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…that the National Performance Network (NPN) has brought innovative performing artists to all corners of the United States for over two decades? If you’ve ever gone to a play, dance performance, music concert or poetry slam… If you’ve participated in a creative workshop or movement class… If your child attended a school assembly program with a storyteller… You, too, may have been part of this effort. (more >>)
… for the next National Performance Network / Visual Artists Network Annual Meeting in Knoxville, TN – December 10-14, 2009.
NPN Partners REDCAT (Los Angeles) and PICA (Portland) were the co-commissioners on Cloud Eye Control’s newest work Under Polaris. Having premiered at PICA in October 2008, Under Polarisis is the epic story of a woman’s journey into an Arctic wonderland. In this profile, the commissioners talk about their process of bringing this work to the stage – from the presenters’ point of view
There is still time to see this exciting new performance; REDCAT will be presenting Under Polaris in October 2009.
Each month learn more about projects that NPN supports – "Project Profiles" page under the "NPN Programs" menu on the left.
Last month we highlighted the work Bebe Miller did in Montana through a Community Fund award to Myrna Loy Center.
This month we take a look at a Mentorship & Leadership project. Members of El Centro Su Teatro’s junior programming staff and Artistic Director Tony Garcia engaged in a six-month project which was designed to build the programming skills of junior staff members, by teaching them the fundamentals of the Chicano aesthetic and training them in rigorous curatorial methods. In a key component of the project, junior staff members visited El Teatro Campesino, a bilingual (Spanish/English) theater group based in the historic Mission San Juan Bautista, near San Jose. During the summer of 2008, the junior staff put their new skills to use. Read more about the project.
The Community Fund is made possible by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency), the MetLife Foundation, and the Nathan Cummings Foundation.
The Regional Meeting season is in full swing. Alverno Presents hosted the Midwest Region at the end of March. Do you know when the other regions are meeting? Find the details here. You can download the agenda (which is the same at all of the NPN Regional Meetings), the time and NPN Partner host of the meeting, as well as information on the "Doin’ it on the Road: A Guide for Touring Performing Artists" workshop in each of the host cities.
VAN Partners, you will be meeting as a group in Los Angeles at the end of June.
Additional information will be posted on the Regional Meetings page when it becomes available.
