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NATIONAL DANCE PROJECTaugust 2011

nefa’s national dance project (ndp) was launched in 1996 to encourage the creation of new work in dance that would be shared with audiences in communities throughout the United States. Since then, the program has distributed more than $19.7 million in grants and has become one of the few sources for dance funding in the country. Through grantmaking and other activity, the program supports dance in ways that enhance partnerships between artists and presenters with the equally important goals of engaging and expanding audiences for dance. NDP is designed to be a dynamic system of support for the field. Extending beyond core grantmaking for creation and touring, the program also works through various initiatives to nurture a vibrant ecology for dance. Currently these include emphases on international exchange, regional development of dance artists, and the work of contemporary art centers with a focus on performing arts and interdisciplinary work. As we enter the 2011-2012 season, we see the landscape for dance changing yet again as we experience significant shifts in the ways work is created and presented, the expectations audiences bring to presentations, and the impacts of technology and the global economy. In response, bolstered by the clarity of a recent program evaluation and ongoing partnership with our funders, NDP will continue to support the field with the promise of relevance and impact for both artists and communities.

For more on NDP’s history, grantmaking programs, program initiatives, and grant recipients, visit nefa.org.

lead funder

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

additional funders

The Andrew W. Mellon FoundationMetLife FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsCultural Services of the French EmbassyFrench American Cultural Exchange

NEFA is a nonprofit organization that operates with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New England state arts agencies, and from corporations, foundations, and individuals.

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cover photos of ndp grant recipients:monica bill barnes & company | photo: david wilson barnesaxis dance company | photo: andrea basilebill t. jones | photo: stephanie bergergallim dance | photo: franziska stauss

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2 ndp partners

3 ndp touring awards

12 ndp funding opportunities

Bebe Miller Company Brian Brooks Moving CompanyCamille A. Brown & DancersChitresh Das Dance CompanyDoug Varone and DancersEmily Johnson/CatalystEverett Dance TheatreFaye DriscolliLand, Inc. (Jennifer Monson)Kate Weare CompanyKota YamazakiKyle Abraham/Abraham.In.MotionLimón Dance CompanyLucky Plush ProductionsMiguel Gutierrez and the Powerful PeopleNora ChipaumirePavel Zuštiak/Palissimo CompanyPaul Taylor Dance CompanyThe Philadelphia Dance Company / PHILADANCOReggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance GroupSeán Curran CompanySean Dorsey Dance (Fresh Meat Productions)Shen Wei Dance ArtsTrisha Brown Company, Inc.Urban Bush WomenZero Performance

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contact

cheri opperman grants coordinator, ndp617.951.0010 [email protected]

steven davis program associate, ndp617.951.0010 [email protected]

jane prestondirector of programs

rebecca blunkexecutive director

hub site representatives

Cory BakerVice President and DirectorScottsdale Center for the Performing Arts

Neil BarclayPresident and CEONational Black Arts Festival

Erin Boberg-DoughtonPerforming Arts Program DirectorPortland Institute for Contemporary Art

Paul BrohanDirector of Artistic InitiativesClarice Smith Performing Arts CenterUniversity of Maryland

Laura FaureDirectorBates Dance Festival

Anna GlassManaging Director651 Arts

Ben JohnsonDirector of Concerts & LecturesNorthrop Memorial AuditoriumUniversity of Minnesota

Bridgette Kohnhorst DirectorGreat Performances at VanderbiltVanderbilt University

Angela MattoxPerforming Arts CuratorYerba Buena Center for the Arts

Marjorie NesetExecutive DirectorVSA North Fourth Arts Center

Jodee NimerichterCo-DirectorAmerican Dance Festival

NDP is guided by a rotating group of field experts comprised of Hub Site representatives and Advisors. Hub Sites are leaders of U.S.-based presenting organizations, have extensive knowledge of the dance community, and have been instrumental in developing new dance works and dance audiences within their communities. NDP Advisors are artists and organizational leaders from the dance field. Together, this group makes funding recommendations and provides feedback on program development and policy. For the most current list and contact information, visit nefa.org.

advisors

Ella BaffExecutive DirectorJacob’s Pillow Dance Festival

Zane BookerArtistic DirectorSmoke, Lilies and Jade

Judy Hussie-TaylorExecutive DirectorDanspace Project

Ranee RamaswamyFounder and Artistic DirectorRagamala Dance

Zoe ScofieldCo-Artistic Directorzoe|juniper

ndp partners(as of August 2011)

founder & honorary advisor

Sam MillerPresidentLower Manhattan Cultural Council

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camille a. brown & dancers(Queens, NY)www.camilleabrown.org

bebe miller company(New York, NY)www.bebemillercompany.org

brian brooks moving company(New York, NY)www.brianbrooksmovingcompany.com

projectHistoryHistory is a new dance work choreographed by Bebe Miller in collaboration with long-time Bebe Miller Company members Angie Hauser and Darrell Jones, as well as dramaturg Talvin Wilks and video artist Lily Skove. A multi-tiered project with accompanying installation and website, History viscerally captures the threads of BMC’s creative conversation in live performance and media. Events are adaptable for venues and developed in dialogue with presenters. This guerrilla mode—nimble, strategic, with multiple points of entry—is designed to give audiences the interactive spontaneity of truly accessible theater.

artistic fee$17,500/performance$23,000/week

touring availabilityNovember 2012-August 2013

tech needsPlease contact tour coordinator for details.

presenter partner(s)Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, OH )Krannert Center for the Performing Arts (Urbana, IL)Bates Dance Festival (Lewiston, ME)

tour coordinatorPamela Green, Booking AgentBebe Miller [email protected] 919.564.5296www.bebemillercompany.org

projectBIG CITYAffected by the physical and emotional destruction that takes over nations, communities, and individuals, BIG CITY looks at the inevitable rebuilding that follows: people putting things back together. Highlighted by Brooks’ affinity for architectural design, it features a set built by the performers as the dance unfolds. Vibrant set elements encompass the theater, playfully shifting the audience’s experience. Taking inspiration from the effort and purposefulness of manual labor, Brooks uses intricate phrasing and musicality to bring beauty and grace to functional movement.

artistic fee$18,000/performance (plus housing)$25,000/week (plus housing)

touring availabilityBeginning June 2012 tech needsSprung wood floor; marley; ready access to audience during performances; dance rep light plot; day-before load-in.

presenter partner(s)DANCEWorks (Santa Barbara, CA)

tour coordinatorLaura Colby, DirectorElsie [email protected] 718.797.4577 www.elsieman.org

projectUntitledThis evening-length work by Camille A. Brown & Dancers tells the stories of the first generation of African-American performers on Broadway. It features narrative by J. Michael Kinsey, original compositions by Brandon McCune and Jon Pratt, and animation by Isabella dos Santos. Performed by six dancers, two actors, and four musicians, this highly collaborative piece contrasts contemporary and and historic forms: ragtime and hip hop, minstrelsy and break dancing. It tells of restriction and breakdown—the rebirth of the spirit and the return to awareness of self.

artistic fee$18,000/performance (plus housing and local travel)$33,500/week (plus housing and local travel)

touring availabilityBeginning June 2012 tech needsPlease contact tour coordinator for details.

presenter partner(s)The Kitchen (New York, NY)

tour coordinatorLauren Nixon, Artist Representative Pentacle [email protected] 212.278.8111 x305www.pentacle.org

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doug varone and dancers(New York, NY)www.DougVaroneandDancers.org

chitresh das dance company(San Francisco, CA, and Kolkata, West Bengal, India)www.kathak.org

projectCarrugiA new dance by Doug Varone set to Mozart’s oratorio La Betulia Liberate, Carrugi will resample the libretto’s themes of heroism, mythmaking, duplicity, and conflict in a 21st century world of comic book-inspired imagery. Varone sees the piece taking shape within a mutable and dynamic visual frame whose key inspiration is digital artist John Toth’s moving imagery, which often employs and manipulates text. Conceived as a 30-minute repertory piece for eight dancers, Carrugi will extend and complement existing work on mixed repertory programs.

artistic fee$25,000/performance $50,000/week

touring availability: June 2012–May 2013 tech needsIdeal for proscenium with 30’x 40’ stage; projection equipment (TBD). Please contact tour coordinator for details.

presenter partner(s)Center for the Arts, University of Buffalo (Buffalo, NY)

tour coordinatorLisa Booth, PresidentLisa Booth Management, [email protected] 212.921.2114fax 212.921.2504www.LisaBoothMgt.com

projectSita HaranSita Haran (the abduction of Sita)—choreographed, composed, and directed by celebrated Kathak icon Pandit Chitresh Das—is a dynamic and original interpretation of an excerpt from the great epic of India, The Ramayana. Sita Haran brings this ancient epic to life with an international, all-female cast of dancers, sumptuous multimedia, Sanskrit poetry, and an original score. Pandit Das delves deeply into the characters, creating a unique, contemporary perspective and shedding new light on this story of greed, lust, distraction, and divine intervention.


touring availability October 2012–June 2013 tech needsCyclorama; black backdrop; projector (minimum 5000 lumens).

presenter partner(s)Anila Sinha Foundation (Elk Grove Village, IL)

tour coordinatorCathy Pruzan, Artist [email protected] 415.789.5051fax 415.789.5055www.cathypruzan.com

projectNiicugni (Listen) - working titleA new performance housed within a light/sound installation of hand-made, functional fish-skin lanterns, Niicugni equates land we live on with cells that comprise our bodies and calls upon audiences to remember that land is alive with ancestry, memory, and possibility, and that our bodies also hold these things. Taking into account the forces that build and simultaneously break down our bodies and earth, Niicugni brings life and death—the ultimate contradiction—into the conversation. Created/performed by Emily Johnson with Aretha Aoki. Composed by James Everest with violinist/electronic musician Bethany Lacktorin and lighting designer Heidi Eckwall.

artistic fee$15,000-21,000/week (plus travel, housing, and freight)

touring availabilityJune 2012–August 2013 tech needsPlease contact tour coordinator for details.

presenter partner(s)PS122 (New York, NY)

tour coordinatorEmily Johnson, Artistic DirectorEmily Johnson/[email protected] 612.597.7400www.catalystdance.com

emily johnson/catalyst(Minneapolis, MN)www.catalystdance.com

photo: phil knottphoto: brooke duthie photo: al iris

2010 NDP Production Grant recipient available to tour in the 2012-2013 season.

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iland, inc. (jennifer monson)(New York, NY)www.ilandart.org

everett dance theatre(Providence, RI)www.everettdancetheatre.org

projectLive Dancing ArchiveIn Live Dancing Archive, choreographer Jennifer Monson and videographer/new media artist Robin Vachal explore the dancing body in conjunction with the moving image of video and other media as an archive of place, experience, and systems. LDA uses the conceptual framework of the archive to build two interrelated components—an evening-length solo and a video/new media project—that simultaneously investigate the nature of impermanence in relation to embodied identities and constructions of environment. The solo will be created from material selected, learned, and set from the video documentation of 20 years of Monson’s performance work.


touring availability Beginning June 2012 tech needs Please contact tour coordinator for details.

presenter partner(s)University of Vermont (Burlington, VT)The Kitchen (New York, NY)University of Illinois, Department of Dance (Urbana, IL)

tour coordinatorEstelle Woodward Arnal, Executive DirectoriLAND, [email protected] 646.717.0585www.ilandart.org

projectBrain StormBrain Storm takes audiences on a journey into the universe’s most complex structure—the human brain—in all its mystery and beauty. Informed by interviews with leading brain scientists and a two-year residency at a facility for brain injury, the piece combines cutting edge research, human experience, kinetic set elements, video projections, and humor. Through striking physicality, poetic imagery, and compelling stories, Brain Storm explores what drives our thoughts, actions, and desires, and contemplates what the coming neuro-revolution may have in store.

artistic fee$18,000–$22,000 (plus freight, accommodations, and per diem)

touring availabilityMarch 2012–August 2013 tech needsMultimedia production; will include projection and set elements. Please contact tour coordinator for details.

presenter partner(s)Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)

tour coordinatorAaron Jungels, Co-Artistic DirectorEverett Dance [email protected] 401.831.9479

photo: valerie oliveiro photo: laura colella

projectNot…Not If you pretend you are drowning I will pretend I am saving youNot…Not uses the archetypal dance form of the male/female duet to explore the poignant tension between fantasy and present tense sensation, seeking to at once satisfy and debunk the duet’s expectations around romance, gender, beauty, sex, partnering, role-play, and autobiography. Performers Faye Driscoll and Jesse Zaritt rapidly slip from recognizable narratives to imagined ones—a couple at a dance club, then imagined beasts, then “original” man and woman in the seductive contrapposto of a Renaissance painting—in an effort to transform the logic of fixed identities.

artistic fee$15,000–$20,000/week (plus housing, travel, and per diem; pending project development)

touring availabilityJune 2012–August 2013 tech needsTBD

presenter partner(s)The Kitchen (New York, NY)

tour coordinatorFaye Driscoll, [email protected] 646.404.3862

faye driscoll (Brooklyn, NY)www.fayedriscoll.com

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kate weare company (Brooklyn, NY)www.kateweare.com

projectGardenGarden, a quartet for two women and two men, is a whimsical glance at how meaning is passed from body to body. Featuring physicality that ranges from lush and delicate to severe and propulsive, Garden draws on primitive issues of origination, collective identity, and safety amid the natural world. Set in a surreal landscape created by visual artist Kurt Perschke and bathed in light by designer Brian Jones, Garden elicits a world of sensuality, curiosity, and innocence with some dark undercurrents.

artistic fee$15,000–$17,000/performance (plus freight, accommodation, and local travel)$20,000–$27,000/week (plus freight, accommodation, and local travel)


presenter partner(s)The Joyce Theater Foundation (New York, NY)Florida Dance Association (Miami Beach, FL)

tour coordinatorKen MaldonadoZIA [email protected] 212.928.6517www.zia-artists.com

photo: keira heu-jwyn chang

kota yamazaki(Brooklyn, NY)www.kotayamazaki.com

kyle abraham/abraham.in.motion(Brooklyn, NY) www.abrahaminmotion.org

project(glowing)Japanese choreographer Kota Yamazaki (Bessie Award winner) will create a new work, (glowing), inspired by the great novelist Jun’ichiro Tanizaki’s famous essay In Praise of Shadows, which explores Japanese aesthetics found in shadow/darkness. Creative team includes: choreographer/project leader Kota Yamazaki; African and butoh dancers Mina Nishimura, Mariko Kurihara, Shiferaw Tarik, and Agnes Mary Gomis (others TBD); architect Robert Kocik; lighting designer Kathy Kaufmann; and composer Koji Setoh.

artistic fee$8,000/performance (as part of a longer tour)$20,000 - $25,000/week

touring availabilityJune 2012–August 2013 tech needsMinimum stage size 40’ x 30’ x 13’ (but flexible); basic lights, sound system. Requires a space that can achieve intense darkness.

presenter partner(s)Japan Society (New York, NY)Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) (Troy, NY)

tour coordinatorCathy Pruzan, Artist [email protected] 415.789.5051 fax 415.789.5055 www.cathypruzan.com

projectBoyz N The Hood (working title) Boyz N The Hood is a culturally-referenced, evening-length dance work that pairs W.E.B. Du Bois’ classic essays Souls of Black Folk, John Singleton’s film Boyz N The Hood, and Philippe Jaroussky’s album Carestini: The Story of a Castrato, layered with an aggressive aural urban landscape. Set in Pittsburgh’s historically black neighborhoods - Homewood and the Hill District - Boyz pays homage to the bold high-top fade era in hip hop while creating an emotional chronology of a culture conflicted with a history plagued by discrimination and genocide.


touring availabilityBeginning July 2012 tech needsMinimum stage size 30’ x 25’; marley floor; full sound system; same day load-in.

presenter partner(s)Harlem Stage (New York, NY)

tour coordinatorSophie Myrtil-McCourty, Director of [email protected] 212.278.8111 ext. 313www.pentacle.org

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projectAnd lose the name of actionAnd lose the name of action will be an evening-length performance that uses dance and improvisation to bridge discoveries in neurology, embodied philosophy, somatic/healing practices, and the paranormal. The piece looks at the ways in which the space of performance is real and unreal, and how dance and language exist in a fraught relationship to each other. How can we know what to believe in anymore? How can dance be a conduit of unspoken knowledge? The work is an attempt to be specific within life’s confusion.

artistic fee$30,000–$35,000 pending project development. Please contact tour coordinator for details.

touring availabilitySeptember 2012–August 2013 tech needsTBD

presenter partner(s)Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN) Brooklyn Academy of Music (Brooklyn, NY)

tour coordinatorBen [email protected] 646.265.8226

limón dance company(New York, NY)www.limon.org

lucky plush productions(Chicago, IL)www.luckyplush.com

miguel gutierrez and the powerful people(Brooklyn, NY)www.miguelgutierrez.org

projectLadies in White (working title)Ladies in White is a commission pairing Rodrigo Pederneiras, principal choreographer of Brazil’s Grupo Corpo, and world-renowned Cuban musician and composer Paquito D’Rivera. The collaboration presents an intriguing and bold proposition for the Limón Dance Company in preparation for its 65th anniversary. A full company dance in three parts and scored for an instrumental octet, this piece gets its title from the work’s first section inspired by women who protest on behalf of jailed dissidents in Cuba. Performed with live or recorded music.

artistic fee$24,000–$38,000/performance (plus hotel)$60,000+/week (plus hotel)

touring availabilitySeptember 2012–June 2013 tech needsTBD

presenter partner(s)New Orleans Ballet Association (New Orleans, LA)Music Center of Los Angeles County (Los Angeles, CA)Tilles Center for the Performing Arts (Greenvale, NY)

tour coordinatorJohn Claassen, Producing [email protected] tel 212.666.2587www.fusionworksprojects.com

projectThe Better HalfCo-created by Lucky Plush artistic director Julia Rhoads and theater director and 500 Clown co-founder Leslie Danzig, The Better Half is a spin-off of the psychological thriller Gaslight. Launching from this classic story, layers of fiction and reality accumulate, revealing the elusive boundaries between self and character, actual and scripted relationships, and life and borrowed plotlines. The result is a fresh and immediate work that captures the claustrophobia and escapist tendencies in contemporary marriage through a complex and evocative dance-theater language that is funny, emotional, and surprising.



presenter partner(s)Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, IL) Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (College Park, MD)

tour coordinatorLauren Nixon, Artist [email protected] 212.278.8111 x305www.pentacle.org/luckyplush photo: scott groller photo: cheryl mann photo: ian douglas


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nora chipaumire(Brooklyn, NY)www.mappinternational.org

pavel zuštiak/palissimo company(New York, NY)www.palissimo.comwww.thepaintedbird.org

paul taylor dance company(New York, NY)www.ptdc.org

projectMIRIAMSet into an evocative stage environment that suggests township nightclubs and dressing rooms, Chipaumire merges monologue and movement in this one-woman show that asks how women balance the tensions between private desires and public expectations. MIRIAM is inspired by Chipaumire’ s personal history of self-exile and self-discovery as an artist and by the legendary South African singer and civil rights activist Miriam Makeba. A score by composer/musician Omar Sosa blends jazz, Afro-fusion, and South African township jazz; Sosa performs live with Chipaumire, pending availability. Directed by Eric Ting.

artistic fee$12,000-$17,000/half-week (plus housing)$18,000-$25,000/week (plus housing)

touring availabilitySeptember 2012–August 2013 tech needsAdaptable to wide variety of spaces; appropriate piano required if Omar Sosa performs.

presenter partner(s)Brooklyn Academy of Music (Brooklyn, NY)

tour coordinatorMichelle Coe, Booking ManagerMAPP International [email protected] tel 646.602.9390www.mappinternational.org

projectThe Painted Bird (Part III): Strange CargoStrange Cargo is the final part of The Painted Bird trilogy of interdisciplinary works by Pavel Zuštiak and Palissimo Company. Loosely inspired by Jerzy Kosinski’s controversial novel of the same name, Zuštiak excavates themes of displacement, otherness, and transformation in this work for five performers, three musicians, and a haunting original score by composer Christian Frederickson. Strange Cargo merges the non-narrative qualities of dance with image-based forms and reaches spectators as a totalizing multi-sensory experience.

artistic fee$22,000-28,000 (plus freight, accommodation, and travel)

touring availabilityMay 2012-August 2013 tech needsLive music; day-before load-in; adaptable to a range of venues.

presenter partner(s)Performance Space 122 (New York, NY)La MaMa (New York, NY)PADL West (San Diego, CA)

tour coordinatorPavel Zuštiak, Artistic DirectorPalissimo [email protected] 212.781.5540www.palissimo.com

projectThe UncommittedPaul Taylor’s newest dance, The Uncommitted, set to music by Arvo Pärt with costumes by Santo Loquasto and lighting by Jennifer Tipton, explores the complex emotions of love and the impermanence of relationships. The work “is about people who don’t connect, or who can’t stay connected for very long…” The Uncommitted—a dance for 11 comprised primarily of solos and duets—will be one of three dances that make up a complete program of works by one of the world’s greatest living modern dance choreographers.

artistic fee$30,000-$40,000/performance $80,000-$100,000/week

touring availabilityBeginning September 2012 tech needs Please contact tour coordinator for details.

presenter partner(s)American Dance Festival (Durham, NC)

tour coordinatorMike Paquette, Booking ManagerPaul Taylor Dance Company [email protected] 212.431.5562fax 212.966.5673www.ptdc.org

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the philadelphia dance company / philadanco(Philadelphia, PA)www.philadanco.org

reggie wilson/fist & heel performance group(Brooklyn, NY)www.pentacle.org/reggiewilson

projectWake Up (working title)Distinguished hip hop and modern dance choreographer Rennie Harris will choreograph a new ballet that will reflect the rich traditions of African-American contributions to dance evident in PHILADANCO’s signature style, while incorporating the contemporary voice of Harris. The work will be set to Afro-jazz and funk fusion music, and will relate the theme of communal ties to the birth of hip hop.

artistic fee$15,000-$17,000/performance (plus accommodations)$25,000-$49,000/week (plus accommodations)

touring availabilityBeginning September 2012 tech needsMarley floor; 30’ x 40’ stage. Please contact tour coordinator for details.

presenter partner(s)Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts (Philadelphia, PA) The American Theatre (Hampton, VA)Miller Center for the Arts (Reading, PA)

tour coordinatorMarc Baylin, PresidentBaylin Artists [email protected] 267.880.3750 www.baylinartists.com

project(project) Moseses Project(project) Moseses Project explores our relationships to leadership and the effects of migration on beliefs and customs. Grounded in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Moses, Man of the Mountain and with exploratory travels to Israel, Egypt, Turkey, and Mali, the work looks at the migration of peoples and culture out of Africa and into the rest of the world. Conversations, interviews, research (kinesthetic and academic), and aesthetic crafting are shaping a dynamic evening-length work.


touring availabilityJanuary 2013-August 2014 tech needsMarley floor; sound system; computer control board capable of 250 channels and multipart cues; optimal stage size 45’ x 30’; day-before load-in.

presenter partner(s)Columbia College Chicago (Chicago, IL) The Brooklyn Academy of Music (Brooklyn, NY)

tour coordinatorSophie Myrtil-McCourty, Director of [email protected] 212.278.8111 ext. 313www.pentacle.org

photo: lois greenfield photo: antoine tempé

seán curran company(New York, NY)www.seancurrancompany.com

projectSolstice: Seán Curran Company in collaboration with The King’s Singers Seán Curran Company will tour Solstice with music performed by the Grammy-winning a cappella ensemble The King’s Singers. With a newly-commissioned score by Joby Talbot that uses the six vocalists as an abstract, orchestral chorus, the work will take inspiration from ancient architectural landmarks, ritual, and mysticism. Six dancers will articulate Curran’s physical and conceptual exploration of landscape, horizon, and time, connecting dance and music in a visceral language of movement and sound.

artistic feePlease contact tour coordinator for details.

touring availability November 2012–August 2013 tech needs Designed for concert halls and proscenium stages as part of a combined Seán Curran Company/King’s Singers touring program. Please contact tour coordinator for details.

presenter partner(s)The DeBartolo Performing Arts Center (Notre Dame, IN)University of Florida Performing Arts (Gainesville, FL)

tour coordinatorJulia Glawe, Senior Vice President, Director – Dance DivisionIMG [email protected] tel 212.994.3500www.imgartists.com photo: harry pocius 9

sean dorsey dance (fresh meat productions)(San Francisco, CA)www.seandorseydance.com

projectThe Secret History Of LoveThe Secret History Of Love is a powerful new work that explores the search for love and connection across time. The show is the culmination of a two-year oral history project, unearthing stories of how LGBT people managed to find—and love—each other in decades past. Trailblazing transgender choreographer Sean Dorsey and four other dancers perform these full-bodied dances that incorporate modern dance, theater, and storytelling, taking audiences on a journey from 1920s speakeasies to the internet and beyond.

artistic fee$12,000–$15,000/week (plus travel and accommodations)

touring availabilityApril 2012-August 2013 tech needsProscenium or black box venue (but flexible).

presenter partner(s)The Theater Offensive (Boston, MA) Links Hall (Chicago, IL)The Queer Cultural Center (San Francisco, CA)

tour coordinatorShawna ViragoGeneral ManagerSean Dorsey [email protected] 415.355.0071www.seandorseydance.com

shen wei dance arts(New York, NY)www.shenweidancearts.org

projectLimited StatesIn Limited States, Shen Wei’s newest dance, dancers blend seamlessly with video, shadow, paint, and lighting in a marriage of film and choreography. The distraction of technology is Shen Wei’s new focus, and he attacks it. At times the company mimics projections of filmed dancers in unusual synchronization. At others, the dancers compress into a rectangle of light (suggesting the screens we watch all day). In Limited States, the choreographer of the 2008 Beijing Olympics creates a breathtaking alternate world, where attention is dissipated and we surrender impulse control.

artistic fee$35,000/performance (plus housing and local transportation)$55,000/week (plus housing and local transportation)

touring availabilityMay 2012-August 2013 tech needsMarley dance floor; grey cyclorama; step unit; day-before load-in; adaptable for range of venues.

presenter partner(s)American Dance Festival (Durham, NC)

tour coordinatorHarold Norris, PresidentH-Art [email protected] 212.868.2134

photo: lydia daniller photo: rick mccullough

trisha brown company, inc. (New York, NY)www.trishabrowncompany.org

projectNew Work by Trisha Brown (title TBD)Trisha Brown will complete a new work (title TBD) inspired by her explorations with ideas of sculpture, calligraphy, and knots. The piece continues Trisha’s exploration of duets in new ways with phrase material built from improvisations in which dancers played with imagined spaces, sharing and passing the role of active and passive partner, and interrupting one another’s kinetic intentions. Artist Burt Barr’s set—a cluster of 8-12 industrial fans—introduces the piece sonically and then gives way to an original score by prestigious composer Alvin Curran.


touring availabilityBeginning January 2013 tech needs40’ x 20’ dance space; set includes 8-12 industrial fans.

presenter partner(s)Théâtre National de Chaillot (Paris, France)Brooklyn Academy of Music (New York, NY)

tour coordinatorRena Shagan, PresidentRena Shagan Associates, [email protected] 212.873.9700www.shaganarts.com

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zero performance(San Francisco, CA)www.circozero.org

projectTurbulence (a dance about the economy)Turbulence (a dance about the economy) is a bodily response to economic crisis, an experimental hybrid of contemporary dance, performance, agitprop, and circus. A collaborative creation choreographed by Keith Hennessy, Turbulence features a core company from San Francisco, musician Jassem Hindi from Paris, and 10 local performers. Modeling efficient solutions to economic and ecological crises, Turbulence uses resources sparingly and is adaptable to various venues. The intent of Turbulence is to inspire engagement and discourse in response to current economic crises and their historical antecedents.

artistic fee$8,000-$15,000/performance$12,000-$22,000/week

touring availabilitySeptember 2012-August 2013 tech needsPlease contact tour coordinator for details.

presenter partner(s)Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA) Dance Theater Workshop (New York, NY)

tour coordinatorKeith Hennessy, Artistic DirectorZero [email protected] 415.846.2273www.circozero.org

photo: robbie sweeney

urban bush women(Brooklyn, NY)www.UrbanBushWomen.org

projectvisiblevisible is a performance work that explores epic journeys, myths, dreams, and memories of the known world and an imagined future in an unknown land. Choreographers Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, founder of Urban Bush Women, and Nora Chipaumire conceive a landscape that unlocks the personal narratives of those who leave their homelands, by choice or not, in search of “warmth of other suns.” The vision of the work is reflected in the seven-member male and female cast, who range in age from early twenties to mid-sixties, and who come from countries around the globe.

artistic fee$35,000–$50,000

touring availabilityJuly 2012–August 2013 tech needsTBD; possible video projection, special lighting effects.

presenter partner(s)Harlem Stage (New York, NY)

tour coordinatorJulia Glawe, Senior Vice President, Director – Dance DivisionIMG [email protected] tel 212.994.3500www.imgartists.com

photo: vaughn david brown


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December 2011

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NDP Presentation support.

See next pages for details.

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NDP Production Grants and Touring Awards:

» Make possible the creation and touring of new works of genuine imagination and originality by artists.

» Ensure that the new works will tour and be performed in venues in multiple locations.

» Offer potential to engage audiences because of the work’s relevance, originality and/or timeliness, and the project’s use of live and virtual strategies to connect the artists and the public.

» Reflect a well-articulated presenter/artist partnership with at least one U.S. presenter, who works with the artist to support the creation and touring of the new work.

NDP is particularly interested in proposals that reflect the evolving environment for dance, including but not limited to:

» Projects that push aesthetic boundaries and reflect the cultural and aesthetic diversity alive in dance today.

» Projects that nurture long-term and multi-faceted partnerships between choreographers and presenters, leading to the highest quality possible in the production values for the completed work.

» Projects that are interdisciplinary, enabling choreographers and dance artists to partner with creators in other artistic forms or explore hybrid art forms.

» Projects that enable choreographers and dance artists to experiment with new technologies in the creation of new work, and explore new ways to engage audiences in all stages of a dance work’s development and presentation.

» Projects that involve choreographers and dance artists who have been making work for less than ten years or who have been involved in NEFA’s Regional Dance Development Initiative.

» Projects that expose audiences and U.S.-based choreographers to international work of outstanding quality and originality, primarily through NDP Touring awards.

ndp funding opportunities

NDP Production Grants

and Touring Awards

make possible the

creation of new work

and initiate a cycle of

support for presenters to

access funding through

Presentation Grants.

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ndp initiatives

Other NDP initiatives include: » engaging in international

partnerships such as FUSED (French-U.S. Exchange in Dance);

» fostering the field on a regional level through RDDI (Regional Dance Development Initiative);

» promoting collaborations among contemporary arts curators through the Contemporary Art Centers network.

For complete guidelines,

application information,

and more on NDP

initiatives, visit nefa.org.

To present a work in this booklet in the 2012-2013 season, contact the project’s tour coordinator in advance of their tour plan submission in March. Presenters will be contacted to submit an application in April.

Additional Touring Awards will be announced in December 2011 and will also be eligible for NDP Presentation support.

who may apply Performing arts presenters and other nonprofit organizations.

next deadlines March 1, 2012 (tour plans due) April 2, 2012 (applications due; by invitation only) grant recipients Grants are made to presenters and support up to 50% of the artistic fee per engagement.

ndp presentation grant

Production Grants fund the development of new dance work that will tour nationally. Grants support costs incurred through the artistic creation of the work. These grants are highly competitive and are awarded to approximately 20 artist/companies annually. Grants generally range from $25,000 to $40,000. Production Grant recipients automatically receive an NDP Touring Award, which provides presenters with access to funding to support the presentation of the new work upon its completion (see Presentation Grants).

who may applyArtists, artist managers, and agents.

next deadlineMarch 1, 2012

grant recipientsRecipients will be announced in August 2012 and presenters may apply for Presentation Grants for these selected projects in April 2013.

ndp production grant

NDP Touring Awards are given to a small selection of projects (created outside of NDP Production support) that are ready to tour nationally.

NDP Touring Awards represent a reserve of up to $40,000 in funding, which is distributed to multiple presenters to support the touring of each project.

who may applyArtists, artist managers, agents, and presenters.

next deadlineOctober 13, 2011

award recipientsRecipients are announced in December 2011 and presenters may apply for Presentation Grants for these selected projects in April 2012.

ndp touring award

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 Contemporary Ballet AMAN Folk Ensemble Andre Gingras/Korzo Productions Aniruddha Knight and Ensemble Ann Carlson Ann Liv Young Anna Halprin/Anne Collod Annie B. Parson/Big Dance Theater Attack Theatre Armitage Gone! Dance AVAZ International Dance Theater AXIS Dance Company Ballet Argentino Bal-let Hispanico Ballet Memphis Ballet 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. Jones/Arnie Zane Company Boris Charmatz & Dimitri Chamblas Brown Butterfly Bryan Campbell Cathy Weis Performance Projects ChameckiLerner Chitresh Das Dance Company Christian Rizzo Chunky Move Clare Dyson Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Cloud Gate Theater of Taiwan Compagnia Teatro Di Piazza O D’Occasione Compagnie Felix Ruckert Compagnie Heddy Maalem Compagnie JANT-bi Compagnie Kafig/Mourad Merzouki Com-pagnie La BARAKA/Abou LAGRAA Compagnie La Calebasse Compagnie Marie Chouinard Compagnie Nacera Belaza Compagnie Tche Tche Companhia Clara An-dermatt Company EA Sola Cross Performance/Ralph Lemon Company Cullberg Ballet Cynthia Oliver/Coco. Dance Theater Dallas Black Dance Theater Dance Alloy with Black Stalin Dance by Neil Greenberg Dance KUMIKOKIMOTO Dance Theater of Harlem DanceBrazil Danza Floricanto/USA Dancing Earth David Dorfman Dance David Gordon/Pick Up Performance Company David Neumann/Advanced Beginner Group David Rousseve/REALITY David Wampach Dawn Akemi Saito Dayna Hanson Dayton Contemporary Dance Company Dean Moss Deborah Hay Dance Company Delfos Danza Contemporanea Demetrius Klein & Gary Lund Dennis O’Connor Dianne McIntyre with Lester Bowie Diavolo Dance Theater Didier Theron & Keith Thompson Donald Byrd/The Group Donna Uchizono Company Doug Varone and Dancers Dumb Type DV8 Physical Theatre Edgeworks Dance Theater Eiko and Koma Emily Johnson/Catalyst Elevator Repair Service Theater Elizabeth Streb/Ringside Emio Greco Everett Dance Theater Evidence, A Dance Company Farruquito y Familia / Eva la Yerba Buena Faustin Linyekula / The Studios Kabako Faye Driscoll Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana Floating Outfit Project Forces of Nature Francois Chaignaud & Cecilia Bengolea Fugate/Bahiri BalletNY Gamelon Sekar Jaya Garth Fagan Dance George Piper Dances Germaine Acogny, Carmen De Lavallade, Bebe Miller, Dianne McIntyre, and Jawole Zollar Gesel Mason Performance Projects (Mason/Rhynes Productions) Giovanni Luquinni Dancers Gravity Physical Entertainment (Jess Curtis) Grupo de Rua Guangdong Modern Dance Co. H Art Chaos H.T. Chen and Dancers Halau o Kekuhi with Tau Dance Company Headlong Dance Theater Heather Kravas Herbin “Tamango” Van Cayseele/Urban Tap Houston Ballet Hub-bard Street Dance Ilkhom Theatre InkBoat/Shinichi Koga International Aerial Dance Festival Inzalo Dance Theatre, Kongo Ba Teria, Rary Company Jane Comfort and Company JAZZDANCE by Danny Buraczeski Jean-Baptiste Andre Jennifer Monson Jenny Holzer Jeremy Wade Jerome Bel Jim May/ DANCING RED/New Dance Group Joe Chvala and the Flying Foot Forum Joe Goode Performance Group John Jasperse Company John Kelly and Company Jonah Bokaer José Limón Dance Com-pany K. Kvarnström and Company Keith Hennessey Keo Woolford Khmer Arts Academy Kimberly Bartosik Ko-Thi Dance Company Koosil-ja/danceKUMIKO Lar Lubovitch LeeSaar The Company LeGendre Performance Leine & Roebana Lemi Ponifasio/Mau Lingo dancetheater Lisa Nelson Living Dance Studio Living Word Project Liz Lerman Dance Exchange Locust Lucy Guerin Lula Washington Dance Theatre Lyon Opera Ballet Mabou Mines Maguy Marin Company Marc Joseph Bamuthi Margaret Jenkins Dance Company Maria Benitez Teatro Flamenco Mark Morris Dance Group Marta Elena Savigliano Martha Clarke Martin Chaput and Martial Chazallon Martine Pisani Maureen Fleming Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods Megan Murphy Merce Cunningham Dance Company Meredith Monk Merian Soto Dance and Performance Miami City Ballet Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People Min Tanaka Minh Tran and Company Molissa Fenley Monica Bill Barnes & Com-pany Morgan Thorson Muna Tseng Dance Project Muntu Dance Theater Myriam Gourfink Na Kinimakalehua Nature Theater of Oklahoma NATYA India Dance Acad-emy Netherlands Dance Theater 2 Nicholasleichterdance Noche Flamenca Nora Chipaumire North Carolina Dance Theater Nrityagram Dance Ensemble ODC/San Francisco Oguri/Body Weather Laboratory Ohio Ballet olive Dance Theatre Oslund and Company/Dance Pat Graney Performance Paul Taylor Dance Foundation Paula Josa-Jones/Performance Works Pepatian Philadanco Pierre Rigal Pilobolus Dance Theater Polly Motley and Molly Davies Project Bandaloop Quasar Dance Compa-ny Rachid Ouramdane Ragamala Music and Dance Theater Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group Rennie Harris PureMovement Rhythm in Shoes River North 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 Rubberband Dance Group Salia ni Seydou San Francisco Ballet Sankai Juku Sara Shelton Mann Sarah Michelson Sardono Dance Theater Seán Curran Com-pany Shapiro & Smith Dance Shawn McConneloug and her Orchestra Shen Wei Dance Arts SITI Company Souloworks/Andrea E. Woods and Dancers Stephen Petronio Company Sui Generis (Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh) Susan Marshall and Company Sydney Dance Company TangoMujer Tere O’Connor Dance Tero Saarinen Company To-gether Higher Tracie Morris Trajal Harrell Trey McIntyre Project Trisha Brown Company Urban Bush Women Victoria Marks Vincent Mantsoe Viver Brasil Wally Cardona Quartet Washington Ballet Wayne McGregor/ Random Dance Company Wendy Houston Wooster Group Xavier Le Roy Yanira Castro/A Canary Torsi Yasuko Yokoshi Yin Mei Dance Zoe Scofield and Juniper Shuey

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