CBA Fellowship Program

The Resident Fellowship is our core offering for scholars and artists of all disciplines to develop projects that expand the way we think about the history, practice, and performance of dance. Past fellows have come from wide-ranging disciplines such as history, design, philosophy, visual arts, and more. Fellows are not required to be experts in ballet or dance but must have an interest in engaging with the art forms.

The fellowship provides space and the time to pursue rigorous work. Fellows also gain new colleagues and a broad community of scholars and artists, two communities that do not often meet.

Due to the high volume of applications received in recent years, we are no longer able to consider unsolicited fellowship applications. Moving forward, CBA Fellows will be appointed directly by CBA in consultation with our advisors.

This co-fellowship between the Center for Ballet and the Arts and Chelsea Factory provides continued support for both institutions’ alumni. CBA offers Chelsea Factory Resident Artists in-kind resources, including office and studio space, as well as access to NYU’s intellectual resources. Chelsea Factory provides CBA Alumni with production backing to showcase their fellowship work.

A joint fellowship between The Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University and the Juilliard School, in which Juilliard Dance Division alum creates a work in collaboration with Juilliard’s Historical Performance Division. With tangible benefits such as access to the vast intellectual resources of a research University, a cohort of fellows, and free studio hours, the aim is to provide a stimulating environment and support for developing artists.

The Rockefeller Fellowship is a collaboration between CBA and the Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language at Rockefeller University to investigate the genetic origin and evolutionary purpose of dance across different species with an eye to developing new clinical therapies. Rockefeller Fellows are appointed by Rockefeller University and awarded a semester-long residency with full access to CBA and NYU’s academic and artistic resources.

The Center for Ballet and the Arts & National Sawdust Partnership is a collaboration that has, since 2020, supported 50 women choreographers and composers to help develop their skills, create and present new work, and build a community of artists with diverse training and perspectives. The program is committed to primarily supporting choreographers and composers who are historically underrepresented in the field, by gender, race, or ethnicity. A majority of the program participants are women of color.

Thank you to the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation for making this partnership possible.