The Mark Morris Dance Accompaniment Training Program highlights the importance of music in the dance studio and elevates dance accompaniment as a viable profession. This program aims to create a set of standards for dance accompaniment and ensure a baseline of competency.

Over the 5-day workshop, the Mark Morris Dance Accompaniment Training Program trains a cohort of 10-15 advanced to professional musicians—pianists, percussionists, and other instrumentalists—to accompany a variety of technique classes, children’s dance, and an introduction to adaptive dance programs like Dance for PD classes.

A limited number of scholarship opportunities are available to qualifying applicants. Only applicants who complete BOTH the program application and the scholarship application will be considered for scholarships.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Contact Sarah Marcus, Director of Education, Mark Morris Dance Group

The pilot phase of the program was funded, in part, by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation’s 2015 Leadership Grants Program for Dance and Friends of MMDG.