Walls Behind Walls

Eleone Dance Theatre

2007

$20,000

Eleone Dance Theatre commissioned choreographer Abdur-Rahim Jackson to create the new ballet Walls Behind Walls. Jackson’s new work combined ballet and hip-hop dance styles, and featured music by Groundtruther and Daft Punk. Walls Behind Walls premiered during Eleone's 2007–08 season and went on to become part of the company's touring repertoire.

Recipients

Eleone Dance Theatre

Performance

Dance

Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Choreographer and Performer Nora Chipaumire on Connecting with Her Audience

Nora Chipaumire talks about engaging with the audience and creating “a democracy” as a performer.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Arlene Shuler

Arlene Shuler is president and CEO of New York City Center. A former dancer with the Joffrey Ballet, Shuler has also worked at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

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Mariam Ghani

Mariam Ghani is a multi-media artist, writer, and filmmaker.

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taisha paggett

taisha paggett is a Los Angeles-based artist whose individual and collaborative work for the stage, gallery, and public space takes up questions of the body, agency, and the phenomenology of race and gender. In 2015, paggett served as a Performance LOI panelist.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Ernesto Pujol on Reciprocal Relationships with Communities

Social choreographer Ernesto Pujol on creating group performances based on reciprocal relationships with communities.

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Event

Mending Wall premiere

PRISM Quartet, along with soprano Tony Arnold and pianist Arturo O’Farrill, perform the world premiere of works by four composers—Martin Bresnick, George Lewis, Juri Seo, and O’Farrill—that explore the contemporary meaning of walls by giving musical form to questions about identity, community, division, and freedom.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Yuval Sharon

Yuval Sharon is founder (in 2010) and artistic director of The Industry, a Los Angeles-based production company.

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Event

Le Cargo

In conjunction with its presentation of Brett Bailey's Macbeth, FringeArts presents Le Cargo, a dance work by Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Donald Nally

Donald Nally is conductor of The Crossing, a professional chamber choir focused on new music.

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OutBeat Jazz Festival: Fred Hersch Trio

The William Way LGBT Community Center presents *OutBeat: America's First Queer Jazz Festival*. The Festival continues with the Fred Hersch Trio.

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OutBeat Jazz Festival: Terri Lyne Carrington's Money Jungle

The William Way LGBT Community Center presents *OutBeat: America's First Queer Jazz Festival*. The Festival continues with Grammy winner Terry Lyne Carrington performing selections from her album Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue.

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ear-whispered: Reflections on Syria

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Supper, People on the Move at La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival

Choreographer Silvana Cardell's Supper, People on the Move travels to the experimental theater La MaMA in New York City, as part of the 2016 La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival.

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News

In Memoriam: Elaine Hoffman Watts, Klezmer Musician and Pew Fellow

A celebrated percussionist and treasured mentor, Watts was known for bringing an authentic and refined approach to klezmer, a centuries-old form of Eastern European Jewish folk music.

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Maryanne Amacher: Ways of Hearing (Workshop)

As part of Maryanne Amacher: Perceptual Geographies, Bowerbird presents Ways of Hearing, a multi-part workshop led by the artist group Supreme Connections.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Taylor Mac

Taylor Mac is an award-winning playwright, actor, singer-songwriter, performance artist, director, and producer.

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Shannon Jackson

Shannon Jackson is the Associate Vice Chancellor for the Arts and Design, the Cyrus and Michelle Hadidi Chair of the Humanities, and a Professor of Rhetoric and of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Theater Artist Jennifer Kidwell

Theater artist and Pew Fellow Jennifer Kidwell on how she became an artist, the role of humor in her work, Philadelphia’s arts scene, and more.

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Modupúe | Ibaye: The Philadelphia Yoruba Performance Project Media Archive Exhibition

As part of Intercultural Journeys’ Center-supported Modupúe | Ibaye project, a three-day exhibition examines the history and contemporary expressions of Yoruba-rooted practices

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Collaborators & Colleagues

jumatatu m. poe

A young choreographer who has already produced provocative, experimental dance works, Poe (Pew Fellow, 2011) is the founder of dance/theater company idiosynCrazy productions.

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