National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Fall Grant Announcement

To support the presentation of the Repertory Program 6: Pictures at an Exhibition. The program will feature
works by as many as three choreographers selected by Artistic Director Peter Boal. Since its inaugural year, the
program has added more than 90 works to the company's repertory. This program will showcase works by
George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and Alexei Ratmansky. Educational activities accompanying the
performances will include demonstrations, open studio and dress rehearsals, pre-performance lectures, and
post-performance question-and-answer sessions with the guest artists. The performances will take place at
Seattle's Marion Oliver McCaw Hall.
Pat Graney Performance, Inc. (aka PAT GRANEY COMPANY)
$20,000 Seattle, WA
To support the presentation and tour of "Girl Gods," an installation and performance piece by Pat Graney. The
second work in a triptych, "Girl Gods" was originally conceived to be an Installation/Performance work for both
a museum and a stage production. It deals with issues about women and rage. The piece will take place both in
Seattle, Washington, and in Kochi, India, for the Kochi Biennale in 2018. Women participants from Pat Graney's
Keeping the Faith/Prison Project will be interviewed in Seattle and women in Kochi will be interviewed by a local
woman filmmaker from the Kochi area on rage and gender-based violence. The footage from these interviews
will become part of the installation. Workshops with community members about rage and gender-based
violence also will take place at the Frye Art Museum throughout the exhibition life. Online presences for
postings throughout the life of the "Girl Gods" installation/performance will include Facebook, Twitter, and
other social media engagement.
Pilobolus, Inc. (aka Pilobolus)
$20,000 Washington Depot, CT
To support the creation of a new work as part of the International Collaborators Project. Pilobolus will
collaborate with Grammy Award-winning banjo player Bela Fleck and his creative partner and wife, singersongwriter
Abigail Washburn, on a new work for four dancers. Pilobolus's directors are interested in finding new
ways of using the body as an expressive medium for storytelling. As a point of departure, the creative team will
explore some of the music traditions that these collaborators bring to the project. The musical duo will not only
build, perform, and record a score for the work, they also will be a part of forming its overall atmosphere and
story through constant conversation and involvement in the piece's development.
President and Trustees of Bates College (On behalf of Bates Dance Festival)
$40,000 Lewiston, ME
To support the Bates Dance Festival. The festival will include dance company residencies, performances, and
student dance classes. The project will bring together leading dance figures, emerging artists, and companies
such as David Dorfman Dance, zoe | juniper, Stephan Koplowitz Projects, Pearson Widrig Dance Theatre, Mark
Dendy Projects, Tania Isaac, and Larry Keigwin, as well as dance scholar Debra Cash, consultant Kim Konikow,
students, dancers, and educators. Each company may offer performances, a public show-and-tell, work-inprogress
showings, workshops, weekly Artist Roundtables, an annual improvisation concert, broadcast
interviews, and blog entries. The artists and other individuals will come together for one- to three-week
residencies with the goals of fostering artistic exchange and encouraging appreciation of contemporary dance.
Project Bandaloop (aka BANDALOOP)
$20,000 Oakland, CA
To support rehearsal and preparation of dance works for a national tour. Bandaloop will tour "#PublicCanvas," a
large-scale multimedia vertical dance collaboration by media artist Jonathan Rowe of Madrone Studios/The
Village, choreographer Amelia Rudolph, and animator GMUNK. The work will premiere at #SFPublicCanvas, a
Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of
December 7, 2016.