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We're just one month away from the start of our 2025 residency season!

We're excited to announce the following 12 residency awardees: Fully Funded residencies have been awarded to: Arielle Colella (Philadelphia), Cameron McKinney (New York, NY), Mawu Ama Ma’at Gora (Philadelphia), and Mira Goksel (Boston). Our two Pew Fellow residencies are going to Kirsten Kaschock (Philadelphia) and Emily Bate (Philadelphia/Vermont). ‍
Subsidized residencies have been awarded to Eliana Fabiyi (Philadelphia/Paris), Lee Etzold (Philadelphia), Sarah Myers (NY), Tristan Koepke (Portland, ME) and Jessi Stegall (Chicago). National Dance Project awardee, Nichole Canuso Dance Company (Philadelphia) will be in residence to develop their latest work, Lunar Retreat. All of our artists will be engaging in free community events during their time with us - ranging from artist talks, readings, workshops, and work in progress showings. Details will be announced monthly.
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In August, we are thrilled to welcome back choreographer Shannon Murphy as we present her work Heartshakes, which she began developing as a resident with us in 2021. Heartshakes is a site-specific walking tour blending puppetry, dance, and storytelling to create an immersive audience experience. Performances will take place on site at Subcircle Residency in August 2025. Stay tuned for more details on this and all of our public programming.  
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Subcircle is thrilled to announce residencies for our 2024 season!

Fully Funded  residencies have been awarded to: AZ Espinoza (Philadelphia), and Jenn Kidwell (NY). Our two Pew Fellow residencies are going to Angel Edwards (Philadelphia) and Brett Robinson (Philadelphia). We’re grateful to be able to offer a parent residency funded by Sustainable Arts Foundation to Becky Wright (Philadelphia).
Subsidized residencies have been awarded to Jonathan Edmondson (NJ/Philadelphia), Jenn Gillett (NYC), Barbie Diewald (Western MA), Jack Isaac Pryor (Philadelphia), Lindsay Browning (Virginia), Chelsea Murphy (Philadelphia), Simon Montalvo (Boston), and Emerie Snyder (NYC).
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MacArthur award winner Walter Kitundu (Chicago) will be in residence with us in August for his site specific performance of Rekodi Maji. We will be adding more special events to our programming with farm dinners, installations and music. Check back for more details soon!
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In addition to being hosts and presenters, Subcircle is celebrating its 25th anniversary as a Company and 5th anniversary as a Residency on August 25th at our annual Barnraiser. More info on that soon!

Subcircle is thrilled to announce residencies for our 2023 season! This year we are able to give 7 fully funded residencies to artists, plus 7 subsidized residencies for our busiest season to date. We’re grateful to be able to offer parent residencies funded by Sustainable Arts Foundation which we’ve awarded to Diver VanAvery (Minneapolis) and Esther Baker Tarpaga (Philadelphia). Ten day residencies have been awarded to: Makoto Hirano (Philadelphia), MK Tuonamen (Philadelphia) and Marion Storm (France) and Londs Reuter (NC). Our two Pew Fellow residencies are going to Jaamil Kosoko (NY/Philadelphia) and Leah Stein (Philadelphia/Vermont).
Subsidized residencies have been awarded to Aura Fishbeck/Christy Funsch (San Francisco), Amy Linsenmayer (Boston), Catherine Siller (Boston), Jennifer Childs (Philadelphia), Samantha Rise and Emily Bate (Philadelphia), Jenna Riegel and sha harrell (Western Massachusetts) and Amanda Morton (NYC).
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MacArthur award winner Walter Kitundu (Chicago) will be in residence with us this year over the course of two visits leading up to a performance/installation in July; as well as Berlin based artists Heidi Weiss and Jennifer Mann. Finally we are thrilled to say we are on our way to presenting the Oakland based vertical dance company, BANDALOOP in August at Biddeford’s Fringe Festival.
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In addition to being hosts and presenters, Subcircle is performing a new work on the grounds of The Ogunquit Music of American Art.  More info on that soon!

Please join us for Subcircle's 2022 Barnraiser on Sunday, August 28th at 7pm. This year we are thrilled to be bringing the incredible drag sensation Martha Graham Cracker to the patio of Magnus on Water. The event will include a performance by Martha accompanied by the multi-talented Alex Bechtel, site specific dance performance by Subcircle, film screening, special cocktails, wine, beer, and light fare.

Subcircle will perform a new site-specific work at The Temple in Ocean Park on Sunday, July 17th at 7pm. The evening will include performers: Niki Cousineau, Jacqui DeFranca, Evan Hart Marsh, Christy Lee, Scott McPheeters and Liz Mulkey with film by Jorge Cousineau.

We are excited to announce our 2022 season with a total of twelve residencies. This year we are thrilled to offer six free or fully sponsored residencies, five partially subsidized residencies and one free commuter residency to a local artist. Our Subcircle free residencies are going to: Shavon Norris, John Jarboe and Amalia Colon-Nava (previously scheduled for 2021). Fully sponsored residencies are of two variety – the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage is sponsoring two past Pew Fellows for a 10-day residency each. This year’s recipients are Annie Wilson and Alex Torra; and a two-week residency for DNA Works from Ft Worth, Texas is being subsidized by our Biddeford community partner, Engine.Five artists are joining us for partially subsidized weeklong residencies: singer/songwriter Margot Bassett-Silver (Minneapolis), Bethany Formica (Swarthmore, PA) Ben Grinberg (Philadelphia), Emie Hughes (Media,PA), Nichole Canuso (Philadelphia).The Commuter Resident will be Janoah Bailin based on Peaks Island, ME.  Janoah will be in residency during the last week of May. We hope to extend our commuter residency to other artists this season. Details to be announced.