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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Artists and theater groups are challenging a new certification requirement and funding prohibition that the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has imposed on grant applications. The NEA now requires applicants to attest that they will not “promote gender ideology” in order to be eligible for funding and blocks any projects that reasonably appear to “promote gender ideology” from getting an award.

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The decision also aims to make clear that the organization welcomes artists from both within and beyond the state of Rhode Island.

Rhode Island Women's Choreography Project will be known going forward as Choreography Project, following the successful run of its...

There’s an unfortunate stereotype of contemporary concert dance: erudite, insular, inaccessible to the average person. With authenticity and joy in spades, The Choreography Project’s Here and Now demonstrated just how much of a welcoming party it can be...

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Rhode Island Women's Choreography Project, a choreographic residency based in Providence, has changed its name to Choreography Project in an effort to reaffirm its commitment to including trans and nonbinary artists.

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