Applications are now being taken for the 2009-20010 nEW Festival. The nEW Festival embraces the idea of cooperative and collaborative art-making in a forum of creative exchange between artists that includes professional education, project mentorship, and production, honoring the aesthetic lineage of Philadelphia's dance theatre artists. Emerging, mid-career, and established choreographers encouraged to apply.

Interested choreographers will be provided rehearsal space and the opportunity to show their work in the up-coming Professional Development Program from June 2-20 at the University of the Arts School of Dance, 211 South Broad Street.

Applicants should send a letter of interest to melanie@melaniestewart.org. Deadline April 1, 2008.