Announcing New York 2024 ISPA Congress Pitch New Works Projects

New York, NY, USA – The International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA) is delighted to announce the ten selected Pitch New Works projects that will be presented at the New York 2024 ISPA Congress, Bridging the Gap.

ISPA's Pitch New Works Program provides a forum for creators and arts professionals to share and discover new performing arts projects. Twice a year, ten submissions are selected to be presented to hundreds of performing arts professionals at ISPA's Congresses. More about Pitch New Works. View roster of past Pitch New Works projects. Read Pitch New Works success stories.

The ten projects represent a broad spectrum of genres and disciplines and are an exciting reflection of the new works in development across the globe. ISPA will be welcoming back Anthony Sargent CBE, International Artistic Advisor, to host the session. The projects include:

BIRGET; ways to deal, ways to heal | Carte Blanche - The Norwegian National Company of Contemporary Dance | Norway

Classical:NEXT A soft wind stirs | The Third Orchestra | United Kingdom/Germany

Demon Fruit Blues | indigo muse LLC | United States

Ink | Huang Yi Studio + | Taiwan/Japan

Marceline | La petita malumaluga | Spain

Nigamon/Tunai | Productions Onishka | Canada/Colombia

OIWA - The Ghost of Yotsuya | The Finger Players | Singapore

Ring of our Time - the eternal battle for resources | World Opera Lab | Iraq/Netherlands/Nigeria/Indonesia/Kurdish Autonomous Region

She Dances in April | Fengling Productions | United Kingdom/China

The Great YES, The Great NO | THE OFFICE performing arts + film | South Africa

                                                                      Photo credits: Øystein Haara, Helena Valles, Arts House Limited, Hoo Tao

The Pitch New Works projects were selected from a pool of 101 applications by ISPA’s Pitch New Works Committee. The committee was chaired by Hanako Yamaguchi, Independent Arts Consultant and former Director of Music Programming at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Also serving on the committee were Igor Lozada Rivera Melo, Director at Universidad de Guadalajara, Cultura UDG; Jochem Valkenburg, Programming Director of Music and Music Theatre at the Holland Festival; and Meiyin Wang, Producing Director at the Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center.

Delegates of the upcoming New York 2024 ISPA Congress can catch these ten remarkable projects at the Pitch New Works session, Wednesday, January 10, 2024 at the Perelman Performance Arts Center. Immediately following the session, delegates will have an opportunity to meet the presenters at ISPA’s ProEx (Professional Exchange).

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About ISPA: The International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA) is a global association of 500 arts leaders from 60 regions, who come together with the shared goal of strengthening and developing the arts internationally. ISPA achieves this by building leadership ability, by recognizing and discussing field-wide trends and new developments, and by deepening global exchange through the arts. ISPA members include presenters, performing arts organizations, artist managers, festivals, funders, artists, consultants, and other professionals working in the performing arts. Founded in 1948, 2024 marks ISPA’s 75^th anniversary.

About Pitch New Works: ISPA's Pitch New Works Program provides a forum for creators and arts professionals to share and discover new performing arts projects. Twice a year, ten submissions are selected to be presented to hundreds of performing arts professionals at ISPA's Congresses. More about Pitch New Works. View roster of past Pitch New Works projects. Read Pitch New Works success stories.

Media Contact: Zooey Cheng (zcheng@ispa.org; 1 212 206 8490 x205)

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