2026
Chayah
Artistic
Residency

  • Submission due December 1, 2025

    hosted by 
    CPR Dance: Inhale Movement

    Chayah Artistic Residency is a a two week artist in residence opportunity for dance choreographers and researchers. The artist will give life to a new work through their unique research process with the company members of CPR Dance: Inhale Movement as well as engage with their pedagogy practice for the community.

    CPR Dance: Inhale Movement is the premiere contemporary dance company in Southwest Michigan. We value bringing community access to professional dance, while sharing collaborative and engaging opportunities to connect, view, and participate in movement. 

    CPR Dance: Inhale Movement proposes movement as fundamental to existence as breath. Breathing life, moving life, with attendance towards one another.  By realizing interests in health, wellness, mindfulness, movement, breath, meditation, film, justice, and friendship and that it was possible to permeate into performance, choreographic, and teaching artistries. A way to further succinctly identify and communicate the values of wandering through intangible movement, lost and found, with well-being and care as a fulcrum that doesn’t shy away from but presses into reflective evaluative works.

    Where: St. Joseph, Michigan
    CPR Dance: Inhale Movement
    4184  N Roosevelt Road
    Stevensville, MI 49127

    When: May 4-17, 2026

    The selected artist will receive:
    - Privately hosted living quarters with walking access to Lake Michigan, and numerous nature trails along the dunes and shoreline. 

    - Unlimited access to the CPR Dance: Inhale Movement studio space,
    featuring (25 x 30) sprung marley dance floor. 

    - A $1,000.00 stipend.

    - Informal research sharing opportunities with the community.

    - Artist will retain rights to their original work, with the permission for
    CPR Dance: Inhale Movement to present their work for the following seven years. 

    Chayah Artistic Residency Overview:

    Week 1 (Tentative): Private incubation time for use of the studio facility for research. Potential for community engagement activities based upon proposal specifics.

    Week 2 (Tentative):  Application of research setting a new work with the company dancers of CPR Dance: Inhale Movement. An informal performance and Q&A for the community will culminate on the last day of the residency. 

    Please note: The selected artist must cover their own transportation to St. Joseph, MI, and to/from The Studio and their hosted living quarters. Approx. 3 miles.  


    How to apply:

    A $20.00 submission fee must be submitted for applications to be complete.

    Submission due by December 1, 2025.

Apply Here!