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The French-US Exchange in Dance program,
known as FUSED, melds the French and American dance communities
by fostering dialogue and exchange, consolidating professional
relationships and spawning choreographic innovation. This
multi-year program introduces choreographers and performers
whose works have not yet - or rarely - been seen in the partner
country.
The FUSED program offers grants to U.S. and French non-profit
presenting institutions willing to pledge to a new bilateral
dance project with possibilities for residencies, commissions,
and/or touring the work of at least one choreographer/performer
from the partner country. Co-productions between presenters
are encouraged.
The National Dance Project (NDP) of New England Foundation
for the Arts (NEFA) and the Cultural Services of the French
Embassy joined forces in 2004, with the support of the Doris
Duke Charitable Foundation, the Florence Gould Foundation,
the Institut Français, and FACE,
to create FUSED.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has provided major support for the presentation of the work of US artists in France.
The program builds on the momentum of the
cross-cultural choreographic influences between the U.S. and
France.
For the first years, the program based its exchanges
on a network of U.S. and French presenters eager to present
innovative artists, and to increase the appetite for rarely
seen French and US dance work in the partner country. To date,
the program has supported 22 choreographers and 20 presenting
partners in France and the U.S.
The FUSED program is now open to all American and French
presenting organizations.
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