2011 MCAF Grantees: Dance
- Dance Parade, Inc.
- DanceFest, a four-hour interactive free dance festival where parade participants and the general public celebrate the diversity of dance by watching stage and site-specific dance performances.
- DanceBreak Foundation
- DanceBreak, an annual showcase of emerging musical theatre choreographers presented to Broadway industry professionals and the New York community.
- Darrah Carr Dance, Inc.
- Create Choreography, Community Ceili & Free Family Shows, a Darrah Carr Dance presentation of new choreographic work to be premiered during the New York season in November, 2011.
- Sita Frederick
- Comparsa G Comparsa G's remix of Afro-Dominican dance and music traditions,Gaga and Guloya, with contemporary dance theatre in a migrating performance for the street and park during outdoor events in Washington Heights and beyond.
- Lane Gifford
- Cross Borders, a creative conversation between choreographer Lane Gifford and sculptor Mark Mennin consisting of on-site development of a new choreographed work, followed by rehearsals, workshops and a final performance.
- Anneke Hansen
- Anneke Hansen's choreographed, site-specific work for a special event for University Settlement's 125th anniversary celebration.
- Maria Hassabi
- SHOW a new dance trio, installation-based work created by choreographer Maria Hassabi to premiere at The Kitchen in September 2011 as part of Crossing the Line, the Fall festival of the French Institute Alliance Francaise.
- Kate Weare Company
- Kate Weare Company's performance of one premiere work and one existing work, along with providing a workshop or open rehearsal focusing on the choreographic process.
- Juliana F. May
- Gutter Gate, Juliana F. May's sextet, premiering at Dance Theater Workshop in February 1-5 2011. The work charts a groups' experience through a compositional intervention as layers of abstract sound and movement interface to locate a new narrative.
- Muna Tseng Dance Projects Inc.
- STELLA STELLA, an evening-length dance performance by choreographer Muna Tseng on the subjects memory, mother, and home.
- Palissimo, Inc.
- The Painted Bird Trilogy Part III, the final installment of Pavel Zustiak's dance theater trilogy project, performed over the summer in a historical building on Governor's Island.
- Avichai Scher
- Avi Scher & Dancers' season of three public performances of contemporary ballet in NYC Season at Ailey Citigroup Theate.
- Pam Tanowitz
- Ever Is After All, a contemporary ballet about modern femininity, inspired by classical story ballets such as Giselle and Swan Lake, choreographed to John Zorn's newest composition, Femina.
- VIA Collaborative Arts Corporation
- Unwrapped VIA, a series of open rehearsals hosted by guest artist friends of the company, culminating with VIA Dance Collaborative's annual season in Manhattan in Fall 2011.
- Netta Yerushalmy
- devouring, devouring, a group work which places two opposite modes of performance side by side: purely abstract movement and enacted scenes of melodramatic proportions from Verdi's opera, La Forza del Destino.
