NEA Dance Grants in California — Page 2
699 NEA dance grants for California, totaling $13M.
| Year | Recipient | City | Amount | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Diavolo Dance Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support DIAVOLO Architecture in Motion's education and community programs during the company's national tour. The company will partner with venues to present community workshops… |
| 2020 | ODC | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation of Decameron, Up for Air, a new dance work by ODC/Dance. Based on Boccaccio's Decameron, the evening-length work will be a collaboration between ODC's three… |
| 2020 | Jazzantiqua Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support a free community jazz dance training program for youth who typically do not have access to training and experiences in the performing arts. Professional teaching artists… |
| 2020 | Project Bandaloop | Oakland, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation of a comprehensive archival plan. The company will begin the work of assessing and cataloguing archival footage, photos, drawings, artistic notes, and produ… |
| 2020 | Anne Bluethenthal and Dancers | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the presentation of Life in the Containment Zone Under Quarantine, directed by choreographer Anne Bluethenthal in collaboration with the ensemble Skywatchers. Skywatcher… |
| 2020 | Art of the Matter Performance Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the premiere of inCIVILITY: A Seat at the Table by choreographer Deborah Slater. Deborah Slater Dance Theater will co-present the work with ODC Theater. The piece will e… |
| 2020 | Zaccho SF | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support planning costs for the annual San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the Festival could not occur. |
| 2020 | Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts | Beverly Hills, CA | $10,000 | To support the presentation of dance companies as part of Dance @ The Wallis. This annual dance series aims to raise the stature of emerging Los Angeles-based companies, as well as… |
| 2020 | Museum of Performance & Design | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the archiving, preservation, and dissemination of the personal papers of San Francisco Bay Area dancers and choreographers. Original video recordings, costumes, photogra… |
| 2020 | 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… |
| 2020 | Jacob Jonas The Company, Inc. | Santa Monica, CA | $10,000 | To support the Films.Dance program. The new program will bring together top dance choreographers and dancers from diverse backgrounds to create original dance short films. The seri… |
| 2019 | World Arts West | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | To support the artistic direction and mentorship of dance companies as part of the annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. Festival Artistic Directors Patrick Makuakane, Latany… |
| 2019 | San Francisco Ballet Association | San Francisco, CA | $40,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Cathy Marston. The work will be presented to the public at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco. |
| 2019 | Fresh Meat Productions | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | To support a national tour of BOYS IN TROUBLE by choreographer Sean Dorsey and associated engagement activities. The work is about navigating masculinity and gender in contemporary… |
| 2019 | Dance Film SF, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | To support the San Francisco Dance Film Festival. The festival will feature film screenings, select live performances, question-and-answer sessions, and discussions. Additional pro… |
| 2019 | Alonzo King LINES Ballet | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | To support preparations and rehearsal costs for a new work by choreographer Alonzo King. The project will support the development of choreography and artistic fees. |
| 2019 | Irvine Barclay Theatre Operating Co. | Irvine, CA | $20,000 | To support the presentation of the Martha Graham Dance Company and Backhausdance. Education and outreach activities may include master classes, performance-related lectures, and sp… |
| 2019 | ODC Theater | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the presentation of Tere O'Connor Dance's Long Run with related public activities. In addition to presenting dance performances, ODC Theater will hold public engagement … |
| 2019 | Leela Institute | West Hills, CA | $20,000 | To support a tour of SPEAK, a cultural program combining tap and kathak, to Hawaii. The work is a collaboration between kathak artists Rina Mehta and Rachna Nivas and tap artists M… |
| 2019 | Margaret Jenkins Dance Studio, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the creation, rehearsal, and artist fees for Global Moves, an evening-length work. The work will be created in collaboration with Tanusree Shankar Dance Company (Kolkata… |
| 2019 | Dimensions Dance Theater, Inc. | Oakland, CA | $20,000 | To support the Rites of Passage dance education program for youth. The year-round project brings traditional African dance and music and contemporary African-derived art to youth. … |
| 2019 | CounterPulse | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support the Artist Residency and Commissioning Program, which provides space and support for emerging and mid-career choreographers. The ARC Program supports five-month residenc… |
| 2019 | AXIS Dance Company | Berkeley, CA | $15,000 | To support dance education and outreach programs for youth and adults with and without disabilities and the company's performance engagements. AXIS will offer a variety of educatio… |
| 2019 | Flyaway Productions | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support the creation of sets and costumes for The Wait Room, by Artistic Director Jo Kreiter. The new work incorporates dance, music, and oral history interviews with women whos… |
| 2019 | ODC | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support the creation and presentation of World's on Fire, a new work by Brenda Way and Kate Weare. Centered on universal themes of kinship, belief, suffering, and love that conn… |
| 2019 | Project Bandaloop | Oakland, CA | $15,000 | To support a collaborative residency with Artistic Director Amelia Rudolph and musician Daniel Bernard Roumain. Roumain will train "on-rope" at the Bandaloop studio to learn to per… |
| 2019 | Dancers' Group | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support In Dance, a free print and online monthly publication that promotes dance artists and activities in the San Francisco Bay Area. The publication gives readers in-depth in… |
| 2019 | Amy Seiwert's Imagery | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the innovative use of projections and lighting for the SKETCH series, an annual creative laboratory for ballet-based choreography Several choreographers, including Amy S… |
| 2019 | Bridge Live Arts | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the Bridge Project with repertory performances, workshops, and documentation to commemorate the 100th anniversary of choreographer Merce Cunningham's birth. Former Cunni… |
| 2019 | Garrett Moulton Productions | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of Hunting Gathering, by choreographers Janice Garrett and Charles Moulton. The new work will examine themes of cooperation, connection, an… |
| 2019 | Collage Dance Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support a new site-specific work in partnership with the Wende Museum. Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre will use themes from the museum's exhibit Cold War Spaces to explore how in pr… |
| 2019 | Joe Goode Performance Group | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support a free, in-school dance education program for students. The Inspired Bodies program develops the artistic and creative abilities of students, leading to the creation and… |
| 2019 | Ebony Repertory Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support staff salaries and development costs for the presentation of Los Angeles-based dance companies. The series has been committed to supporting an ongoing residency with New… |
| 2019 | Epiphany Dance Theater | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support artist and company fees for the presentation of San Francisco Trolley Dances. The annual site-specific, free dance festival features the work of local choreographers alo… |
| 2019 | Regents of the University of California, Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | $10,000 | To support artist fees and housing costs for Cal Performances' presentation of Dorrance Dance. In addition to performing, Dorrance Dance will participate in education and community… |
| 2019 | Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts | Beverly Hills, CA | $10,000 | To support the presentation of Los Angeles-based contemporary dance companies as part of Dance @ The Wallis. This annual dance series aims to raise the stature of emerging local co… |
| 2019 | 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… |
| 2018 | San Francisco Ballet Association | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | To support the creation and presentation of new ballets and a company premiere. Liam Scarlett and Yuri Possokhov will create two new repertory ballets. In addition, Benjamin Millep… |
| 2018 | World Arts West | San Francisco, CA | $45,000 | To support staff salaries for the annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. The festival will present world dance companies based in Northern California and provide underserved a… |
| 2018 | Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County | Los Angeles, CA | $30,000 | To support the presentation of Voyage and Trajectoire by DIAVOLO Architecture in Motion at The Music Center. The performances of Voyage will be the world premiere of the new work. |
| 2018 | Dimensions Dance Theater, Inc. | Oakland, CA | $25,000 | To support the Rites of Passage dance education program for youth. The project brings traditional African dance and music and contemporary African-derived art to youth throughout t… |
| 2018 | Dance Film SF, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | To support the San Francisco Dance Film Festival. The festival will feature as many as four days of film screenings around the city, select live performances, question-and-answer s… |
| 2018 | Dance Resource Center of Greater Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | To support technical assistance to dance companies working with veterans, including the production of a culminating performance. This project will serve Los Angeles-area dance comp… |
| 2018 | Alonzo King LINES Ballet | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the creation and world premiere of a ballet by Alonzo King, in collaboration with the Kronos Quartet. The work will be presented at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in Sa… |
| 2018 | Fresh Meat Productions | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support community forums, workshops, classes, and question-and-answer sessions during a national tour of BOYS IN TROUBLE by choreographer Sean Dorsey. The work is about navigati… |
| 2018 | AXIS Dance Company | Berkeley, CA | $20,000 | To support dance education and outreach programs for youth and adults with and without disabilities. AXIS will offer a variety of educational opportunities in the Bay Area and on a… |
| 2018 | ODC | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of new dance works. Co-Artistic Director KT Nelson will choreograph "Path of Miracles," a collaboration between ODC/Dance and the SF choral… |
| 2018 | ODC Theater | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the presentation of dance works by Rashaun Mitchell, Cori Olinghouse, and Bobbi Jene Smith. |
| 2018 | Project Bandaloop | Oakland, CA | $20,000 | To support the development of "#LAPublicCanvas," the latest iteration of "#PublicCanvas," a large-scale vertical dance by choreographer Amelia Rudolph. BANDALOOP will reimagine thi… |
| 2018 | Diavolo Dance Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | To support DIAVOLO Architecture in Motion's education and outreach programs during the company's national tour. The company will partner with venues to focus education and outreach… |
| 2018 | Dancers' Group | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support In Dance, a free print and online monthly publication that promotes dance artists and activities in the San Francisco Bay Area. The publication includes a comprehensive … |
| 2018 | Epiphany Dance Theater | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support San Francisco Trolley Dances in its 15th anniversary year. The Epiphany Dance Theater presents a site-specific, free dance festival featuring the work of local choreogra… |
| 2018 | Margaret Jenkins Dance Studio, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support the creation of "Shadows and Embers." In 1988, Jenkins collaborated with Yoko Ono on a work which had, as its central metaphor, the cry for peace. The set consisted of 1… |
| 2018 | CONTRA-TIEMPO Inc. | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | To support the creation of an evening-length work, joyUS. The urban Latin dance theater piece will explore the idea of joy in relation to struggle and conflict. Developed with resi… |
| 2018 | Crosspulse | Oakland, CA | $10,000 | To support the development, creation, and production of a multigenerational, collaborative Body Music performance and interactive production, PASS IT DOWN. The performance and inte… |
| 2018 | Joe Goode Performance Group | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new dance work about safe havens by choreographer Joe Goode. Performances will take place at the historic Haas-Lilienthal House, which… |
| 2018 | Smuin Ballets-SF | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the presentation of dance works as part of the company's 25th anniversary season. Artistic Director Celia Fushille has curated a selection of artists to honor the past, … |
| 2018 | Lobero Theatre Foundation | Santa Barbara, CA | $10,000 | To support a residency with choreographer Doug Elkins, part of the DANCEworks program. SUMMERDANCE Santa Barbara will collaborate on the project to provide New York City-based arti… |
| 2018 | transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | To support CREATE, an intensive dance program for students. The CREATE program will create and present "Light Within the Cracks," which includes original contemporary dance, spoken… |
| 2018 | Jess Curtis/Gravity, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support artist fees for the creation and presentation of a new dance work by choreographer Jess Curtis about sight and perception. The company will partner with LightHouse for t… |
| 2018 | Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose, Inc. | San Jose, CA | $10,000 | To support performances of Stories of Justice, an original dance work using Bharatanatyam dance. The work will comprise six to eight dance pieces that collectively examine non-viol… |
| 2018 | Flyaway Productions | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "Tender," an aerial dance work. The project is a large scale public art performance that will take place in the Tenderloin neighborhood … |
| 2018 | CounterPulse | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the Artist Residency and Commissioning (ARC) Program, which provides space and support for emerging and mid-career choreographers to create new works. The ARC Program su… |
| 2017 | San Francisco Ballet Association | San Francisco, CA | $60,000 | To support the creation and presentation of dances as part of Unbound: A Festival of New Works. The goal of the festival is to advance contemporary ballet and encourage emerging ch… |
| 2017 | World Arts West | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | To support staff salaries for the annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. The festival will present world dance companies based in Northern California and provide underserved a… |
| 2017 | Lula Washington Contemporary Dance Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $30,000 | To support venue costs for the 2018 International Association of Blacks in Dance (IABD) conference in Los Angeles, and the creation and presentation of a new dance work on the comp… |
| 2017 | ODC Theater | San Francisco, CA | $30,000 | To support the presentation of dance works by local and national artists. ODC Theater will expand the Walking Distance Dance Festival-SF to feature an increased number of performan… |
| 2017 | Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County | Los Angeles, CA | $30,000 | To support "The Music Center on Location," a site-specific contemporary dance series at the newly renovated Ford Theatres in Hollywood. Los Angeles-based artists to perform will in… |
| 2017 | AXIS Dance Company | Berkeley, CA | $20,000 | To support Dance Access education and outreach programs. AXIS will offer a variety of events in the Bay Area and on a national tour for youth and adults with and without disabiliti… |
| 2017 | Project Bandaloop | Oakland, CA | $20,000 | To support rehearsal and preparation of vertical dance works for a national tour. Bandaloop will tour "#PublicCanvas," a large-scale multimedia vertical dance collaboration by medi… |
| 2017 | Irvine Barclay Theatre Operating Co. | Irvine, CA | $20,000 | To support the presentation of international and national dance artists. Artists to be presented include Aspen Santa Fe Ballet and Herve Koubi. In addition, the theater will presen… |
| 2017 | CounterPulse | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the Artist Residency and Commissioning (ARC) Program. The program identifies local emerging and mid-career choreographers whose work is ready to be appreciated by a larg… |
| 2017 | ODC | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of new dance works. Co-Artistic Director KT Nelson will choreograph the first phase of a new work, titled,"Blink of an Eye." Founder and Ar… |
| 2017 | Dimensions Dance Theater, Inc. | Oakland, CA | $20,000 | To support the Rites of Passage (ROP) program. The project brings both traditional African dance and music and contemporary African-derived art to youth. Activities may include dan… |
| 2017 | Alonzo King LINES Ballet | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the creation of a new ballet by Alonzo King, in collaboration with Indian tabla master Zakir Hussain. Creation and performances of the work will take place in San Franci… |
| 2017 | Art of the Matter Performance Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support the creation of a new work "Time's Arrow," by Artistic Director Deborah Slater. Slater will collaborate with composer/performer Darren Johnston and lighting/set designer… |
| 2017 | Zaccho SF | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support the re-development and performance of "The View From Here" by Artistic Director Joanna Haigood. The dance is inspired by the work of artist Marc Chagall, and will focus … |
| 2017 | Fresh Meat Productions | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support the national tour of "The Missing Generation," an evening-length production by choreographer Sean Dorsey. The work will give voice to the early survivors of the AIDS epi… |
| 2017 | Margaret Jenkins Dance Studio, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support the creation of "Skies Calling Skies Falling," a new work by Artistic Director Margaret Jenkins. The company will perform one part of the work in an intimate setting and… |
| 2017 | Museum of Performance & Design | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support a digitization and archival engagement project. The museum will digitize, catalog, and make available online for broad public access dance images from photographers such… |
| 2017 | Flyaway Productions | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "The Right to be Believed." The site-specific performance will bring awareness through aerial dance and dialogue to a serious sociopolit… |
| 2017 | Dancers' Group | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support "In Dance," a free print and online monthly publication that promotes dance artists in the San Francisco Bay Area. The publication includes a comprehensive performance c… |
| 2017 | Mixed Bag Productions | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new evening-length piece, "The Invitation," by Artistic Director Sara Shelton Mann. Made up of two intertwined duets, Mann will return… |
| 2017 | Leela Institute | West Hills, CA | $10,000 | To support the presentation of a collaborative dance work. Leading Indian kathak dance and American tap dance artists will come together to present "Speak," a dynamic performance o… |
| 2017 | Robert Moses Kin | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "Trick Bags/Trap Doors/Painted Corners," a series of new works by Artistic Director Robert Moses. The piece will explore the parallel pa… |
| 2017 | Epiphany Dance Theater | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the world premiere of "Last Blue Couch in the Sky" and the 2017 San Francisco Trolley Dances (SFTD). The premiere work is a site-specific outdoor and indoor traveling da… |
| 2017 | San Francisco Arts Education Project | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presention of "Inspired Bodies," a site-specific dance theater work. The work will honor the organization's 50th year and its legacy of participatory ex… |
| 2017 | Show Box L.A. | Downey, CA | $10,000 | To support a residency program for choreographers. The program's primary function is to provide creative space for dance makers that is fully functional and equipped with technical… |
| 2017 | Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts | Beverly Hills, CA | $10,000 | To support Dance @ The Wallis, a dance performance series. An array of dance companies will be presented, several of which will be based in Los-Angeles, such as Daniel Ezralow's Ez… |
| 2017 | Diavolo Dance Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support DIAVOLO Architecture in Motion's education and outreach programs during the company's national tour. The company will partner with venues on the tour to present Young Pe… |
| 2017 | CONTRA-TIEMPO Inc. | Los Angeles, CA | $6,800 | To support staff salaries for CONTRA-TIEMPO's Futuro high school arts education program. Futuro is comprised of a year-round junior dance company (Futuro Jr.) and a two-week Summer… |
| 2016 | San Francisco Ballet Association | San Francisco, CA | $60,000 | To support the creation and presentation of new ballets. Liam Scarlett, artist-in-residence at the Royal Ballet, will create a full-length story ballet based on "Frankenstein." Cho… |
| 2016 | World Arts West | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | To support administration costs in presentation of the 38th annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. The festival provides underserved artists with the opportunity to perform in… |
| 2016 | Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County | Los Angeles, CA | $30,000 | To support the presentation of FOCUS: Hip-Hop. The project will illustrate both the global and local impact of hip-hop. It will highlight creative collaborations and aesthetic inte… |
| 2016 | ODC Theater | San Francisco, CA | $30,000 | To support the ODC Theater Presents program. The project will include The Walking Distance Dance Festival-SF, as well as presentations of French-Algerian Compagnie Herve Koubi's "W… |
| 2016 | Project Bandaloop | Oakland, CA | $30,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a dance work to commemorate the National Park Service's centennial, an Imagine Your Parks project. "Coyote Waltzes" by Artistic Director… |
| 2016 | ODC | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | To support the creation and presentation of new dance works. Artistic Director Brenda Way will choreograph, "Walk Back the Cat," to a commissioned score by composer Paul Drescher. … |
| 2016 | AXIS Dance Company | Berkeley, CA | $24,000 | To support Dance Access Education and Outreach programs in the Bay Area and on a national tour. AXIS will offer a variety of events for youth and adults with and without disabiliti… |
| 2016 | Margaret Jenkins Dance Studio, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "Site Series 2 (Inside Outside)." Propelled by the vagabond nature of being a performance artist, a metaphor for all of life's journeys,… |
| 2016 | Irvine Barclay Theatre Operating Co. | Irvine, CA | $20,000 | To support the Dance and Movement Portfolio, which will include the presentation of international and national artists. Artists to be presented include the Akram Khan-Israel Galvan… |
| 2016 | Lobero Theatre Foundation | Santa Barbara, CA | $20,000 | To support DANCEworks, a creative residency program for an early or mid-career choreographer at the historic Lobero Theatre. SUMMERDANCE Santa Barbara will collaborate on the proje… |
| 2016 | Diavolo Dance Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | To support Diavolo Architecture in Motion's education and outreach programs during the company's United States tour. The company will partner with venues on the tour to present You… |
| 2016 | Dimensions Dance Theater, Inc. | Oakland, CA | $20,000 | To support the Rites of Passage educational outreach program. Resident artists will teach traditional African dance, drumming, and contemporary African-derived art in Oakland publi… |
| 2016 | Alonzo King LINES Ballet | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the LINES Ballet Guest Choreography project. LINES Ballet will engage choreographers with a variety of dance styles to work with the pre-professional students of the LIN… |
| 2016 | Fresh Meat Productions | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support the national tour of "The Missing Generation," an evening-length production by choreographer Sean Dorsey. The work will give voice to the early survivors of the AIDS epi… |
| 2016 | Dance Camera West | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | To support the Dance Media Film Festival. During the festival, Dance Camera West will present contemporary, classic, and alternative dance films, as well as experimental shorts, do… |
| 2016 | Dance Resource Center of Greater Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | To support the presentation of Los Angeles area dance companies and choreographers in a program titled Home Grown. Dance Resource Center's (DRC) goals with Home Grown are to provid… |
| 2016 | Collage Dance Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "Fish Eyes" by Artistic Director Heidi Duckler. The project will encompass citywide, site-specific performances that will use a massive … |
| 2016 | Garrett Moulton Productions | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of an evening-length work, by Co-Artistic Directors Janice Garrett and Charles Moulton. Titled "Speak, Angels" the work will explore the th… |
| 2016 | CounterPulse | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support dance artist residencies. The program will identify local emerging and mid-career choreographers whose work is ready to be appreciated by a larger audience. CounterPULSE… |
| 2016 | CONTRA-TIEMPO Inc. | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "SHE WHO: Frida, Mami, & Me," a collaboration between Artistic Director Ana Maria Alvarez and choreographer Marjani Forte. The piece wil… |
| 2016 | Zaccho SF | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the SF Aerial Dance Festival. The festival will bring together aerial dance artists, students, and audiences for a dynamic week of performances, workshops, and discussio… |
| 2016 | LEVYdance, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support AMP (Artists Maximizing Potential), a program that seeks to innovate the single choreographer dance company model. Choreographer Sara Shelton Mann and her dancers will e… |
| 2016 | Bridge Live Arts | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support "Ten Artists Respond to Locus," a bicoastal collaboration with the Trisha Brown Dance Company (TBDC). The presentation is part of Hope Mohr's The Bridge Project, a progr… |
| 2016 | Joe Goode Performance Group | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Joe Goode. The work will be performed to an original score by French string quartet Quatuor. Goode's inspira… |
| 2016 | Epiphany Dance Theater | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the presentation of the San Francisco Trolley dances. This annual site-specific event is presented free to the public alongside the MUNI/Metro light rail line in San Fra… |
| 2015 | San Francisco Ballet Association | San Francisco, CA | $70,000 | To support the creation and presentation of several new ballets. The choreographers are yet to be determined, but leading up to the premieres, the artists and their works will be h… |
| 2015 | Alonzo King LINES Ballet | San Francisco, CA | $40,000 | To support the LINES Ballet Guest Choreography project. LINES Ballet will engage choreographers with a variety of styles to work with the pre-professional students of the LINES Bal… |
| 2015 | AXIS Dance Company | Berkeley, CA | $20,000 | To support Dance Access and Dance/Access Kids! educational and outreach programs in the Bay Area and on a national tour. These activities will offer a variety of events for youth a… |
| 2015 | Diavolo Dance Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | To support the creation of "Luminoir" by Artistic Director Jacques Heim. The new work is designed as a companion piece to "Trajectoire," one of Diavolo's most popular works. "Lumin… |
| 2015 | Margaret Jenkins Dance Studio, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "Gallery of Rooms," a new site-specific work by Margaret Jenkins. Gallery of Rooms will be an audience-immersive installation fueled by … |
| 2015 | Chico State Enterprises (CSU Chico) | Chico, CA | $20,000 | To support artists fees for Dance Chico!, a week-long dance festival. Amy Seiwert Imagery Ballet and Joe Goode Performance Group will offer performances and workshops in the commun… |
| 2015 | Mixed Bag Productions | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "Erasing Time," a new work by choreographer Sara Shelton Mann and digital archive of her work. The project will encompass the history of… |
| 2015 | Lobero Theatre Foundation | Santa Barbara, CA | $20,000 | To support DANCEworks. The project is a creative residency for an early or mid-career choreographer at the historic Lobero Theatre. SUMMERDANCE Santa Barbara will collaborate on th… |
| 2015 | Project Bandaloop | Oakland, CA | $20,000 | To support the restaging of a site-specific wilderness performance by BANDALOOP Artistic Director Amelia Rudolph. "Crossing" stages dances in remote locations in the Sierra Nevada … |
| 2015 | Irvine Barclay Theatre Operating Co. | Irvine, CA | $20,000 | To support the National Choreographers Initiative (NCI). Founded in 2004, NCI is a workshop to promote the creation and production of new dance works, engage the community in the c… |
| 2015 | Zaccho SF | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "A Poet's Love," a new work choreographed by Artistic Director Joanna Haigood in collaboration with actor/tenor Jose Joaquin Garcia. Com… |
| 2015 | Dimensions Dance Theater, Inc. | Oakland, CA | $15,000 | To support the Rites of Passage educational outreach program. The project will include classes in traditional African dance, drumming, and contemporary African-derived art. The pro… |
| 2015 | Chinese Cultural Productions | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company's tour. Each touring engagement will include performance of works selected from the company's repertoire that combines traditional Chinese… |
| 2015 | Dance Camera West | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | To support the 15th anniversary of the Dance Camera West Dance Media Film Festival. The celebration will include a myriad of events including dance films spanning the world from ba… |
| 2015 | Epiphany Dance Theater | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support the presentation of the San Francisco Trolley Dances. This annual site-specific event is presented free to the public along the MUNI/Metro light rail line in San Francis… |
| 2015 | Flyaway Productions | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a site-specific aerial work by choreographer Jo Kreiter. Along These Lines will illuminate the issue of wage insecurity among female gar… |
| 2015 | CounterPulse | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the CounterPULSE Artist Residency and Commissioning (ARC) Program. The program will identify local emerging and mid-career choreographers whose work is ready to be appre… |
| 2015 | Smuin Ballets-SF | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Adam Hougland, and performances of "Serenade for Strings" by choreographer Garrett Ammon. Hougland is princi… |
| 2015 | RAWdance | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation of a new dance, "Double Exposure." Comprising 12 duets and created by multiple choreographers, the duets will be constructed into an evening-length work and… |
| 2015 | ODC | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new dance works by Co-Artistic Director KT Nelson. "Dead Reckoning" will explore the human relationship to nature. Composer Joan Jeanr… |
| 2015 | Dancers' Group | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support "In Dance," a free print and online monthly publication that promotes dance artists in the San Francisco Bay Area. The publication includes a comprehensive performance c… |
| 2015 | Fresh Meat Productions | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the national tour of "The Missing Generation," an evening-length production by choreographer Sean Dorsey. The work will explore the contemporary impact of the loss of mu… |
| 2015 | Viver Brasil Dance Company | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support Samba in the Streets, an educational residency. Students will learn movements and rhythms based on traditional orixa worship, samba de roda (circle samba), and samba reg… |
| 2015 | Collage Dance Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work for Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre. The new work, "Sophie and Charlie," will include a series of live site-specific duet perform… |
| 2015 | CONTRA-TIEMPO Inc. | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of an evening-length work, "Agua Furiosa," choreographed by Artistic Director Ana Maria Alvarez. Agua Furiosa is inspired by Shakespeare's … |
| 2015 | Show Box L.A. | Downey, CA | $10,000 | To support a series of creative residencies. The L.A. Dance & Research Residency program will support L.A.-based projects and visiting artists/teams with artists' fees, 24-hour acc… |
| 2014 | San Francisco Ballet Association | San Francisco, CA | $70,000 | To support the creation and presentation of several new ballets. New works are tentatively scheduled to include commissions by Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson, choreographer-in-re… |
| 2014 | Alonzo King LINES Ballet | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | To support the LINES Ballet Guest Choreography project. LINES Ballet will engage diverse choreographers to work with the pre-professional students of the LINES Ballet training prog… |
| 2014 | World Arts West | San Francisco, CA | $40,000 | To support artist fees and staff time related to the presentation of the annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. The festival supports thousands of dancers sustaining over 100 … |
| 2014 | Regents of the University of California, Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | $30,000 | To support Cal Performances' presentation and associated residency activities of choreographer Mark Morris' evening-length work, "Acis & Galatea." The large-scale dance production … |
| 2014 | AXIS Dance Company | Berkeley, CA | $20,000 | To support Dance Access and Dance Access/Kids! educational and outreach programs in the Bay Area and on a national tour. These activities will offer a variety of events for youth a… |
| 2014 | Project Bandaloop | Oakland, CA | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "#SFPublic Canvas," a new work by Artistic Director Amelia Rudolph in collaboration with video artist Jonathan Rowe. The work will anima… |
| 2014 | Diavolo Dance Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | To support educational and outreach programs during the company's national tour. The project will include a Young People's Concert, community workshops, master classes, and residen… |
| 2014 | Dance Camera West | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | To support the presentation of the Dance Camera West Dance Media Film Festival. Programs will include a documentary series, a short film series, site-specific and outdoor screening… |
| 2014 | LEVYdance, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support AMP (Artists Maximizing Potential). A guest choreographer and several of his or her dancers will engage in a residency to collaborate with LEVYdance on the creation of a… |
| 2014 | Capacitor Performance | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support the presentation of "Synaptic Motion" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in partnership with the Gazzaley Lab at University of California San Francisco and the Grey Area… |
| 2014 | CounterPulse | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the CounterPULSE Artist Residency and Commissioning (ARC) Program. The program will identify local choreographers whose work is ready to be appreciated by a larger audie… |
| 2014 | Joe Goode Performance Group | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a walk-through dance theater installation choreographed by Joe Goode. Inspired by French philosopher Gaston Bachelard's book, "The Poeti… |
| 2014 | Margaret Jenkins Dance Studio, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "Prologue," a new dance-installation work by Margaret Jenkins. Audiences will travel through the work at the Yerba Buena Center for the … |
| 2014 | Dancers' Group | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support "In Dance," a free print and online monthly publication that promotes dance artists in the San Francisco Bay Area. The publication includes a comprehensive performance c… |
| 2014 | Collage Dance Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a series of site specific presentations called "From Time to Time...At the Oasis." The choreography, built into and around a 1961 Oasis … |
| 2014 | Smuin Ballets-SF | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the presentation of Jiri Kylian's "Return to a Strange Land" and a world premiere by choreographer in residence Amy Seiwert. The works will be featured as part of the ba… |
| 2014 | Flyaway Productions | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a site-specific work, "Multiple Mary and Invisible Jane," choreographed by Jo Kreiter. A collaboration with journalist Rose Aguilar and … |
| 2014 | Fresh Meat Productions | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and world premiere of Sean Dorsey Dance's new evening-length work, "The Missing Generation." The work will explore the contemporary impact of the loss of mu… |
| 2014 | Wooden Floor for Youth Movement | Santa Ana, CA | $10,000 | To support a dance education and performance program for youth. Students will participate in guest artist residencies and master classes which will result in the creation of new co… |
| 2014 | Dimensions Dance Theater, Inc. | Oakland, CA | $10,000 | To support the Rites of Passage educational outreach program. The project will include classes in Congolese, West African, Afro-Haitian, Afro-Cuban, modern, jazz, and Brazilian dan… |
| 2014 | ODC | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "Boulders and Bones," a new work by Artistic Directors Brenda Way and KT Nelson. The piece, danced by the members of ODC/Dance to an ori… |
| 2014 | Lobero Theatre Foundation | Santa Barbara, CA | $10,000 | To support DANCEworks, a comprehensive residency for a nationally rising choreographer at the historic Lobero Theatre. SUMMERDANCE Santa Barbara will collaborate on the project to … |
| 2014 | Ebony Repertory Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support the presentation of Dance@theHolden, a dance presenting series. The project may include the presentation of Los Angeles dance companies such as JazzAntiqua Dance & Music… |
| 2013 | San Francisco Ballet Association | San Francisco, CA | $75,000 | To support the creation and presentation of new ballets by several choreographers. Choreographers such as artistic director Helgi Tomasson and Alexei Ratmanksy as well as others wi… |
| 2013 | World Arts West | San Francisco, CA | $30,000 | To support artists' fees for the 35th annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. The festival presents dancers sustaining more than 100 distinct dance forms by providing underserv… |
| 2013 | Diavolo Dance Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "Fluid Infinities" set to Philip Glass's "Symphony No. 3," which will complete a trilogy of commissions from the Los Angeles Philharmoni… |
| 2013 | AXIS Dance Company | Berkeley, CA | $20,000 | To support Dance Access and Dance/Access KIDS! education and outreach programs. These activities will offer a variety of events for youth and adults with and without disabilities w… |
| 2013 | CounterPulse | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the CounterPulse Artist Residency and Commissioning (ARC) Program. Activities will include the creation and presentation of contemporary works and one full-length world … |
| 2013 | Margaret Jenkins Dance Studio, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "Barrier Winds," a new work by Margaret Jenkins. Jenkins will bring dancers from San Francisco to Israel for a residency that will foste… |
| 2013 | Alonzo King LINES Ballet | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the LINES Ballet Guest Choreography project. LINES Ballet will engage approximately 25 diverse choreographers to work with the pre-professional students of the LINES Bal… |
| 2013 | Museum of Performance & Design | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the digitization of images and papers of California dance luminaries, Lew Christensen and Anna Halprin for online access. Key images from each collection will be digitiz… |
| 2013 | Zaccho SF | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "Between Me & the Other World," a new work by artistic director Joanna Haigood. The work will employ video immersion technology by video… |
| 2013 | Lobero Theatre Foundation | Santa Barbara, CA | $20,000 | To support DANCEworks, a four-week residency for a nationally rising choreographer at the historic Lobero Theatre. SUMMERDANCE Santa Barbara will collaborate on the project to prov… |
| 2013 | Jess Curtis/Gravity, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the presentation of a new international choreographic research project, "Performance Research Experiment #2: Paradox of the Heart," by artistic director Jess Curtis. A c… |
| 2013 | Project Bandaloop | Oakland, CA | $20,000 | To support the re-staging of Bandaloop's seminal mountain work, "Crossing," a site-specific mountain performance that crosses the Sierra Nevada range from East to West. "Crossing" … |
| 2013 | Dimensions Dance Theater, Inc. | Oakland, CA | $20,000 | To support the educational outreach program "Rites of Passage." The program will focus on the African Diaspora and will include classes in Congolese, West African, Afro-Haitian, Af… |
| 2013 | Ebony Repertory Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | To support Dance@theHolden, a new dance presenting series. Artists to be presented include Complexions Ballet from New York City, hip-hop artist Rennie Harris from Philadelphia, as… |
| 2013 | LEVYdance, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support the company's 10th anniversary Oudoor Home Season. The company will restage and remount work from their history on custom built stages in a San Francisco alleyway, which… |
| 2013 | Dancers' Group | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support "In Dance," a publication targeted to dance artists in the San Francisco Bay Area. The issues appear in print as well as on the Web, and include a comprehensive performa… |
| 2013 | Smuin Ballets-SF | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the presentation of West Coast premieres of ballets by choreographers Adam Hougland and Helen Pickett. The works will include Adam Hougland's Cold Virtues and Helen Pick… |
| 2013 | DanceArt, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the annual WestWave Dance, in partnership with SAFEhouse, which will include the presentation of works by Bay Area choreographers in a shared program at Z Space and at O… |
| 2013 | ODC | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of new works by resident choreographers Brenda Way and KT Nelson. Way, ODC founder and artistic director, will create "Lifesaving Maneuvers… |
| 2013 | Epiphany Dance Theater | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the "San Francisco Trolley Dances." The festival includes presentations of free site-specific contemporary dance performances presented along a different city trolley or… |
| 2013 | Dance Camera West | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support the presentation of the Dance Camera West Dance Media Film Festival. Programs will include international short dance films, a documentary series, a short film series, si… |
| 2013 | Crosspulse | Oakland, CA | $10,000 | To support the United States tour of "Body Music," which showcases movement, rhythm, sound, and voice, and will include concerts, and education and outreach activities. The project… |
| 2013 | Capacitor Performance | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the presentation of "Okeanos," by choreographer Jodi Lomask, in partnership with the Aquarium of the Bay in San Francisco. The organizations will produce a 60-minute dan… |
| 2013 | Chinese Cultural Productions | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support Lily Cai Dance Company's national tour. Each touring engagement will include an evening-length performance of pieces from the company's permanent repertoire, an interact… |
| 2012 | San Francisco Ballet Association | San Francisco, CA | $70,000 | To support the creation and presentation of new works by several choreographers. Choreographers such as artistic director Helgi Tomasson, choreographer-in-residence Yuri Possokhov,… |
| 2012 | CounterPulse | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | To support the CounterPULSE Performing Diaspora program, for dance artists who are using traditional performance as a foundation for experimentation and innovation, in consortium w… |
| 2012 | LEVYdance, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $40,000 | To support AMP, in consortium with Headlands Center for the Arts. AMP is an innovative program that pools valuable resources to create an alternative to the single choreographer da… |
| 2012 | Dance Camera West | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | To support the presentation of the Dance Camera West Dance Media Film Festival. Activities will include programs of international short dance films, a documentary series, a short f… |
| 2012 | Lobero Theatre Foundation | Santa Barbara, CA | $25,000 | To support DANCEworks, a residency for an emerging choreographer at the historic Lobero Theatre. SUMMERDANCE Santa Barbara will collaborate on the project to provide an artist with… |
| 2012 | Crosspulse | Oakland, CA | $25,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new multidisciplinary collaborative work. Members from body music ensembles Cudamani (Bali, Indonesia), Barbatuques (Sao Paulo, Brazil… |
| 2012 | AXIS Dance Company | Berkeley, CA | $20,000 | To support Dance Access & Dance Access/KIDS! education and outreach programs. These activities will offer a variety of dance events for youth and adults with and without disabiliti… |
| 2012 | Alonzo King LINES Ballet | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of work by choreographer Alonzo King, in collaboration with bassist and composer Edgar Meyer. The project will include post-performance que… |
| 2012 | Margaret Jenkins Dance Studio, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "Times Bones," a new work by choreographer Margaret Jenkins. Time Bones, inspired by the myth of the scattered limbs of Osiris, will exp… |
| 2012 | Joe Goode Performance Group | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the creation of a series of site specific performance work by choreographer Joe Goode. The project, titled The Human Kind Series, was inspired by the company's move to a… |
| 2012 | Diavolo Dance Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | To support education and outreach programs presented in conjunction with the company's U.S. Tour. The company will partner with venues in Los Angeles and while on tour to present Y… |
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