APPLICATIONS DUE - Friday, January 27 -

Create Change (artist development) application! We will be commissioning 5 artist projects and accepting 15 additional artist Fellows, all around the theme of sanctuary. 

Please note that for the first time our Fellows program is free of charge for selected artists! In addition, our Residency & Commissions programs come with artist honoraria and production funds.

The deadline is this Friday, Jan 27. More info below and direct any questions to apply@laundromatproject.org.

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For a decade, The Laundromat Project’s Create Change artist development program has connected communities and artists in meaningful ways, creating a diverse corps of creative community leaders. Each year, we select 20 multiracial, multi-disciplinary artists and changemakers living in the New York metropolitan area to produce eight new projects through our fellowships, commissions, and residencies. For a period of 6-8 months, participants are guided through workshops, studio visits, and intense community building focused on experiential coaching, in order to build and develop community-responsive creative projects. Create Change participants acquire the necessary practical and ethical tools to critically examine the role of artists working with community members. The program further provides artists with a community of support, opportunities to build networks and the resources they need to further develop their creative practices and positively impact the communities where they live, work, and grow.    
We are accepting applications for our fellowship, residency, and commissions programs. Learn more about each of these opportunities. ​

Movement Research welcomes

2017 Artists-in-Residence
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2017 Van Lier Fellows
 
Please join us in congratulating and celebrating these exceptional artists!
 
Movement Research 2017 Artists-in-Residence
with support from the New York State Council on the Arts
Patricia Hoffbauer
Kota Yamazaki


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Movement Research 2017 Van Lier Fellows
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with support from the New York Community Trust through the Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund
Fana Fraser
NIC Kay
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Gibney Dance Community Action proudly welcomes Maria Bauman as our 2017 Artist in Residence, and recipient of Gibney Dance's Beth Silverman-Yam Social Action Award! Maria's residency will be centered around the research and development of a new piece, dying and dying and dying, exploring issues of death, decay, rest, and capitalism. She will also continue with the work of ACRE (Artists Co-Creating Real Equity), the collective she co-founded, using Gibney as a meeting space and a place for public conversation, and offer a gallery exhibition and a series of public workshops and conversations.
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United States Artists (USA) is pleased to announce the hiring of Deana Haggag as its new President and CEO. She will officially assume the position on April 3rd.

“I’m honored to have been chosen to lead this incredible organization,” said Haggag. “USA’s mission is more important now than ever. USA Fellows embody the creativity, passion, diversity, and talent of this country, and the incredible heights American artists are capable of. It will be a privilege to support them in their future efforts, and to celebrate what they’ve already accomplished.”

Haggag has been the Executive Director of The Contemporary, a nomadic, non-collecting art museum based in Baltimore, MD, since 2013. Prior to that she was the Curator-in-Residence at Baltimore’s Gallery CA. In addition to her work at The Contemporary, Deana lectures extensively, consults on various public art initiatives, contributes to cultural publications, and teaches at institutions such as Towson University and Johns Hopkins University.

She is on the board of the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, and the council of Common Field, and has served as a member of the Affiliates Board for the Museums and Society Program at Johns Hopkins University and StageOne/FANS council at the Baltimore School for the Arts. Haggag was named one of “10 People to Watch Under 30” by the Baltimore Sun in 2013, and a “Young Cultural Innovator” by the Salzburg Global Forum in 2015. She received her MFA in Curatorial Practice from the Maryland Institute College of Art and a BA from Rutgers University–Newark in Art History and Philosophy.
 
Haggag’s appointment comes as USA nears completion of its $20 million operations endowment campaign. The endowment consists of an initial 5-year, $10 million challenge grant from the Ford Foundation, which has been matched by million-dollar grants from The Rockefeller Foundation, The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Barr Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, and private giving.

“It’s an exciting time for USA; all the more so with Deana coming on board,” says USA Board Chairman Steven Oliver. “The continued growth of both our financial and human resources represents not only the tremendous success USA has had thus far, but also the role it will play going forward. This promises to be an uncertain time for the support of the arts. I can’t think of anyone more committed, eager, or prepared than Deana to lead USA in this endeavor.”
 
USA’s most recent class of 46 Fellows, announced in November, work across nine creative disciplines, and each of them will receive unrestricted $50,000 cash awards. The awards honor their creative accomplishments and support their ongoing artistic and professional development. The 2016 Fellowships mark a decade of support from USA, which with this new class will have given out almost $25 million since its inception in 2006. USA Fellowships are awarded to artists at all stages of their careers and from all areas of the country through a rigorous nomination and panel selection process. Fellowships are given in the following disciplines: Architecture & Design, Crafts, Dance, Literature, Media, Music, Theater & Performance, Traditional Arts, and Visual Arts.
 
The Fellowships allow artists to use the unrestricted funds for whatever they need most, and so to take risks and push their careers forward. Among past awardees are film director Barry Jenkins, composer David Lang, novelist Annie Proulx, playwright David Henry Hwang, choreographer Bill T. Jones, and visual artist Kara Walker.
 
USA will hold its annual Artist Assembly in celebration of its 2016 Fellows, and the 10th anniversary of the inception of the program, in Chicago, March 27-29, 2017. The Assembly includes performances, artist presentations, and opportunities for artists to give back by partnering with local not-for-profit organizations, community arts organizations, and schools that serve young art students.

Commissioning Award Exemplifies Growing Organization’s Commitment to the Development of New Work Across the Performing Arts

Lumberyard Contemporary Performing Arts (formerly American Dance Institute) is pleased to announce that its Artistic Advisory Board has selected New York City-based choreographer and dancer Kathy Westwater, whose work The Brooklyn Rail has described as “at the limits of the human,” as the winner of the 2017 Solange MacArthur Award for New Choreography. The organization will provide Westwater with $10,000 in commissioning funds, fee-free fiscal sponsorship, strategic marketing and development support, and a presentation of the commissioned work in the 2018-19 season.

The annual Solange MacArthur Award reflects Lumberyard’s vital role in supporting the creation of new work by American performing artists. Lumberyard’s Artistic Advisory Board—including Brian Brooks, Jane Comfort, David Dorfman, Doug Elkins, Dan Hurlin, Jodi Melnick, David Neumann and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar—selects the winner following a closed nomination process. Previous recipients include Raja Feather Kelly (2016), Steven Reker (2015) and Chris Schlichting (2014).
Lumberyard Executive & Artistic Director Adrienne Willis said, “Lumberyard is dedicated to supporting artists as they challenge themselves, audiences and their art form, and the Solange MacArthur Award serves our core mission to enable performing artists to make the work they have imagined.”

Westwater said, “I am honored and grateful to receive this award, especially because it was recommended by a group of artists I admire and respect. The commitment that Lumberyard makes to the creation of new work is felt. This will enable me to realize a project I’ve imagined and I can't wait to begin. There are many who make what I do possible—dancers, colleagues, collaborators, family, teachers, students, arts workers and audience—and to them I am also deeply grateful.”

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Complexions Contemporary Ballet
The Joyce Theater
January 24 – February 5
Under the artistic direction of Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson, Complexions kicks off of the company's 23rd season at The Joyce Theater with two programs.  Program A (Week 1) includes the world premiere of Gutter Glitter, “…set to [music by] Electronica that finds the spark of rare beauty and inspiration in unexpected places,” the New York premiere of Star Dust, “the first installment of a full evening length ballet tribute to the genre-bending innovation of one of the most prolific rock stars of all time, David Bowie,” plus So Not A... (An Epilogue to Gutter Glitter).  Program B (Week 2) includes Ballad Unto... and Star Dust. This season marks the launch of “The Collage Series” created by resident choreographer Rhoden who aims to present new dance works in a visual collage format, notes the release.  Find out more here 
 
Paulina Olowska
The Kitchen
January 26 – 28
Olowska’s Slavic Goddesses—A Wreath of Ceremonies, described as “…a tableaux vivant based on Slavic and Pagan traditions…[plus]…the work of visionary Polish artist Zofia Stryjeńska, and her notion of ballet as a “wreath of ceremonies,” comes to The Kitchen. “Olowska has often addressed feminism and cultural conventions of the past century in her work, and here considers the role of folk culture today,” according to the release.  Find out more here
 
Peggy Choy Dance
Kumble Theater
January 27 - 28
Choy’s FLIGHT “…is a 21st century Afro-Asian dance saga …inspired by Attar's 12th century Persian poem, “Conference of the Birds.” Find out more here
 
Jans Martens
Abrons Arts Center
January 27 – 28
Flemish choreographer, Martens’ U.S. premiere Sweat Baby “…a passionate duet about a couple who can’t – or won’t – let one another go…,” runs for one-hour and “…could be seen as a modern mating ritual: naïve, sensual, tender but painful, and evocative of both romantic exhilaration and destruction,” notes the release.  Find out more here 
 
The Thunderbird American Indian Dancers
Theatre for the New City
January 27 – February 5
For their 43rd concert and pow-pow The Thunderbird American Indian Dancers will feature dances, stories and traditional music from the Iroquois and Native Peoples of the Northeast, Southwest and Great Plains regions. All proceeds benefit Native American scholarship fund. Find out more here 
 
The Construction Company
University Settlement
January 27- 28
Choreographers Sally Bowden, Ellen Cornfield, Alan Good and Rebekah Windmiller will present works together for The Construction Company.  The program will include early works by Bowden and Windmiller which were originally solos performed at The Construction Company by the choreographers themselves. These solos will be reset on new dancers. Find out more here
 
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
NJPAC
January 28 -29
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company returns to NJPAC as part of China's Spring Festival with  "Year of the Rooster" highlights including dancing lions and dragons, sounds of Chinese traditional instruments (pipa and erhu), plus vibrant costumes and props. Find out more here 
 
Various Artists
Movement Research at the Judson Church
January 30
Don’t miss this free, ongoing, Monday night performance series of experimentation and works-in-progress.  This week’s featured artists are: Felicia Beatriz Avalos, Eva Dean Dance, Sara Gurevich and Nikima Jagudajev. Find out more here

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Performance Group's Citizen @ BAM for AmNews

​Some thought on Fana Fraser @ BAAD! for AmNews