Portland, ME
A New Kind of Regenerative Artist Residency
June 21 - August 4 2024
A Holistic Performing Artist Residency
Monday, April 22nd Application Deadline. Apply Today!
We’re re-imaging the future of the art form, and what empowering the next generation of performing artists looks like.
We are seeking a diverse group of all types and styles of performing artists and creators to devise these pieces together: actors, dancers, singers, instrumentalists, creatives, and production.
For this season’s flagship show and workshop, we are particularly looking for artists, creative, and production team members who identify as Menominee, Ojibwe, Métis, Wabanaki, and LGBTQIA2s+.
Each artist also receives time and space each week to develop projects that are regenerative to themselves, their communities, and their neighborhoods. Connect back to yourself, a community of regenerative artists, and to nature through the beautiful Maine seaside landscape.
Each Artist will receive:
A role, understudy, orchestra assignment, or job on the creative/tech team
Individual Regenerative Time & Space
Production support: inclusion in “Farm to Stage” of artists own regenerative project, with archival video and photos and facilitated audience feedback.
Private Lessons
Compensation: $600/week
Housing: single occupancy apartments with full kitchens, w/d, and bathroom in downtown Portland within walking distance to rehearsal venue and cafes, restaurants, and grocery stores.
Travel: stipend of up to $500, only for one trip to and from residency.
Each day will start off with individual regenerative time for each artist to explore their own creative projects with the support of Hogfish staff and artists as needed. This includes time in nature, sign-ups for private Alexander Technique sessions, freedom to use the rehearsal space for your own projects, and more.
After lunch is company rehearsal for the flagship and workshop productions. Each rehearsal starts with a company class exploring Hogfish’s brand of regenerative arts training, exploring mindfulness, ecology, Alexander Technique, hands-on teaching, short lectures, games, anatomy in action, and more. In addition, we invite each member of the team to lead the group in their own regenerative practices of choice, learning from each other.
Performance Opportunities
CURATED CONCERTS: There will be a few concerts throughout the summer, featuring thematically programmed performances. Our annual season-fund-raiser Kegs & Roses in the Beckett Castle rose garden features performances that are focused on the natural world - the nearby crashing waves, the rocky coast, gardens, and of course flowers and roses.
INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS: We ask each artist to bring an idea for a personally regenerative project that they would like to develop while in residence during the summer. Artists may use other artists in residence for their project or work individually. If desired and deemed ready in consultation with Hogfish staff, artists can share their work with a small invited audience at our “Farm to Stage” series and receive facilitated audience feedback for further development. Select artists may be invited back in future seasons or for further winter residencies to continue developing their projects, and when the time is right to present a more fully produced production of their individual projects.
2024 FLAGSHIP PRODUCTION: A new American language, gender expansive version of Poulenc’s Mamelles de Tirésias, working title Teresa’s Tatas, where everyone is invited to show up as their true selves. Taking place in a night club and followed by a dance party.
2024 WORKSHOP: Queen Marinette about a 19th century Ojibwe, Menominee, French, and American business woman who gives the show its title and whose spirit inspires a contemporary collaboration between indigenous and American storytellers.
Hogfish Resonance Podcast Episode
Learn more about the Hogfish artist residency by listening to our Hogfish Resonance Podcast episode with 2022 and 2023 artist-in-residence Maria Brea.