), Portland, OR (2006), New England (2007), Minnesota (2011), and Chicago (2016), directly serving 68 artists and companies, raising artists’ visibility, and building networks locally, regionally, and nationally. NDP produces RDDI programs approximately every three to five years in partnership with local dance funders,a local organizational partner, and a local advisory committee. Additional activities before and after the lab complement the focused learning of the intensive and extend the benefits of RDDI to the surrounding community. RDDI labs involve two tracks: the artist track brings twelve artists from the identified region together to work with six faculty for the full duration of the lab the presenter exchange is a three-day intensive track for curators and presenters designed to prepare up to 25 participants for a full exchange with the artist through showings, meetings, opportunities for dialogue at the end of the lab. Labs are structured as learning communities designed to catalyze existing regional resources and redefine the relationship between artists and organizational partners. ![]() RDDI’s core activity is an intensive ten-day dance lab. ![]() NDP created RDDI in 2004 to provide professional development for dance artists in regions across the U.S. ![]()
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