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Theater Resources Unlimited Announces Next Writer-Producer Speed Date

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) announces a one-on-one networking event with commercial and indie producers, Writer-Producer Speed Date onJuly 15, 2018 with coaching sessions at 4:30pm and 5:30pm at Studios 353,353 W 48th St, NYC.

MP+D Receives NEA/ART Works Grant For CAPTURED LIVE

The Museum of Performance + Design was awarded an NEA/Art Works 2017 grant to digitize, catalog, and make available online for broad public access by June 2018 dance images from the HENRIETTA MCDOWELL, CHESTER KESSLER, BOB MCLOED, and KATHERINE KAHRS photographic collections in The Elyse Eng Dance Collection at the Museum of Performance + Design. This project will preserve and provide open access to 2,500 images of dance performances in the San Francisco Bay Area from the 1940s to the 1990s, highlighting the unique holdings in the MP+D collection and the extensive and significant character of its dance photographs. MP+D is one of nine dance projects in San Francisco to be funded this year through the NEA's flagship grant program, Art Works.

Choreographer Nancy Meehan Dies at 85

Nancy Meehan, choreographer and leading soloist in the Hawkins troupe from 1961 to 1970 has died on November 23.  She was 85 years old.  According to her husband and only survivor, the cause of death was pneumonia.