Summer FY08 Creation Fund Awards
Lead Partner/Commissioners: Legion Arts, Hellenic Museum & Cultural Center
Artist: Angela Kariotis
Project Title: "Odyssey Trippin’"
Project description: "Odyssey Trippin’" is a new work of hip-hop theatre. It follows two previous works by Angela Kariotis, "Reminscence of the Ghetto" and "Say Logo Say Word," and like them it juxtaposes Greek history and traditions with contemporary American experience and idioms. With a script and performance by Kariotis, the production will incorporate live music by Mavrothi Kotanis and Yako, and will be directed by Will Power.
NPN Subsidy/Commissioners Match: $9,000
Lead Partner/Commissioners: Myrna Loy Center, Bates Dance Festival
Artist: Bebe Miller
Project Title: "Necessary Beauty"
Project description: Short, multimedia works for (up to) four dancers, "Necessary Beauty" will be produced with digital technology for a range of venues including black box theaters, white box galleries, outdoor events - that require only a dance floor, a projection wall, sound and light.
NPN Subsidy/Commissioners Match: $9,000
Lead Partner/Commissioners: Alverno Presents, Walker Art Center, Flynn Center
Artist: David Neumann/advanced beginner group
Project Title: "feedforward"
Project description: An evening-length work by David Neumann with an original score by Eve Beglarian for the dancers of the advanced beginner group accompanied by a live trombone choir.
NPN Subsidy/Commissioners Match: $11,000
Lead Partner/Commissioners: MECA, Dallas Black Dance Theater
Artist: Elio Villafranca
Project Title: "Jazz Fusion"
Project description: MECA is commissioning pianist and composer Elio Villafranca to create a modern composition made up of a fusion of African, Cuban, Mexican and Spanish folkloric styles. The intent is for the composition to be set to original choreography, created by Dallas Black Dance Theater, and performed live by Mariachi MECA and other musicians.
NPN Subsidy/Commissioners Match: $9,000
Lead Partner/Commissioners: La Peña Cultural Center, El Centro Su Teatro
Project Title: "Raw-Dios"
NPN Subsidy/Commissioners Match: $9,000
Lead Partner/Commissioners: Out North, Bunnell Street Gallery
Artist: James Luna and Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Project Title: "La Nostalgia: The Shame-man and El Mexican’t Return"
Project description: Native American conceptual/ performance artist James Luna and Guillermo Gómez-Peña are developing a new work, “La Nostalgia: The Shame-Man and El Mexican’t Return”. Gómez-Peña is writing the literary script for “La Nostalgia” while Luna conceives the visuals, the music and the staging notes. The resulting residencies in Alaska will continue Out North’s relationship with Gómez-Peña and help connect the artists, especially Luna, to Alaska’s Native peoples and artists.
NPN Subsidy/Commissioners Match: $9,000
Lead Partner/Commissioners: Tigertail Productions, Skirball Cultural Center
Artist: Jan Sebon
Project Title: "Peyi Mwen"
Project description: Haitian-born Miami-based multidisciplinary artist Jan Sebon will create "Peyi Mwen" (My Country) a full evening contemporary work that uses Haitian music, dance, poetry and visual art. "Peyi Mwen" draws from and celebrates Haiti’s culture and oral traditions. Jan Sebon will start work on "Peyi Mwen" in December 2007 and will complete the work early April 2008. It will premiere April 12, 2008 in Miami and will be presented at Skirball Cultural Center in August 2008.
NPN Subsidy/Commissioners Match: $9,000
Lead Partner/Commissioners: Youth Speaks, Hip Hop Theatre Festival, Miami Light Project, Contemporary Arts Center
Artist: Jason Samuels Smith
Project Title: "War Peace: Homeland"
Project Description: "War Peace: Homeland" a work of spoken word/musical theatre, created and produced by Youth Speaks and its NPN Partners. This new theater piece includes the talents of the writers of Youth Speaks, the musical score of Dee Spencer and SF Jazz, and the Emmy Award Winning Choreography and dance of Jason Samuels Smith and his company. In essence, War Peace will reunite the classical American forms of Jazz, Tap, and Poetry in the context of the 21st Century.
NPN/Commissioners Match: $13,000
Lead Partner/Commissioners: DiverseWorks, Danspace Project
Artist: Jonah Bokaer/Chez Bushwick
Project Title: "The Invention of Minus One"
Project Description: “The Invention Of Minus One” builds on a year of motion capture research on the moving bodies of four dancers, studying the impact and torsion in major joints of the body that are often placed at risk in contemporary dance. Choreographer Jonah Bokaer will create 365 movement phrases based on the research and incorporating the motion capture technology. Collaborating digital artist Michael Cole will utilize the same 365 phrases to create a fully integrated décor for stage.
NPN/Commissioners Match: $10,500
Lead Partner/Commissioner: PS122, Diverseworks
Artist: Morgan Thorson
Project Title: "Heaven"
Project Description: In her new work “Heaven,” choreographer Morgan Thorson will combine multimedia elements to explore the imaginary and iconic images of Heaven, Hell and Purgatory. This ensemble piece will include a group of performers and collaborators from Minneapolis, Houston and NYC. Thorson will be working from the supposition that heaven is an escapist notion responsible for an extravagant and dangerous hedonism that ignores the subtle nuances, the joys and problems, of the here and now.
NPN/Commissioners Match: $9,000
Lead Partner/Commissioners: Asian Arts Initiative, Asian American Theater Company
Artist: Regie Cabico
Project Title: "Unbuckled, Uncensored"
Project Description: Regie Cabico in a solo show that will be called "Unbuckled, Uncensored" - a stand-up comedy/cabaret infused with his humor, poetry, and spoken word style. This will be a critical opportunity for Regie to review and re-work the body of material that he has developed over the past decade and a half, as well as to add some new material that addresses the current context of "the moon and Starbucks" and the quickly gentrifying world that we - and he - live in.
NPN/Commissioners Match: $9,000
Lead Partner/Commissioners: MACLA, La Peña Cultural Center, Kaotic Good, Sol & Soul
Artist: Robert Karimi
Project Title: "Man/Mard: From Farid to Freddie Mercury"
Project Description: “Man/Mard: From Farid to Freddie Mercury,” a documentary theater multimedia public performance and discussion weaving together a series of performance monologues with live visual art, live video and sound manipulation instigated/written by Robert Farid Karimi, examines the multifaceted dimensions of what manhood means for an Iranian, as experienced in the United States, Europe, and Iran itself and the myriad of masks worn by these men in their self definitions.
NPN/Commissioners Match: $13,000
