Danza Orgánica

interview by boston neighborhood network news

awards

-Mar Parrilla / Danza Orgánica awarded the Powering Cultural Futures Multiyear Partnership with the BARR Foundation (2021).

-Danza Orgánica awarded multiple COVID relief grants.

-Mar Parrilla recipient of Opportunity Fund 3.0, awarded by the city of Boston, 2019.

-Danza Orgánica awarded the Outstanding Community Arts Collaboration Award in Dance, from Arts/Learning. 2019.

-Selected for The Elma Lewis 2018 Women in Community Arts Collectors Edition Trading Cards. Info here!

-Awarded a Creative Residency as a Boston Schonberg Fellow at The Yard (by invitation from The Yard Director). August 20-September 1, 2018.

-Recipient of Espacio Abierto, a space grant from Villa Victoria Center for the Arts. 2018

-Recipient of Live Arts Boston (LAB) grant, awarded by The Boston Foundation- towards the 5th annual festival: We Create! Celebrating Women in the Arts. Spring 2018.

-Recipient of Boston AIR (artist in residence) award by the city of Boston. See press release.

-Recipient of Next Steps for Boston Dance grant, awarded by a partnership between the Boston Foundation and the Aliad Fund, 2018.

-Commissioned by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to create a fresh new work to be premiered on Summer 2018. This new piece will be a response to Life, Death, & Revelry, an upcoming multidisciplinary exhibition at the ISGM based on the Gardner’s “Farnese Sarcophagus”.

-Recipient of the Brother Thomas Fellowship Award by the Boston Foundation, 2017. (by nomination only)

- Dance Ambassador at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. 2017 (by nomination only)

-Recipient of a Festival Programs Grant, awarded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council towards the annual festival: We Create! Celebrating Women in the Arts, 2017.

-Recipient of Opportunity Fund grant, awarded by the Boston Cultural Council- towards our NYC tour of our newest work "Melaza".  Spring/Summer 2017.

-Recipient of Live Arts Boston (LAB) grant, awarded by The Boston Foundation- towards the annual festival: We Create! Celebrating Women in the Arts. Spring 2017.

-Recipient of Development Residency at The Barn Arts Collective, Maine. Summer 2017

-Awarded a Creative Development Residency at Jacob's Pillow (by invitation from the Jacob's Pillow Director) February 20-26, 2017. Click here for Boston Globe announcement.

-Recipient of New England Dance Fund, awarded by the New England Foundation for the Arts, 2016

-Selected as Luminary Artist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Neighborhood Salon 2016-2017 (by nomination only)

-Recipient of scholarship for the Urban Bush Women Summer Leadership Institute, 2016

-Recipient of New England Foundation of the Arts' Creative City Grant, for the project: Running in Stillness, 2016-2017. Click here for press release. 

-Recipient of a Festival Programs Grant, awarded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council towards the annual festival: We Create! Celebrating Women in the Arts, 2016.

-Recipient of space grant (Artist-in-Residence) at the Tony Williams Dance Center, for Running in Stillness, 2015-2017.

-Green Street Studios company residency, (2014-2015)

-Recipient of E-MERGE residency at Earthdance, MA (2015) 

-Recipient of I-ARE  (Integrated Artist Residency) at the Dance Complex, (2014)

-Recipient of Dome Away from Home Foundation's rehearsal and retreat space grant, in Vermont. (2013)

-Recipient of Green Street Studios New Works Program.  (2013).

-Recipient of Boston Dance Alliance's Fourth Rehearsal and Retreat Fellowship (2012).

-Selected as a "RAW Artist" in the field of performance/video (2012).

-Recipient of Boston Center for the Arts' "Movement at the Mills" rehearsal space and performance grant (2010).

media-press

- The Daily Free Press Article: “Running in Stillness” dance production highlights dangers surrounding female incarceration.

- Running in Stillness featured at Dorchester Reporter. 

-Boston Globe announces residency at Jacob's Pillow.

-Featured interview at Boston Neighborhood Network News.