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Grant Recipient Details
Location
Cleveland, OH
Artist Website
Project Title
Speaking in the Same Tongue
Fiscal Year Awarded
2021
Grant or Program
National Dance Project Production Grant
Grant Amount
$56,500
Speaking in the Same Tongue is a full-length movement, sound and language-based work choreographed and directed by Dianne McIntyre which includes poetry by Ntozake Shange and original music by Diedre Murray. The work includes five dancers and five musicians – all of whom speak. A four-week rehearsal and development period will take place in Harlem potentially in 2021 and a subsequent tour will take place. Local performers (three-six) will be included in the work at each tour site. The work explores dance and music “speaking” to each other; Africans bond together with no common “tongue”; the sound of rage, endearment, suspicion; nature reacting to the clashes of race.
Estimated Artist Fee: $20,000/performance; $37,500/week; Travel and housing not included in these figures.
Presenter Partners
- Dance Place (Washington, DC)
- Karamu House (Cleveland, OH)
- Apollo Theater (New York, NY)
Tour Coordinator
Mara Isaacs, Adam Hyndman
Producer & Tour Manager
Octopus Theatricals
Tel. (646) 964-5585
info@octopustheatricals.com
Contact the tour coordinator listed above for information on this project’s tour dates, and to discuss joining a project’s NDP tour and receiving a Presentation Grant.
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