NATIONAL PROJECT august 2014 nefa’s national dance project (ndp), launched in 1996, contact supports the creation and touring of new dance works throughout sara c. nash the . Since its inception, the program has distributed program manager, ndp more than $25 million in funding to support the dance field in ways 617.951.0010 x512 [email protected] that enhance partnerships between artists and presenters with the equally important goals of engaging and expanding audiences for elizabeth epsen program coordinator, ndp dance. Beyond grantmaking, NDP works through various initiatives to 617.951.0010 x521 develop a strong infrastructure for dance. Currently these emphasize [email protected] production residencies, international exchange, regional development cheri opperman of dance artists, and the work of contemporary art centers. grants coordinator, ndp 617.951.0010 x524 [email protected] NDP strives to adapt to the dance field’s changing practices and needs. In response to a growing need for flexibility around jane preston creation and touring timelines for artists and presenters, the NDP interim co-executive director director of programs touring period will now extend from 15 to 18 months. Additionally, Production Grantees will have more flexibility around when their NDP-supported tours can begin and when their tours are finalized.

This publication contains descriptions of current NDP projects that have funding available to support touring fees. This funding is available to U.S. nonprofit organizations through Presentation Grants which cover up to 50% of the artist fee and travel expenses per engagement during a project’s NDP touring period. Interested NEFA is a nonprofit organization organizations should contact the listed tour coordinators as soon that operates with funding from the as possible to be included in the project’s NDP tour (see page 11 for National Endowment for the Arts, the New England state arts agencies, more information). and from corporations, foundations, individuals, and other goverment agencies.

To learn how you can support NEFA, visit nefa.org.

photos of ndp grant recipients cover (clockwise from top left): susan marshall & company | photo: stephanie berger aparna ramaswamy | photo: ed rudman kyle abraham/abraham.in.motion | photo: stephanie berger philadanco | photo: jeffrey machtig

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To see excerpts of work by the artists and companies in this publication, visit the National Dance Project page at nefa.org. Additional projects eligible for NDP Presentation support will be announced in December 2014. For more information on eligibility, criteria, and application process, visit nefa.org.

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1 about ndp

2 ndp awards 2 a canary torsi | yanira castro Alonzo King LINES Amy O’Neal 3 AXIS Dance Company Beth Gill Christopher K. Morgan & Artists 4 Cleo Parker Robinson Dance CONTRA-TIEMPO David Neumann 5 Eiko Otake Faye Driscoll Gametophyte Inc.* 6 John Jasperse Projects Karen Sherman Kota Yamazaki/Fluid hug-hug 7 Lar Lubovitch Dance Company* Michelle Ellsworth* Miguel Gutierrez 8 Pat Graney* 2012 ndp grantee Sarah Michelson* david roussève/reality Sean Dorsey Dance* photo: © 2014 yi-chun wu 9 The Seldoms Trajal Harrell Twyla Tharp Dance 10 video samples

11 partners & funders

12 ndp funding opportunities

*projects awarded in 2013

1 a canary torsi | yanira castro alonzo king lines ballet amy o’neal Brooklyn, NY , CA Seattle, WA www.acanarytorsi.org www.linesballet.org www.amyoneal.com

Court/Garden New Work by Alonzo King Opposing Forces A spectacle in three acts, Court/ Alonzo King LINES Ballet will produce Opposing Forces is an evening-length dance Garden (CG) is a dance and live music a ballet set to a new composition by performance created with a multicultural performance. It takes as its inspiration master bio-acoustician Bernard Krause and multigenerational cast of world the imperial ballets of Louis XIV’s French and composer Richard Blackford. The famous, Seattle-based Bboys around Court, the spectatorship of the proscenium composition, created using natural questions and perceptions of femininity and stage, and the presentation of video soundscapes coined “biophonies,” its impact on male behavior. The work aims feeds as cultural, social, and political will provide the music for a new ballet to shift outside perceptions of Bboy culture frames of experience. With direction choreographed by Alonzo King. The ballet and reveal what it means to be a man in by choreographer Yanira Castro, an will have its premiere at San Francisco’s their world. Opposing Forces will premiere environment by Kathy Couch, costumes Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in April at On the Boards in Seattle, WA, October by Mio Guberinic, and music by Stephan 2015. 23-26, 2014. Moore, CG continues a canary torsi’s work in developing scenarios where the tour coordinator tour coordinator audience’s presence radically impacts the Margaret Selby, President Stefanie Karlin, Artist Manager work. CAMI Spectrum Squid MGMT [email protected] [email protected] tour coordinator tel 212.841.9554 tel 847.609.3597 Laura Colby, Director www.cami.com www.squidmgmt.com Elsie Management [email protected] estimated artist fee estimated artist fee tel 718.797.4577 $35,000/performance $12,000/performance www.elsieman.org $85,000/week $25,000/week estimated artist fee touring availability & tech needs touring availability & tech needs $15,000/performance Contact the Tour Coordinator Contact the Tour Coordinator $20,000/week (Plus housing and travel) presenter partners presenter partners World Music/CRASHarts On the Boards (Seattle, WA) touring availability & tech needs (Cambridge, MA) Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Contact the Tour Coordinator Walton Arts Center (Fayetteville, AR) Francisco, CA) Portland Institute of Contemporary Art presenter partners TITAS (Dallas, TX) (Portland, OR) Danspace Project (New York, NY) Redfern Arts Center (Keene, NH) Bridgette Kohnhorst, independent curator/ consultant (Nashville, TN)

photo: simon courchel photo: rj muna photo: gabriel bienczycki 2 NATIONAL DANCE PROJECT AWARDS axis dance company beth gill christopher k. morgan & artists Oakland, CA Ridgewood, NY North Bethesda, MD www.axisdance.org www.christopherkmorgan.com

to go again Core Pohaku AXIS collaborates with Joe Goode on to Core is an evening-length piece designed Pohaku (Hawaiian for stone) is a dance- go again, a dance-theater work that brings in the round for four highly trained dancers theater piece inspired by Morgan’s to light issues facing our nation’s veterans within artist Tania Ursomarzo’s large- exposure to the work of his late cousin, and addresses their resilience following scale installation. This newest work is a hula master John Kaimikaua, and severe life changes. As one of the world’s departure from Gill’s recent restrained, Morgan’s own multi-racial Hawaiian/ leading ensembles of performers with and cerebral . Inspired by the Asian/Caucasian identity. The work without disabilities, AXIS brings to this centripetal design, Core moves into the will incorporate Hawaiian chant, hula, work a depth of embodied understanding body’s internal realms of kinetic experience , theater, and of resilience and what it takes to live and imagination to embolden each storytelling to explore compelling with adversity. Joe Goode is known for performer’s authorship and mine a new, universal themes in the story of Hawaii’s promoting understanding, compassion, and pulsing, visceral dance. native people, including land loss and tolerance through the innovative use of text fractured identity. Recipient of an National and high-velocity dancing. tour coordinator Performance Network Creation Fund, the Beth Gill, Artist project will premiere in Fall 2015 at Dance tour coordinator [email protected] Place and tour to Maui Arts & Cultural Karl Cronin, Managing Director tel 914.715.6266 Center in 2016. AXIS Dance Company [email protected] estimated artist fee tour coordinator tel 510.625.0110 $13,000/performance Christopher K. Morgan, Artistic Director www.axisdance.org $24,000/week Christopher K. Morgan & Artists [email protected] estimated artist fee touring availability & tech needs tel 646.337.3387 $20,000/performance Contact the Tour Coordinator www.christopherkmorgan.com $28,000/week presenter partners estimated artist fee touring availability & tech needs Vermont Performance Lab (Guilford, VT) $15,000-$18,000/performance Contact the Tour Coordinator The Chocolate Factory Theater (Long Island $22,000/week City, NY) presenter partners Fusebox Festival (Austin, TX) touring availability & tech needs Dance Place (Washington, DC) Contact the Tour Coordinator Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA) presenter partner Maui Arts & Cultural Center (Kahului, HI) Dance Place (Washington, DC) ODC (San Francisco, CA)

photo: david desilva photo: alex escalante photo: brianne bland 3 cleo parker robinson dance contra-tiempo david neumann Denver, CO , CA Thornwood, NY www.cleoparkerdance.org www.contra-tiempo.org www.advancedbeginnergroup.org

Bamboula Agua Furiosa I Understand Everything Better Bamboula is a collaborative project that Ana Maria Alvarez, in collaboration with I Understand Everything Better is a multi- emerged out of the research on the director Michael Garces and a team of disciplinary performance piece that connections between Zulu, a blackface musicians and designers, creates a new explores the impulse to report on calamity, minstrel parade in New Orleans, and the Urban Latin Dance Theater work. Inspired the consciousness of traumatic change, Minstrel Carnival in Cape Town, South by Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Agua Furiosa and one’s proximity to dying. A union of Africa. This interdisciplinary piece is uses multiple water themes and imagery theater and dance-making methodologies, choreographed by Millicent Johnnie and of Oya, the Afro-Cuban warrior goddess I Understand Everything Better will set to two compositions by Felipe Hall and of wind and storms, to invite audiences to incorporate innovative technology, weather Donald Harrison, respectively. This new face the gruesome contradictions of color, reports, and personal narratives within a piece strips the blackface veneer to reveal poverty, and immigration in the U.S. and framework composed of elements drawn a deeper tradition most notably retained seeks to invent new paradigms for how we from classical Japanese dance and theater. within the cultural expressions of the Mardi think about and live inside of the shifting Working with collaborators Sibyl Kempson Gras Indians. conversation about race in America. and Tei Blow, Neumann will act as both director and performer. tour coordinator tour coordinator Malik Robinson, Senior Director Sophie Myrtil-McCourty, President tour coordinator Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Lotus Arts Management Meredith Boggia, Creative Producer [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] tel 303.295.1759 x15 tel 347.721.8724 tel 518.791.0376 www.cleoparkerdance.org www.lotusartsmgmt.com www.meredithboggia.com estimated artist fee estimated artist fee estimated artist fee $17,000/performance $20,000/performance $10,000/performance $30,000/week $30,000/week $20,000/week (Plus housing and travel) touring availability & tech needs touring availability & tech needs Contact the Tour Coordinator touring availability & tech needs Contact the Tour Coordinator Contact the Tour Coordinator presenter partners presenter partners University of Florida Presents presenter partners American Dance Institute (Rockville, MD) (Gainesville, FL) Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA) King Arts Complex (Columbus, OH) (Los Angeles, CA) Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival (Becket, MA) Dance Place (Washington, DC) Dance Place (Washington, DC) Asolo Theater (Sarasota, FL) Carver Cultural Center (San Antonio, TX) Orpheum Theater (Memphis, TN)

photo: kevin yatarola photo: kerville cosmos jack photo: maria baranova 4 NATIONAL DANCE PROJECT AWARDS eiko otake faye driscoll gametophyte inc. New York, NY Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn, NY www.eikoandkoma.org www.fayedriscoll.com www.gametophyte.org

Eiko: A Body in Places Thank You For Coming: PLAY [working johnbrown A Body in Places is Eiko’s first solo, a radically title] Multidisciplinary dance artist Dean Moss scalable presentation for non-theatrical Thank You For Coming: PLAY is the second draws from an intimate and varied history venues ranging from major transportation in a series of works which heighten how we with activism to create johnbrown, a wry hubs to “odd” out-of-the-way spaces lit experience ourselves in relation to other meditation on the radical legacy of the by natural light. This work is for audiences bodies, stories, and spaces. The ritual of white 19th century abolitionist John Brown. ranging from the serendipitous hundreds storytelling will be forced to the forefront of Framed through the lens of inexperienced to an invited few. The variants are united a physically-driven dance-play to examine teenaged participants, johnbrown excavates by Eiko’s lone presence in a distinctive how we rely on stories to relate to one contemporary birthrights born of the kimono on a colorful futon and by an another and form identities as individuals struggle against “our peculiar institution,” accompanying exhibition of William and citizens. The conflation of Driscoll’s while simultaneously exploring the Johnston’s haunting photos of a similarly life story with those of her collaborators gendered and generational processes at clad Eiko in ruined Fukushima, Japan. The and others will create a quasi-fictional play in their perception. It premieres in work explores solitude, fragility, intimacy, collective autobiography that is danced, New York at The Kitchen October 16-25, and a relentlessly shared gaze. sung, and spoken. 2014, the 155th anniversary of the radical activist’s raid on Harper’s Ferry. tour coordinator tour coordinator Ivan Sygoda, President Aaron Mattocks, Producer tour coordinator Inta, Inc. Faye Driscoll Group Dean Moss, Director [email protected] [email protected] Gametophyte Inc. tel 212.278.8111 x. 3421 tel 917.612.5381 [email protected] www.eikoandkoma.org www.fayedriscoll.com tel 347.244.1615 www.gametophyte.org estimated artist fee estimated artist fee $13,000-$17,500/week $25,000/week estimated artist fee (Plus housing, travel, and freight) $22,000/performance touring availability & tech needs $28,000/week Contact the Tour Coordinator touring availability & tech needs (Plus housing and travel) Contact the Tour Coordinator presenter partners touring availability & tech needs Wesleyan University, Center for the Arts presenter partners Contact the Tour Coordinator (Middletown, CT) Walker Art Center (, MN) Academy for the Fine Arts Institute of Contemporary Art presenter partners (Philadelphia, PA) (Boston, MA) The Kitchen (New York, NY) Lower Manhattan Cultural Council The Yard (Chilmark, MA) Kelly Strayhorn Theater (, PA) (New York, NY) Mass Live Arts (Great Barrington, MA) Wesleyan University, Center for the Arts American Dance Festival (Durham, NC) (Middletown, CT)

2013 NDP recipient available to tour in the 2015-2016 season.

photo: william johnston photo: maria baranova photo: tim trumble/asu john jasperse projects karen sherman kota yamazaki/fluid hug-hug New York, NY Minneapolis, MN Brooklyn, NY www.johnjasperse.org www.karenshermanperformance.org www.kotayamazaki.com

Remains Soft Goods OQ Remains, a new dance work by John Dancers are expected to be seen and Kota’s newest dance project, OQ, meaning Jasperse, will address the illusion of self sensual, to feel and reveal everything to “palace” in Japanese, draws inspiration as separate and the notion of legacy as us. But stagehands, who make from the highly ritualized Japanese utakai interconnected cause-effect relationships possible, are expected to disappear, to poetry-reading ceremonies that have been with one’s environs. The work will be become no one, to make the work and the held at the Imperial Palace since ancient constructed with a notion of an extended worker invisible. When you work this way, times. Commissioned by Japan Society body that involves physical objects and you risk living this way. Soft Goods, created (NY), this work involves an international technology where the dance continues to and performed by stage technicians team of artists including New York exist in some form without the dancers. An (some of whom are also dancers), uses architect collective So-il (Florian Idenburg ancillary version, remains of Remains, will choreography, manual labor, scripted and of Holland and Jing Liu of China), Japanese be a “choreographic object”/performance improvised text, and the performance composer Masahiro Sugaya, New York installation presented separately or in space itself to look at work, loss, aliveness, lighting designer Kathy Kaufmann, and six tandem with the full performance. death, disappearance, and occupational dancers from diverse cultural backgrounds self-obliteration. trained in different dance techniques. tour coordinator John Jasperse, Artistic Director tour coordinator tour coordinator John Jasperse Projects Karen Sherman, Choreographer/Director Cathy Pruzan, Artist Representative [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] tel 212.375.8283 tel 917.374.7627 tel 415.789.5051 www.johnjasperse.org www.karenshermanperformance.org www.cathypruzan.com/home.html estimated artist fee estimated artist fee estimated artist fee $15,000/performance $15,000/performance $15,000/performance $35,000/week $25,000/week $28,000/week (Plus housing and travel) touring availability & tech needs touring availability & tech needs Contact the Tour Coordinator touring availability & tech needs Contact the Tour Coordinator Contact the Tour Coordinator presenter partners presenter partners American Dance Festival (Durham, NC) presenter partners Japan Society (New York, NY) Dance Place (Washington, DC) Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN) Arizona State University, Gammage Performance Space 122 (New York, NY) (Tempe, AZ) Miami Light Project (Miami, FL) Dance Center Columbia College (, IL) Asia Society Center (Houston, TX)

photo: yi-chun wu photo: karen sherman photo: ayumi sakamoto 6 NATIONAL DANCE PROJECT AWARDS lar lubovitch dance company michelle ellsworth miguel gutierrez New York, NY Boulder, CO Brooklyn, NY www.lubovitch.org www.michelleellsworth.com www.miguelgutierrez.org

The Black Rose Clytigation: State of Exception Age & Beauty Parts 2 & 3 In a new dance, veteran choreographer Lar In a sod-covered box, Ellsworth Part 1: Mid-Career Artist/Suicide Note or Lubovitch pushes aesthetic boundaries, demonstrates her “over-the-counter &:-/ responding to the sonic richness and counter-terrorism” protocols for avoiding Part 2: Asian Beauty at the Werq Meeting emotional rawness of a commissioned surveillance, interpersonal drama, and Part 3A: Dancer or You can make whatever the score by Scott Marshall. The artists’ death. Edward Snowden, Aeschylus, fuck you want but you’ll only tour solos collaborative relationship takes its next Guantanamo Bay, live-video processing, Part 3B: The Powerful People - We are strong/ step as Lubovitch expands his movement and an aerial drone help unpack the impact We are powerful/We are beautiful/We are choices, juxtaposing less structured, less of military conflicts on bodies, privacy, and divine or &:-/// lyrical, and more seemingly improvised legal protocols. In Clytigation (and in the The works address: queerness, the movement with narrative elements that box), you can have habeas corpus while representation of the dancer, the physical harken back to ancient universal tales. The enjoying (or grieving) the gap between and emotional labor of performance, Black Rose premieres in October 2014 with emotional intention and physical execution. and mid-life anxieties around relevance, live music by Le Train Bleu conducted by A mobile-device-friendly website and a sustainability, and artistic burnout. Ransom Wilson and can tour with live or choreography-generating exercise bike tour coordinator recorded music. both accompany the performance and help Ben Pryor, Producing Director technologize and outsource this embodied tour coordinator tbspMGMT experiment. Rena Shagan, President [email protected] Rena Shagan Associates tour coordinator tel 646.265.8226 [email protected] Kate Speer, Tour Coordinator www.tbspMGMT.com tel 212.873.9700 [email protected] estimated artist fee www.shaganarts.com tel 207.333.0214 $5,500/performance estimated artist fee estimated artist fee $20,000/week $30,000–$35,000/performance $8,000/performance touring availability & tech needs $81,000/week $13,000/week Contact the Tour Coordinator (Plus housing) touring availability & tech needs presenter partners Contact the Tour Coordinator touring availability & tech needs Maggie Allesee National Center for Contact the Tour Coordinator presenter partners Choreography (Tallahassee, FL) George Mason University (Fairfax, VA) presenter partners The Fisher Center for the Performing Arts University of California Santa Barbara On the Boards (Seattle, WA) (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY) (Santa Barbara, CA) The Chocolate Factory Theater Mount Tremper Arts (Mount Tremper, NY) TITAS (Dallas, TX) (Long Island City, NY) Real Art Ways (Hartford, CT)

2013 NDP recipient available to tour in the 2015-2016 season. 2013 NDP recipient available to tour in the 2015-2016 season.

photo: jill steinberg photo: satchel spencer photo: ian douglas 7 pat graney company sarah michelson sean dorsey dance Seattle, WA New York, NY San Francisco, CA www.patgraney.org www.seandorseydance.com

girl gods Devotion Study #3 & Study #4 The Missing Generation girl gods explores the ancestry of women, The final installments of choreographer The Missing Generation explores the individuals, and family members—and Sarah Michelson’s Devotion series, Devotion contemporary impact of losing part of an the idea of rage. Although a separate and Study #3 & Study #4 continue the artist’s entire generation of gay and transgender complete work on its own, girl gods can be rigorous investigation into the possibility people to AIDS during the 1980s and described as part two of Graney’s 2008 of locating and isolating the desire to 1990s. Created through a national oral House of Mind, with the choreographer dance. The new work aims to make clear history project, extensive archival research, exploring the point at which the domestic the ferocity of the artist’s and the dancers’ and community residencies in six U.S. realm drives down into the earth. The work devotion to dancing. With visual design by cities, the work features full-throttle includes a strong sculptural component and Sarah Michelson, music by Mike Iveson, dance, highly-physical theater, luscious is heavily influenced by feminist artists and and lighting design by Zack Tinkelman, partnering, and intimate storytelling. A art practices of the 1970s. the works were created concurrently and powerful original score features the voices will tour together or individually after and remarkable real-life stories of lovers, tour coordinator premiering in early 2014 at the Whitney survivors, and early AIDS activists. Pat Graney, Executive/Artistic Director Museum and Judson Church. Pat Graney Company tour coordinator [email protected] tour coordinator Sean Dorsey, Artistic Director tel 206.329.3705 Barbara Bryan, Producing Director Sean Dorsey Dance www.patgraney.org Sarah Michelson Inc. [email protected] [email protected] tel 415.355.0071 estimated artist fee tel 646.691.0010 www.seandorseydance.com $27,000/performance $40,000/week estimated artist fee estimated artist fee $15,000/performance $12,000–$15,000/performance touring availability & tech needs $35,000/week $15,000–$20,000/week Contact the Tour Coordinator (Plus housing and travel) touring availability & tech needs presenter partners Contact the Tour Coordinator touring availability & tech needs On the Boards (Seattle, WA) Contact the Tour Coordinator Contemporary Dance Theater presenter partners (, OH) Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN) presenter partners The Whitney Museum (New York, NY) Dance Place (Washington, DC) Bates Dance Festival (Lewiston, ME) Queer Cultural Center (San Francisco, CA) The Theater Offensive (Boston, MA) 7 Stages (, GA)

2013 NDP recipient available to tour in the 2015-2016 season. 2013 NDP recipient available to tour in the 2015-2016 season. 2013 NDP recipient available to tour in the 2015-2016 season.

photo: jeffrey machtig photo: sarah michelson photo: kegan marling 8 NATIONAL DANCE PROJECT AWARDS the seldoms trajal harrell twyla tharp dance Chicago, IL New York, NY New York, NY www.theseldoms.org www.betatrajal.org www.twylatharp.org

Power Goes THE GHOST OF MONTPELLIER MEETS New Work by Twyla Tharp Power Goes is a dance-theater work about THE SAMURAI Twyla Tharp, one of the nation’s leading power – how it is expressed through the THE GHOST OF MONTPELLIER MEETS THE choreographers, will mark her 50th year body, personality, position, and how power SAMURAI is a semi-narrative work based on in 2015 with a national tour of a new work. makes things happen. Drawing on the figure an imaginary meeting between three dance Most significantly, the tour will launch a of Lyndon Baines Johnson as subject and legends: Dominique Bagouet, the leader of new Tharp ensemble, her first in over two metaphor, the work explores how power is France’s Nouvelle Danse; Tatsumi Hijikata, decades. Tharp envisions a company of acquired and yielded, how it can be deployed the founder of Japanese Butoh; and Ellen fourteen dancers (seven men and seven for progressive action, and conversely, how Stewart, the founder and namesake of New women) of the highest caliber to express it can be used to maintain the status quo York’s LaMama Theater. A work for eight Tharp’s unique classical/vernacular and block change. A first collaboration for dancers that mixes dance, song, and text, vocabulary. Set in three parts, the score will choreographer Carrie Hanson and playwright the work delves into the passion for “art” on include Terry Riley’s In C, J.S. Bach’s Well Stuart Flack, the project involves sound the part of artists, arts professionals, and Tempered Clavier, and works of Henry Butler, designer Mikhail Fiksel, video artist Bob audiences. Why is art such an important part orchestrated by Steven Bernstein. Faust, lighting designer Julie Ballard, and of our lives? dramaturg Michael J. Kramer. tour coordinator tour coordinator Robert Berretta, Vice President tour coordinator Rena Shagan, President Opus 3 Artists Carrie Hanson, Artistic Director Rena Shagan Associates [email protected] The Seldoms [email protected] tel 212.584.7513 [email protected] tel 212.873.9700 www.opus3artists.com tel 773.859.3030 www.shaganarts.com www.theseldoms.org estimated artist fee estimated artist fee $140,000/week estimated artist fee $23,000/performance $15,000/performance $40,000/week touring availability & tech needs $25,000/week (Plus housing and travel) Contact the Tour Coordinator touring availability & tech needs touring availability & tech needs presenter partners Contact the Tour Coordinator Contact the Tour Coordinator The Joyce Theater (New York, NY) Ravinia Festival Association (Chicago, IL) presenter partners presenter partners John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Museum of Contemporary Art University of California, Berkeley - Arts (Washington, DC) (Chicago, IL) Cal Performances (Berkeley, CA) Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville Institute of Contemporary Art (Edwardsville, IL) (Boston, MA)

photo: douglas beasley photo: ian douglas photo: richard avedon 9 ndp funding opportunities

for artists

ndp production grants who may apply Choreographers and companies. Production Grants fund the creation and Only one application per artist and/ touring of new dance work. Grants are highly or company will be accepted. For competitive and are awarded to approximately more information on eligibility, 18 projects annually. visit nefa.org. Production Grants provide a package of grant recipients support that includes up to $45,000 towards Grants are made to companies with the creation of a new work, approximately nonprofit status or to a nonprofit $10,000 in general operating support, plus fiscal sponsor on behalf of an $35,000 distributed as NDP Presentation independent artist. Grants to subsidize up to 50% of the artist fee and travel expenses to U.S. nonprofit next deadline organizations who present the new work on March 2, 2015 tour.

(For more, see NDP Presentation Grants on page 11.)

ndp touring awards who may apply Choreographers and companies NDP Touring Awards support U.S. tours with a planned U.S. tour. Only of dance works by both national and one application per artist and/ international artists. Up to ten works receive or company accepted. For more Touring Awards through a highly competitive information on eligibility, application process each fall and are visit nefa.org. announced each December in a separate publication and on nefa.org. grant recipients Touring Awards are disbursed to Touring Awards provide up to $35,000 U.S. nonprofit organizations as distributed as NDP Presentation Grants to Presentation Grants. subsidize up to 50% of the artist fee and travel expenses to U.S. nonprofit organizations next deadline presenting the funded work on tour. October 14, 2014 (For more, see NDP Presentation Grants on page 11.)

10 for presenters additional programs ndp presentation grants »»French-U.S. Exchange in Dance (FUSED) who may apply supporting residencies and Eligible U.S. nonprofit organizations To apply for a Presentation Grant to present presenting an NDP-funded project any of the projects in this publication during presentations of U.S. and during its NDP touring period (see each their NDP touring period, contact the project’s France-based artists in the project’s tour coordinator for details). tour coordinator as soon as possible. partner country.

Organizations must be included on In addition to the projects in this publication, »»Production Residencies for a project’s NDP tour plan in order to NDP Touring Awards announced in December Dance (PRD) apply. 2014 are eligible for Presentation Grants. Enhancing partnerships between artists and residency Organizations may receive multiple Tour coordinators for each project provide sites to prepare new works NDP Presentation Grants within a given NEFA with a tour plan. NEFA will contact season to present multiple NDP-funded organizations included on the tour plans to for touring. projects but must submit a separate apply for Presentation Grants. application for each project. »»RDDI (Regional Dance Development Initiative) grant recipients Providing professional Grants are made to U.S. nonprofit growth for artists in regions organizations to support up to across the U.S. 50% of the artist fee and travel expenses per engagement. »»Contemporary Art Centers (CAC) network next deadlines Promoting projects that model Visit nefa.org for details innovative multi- and cross- disciplinary collaborations.

For more information on eligibility, criteria, and application process, visit nefa.org.

11 soledad barrio & noche flamenca voloshky ukrainian New York, NY dance ensemble www.nocheflamenca.com Philadelphia, PA www.voloshky.com

Additional projects eligible for NDP touring support will be announced in December 2014!

video work samples To see excerpts of work by the artists and companies eligible for NDP Touring Support, visit the NDP section of www.nefa.org or use the QR code above.

2012 ndp grantee david roussève/reality photo: © 2014 yi-chun wu 12 ndp funders & partners

lead funders additional funders

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation National Endowment for the Arts The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Cultural Services of the French Embassy French American Cultural Exchange partners

NDP partners make grant recommendations, provide critical guidance to applicants during full proposal preparation, and advise NDP on program development and policy. NDP partners serve on a multi-year, rotating basis and act as ambassadors for the program. For the most current list, visit nefa.org.

Neil Barclay David Ravel Director and CEO Director Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans Alverno Presents

Yolanda Cesta Cursach Andrea Rogers Associate Director of Performance Programs Executive Director Emerita Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Flynn Center for the Performing Arts For complete guidelines, Sara Coffey Janera Solomon Director Executive Director application information, Vermont Performance Lab Kelly Strayhorn Theater and more, visit nefa.org. Sean Dorsey Pamela Tatge Artistic Director Director Sean Dorsey Dance Wesleyan University, Center for the Arts

Colleen Furukawa David Thomson Vice President - Programming Dancer/Choreographer Maui Arts & Cultural Center Sixto Wagan Tonya Lockyer Director, Center for Arts Leadership Executive/Artistic Director University of Houston Velocity Dance Center Martin Wechsler Mary Luft Director of Programming Executive Director/Founder The Joyce Theater Tigertail Productions Marya Wethers George Lugg Curator & Producer, International Projects Co-Director Dancer/Performing Artist Show Box L.A. Sam Miller (Founder & Honorary Advisor, NDP) President Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

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