Fail Better

Nichole Canuso Dance Company

Recipient

Grant Year 2006

Grant Amount $20,000

Status Completed

Updated June 20, 2023

Nichole Canuso Dance Company engaged in an exploratory project with a team of Philadelphia-based theater directors, dramaturgs, and set designers to develop the new dance-theater work Fail Better. Created in collaboration with director Jennifer Childs, sound designer Rick Henderson, set designer and Matt Saunders (2014 Pew Fellow), and lighting designer Mark O'Maley, with choreography by Nichole Canuso (2017 Pew Fellow), Fail Better was inspired by Samuel Beckett's play Act Without Words I. The multidisciplinary piece, which premiered during the 2006 FringeArts Festival, investigated the flux of young motherhood with smart humor and clever staging.

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Nichole Canuso Dance Company

Led by artistic director, choreographer, and Pew Fellow Nichole Canuso, Nichole Canuso Dance Company (NCDC) presents movement-based, often participatory works that sit at the crossroads of movement, visual art, and theater. The company has toured to such venues as New York's Dance Theater Workshop and Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival, San Francisco's ODC, and Washington, DC's Dance Place.

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