Art Omi: Dance
Open Call 2027
Apply now! The Open Call for Art Omi: Dance 2027 will run from Friday, August 14 to Thursday, October 1, 2026.
2027 Residency Dates: Thursday, July 22–Monday, August 9
Application Fee: $15
Kindly note, the application fee covers the cost of administration to process applications.
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About
Art Omi: Dance brings together accomplished dance artists from around the world for two and a half weeks of creative exchange each summer. Residents experience each other’s creative process and the freedom to play in this collaborative residency program.
The emphasis of the Art Omi: Dance residency is not a performance product; rather, a gently facilitated process of experimentation and collaboration. This exploration is enhanced by providing resources that dancers and choreographers often lack: space, time, and other artists with whom to work. The result is a model of creative process and community building that envisions impact for the participants beyond the sphere of art making.
Informal showings each summer invite the public to experience the residents' creative process, collaborations, and the development of their ideas.
Art Omi: Dance welcomes professional dancers and choreographers of all styles who have the desire to share ideas and process with dancers from around the world. Applicants should not have specific projects in mind, but should come open to working with others on jointly conceived projects.
Lodging, meals, and studio space on Art Omi’s bucolic campus in New York's Hudson Valley, including the 120-acre Sculpture & Architecture Park with over 60 large-scale artworks nestled in nature on view, are provided at no cost to the residents.
Accommodations & Facilities
Art Omi is located two-and-a-half hours north of New York City in New York's historic Hudson Valley. Art Omi is situated in the small village of Ghent and named for the village's hamlet of Omi, which it calls home. The cities of Albany and Hudson, both offering train connections, are within short driving distance.
The facilities, situated on three hundred acres of open land, include a large two-story barn with indoor studios; contemporary residence buildings designed with a vernacular reference to local barns, surrounded by abundant perennial beds and expansive lawns dotted with fruit trees; as well as the Sculpture & Architecture Park, Newmark Gallery, and Benenson Visitors Center.
A Federal Period farm house serves as a gathering center, providing a full kitchen, television room and library; while the front porch overlooks rolling hills and the majestic outline of the Catskill mountains. A swimming pool, bicycles, WiFi access, and several state of the art computers are available on the premises.
Columbia County, and the nearby Berkshire Mountains, are popular destinations because of their historical, natural, and cultural riches. From bird sanctuaries to modern dance, presidential mansions to farmer's markets, the environs offer a singular blend of rural quiet and cultural stimulation. Staff and friends in the neighborhood are often available for excursions of interest to residents.
Alumni
Click here to view the Art Omi Alumni Directory, including the full list of Art Omi: Dance Alumni.
Director & Board
Art Omi: Dance Residency Program Director
Christopher K. Morgan has directed Art Omi: Dance since its founding in 2006, shaping its unique approach to cross-cultural collaboration and peer-to-peer mentorship.
His Native Hawaiian ancestry and a wide-ranging dance career that moved him to San Diego, Munich, Washington DC, New York, Dublin, London, and Hawai'i—all influence his work. He is Artistic Director of Christopher K. Morgan & Artists and Malashock Dance Company, stewarding these two dance companies into a new model of working, shifting from founder-driven dance companies to mission-driven dance companies.
From 2022–2023 he was Vice President of Programming at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center (the MACC), curating dozens of music, dance, and theater performances each year, overseeing the Schaefer International Gallery, and leading a robust arts education program that serves thousands of Hawai'i youth, adults, and arts educators. From 2017–2021 he served as Executive Artistic Director of Dance Place in Washington D.C., stewarding the organization through the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic impact by maintaining Dance Place’s entire 23-person staff with no layoffs or furloughs, and continuing to pay artists. Christopher founded dance company, Christopher K. Morgan & Artists, in 2011; the same year Dance Magazine profiled him as one of six breakout choreographers in the United States.
His choreographic work has received support from Creative Capital, New England Foundation for the Arts, Dance USA, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, and Western Arts Alliance.
Nominated by President Joseph R. Biden and confirmed by Congress, Christopher serves on the National Council on the Arts.
He lives in San Diego, California with his husband, opera director Kyle Lang.
Art Omi: Dance Residency Program Manager
jeremy de’jon guyton is a performance artist researching Afro//queer archives to examine club dance spaces through the lenses of sound, sweat, and sex(uality).
With an M.F.A. in Choreography & Performance from Florida State University and a B.A. in Theatre & Performance Studies from Georgetown University, his choreographic research weaves together devised theatre-making practices, text and spoken word, media, and social and club movement languages to build immersive worlds that urge audiences to listen deeply, question critically, and dream big.
He has toured internationally with critically acclaimed artists such as Solange Knowles, is a member of regional, national, and international artist collectives, and has designed and managed programming at the intersection of arts and advocacy for both youth and adult artists.
He was an Art Omi: Dance resident in 2021 and returned for a third time as Guest Mentor in 2025.
Program Board
Maria Mitchell
Lynn Neuman
Amber Sloan
Nicole Smith
Vincent Thomas
Art Omi: Dance Supporters
Art Omi's programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Additional program support is provided in part by the Mellon Foundation.
BANNER IMAGES
Images 1 & 3 | Photos: Alon Koppel Photography
Images 2 & 4 | Photos: Adam T. Deen