Meg Foley

photo by Kevin Monko

Grant Recipient

photo by Kevin Monko

Location

Philadelphia, PA

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Artist Website

Project Title

Blood Baby

Fiscal Year Awarded

2021

Grant or Program

National Dance Project Production Grant

Grant Amount

$56,500

Blood Baby is an iterative performance project exploring intersections of queer motherhood/parenthood, gestation, gender performance, queer sexuality, and belonging. Involving site-responsive dance installation, experiential sculpture, collective readings, somatic workshops, and queer/artist parent convenings, Blood Baby is a multi-faceted unpacking of queer family experience, woven together by a queer creation story by playwright Sylvan Oswald. Made in collaboration with Oswald, Michèle Steinwald as dramaturg, and fiber artist Jesse Harrod, Blood Baby is supported by the Kinsey Institute (research), Chocolate Factory (residency), and premieres in 2022-23 at Velocity Dance Center.

Estimated Artist Fee: $5,100-7,500/performance; $16,000-22,000/week.

This project has also received the following funding from NEFA:

Artist's Work

In a dance studio, a dancer leaps next to a child.

photo by Meg Foley

A dancer lays on a wooden floor next to clothes she just took off.

photo by Margot Bassett Silver

A person, wrapped in a yellow tarp, walks through a graveyard.

photo by Daniel Kontz

photo by Meg Foley

Hands rustle through gold and silver tinsel hanging on wall.

photo by Meg Foley

In a room lit by a neon green light, four dancers lay together.

photo by Kevin Monko

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