Lewis Center faculty and alumni win National Dance Project Production Grants

The New England Foundation for the Arts announced winners of the 2024 National Dance Project (NDP) Production Grants, including Program in Dance Professor of the Practice Rebecca Lazier; past faculty member and Princeton alum from the Program in Dance Silas Riener ’06; past guest artist and Princeton alum from the Program in Dance Ogemdi Ude ’16; past faculty member Rashaun Mitchell; Lewis Center Advisory Council member and Princeton alum David Roussève ’81; and recent Hearst Choreographers-in-Residence Kyle Marshall and Eiko Otake.

One dancer in front holds their arms out wide while 2 dancers reach their arms skyward.

Ogemdi Ude’s “Major.” Photo by Ian Douglas

Each year, 20 new dance projects are selected by NDP Advisors from an application process that centers artistic prowess, community partnerships, and social impact. NDP Production Grantees represent various career stages, diversity of forms and aesthetics, project scale, identities, geographies, and operational models that exist within today’s dance field. In 2024, the winning projects represent 7 states or territories in the U.S., and three-quarters of the projects are led by artists who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color.

Each grantee receives $45,000 to create a new dance project; $10,000 in unrestricted general operating support; $10,000 to support a production residency or additional community engagement work; and $35,000 in tour subsidy that goes to U.S. organizations that bring the new dance project and related engagement activities to their communities.

Learn more about the artists and their winning projects: