National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Fall Grant Announcement

Dances For A Variable Population (aka DVP)
$10,000 New York, NY
To support the presentation of "REVIVAL." The project will comprise a series of dance performances and
community workshops in celebration and renewal of 20th-century modern dance, developed with the senior
dancers who helped create it. Through free public performances featuring these senior professional dance
artists alongside groups of nonprofessional senior dancers, the series will both revive and renew dance
traditions, and will bring together multigenerational communities in a celebration of the discovery of
movement. Performances may reach audiences in New York City parks, plazas, and public spaces, and will be
followed by an interactive dance workshop for audiences.
Danspace Project, Inc.
$40,000 New York, NY
To support dance presentations, residencies, and developmental activities for choreographers. Each of these
activities contributes to Danspace's Choreographic Center Without Walls, a holistic system of support for artists
across various career stages and points in the developmental process of their work. This framework provides
curatorial support and research and contextualization around artists and their work through public discussions
and online publications. All activities will take place at the historic St. Mark's Church in New York City's East
Village.
Discalced, Inc. (aka Mark Morris Dance Group)
$70,000 Brooklyn, NY
To support the creation of a new work and restaging of older works by Artistic Director Mark Morris. The
choreographer will create a new work to music by composer Lou Harrison for premiere at the Tanglewood
Music Festival in Lenox, Massachusetts. The piece will be part of an all-Harrison program to celebrate the 100th
anniversary of the composer's birth. The company also will restage Morris' 18-minute work for 7 dancers,
"Dancing Honeymoon" (1998) for performance at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in Urbana, Illinois,
and at the George Mason Center for the Arts in Fairfax, Virginia. The work is set to music transcribed and
arranged by Ethan Iverson, from historical recordings of Gertrude Lawrence and Jack Buchanan, which will be
performed live by the MMDG Music Ensemble. All performances will include audience engagement activities as
part of Access/MMDG programming to contextualize the performances.
Flyaway Productions
$10,000 San Francisco, CA
To support the creation and presentation of "The Credibility Project." The site-specific performance will bring
awareness through aerial dance and dialogue to a serious sociopolitical issue: a lack of credibility for women.
Proposed collaborators include photojournalist Lynn Johnson and hip-hop composer MADLINES. Free
performances will premiere in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood on a wall owned by the University of
California's Hastings Law School. This will be Flyaway's fourth community responsive project in the Tenderloin
since 2012.
Foundation for Independent Artists, Inc. (aka FIA)
$40,000 New York, NY
To support the creation, presentation, and touring of works by several dance artists. Art Bridgman & Myrna
Packer will tour "Truck" to the Tulsa Performing Arts Center (Tulsa, Oklahoma), the Sheldon Theatre (Red Wing,
Minnesota), and Des Moines Performing Arts (Des Moines, Iowa). Beth Gill will create and premiere a new work
in conjunction with the exhibition, "Merce Cunningham: Common Time" at the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis,
Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of
December 7, 2016.