DLNY NextGen is designed to help young choreographers, 18 and under, unleash their creative potential by providing them with robust guidance from professionals in the field.
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SPRING 2024
FALL 2023
SPRING 2023
FALL 2022
The DLNY NextGen Apprenticeship is for gifted choreographers ages 14-18 who are invested in cultivating a creative practice and demonstrate a high level of artistic potential in tandem with emerging leadership skills.
This individualized semester-long apprenticeship includes weekly one-on-one sessions with our resident mentor, esteemed choreographer and arts educator William Carlos Angulo, to help teenage choreographers develop a choreography methodology.
Choreographers will learn how to channel and harness inspiration, incubate movement, create a strategy, and execute their ideas. The semester will culminate in a month-long Lab residency with a professional youth dance company hired by Dance Lab New York.
DLNY NextGen choreographers will leave the Lab with a confident approach to dancemaking, effective management skills, the ability to motivate and collaborate with a team, and a practical understanding of how to navigate professional spaces.
DANCE with us
We’re now accepting applications for Spring 2024.
Are you a teenage dancer in NYC, interested in dancing with our NextGen Youth Company? Learn more about our dancer requirements and submit your materials to casting below.
NEXTGEN choreographers
NEXTGEN YOUTH COMPANY DANCER ALUMNI
NEXTGEN RESIDENT MENTOR
“THIS WAS MY FIRST EXPERIENCE WORKING WITH A DANCE COMPANY AND BY THE END OF THE FIRST DAY, I WAS LIKE ‘I WANT TO DO THIS FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE.’”