Grantees All Genres

PerspectiveS: ROBESON, PAPA DOC, THE MASK IN THE MIRROR (2014)

TRILOGY: AN OPERA COMPANY

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

THREE DISTINCT OPERATIC PRODUCTIONS - PAUL ROBESON (ARTIST/ACTIVIST), THE HAITIAN DICTATOR FRANCOIS DUVALIER (PAPA DOC), AND POET PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR AND HIS WIFE ALICE RUTH MOORE, IN THE OPERA "THE MASK IN THE MIRROR". DONE WITH ORCHESTRA OR PIANO.

An Everlasting Experience

Tully , Graciela

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

An Everlasting Experience was a live-streaming play with artists from Argentina, Chile, and the US to raise money and awareness for a poverty-stricken indigenous community, Los Wichis, in Argentina.

Just AART

TWP-The Youth Movement

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Just AART (Artist, Activist, Relying on Technology) gives young people a chance to facilitate a unique community based program using music, spoken work and drama to make Public Service Announcements.

Flower and Willow

Tze Chun Dance Company

Year Grant Awarded: 2011

Flower and Willow is a dance-art performance inspired by the truelife story of Sada Yakko, a Japanese geisha who greatly shaped Western perception of Japanese theater and dance at the turn of the century.

Constant State of Otherness

Unit Souzou

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

Constant State of Otherness is a multi-layered performance weaving taiko, Japanese folk dance, and storytelling, revealing the impact of othering and alienation. Unit Souzou excavates their personal stories to fractally unfold and offer an invitation to find our shared longing to belong.

September Twelfth (2014)

Up Theater Company

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

A workshop and performance of the new play by Rich Rubin in which the widow of a firefighter is challenged when she attempts to move on from the shadow of her martyred husband.

Detained

UP Theater Company, Inc.

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

In a refugee detention center deep in the heart of Texas, two teens from different lands form a bond to help each other fight off dangers from within its walls - and without.

SILT

Upczak, Emilie

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

A Native botanist, grieving the death of a beloved aunt, travels alone to northern Mexico, where she is nourished by images of the last trip they took together traversing the Colorado River.

Two and Twenty Troubles

Victor, Ilyukhin

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

A documentary about performers with disabilities trying to make it in New York City.

UNSUNG

Victory Hall Opera

Year Grant Awarded: 2020

An opera film, featuring Verdi's "La Traviata". The cast of a COVID-cancelled opera decide the show must go on. 5 singers tell the true story of life during the pandemic, and question everything as they face an uncertain future. Directed by Miriam Gordon-Stewart. Conducted by Kathleen Kelly.