Photos by © Paula Court

October2017/\ is commissioned by The Kitchen and made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; annual grants from Howard Gilman Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, The Jerome Robbins Foundation, and The Harkness Foundation for Dance; and in part by public funds from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. 

The work was developed through a four-year residency and commission made possible by a Live Arts Bard Choreographic Fellowship, with lead support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; and in residencies in New York City at Chashama, The Kitchen, and The Whitney Museum of American Art, and at Kampnagel in Hamburg, Germany. Long-term creative residencies at Bard College in 2016 and 2017 were supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.