The National Performance Network (NPN) announces the Spring 2021 Creation Fund Awards, a program that awards funds to 22 new artistic works that range in subject, including theater, dance, podcasting, puppetry, boat-building, and community healing events. The artists’ works honor those displaced by colonialism, war, and gentrification; unpack queer family experiences; explore grief in BIPOC communities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic; tell stories of Black land stewardship in the South; and imagine the last day of the last prison.
Pyramid Theatre Company is proud to co-commission THE BLACK FEMINIST GUIDE TO THE HUMAN BODY by Dr. Lisa B. Thompson (Austin, TX). Fellow co-commissioners include Fusebox Festival (Austin, TX), the Vortex (Austin, TX), and the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (San Francisco, CA). According to an article by NPN, The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body is
““…part performance, part health fair, and part block party. The raucous performance meditation includes stories full of joy, fear, sorrow, lust, hunger, confusion, pride, and shame presented by dancers and a chorus of Black women, girls, femmes, sisters, aunties, mamas, and nanas of various body types, skin colors, hairstyles, and personas. This show brings art, activism, and community together to center Black women, femmes, and girls as we explore the beauty and pain of inhabiting a Black female body from birth to death.””
Click here to read the full article by NPN, and to learn more about the works of other artists who were awarded.
Photo credits: Leila Awadallah researching movement in the Mediterranean Sea for TERRANEA: hakawati of the sea at Amalgam in Beirut. Photo: Romy Lynn Attieh.