Asian Arts Initiative
Title:  Chinatown Orange
Description:  “Chinatown Orange” will engage local artists in performance workshops offered by Kikuchi + Liu which illuminate their methods of artistic investigation and invite the creation of new performance work in conversation with the public investigations of the meaning behind the Glidden paint color “Chinatown Orange.”
NPN Subsidy:  $4,000

Contemporary Dance Theater, Inc.
Title:  Fleming Technique Immersion
Description:  Maureen Fleming will give a three-week intensive course for University of Cincinnati dance students in Fleming technique. During this period she will also choreograph a work for these young dancers to be performed in early December 2008.  Fleming will also work in the community with other dancers, educators, yoga teachers, non-dance majors and health and wellness professionals expanding their knowledge of regenerative dance.
NPN Subsidy:  $5,000

La Pena Cultural Center
Title:  Raw-Dios
Description:  headRush and La Pena will collaborate with the Center for Media Justice, The Unity Council, and a high school to engage community around issues of media justice and the impact of this nation’s propensity toward war. These issues form the soul of headRush’s new work, “Raw-Dios.” Activities will include workshops, performance based town hall meetings, and work in progress performances that create a community dialogue around these issues.
NPN Subsidy:  $5,000
 
Links Hall
Title:  Performance Mentoring Project
Description:  Expanding the impact of Time Miller’s July 2008 NPN Residency, three solo performance artists (self-identified as queer or who address queer themes in their work) will be selected from a public call for proposals to receive: (1) free space on Tim Miller’s five-day residency workshop in July; (2) a four-month program of mentoring support from Tim Miller, focused on the development of new solo performances; (3) the opportunity to publicly present their new work at Links Hall in December 2008; and (4) a stipend and other professional development support.
NPN Subsidy:  $5,000