greene grants
2006 Greene Grant awarded to:
The Neta Dance Company
Opening Up Creative Dialogue Between Artist and Audience…
In December 2006, The Maxine Greene Foundation, Inc. awarded a Greene Grant to The Neta Dance Company in support of the 2007 season of The A.W.A.R.D. Show! (Artists With Audiences Responding to Dance) at the Joyce Soho in New York. The Company is dedicated to nurturing new performance works, re-thinking the traditional division between the artistic disciplines, and explores how reality is perceived within the chaos of contemporary culture.
- The A.W.A.R.D. Show is a free, monthly performance series presenting works of four emerging and mid-career choreographer, followed by discussion between the artists and audience.
- At the end of each performance, the audience chooses one choreographer/work as a finalist. Culminating in a May 2007 event, a panel of artists in various disciplines, along with the audience, chooses a winner who receives a $10,000 grant.
- The Company offers free and low-cost dance/music workshops, lecture-demonstrations for children, teens and adults in-studio and in public schools, and A.W.A.R.D. Show! events especially created for the "Our Children Foundation" in Harlem.
"I’ll go anywhere for peace!"
-Neta Pulvermacher
"To be enabled to activate the imagination is to discover not only possibility, but to find the gaps, the empty spaces that require filling as We move from the is to the might be, to the should be. To release the imagination too is to release the power of empathy, to become more present to those around, perhaps to care."