DELIRIOUS Dances/Edisa Weeks

photo by Rebecca Fitton

Grant Recipient

photo by Rebecca Fitton

Location

Brooklyn, NY

Digital Presence

Artist Website

Project Title

3 RITES: LIFE, LIBERTY, HAPPINESS

Fiscal Year Awarded

2021

Grant or Program

National Dance Project Production Grant

Grant Amount

$56,500

3 RITES: LIFE, LIBERTY, HAPPINESS by DELIRIOUS Dances/Edisa Weeks is a series of three interactive performance rituals that integrate dance, live music, text, visual installations, community discussions and shared meals to humorously and poignantly interrogate why life, liberty and happiness were included as unalienable rights in the United States Declaration of Independence. Performed consecutively, in tandem, or as stand alone works, 3 RITES explores what the right to life, liberty, and happiness means today, who has access to these rights, and how they manifest in the body.

Estimated Artist Fee: $5,730 - $17,880/performance plus travel + housing; $7,130 - $49,000/week plus travel + housing

This project has also received the following funding from NEFA:

Artists' Work

Overhead, of a party, where folks are dancing below stringed lights.

photo by Crystal Wei

A woman, with her hair braided straight up, wears white face paint, with clownish blue eyes and red lips.

Tucker Mitchell

An older black woman knits in a crowd of folks.

photo by Rebecca Fitton

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Edisa Weeks
edisaweeks@gmail.com