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Meet a NYFA Artist: Anne DeAcetis

NYFA speaks with 2010 Fiscally Sponsored Artist Anne DeAcetis. NYFA: Can you tell us what are you working on and what’s coming up for you? AD: Right now, Violette, Violette [Ed: DeAcetis’ Fiscally Sponsored performance project] has my full attention. The working draft I created last year was a great start, but now I’m adding…

Meet a NYFA Artist: Roxane Butterfly

NYFA speaks with 2002 and 2008 Choreography Fellow and Fiscally Sponsored Choreographer, Roxane Butterfly. NYFA: Hi Roxane, can you tell us what are you working on and/or what’s coming up for you? RB: I finished the manuscript of a book I wrote during my pregnancy and I am looking for an editor. I recently completed…

Meet a NYFA Artist: Heather Lyn MacDonald

“We don’t walk on like elderly people; we come on ready to dance, and they know it.” So says 88 year-old tap dancer Elaine Ellis during filmmaker Heather Lyn MacDonald’s new documentary Been Rich All My Life. Ellis is a member of the Silver Belles, a New York-based troupe of tap dancers now in their 80s and…