James Ray residency
Assisting Local Artists:
>>Since 2017, the James Ray Residency Project has been providing Seattle-area based dance artists time and resources to fully develop their work, steward and grow new and current donors and patrons, and create better systems to facilitate the creative-performance cycle. It fosters the local dance ecology and enriches the city’s cultural landscape by helping artists put their best work forward, extend their reach through touring, and help them increase organizational capacity and sustainability.
2024 Artists in Residence
Artists: Audrey Rachelle and Alex Oliva
AnA Collaborations
immersive works both on and off screen since 2015. They have collaborated with over 30 dancers, filmmakers, musicians, composers, visual artists, writers, actors, photographers, and set designers. They have been featured on MoTV alongside Grammy-award winning saxophonist Johnny Butler, and have been commissioned and presented nationally, including by Gibney Dance, Phoenix Art Museum, San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Brooklyn Bowl, Columbia University, NYU Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre, Catherine Clark Gallery, NARS Foundation, Mercury Lounge, Wild Project, Dixon Place, among others.
Artist: Maia Melene D'urfé
Maia Melene D'urfé
unities of Seattle. They work with musicians and mixed media artists to create worlds of movement that are full of visceral texture, abstract thought, and vivid musicality. They’re currently working with ideas about what happens after a shattering, following melodic and rhythmic detours in their bones, and discovering new ways of seeing and relating with the self and other, like looking through transparent or opaque glass, or in a mirror.
Artist: Margaux Gex
Margaux Gex
physicality through collaboration with her dancers and is deeply passionate about composition to support visceral works.
Artist: Vania C. Bynum
Vania C. Bynum
Dance from Cornish College of the Arts. She is a dancer, teacher, choreographer, and emerging poet who merges her spiritual foundation with dance to share authentic life stories.
Through music, dance, spoken word and video, Vania blends various genres of dance to
complete the vision. Themes include narratives of her culture and life as an African American woman, as well as important events that affect the community.
Previous Artists in Residence
2018
Coriolis Dance Company
Techtonic Marrow Society – Coleman Pester
Version Excursion – Erin Boyt
Julie Tobiason
Daniel Costa Dance
2019
Cameo Lethem
Forthun + Rome – CarliAnn Forthun Bruner & Ethan Rome
House of Verlaine – Lily Verlaine
Petra Zanki
SOTO + TOWER – Maya Soto & Nico Tower
2022
Alana O. Rogers Dance Company
PRICEarts N.E.W. Dance Company – Noelle Price
The Gray – Beth Terwilleger
Intrepedis Dance – Holly Livingston & Samantha Weissbach Williams
3rd Shift Dance – Xaviera Vandermay
2023
Degenerate Art Ensemble
Karin Stevens Dance
Mary Sigward + Artists
SLOWBURN Dance – Meredith Pellon
Apply to the Program
Where and When to Apply
We will accept applications for the 2024-25 residency program starting September 1, 2024. The online application form will be available on our applications page. Please contact us at catherine@seattleidf.org if you have any questions in the meantime.