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
american (tele)visions
Antonym: the opposite of nostalgia
by Sugar Vendil
Apolaki: Opera of the Scorched Earth
Art-I-Fact
by Floating Museum: Avery R. Young, Faheem Majeed, Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford, and Andrew Schachman
Azúcar!
by CONTRA-TIEMPO: Ana Maria Alvarez, Jannet Galdamez, Ruby Morales, Jasmine Stanley, Charlie Dando, Dalphe Morantus, and Alek Perez, in collaboration with Anaïs Maviel, Meena Murugesan, David Reynoso, Tuçe Yasak, Maximiliano Urruzmendi, and Emily Orling
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
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
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
North
by Mary Ellen Childs in collaboration with Zeitgeist
On the Eve of Abolition
by Papel Machete and AgitArte in collaboration with Deborah Hunt, Southerners On New Ground, Sisters Unchained, and Prison Radio
On the Problem of a Universal History
by Liz Glynn
PEAKS
by Sarah Cameron Sunde and Joshua Dumas
Phoenix Rising
by Silkroad
Public Enemy
by Iquail Shaheed/DANCE IQUAIL! in collaboration with Daniel Carlton
Recessed
by Heidi Latsky and Maya Man in collaboration with performers from Heidi Latsky Dance
Roots Above Ground
by Marc Brew, Yuko Monden Juma, DeMarco Sleeper, Sonsherée Giles, JanpiStar, Miles Lassi, Emma Kingsbury, Walter Holden, Jaco Strydom, RAPT Productions, Laurie Rivard, Gravity Access Services, and East Bay Sanctuary Covenant
Sembrando Herencia (planting a heritage)
by Dr. Ana Maria (Tekina-eirú) Maynard and community members of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center
Sister or He Buried the Body
Standby Snow: Chronicles of a Heatwave, Chapter Two
by Mary Ellen Strom and Shane Doyle in collaboration with Rachel Tang, Laine Rettmer, Ben Lloyd, and Jim Yokom
Tear a Root from the Earth
by Johnny Walsh, Qais Essar, and Marina McClure, with Gramophonic
The Infinity Trilogy: Clean Slate & Illuminate
by David Lee White and Kate Brennan
The Slaying of Innocence
by Dr. André de Quadros, Halim Flowers, Momolu Stewart, Ted Hearne, Charlotte Brathwaite, and Beth Morrison Projects, in collaboration with VOICES 21C, Trinity Wall Street, LA Opera, Arts Emerson, and The Kennedy Center
The Supremes
by Abre Camino Collective: Victoria Collado and Vanessa Garcia, in collaboration with Nicole Garcia and Abigail Nover
The Whale Speaks…
by Celeste M. Lawson, Robin H. Hibbert, Mary Craig, Sherry Robbins, and Sara Rogers
Tomorrow’s Memories: A Little Manila Diary
by Matthew Welch, Valérie Sainte-Agathe, and the San Francisco Girls Chorus in collaboration with Sean San José, Florante Aguilar, Joan Osato, Alleluia Panis, Levy Lorenzo, and Patti Kilroy
Towards Opulence
by ABDProductions/Skywatchers: Anne Bluethenthal, Dazié Grego-Sykes, Malia Byrne, Shakiri, Deirdre Visser, Gabriel Christian, and the Skywatchers Ensemble, in collaboration with Faithful Fools, Melanie DeMore, and Irene Gustafson
Traka
by Jean Appolon Expressions: Jean Appolon, Ivana Chan, Nadia Issa, Meghan McGrath, Meghan Riling, Lonnie Stanton, and Mcebisi Xotyeni, in collaboration with Val Jeanty
TreeTime
by Ashley Tata in collaboration with Eliza Bagg, Afsoon Pajoufar, Sadah Espii Proctor, Booker Stardrum, and Aoshuang Zhang
Try/Step/Trip
by Dahlak Brathwaite, Roberta Uno, and Toran X. Moore
under blue
by E. Wray
Untitled
by David Roussève/REALITY in collaboration with Julie Tolentino
Untitled
Untitled American History Theater Project
Walking on Fire
by Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy‘s Ragamala Dance Company
We Will Not Be Composed
by Sarah Manning and Soraya Chemaly
Wild City
by Louis Chinn (Jyun Jyun) and Huameng Yu (missTANGQ)
Women’s Work
by Danielle Deadwyler, Madhuri Shekar, and Mary Lynn Owen, in collaboration with Angela M. Farr Schiller, Rachel May, Lisa Gordillo, Kacie Willis, and Celise Kalke
Words and Silences
by Brian Harnetty in collaboration with Katie Porter Maxwell, Jeremy Woodruff, Phil Rodriguez, William Lang, and Seth Bockley