NEA Dance Grants in California
699 NEA dance grants for California, totaling $13M.
| Year | Recipient | City | Amount | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Dance Brigade A New Group from Wallflower Order | San Francisco, CA | $48,000 | Purpose: To support dance programming focused on traditional African and African-influenced dance styles. Additional Project Description: Project activities will include dance trai… |
| 2026 | World Arts West | San Francisco, CA | $45,000 | Purpose: To support the World Arts West Dance Festival. Additional Project Description: The annual festival will present performances, workshops, and panel discussions. Programming… |
| 2026 | Dance Film SF, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $40,000 | Purpose: To support the San Francisco Dance Film Festival. Additional Project Description: The festival will present dance films created for the camera, as well as full-length reco… |
| 2026 | San Francisco Ballet Association | San Francisco, CA | $40,000 | Purpose: To support personnel costs for San Francisco Ballet's artist development programs. Additional Project Description: Through its Creation House program, the organization wil… |
| 2026 | Dance Resource Center of Greater Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $36,000 | Purpose: To support a studio rental program by Dance Resource Center. Additional Project Description: Intended to mitigate economic need in Los Angeles County related to issues suc… |
| 2026 | AXIS Dance Company | Berkeley, CA | $30,000 | Purpose: To support a series of accessibility training workshops for performing arts venues and presenters. Additional Project Description: Hands-on workshops and training sessions… |
| 2026 | CounterPulse | San Francisco, CA | $30,000 | Purpose: To support an artist residency and commissioning program for emerging and mid-career choreographers. Additional Project Description: The program will support residencies f… |
| 2026 | City Ballet Inc. | San Diego, CA | $30,000 | Purpose: To support City Ballet of San Diego's tribute to U.S. choreographers. Additional Project Description: As part of America250, the program will feature works such as George … |
| 2026 | A Step Beyond | Escondido, CA | $30,000 | Purpose: To support the production of El Alebrije, an adaptation of Tchaikovsky's classical ballet, The Nutcracker. Additional Project Description: El Alebrije tells the story of a… |
| 2026 | San Pedro City Ballet | San Pedro, CA | $25,000 | Purpose: To support an educational dance program for youth. Additional Project Description: Teaching artists will provide instruction in ballet, contemporary, hip-hop, jazz and mod… |
| 2026 | Dimensions Dance Theater, Inc. | Oakland, CA | $25,000 | Purpose: To support the Rites of Passage dance education program for youth. Additional Project Description: The program will offer classes during the school day, as well as after s… |
| 2026 | Diavolo Dance Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $21,000 | Purpose: To support a movement-based program for military veterans. Additional Project Description: The company will partner with a local venue to host movement workshops for veter… |
| 2026 | Project Bandaloop | Oakland, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support a residency program for artists in vertical dance and production. Additional Project Description: Mid-career dance artists will receive technical training and a… |
| 2026 | San Diego Dance Theater | San Diego, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support Trolley Dances, a series of site-specific dance performances along the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System. Additional Project Description: Celebrating the ci… |
| 2026 | Jacob Jonas The Company, Inc. | Santa Monica, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the Films.Dance program. Additional Project Description: The program will bring together dance artists to create original dance films. Participating choreograph… |
| 2026 | Dance Downtown LA, Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support L.A. Dance Project's choreographer residency program. Additional Project Description: The program will provide early-career choreographers with rehearsal space,… |
| 2026 | Dance Camera West | Los Angeles, CA | $18,000 | Purpose: To support dance programming focused on iconic American dance artists in recognition of America's 250th anniversary. Additional Project Description: Programming will inclu… |
| 2026 | Invertigo Dance Theatre | Culver City, CA | $17,000 | Purpose: To support a dance and spoken-word performance created in collaboration with people with Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative conditions. Additional Project Des… |
| 2026 | Ebony Repertory Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support a dance residency and related community outreach activities. Additional Project Description: Ebony Repertory Theatre will host a residency by Versa-Style Street… |
| 2026 | Anne Bluethenthal and Dancers | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support a dance theater program in collaboration with choreographer Sarah Crowell. Additional Project Description: Performances will feature Skywatchers, a community-dr… |
| 2026 | Rx Ballroom Dance | Ladera Ranch, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support a ballroom dance program for older adults. Additional Project Description: Professional ballroom instructors will guide participants through group classes and r… |
| 2026 | Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu Hula Halau | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support a restaging of The Natives Are Restless. Additional Project Description: Commemorating 30 years since its premiere of the work in 1996, Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu H… |
| 2025 | AXIS Dance Company | Berkeley, CA | $40,000 | Purpose: To support AXIS's national tour of dance performances and engagement activities. Additional Project Description: AXIS will tour contemporary dance works performed by artis… |
| 2025 | Dancers' Group | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | Purpose: To support the commission and publication of free online articles that promote dance artists and activities in the San Francisco Bay Area. Additional Project Description: … |
| 2025 | Flyaway Productions | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | Purpose: To support the creation of a new work by choreographer Jo Kreiter. Additional Project Description: The site-specific and aerial dance will draw inspiration from the storie… |
| 2025 | San Diego Dance Theater | San Diego, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support Trolley Dances, a series of site-specific dance performances along the Metro Transit System in San Diego, and related educational programming. Additional Projec… |
| 2025 | Project Bandaloop | Oakland, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of "FLOCK," a vertical dance theater work, and accompanying engagement activities. Additional Project Description: The third and f… |
| 2025 | Alonzo King LINES Ballet | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries and artist fees for the creation and presentation of a new work with choreography by Artistic Director Alonzo King. Additional Project Descriptio… |
| 2024 | World Arts West | San Francisco, CA | $60,000 | Purpose: To support the World Arts West Dance Festival. Additional Project Description: The festival will feature a diverse selection of cultural arts ensembles from Northern Calif… |
| 2024 | Embodiment Project | San Francisco, CA | $55,000 | Purpose: To support a dance festival and development of a pre-professional street dance training program. Additional Project Description: The festival is free to the public and inc… |
| 2024 | Fresh Meat Productions | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | Purpose: To support a tour of Sean Dorsey Dance's work The Lost Art of Dreaming and related community engagement activities. Additional Project Description: The work imagines trans… |
| 2024 | Circo Zero | San Francisco, CA | $42,000 | Purpose: To support a training program to increase representation of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) and LGBTQ artists in designer and technician roles in the dance … |
| 2024 | inkBoat, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $40,000 | Purpose: To support the development and performances of "Clouds from a Crumbling Giant," a dance project between inkBoat and Wudang West Cultural Center. Additional Project Descrip… |
| 2024 | Zaccho SF | San Francisco, CA | $40,000 | Purpose: To support the San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival. Additional Project Description: The festival will present theater and site-specific performances from youth dance compan… |
| 2024 | Robert Moses Kin | San Francisco, CA | $38,600 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a series of themed, commissioned, multidisciplinary, collaborative works. Additional Project Description: Each work will be und… |
| 2024 | AXIS Dance Company | Berkeley, CA | $35,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries and artist fees for a national tour of dance performances and engagement activities. Additional Project Description: AXIS will tour contemporary … |
| 2024 | Dance Film SF, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $35,000 | Purpose: To support the San Francisco Dance Film Festival. Additional Project Description: The festival takes place twice a year and includes dance films created for the camera, fu… |
| 2024 | Viver Brasil Dance Company | Los Angeles, CA | $30,000 | Purpose: To support the rehearsal and presentation of Rezas e Folhas, an original dance choreographed by Co-Artistic Director Vera Passos. Additional Project Description: The proje… |
| 2024 | Dimensions Dance Theater, Inc. | Oakland, CA | $30,000 | Purpose: To support the Rites of Passage dance education program for youth. Additional Project Description: The year-round project brings traditional African dance, music, and cont… |
| 2024 | Dance Resource Center of Greater Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $30,000 | Purpose: To support a studio rental program by Dance Resource Center. Additional Project Description: The program will provide artists and dance companies free or reduced rates for… |
| 2024 | Flyaway Productions | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | Purpose: To support the creation of a new work by choreographer Jo Kreiter. Additional Project Description: The aerial dance will draw from the stories of women who live and work i… |
| 2024 | transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project | San Diego, CA | $25,000 | Purpose: To support CREATE, an intensive dance program for students. Additional Project Description: In the CREATE program, students explore dance and the performing arts through d… |
| 2024 | A Step Beyond | Escondido, CA | $25,000 | Purpose: To support a production of "El Alebrije," a reimagining of "The Nutcracker," featuring a story of a Mexican American family and a young girl's quinceañera. Additional Proj… |
| 2024 | Dancers' Group | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | Purpose: To support In Dance, a free online quarterly publication that promotes dance artists and activities in the San Francisco Bay Area. Additional Project Description: The publ… |
| 2024 | Anne Bluethenthal and Dancers | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | Purpose: To support a presentation of Towards Opulence, the Opera II directed by choreographer Anne Bluethenthal in collaboration with the ensemble Skywatchers. Additional Project … |
| 2024 | Diavolo Dance Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $21,000 | Purpose: To support DIAVOLO Architecture in Motion's The Veterans Project, a movement-based program for military veterans. Additional Project Description: The company will partner … |
| 2024 | ChromaDiverse Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the second phase of a digitization and preservation project of archival materials for the Oakland Ballet Company. Additional Project Description: In partnership… |
| 2024 | Project Bandaloop | Oakland, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the Updraft Artist in Residency program, focused on advancing LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) dance makers in vertical dance creatio… |
| 2024 | Joe Goode Performance Group | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support GUSH, a biennial festival featuring dance theater performances. Additional Project Description: With a focus on San Francisco Bay Area LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC (Black… |
| 2024 | ODC Theater | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries and artist fees for the State of Play Festival and additional dance presentations. Additional Project Description: Selected using a multi-curator… |
| 2024 | CounterPulse | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the Artist Residency and Commissioning program, which provides space and support for emerging and mid-career choreographers. Additional Project Description: The… |
| 2024 | San Diego Dance Theater | San Diego, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support Trolley Dances, a series of site-specific dance performances along the Metro Transit System in San Diego, and related educational programming. Additional Projec… |
| 2024 | Infinite Flow - A Wheelchair Dance Company | Sherman Oaks, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and virtual production of I Am, We Are, a multidisciplinary performance directed by Marisa Hamamoto. Additional Project Description: The multidisci… |
| 2024 | San Diego State University Foundation | San Diego, CA | $19,993 | Purpose: To support a series of workshops and performances as part of an international collaboration between U.S. and Mexican artists. Additional Project Description: The primary g… |
| 2024 | Dance Camera West | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support a dance film commissioning program for choreographers. Additional Project Description: The program will pair dance artists with seasoned dance filmmaking mentor… |
| 2024 | Jess Curtis/Gravity, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of works by artists from the Beyond Gravity Artist Services program. Additional Project Description: Selected artists may include … |
| 2024 | Invertigo Dance Theatre | Culver City, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support a festival of dance, film, and poetry. Additional Project Description: The festival will focus on the intersection of environmental justice and dance. Programmi… |
| 2024 | DISCO RIOT | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support an artist residency program for emerging and established dance artists. Additional Project Description: The program will pair artists with free studio space for… |
| 2024 | Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center | Berkeley, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support commissions of new work and free dance classes as part of the Queering Dance Festival. Additional Project Description: The 2025 Queering Dance Festival will foc… |
| 2023 | World Arts West | San Francisco, CA | $60,000 | To support the World Arts West Dance Festival. Additional Project Description: Through mentorship, artistic development, and performance opportunities, the 45th annual festival wil… |
| 2023 | Zaccho SF | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | Purpose: To support the development and production of The Bronx Revolution and the Birth of Hip-Hop, a bicoastal collaboration by Joanna Haigood and the originators of East Coast h… |
| 2023 | Fresh Meat Productions | San Francisco, CA | $35,000 | Purpose: To support a tour of Sean Dorsey Dance's work, The Lost Art of Dreaming, and related community engagement activities. Additional Project Description: The work imagines tra… |
| 2023 | AXIS Dance Company | Berkeley, CA | $30,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries and artist fees for a national tour of dance performances with accompanying engagement activities. Additional Project Description: AXIS will tour… |
| 2023 | Joe Goode Performance Group | San Francisco, CA | $30,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and production of a dance theater work. Additional Project Description: As We Go will explore how people live, die, and are cared for when aging or… |
| 2023 | Dimensions Dance Theater, Inc. | Oakland, CA | $30,000 | Purpose: To support the Rites of Passage dance education program for youth. Additional Project Description: The year-round project brings traditional African dance, music, and cont… |
| 2023 | Dance Film SF, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $30,000 | Purpose: To support the San Francisco Dance Film Festival. Additional Project Description: The festival takes place twice a year and includes dance films created for the camera, fu… |
| 2023 | Nava Dance Theatre | San Francisco, CA | $30,000 | Purpose: To support Unrehearsed, an artist residency and commissioning program. Additional Project Description: The program will confront systemic structural prejudices in the Indi… |
| 2023 | transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project | San Diego, CA | $25,000 | Purpose: To support CREATE, an intensive dance program for students. Additional Project Description: In the CREATE program, students explore dance and the performing arts through d… |
| 2023 | Wooden Floor for Youth Movement | Santa Ana, CA | $25,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries and artist fees for dance education programs and performances for youth. Additional Project Description: The program will provide youth with rigo… |
| 2023 | Flyaway Productions | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the development and premiere of If I Give You My Sorrows, a new dance work and accompanying art exhibition. Additional Project Description: The new work will ex… |
| 2023 | Capacitor Performance | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the development and premiere of a new dance work featuring an interactive sculpture. Additional Project Description: Choreographers Antoine Hunter and Jodi Loma… |
| 2023 | Embodiment Project | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the development, presentation, and tour of a multidisciplinary dance production. Additional Project Description: The new work will feature elements of street da… |
| 2023 | Viver Brasil Dance Company | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support Samba in the Streets, a free community engagement program for youth and adults. Additional Project Description: The program celebrates Afro-Brazilian dances and… |
| 2023 | Dance Resource Center of Greater Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support a studio rental program by Dance Resource Center. Additional Project Description: The program will provide artists and dance companies reduced rates for studio … |
| 2023 | Regents of the University of California, Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, CA | $16,005 | Purpose: To support the exhibition Border Crossings: Exile and American Modern Dance, 1900–1955 and a related symposium. Additional Project Description: Curated by professors Ninot… |
| 2023 | ODC Theater | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of performance artists as part of the State of Play Festival. Additional Project Description: Two California-based dance artists will curate OD… |
| 2023 | Malashock Dance & Company | San Diego, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of dance works by several emerging choreographers and Artistic Director John Malashock, as part of the Everyday Dances program. Ad… |
| 2023 | Museum of Dance | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support ROOTS, an exhibition consisting of workshops, panel discussions and performances. Additional Project Description: Resident artists Clyde Evans, Antwan Davis, an… |
| 2023 | Epiphany Dance Theater | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support artist fees for the San Francisco Trolley Dances festival. Additional Project Description: Held in the fall, this annual site-specific, free dance festival feat… |
| 2023 | Oakland Ballet Company | Oakland, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of the Dancing Moons Festival and related touring performances. Additional Project Description: The festival will include new ballets by choreo… |
| 2023 | San Diego Dance Theater | San Diego, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support Trolley Dances, a series of site-specific dance performances along the Metro Transit System in San Diego, and related educational programming. Additional Projec… |
| 2023 | Diavolo Dance Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support DIAVOLO Architecture in Motion's The Veterans Project, a movement-based program for military veterans. Additional Project Description: The company will partner … |
| 2023 | Asian Improv aRts | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the planning and creation of a new site-responsive, multimedia dance project by Lenora Lee Dance. Additional Project Description: The new work will feature medi… |
| 2023 | Dancers' Group | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support In Dance, a free online quarterly publication that promotes dance artists and activities in the San Francisco Bay Area. Additional Project Description: The publ… |
| 2023 | Bridge Live Arts | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation of a new dance work as part of the Dancing Distributed Leadership project, with associated engagement activities. Additional Project Description: I… |
| 2023 | Noorani Dance | Menlo Park, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support performances of Saabit Qadam - Perseverance, led by Kathak artist Farah Yasmeen Shaikh. Additional Project Description: Shaikh will collaborate with dancers, mu… |
| 2023 | CounterPulse | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the Artist Residency and Commissioning program, which provides space and support for emerging and mid-career choreographers. Additional Project Description: The… |
| 2023 | Madison Project | Santa Monica, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the California premiere of choreographer and dancer Ashwini Ramaswamy's Let the Crows Come, featuring live musical accompaniment at the Broad Stage. Additional … |
| 2023 | Amy Seiwert's Imagery | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support an artistic fellowship program. Additional Project Description: The program provides administrative and artistic tools required to transition from a career in p… |
| 2023 | ODC | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries and artist fees for the creation and presentation of dance works from Artistic Director Brenda Way and guest choreographer Dexandro Montalvo. Add… |
| 2023 | Mixed Bag Productions | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support "Within the heart," a dance project that will include workshops and performances. Additional Project Description: Led by Artistic Director Sara Shelton Mann in … |
| 2023 | Blue13 Dance Company Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support Playdate, a collaborative dance residency with a focus on reaching Asian American Pacific Islander artists. Additional Project Description: As many as four danc… |
| 2023 | Culture Shock Dance Troupe | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the Culture Shock International Choreographers Showcase. Additional Project Description: As part of Culture Shock San Diego’s 30th anniversary, the organization… |
| 2023 | Luther Burbank Memorial Foundation | Santa Rosa, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support artist fees and travel costs for the presentation of dance performances and accompanying community engagement activities. Additional Project Description: The se… |
| 2023 | Alonzo King LINES Ballet | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries for a project to archive 40 years of Alonzo King LINES Ballet materials. Additional Project Description: The collection includes archival materia… |
| 2023 | Collage Dance Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and production of a site-specific dance performance by Heidi Duckler Dance. Additional Project Description: The work is inspired by Don DeLillo's p… |
| 2022 | World Arts West | San Francisco, CA | $60,000 | Purpose: To support World Arts West Dances in the Park by the producer of the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. Additional Project Description: Through mentorship, artistic deve… |
| 2022 | Fresh Meat Productions | San Francisco, CA | $35,000 | Purpose: To support a tour of Sean Dorsey Dance's work, The Lost Art of Dreaming, and related community engagement activities. Additional Project Description: The work imagines tra… |
| 2022 | Dimensions Dance Theater, Inc. | Oakland, CA | $30,000 | Purpose: To support the Rites of Passage dance education program for youth. Additional Project Description: The year-round project brings traditional African dance, music, and cont… |
| 2022 | AXIS Dance Company | Berkeley, CA | $25,000 | Purpose: To support a national tour of dance performances and engagement activities. Additional Project Description: AXIS will tour contemporary dance works performed by artists wi… |
| 2022 | Noorani Dance | Menlo Park, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support continued development of Saabit Qadam - Perseverance, a work featuring South Asian dance, music, and theater. Additional Project Description: The work will focu… |
| 2022 | transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project | San Diego, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support CREATE, an intensive dance program for students. Additional Project Description: In this program, students explore dance and the performing arts through dance t… |
| 2022 | Dance Film SF, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the San Francisco Dance Film Festival. Additional Project Description: The festival includes dance films created for the camera, full-length recordings of stage… |
| 2022 | CONTRA-TIEMPO Inc. | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Ana Maria Alvarez and pianist and composer Arturo O'Farrill. Additional Project Description: The wo… |
| 2022 | Jess Curtis/Gravity, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of an ensemble work directed by Jess Curtis. Additional Project Description: The work will focus on social and cultural experience… |
| 2022 | Dancers' Group | San Francisco, CA | $17,000 | Purpose: To support In Dance, a free online quarterly publication that promotes dance artists and activities in the San Francisco Bay Area. Additional Project Description: The publ… |
| 2022 | Collage Dance Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a series of site-specific dances by Heidi Duckler Dance. Additional Project Description: The three pieces are inspired by Paul … |
| 2022 | Flyaway Productions | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and production of a new work by choreographer Jo Kreiter. Additional Project Description: The aerial dance work will explore themes of sexual viole… |
| 2022 | Project Bandaloop | Oakland, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of LOOM, a large-scale, outdoor, public vertical dance theater piece that incorporates textiles. Additional Project Description: L… |
| 2022 | Joe Goode Performance Group | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support a free, in-school and after-school dance education program for students. Additional Project Description: The Inspired Bodies program develops the artistic and c… |
| 2022 | San Diego Dance Theater | San Diego, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support Trolley Dances, a series of site-specific dance performances along the Metro Transit System in San Diego, and related educational programming. Additional Projec… |
| 2022 | CounterPulse | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the Artist Residency and Commissioning program, which provides space and support for emerging and mid-career choreographers. Additional Project Description: The… |
| 2022 | Kulintang Arts | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the development of Anting Anting Soul Dance, a site-specific, multidisciplinary ritual performance at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Additional Project … |
| 2022 | Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the Music Center's dance public engagement program. Additional Project Description: The program is an accessible, community-oriented initiative that uses dance … |
| 2022 | Circo Zero | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a dance performance project by Sarah Crowell and Keith Hennessy. Additional Project Description: Crowell and Hennessy will crea… |
| 2022 | Rosin Box Project Inc. | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of contemporary ballet works. Additional Project Description: New dance works will be developed collaboratively by the company's a… |
| 2022 | Ebony Repertory Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support a residency and related community outreach activities by Garth Fagan Dance at Dance@theHolden. Additional Project Description: The residency may include perform… |
| 2022 | Dance Brigade A New Group from Wallflower Order | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and production of From Cuba to Guinea. Additional Project Description: A collaboration between Susana Arenas Pedroso and Duniya Dance & Drum Compan… |
| 2022 | Zaccho SF | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support artist fees and production costs for the biennial San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival. Additional Project Description: Founded in 2014 by Zaccho Dance Theatre, t… |
| 2022 | Anne Bluethenthal and Dancers | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support a presentation of Towards Opulence, directed by choreographer Anne Bluethenthal in collaboration with the ensemble Skywatchers. Additional Project Description: … |
| 2022 | Diavolo Dance Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support DIAVOLO Architecture in Motion's The Veterans Project, a movement-based program for military veterans. Additional Project Description: The company will partner … |
| 2022 | Leela Institute | West Hills, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and production of a new kathak work by Seibi Lee and Rina Mehta, with related educational activities. Additional Project Description: The piece wil… |
| 2022 | Conga Kids | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support dance education and programming. Additional Project Description: Conga Kids uses online platforms and social-emotional learning (SEL) tools to provide dance ins… |
| 2022 | ODC | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support dancer salaries for the creation and presention of dance works as part of the Dance Downtown series. Additional Project Description: The company will work with … |
| 2022 | Mixed Bag Productions | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the production of 7 Excavations / at the edge of the shore and the edge of the world, an intensive workshop and residency program. Additional Project Descriptio… |
| 2022 | Nava Dance Theatre | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and production of Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies, a bharatanatyam dance work. Additional Project Description: The work will feature choreography by … |
| 2022 | Epiphany Dance Theater | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support artist fees for the San Francisco Trolley Dances festival. Additional Project Description: Held in the fall, this annual site-specific, free dance festival feat… |
| 2022 | ODC Theater | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support artist and guest curator fees for the presentation of visiting and San Francisco Bay Area dance and contemporary dance artists. Additional Project Description: … |
| 2022 | Body Traffic | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries for BODYTRAFFIC's national tour. Additional Project Description: The tour will include works by national and international choreographers. The co… |
| 2022 | Margaret Jenkins Dance Studio, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the Encounters Over 60 program, celebrating the voices of older dance artists Additional Project Description: With a focus on artists over the age of 60, a sele… |
| 2022 | Pony Box Dance Theatre | Long Beach, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the Dance for Healing Project, a youth-focused therapeutic dance and trauma-informed mentorship program. Additional Project Description: Teaching artists will o… |
| 2022 | Invertigo Dance Theatre | Culver City, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the development and presentation of Interior Design and related community engagement activities. Additional Project Description: Interior Design follows an inte… |
| 2022 | Blue13 Dance Company Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of an immersive dance theater work. Additional Project Description: The work will be created collaboratively and directed by Artis… |
| 2022 | Alonzo King LINES Ballet | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries for the planning and creation of a new work set to the music of Alice and John Coltrane. Additional Project Description: The first ballet Alonzo … |
| 2022 | Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts | Beverly Hills, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support artist fees for the presentation of dance companies. Additional Project Description: The Wallis will present Ballet Hispánico, Luminario Ballet, and Blue13 Danc… |
| 2022 | Museum of Performance & Design | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the preservation of personal papers of San Francisco Ballet prima ballerina Muriel Maffre, Stanford University dance scholar and critic Janice Ross, and the pub… |
| 2022 | ARTogether | Oakland, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of A Deepest Blue, by choreographer and director Prumsodun Ok, with related engagement activities. Additional Project Description:… |
| 2021 | Alonzo King LINES Ballet | San Francisco, CA | $80,000 | To support the restaging and presentation of "The Collective Agreement," by Artistic Director Alonzo King. The work includes an orchestral score and light installation by long-time… |
| 2021 | World Arts West | San Francisco, CA | $60,000 | To support staff salaries for the virtual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. Through mentorship, artistic development, and performance opportunities, the annual festival showcase… |
| 2021 | Fresh Meat Productions | San Francisco, CA | $40,000 | To support the development and premiere of Sean Dorsey Dance's new work The Lost Art of Dreaming and related community engagement activities. The work will imagine transgender and … |
| 2021 | Dimensions Dance Theater, Inc. | Oakland, CA | $30,000 | To support the Rites of Passage dance education program for youth. The year-round project brings traditional African dance, music, and contemporary African-derived art to youth. Ac… |
| 2021 | AXIS Dance Company | Berkeley, CA | $25,000 | To support a tour of dance performances and virtual engagement activities. AXIS will conduct an international tour of contemporary dance works performed by artists with and without… |
| 2021 | Dance Film SF, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | To support the San Francisco Dance Film Festival. Programming includes the Co-Laboratory which brings choreographers, filmmakers, dancers, composers, engineers, and others together… |
| 2021 | San Francisco Ballet Association | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVD-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Irvine Barclay Theatre Operating Co. | Irvine, CA | $20,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Joe Goode Performance Group | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support performances of Time of Change, a new site-specific work that will explore the history of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood in San Francisco. Joe Goode, with a team of BIP… |
| 2021 | Viver Brasil Dance Company | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | To support Samba in the Streets, a free community engagement program for youth and adults. The program celebrates Afro-Brazilian dances and music through dance workshops, interacti… |
| 2021 | Show Box L.A. | Downey, CA | $20,000 | To support the creation of NOStalgia POP, a new work by Primera Generación Dance Collective. The work will explore the anti-assimilationist pachuco culture in Los Angeles during th… |
| 2021 | Dance Camera West | Los Angeles, CA | $16,000 | To support the translation of existing live performance works into a dance films. The project will provide up to 4 choreographers with a production team, equipment and mentor to tr… |
| 2021 | Flyaway Productions | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support the creation and production of The Apparatus of Repair by choreographer Jo Kreiter. The work is a public art performance featuring aerial dance that brings focus to the … |
| 2021 | ODC | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support dancer salaries to develop a new dance film based on the stage work Up for Air (Decameron) by choreographers Brenda Way, KT Nelson, Kimi Okada, and Kate Weare. The film … |
| 2021 | ODC Theater | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support artist fees and staff costs for the virtual presentation of new works by local choreographers. The online festival will present works by José Navarrete and Debby Kajiyam… |
| 2021 | Robert Moses Kin | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Project Bandaloop | Oakland, CA | $15,000 | To support the second phase of development of a new vertical dance work in collaboration with musician Daniel Bernard Roumain. During this phase, the artists will work together to … |
| 2021 | Museum of Performance & Design | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support the cataloguing and digitization of original photographs, posters, scores, videos, and documents of dancer/choreographer Anna Halprin. Documents will be posted to the fr… |
| 2021 | Noorani Dance | Menlo Park, CA | $15,000 | To support the creation of Saabit Qadam - Persistence, a work of South Asian dance, music and theater, led by Co-Artistic Directors Farah Yasmeen Shaikh and Vinita Sud Belani. The … |
| 2021 | Leela Institute | West Hills, CA | $15,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Kulintang Arts | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support the development and production of Nursing These Wounds, led by choreographer Alleluia Panis. The large-scale, immersive dance performance and film project will investiga… |
| 2021 | ARTogether | Oakland, CA | $15,000 | To support the creation of a new work by choreographer and director Prumsodun Ok. The work includes Cambodian and Japanese myth, Khmer classical dance, Japanese Buddhist drumming, … |
| 2021 | Madison Project | Santa Monica, CA | $10,000 | To support planning costs for the performance of Odeon by New York-based Ephrat Asherie Dance and accompanying engagement activities at The Broad Stage. Odeon explores themes of mu… |
| 2021 | Capacitor Performance | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support Capacitor XR, an initiative that utilizes sculpture, live dance, gallery presentations, virtual reality animation, and augmented reality experiences. Through augmented r… |
| 2021 | Anne Bluethenthal and Dancers | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Body Traffic | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Mixed Bag Productions | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of 7 Excavations, a text-based movement performance choreographed and directed by Sara Shelton Mann. 7 Excavations is a legacy project seek… |
| 2021 | Diavolo Dance Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Lula Washington Contemporary Dance Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Zaccho SF | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Epiphany Dance Theater | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support artist fees for the San Francisco Trolley Dances festival. Held in the fall, annual site-specific, free dance festival features the work of local choreographers along a … |
| 2021 | Fictional Artists' Contemporary Theatre/San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and production of Split, by choreographer Charles Slender-White. The work will consider the evolution of the LGBTQ+ identity formation for more than a centu… |
| 2021 | CONTRA-TIEMPO Inc. | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation of a dance film for the production of Azúcar!, by choreographer Ana Maria Alvarez. Using sugar as a metaphor, the work will use salsa, hip-hop, and Afro-Cub… |
| 2021 | Invertigo Dance Theatre | Culver City, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and development of The Dream Eaters by Artistic Director Laura Karlin and related community engagement activities. The work is an intergenerational dance th… |
| 2021 | Dancessence, Inc. | Santa Monica, CA | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | To support CREATE, an intensive dance program for students. Students will participate in dance technique classes, choreography rehearsals, and a leadership workshop series which wi… |
| 2021 | Bridge Live Arts | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of Ensemble for Non-Linear Time by visual artist Ranu Mukherjee and choreographer Hope Mohr. The work will consist of a video installation … |
| 2021 | Garrett Moulton Productions | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a dance performance by choreographers Janice Garrett and Charles Moulton. |
| 2021 | Jazzantiqua Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support the LEGACY Jazz Project, a free, community jazz dance training program for teens in Los Angeles. Designed to explore the roots and continuum of the jazz dance tradition,… |
| 2021 | Amy Seiwert's Imagery | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support "Stronger in the Broken Places," a dance film choreographed by Amy Seiwert. The film will explore re-forming identity when outside influences fracture one's sense of sel… |
| 2021 | Dancers' Group | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support In Dance, a free online quarterly publication that promotes dance artists and activities in the San Francisco Bay Area. The publication gives readers in-depth informatio… |
| 2021 | Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts | Beverly Hills, CA | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | MashUp Contemporary Dance Company | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation of a dance film that explores the racial tensions within the feminist movement as part of the company's National Women's Equality Day celebration. The proje… |
| 2020 | World Arts West | San Francisco, CA | $60,000 | To support artist fees and staff and marketing costs associated with planning for the annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. Due to COVID-19, the festival which showcases and … |
| 2020 | San Francisco Ballet Association | San Francisco, CA | $45,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new ballet. Alongside the performances, the company will offer a range of educational opportunities to the community related to the ne… |
| 2020 | Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $35,000 | To support the creation of a year-long, on-line Dancing Disability Lab leading up to an in-person residency experience. During the remote engagement and in-person gathering, partic… |
| 2020 | AXIS Dance Company | Berkeley, CA | $30,000 | To support a national tour of dance performances and engagement activities. AXIS will tour contemporary dance works performed by artists with and without disabilities. The company … |
| 2020 | Dance Film SF, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $30,000 | To support the San Francisco Dance Film Festival's convenings including screendance films, documentaries, and live performance. The festival will happen in two parts with the fall … |
| 2020 | Dimensions Dance Theater, Inc. | Oakland, CA | $30,000 | To support the Rites of Passage dance education program for youth. The year-round project brings traditional African dance, music, and contemporary African-derived art to youth. Ac… |
| 2020 | Fresh Meat Productions | San Francisco, CA | $30,000 | To support the research and creation phase of Sean Dorsey Dance’s new work The Lost Art of Dreaming. The work will imagine trans/gender-nonconforming/queer futures, challenging lon… |
| 2020 | Alonzo King LINES Ballet | San Francisco, CA | $30,000 | To support the creation of a new work by choreographer Alonzo King and vocalist Lisa Fischer. The work will use dancers from LINES Ballet to explore the spiritual convergence of mu… |
| 2020 | Flyaway Productions | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support performances of Meet Us Quickly With Your Mercy by choreographer Jo Kreiter. The work is a public art performance featuring aerial dance that brings together Black, Jewi… |
| 2020 | transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project | San Diego, CA | $20,000 | To support CREATE, an intensive dance program for students. Students will participate in dance technique classes, choreography rehearsals, and a leadership workshop series which wi… |
| 2020 | ODC Theater | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new dance work. Larry Arrington will examine western dance as a series of folk dances in his work No Quarter. |
| 2020 | CounterPulse | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support the Artist Residency and Commissioning (ARC) program, which provides space and support for emerging and mid-career choreographers. The ARC program supports residencies f… |
| 2020 | Joe Goode Performance Group | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support a free, virtual dance education program for students. The Inspired Bodies program develops the artistic and creative abilities of students, leading to the creation and p… |
| 2020 | Epiphany Dance Theater | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support artist fees for the San Francisco Trolley Dances festival. The annual site-specific, free dance festival features the work of local choreographers along a MUNI/Metro lig… |
| 2020 | San Diego Dance Theater | San Diego, CA | $15,000 | To support personnel costs for a series of site-specific dance performances as part of the annual San Diego Trolley Dances. In partnership with the Metropolitan Transit System (MTS… |
| 2020 | Viver Brasil Dance Company | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | To support the development of a new strategic plan for the organization. Over the course of the last several years, the organization has shifted from being founder-led to an one th… |
| 2020 | Asian Improv aRts | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support staff salaries and artistic fees for the rehearsal period of a new site-responsive, multimedia dance project by Lenora Lee Dance. The performance will take place on Alca… |
| 2020 | Rampart Theater Project | Los Angeles, CA | $13,000 | To support the BlakTinx Dance Festival and Alumni Concert. Now in its eighth year, the virtual festival will present the works of professional Black and Latinx choreographers while… |
| 2020 | Nava Dance Theatre | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation of a multimedia Bharatanatyam and visual arts production exploring class and caste constructs in the South Asian diaspora. Choreographer Nadhi Thekkek's wor… |
| 2020 | Body Traffic | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support artistic staff salaries for BODYTRAFFIC's national tour. The tour may include works by national and international choreographers. The company works closely with local pr… |
National Endowment for the Arts Grant Search (public domain).