NATIONAL DANCE PROJECT

august 2015 the new england foundation for the arts (nefa) launched the national dance Project (NDP) in 1996 to support the creation and touring of new dance works throughout the United States. NDP has distributed more than $28 million in funding to enhance partnerships between artists and presenters and engage and expand audiences for dance. To date, NDP has supported the creation of over 350 new choreographic works that have toured to all 50 states, , DC, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, reaching over 3.6 2 million audience members. Alongside grantmaking for creation and touring, NDP works through specific initiatives to 3 develop a strong infrastructure for dance. Currently these focus on production residencies that prepare work for tour, international exchange, a network of contemporary art centers 4 working at the intersection of performing and visual arts, and professional development for dance artists and presenters in regions across the United States through the Regional 5 Dance Development Initiative. NDP is approaching its 20th anniversary. This provides a timely opportunity to both 6 reflect on the program’s impact and to consider how NDP can best support artistic and presentation practices in the years to come. Over the next year, we are working with 7 Metris Arts Consulting and RMC Research to evaluate the comprehensive impact of NDP on the dance landscape in the United States. 8 This publication features 18 new projects awarded Production Grants in 2015 to support creation and touring over the next three years; one-third of these artists are receiving 9 NDP support for the first time. Also featured in this publication are 13 previously awarded projects with touring support available for the coming seasons. U.S. nonprofit organizations who are interested in receiving funding to present any of the projects in this publication should contact the project’s tour coordinator as soon as possible to join a project’s NDP tour and receive a Presentation Grant. Presentation Grants cover up to 50% of the artist fee and travel expenses per engagement during a project’s NDP touring period (see page 16 for more information). We are excited to support these 31 original and imaginative dance works as they make their way to audiences and communities around the country.

NEFA is a nonprofit organization that operates with photos of ndp grant recipients cover (clockwise from top ): funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the dance theatre of harlem | photo: sharon bradford jess curtis | photo: sven hagolani New England state arts agencies, and from corporations, emily johnson | photo: ian douglas foundations, individuals, and other goverment agencies.

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about ndp sara c. nash program manager, ndp 2015 ndp awards 617.951.0010 x512 2 Ann Carlson [email protected] Aparna Ramaswamy/Ragamala cheri opperman Dance Company grants coordinator, ndp 3 Aspen Santa Fe Ballet 617.951.0010 x524 d. Sabela grimes [email protected] 4 Dance Theatre of Harlem Emily Johnson/Catalyst 5 Gerard & Kelly cathy edwards Jess Curtis/Gravity executive director 6 Jody Kuehner Lucinda Childs Dance Company jane preston 7 Malpaso director of programs Mark Morris Dance Group 8 Michael Sakamoto Morgan Thorson 9 Pick Up Performance Co(s) Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group 10 Sidra Bell Dance New York zoe | juniper

1 1 previously awarded projects

14 video samples To see excerpts of work by the 15 partners & funders artists and companies in this publication, visit the National 16 ndp funding opportunities Dance Project page at nefa.org. Additional projects eligible for NDP Presentation support will be announced in December 2015. For more information on eligibility, criteria, and application process, visit nefa.org. ann carlson aparna ramaswamy/ Santa Monica, CA ragamala dance company www.elsieman.org/artist-roster/ann-carlson/ , MN www.ragamaladance.org

Doggie Hamlet They Rose at Dawn Doggie Hamlet is a full-length outdoor In this new solo work by dancer/ performance spectacle that weaves dance, choreographer Aparna Ramaswamy (performing music, visual, and theatrical elements with with live music), women are carriers of ritual. aspects from competitive sheep herding trials. Navigating inner and outer worlds, they are Recalling the bucolic impression of a landscape the primordial source of all creation: the painting or a 3D pastoral poem, it is performed compassionate mother, the lover, the exuberant by six human performers, one American and erotic, and the embodiment of power and Sign Language interpreter, two herding dogs, strength. As humans, we endure and thrive and a flock of sheep. The animal and human through our transmission of wisdom from one performers and the earth’s surface are at once generation to the next. For Ramaswamy, these performing as themselves and as living symbols. intergenerational conversations provide a Through story, motion, site, and stillness, Doggie forum to create intricate and complex worlds Hamlet explores instinct, sentience, attachment, that convey a sense of reverence, of unfolding and loss. Estimated artist fee: $18,000/performance, mystery, and of imagination. Estimated artist fee: $30,000/week. $14,000/performance, $22,000/week. tour coordinator tour coordinator Laura Colby, Director Laura Colby, Director Elsie Management Elsie Management [email protected] [email protected] tel 718.797.4577 tel 718.797.4577 www.elsieman.org www.elsieman.org presenter partners presenter partners Alfred University (Alfred, NY) The Cowles Center for Dance and the The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA Performing Arts (Minneapolis, MN) (Los Angeles, CA) The Joyce Theater (New York, NY) Vermont Performance Lab (Guilford, VT) Maui Arts & Cultural Center (Maui, HI)

2 photo: sean donovan photo: amanulla 2015 NATIONAL DANCE PROJECT AWARDS aspen santa fe ballet d. sabela grimes Aspen, CO Los Angeles, CA www.aspensantafeballet.com dsabelagrimes.com

Silent Ghost ELECTROGYNOUS Aspen Santa Fe Ballet celebrates its 20th ELECTROGYNOUS is a multidisciplinary anniversary season and continues to look ahead performance that proclaims the infinite with a new work by Spanish choreographer dimensions of the Black gender spectrum Alejandro Cerrudo. A young choreographer, to counter historically imposed notions of Cerrudo brings an ability to create intimate and femininity and masculinity. Through a mix powerful imagery that resonates with today’s of ancient funk, futuristic soundscapes, audiences. As Cerrudo’s second creation for video architectures, and kinetic poetics, ASFB, this new ballet incorporates music by ELECTROGYNOUS challenges modern systemic independent alternative artists Nils Frahm, racism by broadcasting the inclusion of liberated King Creosote, and Dustin Hamman. Branimira Black bodies into the center of now as a political Ivanova and Michael Korsch collaborate for act. Each performer becomes a portal through costume and lighting design. The work will tour which to examine and illuminate rampant with the help of partners on each coast: Valley attempts to control the voice and conduct Performing Arts Center at California State of Black bodies. Estimated artist fee: $10,000/ University Northridge and Jacob’s Pillow Dance performance, $21,000/week. Festival in Massachusetts. Estimated artist fee: $25,000/performance, $55,000/week. tour coordinator d. Sabela grimes, Artistic Director tour coordinator [email protected] Cathy Pruzan, Owner tel 209.481.1800 Cathy Pruzan Artist Representative www.dsabelagrimes.com [email protected] tel 415.789.5051 presenter partners www.pruzandancearts.com Dance Center of Columbia College (Chicago, IL) Ebony Repertory Theatre (Los Angeles, CA) presenter partners Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival (Becket, MA) (San Francisco, CA) Lied Center, The University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS) Valley Performing Arts Center, California State University Northridge (Northridge, CA) photo: rosalie o’connor photo: meena murugesan 3 dance theatre of harlem emily johnson/catalyst New York, NY Minneapolis, MN www.dancetheatreofharlem.org www.catalystdance.com

Francesca Harper/DTH 2016 Then a Cunning Voice and a Night We Francesca Harper will create a new work for Spend Gazing at Stars Dance Theatre of Harlem to John Adams’ Then a Cunning Voice and a Night We Spend String Quartet. Originally approached by the Gazing at Stars is a project focused on all night Attacca String Quartet to work with the John urban and rural stargazing inclusive of building Adams score, Ms. Harper intends to create a quilts in community sewing bees, a performance work that uses classical ballet vocabulary to generated alongside the quilt-making period, make a contemporary statement. The ballet, curated stories, community breakfasts, which is on pointe, is in two parts and will be indigenous star knowledge, partnerships with performed to live music wherever possible. This city parks to turn out the lights, and safety as-yet-untitled work is inspired by current social visioning with communities where lights justice issues in America, in particular as they are off and stargazing happens. Created in relate to the black community, and is built in collaboration with four dancers, director Ain collaboration with the dancers using their own Gordon, weaver Maggie Thompson, and elder experiences, as people of color, as material to quilt-makers in , Alaska, Florida, and explore. Estimated artist fee: $35,000/performance, Alabama. Estimated artist fee: $25,000/week plus $98,000/week. travel and housing. tour coordinator tour coordinator Edward Schoelwer, Booking Consultant Meredith Boggia, Creative Producer [email protected] [email protected] tel 646.495.2156 tel 518.791.0376 www.dancetheatreofharlem.org www.meredithboggia.com/emily-johnson presenter partners presenter partners City College Center for the Arts (New York, NY) ‘62 Center for Theatre and Dance, Williams Seattle Theatre Group (Seattle, WA) College (Williamstown, MA) Washington Performing Arts (Washington, DC) All My Relations Gallery/Native American Community Development Institute (Minneapolis, MN) Performance Space 122 (New York, NY)

4 photo: sharon bradford photo: ian douglas 2015 NATIONAL DANCE PROJECT AWARDS gerard & kelly jess curtis/gravity Brooklyn, NY San Francisco, CA www.gerardandkelly.org www.jesscurtisgravity.org

Modern Living The Way You Look (at me) Tonight Modern Living is a performance installation that The Way You Look (at me) Tonight is an takes place in modernist homes, including Philip investigation of the role of movement Johnson’s Glass House in New Canaan, CT; and sensory dynamics in the perception the Schindler House in Los Angeles; the Breuer and performance of otherness, created House in Tarrytown, NY; and the Menil House by choreographer and performance artist in Houston. These houses sheltered different Jess Curtis and Scottish, self-identified manifestations of intimacy and ideas of family disabled performer and choreographer Claire and relationships that were as modern as their Cunningham, in consultation with acclaimed design. Working with contemporary dancers and philosopher of perception Dr. Alva Noë. The experts in the fields of architecture and design, project will culminate as an evening-length Gerard & Kelly create a choreographic score that dance-based performance duet that will include occupies and opens up these homes to a broad video projections and original music, workshop public and focuses on the lived relations of these presentations, site-specific installations and iconic sites of modernism. Estimated artist fee: exhibitions, and panels and workshops devoted $13,000/performance, $24,000/week. to the implications of the continuing evolution/ manipulation of “sensing” in our digital age. tour coordinator Estimated artist fee: $7,000/performance, Sara Murphy, Administrator $13,000/week. Gerard & Kelly Foundation [email protected] tour coordinator tel 917.855.8455 Alec White, Program Director www.gerardandkelly.com Jess Curtis/Gravity [email protected] presenter partners tel 714.595.8547 The Glass House (New Canaan, CT) www.jesscurtisgravity.org The Pocantico Center (Tarrytown, NY) Schindler House - MAK Center for Art and presenter partners Architecture (Los Angeles, CA) ArtPower at UC San Diego (San Diego, CA) Dance Place (Washington, DC) Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA) photo: jesse untracht-oakner photo: sven hagolani 5 jody kuehner lucinda childs dance company Seattle, WA New York, NY www.cherdonna.com www.lucindachilds.com

one great, bright, brittle altogetherness Lucinda Childs: The Sun Roars Into View Parts 2 and 3 in a suite of feminist dances Lucinda Childs: The Sun Roars Into View will by drag/bio-fem Cherdonna hyperbolize the represent the first new creation choreographed normal humiliations of human existence. Part by Lucinda Childs for her own company of 2: focuses on the body as a canvas for social dancers in 13 years. Produced by Pomegranate change. Cherdonna performs a live painting with Arts, this new work will be a collaboration with cake. Part 3: a Mommie Dearest-meets-Snow composer/multi-instrumentalist White matriarch conducts a seven-piece brass and (best known for their work band in a world where linear time and social with , Bon Iver, and ) standards do not exist; multiple realities, kitten with costumes by Kasia Walicka Maimone therapy, heart-to-hearts, and feminist anthems and lighting by John Torres. The Joyce Theater, re-interpret femininity and queerness. Parts acting as lead presenter partner, will present can be presented in tandem or individually. this work in New York as well as ancillary Estimated artist fee: $12,000/performance, events before and during the performance run. $20,000/week. Technical rehearsals and world premiere are projected to take place at The Center for the Art tour coordinator of Performance at UCLA in Fall 2016. Estimated Stefanie Karlin, Artist Manager artist fee: $55,000/performance, $92,500/week. Squid MGMT [email protected] tour coordinator tel 847.609.3597 Linda Brumbach, Founder and President www.squidmgmt.com Pomegranate Arts [email protected] presenter partners tel 212.228.2221 Off Center Theatre (Austin, TX) www.pomegranatearts.com University of South Florida (Tampa, FL) Velocity Dance Center/On the Boards presenter partners (Seattle, WA) The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA (Los Angeles, CA) The Joyce Theater (New York, NY) University Musical Society (Ann Arbor, MI)

6 photo: eric paguio photo: lucie jansch 2015 NATIONAL DANCE PROJECT AWARDS malpaso mark morris dance group Havana, Cuba Brooklyn, NY www.malpasodance.com www.mmdg.org

New Work by Aszure Barton Layla and Majnun Aszure Barton will create a 15-25 minute new Layla and Majnun is an original dance and live work for six to eight dancers of Cuba’s Malpaso music production based on an ancient Arabian Dance Company led by Artistic Director and love story well known in the Islamic world. A Resident Choreographer Osnel Delgado. The highly anticipated collaboration between the new work will build on the theatrical tendencies Mark Morris Dance Group and the Silk Road exhibited in both Barton and Delgado’s work Ensemble, the work will explore the story’s while highlighting the excellent technical training themes of love, madness, and mysticism through of the company. Commissioning support will be Mark Morris’ uniquely musical choreography provided by The Joyce Theater and additional and will feature popular Azerbaijani singers production support will be provided by The Alim and Fargana Qasimov performing onstage Joyce Theater and Sunny Artist Management with musicians of the Silk Road Ensemble and Productions (JT&SAM Productions). The work MMDG dancers. The new work will premiere in will be created during a four-week residency September 2016 at Cal Performances. Estimated in Havana, Cuba, in June/July 2016 with the artist fee: $90,000/performance, $200,000/week. U.S. premiere and tour to follow in 2016-2017. Estimated artist fee: $18,000/performance plus housing tour coordinator and local ground transportation, $40,000/week plus Michael Mushalla, President housing and local ground transportation. Double M Arts & Events [email protected] tour coordinator tel 917.864.4137 Ilter Ibrahimof, Director www.double-m-arts.com Sunny Artist Management [email protected] presenter partners tel 514.312.5780 Cal Performances (Berkeley, CA) www.sunnyartistmanagement.com Krannert Center for the Arts presenter partners (Urbana-Champaign, IL) Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Dance Center of Columbia College (, IL) (New York, NY) Duke Performances (Durham, NC) The Joyce Theater (New York, NY)

photo: david garten photo: ken friedman 7 michael sakamoto morgan thorson Iowa City, IA Minneapolis, MN www.michaelsakamoto.com

Soil Still Life Soil is a full-length, intercultural dance-theater Still Life uses extinction as source material for trio conceived and directed by Michael a dance installation. Taking this subject from Sakamoto and co-written and co-choreographed a scientific reality, collapsing what is real and with the performers: Cambodian classical imagined, Still Life advances new methods and contemporary dancer Chey Chankethya, for creation and performance. The dancer, Thai traditional and contemporary dancer a-body-in-life, will practice/perform with Waewdao Sirisook, and Vietnamese-American totality, living a small death when drafting ideas contemporary dancer Nguyen Nguyen. The of decay, stillness, and the loss of verticality. original music is by Reiko Imanishi and Shinichi The choreography, a dance/time cycle, erases Isohata. Referencing legacies of political conflict, material each time it is repeated. A sonic clock, war, genocide, and environmental destruction, layered with original and found sound, times Soil explores crisis in three Southeast Asian out when the dance disappears. With these cultures and transnational, East-West identity new practices and forms, Still Life implicates the through the dancers’ personal narratives and present moment as a point of no return, and choreography. Estimated artist fee: $14,000/ proposes embodied public mourning through performance, $22,000/week. live performance. Estimated artist fee: $18,000/ performance, $28,000/week. tour coordinator Laura Colby, Director tour coordinator Elsie Management Morgan Thorson, Director/Choreographer/ [email protected] Tour Coordinator tel 718.797.4577 [email protected] www.elsieman.org tel 612.221.3416 presenter partners presenter partners Hancher Performances (Iowa City, IA) American Dance Institute (Rockville, MD) The University of Iowa, Department of Dance Performance Space 122 (New York, NY) (Iowa City, IA) Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis, MN) University of Kansas, Department of Dance (Lawrence, KS)

8 photo: janelle weatherford photo: valerie oliveiro 2015 NATIONAL DANCE PROJECT AWARDS pick up performance co(s) reggie wilson/fist and heel New York, NY performance group www.pickupperformance.org Brooklyn, NY www.fistandheelperformancegroup.org

Live Archiveography CITIZEN For his Live Archiveography, David Gordon This evening-length performance work is a reconsiders conventional archival methodology series of solos with some group sections that to include live scripted storytelling by live asks the questions, “What does it mean to performers contextualizing the 50 plus decades belong?” and “What does it mean to NOT want of the intense relationship of his family life to his to belong?” CITIZEN enters and contributes professional career in movement and theater art. toward a larger human conversation on He uses the live scripted narrative plus collaged this matter. The work explores and exposes projection of original performance photos and statements of individuality, civic duty, and video plus edited interviews with collaborators basic social needs to reveal vantage points and performers to example his designs, texts, that consider the overarching implications, and choreography. Estimated artist fee: $29,045/ consequences of invisibility, and the week. complicated humanity inherent in black folks’ sense of their belonging in America. Estimated tour coordinator artist fee: $21,000/performance plus housing and local Alyce Dissette, Producing Director travel, $29,000/week plus housing and local travel. Pick Up Performance Co(s) [email protected] tour coordinator tel 212.244.7622 Sophie Myrtil-McCourty, President www.davidgordon.nyc Lotus Arts Management [email protected] presenter partners tel 347.721.8724 American Dance Institute (Rockville, MD) www.lotusartsmgmt.com/fist-heel/ Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival (Becket, MA) New York Public Library for the Performing Arts presenter partners (New York, NY) Brooklyn Academy of Music (Brooklyn, NY) Fringe Arts (Philadelphia, PA) The Yard (Chilmark, MA)

photo: andrew eccles photo: aitor mendilibar 9 sidra bell dance new york zoe | juniper White Plains, NY Seattle, WA www.sidrabelldanceny.org www.zoejuniper.org

MÖNSTER OUTSIDE Clear & Sweet Sidra Bell Dance New York, in collaboration Clear & Sweet is duo Zoe Scofield and Juniper with Per Störby (Composer) from Sweden, is Shuey’s multidisciplinary performance developing a multidisciplinary dance, MÖNSTER incorporating dance, vocals, and visuals OUTSIDE. The piece is performed by Bell’s resulting from an inquiry into Sacred Harp four dancers and the New Tide Orquesta from singing and choreographer Scofield’s Sweden in a stage arena that marries Bell’s complicated connection to her Southern roots. brand of highly technical movement with Strikingly raw, a cappella choral singers will be Störby’s sound worlds and visual scenographic integrated into audiences, creating a powerfully projections to speak to themes of human immersive sonic, physical, and visual experience. alienation and the search for intimacy in With a cast of five power-house dancers and constantly shifting contemporary life. Bell’s live singers from around the country, the work genre-busting movement is accompanied by addresses opportunities for redemption and live music that includes the melodic aspects personal methods of worship in the company of baroque, the unpredictable clashes in free of others. Estimated artist fee: $14,000/performance, improvisation, and the progressive patterns $28,000/week. of minimalism. It embraces fleeting images culminating into cinematic and theatrical tour coordinator currents. Estimated artist fee: $11,000-$15,000 Stefanie Karlin, Managing Director (depending on routing)/performance, $36,000/week. [email protected] tel 847.609.3597 tour coordinator www.squidmgmt.com Greg Kastelman, Booking Coordinator Cadenza+ presenter partners [email protected] Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans, LA) tel 408.309.0508 New York Live Arts (New York, NY) www.cadenzaplus.com On the Boards (Seattle, WA) presenter partners Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans, LA) TITAS (Dallas, TX)

10 photo: jubal battisti/miki anagrius photo: juniper shuey PREVIOUSLY AWARDEd projects / Tour support available a canary torsi | yanira castro - Court/Garden Brooklyn, NY www.acanarytorsi.org tour coordinator presenter partners Laura Colby, Director Danspace Project (New York, NY) Elsie Management Institute of Contemporary Art [email protected] (Boston, MA) tel 718.797.4577 Redfern Arts Center (Keene, NH) www.elsieman.org

beth gill - Story Ridgewood, NY

tour coordinator presenter partners Aaron Mattocks, Producer The Chocolate Factory Theater Beth Gill (Long Island City, NY) [email protected] Fusebox Festival (Austin, TX) tel 917.612.5381 Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY)

christopher k. morgan & artists - Pohaku North Bethesda, MD www.christopherkmorgan.com tour coordinator presenter partner Christopher K. Morgan, Dance Place (Washington, DC) Artistic Director Maui Arts & Cultural Center Christopher K. Morgan & Artists (Kahului, HI) [email protected] ODC (San Francisco, CA) tel 646.337.3387 www.christopherkmorgan.com

cleo parker robinson dance - Bamboula Denver, CO www.cleoparkerdance.org tour coordinator presenter partners Malik Robinson, Senior Director Dance Place (Washington, DC) Cleo Parker Robinson Dance King Arts Complex (Columbus, OH) [email protected] University of Florida Presents tel 303.295.1759 x15 (Gainesville, FL) www.cleoparkerdance.org

11 contra-tiempo - Agua Furiosa Los Angeles, CA www.contra-tiempo.org tour coordinator presenter partners Sophie Myrtil-McCourty, President The Center for the Art of Performance Lotus Arts Management at UCLA (Los Angeles, CA) [email protected] Dance Place (Washington, DC) tel 347.721.8724 Orpheum Theater (Memphis, TN) www.lotusartsmgmt.com

david neumann - I Understand Everything Better Thornwood, NY www.advancedbeginnergroup.org tour coordinator presenter partners Meredith Boggia, Creative Producer American Dance Institute [email protected] (Rockville, MD) tel 518.791.0376 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival www.meredithboggia.com (Becket, MA) MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA)

faye driscoll - Thank You For Coming: PLAY Brooklyn, NY www.fayedriscoll.com tour coordinator presenter partners Sandra Garner, Producer Institute of Contemporary Art Faye Driscoll Group (Boston, MA) [email protected] (Minneapolis, MN) www.fayedriscoll.com The Yard (Chilmark, MA)

john jasperse projects - Remains New York, NY www.johnjasperse.org

tour coordinator presenter partners John Jasperse, Artistic Director American Dance Festival John Jasperse Projects (Durham, NC) [email protected] Dance Place (Washington, DC) tel 646.642.9572 www.johnjasperse.org

12 PREVIOUSLY AWARDEd projects / Tour support available karen sherman - Soft Goods Minneapolis, MN www.karenshermanperformance.org tour coordinator presenter partners Karen Sherman, Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN) Choreographer/Director Performance Space 122 (New York, NY) [email protected] American Dance Institute tel 917.374.7627 (Rockville, MD) karenshermanperformance.org

lar lubovitch dance company - The Black Rose New York, NY www.lubovitch.org tour coordinator presenter partners Richard Caples, Executive Director George Mason University (Fairfax, VA) Lar Lubovitch Dance Company Kaatsbaan International Dance Center [email protected] (Tivoli, NY) tel 212.221.7909 Saratoga Performing Arts Center www.lubovitch.org (Saratoga Springs, NY)

pat graney company - Girl Gods Seattle, WA www.patgraney.org tour coordinator presenter partners Elizabeth Roth, Director ArtPower! at UC San Diego Roth Arts (La Jolla, CA) [email protected] On the Boards (Seattle, WA) tel 347.985.2575 Peak Performances, Montclair State www.rotharts.com University (Montclair, NJ)

sarah michelson - TOURNAMENTO New York, NY

tour coordinator presenter partners Barbara Bryan, Producing Director Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN) Sarah Michelson Inc. The Whitney Museum (New York, NY) [email protected] tel 646.691.0010

13 PREVIOUSLY AWARDEd projects / Tour support available

the seldoms - Power Goes Chicago, IL www.theseldoms.org tour coordinator presenter partners Carrie Hanson, Artistic Director Museum of Contemporary Art The Seldoms (Chicago, IL) [email protected] Ocean County College Grunin Center tel 773.859.3030 (Toms River, NJ) www.theseldoms.org Texas Performing Arts (Austin, TX)

previously awarded photos: a canari torsi - jose alejandro espaillat, beth gill - alex escalante, christo- pher k. morgan and artists - brianne bland, cleo parker robinson dance - kevin yatarola, contra-tiempo - kerville cosmos jack, david neumann - maria baranova, faye driscoll - maria baranova, john jasperse projects - yi-chun wu, karen sherman - karen sherman, lar lubovitch dance - jill steinberg, pat graney company - jeffrey machtig, sarah michelson - sarah michelson, and the seldoms - douglas beasley

lead funders

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

additional funders

Cultural Services of the French Embassy French American Cultural Exchange

video work samples To see excerpts of work by the artists Additional projects eligible for and companies eligible for NDP Touring NDP touring support will be Support, visit the NDP section of www.nefa.org or use the QR code above. announced in December 2015! For complete guidelines, application information, and more, visit nefa.org. national dance project partners

National Dance Project 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.

Ana Maria Alvarez Millicent Johnnie Founding Artistic Director Choreographer CONTRA-TIEMPO Urban Latin Dance Theater New Orleans, LA Los Angeles, CA Tonya Lockyer Rob Bailis Artistic Director Associate Director, Cal Performances Velocity Dance Center University of California, Berkeley Seattle, WA Berkeley, CA Mary Luft Neil Barclay Executive Director/Founder Director and CEO Tigertail Productions Contemporary Arts Center Miami, FL New Orleans, LA David Ravel Amy Cassello Director Associate Producer, Next Wave Festival Alverno Presents BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) Milwaukee, WI Brooklyn, NY janera solomon Yolanda Cesta Cursach Executive Director Associate Director of Performance Programs Kelly Strayhorn Theater Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Pittsburgh, PA Chicago, IL Pamela Tatge Gabri Christa Director Artistic Director Wesleyan University, Center for the Arts Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Middletown, CT Botanical Garden Staten Island, NY Sixto Wagan Director, Center for Arts Leadership Sara Coffey University of Houston Director Houston, TX Vermont Performance Lab Guilford, VT Sam Miller Founder & Honorary Advisor, NDP Colleen Furukawa Vice President - Programming Maui Arts & Cultural Center Maui, HI 15 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 1, 2016 tour during its NDP touring period.

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 during its October 13, 2015 NDP touring period.

16 for organizations & presenters For more information ndp presentation grants on eligibility, criteria, who may apply and application process, Eligible U.S. nonprofit organizations visit nefa.org. presenting an NDP-funded project during its NDP touring period (see each project’s tour coordinator for details).

Organizations must be included on a project’s NDP tour plan in order to apply. additional programs Organizations may receive multiple NDP Presentation Grants within a given »»French-U.S. Exchange in season to present multiple NDP-funded Dance (FUSED) projects but must submit a separate supporting residencies and application for each project. presentations of U.S. and France-based artists in the grant recipients partner country. Grants are made to U.S. nonprofit organizations to support up to »»Production Residencies for 50% of the artist fee and travel expenses per engagement. Dance (PRD) Enhancing partnerships next deadlines between artists and residency November 16, 2015 sites to prepare new works April 2016, visit nefa.org for details for touring.

»»RDDI (Regional Dance To apply for a Presentation Grant to present any of the projects in this publication during Development Initiative) their NDP touring period, contact the project’s Providing professional tour coordinator as soon as possible. growth for artists in regions across the U.S. In addition to the projects in this publication, NDP Touring Awards announced in December »»Contemporary Art Centers 2015 are eligible for Presentation Grants. (CAC) network Promoting projects that Tour coordinators for each project provide model innovative multi NEFA with a tour plan. NEFA will contact organizations included on the tour plans to and crossdisciplinary apply for Presentation Grants. collaborations. new england foundation forfor thethe artsarts 145 Tremont St. Seventh Floor Boston, MA 02111 www.nefa.org