Recipients of the 2008 project grants are:
- 500 Clown (Chicago, IL) $28,000
Partner: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
500 Clown will be creating a new work entitled Mann ist Mann about the fragility and resilience of individual identity during wartime.
- Accinosco (Brooklyn, NY) $30,000
Partner: Walker Art Center
Accinosco will create a new work, The Success of Failure (or, The Failure of Success), which is presented as a live film version of an ancient, epic folk-tale from the far distant future.
- Bond Street Theatre (New York, NY) $30,000
Partner: Brava Theater Center and Exile Theatre from Kabul, Afghanistan
Bond Street Theatre will tour a work entitled Beyond the Mirror, illuminating historical and personal aspects of the Afghan experience over the last three decades of the war.
- Double Edge Theatre Productions (Ashfield, MA) $17,000
Partner: Skirball Cultural Center and Flynn Center for the Performing Arts
Double Edge Theatre Productions will tour The Disappearance, which raises questions of assimilation, immigration, exile, and how individuals are defined by their culture.
- Elevator Repair Service Theater (Brooklyn, NY) $32,000
Partner: New York Theater Workshop
Elevator Repair Service Theater will create a new work, Sound and Fury, staging the famous Faulkner novel of the same name.
- Here Arts Center (New York, NY) $21,500
Partner: 7 Stages and Perishable Theatre
Here Arts Center will be touring Disposable Men, dealing with the notion that African-American male is an endangered species.
- Jump Start Performance Co. ( San Antonio, TX ) $40,000
Partner: Divadlo z Pasaze from Slovakia and Pregones Theater.
Jump Start Performance Co. will be touring Diagnosis: Desire, involving Slovakian actors with severe mental challenges and learning disabilities.
- Meredith Monk and the House Foundation for the Arts (New York, NY) $35,000
Partner: Stanford University Lively Arts and Walker Art Center
Meredith Monk and the House Foundation for the Arts will be developing and touring a work entitled Songs of Ascension. The performance will address the human spirit and invite the audience to have a new participatory performance experience.
- New Paradise Laboratories (Philadelphia, PA) $20,000
Partner: The Children’s Theatre Company
New Paradise Laboratories will create a new work Fatebook: a Cyberspace Ghost Story, designed for teen-aged audiences as a response to new and developing styles of online social interaction.
- Portland Center Stage (Portland, OR) $40,000
Partner: Critical Mass Performance Group (CMPG)
Portland Center Stage will develop APOLLO part 3: Liberation that explores the U.S. space program, its relationship with Nazi rocket scientists, and the surprising intersection with the Civil Rights Movement.
- Red Wing Performing Group (New York, NY) $36,000
Partner: Arts at St. Ann’s
Red Wing Performing Group will develop a work entitled Everyday Uses for Sight no. 6: Disfarmer, inspired by the life of mid-century portrait photographer, Mike Disfarmer.
- Squonk Opera (Pitcairn, PA) $31,000
Partner: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center and Suny Oswego
Squonk Opera will develop and present a work entitled Astro-rama, a science fiction production full of humor, provocation and self-examination.
- The Builders Association (New York, NY) $40,000
Partner: Krannert Center for the Performing Arts and Walker Art Center
The Builders Association will present and tour Continuous City, looking at the sense of “place” within a global context, and the growing network of transnational citizens.
- Theatre of Yugen (San Francisco, CA) $24,500
Partner: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Theater of Yugen will create a new work entitled Dogsbody, examining the growing practice of using child soldiers as tools of force in conflict.
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