The CUNY Dance Initiative (CDI), an expansive program providing New York City choreographers and dance companies with creative residencies on CUNY college campuses, announces new partnerships with Works & Process and The Pocantico Center in 2025-26.

The core of CDI’s mission is providing NYC-based dance artists with residencies on CUNY campuses–currently 14 colleges across the five boroughs. As CDI has taken root, partnerships beyond the CUNY system have become integral to CDI’s collaborative ethos and commitment to expanding opportunities for artists while building audiences for dance.

New partnerships with Works & Process and The Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund for the current residency cycle (July 1, 2025-June 30, 2026) will each provide an artist with a week-long residency outside of New York City, in addition to a CDI studio residency that runs through June 2026. Works & Process and the Queens College review panel jointly selected whacking artist Nubian Néné, awarding her a CDI residency at Queens College and a Works & Process residency at Bethany Arts Community (Ossining, NY) in May 2026. In addition to her CDI rehearsal at Brooklyn College, Kayla Farrish has been invited for a residency at The Pocantico Center (Tarrytown, NY) in February 2026 and will present a work-in-process showing at the David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center on February 26, 2026.