The Company Residency and Bessie Schönberg Individual Choreographers' Residency are the artistic center of The Yard's programming. These 4-week residencies provide artists with housing, work space, stipends, technical and administrative support, artistic mentoring, concert performances of new work and the time and freedom to explore their craft without interruption or outside obligation. Yard founder Patricia Nanon envisioned the residencies as a "playground without walls... a place to explore, experiment, construct."