Location
Brooklyn, NY
Project Title
johnbrown
Fiscal Year Awarded
2014
Grant or Program
National Dance Project Production Grant
Grant Amount
$40,000

Multidisciplinary dance artist Dean Moss draws from an intimate and varied history with activism to create johnbrown, a wry meditation on the radical legacy of the white 19th Century abolitionist John Brown. Framed through the lens of inexperienced teenaged participants, johnbrown excavates contemporary birthrights born of the struggle against “our peculiar institution,” while simultaneously exploring the gendered and generational processes at play in their perception. It premieres in New York at The Kitchen October 16-25, 2014, - the 155th ann

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