The MAP Fund Announces 2021 Grantees!

The MAP Fund supports the development and production of original live performance projects that embody a spirit of deep inquiry, particularly those that question, disrupt, and complicate notions of social and cultural hierarchies. MAP was originally established in 1988 by The Rockefeller Foundation and became an independent organization in 2016. Since our founding, MAP has provided over $33 million in support to thousands of artists within more than 1,000 projects.

Today, MAP is honored to announce a $1.4 million investment in 55 extraordinary new projects.

MAP does not merely steward resources into the hands of artists. MAP rethinks received ways of doing and being. We believe in the livelihood and lifeblood of artists. We believe artists make the world more vibrant, sustainable, and just, said poet and MAP Fund board member, Ama Codjoe. We are thrilled to support such an incredible group of artists, thinkers, and makers and await the ripples their work will have in our world.

Through this year’s process, each grantee receives $20,000 in project development funds and $5,000 in general operating funds to advance their bold ideas. From Hawaii to Puerto Rico to Maine, creative teams will generate dance, music, and theater works that organize their communities around abolition, fight for environmental justice, explore practices for mutual care, and more. Please join us in championing performing artists who are transforming our world in revolutionary ways:

The MAP Fund gratefully acknowledges our funding partners who help us invest in artists, including lead support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, along with the Howard Gilman Foundation.

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a haunted botany

by Gwyneth Shanks and SISTER JAMES

Acts of Liberation

by Hoesy Corona

Africantic

by UNIVERSES: Steven Sapp, Mildred Ruiz-Sapp, N’Sangou Njikam, Asia Mark, Nate John Mark, and Sophia Ramos

Callaloo

by Bobby Norfolk in collaboration with Yavor Vesselinov

Carnival of the Animals

by Marc Bamuthi Joseph and Wendy Whelan in collaboration with Francesca Harper, Rika Iino, and Chisa Yamaguchi

Constant State of Otherness

by Unit Souzou: Michelle Fujii, Toru Watanabe, Ian Berve, David Wells, and Vicky Zhang

Cover Your Mouth When You Smile

by Peiling Kao, Gerald Casel, and Na-Ye Kim

De Nive Sexangula: Snowflakes Per Sonified (working title)

by Christine Southworth and Evan Ziporyn

EZ Bake

by t loving, Genevieve Erin O’Brien, and Denise Uyehara

FORCE! an opera in three acts

by Anna Martine Whitehead in collaboration with Angel Bat Dawid, Jenn Freeman, Jasmine Mendoza, Zachary Nicol, Rahila Coates, Tramaine Parker, Daniella Pruitt, Ayanna Woods, Sky Cubacub, Phillip Armstrong, and Wills Glasspiegel

Goosh(t) Nadeh (Don’t Ear, Don’t Meat)

by Ava Ansari aka BotehJ

Government Housing

by Ayodele Nzinga

Into the Dark

by Jess Curtis/Gravity: Jess Curtis, Gabriel Christian, Tiffany Taylor, Sophia Neises, Sherwood Chen, and Rachael Dichter, in collaboration with Georgina Kleege and Gerald Pirner

La Paloma Prisoner

by Raquel Almazan, Estefanía Fadul, Andrea Abello, Francisco Arcila, Zuleyma Guevara, Mel Nieves, Gladys Pérez, Monica Steuer, Teresa Yenque, Hayley Isaacson, Aislinn Curry, Lisette Santiago, Haydee Antañuno, Daniela Hart, Elizabeth Mak, Melanie May, Noel Nichols, and Galia Backal

Love Force

by Sunny Jain

Love, a state of grace

by Joanna Haigood/Zaccho Dance Theatre in collaboration with Walter Kitundu, Wayne Campbell, Sean Riley, Yohana Junker, Veronica Blair, Ciarra D’Onofrio, Clarissa Dyas, Suzanne Gallo, Azraa Muhammed, Danielle Sexton, and Helen Wicks

LoveHustle: In Retrospect

by Monica L. Williams

Mikrokosmos: One Giant Step

by Steffani Jemison and Justin Hicks

Misdemeanor Dream

by Spiderwoman Theater’s Muriel Miguel, Penny Couchie, Imelda Villalon, Sharon Day, Russell Wallace, Megan Paulin, and Sherry Guppy, in collaboration with the Story Creation and Performing Ensemble