Young Dancemakers Company
A Tuition-Free Summer Dance Ensemble of City Youth
2019 Summer Season: June 27 - August 4, 2019  Daily 10 AM - 5 PM and several weekend performance dates plus pre-summer concert outings.

AUDITION: SUNDAY MARCH 3, 2019 @ 1pm at the  92Y 1395 Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
Easy access from subways: #4/5/6 train to 86th Street
 
APPLY NOW  TO RESERVE YOUR AUDITION PLACE
Click HERE for the 2019 YDC application.
Are you.. a NYC public high school dance student? ... open to new ideas, intensive training and rehearsal?

Do you.. want to create and perform your own work? … want to dance with a touring teen dance company?

YDC welcomes accomplished dance students as well as bold newcomers.

DANCE
Modern, Ballet, Improvisation, Composition

CHOREOGRAPH YOUR OWN ORIGINAL WORK and TOUR YOUR WORK CITY-WIDE
Concerts booked July 24 to August 3 / Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx

FREE TICKETS
to NYC professional dance concerts

WORKSHOPS
with guest artists on Broadway Dance, Partnering, College and Career seminars and more

GUEST REPERTORY PROJECT
Learn and perform repertory by renowned choreographer JOHN HEGINBOTHAM

CHOREOGRAPHER / COMPOSER PROJECT
Collaborate with professional composers on original music

THE DANCE NY PROJECT
Experience today's world of professional dance in New York:

Starting in the professional studios of 92nd St. Y, on Lexington Ave, NYC and then continue in the spacious performing arts center at The FIELDSTON SCHOOL, Riverdale section of the Bronx

**Free Metro Cards**

HOW TO APPLY: 
Click HERE for the 2019 Application
OR online: www.youngdancemakerscompany.org

Information: phone: 718-329-7300 ext. 3358
e-mail: youngdancemakers@gmail.com

AUDITION PREPARATION: Create a NEW short SOLO STUDY to be performed at the audition. Include the following: walk, run, turn, jump, fall, quickness, slowness, stillness, balance, off-balance, smooth, sharp, level changes. Be ORIGINAL. Approach this composition assignment with your own interpretation, idea and images. Do not use music. And have a good time with it!

Directed by Bessie Award-Winner Alice Teirstein
Co-Director Jessica Gaynor
Music Director William Catanzaro

A tuition free program made  possible through the generous support of: The Richenthal Foundation,  The Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation, Jody and John Arnhold, The Harkness Foundation for Dance,  Ethical Culture Fieldston School, New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State legislature, and generous individual contributors.

YDC Choreographer/Composer Project is supported by New Music USA. To follow the project as it unfolds, visit the YDC project page.