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Taylor Mac/Nature's Darlings

Location
New York, NY
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Project Title
A 24-Decade History of Popular Music
Fiscal Year Awarded
2016
Grant or Program
National Theater Project Creation & Touring Grant
Grant Amount
$65,000

Equal parts bedazzled shaman, community organizer, searing social critic and Elizabethan fool, Taylor Mac has created internationally award-winning performance events that at once provoke and embrace his diverse audience for more than 18 years. A 24-Decade History of Popular Music promises to be his most ambitious project to date — a durational performance art work in which Taylor Mac, his Nature’s Darlings ensemble, and audience together create a subjective history of America through the last 240 years of popular music.

PROJECTED TOURING AVAILABILITY
Currently available

TOUR COORDINATOR
Alisa Regas and Linda Brumbach, Principals
Pomegranate Arts
tel 212.228.2221
 

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