Artist in Residence Program
KYL/D's Artist in Residence program provides dance and theater artists/organizations with highly subsidized rehearsal rental rates and other perks to help cultivate their craft.
The Benefits:
Reduced hourly rehearsal rate when you commit to 8 hours a month for 3+ months (Starting at $12 per hour!)
Reduced performance packages, contact rentals@kyld.org for rental package info
Listing on our website: bio, upcoming events, link to personal website, etc.
Application fee waived to our quarterly InHale Performance Series
Option for individual artists to take all KYL/D Open Company Classes for FREE (geared towards pre-professional and professional dancers)
Current Artists in Residence
Lucy Flippen
Lucy Flippen is a choreographer, dancer, and educator whose work explores boundaries, borders, and middle spaces. She was born and raised in Ellicott City, Maryland and received her BFA in Dance with an Art Therapy minor at University of the Arts, under the direction of Donna Faye Burchfield. During her formative years, she studied dance at Kinetics Dance Theatre and Wilde Lake High School, under the direction of Christine Estabrook. At UArts, she worked with and danced for Katie Swords Thurman, Kim Bears-Bailey, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Jung-eun Kim, Lily Mello, and Kali Petrizzo. She has performed in restaged productions of Connect Transfer (Shen Wei Dance Arts) DMan in the Water (Bill T. Jones), and Changing Steps (Merce Cunningham Trust). Lucy has presented work with Koresh Dance Company Artist Showcase, Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers Inhale Performance Series, and Philadelphia Fringe Festival via the Cannonball Festival. In March 2024, she founded her own dance collective “sharedelusion” alongside Magaly Gallagher. As a collective, they premiered an evening-length work "see me to see you" at Philly PACK. In this work they researched: the understanding of one's own identity through relationships with friends, with family, with oneself.
Company Credit: Anne-Marie Mulgrew and Dancers Company, The Red Section
Photo Credit: Bicking Photography
Dancer: Anne-Marie Mulgrew
Company Credit: Anne-Marie Mulgrew and Dancers Company, The Next ChapterPhoto Credit: Julieanne Harris
Dancers: r-l Leslie Ann Pike, Kate Lombardi, Ixchel Mendez, Sean Thomas Boyt, Olivia Wood, Hagudeza Rullan-Fantauzi
ANNE-MARIE MULGREW: Founder of Anne-Marie Mulgrew and Dancers Company (AMM & DCO)
Known in the city since 1986 for its "visually arresting," "highly imaginative," dance theater works, Anne-Marie Mulgrew and Dancers Company, (AMM & DCO) under the artistic direction of Philly native, Anne-Marie Mulgrew, has created 80 works for the company. These works have been seen in concert theaters, alternative spaces, site specific locations, schools, festivals, collaborative projects and for film and TV in the United States and Canada to critical acclaim. Fusing modern dance, theater, music, technology and art, the company charms, provokes and informs audiences of all ages with its insightful and wacky views of the world. AMM & DCO consists of 5-7 professional dancers and esteemed peer collaborators. Additional performers are used on a project basis to flesh out materials and involve new communities. AMM & DCO believes in dance education and offers residency programs , classes, and workshops tailored to the needs of the community for people of all ages, skill levels, and backgrounds.
“I am tempted to describe Ms. Mulgrew as our own Margaret Mead of Dance.” Philadelphia Inquirer