New England Foundation for the Arts

(NE) The New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) awarded $2.030 million through the National Dance Project (NDP) to support the creation of 20 new dance works to be shared across the United States, as well as $180,000 in Finalist Award grants. The recognized choreographers and companies come from across the country and include 20 U.S. artists, 13 of whom are first-time production grant recipients. The NDP is one of the country’s major sources of funding and field building for dance, supporting both the creation and touring of new works since 1996. The NDP is funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with funding for special initiatives from the Barr Foundation, the Boston Foundation and the Aliad Fund at the Boston Foundation.

In other NDP news, New England Foundation for the Arts’s National Dance Project (NDP) has announced choreographer and performance artist Vanessa Anspaugh as a recipient of a $10,000 NDP Finalist Award grant. The one-time support serves to assist the development of artists’ NDP proposed projects and provide sustainability needs. Teaching in Portland, Anspaugh’s work investigates structures of power, themes of control, collaboration, authorship, domination and surrender, and addresses the relationships that exist in collections of groups and individuals.