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Deadline: September 30, 2019
WHAT IS THE INSTITUTE
The Institute is a year-long fellowship (January – December) that harnesses Target Margin Theater’s history of nurturing emerging talent, providing a $1,000 stipend, support and space for five diverse artists to challenge themselves and their art-making practices. The Institute is a place for open-ended questioning and experimentation within, and at the edges of, the form of theater.
There is no curriculum or “teaching” structure. There is no final result or project. The Institute values form-breaking work, artistic originality and process over production. The core goal is rigorously to question our own assumptions about what the theater is, what it could be, and what we would like it to be. We demand only that Fellows push these principles and challenge themselves continuously.
2020
STIPENDS – Each Fellow receives a $1,000 stipend to relieve financial burdens and nurture their artistic practice.
INTENSIVES – Fellows gather quarterly for 3 - 5 day retreats throughout the 2020 year (January – December). These are led by Target Margin Artistic Director David Herskovits and Associate Artistic Director Moe Yousuf, and the Fellows themselves. Intensives provide space and time for Fellows to collaboratively play / practice / test existing performance and theatrical frameworks.
EXPERIMENTS – Each Fellow will engage in an artistic experiment. It might test an idea; question a principle the Fellow becomes interested in; allow the Fellow to change their process or working approach; or challenge the Fellow’s assumptions about collaboration. It has no performance goal or production outcome.
OPEN STUDIOS – In late fall 2020 we will host a one day event in our space open to our local community and peers in the field. The form of the Open Studios will be shaped by the Fellows and created to highlight their specific ways of working within our Institute throughout the year. It may be an open showing, an invited rehearsal, conversation, facilitated dialogue, or participatory event.
ADVENTURES – Throughout the year, TMT organizes extracurricular experiences for Fellows to attend as a group. Past Adventures have included intimate conversations with visionaries such as Richard Foreman, visiting the Library for Performing Arts’ Archive of Recorded Sound, Special Exhibitions at Pioneer Works, the Museum of Jewish Heritage, attending a Godzilla Film Festival at Japan Society, visiting the Dream House, or hosting a spontaneous dance party.
BREAKFASTS – Fellows and TMT Artistic Staff have breakfast together one morning each month; this is an opportunity for informal sharing, conversation, and reflection. We ask that all Fellows commit to attending as many breakfasts as possible. After all, it’s the most important meal of the day.
WHO SHOULD APPLY?
We are looking for five artists who have demonstrated a serious commitment to their artistic practice and an interest in the TMT’s principles, and are ready to move in a radical new direction. Fellows should be poised to embrace the open- ended questioning that guides the Institute.
Applicants may emerge from any theatrical discipline (actors, designers, writers, directors, producers, stage managers, administrators, etc.). We will also accept applications from other artistic fields (music, visual art, literature, etc.) as long as the connection to performance is clearly articulated.
The Institute is a substantial time commitment and given the Institute’s unstructured nature, Fellows must be energetic and motivated to initiate and shape their work. The Institute is for artists who have already established a serious professional practice and are now looking to extend, disrupt, and transform it.
HOW TO APPLY
WHAT IS THE TIMELINE?
WE ARE ACCEPTING 2020 INSTITUTE APPLICATIONS FROM SEPTEMBER 3 – 30, 2019.
We will then review applications and conduct interviews, with the aim of choosing our Fellows by December 15, 2019.'
OUR FIRST INTENSIVE WILL TAKE PLACE IN JANUARY 2020.
All Intensives are mandatory and if you are not available at this time we advise you to apply in a later year. The remaining three Intensives sessions (spring, summer, fall) will be scheduled in consultation with the Fellows.
FOCUSED EXPERIMENTS / OPEN STUDIOS COMMENCE IN LATE FALL 2020.
Exact dates will be scheduled in consultation with the five Fellows, however if you are already aware that you have extensive conflicts in Fall 2019 we recommend that you apply in a later year.
BREAKFASTS BEGIN JANUARY 2020.
We meet once a month for a communal breakfast in the great state of Brooklyn. Our first breakfast will be scheduled (and those thereafter) in consultation with the Fellows.
ADVENTURES ARE CONTINUOUS. AS THEY SHOULD BE.
1. COMPLETE OUR ONLINE APPLICATION
2. EMAIL YOUR RESUME / BIO & YOUR SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS TO: INSTITUTE@TARGETMARGIN.ORG.
Deadline: September 30, 2019
WHAT IS THE INSTITUTE
The Institute is a year-long fellowship (January – December) that harnesses Target Margin Theater’s history of nurturing emerging talent, providing a $1,000 stipend, support and space for five diverse artists to challenge themselves and their art-making practices. The Institute is a place for open-ended questioning and experimentation within, and at the edges of, the form of theater.
There is no curriculum or “teaching” structure. There is no final result or project. The Institute values form-breaking work, artistic originality and process over production. The core goal is rigorously to question our own assumptions about what the theater is, what it could be, and what we would like it to be. We demand only that Fellows push these principles and challenge themselves continuously.
2020
STIPENDS – Each Fellow receives a $1,000 stipend to relieve financial burdens and nurture their artistic practice.
INTENSIVES – Fellows gather quarterly for 3 - 5 day retreats throughout the 2020 year (January – December). These are led by Target Margin Artistic Director David Herskovits and Associate Artistic Director Moe Yousuf, and the Fellows themselves. Intensives provide space and time for Fellows to collaboratively play / practice / test existing performance and theatrical frameworks.
EXPERIMENTS – Each Fellow will engage in an artistic experiment. It might test an idea; question a principle the Fellow becomes interested in; allow the Fellow to change their process or working approach; or challenge the Fellow’s assumptions about collaboration. It has no performance goal or production outcome.
OPEN STUDIOS – In late fall 2020 we will host a one day event in our space open to our local community and peers in the field. The form of the Open Studios will be shaped by the Fellows and created to highlight their specific ways of working within our Institute throughout the year. It may be an open showing, an invited rehearsal, conversation, facilitated dialogue, or participatory event.
ADVENTURES – Throughout the year, TMT organizes extracurricular experiences for Fellows to attend as a group. Past Adventures have included intimate conversations with visionaries such as Richard Foreman, visiting the Library for Performing Arts’ Archive of Recorded Sound, Special Exhibitions at Pioneer Works, the Museum of Jewish Heritage, attending a Godzilla Film Festival at Japan Society, visiting the Dream House, or hosting a spontaneous dance party.
BREAKFASTS – Fellows and TMT Artistic Staff have breakfast together one morning each month; this is an opportunity for informal sharing, conversation, and reflection. We ask that all Fellows commit to attending as many breakfasts as possible. After all, it’s the most important meal of the day.
WHO SHOULD APPLY?
We are looking for five artists who have demonstrated a serious commitment to their artistic practice and an interest in the TMT’s principles, and are ready to move in a radical new direction. Fellows should be poised to embrace the open- ended questioning that guides the Institute.
Applicants may emerge from any theatrical discipline (actors, designers, writers, directors, producers, stage managers, administrators, etc.). We will also accept applications from other artistic fields (music, visual art, literature, etc.) as long as the connection to performance is clearly articulated.
The Institute is a substantial time commitment and given the Institute’s unstructured nature, Fellows must be energetic and motivated to initiate and shape their work. The Institute is for artists who have already established a serious professional practice and are now looking to extend, disrupt, and transform it.
HOW TO APPLY
WHAT IS THE TIMELINE?
WE ARE ACCEPTING 2020 INSTITUTE APPLICATIONS FROM SEPTEMBER 3 – 30, 2019.
We will then review applications and conduct interviews, with the aim of choosing our Fellows by December 15, 2019.'
OUR FIRST INTENSIVE WILL TAKE PLACE IN JANUARY 2020.
All Intensives are mandatory and if you are not available at this time we advise you to apply in a later year. The remaining three Intensives sessions (spring, summer, fall) will be scheduled in consultation with the Fellows.
FOCUSED EXPERIMENTS / OPEN STUDIOS COMMENCE IN LATE FALL 2020.
Exact dates will be scheduled in consultation with the five Fellows, however if you are already aware that you have extensive conflicts in Fall 2019 we recommend that you apply in a later year.
BREAKFASTS BEGIN JANUARY 2020.
We meet once a month for a communal breakfast in the great state of Brooklyn. Our first breakfast will be scheduled (and those thereafter) in consultation with the Fellows.
ADVENTURES ARE CONTINUOUS. AS THEY SHOULD BE.
1. COMPLETE OUR ONLINE APPLICATION
2. EMAIL YOUR RESUME / BIO & YOUR SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS TO: INSTITUTE@TARGETMARGIN.ORG.