Emergency Grants

Hadar Ahuvia 
Dance
Brooklyn, NY
2017

Hadar Ahuvia, a dancer and choreographer, received a grant in June to perform Everything you has is yours? at the Art Stations Foundation as part of the Stary Browar Nowy Taniac festival in Poznan, Poland, on June 18.

Yulia Arakelyan 
Dance
Portland, OR
2017

Yulia Arakelyan, a dance and performance artist, received a grant in November to premiere Tidal at The Headwaters Theatre in Portland, November 30-December 3.

Sidra Bell 
Dance
White Plains, NY
2017

Sidra Bell, a dancer and choreographer, received a grant in November to premiere MÖNSTER OUTSIDE at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, November 17-18.

Yanira Castro 
Dance
Brooklyn, NY
2017

Yanira Castro, a dancer and choreographer, received a grant in August to perform CAST at The Chocolate Factory Theater in Long Island City, September 13-23.

Anya and Mitsuko Clarke-Verdery 
Dance
New York, NY
2017

Anya and Mitsuko Clarke-Verdery, co-artistic directors of MICHIYAYA Dance, received a grant in March to perform Spline at the Manhattan Movement and Arts Center in New York, March 25-26.

Parijat Desai 
Dance
New York, NY
2017

Parijat Desai, a choreographer and director, received a grant in February to perform JustLikeThat at Harlem Stage in New York, March 31-April 8.

Michelle Ellsworth 
Dance
Boulder, CO
2017

Michelle Ellsworth, a dancer and performance artist, received a grant in December to perform The Rehearsal Artist at Invisible Dog Art Center in New York, January 9-11.

Marjani Forté-Saunders 
Dance
Pasadena, CA
2017

Marjani Forté-Saunders, a choreographer and dancer, received a grant in November to perform Memoirs of a... Unicorn, presented by New York Live Arts at the Collapsable Hole in New York, November 15-19.

Miriam Gabriel and Carlo Antonio Villanueva 
Dance
Brooklyn, NY
2017

Miriam Gabriel and Carlo Antonio Villanueva, dancers and choreographers, received a grant in September to perform Untitled (Duet in A) at Gibney Dance Center in New York, September 21-23.

Ana “Rokafella" Garcia 
Dance
Bronx, NY
2017

Ana “Rokafella" Garcia, a dancer and choreographer, received a grant in September to perform Return to Rockin at the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance in the Bronx, on October 14.