Does the NEA Need Saving?

Wilbur, Sarah

doi:10.1162/DRAM_a_00694

Article navigation

December 01 2017

Does the NEA Need Saving?

Sarah Wilbur

Sarah Wilbur is a choreographer, dance and performance researcher, and the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in dance studies at Brown University. She writes about infrastructure and embodiment. Her recent research appears in TDR, Performance Research, and the Journal of Emerging Dance Scholarship. Forthcoming are essays in The Oxford Handbook on Dance and Competition and the Mellon Futures of Dance Studies collection. Her current book project analyzes institution building though a dance lens, using as its principal case study the 50-year struggle to uphold norms of recognition and resourcing in the Dance Program at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). [email protected]

Search for other works by this author on:

This Site

Google Scholar

Author and Article Information

Sarah Wilbur

Sarah Wilbur is a choreographer, dance and performance researcher, and the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in dance studies at Brown University. She writes about infrastructure and embodiment. Her recent research appears in TDR, Performance Research, and the Journal of Emerging Dance Scholarship. Forthcoming are essays in The Oxford Handbook on Dance and Competition and the Mellon Futures of Dance Studies collection. Her current book project analyzes institution building though a dance lens, using as its principal case study the 50-year struggle to uphold norms of recognition and resourcing in the Dance Program at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). [email protected]

Online ISSN: 1531-4715

Print ISSN: 1054-2043

2017

New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

TDR/The Drama Review (2017) 61 (4 (236)): 96–106.

https://doi.org/10.1162/DRAM_a_00694

Abstract

What are the stakes in saving the NEA, today? Departing from the recent legislative back-and-forth between President Donald Trump and Congress over the budgetary future of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), this performance analysis of the NEA’s 31 March 2017 meeting of the National Council on the Arts reveals the complex political posturing that undergirds federal support for the arts in US culture.

2017

New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

You do not currently have access to this content.

Don't already have an account? Register

You could not be signed in. Please check your email address / username and password and try again.

Does the NEA Need Saving?

Abstract

Email alerts

Cited By

A product of The MIT Press

MIT Press Direct

Information

MIT Press

Contact Us

Does the NEA Need Saving?

Abstract

Sign in

Client Account

Sign in via your Institution

Email alerts

Cited By

Related Articles

Related Book Chapters

A product of The MIT Press

MIT Press Direct

Information

MIT Press

Contact Us

This Feature Is Available To Subscribers Only