A new incubation space for Boston’s dancers, movement artists, and circus artists.
Ernesto Lea Place and Caitlin Quinn. Photo by Mickey West
Movement Arts Creation Studio Inc. (MACS), a Massachusetts non-profit 501(c)3 organization, was founded by Valentine Talland and Nagesh Mahanthappa to provide an affordable, state-of-the-art studio incubator and project support for dancers, movement artists, and circus artists in the Boston area.
Movement Arts Creation Studio (MACS) provides major support to Boston Dance Theater
Boston Dance Theater will travel in 2024 to Italy to participate by invitation at the Florence Dance Performing Arts Festival and the International Dance Festival San Nicola in Bari. BDT will present performances and masterclasses; Founder and Co-Artistic Director Jessie Jeanne Stinnett will also serve as a guest judge for a dance competition.
Movement Arts Creation Studio (MACS) is a lead sponsor of Jean Appolon Expressions Summer Dance Institute 2024.
Jean Appolon Expressions will return to Haiti and the Dominican Republic to provide free programming empowering youth aged 15 – 18 through classes in dance, Haitian culture and social issues, as well healthy food, water and safe transportation.
Movement Arts Creation Studio (MACS) joins a program partnership with the Boston Foundation and the Aliad Fund
Support from MACS starting in 2021 enables Next Steps for Boston Dance to provide additional grant funds for new and previous grantees, expanded programming, including focus on building the field of circus arts and movement arts in Greater Boston.
Studio access, on a sliding fee scale, is by application, reviewed by representative panels of peer artists, presenters, producers, and grant-makers.
beheard.world. Photo by Jay Paris
Professional movement artists lack appropriate space and support.
MACS serves mid-career and emerging professional artists with well-equipped, accessible studio facilities for movement arts, as well as with professional development support to research, incubate and disseminate new works. Through its programming, MACS seeks to advance artists, retain talent, and cultivate a sustainable movement ecosystem in the Boston area.
“As artists continue to lose artistic spaces in the city of Boston, access to centers like MACS that are designed with the artist in mind have become an ever pressing need.”
— Ana Masacote, Founder, Dance to Power
Photo by Chouab Brik, Unsplash
Boston audiences want more and diverse movement arts.
Boston hosts many vibrant touring companies for dance and circus arts that preponderantly originate from other cities, thus under-representing the creative work of Boston-area artists. MACS’ commitment to underwrite creativity and risk-taking will help Boston match peer cities in promoting and disseminating a thriving culture and business in movement arts.
“The artistic support programming that MACS proposes will build upon existing efforts within the community and will help provide the infusion that this community needs in order to keep artists from moving away and taking their work with them.”
— Jessie Jeanne Stinnett, Founder and Co-Director, Boston Dance Theater
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