2010 MCAF Grantees: Multidisciplinary
- 6th Street & Avenue B Garden, Inc.
- To support “6th & B Events Program,” a 6-month interdisciplinary arts program at 6th and B Community Garden.
- Arts Indonesia - Gamelan Dharma Swara
- To support "Global Gamelan: New York Compositions for Balinese Orchestra," to be presented in a major public performance at Symphony Space in May 2010.
- Ast, Olga
- To support "ArcheTime 2010," a conference and exhibition dedicated to exploring artistic, academic, and scientific concepts of Time and their connection to information technology.
- Barnstone, Gabriella/El Gato Teatro
- To support “Nuevo Laredo,” a dance theatre work linking the tradition of Day of the Dead with the current narocultura and drug wars in Mexico, to be performed as a workshop in the spring followed by a full production at PS122 in the fall.
- Brown, Suzette
- To support "NYLaughs Laughter in the Park," a 12-week program of free live comedy shows in various parks in New York City.
- Castillo, Yoseli
- To support "The Bohemian Night Featured Artist," a series of five multidisciplinary open mics with a Featured Artist for five months
- Cohen, Davina
- To support “Touch Me, Thrill Me, Squeeze Me, Grill Me,” a series of free performances combining dance, Music, and Theatet inspired by and taking place in farmer’s markets throughout Manhattan.
- Compagnia de’ Colombari
- To support "More or Less I Am," an original Musical piece based on Whitman’s “Song of Myself” which will be produced in public settings throughout Manhattan.
- Crump, Reginald
- To support "Submerged in Blue," a multimedia performance examination of gender fluidity conceived and directed by Monstah Black, including live, video installation, extensive set design, and dance.
- Eastern American Fuzhou Association
- To support “Come Let Us Rejoice,” a 4-hour weekly Fujianese Opera Workshops, ending with three nights of Chinese New Year celebration and performace.
- Examined Man Theatre, Inc.
- To support “The Light Inside,” a cross-disciplinary confessional performance piece that explores and celebrates he unbridled expressive power of Music, presented free of charge in neighborhoods across Manhattan.
- Fleming, Maureen
- To support “Effulgent Wings,” a photo/exhibit, installation and live performance of selected works in the East Village.
- Fly-By-Night Dance
- To support "2010 NYC Aerial Dance Festival," to be held on the Upper West Side at the JCC Manhattan.
- Fox, William
- To support a multidisciplinary staging of "Tanabata," a performance at Beth El University’s New York Center for Art and Media Studies.
- The India Center
- To support "NATRAJ INDIAN FOLK ARTS FESTIVAL," a day of Indian folk dance, , prose, poetry and more.
- Javedani, Sahar
- To support “The Turquoise Lounge,” a multidisciplinary performance following a group of Iranian travelers detained at an airport on the eve of the Persian New Year, and a series of Persian Classical Dance classes.
- Jones, Christine
- To support "Theatre for One in Times Square," a 10-day public installation with performances of Theatre for One, a portable space developed by Broadway set designer Christine Jones for one actor and one audience member based on peep show booths and confessionals.
- Kleine, Andrea
- To support "RATIONALITY," part of a series of works about replication, is a performance-piece that recreates an episode from an early 1990’s, live, call-in, cable access philosophy TV show and is performed in an apartment.
- Les Ballet de l’Opera Chinois de New York, Inc.
- To support a Beijing Opera Ballet performance that will include 8 pieces: four in traditional styles of Eastern cultures and three pieces that fuse traditional Chinese Opera, Kung fu and Western Classical Ballet.
- Liu, Veronica
- To support “Uptown Zine Shindig,” a day-long arts festival with readings, performances, screenings, performance art, new media presentations, and a zine/small press/independent arts vendor fair.
- Manhattan Amateur Art and Columbus Association, Inc.
- To support a series of Four Seasonal Concerts featuring local and Chinese songs, dances, and fashions.
- The Memory Project Productions, Inc.
- To support "Portraits and Diaries," four 2-hour workshops in which groups will experience a multimedia art exhibit incorporating art, history, and memory, and work to create portraits and diaries, which will be displayed for the public at University Settlement House.
- Mitchell, Jenny Lee
- To support “Radio Purgatory,” a multi media live performance using live , film, foley and physical comedy, performing every Friday and Saturday in October 2010 at Dixon Place’s main stage.
- New York Hang Tang Culture & Art Center, Inc.
- To support "A Performance for Celebrating New Year," a performace which will include a collaboration of a notable artist from Shanghai, China.
- NuyoRican School Original Poetry Jazz Ensemble, Inc.
- To support “Access to Artists: A Celebration of Poetry, and Theatre,” a series of six presentations of poetry readings, musical and theater presentations promoting the creative literature of Puerto Rican writers and the Music of Latino artists.
- Perez de Vega, Eva
- To support “upSTREAM,” an installation project that utilizes art and choreographic movement to simulate a fluid development of the physical space.
- Raviv, Yael
- To support "Umami: food and art festival," a festival that brings together artists who use food as a medium with food professionals through a series of performances, exhibits, discussions and educational workshops.
- Residency Unlimited
- To support the outcome of a 10 week residency and workshop by Ana Prvacki in New York City, concluding with a series of two related performances, “Wandering Band” and “Tent, Quartet, Bows and Elbows” in the public spaces of Chelsea.
- The Rev. Linnette C. Williamson Memorial Park Association, Inc.
- To support “The Art and the Gardens,” a final performance of a theme-based play and a dance performance reflecting lessons learned and skills gained during the A&G program, performed by young people in Harlem in the “Unity Park.”
- Seely, Sarah
- To support Sarah Seely's new evening length work to be performed by 14 dancers and actors at Joyce SoHo.
- Tong Xiao Line Chinese Opera Ensemble
- To support “Empress Wu Ze Tian,” a two-hour fully staged Beijing Opera performance with live orchestra in Manhattan.
- ZEYBRAH
- To support "Moment in Time Festival," an African and Afro-Cuban dance//drama to be featured at Zeybrah's 11th annual Moment in Time Festival dedicated to a cultural hero who has passed on.
