Makisig Akin and Anya Cloud/The Love Makers Company

Makisig Akin and Anya Cloud | photo by Mayra Wallraff

Grant Recipient

Makisig Akin and Anya Cloud | photo by Mayra Wallraff

Location

Missoula, MO

Digital Presence

Artist Website

Project Title

Post-Failure Potentials

Fiscal Year Awarded

2026

Grant or Program

National Dance Project Production Grant

Grant Amount

$55,000

Post-Failure Potentials (PFP) queers and disrupts the binary relationship between failure vs. success, collaboration vs. competition, and performer vs. audience through experimental dance. Failure is the technology of transformation. Co-directed by Makisig Akin and Anya Cloud, PFP is a 70-minute choreography that is built as a mobile structure for 4-7 diverse intergenerational performers, emboldened by extensive community engagement. Utilizing dance and martial arts practices, the work straddles the in-between spaces of performance, competition, fight, and celebration. What if failure is not the end, but the beginning? How can the queerness of dance and our dancing bodies save us in the wake of our own and collective failure? What if embodied queerness can be an ally for racial justice work? PFP invites high-stakes and invested interface between performers and audience to cultivate a transformative and sustainable community.

Caretakers of Land/Land Acknowledgement: Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute tribes

Estimated Artist Fee:

Artist fee - single performance: $24,102
Artist fee - weekly performance: $30,088

: Two dancers softly leaning on a diagonal at the center of the frame. Makisig Akin is in focus in front and Anya is blurry behind. Makisig’s eyes are softly closed. Both dancers are wearing light colored tank tops.

Makisig Akin and Anya Cloud | photo by Jim Coleman

Two dancers kissing. Makisig Akin is lifted horizontally and balanced on Anya Cloud’s shoulder. Both dancers are shirtless and wearing jeans. Makisig is facing the camera with softly closed eyes. Anya is facing away from the camera.

Makisig Akin and Anya Cloud | photo by Jim Coleman

Two dancers up against a wall with windows. Makisig Akin is lifting Anya Cloud above their head as they press her into the wall. They are both shirtless and wearing jeans.

Makisig Akin and Anya Cloud | photo by Jim Coleman

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