I use abstraction to celebrate everyday life. Whether in an intimate solo, such as Sweet Bargain , which was inspired by fishmongers at Tokyo's Tkuiji Fish Market, or in group works, such as Prima Materia, First Light and Arashi/Storm, I take life’s ordinary movements, strip them down to their essential components, and then combine them, recombine them, and elaborate on them. What emerges, from these "structural investigations," are vocabularies of movement. My dances evolve, like language evolves, as those vocabularies are used and explored. The beauty and possibility hidden within simple actions and gestures is endlessly fascinating to me.

--Nancy Karp

MISSION STATEMENT

The New Arts Foundation, a non-profit organization founded in 1981, is dedicated to the creation and presentation of new work that reflects the artistic vision of director/choreographer Nancy Karp and her dance company, Nancy Karp + Dancers. Interdisciplinary collaboration is the key focus of the organization, and it commissions outstanding composers, visual artists, and designers to work with the company in the creation of new dances each season.