MP+D Receives NEA/ART Works Grant For CAPTURED LIVE
by Rebecca Russo
- Sep 1, 2017
The Museum of Performance + Design was awarded an NEA/Art Works 2017 grant to digitize, catalog, and make available online for broad public access by June 2018 dance images from the HENRIETTA MCDOWELL, CHESTER KESSLER, BOB MCLOED, and KATHERINE KAHRS photographic collections in The Elyse Eng Dance Collection at the Museum of Performance + Design. This project will preserve and provide open access to 2,500 images of dance performances in the San Francisco Bay Area from the 1940s to the 1990s, highlighting the unique holdings in the MP+D collection and the extensive and significant character of its dance photographs. MP+D is one of nine dance projects in San Francisco to be funded this year through the NEA's flagship grant program, Art Works.
Choreographer Nancy Meehan Dies at 85
by Christina Mancuso
- Dec 1, 2016
Nancy Meehan, choreographer and leading soloist in the Hawkins troupe from 1961 to 1970 has died on November 23. She was 85 years old. According to her husband and only survivor, the cause of death was pneumonia.
'SONGS OF THE HARLEM RIVER' Set for Dream Up Festival
by Tyler Peterson
- Aug 6, 2015
'Songs of the Harlem River: Forgotten one acts from the Harlem Renaissance' is a collection of one-acts written between 1920-1930 including works by Marita Bonner, Rafe M. Coleman, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Willis Richardson and Eulalie Spence as well as the poems of Sterling A. Brown, Langston Hughes and others. The evening is directed and choreographed by Shela Xoregos and will have its world premiere August 30 to September 6 in Theater for the New City's 2015 Dream Up Festival.
