Composer and Visiting Professor Sarah Hennies Receives 2023 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant to Premiere Two New Major Works in Germany
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Sarah Hennies.
Sarah Hennies, visiting assistant professor of music at Bard College, has been awarded a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant. Hennies, who is a composer, received an emergency grant to support her premiere of two major compositions at the Darmstadt Summer Festival in Darmstadt, Germany, with performances in August. Hennies participated in the Darmstadt Summer Course, where her two new hour-long works were each premiered. French ensemble Dedalus performed Hennies’ Motor Tapes, a work inspired by findings of neuroscientists Oliver Sacks and Rodolfo Llinás, the latter who “speaks of ‘motor tapes’ in connection with our motoric memory and compares it with neuronal processes underlying human creativity.” Hennies’ other new work, Borrowed Light, written for and performed by New York string ensemble Mivos String Quartet, “derives from a technique developed by American Shakers to install windows in interior walls of buildings to let in light from adjacent rooms with exterior windows.”
The Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA) was founded by John Cage, Jasper Johns, and other artists in 1963 with a mission to encourage, sponsor, and promote innovative work in the arts created and presented by individuals, groups, and organizations working in dance, music/sound, performance art/theater, poetry, and the visual arts. FCA’s Emergency Grants provide urgent funding for visual and performing artists who have sudden, unanticipated opportunities to present their work to the public when there is insufficient time to seek other sources of funding, or who are set to incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed exhibition or performance dates. Emergency Grants is the only active, multidisciplinary program that offers immediate, project-based assistance of this kind to artists living and working anywhere in the United States, for projects occurring in the US and abroad.
Post Date: 08-15-2023
The Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA) was founded by John Cage, Jasper Johns, and other artists in 1963 with a mission to encourage, sponsor, and promote innovative work in the arts created and presented by individuals, groups, and organizations working in dance, music/sound, performance art/theater, poetry, and the visual arts. FCA’s Emergency Grants provide urgent funding for visual and performing artists who have sudden, unanticipated opportunities to present their work to the public when there is insufficient time to seek other sources of funding, or who are set to incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed exhibition or performance dates. Emergency Grants is the only active, multidisciplinary program that offers immediate, project-based assistance of this kind to artists living and working anywhere in the United States, for projects occurring in the US and abroad.
Post Date: 08-15-2023