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Emerging Artists Theatre's Spark Theatre Festival NYC To Return in March

Emerging Artists Theatre will return with its bi-annual Spark Theatre Festival NYC. Learn more about programming and see how to purchase tickets to the festival!

Queer|Art Announces Shanel Edwards as Winner of the 2020 Eva Yaa Asantewaa Grant for Queer Women(+) Dance Artists

Queer|Art has announce the winner of the third annual Eva Yaa Asantewaa Grant For Queer Women(+) Dance Artists, Shanel Edwards (pronouns: they/them). Edwards will receive a $7,000 cash grant to support the development period of Against a backdrop of horror, the mundane is almost a luxury, an archival choreopoem set to premiere in Summer 2021.

Queer|Art Announces Judges for Third Annual EVA YAA ASANTEWAA GRANT FOR QUEER WOMEN(+) DANCE ARTISTS

Queer|Art has announced the judges for the third annual Eva Yaa Asantewaa Grant for Queer Women(+) Dance Artists: creative consultant/strategist, choreographer, and producer Torya Beard, dancer, teacher, and choreographer Leah Wilks, multidisciplinary artist, wound and word worker Ni'Ja Whitson.

Queer|Art Awards Second Annual Eva Yaa Asantewaa Grant For Queer Women(+) Dance Artists

Queer|Art, New York City's home for the creative and professional development of LGBTQ+ artists, is pleased to announce the winner of the second annual Eva Yaa Asantewaa Grant For Queer Women(+) Dance Artists, Hollerin Space. Philadelphia-based duo Hollerin Space will receive a $10,000 cash grant to support the development of Hold On, a new work that researches algorithms of black assembly and theories and practices of being free. This particular work traces black gathering and migrations in the broad period between 1919 and into some optimistic future. Development of this work will include study and enactment of the Juneteenth tradition of call, drum & step as part of the group's training for the premiere of an ensemble production set for 2020 in Philadelphia. The ensemble will convene for 10 workshops over a 9 month period, centering research and world building, at House of Black Infinity located in Philadelphia.

Queer|Art Announces Judges For 2nd Annual Eva Yaa Asantewaa Grant For Queer Women(+) Dance Artists

Queer|Art, NYC's home for the creative and professional development of LGBTQ+ artists, is pleased to announce the judges for the second annual Eva Yaa Asantewaa Grant for Queer Women(+) Dance Artists: performance artist and writer Gabrielle Civil, performer and choreographer Jasmine Hearn, and time-based artist and choreographer Jane Jerardi.

Queer|Art Awards Inaugural Eva Yaa Asantewaa Grant For Queer Women(+) Dance Artists

Queer|Art, New York City's home for the creative and professional development of LGBTQ+ artists, is pleased to announce the winner of the inaugural Eva Yaa Asantewaa Grant For Queer Women(+) Dance Artists, Jennifer Harge. Harge will receive a $10,000 cash grant to support the development period of Fly | Drown, a new performance installation set to premiere in Detroit in Fall 2019.

Queer|Art Announces Eva Yaa Asantewaa Grant

Queer|Art Introduces The Eva Yaa Asantewaa Grant For Queer Women(+) Dance Artists

Queer|Art, NYC's home for the creative and professional development of LGBTQ artists, is proud to introduce the Eva Yaa Asantewaa Grant for Queer Women(+) Dance Artists. The new $10,000 grant will be awarded to US-based artists for making cutting-edge dance and movement-based performance work. Women(+): The Eva Yaa Asantewaa Grant employs an expansive definition of the word "woman.' Queer|Art strongly encourages self-identified women, gender-nonconforming, and non-binary artists to apply. The 2018 grant is administered through Queer|Art by women(+) for women(+), including an intergeneratinal panel of judges from New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Named in honor of visionary dance curator, critic, and educator Eva Yaa Asantewaa, the grant seeks to highlight the important contributions queer women have made to dance throughout history.