Performing Americas Program (PAP) - Creative Exchange Residencies

Performing Americas Program - Creative Exchange Residencies

Program Type: International performing arts exchange program

Geographic Scope: United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean

Program Duration: 2-5 week residencies

Overview:
The Performing Americas Program (PAP) is a partnership between the National Performance Network and La RED (Red de Promotores Culturales de Latinoamérica y el Caribe). It creates a structure for systematic exchange of contemporary performing arts touring in the hemisphere through residencies that provide opportunities for artist-to-community engagement.

Focus Areas:

• Educational activities and creative research
• Setting work on a host company
• Technical skills workshops
• Contemporary performing arts exchanges
• Reciprocal exchanges between artists and hosts
• Knowledge building and creation of new performance work
• Learning of new methodologies and skill building

Program Components:
The Creative Exchange has two components:

1. Residencies: 2-5 week flexible residencies for extended artist-to-community engagement
2. Mobility Awards: Support for artists and hosts to meet face-to-face with potential partners for future exchange projects (travel only, maximum $1,000 per award)

Eligibility:

• Artists, curators, and designers throughout the Americas
• Focus on equitable exchange
• Partnerships between artists and hosts in Caribbean, Latin America, and United States

Impact (as of 2012):

• Awarded support for 55 artist projects
• 47 different host sites
• 34 artist/companies toured
• 30 additional Creative Exchange residencies funded
• Presentations by 50+ U.S.-based presenting organizations
• 17 U.S. artist companies presented in 47 different cities

Funding Sources:
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, and for Los Angeles artists/organizations: City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs

Key Values:

• Reciprocity
• Peer exchange
• Knowledge building
• Equitable exchange
• Justice framework for international work

Partner Network:
La RED (Red de Promotores Culturales de Latinoamérica y el Caribe)