{"id":36917,"date":"2020-06-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/theatre-professors-social-circus-project-is-nefa-finalist\/"},"modified":"2024-06-03T10:09:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T14:09:18","slug":"theatre-professors-social-circus-project-is-nefa-finalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/news\/2020-06-26\/theatre-professore28099s-social-circus-project-nefa-finalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Theatre Professor\u2019s Social Circus Project is NEFA Finalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>The Nouveau Sud Circus Project, founded and directed by Associate Professor of Theatre CarlosAlexis Cruz, has been named a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nefa.org\/news\/announcing-national-theater-project-2020-creation-touring-grant-finalists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2020 National Theater Project finalist<\/a> by the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA). Chosen from among 90 applicants, the 28 finalists will now complete full applications for Creation and Touring Grants, ranging from $80,000 to $130,000, which fund the development and national touring of new work. The ten awards will be announced later this summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegardless of which projects ultimately receive funding, these are projects to watch,\u201d said Quita Sullivan, NEFA\u2019s senior program director for theater, \u201cand I hope that other artists, funders, and presenters will look closely at the 28 NTP finalists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nouveau Sud\u2019s proposal is the contemporary circus work <em>La Bestia<\/em>. Through acrobatics, music, and spoken word, <em>La Bestia<\/em> addresses immigration and migration, a topic that Cruz and the company have been investigating since <a href=\"https:\/\/nouveausud.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nouveau Sud<\/a> was established five years ago. <em>La Bestia<\/em> was a National Theater Project finalist last year, as well, and while it did not win a 2019 Creation and Touring grant, Nouveau Sud did receive a smaller NEFA grant last year and a <a href=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/news\/2019-09-19\/coaa-faculty-win-%E2%80%9Ccelebrate-charlotte-arts%E2%80%9D-grants\">$25,000 Celebrate Charlotte Arts grant<\/a> from the Knight Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pictured: Professor CarlosAlexis Cruz in performance. 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