PERIDANCE COLLECTIVE
9-Months | Ages 17-23
Cultivate your artistry through technical training, collaborative rehearsal process,
and performance in Peridance's newest pre-professional contemporary ensemble.
Peridance Collective is a new performance-based program for dancers between the ages of 17 and 23, which is designed to reflect the experience of being in a professional company. The program is structured to cultivate their artistry through technical training, collaborative rehearsal process, and performance.
The Collective serves as a launchpad for those who aspire to have a professional career in dance. Students are given opportunities to perform throughout the tri-state area, work closely with world-renowned choreographers, develop their artistic voice through choreographic opportunities, and become a part of the larger global dance community in New York City.
This program runs from September 2024 - May 2025
What's Included
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6+ hours of dancing per week
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Work with 3 professional choreographers on original works
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6+ performance opportunities
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2 weekly technique classes (1 company class and 1 class of dancers choice)
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Choreographic opportunities
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Individual mentorship
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Class discounts on additional training at Peridance Center
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Join a global network of performing artists in New York City
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2024/2025 CHOREOGRAPHERS
SCOTT AUTRY
Scott is a 2022 graduate of The Juilliard School and an Artistic Associate with the Gibney Company from 2022 to 2023. He has been able to share the work of choreographers including Ohad Naharin, Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar, Bobbi Jene Smith, Aszure Barton, Johan Inger and Lea Ved. He was selected as the 2022 Juilliard Choreographic Fellow for the inaugural collaboration between LaGuardia Dance and Juilliard Dance and was honored to receive the Héctor Zaraspe Prize from the Juilliard Dance Department for demonstrating outstanding talent and development as a choreographer. Autry recently created “a space to see” choreographic residency as his Moving Towards Justice fellowship project to support young, queer creators develop deeper roots in their own artistic voice. He is a native of Colorado Springs, Colorado.
BETH GRACZYK
Beth Graczyk is a body-based artist based in Brooklyn/Lenapehoking whose 18-year career as a creative-maker and bench scientist has allowed her to cultivate a unique perspective that reaches actively within and between the forms of art and science. Graczyk seeks to work with populations whose experiences are often ignored including female-identified, diversely-abled, and LGBTQIA+ bodies. Since 2002, Graczyk has performed throughout the US and in Japan, Ecuador, France, China and India and in NYC has been presented by Gibney, La Mama, Jack, CPR, and Movement Research amongst others. In 2019, Graczyk began directing a new work in collaboration with Aaron Gabriel examining the experiences of LGBTQIA+ artists with disabilities that was workshopped at the Walker Arts Center and featured in Critical Correspondence. This project received a 2021 Minnesota Touring Arts Grant. She has a collaborative partnership with John Gutierrez (G^2), and is on Faculty for the Peridance Certification Program. She travels annually to Kerala, India where she teaches, choreographs, and performs in partnership with Sen Jansen and Arunima Gupta. Concurrently, Graczyk is an author on 10 science publications and received a 2020 Pilot Award from Rockefeller University with collaborator Guadalupe Astorga for research on visual perception in Autism. Graczyk co-directed the performance company Salt Horse in Seattle from 2008-2016 where they received funding from 4 Culture, Artist Trust, Washington State Arts Commission, NEA and commissions including City of Seattle, Northwest Film Forum and Cornish. @bethgraczyk
BELINDA MCGUIRE
Belinda McGuire is an American-Canadian dancer, choreographer, filmmaker, producer and teacher. She is the founding Artistic Director of Belinda McGuire Dance Projects which supports the research, development, production, and presentation of international and collaborative multidisciplinary dance performance. Her work, heralded for its remarkable emotional resonance and sinuous power, has toured across North and Central America, the Caribbean, Europe, and the Middle East. A graduate of The Juilliard School, she has performed with The Limón Dance Company and The Metropolitan Opera Ballet, among others, and has taught and choreographed for Juilliard, Harvard, The Limón Institute, Marymount, Canada’s National Ballet School, Tisch, and Purchase, among others.
