PAD Showcase 2023 is Live!
Artists on the Rise and Ready to Tour Internationally
The 2023 Performing Arts Discovery (PAD) virtual showcase is now live and available to view online! PAD, managed by WAA on behalf of the U.S. Regional Arts Organizations, aims to expand international markets and generate overseas touring opportunities for U.S. performing artists.
This year's PAD Showcase cohort is made up of 25 tour-ready artists/ensembles from across the nation.
Video still: Dayton Contemporary Dance Company’s PAD showcase
Selected via a competitive panel review process, PAD Showcase artists work with the PAD team to each create a professionally produced live performance video for promotion to international markets.
The artists:
American Patchwork Quartet
Music | Brooklyn, NY
Barron Ryan
Music | Tulsa, OK
Blato Zlato
Music | New Orleans, LA
Catharsis
Music | Forestburgh, NY
Dayton Contemporary Dance Company
Dance | Dayton, OH
Dendê & Band
Music | Philadelphia, PA
Dorian Wood
Multidisciplinary | Los Angeles, CA
EUNBI KIM
Music | New York, NY
Extra Ancestral
Multidisciplinary | Los Angeles, CA
Janinah Burnett
Music | Bronx, NY
Jin Hi Kim
Music | Bridgeport, CT
Jussi Reijonen
Music | Lincoln, MA
Kinetic Light
Dance, Los Altos, CA
Magos Herrera
Music | New York, NY
Music From The Sole
Multidisciplinary | New York, NY
Nejla Yatkin
Dance | Chicago, IL
Queen Esther
Music | New York, NY
Rennie Harris Puremovement
Multidisciplinary | Sharon Hill, PA
Rini
Music | South Orange, NJ
Robert Moses' KIN
Dance | San Francisco, CA
Sprig of That
Music | Portland, OR
TAIKOPROJECT
Music | Los Angeles, CA
Third Coast Percussion
Music | Chicago, IL
Todd Marcus
Music | Baltimore, MD
Yang and Olivia
Music | Oak Forest, IL
PAD is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the U.S. Department of Commerce International Trade Administration’s (ITA) Market Development Cooperator Program (MDCP.)