Genres Dance

Light. Dark. Action (originally entitled Even in Darkness)

Hunter, Whitney V.

Year Grant Awarded: 2011

L.D.A. is an interactive performance work intergrating live performance and digital media sensor technology. A nude black painted figure triggers projector light and an original sound score for the purpose activating the audiences imagination. Read More

La Bestia: Sweet Mother

International Human Rights Art Festival

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

La Bestia: Sweet Mother" is a multi-media theatrical exploration based on Tom Block's play, of one immigrant's voyage from her home in Tegucigalpa, Honduras through Guatemala and Mexico and into the desert of the USA, looking for a better life. Read More

Plastic Ocean

Lee, Lee

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Plastic Ocean responds to the problems presented by single use plastic and calls for consideration on misplaced notions of “disposability” to question consumer driven waste which has devalued what is in fact a very important material. Read More

The Materiality of Impermanence

Marroquin, Sharon

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

The Materiality of Impermanence is an evening-length dance production based on my journey as a breast cancer survivor. A post-performance panel, "Art and Healing", features breast cancer survivors who have used art to transform their experience. Read More

CONSTANTS: a performance journey in history along the Schuylkill River

Movement Brigade

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

An interactive and site specific performance work, CONSTANTS explored how the Schuylkill River has been a constant factor in the lives of Philadelphians since the inception of the city. Audience members traveled with performers on land and in canoes. Read More

Femmes: Residency/Performance Platform

New Dance Alliance

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Femmes: Residency/Performance Platform offers an unapologetic and in-depth forum to develop close dialogue and foster not only the production of highly original artistic work, but also the career development of female artists at different stages of t Read More

Hunts Point Homes

Pepatian

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Hunts Points Homes focuses on artists as catalysts to offer artists opportunities to draw attention to the residents, history and approaching changes happening to the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx. Read More

MIZARU ~see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil~

Purring Tiger/ Aaron Sherwood & Kiori Kawai

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

MIZARU is a dance performance with interactive multimedia and live music, exploring life and death, technology and the human body.    Read More

The Jobs Project

RealLivePeople(in)Motion

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

"The Jobs Project" is an evening-length dance based upon interviews with 25 Philadelphians about their jobs: what they actually do at work, what they think about it and how it does/not relate to their sense of identity. Read More

…and this is the story thus far

Regina Nejman & Company

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

"…and this is the story thus far" is a new multimedia dance choreographed by Regina Nejman, created for six dancers with live electronic guitar accompaniment interwoven with Brazilian music. It will premiere at Dixon Place on December 11th and 12th. Read More