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2013 NDP Mpi.Indd NATIONAL DANCE PROJECT august 2013 nefa’s national dance project (ndp) was launched in 1996 to support the creation and touring of new dance works throughout the United States. Since its inception, the program has distributed more than $25 million in funding to support the dance field in ways that enhance partnerships between artists and presenters with the equally important goals of engaging and expanding audiences for dance. NDP provides a dynamic system of support that spurs the creation of new dance works and enables audiences in communities across the nation to experience the work of the most compelling dance lead funders artists of our time. Beyond grantmaking for creation and touring, the program also works through various initiatives to nurture a Doris Duke Charitable Foundation vibrant ecology for dance. Currently these emphasize production The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation residencies, international exchange, regional development of dance artists, and the work of contemporary art centers with a focus on additional funders performing arts and collaborations across disciplines. MetLife Foundation The landscape for dance continues to rapidly change due to National Endowment for the Arts Cultural Services of significant shifts in the ways that dance work is created and toured, the French Embassy diverse expectations that audiences bring to performances, the French American Cultural Exchange impact of technological innovation, and the fluctuating global economy. In response, NDP’s programs are evolving. Informed by ongoing program evaluation in partnership with our funders and the NEFA is a nonprofit organization artists and presenters we serve, NDP continues to support the field that operates with funding from the with a commitment to relevance, sustainability, and impact. National Endowment for the Arts, the New England state arts agencies, and from corporations, foundations, For more on NDP’s history, grantmaking programs, initiatives, and and individuals. grant recipients, visit nefa.org. To learn how you can support NEFA, visit nefa.org. photos of ndp grant recipients cover (clockwise from top left): brian brooks moving company | photo: grant halverson/adf bebe miller company | photo: tim rummelhoff trisha brown dance company | photo: stephanie berger inside front cover: karen sherman | photo: karen sherman back: hubbard street dance chicago and alonzo king lines ballet | photo: amber bliss This publication features projects currently eligible for NDP touring support. U.S. nonprofit organizations presenting supported projects between June 1, 2014 and August 31, 2015 may join a project’s NDP tour and apply for funds to subsidize up to 50% of the artist fee and travel expenses. Interested organizations should contact the listed tour coordinators in advance of the March 10, 2014 tour plan deadline to discuss receiving funding through NDP’s Presentation Grant process (see page 13 for more information). contact sara c. nash program manager, ndp 617.951.0010 x512 contents [email protected] elizabeth epsen 2 ndp partners program coordinator, ndp 617.951.0010 x521 3 ndp touring awards [email protected] cheri opperman 3 Ballet Memphis grants coordinator, ndp BodyCartography Project 617.951.0010 x524 BODYTRAFFIC [email protected] 4 Camille A. Brown & Dancers Carmen de Lavallade jane preston Gametophyte Inc. director of programs 5 Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion rebecca blunk Lar Lubovitch Dance Company executive director Liz Lerman 6 luciana achugar Lucky Plush Productions Martha Graham Contemporary Dance 7 Mathew Janczewski’s ARENA DANCES Michelle Ellsworth Pat Graney Company 8 Ralph Lemon/Cross Performance Ragamala Dance Robert Moses’ Kin 9 Rosy Simas Danse Sarah Michelson Sean Dorsey Dance 10 Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble 11 video samples 12 ndp funding opportunities 1 ndp partners (as of August 2013) NDP is guided by a rotating group of partners who represent presenters, artists, and organizational leaders from the dance field. They have extensive knowledge of the dance community and are instrumental in developing new dance works and audiences within their communities. NDP partners make funding recommendations and provide critical feedback on program development and policy. Selection of NDP partners takes into account geography, gender, and cultural and racial equity, and includes new and established leaders in the field. For the most current list, visit nefa.org. Erin Boberg Doughton Michael Reed Performing Arts Program Director Senior Director - Programs & Organizational Initiatives Portland Institute for Contemporary Art Arizona State University Gammage Paul Brohan Andrea Rogers Director of Artistic Initiatives Executive Director Emerita Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Flynn Center for the Performing Arts University of Maryland Janera Solomon Yolanda Cesta Cursach Executive Director Associate Director of Performance Programs Kelly Strayhorn Theater Museum of Contemporary Art David Thomson Laura Faure Dancer/Choreographer Director Bates Dance Festival Sixto Wagan Director, Center for Arts Leadership Colleen Furukawa University of Houston Vice President - Programming Maui Arts & Cultural Center Martin Wechsler Director of Programming Mary Luft The Joyce Theater Executive Director/Founder Tigertail Productions Marya Wethers International Project Director, Suitcase Fund George Lugg New York Live Arts Associate Director REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater) Sam Miller (Founder & Honorary Advisor) President Adele Myers Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Artistic Director Adele Myers and Dancers David Ravel Director Alverno Presents 2 NDP TOURING AWARDS ballet memphis bodycartography project bodytraffic Memphis, TN Minneapolis, MN Los Angeles, CA www.balletmemphis.org www.bodycartography.org www.bodytraffic.com New Work by Julia Adam Super Nature New Work by Victor Quijada As part of Ballet Memphis’ The River Project, Full of artifice and animal appetites, Super Victor Quijada (Director/Choreographer choreographer Julia Adam takes inspiration Nature engages the wild, the domestic, of RUBBERBANDance) creates an original from the fruiting bodies of mushrooms, and the civilized aspects of human work for BODYTRAFFIC, a Los Angeles- the psychedelic mushroom, and the nature to create a radical ecological based repertory company that relentlessly mystical fungi worlds of the elfin kingdom melodrama. Devised as either a stage recruits great talent from around the globe and dancing fairy rings to create a new performance or a one-on-one performance to create world-class contemporary dance. 25-minute ballet. Adam’s work tours with installation for a gallery, this project from The new work for six BODYTRAFFIC other repertory works thematically tied the BodyCartography Project invites dancers explores and highlights Mr. to the history, nature, and culture of the an audience’s visceral and empathetic Quijada’s unprecedented movement Mississippi River. Additional tour offerings engagement. An immersive sound score vocabulary that seamlessly weaves include green symposiums, extensive composed by Zeena Parkins amplifies together the street dance styles he grew up outreach, and a Delta photo exhibit. the performance of seven extraordinary with in Los Angeles and the classical forms dancers and local performers. of his impressive performance career. This tour coordinator collaboration between choreographer and Laura Colby, Director tour coordinator company is sure to be cutting-edge while Elsie Management Olive Bieringa, Co-Director accessible to all audiences. [email protected] BodyCartography Project tel 718.797.4577 [email protected] tour coordinator www.elsieman.org tel 917.463.9300 Tina Berkett, Co-Artistic Director BODYTRAFFIC artist fee artist fee [email protected] $19,000/performance Performance: $20,000–$25,000/week tel 646.221.7811 $30,000/week Installation (with or without performance): (Plus housing) $950/day (3 day minimum) artist fee (Plus housing and travel) $16,000/performance touring availability $32,000/week November 2013–December 2015 touring availability June 2014–August 2015 touring availability tech needs June 2014–June 2019 Sprung floor; black and white marley; prior tech needs day load-in; 2 projectors. Contact tour coordinator for details. tech needs Contact tour coordinator for details. presenter partners presenter partners Performing Arts Society of Acadiana Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN) presenter partner (Lafayette, LA) PADL West (San Diego, CA) The Joyce Theater (New York, NY) White Bird (Portland, OR) Performance Space 122 (New York, NY) 2012 NDP recipient available to tour in the 2014-2015 season. photo: ari denison photo: courtesy of walker art center photo: christopher duggan 3 camille a. brown & dancers carmen de lavallade gametophyte inc. Jamaica, NY New York, NY Brooklyn, NY www.camilleabrown.org www.gametophyte.org Black Girl As I Remember It johnbrown Camille A. Brown, in collaboration with As I Remember It is an intimate portrait of johnbrown, a new performance project dramaturg Kamilah Forbes and a team the legendary artist Carmen de Lavallade by Dean Moss with visual artist Laylah of musicians and designers, creates and told through dance, film, and her personal Ali, meditates on the controversial white celebrates Black Girl, a new multimedia writings. Created by Ms. De Lavallade abolitionist John Brown, integrating a deep work that depicts the joys and complexities in collaboration with director Joe Grifasi interest in the history of the
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