Reggie and Tommy win MAP Fund

(This is an excerpt from the MAP Fund press release regarding TRANSITION, the new show I’m directing and co-creating with Reggie Watts. See the show at: www.pica.org/festival_detail_new.aspx?eventid=337)

PERFORMER REGGIE WATTS, CHOREOGRAPHER BILL T. JONES, AND PLAYWRIGHT LISA D’AMOUR AMONG 2008 MAP FUND GRANTEES

NEW YORK, NY (July 15, 2008) - The Multi-Arts Production Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, announces the recipients of its 2008 grants for new work in live performance. Thirty-eight projects, engaging more than 70 individual composers, choreographers, designers, solo performers, and playwrights will receive awards ranging from $10,000 to $40,000. In addition to the monetary award, as part of Creative Capital’s commitment to helping artists sustain their creative practices over a lifetime, grantees will take part in a professional development weekend retreat, which offers skills-building assistance in fundraising, networking, marketing, and strategic planning.

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
Portland, OR
Reggie Watts: Transition
Lead Artist: Reggie Watts, Tommy Smith
A theatrical employment of visual and linguistic tricks to destabilize the mind and render it open to suggestion.

See full article at: www.mapfund.org/announcement_188.html

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