2009 MCAF Grantees: Multidisciplinary
- 6th Street and Avenue B Garden, Inc.
- To support a 6-month interdisciplinary program at 6th and B Community Garden in Manhattan.
- Action Arts League, Inc.
- To support The FIGMENT Arts Festival, a three-day multi-disciplinary participatory arts event on Governor’s Island in New York Harbor, free and open to the public to attend, participate, and contribute works of art.
- Suzette / NY Laughs, Inc. Brown
- To support a 12-week summer series of free comedy in open NYC public spaces.
- Cannery Works Corporation
- To support a three-event festival series called WestFest 2009: Images that Move, where Cannery Works artists present and discuss new works in film, photography, and multi-media in three West Side neighborhoods.
- Dance 2000: The Felice Lesser Dance Theater Foundation, Inc.
- To support the world premiere of Felice Lesser’s “live cartoon” Funding The Arts, presented at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in November 2009.
- Dharma Road Productions
- To support a three-month artists residency to develop and present new work by promising emerging dance or theatre makers working with existing literary texts.
- Maureen Fleming
- To support a photo/video exhibition/installation and live performance, Dances from Home, in the East Village.
- Fly-By-Night Dance Theater, Inc.
- To support the NYC Aerial Dance Festival, to be held on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in April 2009 in the Samuel Rose Auditorium at the JCC Manhattan.
- Billy Fox
- To support a multidisciplinary staging of The Kaidan Suite at the 2009 Spring Fever Festival.
- Julia E. Francis
- To support a multi-disciplinary doll-making performance, Patron Saint, staged in a gallery window in the garment district, which will create a unique collaborative partnership with its audience.
- Peggy Gould
- To support an evening-length multi-disciplinary performance on the Lower East Side entitled From Within & Outside a Bright Room, featuring five performers, a visual media artist and a stage manager.
- India Center, The
- To support a classical Indian Dance and Musical competition, Saraswati Classical Indian Arts Festival 2009, for students studying Indian Arts.
- Samar / Yaa Samar! Dance TheaterKing
- To support a multidisciplinary performance, The Store, a piece based in New York City that relates six characters from varied backgrounds through one incident, to be presented in 12 performances in the Lower East Side.
- La Compagnia de’ Colombari
- To support Strangers and Other Angels, a re-imagining of the medieval mystery plays for the 21st century in an indoor-outdoor Christmas spectacle free to the public.
- Manhattan Amateur Art & Columbus Music Association, Inc.
- To support a year-long music and dance program, Four Seasons Concert Series, which includes multiple shows in Lower Manhattan/Chinatown as well as festivals, fairs and parks, and community events.
- MiShinnah Productions
- To support a live outdoor multimedia performance of an original hybrid opera-film in Lower Manhattan, where Edgar Allan Poe lived and worked during the final years of his life, staged in August of 2009 in celebration of his 200th birthday.
- MOTYL Chamber Ensemble
- To support a dance theater project that begins with an open rehearsal and performances at health care facilities and culminates in a three-evening performance series.
- Sarah Pillow
- To support Perpetual Motion: Revolutions in 17th Century Science and Music, performances merging video technology with Baroque music and storytelling in Lower Manhattan, celebrating the 400-year anniversary of Galileo’s first astronomical discoveries.
- Alyson Pou
- To support a multi-disciplinary performance/installation, A Slight Headache, by Alyson Pou presented in the manner of a 19th Century Dime Museum/Sideshow at South Street Seaport Museum Melville Gallery in January and February 2009.
- Ruth Sergel
- To support a live multimedia performance Alchemy of Light, at Culturemart at the Here Art Center in 2009.
- Tong Xiao Ling Chinese Opera Ensemble
- To support the production of a two-hour, fully staged Beijing Opera performance with live orchestra in Downtown Manhattan.
- VisionIntoArt Presents, Inc.
- To support Traveling Songs, a collaborative creation process of new works to be performed in NYC.
- Chin Chih Yang
- To support ICE, a one-day day interactive sculptural ice installation in Union Square Park on a hot summer day.
- Zeybrah
- To support a African and Afro-Cuban dance/music/drama to be featured at the 9th annual “Moment In Time Festival,” dedicated to a cultural hero who has passed on.
