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Announcing the Strokes of Genius Fellows!

The Strokes of Genius Fellowship provides artists, curators, journalists, and scholars with funding to develop new creative projects. Along with a $2,500 stipend, feedback support from The Black Genius Foundation Staff and mentorship support from The Black Genius Brain Trust, Strokes of Genius fulfills our commitment to invest in the creativity and cultural production of Black artists and arts professionals and nurture the creative health of our communities.

From 185 applications, we were able to support 25 creative visionaries from across the country. 

1st row (left to right)
Amani Washington - Visual Artist, Inglewood, CA
André M. Zachary - Choreographer, Dancer & Artistic Director – Renegade Performance Group, Brooklyn, NY
Arit Emmanuela Etukudo - Media Artist, Baltimore, MD
Ben Williams - Bassist, Composer, Singer/Songwriter and Bandleader, Los Angeles, CA
C.C. Young - Writer, Lafayette, LA
CHISARAOKWU.  – Transdisciplinary Poet, Writer, Visual/Performance Artist, Scholar and Health Futurist, Los Angeles, CA
Christal Brown - Mother, Artist, Educator, Disciple, Coach & Founder of INSPIRIT, a dance company and Project: BECOMING, Middlebury, VT
Ciera Alyse McKissick - Independent Curator, Writer & Founder of AMFM and cam.contemporarie, Chicago, IL

2nd row (left to right)
Dahlak Brathwaite - Playwright, Composer, Performer, Director and Filmmaker, Ridgewood, NY
INEZ – Producer, Singer-Songwriter, Audio Engineer, Pittsburgh, PA
Ivan Rome - Filmmaker, Columbus, GA
Jamila Woods - Poet, Songwriter and Performing Artist, Chicago IL
Jeffrey L. Page – Director, Choreographer and Cultural Preservationist – New York, NY
Juliette Jones - Violinist, Composer and Founder of Wondersmith Entertainment & Passing the Crown, Los Angeles, CA
L. Renée - Poet, Story Collector and Non-Fiction Writer, Mercer County, WV
Latavia Young - Writer, Director and Creative Producer, Los Angeles, CA / Kansas City Metro
Marjuan Canady - Writer, Director and Producer, Washington, DC

3rd row (last row)
Mia Imani - Spiritual Technologist, Speculative Architect, Conceptual Artist and Sleep Advocate, Los Angeles, CA
OlaRonke Akinmowo - Writer, Cultural Worker, Interdisciplinary Artist & Founder and Director of The Free Black Women’s Library, Brooklyn, NY
Russell Taylor – Interdisciplinary Artist and Cultural Leader, Washington, DC
Shamel Pitts - Performance Artist, Choreographer, Conceptual Artist, Dancer, Teacher and Founder & Artistic Director of TRIBE, Brooklyn, NY
Suné Woods Zomhlaba – Multidisciplinary Artist, Philadelphia, PA
Taja Lindley - Memory Worker and Spirit-Led Interdisciplinary Generative Artist, Nashville, TN
Tyree A. Boyd-Pates - Multidisciplinary Historian and Cultural Archaeologist, Los Angeles, CA
Umi IMAN - Dance Artist, Educator, Indigenous Art Curator and Co-Director of Al Taw’am & Sequoia Ascension, Atlanta, GA / Brooklyn, NY

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE FELLOWS HERE

​The National Center for Choreography-Akron (NCCAkron) today announces choreographers Alice Sheppard (New York, NY/Los Altos, CA) and Laurel Lawson (Atlanta, GA) of disability arts company Kinetic Light as the latest recipients of the $50,000 Knight Choreography Prize. Made possible by Knight Foundation, this award is designed to support the artistic experimentation and career longevity of choreographers in the United States. Each year the award honors a living choreographer or artist collaborative whose body of work is distinguished not only for their artistry but also for their originality of thought and impact. The award celebrates choreographers who provide significant contributions to the dance field, expand audiences for dance, and ensure the artform has a prominent place in U.S. culture. Kinetic Light will receive an unrestricted cash award of $30,000, plus $20,000 in programmatic support over two years, to be co-designed with NCCAkron.

Find out more here  

Green Space is thrilled to announce the 2025-26 D.I.G. Artist Residency participants. These fantastic artists will have the opportunity to develop and share new work during eight work sessions, two personal & professional development workshops, ending in two culminating Take Root performances, May 14th - 17th, 2025 at Green Space.

The 2025-26 D.I.G. Participants:
Not A Dance Company (Payge LeCakes)
Liiiam (Liam McLaughlin)
Josephine Brunner
Chisato Fujii
Louise Heit
Eleanor Crawford
Will Pettigrew
Charlotte Aucella

More information and tickets will be available at
www.GreenSpaceStudio.org beginning in January 2026.

This season's five Fresh Tracks artists! This year's panel of artists and professionals from our field selected the following creators in a rigorous and engaged interview style audition:

Dorchel Haqq
Ariel Lembeck
Cristina Moya-Palacios
Dahlia Qumhiyeh
Sacha Vega

The annual Fresh Tracks Residency & Performance program for emerging movement-based artists will continue to celebrate its 60th year featuring Juliana May as Artistic Advisor. The program originated at Dance Theater Workshop in 1965 to bring new choreographic artistry to the forefront.

Works & Process is pleased to announce the 10 awarded artists from our first-ever residency open call and their host residency venues.

Adesola Osakalumi – Bethany Arts Community
Arturo Lyons – Bethany Arts Community
BOCA TUYA | Omar Román de Jesús – The Watermill Center
Kristine Bendul & Abdiel – The Church
New Chamber Ballet – Bethany Arts Community
Orlando Hernández & the Knee-Heart Connection – Bridge Street Theatre
Sun Kim Dance Theatre – Modern Accord Depot
Sydnie L. Mosley Dances – Bethany Arts Community
REYNA – Bethany Arts Community
Xin Ying – PS21: Center for Contemporary Performance

Find out more here

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Become a 2025-26 residency and performance artist at Live Arts!  Applications must be submitted by Sunday, August 10, 2025, at 11:59pm EST.

New York Live Arts’ Fresh Tracks Residency & Performance program is a season-long residency for emerging movement-based artists in support of new work creation and professional development.
Four artists will be selected through an in-person interview-style audition process.
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READ MORE AN APPLY HERE

Pictured (L - R/top to bottom)
Maxi Hawkeye Canion
Tess Dworman
Edu Hernandez
Jordan Demetrius Lloyd 
Veronica Santiago Moniello 
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The 2025-26 artists-in-residence are Tatiana Desardouin, Justice Jamal Jones, and Nathan Trice. Each artist will receive a one-week residency with unlimited access to a dance studio and full living space at Arts on Site R&R in Kerhonkson, NY, as well as a $2,000 stipend. The residency is designed as both a retreat and a space to create without the pressure of developing a new project. Additionally, artists have access to complimentary studio space at New Dance Alliance’s loft in Tribeca throughout the season, and are invited to show work at NDA’s annual Performance Mix Festival.

Read more here

​Limón Dance Company announces with great sorrow the passing of a beloved member of the Limón family, Carla Maxwell. She passed at a nursing home in the morning on July 6, 2025.

Carla Maxwell joined the Limón Dance Company in 1965. She soon became a principal dancer under José Limón's direction and, in 1978, was appointed artistic director of the company. During her tenure, the Company emerged as one of the finest repertory dance ensembles in the world. She accepted the 2008 National Medal of Arts at the White House on behalf of José Limón Dance Foundation, for innovative contributions to American modern dance. She received the 1995 Dance Magazine Award and a 1998 New York Dance and Performance (Bessie) Award for “finding a creative present in the context of a revered past and thereby offering choreographic opportunity to multiple generations of artists; for inspired leadership and artistic accomplishment.” Acclaimed as a brilliant dramatic dancer, she danced many major roles with the Company, including the title role in Carlota, Limón’s final ballet, which he choreographed for her. Ms. Maxwell was responsible for many of the Company’s reconstructions of Limón dances. As a choreographer, she created works for the Company and regional companies throughout the United States.

​THE CLIVE BARNES FOUNDATION CELEBRATES ~ 15TH ANNIVERSARY OF DANCE AND THEATRE AWARDS,
AT NATIONAL ARTS CLUB

The Clive Barnes Foundation (CBF) has announced the 2024 Honored Artists for The Clive Barnes Award in Dance and Theatre. David Gabriel (New York City Ballet), Isaiah K. Harvey (EVIDENCE), and Kanon Sugino (Doug Varone and Dancers) have been named Honored Artists in Dance, and Ava Lalezarzadeh (English), Tom Francis (Sunset Boulevard), and Helen J Shen (Maybe Happy Ending) are the Honored Artists in Theatre. The 15th Annual Clive Barnes Award ceremony will be held Monday, June 9, at 5:30pm at the National Arts Club in New York City.

For more information and to support the Clive Barnes Foundation, click here