The artists and projects that received Creation Fund awards in FY12 are automatically eligible for Forth Fund awards. The following artists and Creation Fund co-commissioners have received Forth Fund subsidies (link to additional descriptions below):
Full of Words
Artists: AXIS Dance Company
Commissioner: Tigertail Productions, Inc.
MIRIAM
Artist: Nora Chipaumire
Commissioner: Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center
Oasis – Everything you wanted to know about the Middle East but were afraid to dance
Artist: Nejla Yatkin
Commissioner: Dance Place
Full of Words
Artists: AXIS Dance Company (Oakland, CA)
Support for salaries for a rehearsal director and dancers, a research and grant-writer to secure future bookings.
• Total Artist Expenses: $27,500
• NPN Subsidy to Artist: $5,000
Commissioner: Tigertail Productions, Inc. (Miami, FL)
Advance advocacy, networking and support of Full of Words. Housing and travel for potential presenters to the premiere in Miami. Additional cash contribution and in-kind staff time, travel, and web design.
• Total Commissioner Expenses: $13,000
• NPN Subsidy to Commissioner: $5,000
• Commissioner Match: $8,000
“Forth Fund support matches our current goals of expanding the reach and visibility of companies of excellence like Axis Dance Company” – Mary Luft, Tigertail Productions
MIRIAM
Artist: Nora Chipaumire
Sound production residency at EMPAC and rehearsals at Joyce Soho to create a soundscore. Support covers residency fees for lighting designer, set designer, composer, director, and additional artists.
• Total Artist Expenses: $12,520
• NPN Subsidy to Artist: $5,000
Commissioner: Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) (Troy, NY)
Rental cost for additional instruments. Additional accommodation for composer; travel, housing and per diem for performer. In-kind support for 80 hours of audio engineer staff time, access to equipment and space during residency.
• Total Commissioner Expenses: $15,373
• NPN Subsidy to Commissioner: $5,000
• Commissioner Match: $10,373
“We are extremely excited for this opportunity to partner for the first time with the National Performance Network” – Johannes Goebel, EMPAC
Oasis- Everything you ever wanted to know about the Middle East but were afraid to dance
Artist: Nejla Yatkin (New York, NY)
Two-week residency in D.C. for development of set design, video design, and lighting design in a fully equipped theatre, artist fees, and studio rentals.
• Total Artist Expenses: $73,600
• NPN Subsidy to Artist: $5,000
Commissioner: Dance Place (Washington, DC)
Support for two-week residency: housing, travel support for company, lighting and equipment purchase. In-kind donation of theater space, three Dance Place technicians, lighting designer and stage manager.
• Total Commissioner Expenses: $10,000
• NPN Subsidy to Commissioner: $5,000
• Commissioner Match: $5,000
NOTE: This project also received an additional $5,000 of support through the US Projects micro philanthropy site.
“Often times dance productions don’t have this opportunity to be in the theatre to really develop the production value of the work” –Nejla
Link to profiles of Forth Fund and other NPN-subsidized projects
Awards During Pilot Phase (FY10)
NPN selected six Creation Fund projects to participate in the pilot program of the NPN Forth Fund.
FY10
The Crazy Cloud Collection
Artist: InkBoat (San Francisco, CA)
Commissioner: Highways Performance Space (Los Angeles, CA)
Forth Fund Support: Music development, set design and fabrication, documentation costs, development of residency activities and community engagement component
Let us think of these things always. Let us speak of them never.
Artist: Every House Has a Door (Chicago, IL)
Commissioner: Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, IL)
Forth Fund Support: Artistic and technical development through a 3-week residency, work-in-progress show, rehearsal fees, rehearsal space lighting designer fees, documentation costs
World Headquarters
Artist: Charles Anderson/Dance Theatre X (Philadelphia, PA)
Commissioner: Painted Bride Art Center (Philadelphia, PA)
Forth Fund Support: Development of residency activities and community engagement component, rehearsal fees, rehearsal space, creative development residency costs, documentation costs
Gloria’s Cause
Artist: Dayna Hanson (Seattle, WA)
Commissioner: On the Boards (Seattle, WA)
Forth Fund Support: Production coordinator fees, sound designer fees, rehearsal assistant fees, documentation, rehearsal space, technical staff fees, project management, rehearsal stipends, dramaturgical support
Women of Calypso
Artists: “Singing Sandra,” Shereen Caesar, and Kizzie Ruiz (Trinidad)
Commissioner: Cultural Odyssey (San Francisco, CA)
Forth Fund Support: Creative development residency costs, rehearsal fees, technical costs, work-in-progress performance, production management, rehearsal space
Go Ye Therefore
Artist: Artspot Productions (New Orleans, LA)
Commissioner: 7 Stages (Atlanta, GA)
Forth Fund Support: Redesign of work post premiere- artists fees for redesign, rehearsals, research, development and travel to future performance site, rehearsal space, fundraising activities, artistic guidance, technical staff fees, developing community engagement component.
