New Victory Dance Jams

Space Requirements

Although the New Victory will endeavor to adapt to as many locations and individual situations as possible, your space will need to fulfill some minimum requirements:

• Site must be located in one of the five boroughs of New York City.
• New Victory can only work on private property that is managed by your school or camp.
• 70 feet by 70 feet of unobstructed, flat, outdoor space. This defined space will contain the performance area, Covid-19 Safety Zone, Floor or ground seating area, and offstage technical space.
• The performance space must not include loose sand, tree roots, rocks and other similar obstacles for everyone’s safety, especially the dancer.
• Performance space must be made available up to 2 hours before the scheduled start time for load in/setup and one hour after the end for load out.
• Please provide restrooms for New Victory artists and staff to use.

Seating & Accessibility

As with all New Victory programs and performances, we do our best to accommodate audiences with a diverse spectrum of needs. Please review and gather pertinent information ahead of reserving New Victory Dance Jams.

• New Victory asks for support in maintaining social distance throughout the program for the safety of the kids, professional dancers and New Victory staff.
• Seating should be on the ground surrounding the performance area. This will allow for the most flexibility for our Teaching Artists to engage with students while maintaining social distance among attendees.
• New Victory will provide small soft color dots to arrange on the floor as socially distant seating areas for the kids to sit on. These dots can be taken home by the kids after the performance.
  Accommodations can be made for individuals unable to sit on the floor or for accessibility purposes to ensure all can enjoy the program.
• When requesting a Dance Jam, please indicate if your group requires ASL interpretation.
• Additionally, our Teaching Artists are able to make accommodations within the overall agenda of the Dance Jam; please include information about students’ accommodation needs (physical, neurodiverse, sensory trigger, etc.).

Covid-19 Protocols

The New Victory is closely monitoring all CDC and New York State recommendations about Covid-safety protocols (PDF). We adhere to the following policies for our artists and staff:

• Face Masks: All New Victory staff, performers and audience members are required to wear a face mask completely covering the nose and mouth at all times.
• Social distancing: The stage and audience set up is designed to maintain 6 ft social distancing between the audience members to each other and the stage, as well as 6 ft distance between the performer and the New Victory Teaching Artists
• Vaccines: All New Victory staff and performers will be vaccinated and undergo weekly Covid-19 testing and will need negative results in order to visit your site.

Each hosting organization should share its own site policies with New Victory staff so that we also meet your requirements.

Capacity, Permits & Insurance

• Capacity: For the success of the event and in keeping with Covid-related guidelines, audience size must not exceed the capacity limit of 40 people per Dance Jam event. These events are meant for students, campers and support staff, and are not open to the public. Summer Partners will manage event access, including a method for preventing additional people from crossing the safety perimeter.
• Permits: Every Dance Jam will include music and New Victory artists will have microphones.*

  *New Victory will provide battery-powered speakers for music and sound amplification. According to NYC guidelines, an amplified audio permit via the NYPD is required. New Victory will offer instructions for the permit application process upon Dance Jam confirmation.

• Insurance: Both parties will be required to show proof of insurance.
• Final Agreement: In order to confirm the Dance Jam event, New Victory Education will review a final agreement with each partner.

Ticketing Adjustments

• Take a look at our capacity requirements and indicate expected participant counts when submitting your request—you can adjust details as you confirm enrollment.
• Increases or reductions to ticket orders should be directed  by email to New Victory Education.

Rescheduling

• If you need to reschedule, please do so at least one week in advance, if not more! Rescheduled performance dates are subject to availability.
• If there is inclement weather on the day of a scheduled New Victory Dance Jam, we will work with your organization to reschedule, pending availability.

Cancellation

• Day-of cancellations will be charged. If you need to cancel on the day of the event, it must be done between 7-8am ET as New Victory staff and artists will be traveling from across the five boroughs.
• To avoid penalty fees, New Victory Dance Jam reservations must be canceled at least 2 weeks (10 business days) prior to the event date. Cancellations after this deadline will incur a fee of $1 per unused ticket.
• If a student or program staff member has tested positive for Covid-19 prior to the scheduled Dance Jam, program leaders are required to inform New Victory Education and the scheduled New Victory Dance Jam will be canceled without rescheduling.
• If New Victory must cancel a New Victory Dance Jam prior to the event date, your organization will not be invoiced a cancellation fee and we will work with your organization to reschedule your performance, pending availability.

Inclement Weather Policy

• If there is inclement weather on the day of a scheduled New Victory Dance Jam, we will work with your organization to reschedule, pending availability.