Graduate, Undergraduate and Emerging Professional Internships
Immediate Openings
If you love dance and big ideas, we want to hear from you.
Misnomer is an innovative, fast-paced mover-and-shaker in the arts world. Whether moving people through art or building transformative web platforms for engagement, Misnomer creates experimental, unexpected, and powerful ways for artists and audiences to create and find meaning together.
An internship with Misnomer is a chance for a committed and qualified candidate to be part of a vibrant organization at a moment of great growth and opportunity. Full and part-time internships are unpaid, and are available year-round on a rolling basis for graduate and undergraduate students and emerging professionals.
To apply, send an email to internship@misnomer.org including:
- The nature of the internship you are interested in (your preferred focus area, desired start and end date; number of hours per week, etc.).
- Your resume or bio. If relevant, also include links or attachments to any writing or work samples.
- A few options for days / times that you would be available for a phone interview in the two-week period following the date of your email.
GENERAL INTERNSHIP
Looking to get a taste of the inner workings of a dance and technology company? Want a well-rounded experience? Misnomer offers a general internship in which you will have the opportunity to assist in a range of areas across the company to get exposure to the scope of elements in running a company. You’ll work with a dynamic team of staff, consultants, and interns.
DEVELOPMENT & FUNDRAISING
As a development intern you will assist the executive staff in researching grants and funders; drafting proposals for institutional grants, reports, and donor correspondence; database maintenance; assisting with special event preparation and cultivation events.
WEB & DIGITAL MEDIA
Working directly with the company’s core staff and with technology consultants, you will work on innovative and cutting-edge projects in the social web and digital media space. You will develop and expand Misnomer’s online initiatives, directly impacting the field of arts and technology.
MARKETING & COMMUNITY
Working directly the company’s core staff and with strategic digital marketing consultants, you will assist with Misnomer’s social media and e-campaigns, and will also help produce web content. This internship will work both with the overall company and with Misnomer’s Audience Engagement Platform.
AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Get hands-on experience in a fast-paced arts company. Misnomer is both providing cutting-edge dance and developing a web start-up to advance audience engagement in the arts. This is an opportunity to both experience a producing dance company and a web start-up in one! Managing these two initiatives in a single organization provides an exciting opportunity for management innovations. You will be directly involved in the orchestration of several projects, including management, production, administration, and strategy. The position requires a high-degree of responsibility and productivity while successfully juggling multiple projects.
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About Misnomer Dance Theater:
Founded in 1998 by choreographer Chris Elam, Misnomer has been hailed as one of the most original and dynamic modern dance companies in the performing arts today. The company’s work has been recognized as “one of the top ten dance performances” of the year by The New York Times and has earned the company a position as one of “25 to Watch” by Dance Magazine. Misnomer has performed in over 250 theaters in fourteen countries, conducted large-scale, cross-medium collaborations with a range of artists from Bjork to the Danish Dance Theatre, and has been the subject of mini-documentaries by the Sundance Channel and Apple. Misnomer extends its vision for the arts through its frequent presentations at the country’s foremost arts, business and thought leadership conferences, ranging from the FORTUNE Technology conference to TEDx, and through its innovative audience engagement platform, GoSeeDo.
About GoSeeDo.org:
GoSeeDo.org is web-based engagement platform developed by Misnomer for artists and arts organizations to use to reduce the barriers to audience participation and social involvement in the arts. GoSeeDo.org serves an expanding number of artists and communities, with workshop, training, and engagement opportunities. GoSeeDo.org (formerly known as AEP) has attracted major articles and media attention within the field and from news sources, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Fast Company.
