NEFA: Dancing Earth, Announced as Finalist for 2020 National Dance Project!

NEFA Announced Dancing Earth as
1 of 38 Finalist
for the 2020 Production Grant cohort!

from Nefa.org: NEFA is thrilled to announce the 38 finalist projects selected for the 2020 Production Grant cohort.

The National Dance Project (NDP) virtually convened a 2020 panel of Advisors to complete the first stage of the two-stage application and review process for the Production Grant program – selecting 38 Finalists out of 168 applications. One of the essential sources of funding for dance in the U.S.*, Production Grants provide funding for the creation and touring of 20 new dance projects by choreographers and companies through a package of support including:

• $45,000 to create a new work;

• $10,000 in unrestricted general operating support;

• up to $35,000 in tour subsidies that go to U.S. organizations that bring the new work to their communities;

• $11,500 to a support a Production Residency for Dance and additional community engagement work.**

BOUND: Shadows of Slavery
working title

In collaboration with historian Estevan Rael-Gálvez, BOUND: Shadows of Slavery is a choreo-archive that breaks the silence surrounding Native slavery in the U.S. Southwest. BOUND embodies Rael-Gálvez’s 30 years of research through contemporary dance ritual, contextualized within aspen branch gathering walk to assemble for installation/set design, story-sharing dinners highlighting ingredients that reflect the cultural fusion, oral history soundscapes, documentary film footage, and an exhibition of post-1848 photos of the enslaved and other archival records.