2008 MCAF Grantees: Dance
- Alexandra Beller Dances, What Comes After Happy
- To support an evening length dance-theatre workshop with original text by acclaimed American playwright and author Charles Mee and costumes by Eric Jackson Bradley.
- Andrea Miller, The Smile of a Poppy Asleep in a Field
- To support 80 hours of rehearsal with 6 dancers culminating in the performance, the site-specific dance work, Smile of a Poppy Asleep in a Field.
- Aviva Geismar, Line of Descent
- To support Line of Descent, a new evening-length dance which will explore the legacy of political or ethic violence and which will be presented by Dance New Amsterdam March 3-16, 2008.
- Catherine Gallant, An Absurd Vice
- To support two free outdoor presentations of An Absurd Vice (choreography-Catherine Gallant) to be performed on the Upper East Side in a rare traffic free block walkway between Third and Second Ave.
- Chen Min Lipman, The Spider Witches
- To support a two-hour performance, 20 dancers including Ballet and Beijing Opera.
- CorbinDances, Inc., CorbinDances, Inc. Two-Week Season at Joyce SoHo
- To support a two-week season (eight performances) of dance at Joyce SoHo.
- Dance Collective, May 2 &3, 2008 Free Performance
- To Support “Tower,” a post-9/11 free performance project at the Westbeth Gallery and courtyard, commissioned by Westbeth Artists Residency Council and created by Dance Collective’s choreographer/performer Carol Nolte, as an expression of hope for downtown NYC,
- Dance Parade Inc., Dance Fest
- To support Dance Fest, a free public event in Battery Park.
- Darrah Carr Dance, Create Choreography and Free Family Show
- To support the creation of new choreographers work to be premiered during our 10th Anniversary Season in November 2008. Funds from MCAF will also help us present a free Family show as part of our season.
- Dorian Nuskind-Oder, “Zipper” and “Too Late Tulip”
- To support “Zipper” and “Too Late Tulip”, a new evening of dance to premiere at Joyce SoHo Theater.
- Ellen Cornfield, Dance for a Small Room
- To support performances of a new evening-length work, Dance for a Small Room, which includes original choreography, music and lighting to be performed at the Henry Street Settlement’s Abrons Arts Center in June 2008.
- Freefall Ltd., The Grid Project
- To support the documentation and active creative of a work of dance-theater that will culminate with five performances at SoHo Rep Theater in June 2008.
- Heidi Latsky, Artistic Director of Heidi Latsky Dance, FROM THE LIMB
- To support administration and implementation of informances, performances, and outreach activities that will occur during my one-month residency at the Abrons Art Center (where I am developing my new evening length work FROM THE LIMB in order to promote this exciting work and increase its visibility and community outreach.
- House of Dance, The A.W.A.R.D. show at Joyce Soho
- To support a portion of the production an marketing costs for the 2008 season of Artists with Audiences Responding 2 Dance.
- Japan Performing Arts, Inc. , Panoramasian Dance Project
- To support a four-day theatrical dance performance project in Summer of 2008 in Lower Manhattan entitled “Panaromasian Dance Project.”
- Jody Sperling/Time Lapse Dance, Inc., Bang for the Buck
- To support the development of Bang for the Buck, a new choreographic work by Jody Sperling to be presented at the “Tea Dances” performance series in Chelsea.
- Judith Sanchez, Experiment II / The Test Tube
- To support multiple workshops resulting in two performances by select professional modern dancers.
- Jump Up, Inc., Noise + Speed
- To support the premiere performance of Noise + Speed, an evening length work inspired by the manifestos of the Italian Futurists.
- Lawrence Goldhuber, Sleeping Giant
- To support the production costs of the show, Sleeping Giant, to be presented at the Henry Street Settlement in October 2008.
- Mary Seidman and Dancers/ Keystone Dance Foundation Inc., MAMA, a modern folk tale
- To support the performances fees of the Mary Seidman and Dancers modern dance company for the premiere of “Mama” at La Mama ETC.
- Nami Yamamoto, A Howling Flower
- To support a premiere of a dance/puppet performance, a howling flower, at the Dance Theater Workshop on May 28-31, 2008.
- Naomi Goldberg Haas, Dances for Seniors/Downtown NYC
- To support interactive performances and workshops held in five senior centers in downtown Manhattan.
- Netta Yerushalmy, bilocale - come closer please...
- To support the production costs of a new dance work to be premiered at the Harkness Dance Festival.
- New Choreographers On Point, Inc., Ballet Builders 2008
- To support a showcase to give gifted ballet choreographers, selected in open auditions, the exposure and experience they must have to develop their talent and advance their professional careers.
- Notes in Motion, Inc. , Rashoman
- To support the development and performance of original dance theater piece “Rashoman” to be presented at Dance New Amsterdam in June 2008.
- Parul Shah, History of Unforgetting
- To support the development and production of a major dance performance to be presented in donwtown Manhattan in Spring 2008.
- Rebecca Warner, My Violence Is Not Your Violence
- To support the creation of a new work which will culminate in a weekend of performances in the West Village- one public outdoor performance in the Hudson River Park and two evening performances in a shared program at the Merce Cunningham Dance Studio.
- Regina Nejman, Reveal
- To support the salaries of performers for the premiere of Reveal, my new dance/theater piece to be presented at the Merce Cunningham Studio.
- Sally Gross, “Middle of Autumn”
- To support the company’s performances in Fall 2008.
- Sarah Seely, How to Disappear Completely
- To support thirty, three-hour rehearsals culminating in a two-night dance performance.
- Sita Frederick, What Do You Dance On?
- A socio-political salsa dance-theater piece with a live band and projection for club and/or theater presentations in Manhattan.
- Sue Hogan, Unison Fetish
- To support the production of “Unison Fetish,” a dance for six women and an indeterminate number of cupcakes, to be performed in the southeast corner of Bleeker Playground on four Saturday afternoons, May 24, 31, June 7, and 14 2008.
- Tamango Herbin Van Cayseele Stanislas, Tamango’s Urban Tap/Tamango and Charlie Hunter
- To support a collaboration between master tap dancer Tamango and maverick jazz guitarist Charlie Hunter to be previewed during three performances with residency activities in Harlem.
- Trinayan Collective, Guna
- To support the premiere of their new production, Guna, which is to be performed at Joyce Soho on June 5-8, 2008.
- VIA Collaborative Arts Corporation, The Dream Project: “Lullaby in Surrealism”
- To support dancers’ rehearsal pay for Dream Project, including a July 2008 production of “Lullaby Surrealism” and three organized community events in which artists working on the project will interact with atypical dance-goers in situations tailored to spark conversation about individual dream experience, thus tethering audience involvement past the concert event only.
- Vicky Virgin, Salt Lake, a New Ballet in 3 Acts
- To support the production of an evening length dance theater piece to be presented at the SoHo Rep in the fall of 2008 and will run for 4 nights with a salt bar open to the public in the lobby.
