Nancy Karp & Dancers 2024 Performance Season

Help us fund our 2024 Season’s World Premiere, with original music by Samuel Adams and David A. Jaffe, performed live by Friction Quartet!

Nancy Karp + Dancers will premiere its New Work at the Taube Atrium Theater in San Francisco, formerly the Rotunda of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, April 6 & 7, 2024. The New Work choreographed for seven dancers will respond to the Atrium’s architectural shifts and changes, since Karp’s company first premiered work in the space in 1981. This site specific piece invites the audience through the building’s entryway into the formal performance space, where the New Work will be followed by a performance of fly through the night, and land near dawn.

Nancy Karp writes, “In a world that is so fragmented, I want to create work that affirms our interconnectedness to one another and to all living beings. This interdependence is widely seen throughout nature, and in particular the collective movement of birds. I have been drawn to the phenomena of murmuration and the flight patterns of migrating birds. This has been our initial jumping off point in the studio. The horizontal and vertical actions of birds in flight and how their movement influences and affects one another is endlessly fascinating.”

2024 Season collaborators are:

Nancy Karp, Artistic Director and Choreographer.

Samuel Adams, Composer of Sundial, for string quartet and percussion for the New Work premiere.

David A. Jaffe, Composer of the three music works for fly through the night, and land near dawn.

Otis Harriel (violinist), Kevin Rogers (violinist), Mitso Floor (violist), Doug Machiz (cellist), Friction Quartet with guest artist Haruka Fujii (percussionist)

Jack Carpenter, Production Designer

Sandra Woodall, Costume Designer

Rachel Garcia, Sonsherée Giles, Anna Greenberg, Katie Kruger, Amy Lewis, Calvin L. Thomas, Jr., Nol Simonse, and Elizabeth Zepeda, dancers.

Nancy Karp + Dancers has had a successful history creating site-specific work that draws inspiration and context from the environment in which it is created. Karp has created works for sites to include the BART subway stations, the Oakland Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Galleries and the Gardens, the former Del Monte Cannery in Emeryville, and the hillside terraces of the Kyoto College of Art, Japan.

All contributions will go directly to the collaborating artists - dancers, musicians, composers, and designers. Due to 2024 redistribution of government funding to the arts, we are in need of individual donor support this season to produce the upcoming performances. We are reaching out to our closest supporters to help bridge the gap in funding. All donations are tax deductible, and we greatly appreciate your contribution.

The New Arts Foundation is an exempt organization as described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code: EIN #94-2759864. [Tax ID]

$2000+ Corporate Sponsorship

If you are interested in being a Performance Sponsor at a corporate contribution level of $2000+, please contact Nancy Karp (Artistic Director) and Chelsea Hill (company manager) at nancykarp.org for further directions on how to sponsor a program.

A gift at this level makes a tremendous impact and helps to secure our Season’s success. As a thank you, donors at this tier are prominently acknowledged both at the beginning of the show and in the performance program. Additionally, you will receive 4 tickets to the performance, an invitation to an evening of canapés and cocktails at the Nancy Karp + Dancers’ studio during a rehearsal, access to Nancy Karp + Dancers’ video archive.

$500+

Your support means the world to us! As a thank you, donors at this tier receive 2 tickets to the performance, an invitation to an evening of canapés and cocktails at the Nancy Karp + Dancers’ studio during a rehearsal, access to Nancy Karp + Dancers’ video archive, acknowledgment in the performance program.

$100+

We couldn’t do this performance season without you! Your donation keeps us going! As a thank you, donors at this tier receive access to Nancy Karp + Dancers’ video archive, acknowledgment in the performance program.

$25+

Your donation keeps us going! As a thank you, donors at this tier receive acknowledgment in the performance program!

Photo Credit: John Hefti