We are Summer 2021 Documentation and Storytelling Fund recipients!
The National Performance Network (NPN) awarded $57,000 and leveraging an additional $154,000 to nineteen Documentation & Storytelling projects. NPN’s Documentation & Storytelling Fund aims to create pathways for artists’ career advancement and to support their ability to document, promote, and share their work, ideas, and selves.
Through these projects, artists will consider the intersection of pandemic and protest; celebrate the contributions of Black women and gender-nonconforming artists to the fields of experimental dance and avant-garde art. One project will compile a show book of musical notation and storytelling that celebrates Native peoples and culture, another aims to provide collaborators with promotional and submission materials that show their practice. Many incorporate lessons learned during the pandemic, translating works to film or hybrid forms to complement their in-person versions or building an archive with which collaborators can reflect on their practice in these changing times.
The NPN Documentation & Storytelling Fund is made possible by generous support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.