NATIONAL 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 . 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 chicago and alonzo king lines | 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 7 Mathew Janczewski’s ARENA 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 Ensemble

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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 , 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 man with of carving out a positive identity as a and co-writer/dramaturg Talvin Wilks, more recent familial reflections on the young, Black female in urban American this hour-long original work will be both a struggle for civil rights. The work is framed culture. Inspired by Toni Morrison’s book retrospective of a career that spans more through the lens of inexperienced teenaged The Bluest Eye and imagery from Alice in than six decades and an exploration of participants and offers a complexly layered Wonderland, the work seeks to inspire movement for an older artist. The evening is, generational perspective on the legacy of dialogue about the nuanced prejudices in essence, a living memoir with Carmen de this radical activist. johnbrown will premiere that can exist within communities and to Lavallade dancing through her life history. in October 2014, coinciding with the challenge the contemporary notions of 150th anniversary of the 13th Amendment, Eurocentric beauty. tour coordinator America’s abolishment of slavery. Anna Glass Coquillot, Creative Producer tour coordinator [email protected] tour coordinator Pamela Green, Agent tel 646.418.3762 Dean Moss, Director [email protected] Gametophyte Inc. tel 919.813.6092 artist fee [email protected] www.pmgartsmgt.com $19,500/performance tel 347.244.1615 $33,000/week www.gametophyte.org artist fee $23,000/performance touring availability artist fee $42,000/week June 2014–July 2015 $22,000/performance $28,000/week (Plus housing and local transportation) tech needs (Plus housing and travel) touring availability Video projection required. Contact tour February 2015–December 2015 coordinator for details. touring availability January 2015–December 2015 tech needs presenter partners Contact tour coordinator for details. 651 ARTS (Brooklyn, NY) tech needs Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival (Becket, MA) Contact tour coordinator for details. presenter partners John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Dance Cleveland (Cleveland, OH) Arts (Washington, DC) presenter partners The Joyce Theater (New York, NY) The Kitchen (New York, NY) Kelly Strayhorn Theater (Pittsburgh, PA) Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)

photo: christopher duggan photo: julieta cervantes photo: tim trumble/asu 4 NDP TOURING AWARDS kyle abraham/abraham.in.motion lar lubovitch dance company liz lerman New York, NY New York, NY Baltimore, MD www.abrahaminmotion.com www.lubovitch.org www.lizlerman.com

When the Wolves Came In New Work by Lar Lubovitch Healing Wars Commissioned by New York Live Arts, In a new dance, veteran choreographer Lar A new work by Liz Lerman with designers Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion creates Lubovitch pushes aesthetic boundaries, Kate Freer, David Reynoso, and Darron a new evening-length historical homage responding to the sonic richness and West, and featuring actor Bill Pullman with celebrating two important milestones— emotional rawness of a commissioned a professional ensemble, Healing Wars the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation score by Paola Prestini. The artists’ examines our Civil War and the wars in Proclamation and the 20th anniversary of collaborative relationship takes its next Iraq and Afghanistan through the eyes of the abolishment of Apartheid in South step as Lubovitch expands his movement involved healers. A multi-site development Africa. These events are jumping-off points choices, juxtaposing less structured, less process took Lerman from the Harvard for collaborations between Abraham, visual lyrical, and more seemingly improvised archives to head-trauma research labs artist Glenn Ligon, and world-renowned movement with narrative elements. The to Gettysburg and involved partners musicians, with added inspiration coming new work premieres in 2014 with live in medicine, academia, and veterans’ from We Insist: Max Roach’s Freedom Now music by Le Train Bleu conducted by communities. Healing Wars premieres Suite, a protest album that shed light on the Ransom Wilson and can tour with live or at Arena Stage as part of its 2013-14 growing civil rights movements of its period. recorded music. subscription series. Longer residencies preferred for maximum impact. tour coordinator tour coordinator Sophie Myrtil-McCourty, Rena Shagan, President tour coordinator Director of Booking/Representation Rena Shagan Associates Amelia Cox, Projects Manager Pentacle [email protected] Liz Lerman LLC [email protected] tel 212.873.9700 [email protected] tel 212.278.8111 x313 www.shaganarts.com tel 410.961.8809 www.pentacle.org/kyleabraham artist fee artist fee artist fee $30,000–$35,000/performance $55,000–$70,000/week $20,000–$25,000/performance $81,000/week $30,000–$35,000/week touring availability (Plus housing and local transportation; touring availability September 2014–June 2015 additional fees for live music) January 2015–December 2016 tech needs touring availability tech needs Fly house; sprung floor; multiple projectors; October 2014–June 2015 Minimum 36’ x 30’ stage plus additional access to installation space; contact tour space for lighting & crossover; lighting coordinator for details. tech needs prehang and prior day load-in. Contact tour coordinator for details. presenter partners presenter partners Peak Performances, Montclair State presenter partners George Mason University (Fairfax, VA) University (Montclair, NJ) New York Live Arts (New York, NY) University of California Santa Barbara American Repertory Theater On the Boards (Seattle, WA) (Santa Barbara, CA) (Cambridge, MA) Yerba Buena Center for the Arts TITAS (Dallas, TX) Hancher Performances, University of Iowa (San Francisco, CA) (Iowa City, IA) photo: steven schreiber photo: jill steinberg photo: helen shariatmadari 5 luciana achugar lucky plush productions martha graham Brooklyn, NY Riverside, IL contemporary dance www.lachugar.org www.luckyplush.com New York, NY www.marthagraham.org

OTRO TEATRO The Queue New Work by Andonis Foniadakis OTRO TEATRO is an evening-length dance Co-created by Julia Rhoads and theater Choreographer Andonis Foniadakis, that takes place metaphorically in the ruins director Leslie Danzig, The Queue is an best known for his innovative work with of a collapsed theater. Through ritualized 80-minute dance-theater work set in a contemporary European ballet companies, th movement and singing, achugar and her fictional airport, clashing early 20 century collaborates with composer Julien collaborators rebuild another kind of /texts (slapstick, vaudeville, Tarride, lighting designer Clifton Taylor, theater, using dance as a ritual of becoming short plays) with the distinctly non- and costume designer Tassos Sofroniou and an occasion for communion with the theatrical context of waiting. The Queue to create a major new work for Martha audience. OTRO TEATRO (another/other playfully stages private dramas slipping Graham Contemporary Dance as part theater), as in all of achugar’s work, aims into public spectacle as plots unfold and of its Myth and Transformation project. to move the audience toward a visceral characters become embroiled in each Performed with works by Martha Graham understanding of dance. other’s lives. The work’s diverse cast and and other contemporary choreographers, stylistic collisions critique historical and the Myth and Transformation project tour coordinator contemporary assumptions about status, explores how artists transform iconic Meredith Boggia, Manager humor, and violence. stories to make contemporary statements. [email protected] tel 518.791.0376 tour coordinator tour coordinator Laura Colby, Director Rena Shagan, Director artist fee Elsie Management Rena Shagan Associates $17,000/performance [email protected] [email protected] $24,000/week tel 718.797.4577 tel 212.873.9700 www.elsieman.org touring availability www.shaganarts.com April 2014–December 2016 artist fee artist fee $18,000/performance tech needs $30,000/performance $28,000/week Contact tour coordinator for details. $100,000/week (Plus housing) (Additional fees for live music) presenter partners touring availability Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN) touring availability September 2014–August 2015 New York Live Arts (New York, NY) March 2014–June 2015 tech needs tech needs Sprung floor; marley; prior day load-in; mics Contact tour coordinator for details. for all performers; recorded music available. presenter partners presenter partners Valley Performing Arts Center Links Hall (Chicago, IL) (Northridge, CA) Out North Contemporary Art House Carolina Performing Arts (Chapel Hill, NC) (Anchorage, AK) Brooklyn College (Brooklyn, NY) Flynn Center for the Performing Arts (Burlington, VT) photo: gene pittman (courtesy of walker art center) photo: benjamin wardell photo: sinru ku 6 NDP TOURING AWARDS mathew janczewski’s michelle ellsworth pat graney company arena dances Boulder, CO Seattle, WA Minneapolis, MN www.michelleellsworth.com www.patgraney.org www.arena-dances.org

The Main Street Project Clytigation: State of Exception girl gods The Main Street Project is a full-length Irreverently infiltrating the human girl gods explores the ancestry of women, performance that moves between condition, Clytigation: State of Exception is individuals, and family members—and physical and digital space to explore how a performance piece and mobile device the idea of rage. Although a separate and technology alters our personal connections app that collides Aeschylus’ Oresteia with complete work on its own, girl gods can be and changes the face of small town dance, the internet, live video processing, described as part two of Graney’s 2008 America. Within the piece, electro/techno/ and an aerial drone. On a modular mini House of Mind, with the choreographer pop music combines with folk-inspired sound stage, Michelle Ellsworth and exploring the point at which the domestic songs to illuminate themes of isolation video artist Max Bernstein create multiple realm drives down into the earth. The work and belonging, and filmed interviews alternate choreographies and realities includes a strong sculptural component and with everyday people from multiple for an omnipotent surveillance gathering is heavily influenced by feminist artists and communities bridge the gap between quad-copter. Using an ancient text and art practices of the 1970s. today and yesterday. The Main Street modern technology, this timely work tour coordinator Project combines explosive movement investigates the impact of wars on bodies Pat Graney, Executive/Artistic Director with intimate narrative to ask the question, and legal protocols while examining the Pat Graney Company “Does Main Street still exist?” gap between emotional intention and [email protected] physical execution. tour coordinator tel 206.329.3705 Mathew Janczewski, tour coordinator artist fee Executive Artistic Director Michelle Ellsworth $27,000/performance Mathew Janczewski’s ARENA DANCES [email protected] $40,000/week [email protected] tel 720.771.3380 tel 612.804.0238 touring availability artist fee November 2015–June 2016 artist fee $8,000/performance $12,000-$15,000/performance $13,000/week tech needs $15,000–$21,000/week (Plus housing) Contact tour coordinator for details. touring availability touring availability presenter partners June 2014–August 2015 September 2014–February 2017 On the Boards (Seattle, WA) New York Live Arts (New York, NY) tech needs tech needs Contemporary Dance Theater Contact tour coordinator for details. Contact tour coordinator for details. (Cincinnati, OH) presenter partners presenter partners College of St. Benedict/St. John’s On the Boards (Seattle, WA) University (St. Joseph, MN) The Chocolate Factory Cowles Center for Dance and the (Long Island City, NY) Performing Arts (Minneapolis, MN) Real Art Ways (Hartford, CT)

2012 NDP recipient available to tour in the 2014-2015 season. photo: courtesy of armour photography photo: juan carlos salvatierra photo: jeffrey machtig 7 ralph lemon/cross performance ragamala dance robert moses’ kin New York, NY Minneapolis, MN San Francisco, CA www.mappinternational.org www.ragamaladance.org www.robertmoseskin.org

Scaffold Room Song of the Jasmine NEVABAWARLDAPECE A lecture-performance-musical that Song of the Jasmine is an evening- (never be a world of peace) refracts ideas of the modern vs. archetypal length work by choreographer Aparna NEVABAWARLDAPECE, created by Robert black female (performer) in American Ramaswamy, with co-artistic director Moses with music and book by Carl culture, Scaffold Room features three Ranee Ramaswamy and jazz saxophonist/ Hancock Rux, composer Corey Harris, and women (Okwui Okpokwasili and April composer Rudresh Mahanthappa. Rooted vocalist Laura Love, is an uncompromising Mathis live, with Edna Carter on video), in their shared bicultural identity and how look at freedom and liberation movements. accompanied by a live DJ, acting out it has influenced their artistry in distinct Aspirational in tone, this work draws against assumptions about prescribed ways, the artists take inspiration from inspiration from movements as varied body-politics while drawing on iconic the transformative poetry of medieval as John Brown’s fanaticism and the characters from history, popular culture, India to explore American identity, global idealism of Occupy, addressing aspects and speculative fiction ranging from Moms citizenship, and the divine. Aparna, Ranee, of cultural transformation that have broad Mabley to Amy Winehouse to Kathy Acker. and Rudresh lead an ensemble of five results. NEVABAWARLDAPECE looks at Lemon’s latest experiment with form dancers and four musicians. the contradictions of social change, from and presentation, the scaffold room is a idealism to dispirited climax. confined, constructed environment—a self- tour coordinator contained theater in which performance Laura Colby, Director tour coordinator and visual media seamlessly merge. Elsie Management Mary Carbonara, Interim Executive Director [email protected] Robert Moses’ Kin tour coordinator tel 718.797.4577 [email protected] Michelle Coe, Director of Booking www.elsieman.org [email protected] MAPP International Productions tel 415.845.4933 [email protected] artist fee tel 646.602.9390 $25,000/performance artist fee $45,000/week $18,000/performance artist fee (Plus housing) $30,000/week $45,000/week (Additional fees for live music) (Plus housing and local transportation) touring availability September 2014–August 2015 touring availability touring availability June 2014–August 2015 September 2014–June 2015 tech needs Sprung floor; marley; prior day load-in, tech needs tech needs mics for instruments. Contact tour coordinator for details. Nontraditional spaces; contact tour coordinator for details. presenter partners presenter partners Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN) Contemporary Dance Theater presenter partners Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (Cincinnati, OH) Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN) (College Park, MD) Bates Dance Festival (Lewiston, ME) EMPAC at Rensselaer (Troy, NY)

2012 NDP recipient available to tour in the 2014-2015 season. 2012 NDP recipient available to tour in the 2014-2015 season. photo: dan merlo photo: ed bock photo: r j muna 8 NDP TOURING AWARDS rosy simas danse sarah michelson sean dorsey dance Minneapolis, MN New York, NY San Francisco, CA www.rosysimas.com www.seandorseydance.com

We Wait In The Darkness Devotion Study #3 & Study #4 The Missing Generation and We Wait In The Darkness is a The final installments of choreographer The Source Of Joy by Native American contemporary Sarah Michelson’s Devotion series, Devotion The Missing Generation and The Source Of choreographer Rosy Simas (Seneca) that Study #3 & Study #4 continue the artist’s Joy explores the contemporary impact explores how ancestry, homeland, culture, rigorous investigation into the possibility of losing much of a generation of gay and history are stored in the body and of locating and isolating the desire to and transgender people to AIDS during expressed in movement. In collaboration with dance. The new work aims to make clear the 1980s. Created through a national photographer/filmmaker Douglas Beasley the ferocity of the artist’s and the dancers’ LGBT Inter-Generational Oral History and French composer François Richomme, devotion to dancing. With visual design by Project, extensive archival research, and Simas creates an otherworldly environment Sarah Michelson, music by Mike Iveson, community residencies in six U.S. cities, the of images, sound, and movement. Using and lighting design by Zack Tinkelman, the work features full-throttle dance, highly- personal metaphor and story, the work works will be created concurrently and tour physical theater, luscious partnering, and takes the audience on a journey through a together or individually after premieres in intimate storytelling. A powerful original contemplative and fierce Native experience early 2014 at the Whitney Museum and score features the voices and remarkable of displacement and homecoming. Judson Church. real-life stories of lovers, survivors, and early AIDS activists. tour coordinator tour coordinator Rosy Simas, Director Barbara Bryan, Producing Director tour coordinator Rosy Simas Danse Sarah Michelson Inc. Sean Dorsey, Artistic Director [email protected] [email protected] Sean Dorsey Dance tel 612.719.9605 tel 646.691.0010 [email protected] tel 415.355.0071 artist fee artist fee $4,000–$6,000/performance $15,000/performance artist fee $8,000–$10,000/week $35,000/week $12,000–$15,000/performance $15,000–$20,000/week touring availability touring availability (Plus housing and travel) July 2014–August 2015 September 2015–August 2016 touring availability tech needs tech needs April 2015–December 2016 Contact tour coordinator for details. Contact tour coordinator for details. tech needs presenter partners presenter partners Contact tour coordinator for details. Red Eye Collaboration (Minneapolis, MN) Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN) Oneida Nation Arts Program The Whitney Museum (New York, NY) presenter partners (Green Bay, WI) Dance Place (Washington, DC) Culver Center (Riverside, CA) Bates Dance Festival (Lewiston, ME) MAI, Montréal Arts Intercultural Queer Cultural Center (San Francisco, CA) (Montréal, QC) Florida Dance Festival (Tampa, FL) 7 Stages (Atlanta, GA)

photo: douglas beasley photo: sarah michelson photo: lydia daniller 9 soledad barrio & noche flamenca voloshky ukrainian New York, NY dance ensemble www.nocheflamenca.com , PA www.voloshky.com Additional projects eligible for NDP touring support will be announced in December 2013!

Antigona STEPPES: A Crossover An evening-length theatrical This full-length program created by artistic interpretation of the text and themes in director Taras Lewyckyj and choreographers Sophocles’ classic tragedy, Antigona is a Anatolij Kryvochyzha and Andrew Pap work developed for the company by artistic takes audiences on an exciting journey director/choreographer Martin Santangelo from traditional Ukrainian to contemporary in collaboration with composer Antonio dance. Featuring over 35 dancers and Rodriguez, principal dancer Soledad Barrio, musicians, the program underscores co-director Lee Breuer (), America’s unique pluralistic heritage. and visual artist Mary Frank (set, costume, Audiences experience the bold acrobatics and mask design). Rodriguez’s score mixes of Ukrainian dance and ingenious artistry original contemporary and ancient musical of the company set in motion by a live, forms in this piece developed in partnership virtuosic orchestra. The program includes with California State University Monterey a work by Mark Morris commissioned to Bay/World Theater. mark Voloshky’s 40th season. tour coordinator tour coordinator Margaret Selby, President Linda Reznik, Artist Manager CAMI Spectrum River City Artists Management [email protected] [email protected] For complete guidelines, tel 212.841.9554 tel 412.335.5293 www.cami.com www.rivercityartists.com application information, artist fee artist fee and more, visit nefa.org. $35,000/performance $27,000/performance $60,000/week $75,000/week (Plus housing and travel) touring availability June 2014–December 2018 touring availability July 2014–August 2015 tech needs Contact tour coordinator for details. tech needs Contact tour coordinator for details. presenter partners California State University Monterey Bay/ presenter partners World Theater (Seaside, CA) Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, PA) Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival (Becket, MA) University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA) The Joyce Theater (New York, NY) Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center (Jenkintown, PA)

2012 NDP recipient available to tour in the 2014-2015 season. photo: andres delia photo: andrew zwarych 10 video samples

To see excerpts of work by the artists and companies currently eligible for NDP touring support, visit the National Dance Project page at nefa.org.

photo of ndp grant recipient: kate weare dance company photo: arthur fink 11 ndp funding opportunities

NDP Production Grants for artists make possible the ndp production grants creation of new work who may apply Choreographers and companies. Production Grants fund the development and initiate a cycle of of new dance work that will tour nationally. grant recipients Grants range from $25,000 to $40,000 and support for presenters to Grants are made to artists with support the creation of the work. nonprofit status or to a nonprofit access funding through fiscal sponsor on behalf of an artist. Production Grant recipients automatically receive an NDP Touring Award, allowing U.S. Presentation Grants. next deadline nonprofit organizations presenting the new March 3, 2014 work to apply for funds that subsidize up to 50% of the artist fee and travel expenses.

(See NDP Presentation Grants on page 13.)

ndp touring awards who may apply Choreographers and companies. NDP Touring Awards support U.S. tours of Agents, artist managers, and projects that receive NDP Production Grants presenters may also apply on behalf as well as U.S. tours of projects created of an artist, company, or project. independently of NDP Production support.

grant recipients Touring Award funds of up to $35,000 for Touring Awards are disbursed to each project are distributed as Presentation U.S. nonprofit organizations as Grants to nonprofit organizations presenting Presentation Grants. the project on tour to subsidize artist fees and travel expenses. next deadline October 7, 2013 (See NDP Presentation Grants on page 13.)

12 for presenters additional ndp programs ndp presentation grants »»Production Residencies for who may apply Dance (PRD) U.S. nonprofit organizations To present any of the projects listed on pages presenting a funded project between 3–10 during their NDP touring seasons, Enhancing partnerships June 2014 and August 2015. eligible organizations should contact tour between artists and residency coordinators well before the March 10, sites to prepare new works grant recipients 2014 tour plan deadline. NEFA will contact for touring. Grants are made to U.S. nonprofit organizations included in the tour plans organizations to subsidize up to with application instructions for NDP »»RDDI (Regional Dance 50% of the artist fee and travel Presentation Grants. Development Initiative) expenses per engagement. Providing professional Additional projects eligible for NDP touring growth for artists in regions next deadlines support will be announced in December 2013. March 10, 2014 (project tour across the U.S. plans due) April 14, 2014 (presenter funding »»Contemporary Art Centers requests due, by invitation only) (CAC) network Promoting projects that model innovative multi- and cross- disciplinary collaborations. fused (french-u.s. exchange in dance) who may apply U.S. nonprofit organizations who FUSED grants support residencies and/or are presenting and/or hosting presentations for U.S. and French artists that residencies for French artists. take place in the partner country. grant recipients FUSED is an ongoing international Grants are made to U.S. nonprofit partnership between NEFA and the Cultural For complete guidelines, organizations to support up to 50% Services of the French Embassy in the United of the artist fee and travel expenses States in collaboration with the French application information, per engagement. American Cultural Exchange (FACE). and more, visit nefa.org. next deadline U.S. presenters hosting French artists apply February 10, 2014 through NEFA. French presenters hosting U.S. artists apply through FACE (facecouncil.org).

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Dance Shawn McConneloug and her Orchestra Shen Wei Dance Arts SITI Company Souloworks/Andrea E. Woods and Dancers Stephen Petronio Company Sui Generis (Em- Generis Company Sui Petronio Dancers Stephen and Woods E. Company Souloworks/Andrea Arts SITI Dance Wei Orchestra Shen her and McConneloug Dance Shawn

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Chicago Dance Company Robert Moses’ Kin Ros Warby Rosanna Gamson/World Wide Rosas with Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh Rub- Phnom Arts, Fine of University Keersmaeker Royal de Teresa Anne with Wide Rosas Gamson/World Warby Rosanna Kin Ros Moses’ Company Robert Dance Chicago

Company Rachid Ouramdane Ragamala Music and Dance Theater Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group Rennie Harris PureMovement Rhythm in Shoes River North North Shoes River in PureMovement Rhythm Harris Group Rennie Performance Heel & Wilson/Fist Theater Reggie Dance and Music Ouramdane Ragamala Company Rachid

Company Paula Josa-Jones/Performance Works Pepatian Philadanco Pierre Rigal Pilobolus Dance Theater Polly Motley and Molly Davies Project Bandaloop Quasar Dance Dance Bandaloop Quasar Davies Project Molly and Motley Theater Polly Dance Rigal Pilobolus Works Pepatian Philadanco Pierre Josa-Jones/Performance Company Paula

Dance Ensemble ODC/San Francisco Oguri/Body Weather Laboratory Ohio Ballet olive Dance Theatre Oslund and Company/Dance Pat Graney Performance Paul Taylor Dance Dance Taylor Performance Paul Graney Company/Dance Pat and Theatre Oslund Dance Ballet olive Laboratory Ohio Weather Francisco Oguri/Body Ensemble ODC/San Dance

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pany Molissa Fenley Monica Bill Barnes & Company Morgan Thorson Muna Tseng Dance Project Muntu Dance Theater Myriam Gourfink Na Kinimakalehua Nature Theater Theater Kinimakalehua Nature Gourfink Na Theater Myriam Dance Project Muntu Dance Tseng Thorson Muna Company Morgan & Barnes Bill Fenley Monica pany Molissa

Cunningham Dance Company Merian Soto Dance and Performance Miami City Ballet Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People Min Tanaka Minh Tran and Com- and Tran Tanaka Minh People Min Powerful the and Gutierrez Ballet Miguel City Performance Miami and Dance Soto Monk Merian Company Meredith Dance Cunningham

Group Marta Elena Savigliano Martha Clarke Martin Chaput and Martial Chazallon Martine Pisani Maureen Fleming Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods Megan Murphy Merce Murphy Merce Goods Megan Stuart/Damaged Fleming Meg Pisani Maureen Chazallon Martine Martial and Chaput Clarke Martin Savigliano Martha Elena Group Marta

Washington Dance Theatre Lyon Opera Ballet Mabou Mines Maguy Marin Company Margaret Jenkins Dance Company Maria Benitez Teatro Flamenco Mark Morris Dance Dance Morris Flamenco Mark Teatro Benitez Company Maria Dance Jenkins Company Margaret Marin Mines Maguy Ballet Mabou Opera Theatre Lyon Dance Washington

eine & Roebana Lemi Ponifasio/Mau Lingo dancetheater Lisa Nelson Living Dance Studio Living Word Project Liz Lerman Dance Exchange Locust Lucy Guerin Lula Guerin Lula Exchange Locust Lucy Dance Lerman Project Liz Word Studio Living Dance Nelson Living dancetheater Lisa Ponifasio/Mau Lingo Roebana Lemi & eine mance L

Hennessey Keo Woolford Khmer Arts Academy Kimberly Bartosik Ko-Thi Dance Company Koosil-ja/danceKUMIKO Lar Lubovitch LeeSaar The Company LeGendre Perfor- Company LeGendre The Lubovitch LeeSaar Company Koosil-ja/danceKUMIKO Lar Dance Bartosik Ko-Thi Academy Kimberly Arts Woolford Khmer Hennessey Keo

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PROJECT Herbin “Tamango” Van Cayseele/Urban Tap Houston Ballet Hubbard Street Dance Ilk- Street Ballet Hubbard Tap Houston Cayseele/Urban Van “Tamango” Herbin Kravas Theater Heather Dance Company Headlong Dance Tau with Kekuhi o Halau ers

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DANCE DANCE Bebe Miller, Dianne McIntyre, and Jawole Zollar Gesel Mason Performance Projects (Mason/ Projects Performance Mason Zollar Gesel Jawole and McIntyre, Dianne Miller, Bebe Lavallade, De Carmen Acogny, Dances Germaine Piper Dance George Fagan Garth Jaya

Nature Francois Chaignaud & Cecilia Bengolea Fugate/Bahiri BalletNY Gamelon Sekar Sekar BalletNY Gamelon Bengolea Fugate/Bahiri Cecilia & Chaignaud Nature Francois of Project Forces Outfit Santana Floating Carlota Vivo Driscoll Flamenco o Faye Kabak

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Edgeworks Dance Theater Eiko and Koma Emily Johnson/Catalyst Elevator Repair Service Service Repair Johnson/Catalyst Elevator Koma Emily and Theater Eiko Dance Edgeworks Theatre Physical Type DV8 mb Du Dancers and Varone Company Doug hizono Uc na

volo Dance Theater Didier Theron & Keith Thompson Donald Byrd/The Group Don- Byrd/The Thompson Donald Keith & Theron Theater Didier Dance volo Bowie Dia Lester with McIntyre Dianne O’Connor nd Dennis Lu Gary & Klein nea Demetrius

i Saito Dayna Hanson Dayton Contemporary Dance Company Dean Moss Deborah Hay Dance Company Delfos Danza Contempora- Danza Company Delfos Dance Hay Moss Deborah Company Dean Dance Contemporary Hanson Dayton Saito Dayna i Akem Wampach Dawn REALITY David

zil Danza Floricanto/USA Dancing Earth David Dorfman Dance David Gordon/Pick Up Performance Company David Neumann/Advanced Beginner Group David Rousseve/ Group David Beginner Neumann/Advanced Company David Performance Up Gordon/Pick Dance David Dorfman Earth David Floricanto/USA Dancing zil Danza

Oliver/Coco. Dance Theater Dallas Black Dance Theater Dance Alloy with Black Stalin Dance by Neil Greenberg Dance KUMIKOKIMOTO Dance Theatre of Harlem DanceBra- of Theatre KUMIKOKIMOTO Dance Greenberg Dance Neil by Stalin Dance Black with Alloy Theater Dance Dance Black Theater Dallas Dance Oliver/Coco.

Chouinard Compagnie Nacera Belaza Compagnie Tche Tche Companhia Clara Andermatt Company EA Sola Cross Performance/Ralph Lemon Company Cullberg Ballet Cynthia Ballet Cynthia Company Cullberg Lemon Performance/Ralph Sola Cross EA Andermatt Company Clara Tche Companhia Tche Belaza Compagnie Nacera Chouinard Compagnie

ert Compagnie Heddy Maalem Compagnie JANT-bi Compagnie Kafig/Mourad Merzouki Compagnie La BARAKA/Abou LAGRAA Compagnie La Calebasse Compagnie Marie Marie Calebasse Compagnie La LAGRAA Compagnie BARAKA/Abou La Merzouki Compagnie Kafig/Mourad JANT-bi Compagnie Maalem Compagnie Heddy ert Compagnie

pany Christian Rizzo Chunky Move Clare Dyson Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Cloud Gate Theater of Taiwan Compagnia Teatro Di Piazza O D’Occasione Compagnie Felix Ruck- Felix Compagnie D’Occasione O Piazza Di Teatro Taiwan Compagnia of Theater Gate Dance Cloud Robinson Parker Dyson Cleo Move Clare Rizzo Chunky pany Christian

Jones/Arnie Zane Company Boris Charmatz & Dimitri Chamblas Brown Butterfly Bryan Campbell Cathy Weis Performance Projects ChameckiLerner Chitresh Das Dance Com- Dance Das Projects ChameckiLerner Chitresh Performance Weis Campbell Cathy Butterfly Bryan Chamblas Brown Dimitri & Charmatz Company Boris Zane Jones/Arnie

Preljocaj Barak Marshall Batsheva Dance Company Bebe Miller Company Ben Munisteri Dance Projects Big Dance Theater/Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar Bill Shannon Bill T. T. Shannon Bill Lazar Bill Paul and Parson Theater/Annie-B Dance Projects Big Dance Munisteri Company Ben Miller Company Bebe Dance Marshall Batsheva Preljocaj Barak

Big Dance Theater Attack Theatre Armitage Gone! Dance AVAZ International Dance Theater AXIS Dance Company Ballet Argentino Ballet Hispanico Ballet Memphis Ballet Memphis Ballet Hispanico Ballet Argentino Ballet Company Ballet Dance Theater AXIS Dance International Dance AVAZ Gone! Theatre Armitage Theater Attack Dance Big

porary Ballet AMAN Folk Ensemble Andre Gingras/Korzo Productions Aniruddha Knight and Ensemble Ann Carlson Ann Liv Young Anna Halprin/Anne Collod Annie B. Parson/ B. Collod Annie Halprin/Anne Young Anna Liv Carlson Ann Ensemble Ann and Knight Productions Aniruddha Gingras/Korzo Ensemble Andre Folk Ballet AMAN porary 33 Fainting Spells Afro-Cuba de Matanzas with Los Hermanos Cepeda Akira Kasai Akram Khan Dance Company Alexandre Roccoli Allain Buffard Alonzo King’s LINES Contem- LINES King’s Buffard Alonzo Roccoli Allain Company Alexandre Dance Khan Kasai Akram Cepeda Akira Hermanos Los with Matanzas de Spells Afro-Cuba Fainting 33 NATIONAL DANCE PROJECT additional touring awards december 2013

lead funders these projects are eligible for Doris Duke Charitable Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation presentation support in the 2014-2015 additional funders season, in addition to the projects MetLife Foundation National Endowment for the Arts announced in august 2013. Cultural Services of the French Embassy French American Cultural Exchange contact

sara c. nash program manager, ndp 617.951.0010 x512 [email protected]

elizabeth epsen program coordinator, ndp 617.951.0010 x521 [email protected]

cheri opperman grants coordinator, ndp 617.951.0010 x524 [email protected]

jane preston director of programs

rebecca blunk executive director compagnie marie chouinard dorrance dance emily johnson/catalyst Montreal, QC, Canada New York, NY Minneapolis, MN www.mariechouinard.com www.dorrancedance.com www.catalystdance.com

Gymnopédies The Blues Project SHORE This most recent piece by Marie Chouinard The Blues Project features nine dancers SHORE is the third in a trilogy of works is based on Erik Satie’s Gymnopédies (1888) and five musicians in an evening-length that began with The Thank-you Bar and and is created around the duet form, work. Through group tap choreography continued with Niicugni. SHORE will be both loving and erotic in its expression. and virtuoso solos, The Blues Project tells a multi-day performance installation of COMPAGNIE dancers push their limits by individual stories and sentiments about dance, story, volunteerism, and feasting. taking turns playing Erik Satie’s iconic piece being and feeling ‘blue’. Each tale is It will be a celebration of the places of music live on the piano. One reviewer supremely connected through the originally where we meet and merge - land and wrote, “With everything reduced to such composed blues music of Toshi Reagon. water, performer and audience, art and inspired essentials, the evening rose to community. Over a week, SHORE includes the highest form of art, propelled by a tour coordinator volunteer actions in partnership with choreographer operating at her creative Angela Luem, Artist Representative community organizations, a curated peak, where we could truly expect the Pentacle reading featuring local authors, and unexpected.” angelal@pentacle performances that move from outdoors tel 347.854.3010 onto stage, culminating in a festive tour coordinator www.pentacle.org potluck/feast. Cathy Pruzan, Artist Representative [email protected] artist fee tour coordinator tel 415.789.5051 $31,000/performance Meredith L. Boggia www.cathypruzan.com $40,000/week [email protected] tel 518.791.0376 artist fee touring availability $25,000/performance June 2014–August 2015 artist fee $50,000/week $30,000–$40,000/week tech needs (Plus travel and housing) touring availability A floor suitable for tap dancing is June 2014–August 2015 necessary. If no tap floor is available, the touring availability company can provide one or can provide June 2014–August 2015 tech needs contacts for a local rental. Fees apply. One full day of load-in prior to tech needs performance; grey marley floor. presenter partners Flexible per partner; please contact tour Carolina Performing Arts (Chapel Hill, NC) coordinator for details. presenter partners Spoleto Festival USA (Charleston, SC) Alverno Presents (Milwaukee, WI) The Broad Stage (Santa Monica, CA) presenter partners University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI) New York Live Arts (New York, NY) On the Boards (Seattle, WA)

photo: sylvie-ann paré photo: matthew murphy and kenn tam photo: cameron wittig h.t. chen & dancers panaibra gabriel canda & rosas New York, NY faustin linyekula Brussels, Belgium www.ChenDanceCenter.org Mozambique/D.R. Congo www.rosas.be www.mappinternational.org

South of Gold Mountain Look Back, Dance Forward: TALES OF Rosas danst Rosas South of Gold Mountain is a new work by HOME | Congo/Mozambique Created in 1983 for four very powerful H.T. Chen based on stories from Chinese This two-evening program features Faustin and committed female performers, Rosas people in the American South. These Linyekula (Congo) in his acclaimed solo, danst Rosas is a seminal work of art which hidden stories were revealed during Le Cargo, and Panaibra Gabriel Canda led to the founding of Anne Teresa De research trips by H.T. Chen to Georgia, (Mozambique) in his expressive duet Keersmaeker’s company ROSAS and much Mississippi, and Tennessee in 2012 to Time & Spaces: The Marrabenta Solos, with international acclaim. The restaging of this conduct oral histories with those who live music performed by guitarist Jorge work provides a unique opportunity for settled in the southern states before WWII. Domingos. In both pieces, the artists today’s audiences to experience a landmark Collaborators will include a Jazz/Blues grapple with the complex histories of moment in the history of contemporary composer from Mississippi, a Chinese their countries by re-igniting memories of performance. Rosas danst Rosas is a piece American lyricist, video footage of oral and experiences with their fathers. In the for four dancers and consists of five histories, historic photographs, and a multi- process, they reveal the rigor and passions chapters full of intense physical energy generational cast from New York and the of their contemporary lives. with music by Thierry De Mey and Peter southern states. Vermeersch. tour coordinator tour coordinator Michelle Coe, Director of Booking tour coordinator Francine Sheffield, Artist Representative MAPP International Productions Inge Pieters, Executive Director Pentacle [email protected] Rosas [email protected] tel 646.602.9390 [email protected] tel 212.278.8111 x305 www.mappinternational.org tel 0032 2344 55 98 www.pentacle.org/metro_ht_chen_ www.rosas.be dancers.php artist fee $19,000/performance artist fee artist fee $26,000/week $14,615/performance $18,000/performance (Plus housing and local travel) $38,750/week $28,000/week (Plus housing and local travel) touring availability touring availability October 2014–December 2014 June 2014–August 2015 touring availability October 2014–August 2015 tech needs tech needs No special requirements; standard lighting Contact tour coordinator for details. tech needs and sound; video projector for subtitles. Contact tour coordinator for details. presenter partners presenter partners FringeArts (Philadelphia, PA) presenter partners New York Live Arts (New York, NY) Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN) Alternate ROOTS (Atlanta, GA) The Ringling Museum of Art (Sarasota, FL) Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago La Mama (New York, NY) Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (Chicago, IL) ‘62 Center for Theater and Dance (College Park, MD) (Williamstown, MA)

photo: victoria sendra photo: (left) agathe poupeney; (right) arthur fink photo: herman sorgeloos NDP ADDITIONAL TOURING AWARDS shantala shivalingappa tahni holt urban bush women Paris, France Portland, OR Brooklyn, NY www.shantalashivalingappa.com www.tahniholt.com www.urbanbushwomen.org

AKASHA DUET LOVE Walking with ‘Trane: Chapter 2 Shantala Shivalingappa, longtime DUET LOVE plays with our precious Part of a series of works by Jawole Willa collaborator of luminaries Pina Bausch, notions of hetero-romance by examining Jo Zollar that plunge the depths of jazz Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, and Peter Brook, the desire for stability, recognition, and musician John Coltrane’s formidable legacy; masterfully blends Kuchipudi with Western narrative structure of two bodies on stage. Walking with ‘Trane: Chapter 2 is a music dance aesthetics that deeply resonate Choreographer Tahni Holt and her team of and movement journey inspired by the with today’s audiences. “[AKASHA] four dancers use iconic images of famous making of and music from Coltrane’s 1965 is remarkable: the lines and bends of couples as the driving force to disrupt album A Love Supreme. Ms. Shivalingappa’s slender figure, the and question how gendered bodies are transporting sounds from the singer, flutist portrayed in images and in performance. tour coordinator and two percussionists. ‘Akasha’ means DUET LOVE thrives upon queer twists of Liz Harler, Artist Manager, Touring/Dance ‘space,’ and the space she puts around man-woman love by asking: how does IMG Artist rhythms clarifies them, just as her physical audience desire inflect masculine and [email protected] precision clarifies her shapes,” Brian feminine into the movement and emotion tel 212.994.3552 Seibert, . of dancing bodies? www.imgartists.com tour coordinator tour coordinator artist fee David Persky Tahni Holt, Choreographer $25,000/performance Director of Business Development [email protected] $57,500/week Sunny Artist Management tel 503.708.5801 touring availability [email protected] www.tahniholt.com June 2014–August 2015 tel 646.202.1035 artist fee www.sunnyartistmanagement.com tech needs $15,000/week One day of load-in prior to the performance artist fee day; white marley floor; one grand $20,000/performance touring availability piano with bench; fog machine; three $45,000/week August 2014–December 2015 RFM microphones; and two hand-held touring availability tech needs microphones. June 2014–August 2015 Contact tour coordinator for details. presenter partners tech needs presenter partners Dance Center of Columbia College A low platform for musicians and a sound Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (Chicago, IL) system for live music. For additional details, (Portland, OR) Meany Hall for the Performing Arts please contact our tour coordinator. Velocity Dance Center (Seattle, WA) (Seattle, WA) The Lucky Penny (Atlanta, GA) South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center presenter partners (Miami, FL) Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, MA) Carolina Performing Arts (Chapel Hill, NC) ‘62 Center for Theater and Dance (Williamstown, MA) photo: elian bachini photo: eugenie frerichs (2012) photo: antoine tempé zoe | juniper Seattle, WA www.zoejuniper.org video samples

To see excerpts of work by the artists and companies currently eligible for NDP touring support, BeginAgain visit the National Dance Project BeginAgain, a dynamic combination of interweaving parallel solos for Zoe Scofield and former Batsheva and Crystal Pite page at nefa.org. dancer, Ariel Freedman. The work is the culmination of Zoe and Juniper Shuey’s year-long research studying performance and installation constructs. Working with performance critic Jeremy Barker and presenters at each venue, Zoe and Juniper engage in a new creative process distilled into an ongoing blog, evening-length performance, and video performance installation. tour coordinator Stefanie Karlin, Managing Director zoe | juniper [email protected] For complete guidelines, [email protected] tel 847.609.3597 application information, www.zoejuniper.org and more, visit nefa.org. artist fee $8,500/performance $20,000/week touring availability June 2014–August 2015 tech needs Contact tour coordinator for details. presenter partners The Joyce Theater (, NY) Fusebox Festival (Austin, TX) Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans, LA)

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