National Performance Network's 2012 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia

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Kariamu Welsh is the artistic director of Kariamu & Co.: Traditions. Kariamu is the recipient of
numerous fellowships, grants and awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Choreography
Fellowship, the Creative Public Service Award of NY, a Pew Choreography Fellowship, a Simon
Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant, a Fulbright Specialist award and a
Senior Fulbright Scholar Award. She is the founding artistic director of the National Dance Company
of Zimbabwe in southern Africa. Kariamu is the creator of the Umfundalai dance technique, a
contemporary technique that has been in existence for forty years. Kariamu has received many honors
and awards including the Pioneer Award from The International Association of Blacks in Dance in
January of 2010.
DAVID R. WHITE
The Yard
Executive and Artistic Director
PO Box 405, Chilmark, MA 02535
phone (508) 645-9662
drw@dancetheyard.org
David R White is the executive and artistic director of The Yard in Chilmark, MA (Martha's Vineyard),
an artist/company residency and presentation center dedicated to contemporary dance and related art
forms. Until 2011, he was the Director of ARTVENTURES New England, a statewide program
focusing on rural community cultural development and arts accessibility. He chairs the National
[Artist] Council of Florida's Atlantic Center for the Arts. From 1975-2003, White served as the
executive director and producer of Dance Theater Workshop (now New York Live Arts) in NYC,
where he nurtured countless contemporary artists and founded, funded and directed such longstanding
community-wide programs as the National Performance Network, the Suitcase Fund, and the NY State
Dance Force.
KIM WHITENER
HERE Art Center
Producing Director
145 6th Avenue, New York, NY 10013
phone (212) 647-0202 fax 212-647-0257
kim@here.org
Kim Whitener is the Producing Director at HERE, working in partnership with Artistic Director Kristin
Marting to curate and produce HERE's performance programs and activities. HERE supports the work
of mid-career artists working in hybrid forms through commissions, workshops, and full productions as
part of the HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP). Ms. Whitener has also been an independent