Dance Residencies at
​Centennial Performing Arts Studios

Friends of Metro Dance and the Metro Parks Dance Division offer long-term and project-based residencies for the creation of new work in the dance field. Current longterm partners include New Dialect, di mossa, and Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville and project-based partners have included PYDANCE, Windship Boyd and Project AWAKE, among others. 
ANIMATA ARTS ARTIST RESIDENCIES
In partnership with Metro Parks Dance Division & Friends of Metro Dance, Animata Arts offers residencies to Middle Tennessee-based artists at Centennial Performing Arts Studios consisting of regular, reliable, and dedicated dance space for rehearsals free of charge, provides artist stipends, and hosts feedback labs for the creation of new works culminating in a performance open to the public as well as provide professional documentation of the work for the artist at the end of the process. 

MEET THE 2025 ANIMATA ARTISTS

The four dancers that make up garage collective are nestled together in a line with rounded backs, each resting their head on the dancer in front of them. They are wear tops and pants or leggings in a variety of earth tones
garage collective
The artist looks into the camera with her head cocked to the right. She is smiling as the hair on the left side of her face falls forward and covers her eye.
Sari Hoke
The dancer stands on the edge of a meadow with a barbed wire fence behind her. She is in a wide-legged stance with weight on her back leg and her arms extending in front of her with flat palm facing the ground. She looks into the distance past the edge of her fingertips.
Lee Myles

2025 Artists presented March 7-8, 2025
Centennial Performing Arts Studios
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