Li Chiao-Ping Dance (LCPD) has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for a Grants for Arts Projects award of $15,000. The grant will support Phase Two of the “Dirty Laundry” project, a multimedia dance theater work exploring the history of anti-Asian hate, discrimination, violence, and bias in the U.S.
In total, the NEA will award more than $37 million for 1,135 Grants for Arts Projects awards as part of its second round of fiscal year 2024 grants.
“Projects like Li Chiao-Ping Dance’s ‘Dirty Laundry’ exemplify the creativity and care with which communities are telling their stories, creating connection, and responding to challenges and opportunities in their communities — all through the arts,” said NEA Chair Maria Rosario Jackson. “So many aspects of our communities such as cultural vitality, health and well-being, infrastructure, and the economy are advanced and improved through investments in art and design, and the National Endowment for the Arts is committed to ensuring people across the country benefit.”
“I am grateful for the support of the NEA and to be able to work on this multimedia dance performance project,” said LCPD Artistic Director and choreographer Li Chiao-Ping, the Sally Banes Professor of Dance and a Vilas Research Professor in the School of Education’s Dance Department. “My collaborators Byron Au Yong and Hong Huo (an MFA graduate of UW–Madison’s Art Department) are eager to delve deeper to create something that is honest, authentic, moving, and elegant. We look forward to amplifying the stories of the Asian community.”
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