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NJDTE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR RECEIVES NJSCA ARTIST FELLOWSHIP AWARD   Nancy Turano Named One of Top Award Recipients in New Jersey 

3/25/2017

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PictureNancy Turano with NJSCA Executive Director Nick Paleologos
Nancy Turano, Artistic Director of New Jersey Dance Theatre Ensemble, has been honored with a 2017 Individual Artist Fellowship for Excellence in Choreography from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Out of 21 fellowship recipients statewide in Choreography, Music Composition, Poetry and Sculpture, Turano was one of four artists selected to receive the highest award from NJSCA at their public meeting on Tuesday, February 28th at the Mile Square Theatre in Hoboken.
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The New Jersey Individual Artist Fellowships are competitive awards to New Jersey artists in 12 different disciplines granted solely on independent peer panel assessment of work samples. The anonymous process is focused on artistic quality, and awards may be used to help artists produce new work and advance their careers. This program is carried out in partnership with the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.

​“I am beyond grateful for this meaningful artistic recognition from the NJSCA. It is certainly a welcome honor and the harvest after a lifetime of effort.” Turano said.
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NJSCA Board Members with 2017 Individual Artist Fellowship Recipients at NJSCA's public meeting
PictureNancy Turano
Sharon Burton Turner, NJSCA’s 1st Vice Chair, remarked, "The Fellowship program is one of the many ways the Council seeks to help New Jersey artists strengthen their careers and to make it just a little easier to get in to the studio - whatever kind of studio that may be - and get to work."
 
Turano plans to utilize her Fellowship to continue to explore and research her work, which she describes as “informed by subtle fields of energy in the human body, physics, and the mapping of architectural patterns in nature. The work challenges the dancer to find physical limitlessness in body and mind, and ultimately connectivity with the viewer.” The goal, Turano says, is “to have the dancer and viewer lifted to a higher realm and ideally transformed by the experience.”
 
The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, created in 1966, is a division of the NJ Department of State. The Council was established to encourage and foster public interest in the arts; enlarge public and private resources devoted to the arts; promote freedom of expression in the arts; and facilitate the inclusion of art in every public building in New Jersey. The Council receives direct appropriations from the State of New Jersey through a dedicated, renewable Hotel/Motel Occupancy fee, as well as competitive grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. To learn more about the Council, please visit www.artscouncil.nj.gov.

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