 I had it down kind of low. I like to do this now. I think it's nice but awful to introduce the first art group by the way from the February Arts Center. Personally feel very honored to work with her on a lot of levels. She's a dance artist with a unique intelligence. She's a Northwest, but once she's here, she's a really happy hour. So glad to introduce you all. Let's give Shannon Stewart another huge thank you for her work. So Steve and I are going to get into it really quickly today. We're going to have the in the work session. And for those of you who don't know me, my name is Katherine Grubowski. I'm with the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, right adjacent to Detroit. So just to re-describe in the works for those of you who are not familiar with it. Okay. Sorry. So in the works is a lively forum. Let's make sure to keep it lively. For conference attendees to share brief 60 second presentations. 60 seconds. Because then everyone repeat that after me. 60 seconds. Okay, very good. So Steve will be timing you. And I will be graciously and kindly pushing things along. Okay. So you'll be describing new projects at any stage of development. It's an opportunity for everyone including artists, presenters, colleagues and funders to discuss new commissions, creative works, organizational initiatives, opportunities or other projects that may be in need of collaboration. Producers, presenters or assistants. Okay. So what I'm going to do is I will be naming five people at a time. And what I'll ask for those five people to do is to line up here on the ramp and to make sure to reintroduce yourself when it's your turn to share. Again, you will be timed. How much time will you have? Okay. Really good. You guys are sharp this morning. And then after those four of those people go, I'll name another five. So just sort of be ready if you signed up for in the works. There is also some time left to sign up if you're interested and didn't get a chance to sign up. So Brittany in the back, can Brittany raise your hand? Yep. You can sign up with Brittany if you haven't signed up yet. Okay. All right. So without further ado, we'll get started. So the first five people we have Nick, I think it's Lee or Sly. Nick Sly. The seldoms. Yeah. The seldoms. Bob Martin. DJ. And Dancing Grants. Grounds. Dancing. Okay. Great. So can everyone line up please? Where's Christina Wong when you need her this morning? Yes. Good morning everybody. My name is Nick Sly. I'm one of the directors of a company from New Orleans, Louisiana called Mondo Bizarro. Really great to see everyone. Two things that I'd just like to briefly mention. One is that we continue to tour our 2017 creation front project, The Way at Midnight. That was co-commissioned by Double Edge Theater, Clear Creek Creative in seven stages. So we are moving that and also working on a number of different projects here, one of which is a large scale project called Invisible Rivers. And it's looking at the ways in which the systems and structures of control that it takes to wrangle the Mississippi have shown up in the interior territories of experience of the people. And it's asking this question about how are we ready to rewild the land when we haven't sufficiently rewilded ourselves. It's looking at trying to create a structure where there's a real micro-entry point to this question about the climate, which seems to be pretty huge right now. So that is going to take the form of some walks along the ancestral paths of rivers in New Orleans and throughout southeast Louisiana. It's also going to take the form of some floating performances where we take performances and put them on water. Holler at me. All right. Bye-bye. Thank you. Hello. I'm Lynn Fisher for the Seldoms Dance Company from Chicago. Flow is the Seldoms' new multimedia dance theater work about climate instability vanishing polar ice rising sea levels, extreme weather, the tension between denial and evidence, and adaptation and resilience. Flow embodies the fragmentation of our global conversation on climate change from anti-science conspiracy theories to the very real, urgent impacts of global warming. The world of flow is an iceberg calving, leaving individuals stranded on their own flow at risk of melting altogether. The artistic team is Keri Hansen, Seth Buckley, Bob Faust, Miguel Fixel, Livy Pusseray, and Julie Ballard. Flow will premiere at the Union Theater at UW Madison, Wisconsin in January, and has a run at the Art Institute of Chicago in April on Earth, beginning on Earth Day. The company is looking for residency work and performance engagements. Thank you very much. And please see me, Lynn Fisher, Frontier Arts, if you want to talk about this more. Good morning, NPN. My name is Bob Martin. I'm with Clear Creek Creative in Rock Castle County, Kentucky, in the foothills of Appalachian Mountains. Thankful to NPN to be a Creation Development Fund awardee in the cohort this year. I'm here representing a piece called EZEL, Ballad of a Landman. There's some information in the back. We're looking for presenting partners for long-term collaborations. EZEL is an environmental, cultural, and spiritual parable derived from living in the foothills of Appalachian Mountains. One man seeking to make sense of the time, place, and condition in which we live in. EZEL's choices, traumas, ancestors, and more intersect the themes of domination, resilience, towards liberation as he seeks to take advantage of anticipated fracking boom and the opportunity to reconnect with the people and land of his raising. This is a food event. It's a journey through the woods. And it's hopefully a long-term collaboration with artists and presenters looking to explore the intersectionality of climate crisis and all the domination behaviors that were enculturated to perpetrate. So hope to connect with you more on this. Bob Martin, thank you very much. Good morning, NPN folks. Welcome to New Orleans. My name is DJ and some of you may already know. Our current project is a chopper to the street flood wall. Thanks some of you for grabbing the free t-shirts on the table. Yes, they were free. I'm glad y'all finally took them all up. Right now, we're looking for administrative assistant. As I have recently moved to Oahu, Hawaii, my business partner could use like some administrative help looking for some folk to help out with grants whether you're local or national. We're not looking for artists yet. We will let you know. We need some artists to come out and help us paint. We also have this lovely, lovely activity book that we made to help raise some funds. It's our interpretation of 300 years of New Orleans history. Once again, I'm DJ Paint. I'll let you boy. Just to name the next five, we have Ashley Del Toyos, Jen Maxie, Sharon Williams, Francine Sheffield, and Sean Dorsey. Please line up. Thank you. And be sure to speak closely into the mic. Thank you. Good morning. I'm Laura Stein from Dancing Grounds. We're a community dance organization in New Orleans. We work with young people and adults. Today, I want to talk to you about our Dance for Social Change program. It's led by New Orleans teenage artists, dancers, poets, musicians, visual artists, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant young people. And this year, they're focusing their efforts to look at gentrification and displacement and how it's affecting their lives and how they want to see this issue addressed in the future. So they're presenting a festival, the Contemporary Art Center. Thank you. March 28th, 29th. So one thing I'm looking for is just anyone who's done artistic work around this issue of gentrification and displacement would love to just chat and hear what your approach has been. And also our young people really want to tour and travel. So if you know any youth performance festivals, opportunities for presenting, exchange in other cities, come find me. Again, I'm Laura from Dancing Grounds. Thank you. Hi. Good morning. My name is Ashley DeHoyes, and I'm with Diverse Works. And I have here with me. My name is Virginia Grace. I'm the writer and creator of Rascos Asiaticos, which was commissioned by the National Performance Network that will premiere in 2020 at Diverse Work in the Calart Center for New Performance. The Chinese legislation, the Chinese Exclusion Act was the first immigration law to target a group by nationality, effectively pushing the Chinese into Mexico. So the piece is about the Chinese in Mexico. It's a dinner. It's a performance. It's an installation. And we're traveling it to different cities to uncover what are the stories and the histories of the Chinese in each of those locations. So we'll be in California first, Houston next, and we're looking for our next presenters after that. And the performance actually also comes with a companion writing workshop called These Are My Papers. And These Are My Papers is our efforts to document our own histories and our own stories. Thank you. Come and see us if you're interested in learning more about the project or interested in bringing it to your city. Hi, everyone. I'm Jen Maxey. I'm the assistant director of programs at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Thank you. I just want to call out four NPN connected projects that we have in the works for the next year. The first is Christina Wong for Public Office coming in February. And that's the result of me seeing Christina and meeting her last year at this conference. The second one is Marika Splint, artist Marika Splint, whose interrogation of borders all over the world. She has a theatrical piece that we're also presenting in February. The third one is we're honored to host Sandglass Puppet Theater. Yay, Sandglass. In April for their presentation of Babylon, a story about refugees. And then finally, the Ananya Dance Theater. We are co-commissioners with the Bates Dance Festival for her new piece, A Gun. She's looking for more commissioners for this piece. She's coming to us in October of 2020 when we will also have an Ai Wei Wei exhibition. So if anybody has any juicy ideas about that, political dissent and, you know, anyway. Thank you very much. Always so grateful to be here. What's good? My name is Sharon Nari Williams. I'm the executive director for the Central District Forum for Arts and Ideas out of Seattle, Washington. Yeah, yeah. We're a black organization that presents black arts and cultural events. But I'm not here to talk about that. I'm here to talk about me. I am a storyteller. I have a show called Dare to Claim the Sky, which is a solo performance that will be up in Seattle if you're in town on February 6th to February 9th at theater. It is welcoming you into my proverbial, yeah, that word. Into my living room of faith. I'm talking about faith, race, religion and what it means to be black in America. So holla at me if you want your life changed, your audience life changed. I am ready to change the world one story at a time. If you feel me say yeah. My name is Francine Sheffield. I am the founder and CEO of Sheffield Global Arts Management. It is a management company that represents dance companies. They are people of color. They are women choreographers. The one project that I would like to talk about is Public Enemy, which is an NDP funded project with Dan Syquile. He is looking for presenters and partners to flush out this project which incorporates information about social justice through the juvenile delinquent system. He would like to do a project, a dance project as well as go out into the community and talk to the social issues about excuse me, social justice and for juvenile delinquency. He really wants to change these kids' lives. He really wants to go in and give them more skills once they come and re-enter society. If you are interested in that, come look for me. Thank you. To name the next five, we have Deanna E. Jordan, Pioneer Winter, Rosa Nadea-Garmendia, Shoshana Bays and Edisa Weeks. Good morning. Hello, I'm Sean and I'm the artistic director of Sean Dorsey Dance from San Francisco. I'm the director of Sean Dorsey Dance Center for presenters, co-commissioners and money for my new full evening work, The Lost Art of Dreaming. The Lost Art of Dreaming explores expansive trends and queer futures, disrupting long entrenched fatalistic American constructs that deny us the space to even dream about our own futures. This dance theater work will premiere in spring 2021 at the American Dance Festival and Velocity Dance Center. So far, you are welcome to join. Like all my works, I will create The Lost Art of Dreaming through a national community engagement process. I'll host Dream Labs, creative spaces where trans and GNC and queer folks are supported to dance, write, sing, craft or creatively express and think expansively about ourselves, our bodies and our future. The work will tour with Dream Labs and lots of other amazing stuff. We'll be in New York during APOP. Please come see our newest work, Boys in Trouble at New York Live Arts as part of Live Artory. Thank you so much. Good morning. I'm Diana. This is Jordan. I am a solo artist. I'm the founder of the Rainbow Bus Bike Cafe. I'm an entertainment presentation company that does work around disability inclusion and intersectionality. I'm working for supporters and collaborators to develop a new work called 28 Days in April which is about the largest political sit-in by disability activists in April of 1977. I will be here only today. I'm using tonight but if you want to take me out I'm also doing a workshop at a lot of the team but find me at the Rainbow Bus Bike Cafe that come. Thank you. Good morning. My name is Pioneer Winter. I'm the choreographer of Birds of Paradise. It's a dance and physically integrated work in collaboration with Pioneer Winter Collective an all-queer, physically integrated company of allied bodies ages 24 to 63 commissioned by the Adriene R Center for the Performing Arts World premiere October 2020 with a work in progress showing in April. Birds migrates through this truth that memorializes efforts of some and erases others and it's formed under a canopy of oral history and deeply rooted social practice. It's motivated by forced anonymity of queer resistance. I'm looking for residency opportunities to develop the work outside of Miami so that perspectives within and beyond my community are implicated and explored and presenting partners invested in new voices and contemporary dance. Thank you Matt Fund and the R Center. Thank you so much. Good morning everyone. My name is Rosa Nadaygar Mendia. I am a visual artist. I live and work in Miami and I've been working on a project since 2014 that documents the lives of African-American men and women killed by police and I come to this work from my own experience with colonization. I am working from Cuba a place on a country fighting to be independent of the United States government for the last 60 years. This piece is titled Rituals of Commemorations. It is going to be traveling in the next two years. It's part of an exhibition organized by Rosie Gordon Wallace and diaspora cultural arts incubator. It's titled intersectionality diaspora art from the Creole City and I'm looking to integrate an aspect of performance to really deepen and the cause of police brutality imperialism and the problems with systematic capitalism. So if anybody is interested I came here last year and the work that you guys do is very bold and powerful so I'm looking to integrate some of that into this installation. Thank you. Hello. My name is Edisa Weeks. I'm the choreographer and maker for Delirious Dances and I'm working on a project called Three Rights, Life, Liberty, Happiness which interrogates why life and liberty were included in the declaration of independence and how they manifest in the body and for whom are these rights guaranteed. Life is a performance installation of that asks how can corporations and citizens be better stewards of this world. Liberty is also a performance installation of 1,865 routes that interrogates or is a meditation on the black experience in America. Happiness is about tapping into catharsis and joy and it includes a live band, the Occidental Brothers Dance Band International that do a mix of high life and suku music and let's see we the work is being produced by Mariah Weathers and presented by 651 Arts in their new space in Brooklyn, New York in October of 2021 and we're looking for presenting partners for our upcoming NDP application and also residency support for life. Thank you. Next five. Anastasia Narayos Nigel Brown Dalak Bratu-Waite and Teranx Moore Ananya Shaterja and Camilo Romero. Good morning. I every year forget to bring a puppet with me up here because I feel way more comfortable behind the puppet, but I speak to you right face to face. So we are Sandglass Theater and my name is Shoshana Bass, co-artistic director and I'm Alisa Mello, the new managing director which is very exciting for us and I highly recommend it. It's the first time for us to have a managing director. We as already announced we're currently touring Babylon which is our work around refugees and asylum seekers. It is an NDP funded residency and it is also a Dorst Duke subsidized residency and we tour in a residency model, we work together with an arts venue and we also partner with a local resettlement agency or UNHCR chapter. So we're really excited about areas in the country that have active chapters and are really working with these kind of themes. We have a new partner piece for that piece called Rock the Boat which is for young children so come talk to us and also come talk to us about visiting a rural area. Okay, thank you. Just to make sure do we have Anastasia here? Do we have Nigel here? And do we have Camilo here? Yeah, okay. So I'm going to call two more to line up. Stephanie Reed and Eddie Masonette. Nifa! Living World Project in Nifa, Miami. Okay, 12 years ago I was arrested for four stams of magic mushrooms. I was forced into a court-ordered drug rehabilitation program. Look for me with the hair and Jonah Sada. My name is Ananya Chatterjee. Thank you. As a country my birth and the country I live in devolves into a madness and what has been described as an aspirational hatred. I am creating a work called Agun which means fire. It is an exploration of borders, boundaries, home and belonging. It's being created in collaboration with Sharon Bridgeport and developed at Mansi. It is an Indian creation fund recipient with Jen Mansi at Skirball Center. Bates Sounds Festival and Utah Presents. And it also has MVP support. I hope the Damien Strange is the composer. I'm making it with my company of women and friends of color. And we hope to explore the kind of surreal imagery that are growing up and lots of magic space. Looking for more commissioners. Thank you. Good morning. Buenos dias. My name is Camilo Romero. This is my first MPN. Thank you. I don't think it was a bit better to use it so I hope it's not my last MPN either. And I come from Choco, Colombia, the west coast of Colombia that resembles a lot like Balbancha actually. This is called Regenderación. The word in Spanish is a new generation and it's focused on healing trauma of which you might imagine Colombia has suffered quite a bit of it through storytelling. Our first project was Children's Books which we continue to write based on the story of all young people who have been connected to the conflict both here and in Alaska. And that has spread to other places including the U.S. which is always doing the trauma that rose in color to many libraries which we all are invited. And the idea is to talk about conflict and trauma in a way that uses art. Because I mean it's new to me. I've been working as a lawyer the last few years in Colombia but I've realized that to actually touch those places that can affect change here and here we do much better through art. So the invitation is for each of you. Gracias. Good morning. My name is Stephanie Reed and I'm representing the New Orleans accordion festival. We are Umbrella at under NTN so we can offer as an offer profit and we launched our inaugural festival in 2018 with the purpose of celebrating the span, the range of music with accordion is the people's instrument and this biennial festival will have our next one is 2020 and one thing we'd like to do along with celebrating the accordion with musical traditions we also like to get local composers to arrange original pieces for an accordion orchestra that will come together. Super excited about that. Sarah Greenbaum Andrea Assa Flynn Johnson and Ryan Johnson Ben Levine and Richard Newman. Good morning. My name is Eddie Masonette. I am a resident artist with a theater offensive in Boston, Massachusetts. Yes. I am a co-producer with a oral history based devised work about the Boston housing crisis home belonging gentrification and displacement. My co-producer and I are heading an entirely queer POC team with trans POC representation myself included. Yes. The work will be finished June 2020 we are looking for mentorship kindred artists doing similar work and presenters who might want to help us tour it. We are working with oral history interviews transcribing them they're being transcribed as we speak right now isn't that exciting and we will be writing a play so it will be done June 2020 my name is Eddie Masonette and I am based in Boston, Massachusetts. Please find me. Good morning everyone. I'm Sarah Greenbaum I'm the associate curator at Dance Place in Washington, DC where I get to work with Christopher K. Morgan almost every day as an administrator but it is my great joy to hype his work as an artist in this moment right now. Christopher K. Morgan's company CKM&A in 2016 prior to his role as the executive artistic director at Dance Place was commissioned by the Mali Arts and Cultural Center and Dance Place to create Pohokki. In this work Christopher diverged from his standard role as the choreographer of the contemporary dance ensemble to create a personal solo that addressed his indigenous Hawaiian heritage and separation from his ancestral land through the work he has explored the aesthetic and social relationship between his western, modern and indigenous Hawaiian dance lineages this work is also still pouring as well. Now continuing similar investigations with his company Native Intelligence and Nate Intelligence incorporates modern dance, tula, Hawaiian dance and live music to examine home, belonging and the origins of instance. This project is the recipient of an NPM creation and development fund and a NEPA National Dance Project Award. If you want to come see it, the first dance place is May 2 and 3, 2020 and come find me or Christopher to learn more. Thank you. Good morning y'all. I'm Andrea a staff with Art to Action Inc. Thank you. Thank y'all. I just want to say thank you to NPM because last year I stood up here and say I need this project to get a commission y'all and NPM made it happen thanks to the Air America National Museum and the Center for Canterbury Arts here in New Orleans and so drone is the new project I'm working on. It's also received NEPA National Theater Project and yes, very excited and with the wonderful artists who are in the room, Dora Arreola as woman director, Nick Slye and Kathy Randall's performing the piece in an incredible ensemble of musicians and performers and what I want to ask you for is this is a large scale ambitious technological transdisciplinary performance project and so I want to ask for development that can house getting the entire ensemble of people all over across the country and as far as London together and ah, technology and space for movement presenters in 21E1 interactive web designers that anybody knows about working with engineers and drone technology, bye. Do you ever feel like you're jerking off into the wind and nobody gives a shit? If so I made this dance and nobody cares but you is the project for you. Hi, I'm Ben Levine and you may know me as the production manager of NTAN's Live and On Stage or as the director of production at Dance Place but I'm up here as the producing director of DreamLink's production. I made this dance and nobody cares but you is a series of performances for a single audience person at a time the performance opens the dance place season with transforming seven spaces around our building giving 150 patrons a singular audience experience so I've just scared away all the presenters. One audience person at a time, seven spaces, this sounds like a financially doomed logistical nightmare but I'm here to promise you that I am a dream to work with and since I have decades of experience from the presenter's side I'm an expert at dreaming big and compromising and collaborating wildly to make magic. Please come find me or message me on Grindr to talk more about extreme length productions and I made this dance and nobody cares but you okay I'm Richard Newman co-director of the Hintoans in Detroit from 1930 to 1970 scores of white Appalachian workers traveled up the hillbilly highway to Detroit for factory work despised by their northern cousins over a few generations many migrants distance themselves from their rural traditions disappearing in the identity of white midwesterners. Will You Miss Me uses the Hintoans Titan physical and vocal processes along with a public practice taking place at flea markets and other locations to dive into this complicated history of white identity class and assimilation in the rust belt by trusting the pathways of songs and stories through the past process of migration the same path traveled by Hintoans co-directors Liza Bilby family as they migrated from West Virginia to Flint Michigan. We'll be premiering this work in 2020 and we have some support from the Knight Foundation to begin this process but we are looking for partners and co-commissioners specifically in other rust belt duties with similar histories. So I'm going to name the next five Lisa DeAmore and Katie Pearl Corianne Ellison Kaitlyn McDowen I'm sorry I can't read your handwriting but Kaitlyn Tommy Thulati Shepherd Christopher K. Morgan and Linda Paris Bailey listen so define bring the rhythm to blow your mind blend the breeze bring the heat all in time sound so sweet when we rocking the beat shuffle pull that slide make the rhythm complete um making music with our hands on our feet clap to the beat get up out to see fuses and rhythms from across the globe tap dances that things that'll never get over Hello everybody my name is Quinn Johnson and this is Ryan Johnson and we are so defined we use Percussive Dance to raise awareness about social and economic issues of directly affecting people of color we use Percussive Dance to entertain the masses educate communities and empower youth as artists and residents in dance plays in Washington DC we are committed to creating high quality immersive performances arts integrated curriculum and policies that advance the visibility of Percussive Dance so we are looking for our presenters to bring us to their city funders to support our arts education program and residency opportunities outside of the DC area so we are the more a tall and short interdisciplinary performance making duo we collaborate with artists across disciplines to make performance both in theaters and sometimes in spaces like office buildings bridges or 40 acre meadows two things first of all we have a book out on our Milton projects when we visited five small towns named Milton in the US and collaborated with them on artwork conversation and play you can buy it from us second we have a new show that's premiering in Boston with the ART next September it's called ocean filibuster and it's a solo show with a large scale video projection and a choir and in it how did we describe it oh yeah in which the ocean itself must stand in front of a global governing body and plead for its life it's performed by the amazing Jen Kidwell there's music by Skip Shirey and an interactive intermission that lets you get up close and personal with the ocean itself so we need you to come see the show in Cambridge and we'd also love some touring partners so we can extend the life of the show thank you very much hi my name is Cori and Elisor I'm from Atlanta, Georgia I work with Seven Stages doing educational outreach programming and I'm tired I do a lot of things I'm a drag queen I'm a dancer, teacher, choreographer performance artist, activist and a lot of my work is rooted based in identity it's body politic and right now I just want to do things that I think are beautiful and interesting to me and so with this next project I'm working on it's called Charmed One and I'm sort of taking back my charmedness and sort of the world and saying that as a black, southern, queer activist that I don't have to shout all the time sometimes I can just be beautiful and I can share that beauty with the world so that's what I'm trying to do right now I'm finishing this dance theater installation experience that will be performed at Seven Stages fall 2020? no it will be and I'm looking for a commission partner looking to apply for the creative and grant thing and I'm a really nice and fun person please come and say hi I've got a minute, just a little minute okay, hi I'm Linda Paris Bailey and I am thank y'all friends I am a before you as an artist and I'm going to read because I have two projects that I want to tell you about I am now a solo playwright and performer and I am collaborating with Eric Bass of the Tanglars Theater after years of knowing each other my theater colleagues Linda and Eric discovered by chance that they grew up only a few miles apart at around the same time in Lushing, New York though their life paths have been in different directions and to different paths of the globe they once again find themselves in similar place in the process of handing their theater company to a younger generation of leaders and fencing the brink of leadership succession Lushing is a journey that the audience takes with Linda and Eric from present to past to present and engaged with race and legacy and identity together we look into the abyss sometimes from the edge of a South American volcano sometimes from the window of a speeding subway train sometimes through our parents' nightmares to connect with and where we come from and how we got here we are looking for okay, so go on Creative Capital's website and look at my presentation called Yankee-Bajian that's the other piece that I'd like to tell you about thank you Aloha y'all I'm Christopher from Dance Place if you haven't noticed we're trying to make a big impression here by bringing a strong contingent of folks and I want to highlight that because it's super intentional we're in our nation's capital and we have the power to affect serious teams so join us on that journey you already met our artists and residents who will define Ryan and Quinn I can't endorse them enough you might have seen our art first yesterday with Sarah Beth Oppenheim hit her up you already met Ben Shannon Quinn is here for her first time so all of this is super intentional we're trying to elevate the DC dancing and make take advantage of the powerful position we hold in our nation's capital to ask them to help so join us on that journey and you can join me very directly by working with me I'm hiring I need an external relations director that brings together the voice of our communications department and our fundraising and development team I need a really great person and I feel like it might be in this room good morning my name is Tommy Shepard hi I'm Pate Lemigaw we are the Alphabet Rockers Alphabet Rock Star Alphabet Rockers makes music that makes change we've been doing it for about 12 years and we've been doing it with a community of children not just four our latest work is called The Love and was just nominated for the Grammy award this year which is crazy because he made an intersectional album that centers transgender non-conforming two-spirit non-binary voices of children leading us and it's one of the feedback we've got from it is what a delight to hear queer voices telling us that we're doing this together Alphabet Rockers consists of myself Pate Lemigaw and four youngsters three 11-year-olds and one 12-year-olds that we tour with and what we're doing we're looking for venues we're looking for presenters places to spread this love and really get this message out to the world and let people know that children are actually thinking about these things as well thank you thank you so we have Shannon Quinn Kim Yantis Lynn Newman the CAC and Ben I think it says Omar prior but it's from Kelly Strayhorn my name is Shannon Quinn and I'm the Education Director at Dan Place Washington DC and I'm also the Artistic Director of a vision dance company having dance with founding director of the Karla Parla Company for years I was gifted the incredible opportunity to carry on the legacy of Karla's dance company after her retirement as a resident company at Dan Place breaking my education and artistic roles I aim to find intersectionality of both my artistic practice through community engagement our current project with Cotton Boyce exploring scenes of individuality and community in an abstract scenic design of six so-decorating seasons by the fabulous Ben we traveled the work of the South African State Theater in DC's sister city Pretoria, South Africa where a vision had the opportunity to explore the differences and the definitions of community across cultures I'm looking to explore the work to your community where a vision six dancers will perform alongside and collaborate with local intergenerational community cast talk to me after, thank you the actress from Miami, Florida and the curator and the costume designer but you can't all have me I'm also an arts grant writer I'm here to promote today a collaborative project that I'm working on with another artist in Miami Lucinda Linderman called Tooting Up for the Future we are a sustainable fashion show model that pairs with scientists and communities to make costuming that relates to sea level rise we have a beautiful composter purse flotation devices that are beautiful sculptures upcycled wool suiting that is non-gender specific and we're seeking other fashion show venues and scientists and organizations to partner with to make fashion shows within communities so we can talk about sustainability I posted a 115 chat that is once to discuss sea level rise and sustainable art making and please reach out to me with any questions, thank you Hi everyone, my name is Linderman this is my first NPN conference and I'm delighted to be here in what feels like a very active space, I'm based in Brooklyn there is a place that's choking that we do not see there is a place that is burning and we cannot breathe there is a place that is flooding and we must flee a place that is scorch and what happened to all the trees God it's hot in here Liberate the Earth is an environmental justice performance tour that occurs in environmentally sensitive sites and there are many across the country and there are many in your community at each location a guided participatory experience and performance occurs that illuminates both the history and the potentiality of a site and asks what does this place need at each location we partner with environmental organizations activists and historians to put the tour together and create a narrative that connects the sites which can be as few as three and as many as six it premieres in June with partners of the Gowanus neighborhood Coalition for Justice and Gowanus Canal Conservancy I'm Linderman, I work under the platform of Artichoke Dance Company at the intersection of environmental justice performance climate change and civic action thank you okay so we have Aurora Nieland Danny Terrell Christina Wong Diana Wyan Astrid Kemmerling and Naka Dance Theater Hello everybody, my name is Ben Pryor I'm coming to you today as a senior producer for Kelly Strayhorn Theater in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania I'm here to tell you about a project by a theater artist Adil Mansour, which is called Emagon it's spelled A-M-M parentheses I gone, G-O-N-E so Emagon is a performance in the wake of Sophoclese's Antigone as an apology to and from Adil's mother the work is a solo lecture performance exploring queerness the afterlife and kinship the canonical texts teaching from the Quran and audio conversations between Adil and his mother Antigone is a feminist, an agitator and an anti-establishment revolutionary a woman prioritizing her brother's burial over her own life in this burial excuse me, in this binary Adil sees a way of understanding his mother the social worker, the single mom the devout Muslim since discovering Adil's queerness his mother has turned towards her faith to save him in the afterlife in an effort towards healing Adil has invited his mother to join him as a dramaturgical co-conspirator out of time KST is commissioning the work for a February 21 premiere I can tell you more without much pressure name is Christina Wong and we live in times where politicians and artists have switched jobs they now create the shock and spectacle that have us questioning reality we now reclaim the quiet space for social change and truth and frustrated that politicians were taking my job as a performance artist I ran for office earlier this year and lost, then I ran again and I won I am the elected representative of sub-district 5, Wilshire center Kuryatown neighborhood council and within my first few months in office we voted to abolish ICE which was largely symbolic because neighborhood council cannot take down a federal agency Christina Wong for public office which premieres at the Skirball center in February 7th is the most single, most important show that you will book this year presenters and beyond it is meant to tour alongside the shenanigans leading up to the election and to comment on it it talks about art as symbolism, politics as symbolism I know it sounds kind of illegal to bring someone who is a real politician who has a campaign looking performance to your space but don't worry it's gonna be okay, trust me I'm a politician my director Diana Wyans says this is my most mature work yet I believe her, I'm mature now everybody I sowed my set myself this is the greatest show I have ever made please bring a real politician to your space to do this Christina Wong for public office thank you America thank you I need you as my hype woman for real so I'm Danny Terrell, I'm about to turn 50 I need somebody to go on an adventure with me in the next five years I'm going to create five major works for myself to celebrate my 50th birthday first major work was done, Fat God it's about HIV and AIDS, the epidemics started in 1981, next work is untitled it's about the life and death of my 12, my 13 year old nephew and the life and death and life and death of my marriage we still married we still married, therapy and the last work that I'm presenting this is all within 2021 Fat God is already done, 2021 I'm going to be working with five street dance artists they are all women, they are all of color we are creating new work to combat what street dance is with men because men suck sometimes in street dance if you know what I'm talking about so I need someone producers, presenters, residencies to go on this adventure, yes I can do it because I'm a bad bitch I can create five new works in five years so I need someone to just help me out if you are a musician that does gospel and house music hit me up, that's it Hi, my name is Diana Wyon I am a theater artist from Los Angeles and the director of Christina's piece by show of hands all who are able who out there knows or loves someone with diabetes has diabetes but I do and it's actually one in ten people in this country now and it could be one in three by 2050 if we don't do something about it according to the CDC it's a very diverse epidemic that we face as a nation and as a global society so when I heard that CDC's statistic I turned all of my work as a theater artist towards building a piece that with projections live feed, Shakespeare personal narrative and dance blood sugar actually dispels the lies because sugar doesn't cause diabetes but fat can it also enters the history that dates back to ancient Egypt reveals the cost it cost me $8,194 to stay alive every single year it challenges all of the shame and the stereotyping that comes with this invisible disability it challenges the binary of health and illness and this work is ready to tour along the way I showed it at Redcat and Highways and NYU it's been supported by the National Arts and Disability Council and I'm looking for partners to share this very necessary work Thank you Good morning My name is Astrid Cameron I originated a project called the Walk Discourse and the Walk Discourse is a public space laboratory we unite walking, art and civic discourse to invite participants to actively and playfully learn about the neighborhoods and the spaces that we live in right now we are having a walk shop come up on the Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m so I invite you all who are staying in town for a little bit longer to participate what I'm looking for right now are predominantly artists who are local who would love to participate partner organizations local walkers to participate and funders in the past two years I have hosted the Walk Discourse in San Francisco and I recently moved to New Orleans and brought the project with me in San Francisco we were funded by the Southern Exposure and fiscally sponsored by the Intersection for the Arts and it's a whirlwind to comment settle here so thank you Thank you The next five is Najla Gagkin Debbie Kajiyama Kathy R.A. Noelle Indy Mitchell and Natalie Nia Falk Lea and Bonnie Gable and George Lug Hi, good morning everyone my name is Debbie Kajiyama and I'm representing NACA Dance Theater this morning that I co-direct with Jose Navarrete we are based in Oakland, California we are the piece that we're working on right now is called Buscarte Searching for You and it's a performance work about disappearance based on the forensic anthropology investigations into the 43 disappeared students from Ayotzinapa Mexico it's dance, story there's an old fashion tape recorder, a huge plastic sheet and a very sarcastic eagle character in the work our collaborators include Adria Adi who does voice programming and processing for us Regis from Graphica Urbana in Mexico City who does graffiti images and stop motion video and Omar Garcia who is one of the surviving students of the 43 who is giving contextualizing talks for us we're looking for presenting partners and also just folks who would be interested in talking to us Thank you Hi everyone and in 2015 I took a project around the world into 20 countries which was inspired by a residency that I did with NPN and I have a new project called The Other Witch this piece will premiere in Chicago in 2020 in the fall of 2020 and then travel to 10 countries around the world the project is a multi-media and multi-lingual dance performance featuring contemporary dance, text, no sound and community participation the piece is a departure from Mary Wigman's 1914 Hex and Tons and I'll be exploring what happens when a witch reclaims otherness Supporters are Chicago Dance Makers Lab Award Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events the Komargo Foundation We are looking for a technical residency presenters in the USA for 2020 and more funding Hi my name is Indy Mitchell Hey I'm Natalie Neafa and we're the co-directors of Last Call Last Call is an oral history and performance based collective we do two creative outputs the first one is our podcast that you can find at lastcallnola.org and we also do live performance which you can see a little bit of tonight and live on stage and we have activities that's currently available to tour and we have NTP sets to do but that's not actually what we're here to talk about so what we're here to talk about is our next initiative which is doing oral history work with black queer and trans folks who are in pageantry scenes and adjacent communities our intention is to uplift stories of joy, celebration and success to add nuance to the already highly seen narratives of death hardship and struggle we've already been interviewing elders in the pageantry community and we'll continue to do so we are looking for funding we are looking for spaces to create this work so residencies outside of New Orleans we're looking for development opportunities and if you know a current or previous title holder who would be interested in being interviewed specifically people in the South we would love to talk to them so help us preserve trans history in the South and thank you Hello my name is George Lug and I'm a producer working with Emily Johnson I'm going to speak to you later about her new project and Fay Driscoll who I am going to speak for since she's not here I want to talk to you about her newest work it's the culmination of a trilogy called Thank You for Coming Thank You for Coming Space is completed this spring and currently touring it is a shared rite of passage an invocation of the transformative powers of presence and absence it's a work built out of grief that was also described as a fierce proclamation of the ecstasy of living Space unfolds within an intimate installation that is wired for sound and upheld by ropes, police the weight of other audiences engaged in supporting completely this work if you'd like to experience it I invite you to come to Live Artury in January the 8th through the 11th where it will be presented I hope you see it there Walker Wexner in the spring I can give you lots more information about this wonderful artist thank you I kind of want to take this out I'm at a time where a lot of things feel really complicated for me and one of them is saying my name so I am Liam Bonnie Gable and so for those of you who know me I have a new name so yeah and there's a lot of other things that feel really complicated for me and a lot of them are wrapped around gender but what doesn't feel complicated for me right now is running in the woods and looking at the animals that are there by my house where I'm living right now in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and I'm interested in chronicling these things that feel really complicated for me a lot of them around this idea of what is inside of me and what is outside of me and what can they not see and thinking about this inside and outside binary that we've created in our culture and how that affects both the natural world and the trans experience and I'm interested in talking to people about that I'm doing over a hundred tiny interviews about gender and childhood and I want to put those and the stories that I chronicled via audio inside of forests so if you have a residency that is by a natural space Liam Cutler Jose Torres-Tama Maria Baumann Morales I think it's Catalan Elle I'm sorry, I can't read your handwriting and Janet Wong Okay, thank you Sorry, thank you Hi, my name is Kathy Randels I'm the artistic director of ArtSpot Productions here in New Orleans Welcome y'all and I'm also the co-director of the graduates and the drama club at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women thanks to the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation we received a grant to create the life quilt which is the name of 107 women serving a life sentence in the state of Louisiana in 2017 hand-sowed by black masking Indians with a beautiful image created by Mike in the center of it and a performance accompanying it called life about keeping the people who are serving life sentences alive in our hearts and our minds looking for partners who some of us want to abolish the system some of us want to reform the system anybody who wants to do anything to get rid of this fucked-up justice system that we have in our country, talk to me and if you want to write a letter to our governor see me about releasing the 14 women whose names are on his desk today you want it on the stand or in your hand oh hello I'm too short for it I think hello I'm Hailey Cutler and my dance company Darling Dance is Washington D.C.'s very own raging feminist dance company we make culturally responsive work like Victor which is ready to tour to your organization Victor is a wild romp of a trio that addresses the political stripping of bodily autonomy highlighting shared trauma and the physicality of support Victor is the defiling of a hot pink tinsel Christmas tree it's a manic muttering of expletives it's tender moments of touch and powerful throws of love throughout it all the dancers remain unfazed by their public outbursts daring the audience to accept their own voyeurism and vulnerability Victor premiered earlier this year at Dance Place in our beloved hometown we are seeking touring opportunities that allow us to share our creative philosophy authentic movement rooted in personal and communal honesty in studio and on stage through the leading of choreography workshops and performance presentations thank you I'm Hailey from Darling Dance I'm just saying I'm just saying the Taco Tract is a black and brown coalition of amazing spirit and McIntyre Josefra means Savaios Afro-Dominican brothers we've been rocking the house across the country we rocked it out at Roots Week Pangea World Theater Living Arts of Tulsa we want to come to a hungry barrio near you we're challenging the enemy and team we're going to hysteria and selling tacos at the same time we're doing it all giving you food for thought giving you provocative performance rituals it's a performance ritual really some fancy-ass brochures I'm just saying Hi my name is Katani Lukach I am a concert pianist and the visiting professor at Tulane my project Rising Water is fiscally sponsored by NPN the Rising Water project will use music and poetry to increase a shared understanding of the human and environmental impact of climate change and inspire positive action to do this my voice and piano duo has commissioned 19 poets and composers from the Gulf South area our group of commissioned artists includes established and student composers, poets and spoken word artists we will also include in our roster a Poets The Winner of a Poetry Contest that we have organized at NOCA a local arts high school once the songs are completed by May 2020 we aim to perform them in as many places as possible what we need as presenters and this and other parts of the country especially in areas where citizens are reluctant still to believe in climate change we need suggestions to make our project and performance not depressing but hopeful and we need suggestions on measuring the efficiency of our project if that's possible if we get a lot of funding we would love to include any other artists choreographers, dancers, projection artists in our performances, thank you thank you next is Benjamin Kimmich Johnny Hui Nguyen Stephanie Pearl Travers Michael Sakamoto and Gerald Castell my turn Hi, I'm Janet Wong New York live arts, the piece is called Casting the Vote and the lead artists are Charlotte Breathway theater artists and June Cross filmmaker and journalist, participatory performance, event, town hall and dinner will feed you and it is ultimately about embodying deliberating, practicing democracy through persistence, resistance joy and forward action so the creative team will work with a local group of young people and in New York is the impact theater in Harlem and to create a device of work and they will lead the audience through the whole process through ritual music, dance, spoken words sharing pertinent information bringing guest speakers scholars, artists and while eating and will follow by dividing groups to discuss and debate and device forward action and we are planning to do a series of them in New York there are two versions, one is bring the creative team to work with a local group and the second one is to bring a DIY version which they are creating come talk to me, I'm not on grinder thank you Good morning y'all, my name is Johnny Hui Nguyen or Nguyen to make it easy if you don't got tones like winning I'm a multidisciplinary performance artist and I'm a dance dancer so the new work I'm creating is model without a minority it's a solo experimental dance work that's looking at dissecting, subverting disrupting narratives of emasculation and decentralization connected to the Asian male body by centering the Asian male body on stage so just bringing to light conversations around how we assign social value and desire to racialize in gendered bodies to very contemporary dance, modern dance street dance, voguing just looking to bring that on all the stage and just imagine Asian masculinity that is rooted in our ancestors and histories of resilience and that's free of just all the contemporary bullshit and just also looking at myself at how I've played into white patriarchal structures and toxic masculinity in my own experiences, thank you Hi there, my name is Stephanie Pearl this is my first time at this conference this is a really amazing room to be in so I'm here to represent my project, it's called 912 Julia Street about a year and a half ago someone, a bar patron of mine, I bartoned gave me the key to 912 Julia Street and said go ahead and use this for your project I also have an arts magazine that I do here locally in town called the Iron Lattice the first art show I did there was last August with Level Collective since then I've worked with and collaborated with over 100 artists at this address it's been a really incredible experience, it's also been a lot of work, I have a full-time job on top of doing this 912 Julia Street is just about having a very artist-centered space, I am in the arts district and I've ridden a million years what I imagine having 3400 square feet in such a desirable location, it's been magic I've watched that transform other people's practices I've done solo shows with artists, all of those things what I'm looking for is just hands and help, I would love to keep 912 in the community if you're a local artist I'm looking for administrative help, development help all of those things, thank you Hi everybody I'm Ben Akio Kimmich I'm the senior producer at Performance Based New York in the East Village in New York City the first thing I'd like to share with you all is something I'm just mostly looking for thought partners on in 2020 Performance Based is giving over our entire calendar year budget keys and wages to three artists and two artists collectives to help us try to break down and destabilize the zeitgeist of art production and hopefully create some kind of collaborative relationship between institution and artists looking forward to 2021 I'm looking for co-commissioners also thought partners interested in sort of a very broad working provocation which is around specifically theater and working with a small number of theater artists over the season who are interested in questioning the economies and the pipeline that generally drive theater making and the aesthetics which are usually commercially driven and also inviting artists driven forward modeling for how institutions can support the creation of contemporary theater today my email is in the app Ben Kimetsch Performance Based New York Thanks Hi everybody I'm Gerald Casal I'm a dancer, performance maker and professor based in San Francisco, California and I'm making a piece called Not About Race Dance Not About Race Dance is a collaborative choreographic response to the predominance of whiteness in U.S. Postmodern Dance the title cites Neil Greenberg's Not About AIDS Dance and its tactics to call attention to the unacknowledged racial politics in dance particularly how whiteness has dominated the structures and privileges of modern dance whiteness is the not race that my work exposes as a dominant social structure beyond the evening length work the project also involves long table discussions on race which we've been piloting in the Bay Area through a community engagement piece called Dancing Around Race we've gratefully received an NDP production grant so there's touring subsidy available we're also in discussion with several touring sites and residency centers and we'd love to partner with you to bring this project to your community the premiere is in September 2020 at Counter Pulse Thank you Next we have Isabel Cruz Meg Foley Michelle Grant Murray Emily Johnson and Dan Frut Hi folks, I'm Michael Sakamoto I'm primarily here as a presenter this year outside of my normal roles as an artist so this is my 60 seconds for that George Slash Michael explores the embodied legacies of ballet and buto dance and the real and imagined lives of its lead performers George Lepenia and myself Michael Sakamoto so if you want to see a former ABT star perform what Giselle's Albrecht looks like after the 40 years he should have been danced to death by the Willys or if you want to see an Asian American buto dancer reclaim abjectness in the dance world by colorizing Petrusca this shows for you we unpack and model not only allyship but primarily the messy process that's coming to terms with one's lifelong privilege that we don't have any answers for we are assembling a group of female trends and POC collaborators to basically challenge and subvert everything that George and I bring to the show we have a work in progress coming in Boston in the spring we're looking for co-commissioning development and tour partners but especially dance studio and local engagement partners advocacy organizations to give voice to all of the bodies that are not welcome in those worlds thank you I'm Meg I'm here to talk Meg Foley I live in Philadelphia I'm here to talk about Blood Baby and you're very hard to see Blood Baby is an iterative performance and research project it explores my experience of queer motherhood somatic drag gender performance and the bodily resonance of the various daily drags that we wear and the navigation of their switching it's a reorientation toward sensation and it's an embrace of the body as a sacred site bloody, sweaty and hot, gay, sex and momhood sexy moms sexy gay moms, sexy gay parents it's a collaboration with Michelle Steinwald and Sylvan Oswald who are working with me as a really brilliant oversight committee and they live in LA and Minneapolis respectively so I'm looking for residency and workshop opportunities in 2020 and early 2021 to develop this project when I say iterative it'll be discreet intimate performances in various forms I think that's it and local queer performers in the workshopping Hey, I'm Dan Frut Hi, I'm Natalie Communis and I am one of the collaborative ensemble members of Dan Frut and Company we are based in Los Angeles we are beginning work on an evening of three short plays with a working title of Arms Around America so the plays are based on the oral histories of families around the country whose lives have been shaped in some way by guns and do several advanced site visits over the course of a couple of years of development at zero or minimal cost to the presenter you heard that right during these visits we develop community partnerships and long-term relationships with community stakeholders and the families we work with we develop the scripts in Los Angeles in full consultation with the families themselves the plays will be produced as a podcast season as well as live radio plays premiering in late 2023 Miami Light Project is commissioning the work and we're partnering in Miami with guitars over guns path to hip hop and touching Miami with love we have a possible co-commissioner in LA and we're looking for at least one more co-commissioner preferably in the middle of the country preferably somewhere rural Danfrut.com good morning how are you good morning my name is Michelle Grant Murray and I'm from Miami, Florida I am the artistic director which is a black female company black and brown female company that talks about the intersectionality of black female bodies with this existence and navigating this world we're creating a new work that's commissioned by Miami Light Project trans that link that engages and talks about the black female body in their perspective to water intersectionality as nurturer, giver, sustainer navigating everything that we do inside of this world and making it work forever and always we're looking for composers I'm looking for a tour I'm looking for a residency that pays we need to be paid we need to pay people and that's about it if you want to see me please do I'm friendly and open, thank you thank you castellanos Mara Garcia Annie Arno Leilani Chan and Andre Zachary hi everybody I'm Emily Johnson and I endorse Christina Wong two things one is with many dear and brilliant people I'm part of a consortium building a global first nations performance network so if you are a first nations performance artist and or an ally why working to become an accomplice come speak with either me or Ed Bourgeois here this weekend second I'm finally making another new dance piece it's called Being Future Being for the last 15 years I've visioned better futures with I tend to exaggerate but I really think a couple thousand people and that process has been full of possibility and now I want all of that possibility to be here now for the future now so I'm working with the architecture of the overflow I don't really know what that means quite yet but it has to deal with moving from stage out to the world and making sure that the overflow of hope and anger and work is about joy and liberation alright good morning my name is Theo Castellano I am artistic director of Theo Castellano's D projects and Combat Hippies and Miami Light Board president and we are the Combat Hippies we are currently touring Amal which was originally commissioned by MDC Live Arts and supported by NPN Creation Fund along with Makla and Su Teatro also supported by Knight Foundation NIFA Touring Subsidy and Development and Touring NET Arts to Action MAT Fund among others Amal examines the impact of war with equal parts and urgency it explores a quest for meaning purpose and identity sought through enlisting in the military and shares the unifying experiences of combatants and non combatants as people of color Amal relays stories of veterans refugees, civilians, adjustments to life after war this all Puerto Rican theater company places Puerto Rico's colonial status cultural and military heritage center stage and it is driven by an original Afro-Rican punk soundtrack played by black and brown people will be at La Mama January 9th and 10th She only got the Wu Nui Dai Dao Wudong Anigilongi Di Di Yang Wei Good morning everybody I'm Mora Garcia I'm Cherokee and Madame Mesquite I'm a dancer or choreographer and artistic director of Mora Garcia Dance I create and perform contemporary indigenous dance to uplift our cultural values and to connect with native people, with indigenous people throughout the world and with all human beings and general I'm here to talk about Si Aniwoni they are still talking the first iteration premiered at the Dance Center in Vancouver in BC it'll show at January 10th LA studio as part of APAP it's a dance work about our connection to our ancestors, our bodies our flesh are made of from everything that they were so as I talk, they're talking and they are still talking and I'm looking for development support for commissioning partners and space to bring together other dancers other Cherokee people who may not have a dance experience and Cherokee language specialist so that we can get in the same place to expand the work to include Cherokee language translated into movement and choreography Thank you everybody Good morning y'all I'm Arnault, artistic director of Open Dance Project in Houston, Texas and we've got all the devils are here a tempest in the Galapagos in the works right now this is a co-commissioned by Diverse Works in Houston and Studio 5 performing arts in Evanston Illinois and supported by an NPN creation fund thank you NPN and co-commissioners The piece collides Shakespeare's The Tempest with the true story of an unsolved murder in the Galapagos in 1929 this immersive dance theater performance follows the failed attempts of a nihilist couple, a conservative family and a baroness and her two gay lovers to escape the world of man on the uninhabited island of Floriana their conflicting visions of paradise sexual and moral rightness colonial instincts and social and psychological demons lead to disaster and provide a rich canvas for a poignant examination of basic human rights social justice and power structures the work is dirty, gritty, sweaty intimate, athletic surprising, thoroughly researched and smart and we're looking for presenting partners thank you good morning my name is Andres Zachary I'm the artistic director of Renegade Performance Group based in Brooklyn, New York I am coming with my work Untamed Space which is an afro-futurist performance full-length work considering Marooning in the 21st century and the creation of an African diaspora through dance performance technology and consideration on cultural residue we had a premiere and commissioned by Dance Space Project in 2017 we've since toured with support through NPN at the Wexner Center of the Arts in Columbus, Ohio in partnership with the King Arts Complex we're looking for continued touring and community workshops with black communities on the intersection of technology future thought and effects of justification and continued resistance to build and sustain a life beyond the 21st century for their own cultural heritage so you can come at me anytime at the conference we're also presenting at APAP January 13th at City Center thank you very much on deck we have Mary Prescott Phillip Beither Dilami Hansen Shereen Azab and Spirit McIntyre Aloha Kakao my name is Leilani Chan and I am here with the hat on of Vice President of the Kata Board which is the consortium of Asian-American theaters and artists and we'd like to announce I'm Mina Natrajan also on the board of Kata and we'd like to announce our CONFESS 2020 it is in Hawaii so all of you are invited and it is on August 7th to the 16th 2020 the theme of the conference is Ku'u Aina, Ku'u Pico, Ku'u Kahua return to the source we are super excited to announce that we have extended the proposal deadline if you would like to propose a performance screening, a panel or you actually kind of don't know yet but you have an idea and you want to put it in the mix and we'll figure it out please send in proposals through December 31st December 31st and also if you haven't noticed we are centering the voices of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders in addition to Asian-American artists so please encourage everyone you know to apply we want to incorporate as many people as possible and talk to any one of us four board members here Joni's in the audience and the three of us apply, apply, apply and pre-register and calm, just calm please calm, everyone is welcome you can pre-register for $50 right now online, kata.net Hello, my name is D. Lamy Hansen, D. Period Lamy Hansen, everybody calls me Lamy I am based in New Orleans as we speak right now but I am moving to Chicago in the next month I am a visual artist that has been doing my work for about 30 years but in the last three years I have been doing metal point art which is drawing people of color and women in precious metals and the reason why I am so entranced in this is because I believe that we wear things to make us look good but this is us actually being created in the precious metals that make us feel good about who we are so this is the reason why I do it in large scale I have a residency that I am finishing at the end of the month at the arts council of New Orleans salon at canal street and it's in the mall canal place second floor next to anthropology if you are interested please stop by D. Lamy Hansen thank you, bye Hello everyone, my name is Nazab I am the co-director of Detroit based theater company a host of people and we have a new project that just premiered that was a NIFA 2019 national theater project awardee so there's touring funds available for it it is called Cleopatra boy is a theatrical thought experiment that uses the historical figure of Cleopatra to illustrate how women POC and LGBTQIA plus individuals in positions of power have their own images and histories manipulated by mostly straight white men resulting in false narratives and misrepresentations in order for their dominant system to retain control and for their own personal gains that is we look at Shakespeare and Shaw and a lot of the western representations and sort of evaluate how that has been happening since the Roman Empire continues to happen today so we're looking for presenting partners for that we are also developing a companion piece called Death of Cleopatra that will premiere at the Air American Museum talk to me about both thank you so much I need to do this because I'm very short I can't be seen behind the podium my name is Mary Prescott I'm an interdisciplinary artist composer and pianist based between Minneapolis and New York I'm a resident artist at Roulette in Brooklyn and Lanesborough Arts in Minnesota I'm the piece that I'm working on right now is called Tida it's my middle name it means daughter in Thai and it's about my shifting cultural identity investigated through my maternal Thai ancestry and my mother's experience as an immigrant raising a biracial family in Minnesota it has music, movement and language it was supported by the NPN creation and development fund and with co-commissioners living arts in Tulsa and public functionary in Minneapolis and I am looking for residencies, commissioners and presenters for the 2021 and 22 season, thank you hey everybody it's great to be back here at NPN I'm Phillip Byther from the Walker Arts Center and I want to invite you to come on February 27th to Minneapolis to be part of Faye Driscoll's major museum exhibition tied to her thank you for coming trilogy that you heard about from George Lug it's part of a three year Mellon Foundation supported interdisciplinary initiative that's disrupted the way that we've historically worked at the Walker breaking down the barriers between visual art and performing art departments allowing us to learn from each other and better serve artists whose work no longer fit into defined disciplinary boundaries the project has supported work by Maria Hasabi, Theaster Gates Laura Provost, Meg Stewart Rabia Morey and Jason Moran among others and it's really changing how we produce mount, acquire present work and archive it all of the results can be found we just put up online just Google, interdisciplinary initiative, Walker Art and we'd love to be in conversation with anyone else who's working at breaking down barriers between disciplines thanks you are worthy you matter we are sacred we are worthy we matter we matter so I'm spirit McIntyre I live here in New Orleans and I'm looking to expand my artistic capacity and my reach by examining ritual ancestral worship live music trans and gender non conformingness healing art practices pleasure practices grief work we are all grieving I love my grievers I love being in the grief club and I need funding I need funding resources I need artist residencies to help me just explore and just really come into my own as an artist and sometimes it's like you just don't know I feel like there's so many resources and avenues out there that I just don't know about and I'm okay saying I don't know please please help me so please reach out I have cards I'm approachable when I want to be and I want to be approachable with you so let's connect you are sacred thank you so next we have Aurora Neland Dylan Iroegas Trevor C. Miles Marianne Osborn and Isabelle Cruz hello I'm Aurora Neland I have just come from the dentist so I am numb on half of my tongue I apologize for the stumbling words I'm going to do this I'm presenting a piece I'm a musician here in New Orleans a local musician I work a lot with local artists and then I also I'm trying to broaden the representation of what it means to experience sound in music locally so I'm presenting a piece I'm remounting a piece here at the CAC in conjunction with Goat in the Road Theatre it's really hard to talk with a numb tongue it's going up in April it's called the kind between mankind in that large 80 foot warehouse space it features four incredible musicians who are women and non-binary it's all my original music and we're looking for future presenters and there will be seven performances at the CAC I have cards come find me when my tongue is numb hello my name is Dylan Iroegas and for our captioner our interpreter that is D-I-L-L-O-N Y-R-U-E-G-A-S my pronouns are he, him, his or el, si, hab, la, se, so, ni, on and I am the fellow for HowlRound if you have noticed we have been live streaming and so this is kind of a call we are a knowledge based theater commons and so we are reliant on all of you and your knowledge and we want to share that with everyone so if we would love for all of you to contribute we have our journal we have live streaming of different events, performances we have the world theater map and so much more so go HowlRound.com for more information and then I'm going to do a personal plug I also along with my friend Jesse O'Rear he's a doctoral candidate at the University of Texas at Austin we do facility workshops for trans and gender expanded performers about.me find out more imposter you dance but you don't dance dance imposter black boy little black boy why do you talk so white self-taught started moving at 17 didn't know what dance was but I knew the beat had a way of making me jump I knew with dance I could create new societies change what I see around me and so I jump everyone 2020 I want to jump with you please bring me to your city Trevor C. Miles is the name from Pittsburgh I had so much fun with y'all last year in Pittsburgh and I have a host of one man shows the TM solo stage series all different themes identity sexual abuse religion I have been pleased to perform with some of you in the past but 2020 needs to be a little bit bigger when we get me on stage I am the one but I also have a background in advertising public relations so I do grant writing and all those things as well I love energy exchange so let's do that let's exchange energy and lastly if we have Nigel Brown Cynthia here please get on deck thank you hey good morning everybody thank you for hanging in with everything this is an amazing experience an opportunity to hear about artists and my name is Mary Ann Osborn I am the program manager at CD Forum in Seattle, Washington and CD and I am here to talk about a show we co-produced with an amazing artist Randy is a dancer, choreographer actor and activist and Randy we co-produced a show with Randy called Queen Street and Randy would love to take Queen Street out on the road let me tell you a little bit about the amazing show we had such a great one Queen Street is a physicalized experience through the lens of queer trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming people and it's a full length evening dance show highlighting the importance of centering intersectionality by giving audiences a peek inside the physical mental and spiritual transformation of its performers the thing about the show is when Randy brings the show to your town city community Randy would like to work with artists in your area to tell their own stories you can find out more about Randy at TheRandyFor.com or you can talk to Sharon with me, Nina or myself with CD Forum we thank you and check out Queen Street with Randy Ford good morning we thought it started at 11 so thank you for holding space for me today but my name is Anastasia Narajos that's Nigel Brown we are with Walk About Theater Company based in Chicago, Illinois we are a laboratory device theater company with a dedicated ensemble and we have three shows that we're looking to tour and also a training program that we're hoping to share our last show was about looking into our own family narratives and finding stories it turned into an avant-garde family play working with our international collaborators over in India and our voice teacher in Canada so we're looking to tour those shows I'm also an individual artist and we're at a place in our theater company where we're in a transition and we're looking to evolve our practices and restructure our hierarchy model and we're looking as an individual performer or teaching artist or collaborator to travel and explore and work with different theater companies so hire me as a performer or an artist and also come talk to us about booking our shows thank you thank you is there anyone who signed up already but we did not call be honest okay great thank you for being anybody with my sequence today it was actually hard to see myself yesterday Catherine thank you so much for emceeing us I love in the works it's so weird and it's so great just the different variety of things that you see in these 60 second performances it's one of my favorite things of the conference this wonderful weirdness is due in large part to some incredible folks who support NPN I know that people always like to say that their funders are not just funders they're partners in this case I think it really is true and particularly as NPN has gone through a lot of changes in the last three years to have the support and the wisdom and the advocacy of incredible funding partners has made that work possible it has made change happen in a hopeful space with less terrifying space and that's a really extraordinary thing so I want to say a big thank you to the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation the Andrew Mellon Foundation the Sirdna Foundation the Ford Foundation the Lambent Foundation the National Endowment for the Arts who have been longtime supporters of ours and also thanks to some local folks who have joined us this year specifically to support the conference our lawyers, they're pretty cool they gave us some money the Helles Foundation the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation Louisiana Office of Cultural Development and as I mentioned earlier Alternate Roots has specifically supported Centering First Peoples here at our conference this year and last but not least Tito's vodka so every time you go to the sweet-sweet and it's just loaded up with booze you can thank Tito's for that we also have lots of generous supporters so around the country I mentioned yesterday the opportunity to contribute to the Carol B. Bell Scholarship Fund some folks have already done that thank you so much that will allow us to provide leadership opportunities for artists and culture bearers of color from New Orleans from now hopefully forever so thank you to all of our supporters for making this happen the more money we get the more we give that's just good math thank you and then before we break I just want to give you a couple of announcements that's my favorite part