Midway Avenue

Nichole Canuso Dance Company

Recipient

Grant Year 2013

Grant Amount $64,500

Status Completed

Updated May 30, 2023

"It's about letting the structure of the dance do much of the talking," Nichole Canuso writes of her new choreographic direction. "But it's also about talking: about breaking my silence as a person and a performer." Nichole Canuso Dance Company's productions include exploratory, often participatory work, such as Wandering Alice (2008), during which the cast led audiences on a performance-centered tour of the historic Christ Church Neighborhood House. Canuso's new solo work Midway Avenue was built on research initiated with her 2011 Center funded project Directing My Dancers/Directing Myself with UK-based choreographer Wendy Houstoun and was conducted in Philadelphia and London. As part of this final rehearsal process, Canuso returned to London, where she will continued her work with movement specialist Rahel VonMoos and choreographer/composer Matteo Fargion. The final production premiered in May 2014 as part of FringeArts' inaugural season of year-round programming.

Primary EventsEvents & Exhibitions

Midway Avenue by Nichole Canuso Dance Company

May 2–4, 2014
FringeArts, 140 North Columbus Blvd. (at Race Street), Philadelphia

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On Tour Nichole Canuso Dance Company's Midway Avenue in New York

Aug 27–30, 2015
HERE Arts Center, 145 Sixth Avenue, New York City

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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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