Launched in 2008, the Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Awards support and recognize artists creating outstanding, innovative, original work in the fields of dance, theater, music, experimental music performance, theater/performance art, and hybrid/interdisciplinary versions thereof. The awards seek to foster the continued creative and professional development of the selected artists, provide the means for them to further focus on and develop their work, and increase exposure for their accomplishments, as the CSF Visual Artist Awards have done since 1997. Through its Awards programs, CSF seeks to contribute to the vitality of Kansas City's art community and to enhance Kansas City's desirability as a place for artists to work and live.
The recipients were selected based on the quality of their work and accomplishments to date, as well as promise for continued development as generative artists; relevance of their work in relation to local, regional and national contemporary art discourses and to the contemporary moment and culture in which we are living; and the potential of their work stand up nationally, influence the field, and have lasting value. With these latest awards, Charlotte Street Foundation has now recognized a total of 70 Kansas City based visual and generative performing artists, with a total of $432,500 in unrestricted cash grants distributed directly to the artists. A public performance of the work of this years Generative Performing Awards Fellows is planned for late fall, 2009.
Tiffany Sisemore earned her BFA in dance performance from UMKC in 2001 then studied in New York with The Ailey School, Dance New Amsterdam, The Graham School, and the School at Steps on Broadway. Her choreography has been featured in the City in Motion Dance Schools New Voices Dance Series (of which she is currently curator/co-director), Modern Night at the Folly, and the Performance Lab Series at Steps on Broadway, New York, and has been performed by Wylliams Henry Dance Company and Paula Weber among others. This May, her newest work, Now We Are A Coda was performed at Urban Culture Projects la Esquina venue as part of Jutting And Swerving - New Work by Jane Gotch and Tiffany Sisemore, which she co-produced. I strive to evoke wonder, not through spectacle, but through precisely staged movement phrases and the use of extraordinary performers, says Sisemore. I challenge my performers to explore movement not familiar to their bodies. I take traditional dance vernacular and twist it to create unconventional movement that is both quirky and beautiful. I build on performers strengths as well as their opportunities to draw freshness to their performance quality. I desire to form a connection between the audience and performer, and elicit layers of emotion filled with joy, gloom, question or the like. My work, in tone, spans from meditative to dizzying jubilance.
Partial funding for CSFs 2009 Awards programs has been generously provided by Scott Francis, Scott and Dallas Pioli, Nancy and Rick Green, and Susan Moore.
Charlotte Street Foundation (CSF) supports and recognizes outstanding artists in Kansas City; presents, promotes, enhances, and encourages the visual and performing arts; and fosters economic development in the urban core of Kansas City, Mo. On all levels, CSF places artists at the center of its mission and has built an infrastructure that depends on and reflects their involvement. As a result, we are an organization that continually evolves in response to their input and in relation to the citys larger cultural ecosystem. For more about the Charlotte Street Foundation, visit www.charlottestreet.org.
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