NEA Dance Grants in New York — Page 3

1,677 NEA dance grants for New York, totaling $50.4M.

YearRecipientCityAmountProject
2019Infinity Dance Theater Company, Ltd.New York, NY$10,000To support integrated dance classes and choreography workshops for people with disabilities, and a teacher training series. Dance educator Kitty Lunn will lead free weekly dance cl…
2018Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$90,000To support the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's 2018 national tour. Repertory pieces in the tour may include historical and contemporary dance works by a variety of choreograph…
2018Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$90,000To support the presentation of dance artists. The Joyce will present a mix of established and emerging dance companies from the United States and abroad. Each company will receive …
2018New York Live Arts Inc.New York, NY$80,000To support commissioning, residency, and producing programs, as well as the development and tour of works by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. The project includes five c…
2018Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc.New York, NY$80,000To support staff salaries and space costs for rehearsals in preparation for 2019 performances. The company will rehearse new works and revive Graham classics around the theme of ge…
2018Trisha Brown Company, Inc.New York, NY$80,000To support Trisha Brown Dance Company's touring, educational work, and the preservation of Trisha Brown's legacy. Performances of "Trisha Brown: In Plain Site" is a program that ad…
2018Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$75,000To support American Ballet Theatre's 2018 national tour. In addition to its annual New York performances at the Metropolitan Opera House and David H. Koch Theater, ABT will travel …
2018New York City Ballet, Inc.New York, NY$75,000To support a festival celebrating Jerome Robbins' centennial, including a world premiere of a new ballet by Justin Peck. Multiple ballets by Robbins will be presented at the festiv…
2018Discalced, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$60,000To support the creation of a new dance work and restaging of older works by Artistic Director Mark Morris. The new work will be set to composer Franz Schubert's “Piano Quintet in A…
2018New York City Center, Inc.New York, NY$50,000To support the Fall for Dance Festival. Celebrating its 15th year, the 2018 festival will consist of multiple performances featuring a variety of as many as 20 artists and dance co…
2018UBW, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$50,000To support a national performance tour with engagement programs. Touring repertory will feature two multidisciplinary performance works, Hair and Other Stories and SCAT!, alongside…
2018School of American Ballet, Inc.New York, NY$40,000To support the School of American Ballet's Boys Program, a tuition-free and subsidized ballet training program, and related community outreach activities. In addition to no-fee aud…
2018Dance Works, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$40,000To support Pentacle's research and comprehensive management support for the dance community. Activities include mentoring, administrative support such as direct staffing and intern…
2018Stephen Petronio Dance Company, Inc.New York, NY$40,000To support the re-creation of a Merce Cunningham work for Bloodlines and the creation of "Hardness 10," a new work by Stephen Petronio. This project will mark the fourth year of th…
2018Danspace Project, Inc.New York, NY$40,000To support dance presentations, residencies, and developmental activities for choreographers. Each of these activities contributes to Danspace's Choreographic Center Without Walls,…
2018Foundation for Independent Artists, Inc.New York, NY$40,000To support the creation, presentation, and touring of works by Faye Driscoll and John Heginbotham. Driscoll will develop and premiere her "Thank You for Coming" series at Montclair…
2018Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc.New York, NY$35,000To support a national tour as part of the company's 50th anniversary season. The company will perform classical repertoire and newly created contemporary ballets, including works c…
2018STREB Inc.Brooklyn, NY$30,000To support the creative development of "Falling & Loving," a collaboration with Anne Bogart and the SITI Ensemble Theater Company. STREB and SITI will create a piece that expresses…
2018Jose Limon Dance FoundationNew York, NY$30,000To support a national tour of the Limón Dance Company. Venues to host the company's tour include South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center (Miami, Florida) and The Joyce Theater (New Y…
2018Ballet Tech Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$30,000To support a tuition-free ballet training program. Founded by choreographer Eliot Feld, the audition-based program provides beginning to advanced ballet training for New York City …
2018DOVA, Inc.New York, NY$30,000To support the creation of "everything is fine" by Doug Varone, a new work comprising ten short dances. Inspired by poems of former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins, the work will …
2018Inta, Inc.New York, NY$30,000To support the touring of Eiko Otake's solo project for non-theatrical spaces, "A Body in Places." These non-theatrical spaces can be as large as a transportation hub or as tiny as…
2018Performance Zone, Inc.New York, NY$25,000To support The Field's creative resources and capacity-building programs for national dance artists. Participating artists will take advantage of Fieldwork, a peer-driven feedback …
2018American Dance InstituteNew York, NY$25,000To support LUMBERYARD's Inaugural Upstate Season 2018 of residencies and performance opportunities for dance artists. Resources provided to invited artists will include rehearsal t…
2018George Balanchine Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support the editing of videos and coaching sessions for the Balanchine Video Archives. The Video Archives were devised to capture the first-hand memories and insights of dancers…
2018Thin Man Dance, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support the final stage of creation and premiere of a new evening-length work by John Jasperse. The project activities will include rehearsals in New York City, a developmental …
2018Gotham Dance, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support Vault, Bebe Miller Company's ongoing intergenerational artist-driven convening of artists, curators and scholars to share innovative methodologies for conceiving, docume…
2018Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support the Instituto Coreografico (Choreographic Institute), a choreographic creation and mentorship program serving emerging and underrecognized Latino choreographers. Choreog…
2018Dance Service New York City, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support Dance/NYC's Symposium, town hall meetings, the Junior Committee, a conference, and continued expansion of the organization's website. The Symposium includes panel discus…
2018Gina Gibney Dance, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support commissions, production support and performance opportunities for emerging and established dance artists. Artists will experience support through a broad portfolio of in…
2018Arts Resources in Collaboration, Inc.New York, NY$15,000To support the Eye on Dance Legacy Archive and Access Project. The project will systematically organize, assess, identify, and safeguard elements of the archive for full public acc…
2018Garth Fagan Dance, Inc.Rochester, NY$15,000To support community outreach and dance education for youth. Garth Fagan Dance will provide dance training and performance opportunities for school-aged children, as well as free l…
2018Creative NetwerkAstoria, NY$15,000To support the development of chapters, dance teacher training, and program expansion in Chicago, Illinois, and Houston, Texas. EDN! provides free, weekly hip-hop and street dance …
2018Jessica Lang Dance, IncLong Island City, NY$15,000To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Jessica Lang in tribute to the music of Tony Bennett. Drawing from her early training in jazz and musical theater, Lang wi…
2018Kyle Abraham Abraham In MotionNew York, NY$15,000To support the touring of dance works by Artistic Director Kyle Abraham. The company will present Abraham's "Dearest Home" and "Live! The Realest MC" in select U.S. cities and abro…
2018Monica Bill Barnes & CompanyNew York, NY$15,000To support the creation of a new work by Monica Bill Barnes. This developmental phase will consist of rehearsals, workshops, design meetings, residency activities, venue tryouts, t…
2018La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Inc.New York, NY$15,000To support the creation and presentation of a new solo performance work, "Time No Line," by John Kelly. Based on Kelly's journals, the work will engage younger generations and prov…
2018Movement Research, Inc.New York, NY$15,000To support the presentation of free and low-cost public performance programs. The programs will include Movement Research at the Judson Church and Movement Research Festivals. The …
2018Research Foundation for the State University of New York, SUNY at BuffaloAmherst, NY$14,199To support UB Center for the Arts' pilot program to provide dance education in Buffalo schools. Modeled after the Lincoln Center Institute for Aesthetic Education, the university w…
2018Dance Continuum, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the premiere and public engagement events for "Construction," a collaboration between Susan Marshall and the So Percussion ensemble. Marshall developed the work in colla…
2018Infinity Dance Theater Company, Ltd.New York, NY$10,000To support integrated dance classes and choreography workshops for people with disabilities and a teacher training series. Dance educator Kitty Lunn will lead free weekly dance cla…
2018Broadway Dance LabNew York, NY$10,000To support a choreography lab that offers dance artists free rehearsal space and dancers to assist with the creation process. As many as five selected choreographers, at various st…
2018Parsons Dance Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the creation of new work by David Parsons in collaboration with emerging choreographer Eoghan Dillon. The work will be developed for performances for people with learnin…
2018Peridance Ensemble, Ltd.New York, NY$10,000To support a dance residency at Stony Brook University in Long Island, New York. During the three-day residency, the company will perform a full-length repertory program at Stony B…
2018Noche Flamenca, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the research, development, and performance of a new dance work based on the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone. The work will be adapted and choreographed by Martín Sa…
2018American Tap Dance Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support Tap City, an annual tap dance festival. Activities will include master classes, choreography residencies, tap films presentations, and performances assembling profession…
2018Keigwin and Company, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the creation and presentation of new works by Larry Keigwin. In honor of Leonard Bernstein's centennial in 2018, the company will develop new companion works set to the …
2018Gallim Dance Company, IncBrooklyn, NY$10,000To support an ongoing dance engagement program in Brooklyn's Clinton Hill community. Based in the company's artistic and administrative home in a historic church in Clinton Hill, B…
2018Racing Thoughts, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$10,000To support an archiving project to preserve the history of Jane Comfort and Company. The company will greatly expand the archive page of its website, tracing the genesis and develo…
2018Dance Films Association, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the Dance on Camera Festival (DOCF) and Dance on Camera Tour. The festival, co-presented with the Film Society of Lincoln Center, will include film programming that expl…
2018Armitage Foundation Ltd.New York, NY$10,000To support a contemporary dance production of "You Took a Part of Me" by Armitage Gone! Dance. Based on a classic novel, the dance production will be modernized through a feminist …
2018Dances For A Variable PopulationNew York, NY$10,000To support dance workshops and free public performances. The project will celebrate renewal of 20th-century modern dance, featuring senior professional dance artists alongside grou…
2018Spanish Dance Arts Company, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the creation of a new dance work, public engagement activities in New York City, and a national tour. The new dance, "Eterna," is a 30-minute work for 6 dancers and four…
2017New York City Ballet, Inc.New York, NY$100,000To support the presentation of ballets during the Here/Now Festival. The four-week festival will feature ballets that have been commissioned by NYCB during the past three decades. …
2017Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$100,000To support the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's 2017 United States tour. The tour will feature a new production of Ailey's "Masekela Language," Kyle Abraham's "Untitled America…
2017Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$100,000To support the Dance Presentation Program. The Joyce will present a mix of established and emerging dance companies from the United States and abroad. Each company will receive a p…
2017Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$90,000To support American Ballet Theatre's 2017 domestic performances. In addition to its annual New York performance series at the Metropolitan Opera House and David H. Koch Theater, Am…
2017Trisha Brown Company, Inc.New York, NY$80,000To support the reconstruction, touring, educational work and preservation of Trisha Brown's legacy. The new program "Trisha Brown: In Plain Site," will adapt Brown's works into sit…
2017Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc.New York, NY$80,000To support a period of creative development and rehearsal in preparation for performances. The company will feature new works and revive Graham classics around the theme of gender,…
2017Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$75,000To support the presentation of dance works on a national tour. The company will present some of Paul Taylor's master works, as well as his most recent dances, to audiences across t…
2017New York Live Arts Inc.New York, NY$75,000To support commissioning, residency, and producing programs, as well as the national repertory tour of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Each program will be tailored to …
2017Discalced, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$70,000To support the creation of a new work and restaging of older works by Artistic Director Mark Morris. The choreographer will create a new work to music by composer Lou Harrison for …
2017Foundation for Independent Artists, Inc.New York, NY$40,000To support the creation, presentation, and touring of works by several dance artists. Art Bridgman & Myrna Packer will tour "Truck." Beth Gill will create and premiere a new work i…
2017Danspace Project, Inc.New York, NY$40,000To support dance presentations, residencies, and developmental activities for choreographers. Each of these activities contributes to Danspace's Choreographic Center Without Walls,…
2017DOVA, Inc.New York, NY$40,000To support the creation of Epilogue, a new stand-alone touring work by Artistic Director Doug Varone. The new work is partially inspired by physicist Douglas Hofstader's book, "I A…
2017Dance Works, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$40,000To support Pentacle's comprehensive management support for the dance community. The program provides mentoring, administrative support (direct staffing and internships), informatio…
2017Stephen Petronio Dance Company, Inc.New York, NY$40,000To support restaging of additional pieces for the Bloodlines initiative and the creation of a new work by Stephen Petronio. Bloodlines was launched in 2015 to honor the lineage of …
2017Inta, Inc.New York, NY$40,000To support the presentation of Eiko Otake's solo project, "A Body in Places." Eiko has designed her work for non-theatrical spaces where no barriers separate performer from viewer.…
2017STREB Inc.Brooklyn, NY$40,000To support community engagement programs and touring. The programs are designed to break down the barriers between artist and audience. Performances and classes will take place at …
2017School of American Ballet, Inc.New York, NY$40,000To support a tuition-free education program and related community outreach activities. In addition to no-fee auditions and free ballet classes focusing on boys' participation, free…
2017UBW, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$35,000To support a national performance tour and community engagement programs. The company will feature new multidisciplinary works alongside seminal repertory work. By offering perform…
2017Gotham Dance, Inc.New York, NY$30,000To support the presentation of new works by choreographer Bebe Miller, creative residencies, and a convening. The project will include performances of Bebe Miller Company's (BMC) n…
2017Ballet Tech Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$30,000To support a tuition-free ballet training program. Founded by choreographer Eliot Feld, the auditioned-based program provides beginning to advanced ballet training for New York Cit…
2017Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc.New York, NY$30,000To support a national tour. The company will perform classical repertoire and newly created contemporary ballets, including a growing number of works choreographed by women as well…
2017Jose Limon Dance FoundationNew York, NY$30,000To support a new commission for the Limon Dance Company. The project will include the commissioning of an original score in collaboration with the selected choreographer. The new w…
2017Kyle Abraham Abraham In MotionNew York, NY$20,000To support the final development and premiere of a new work by Artistic Director Kyle Abraham. "Dearest Home" is an interactive dance work developed focused on loving, longing, and…
2017George Balanchine Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support the filming of new coaching sessions for the Balanchine Video Archives. The Video Archives were devised to capture the first-hand memories and insights of dancers who wo…
2017Movement Research, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support the presentation of free and low-cost public performance programs. The programs will include Movement Research at the Judson Church and Movement Research Festivals. The …
2017Monica Bill Barnes & CompanyNew York, NY$20,000To support the creation and presentation of "The Museum Workout." Audiences will participate in a guided exercise tour of an art museum, following the choreographed movement of Mon…
2017Dance Service New York City, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support Dance/NYC's Symposium, Town Hall meetings, the Voices on Race and Dance series, the Junior Committee, and continued expansion of the organization's website. The Symposiu…
2017Dance Continuum, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support the creation and presentation of a new multidisciplinary work by Artistic Director Susan Marshall. The choreographer will return to the form of her earliest works, which…
2017Thin Man Dance, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support the creation and development of new work by Artistic Director John Jasperse. Project activities will include ongoing part-time rehearsals, periodic open rehearsals, and …
2017Shen Wei Dance Arts, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support the staging and touring of "Neither." "Neither" is Artistic Director Shen Wei's newest work. Performances and discussions will take place in New York and North Carolina …
2017Lubovitch Dance Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support the creation of a new dance by Lar Lubovitch and accompanying public engagement activities. During the creation period, Lubovitch will work with as many as 12 dancers in…
2017Center for Performance Research, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$15,000To support professional development and technical assistance services to New York City's experimental dance and performance communities. The Artist-in-Residence program allows arti…
2017Garth Fagan Dance, Inc.Rochester, NY$15,000To support touring of new works. Artistic Director Garth Fagan and choreographer and rehearsal director Norwood Pennewell are creating the touring dance works. Fagan will create a …
2017Performance Zone, Inc.New York, NY$15,000To support The Field's creative resources and capacity-building programs for national dance artists. Participating artists will take advantage of Fieldwork, a peer-driven feedback …
2017Saratoga Springs Performing Arts Center, Inc.Saratoga Springs, NY$15,000To support The Performance Project: Youth in Motion, a dance education program for youth. In partnership with the National Dance Institute (NDI) and local YMCAs, the program will u…
2017Spanish Dance Arts Company, Inc.New York, NY$15,000To support the creative development of a new dance work. Choregraphed by Belen Maya, the new work "Mujeres Valientes" will have an original score by Gaspar Rodriguez. The company w…
2017Dance Films Association, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the Dance on Camera Festival (DOCF) and Dance on Camera Tour. The festival, co-presented with the Film Society of Lincoln Center, will include film programming that expl…
2017Dances For A Variable PopulationNew York, NY$10,000To support free dance performances and community workshops. The project will celebrate renewal of 20th-century modern dance, featuring senior professional dance artists alongside g…
2017Noche Flamenca, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the creation and presentation of a new work, "La Ronde." Based on the Arthur Schnitzler play of the same name, "La Ronde" will be choreographed by Artistic Director Mart…
2017Racing Thoughts, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$10,000To support the presentation of dance works as part of the company's 40th Anniversary Retrospective. The concert will feature excerpts from well-known pieces by Jane Comfort with pa…
2017Batoto Yetu, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$10,000To support the development of an assessment report on the impact of the company's outreach in the local community. Consulting group ARTS Action Research will work with the company …
2017Hudson Opera House, Inc.Hudson, NY$10,000To support the Hudson Opera House's Inaugural Dance Program (IDP). Taking place in its newly restored landmark facility in the central arts and business community of Hudson, New Yo…
2017Big Tree Productions, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the creation of a new work by Artistic Director Tere O'Connor. The choreographer will explore merging stage space with notions of landscape and building. Inspiration for…
2017Jessica Lang Dance, IncLong Island City, NY$10,000To support the establishment of a Queens-based dance workshop for teens and young adults. The company will offer instruction in technique, choreography, and technical aspects of da…
2017American Dance InstituteNew York, NY$10,000To support Lumberyard in the City, a series of production residencies and performance opportunities for contemporary dance and performance artists. Resources to artists will includ…
2017Latsky Dance, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the premiere and tour of an inclusive movement installation featuring people with disabilities. The installation, "ON DISPLAY: TIMESTAMPed" is a work specifically design…
2017New York Baroque Dance Company, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support a series of workshops exploring Vaslav Nijinsky's "Sarabande." The workshops will create an historical and cultural context in which to explore Nijinsky's unfinished dan…
2017Curran Events, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the creation and presentation of "Everywhere All the Time," by Sean Curran with live musicians, Third Coast Percussion. Curran plans to develop the work with physical co…
2017Gallim Dance Company, IncBrooklyn, NY$10,000To support a dance engagement program in Brooklyn's Clinton Hill community. This program will engage the community with a range of free and low cost artistic offerings at the compa…
2017Life Through Dance Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support a tour of "Into Sunlight" by Robin Becker Dance. The project will encompass performances, facilitated post-performance discussions, and movement workshops focused toward…
2017Arts Resources in Collaboration, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the Eye on Dance Legacy Archive project. The project will systematically organize, assess, identify, and safeguard elements of the archive for full public access. Archiv…
2017Kathryn Posin Dance FoundationNew York, NY$10,000To support the creation and presentation of dance works by Artistic Director Kathryn Posin. There will be three premieres, including Steve Reich's "Triple Sextet," "Memoir," and "E…
2017Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$10,000To support the creation of a new work "The Disappearance Portraits" by Jonah Bokaer. In collaboration with composers of the Soundwalk Collective, Bokaer will create a live performa…
2016New York City Ballet, Inc.New York, NY$100,000To support the creation and presentation of a new ballet by resident choreographer Justin Peck. This will be the tenth ballet Peck has created for the company and will mark Peck's …
2016Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$100,000To support the Dance Presentation Program. The Joyce will present a mix of established and emerging dance companies from the United States and abroad. Artists in the project will i…
2016Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$90,000To support American Ballet Theatre's 2016 national tour. In addition to its annual New York performance series at the Metropolitan Opera House and David H. Koch Theater, American B…
2016Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$90,000To support the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's 2016 United States tour. The tour will include a new work created by Artistic Director Robert Battle, his first work since becom…
2016Trisha Brown Company, Inc.New York, NY$80,000To support the extension of the "Proscenium Works, 1979-2011" tour, as well as a new program, "Trisha Brown: In Plain Site." Touring will include a performance series at the Brookl…
2016Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc.New York, NY$80,000To support creative development and rehearsal activities. The company will feature new works and revive Graham classics around the theme of Sacred and Profane. Choreographer Annie-…
2016New York Live Arts Inc.New York, NY$80,000To support commissioning and residency programs, as well as the national repertory tour of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Each program will be tailored to artists at v…
2016Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$75,000To support the presentation of dance works on a national tour. The company will present some of Paul Taylor's master works, as well as his most recent dances, to audiences across t…
2016Discalced, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$60,000To support the creation and presentation of a new work. The work, titled "Layla and Majnun," will be based on an acient Arabian love story popularized by the 12th-century Persian p…
2016STREB Inc.Brooklyn, NY$60,000To support PUBLIC/ACTION, a community engagement program. Conceptually, the program is designed to break down the barriers between artist and audience. PUBLIC/ACTION NEW YORK perfo…
2016School of American Ballet, Inc.New York, NY$60,000To support a tuition-free education program and related community outreach activities. In addition to no-fee auditions and free ballet classes focusing on boys' participation, free…
2016Ballet Tech Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$50,000To support a tuition-free ballet training program founded by choreographer Eliot Feld. The program provides beginning to advanced ballet training for New York City public school st…
2016Jose Limon Dance FoundationNew York, NY$50,000To suppport the company's 70th anniversary national tour. Many of the works being revived for the tour were chosen to represent the breadth of Jose Limon's creative output and have…
2016Dance Works, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$40,000To support Pentacle's comprehensive management support for the dance community project. The program integrates Capacity Bootcamp, Pentacle's new management initiative, along with i…
2016UBW, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$35,000To support the development of "SCAT!," a new evening-length work. UBW Founder/Visioning Partner Jawole Willa Jo Zollar will conceive and choreograph the piece. Through the prism of…
2016Stephen Petronio Dance Company, Inc.New York, NY$30,000To support restaging of new works for Bloodlines, an initiative honoring the lineage of American post-modern dance masters, and the premiere of "Big Daddy Deluxe" by Artistic Direc…
2016DOVA, Inc.New York, NY$30,000To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Artistic Director Doug Varone. The work will be a study of the act of prayer, as Varone is interested in exploring differe…
2016Danspace Project, Inc.New York, NY$30,000To support the creation and presentation of new work through Danspace Project's Choreographic Center Without Walls Initiative. Project activities include artist commissions, artist…
2016Lubovitch Dance Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$30,000To support the creation and presentation of a new dance by Artistic Director Lar Lubovitch and public engagement activities. The world premiere of the work will take place in New Y…
2016Inta, Inc.New York, NY$30,000To support the further development of "A Body in Places," Eiko Otake's solo project. The project will be grouped into three categories. The first is the Danspace Platform, a multi-…
2016Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc.New York, NY$30,000To support Instituto Coreografico (Choreographic Institute). Choreographers Joshua Beamish and Stephanie Martinez will spend two weeks in residence at Ballet Hispanico to create, d…
2016Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc.New York, NY$30,000To support national touring and performance activities. DTH will perform classical repertoire, works by George Balanchine, and recently created contemporary ballets, as well as a g…
2016Kings Majestic CorporationBrooklyn, NY$30,000To support the restaging of master works by prominent African-American choreographers and a new commission by dance artist Kyle Abraham. Gesel Mason will perform an evening of solo…
2016Shen Wei Dance Arts, Inc.New York, NY$25,000To support the development, production and performance of Artistic Director Shen Wei's new evening-length work. Shen Wei's new work is inspired by his study of Chinese landscape pa…
2016Jessica Lang Dance, IncLong Island City, NY$20,000To support the presentation of an all-female work choreographed by Jessica Lang. The work will focus on the celebration of women using symbolic imagery of nature and art as inspira…
2016Movement Research, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support the presentation of free and low-cost public performance series, Movement Research at the Judson Church and MR Festivals. The programs will provide more than 200 artists…
2016Noche Flamenca, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support the creation and presentation of "Deseo" (Desire), a new flamenco work by Artistic Director Martin Santangelo. Based on Victor Hugo's story, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame…
2016Kyle Abraham Abraham In MotionNew York, NY$20,000To support a tour of engagement activities and performances of Kyle Abraham's "When the Wolves Came In." Facilitating dialogue around the issues, such as race, gender, and identity…
2016Gotham Dance, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support the creation and presentation of "In a Rhythm," several short dance works by choreographer Bebe Miller and other artists. The working process stems from Miller's researc…
2016Thin Man Dance, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support the creation, presentation, and touring of "Remains," a new work by Artistic Director John Jasperse and public performances of repertory work "Within Between" at Bard Co…
2016Parsons Dance Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support the restaging and presentation of works by choreographer Trey McIntyre and Artistic Director David Parsons. Works to be restaged will include McIntyre's "Ma Maison" (200…
2016Dance Continuum, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support the creation of "Two Person Operating System," a collaboration between choreographer Susan Marshall and visual artist Martha Friedman. Marshall and Friedman will develop…
2016Gina Gibney Dance, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support residency programs, and programming during Gibney Dance's 25th anniversary. The residency programs will give emerging and established dance artists the resources to crea…
2016Monica Bill Barnes & CompanyNew York, NY$20,000To support the creation and presentation of "Happy Hour," a new work by Monica Bill Barnes. Inspired by karaoke and stand-up comedy, Barnes and long-time collaborator Anna Bass wil…
2016Garth Fagan Dance, Inc.Rochester, NY$20,000To support the Dance 2B program. Activities will be offered at the Garth Fagan Dance Studios, providing a positive, safe environment to Rochester City School District students. Cla…
2016Performance Zone, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support The Field's creative resources and capacity-building platforms for national dance artists. Participating artists will take advantage of Fieldwork, a peer-driven feedback…
2016Dancing in the Streets, Inc.Bronx, NY$20,000To support Dancing Through the Bronx. The project will include a dance and social-practice program that nutures and develops emerging social practitioners, and introduces creative …
2016La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support the La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival, a showcase of new dance pieces and works-in-progress by emerging and veteran choreographers. In addition to free rehearsal and perform…
2016Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre, Inc.Astoria, NY$15,000To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Artistic Director Pascal Rioult. Based on the internal, psychological dilemma of the Greek mythological prophet Cassandra,…
2016Dance Service New York City, Inc.New York, NY$15,000To support Dance/NYC's Town Hall meetings, a symposium, a disability and NYC Dance Convening, a Junior Committee, and continued expansion of the Dance/NYC website. Town Hall meetin…
2016Gallim Dance Company, IncBrooklyn, NY$15,000To support a dance engagement program. Dance classes, workshops, intensives for professional dancers, open rehearsals, question-and-answer sessions, studio performances by Gallim D…
2016Keigwin and Company, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Artistic Director Larry Keigwin. Developed in collaboration with the New York University Tisch School of the Arts, "Green …
2016Sarah Michelson Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the premiere and touring of Sarah Michelson's new work. The production will feature choreography and visual design by Michelson with lighting design by Zack Tinkelman.Th…
2016Dance Films Association, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the Dance on Camera Festival and the Dance on Camera Tour. The Dance on Camera Festival (DOCF) is the world's longest running annual international dance film/video festi…
2016Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$10,000To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer and Artistic Director Jonah Bokaer. Rules of the Game will be created in collaboration with visual artist Da…
2016American Tap Dance Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the presentation of the Tap City festival. Activities will include dance training for youth and adults, educational activities, and performances by an array of internati…
2016Art Sweats, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the creation and presentation of a new work titled "AROUNDTOWN," by Artistic Director David Dorfman. The work will be created during intensives and residencies with stud…
2016Arts Resources in Collaboration, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the Eye on Dance Legacy Archive. The complete archive features more than three decades of recordings from the "Eye on Dance" television series, created in 1981. The arch…
2016Spanish Dance Arts Company, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Juan Manuel Prieto. The work will be performed with live music to a score by composer and guitarist Gaspar Rodriguez. Prie…
2016Life Through Dance Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support staff salaries and travel costs for the Into Sunlight Military/Veteran Touring Program. Robin Becker Dance will perform, facilitate post-performance discussions, and con…
2016Muller Works FoundationNew York, NY$10,000To support Jennifer Muller/The Works' education, professional training, and mentoring programs. The company is committed to a spectrum of annual arts education and mentoring progra…
2016American Dance InstituteNew York, NY$10,000To support the ADI Incubator program in Rockville, Maryland, and New York, New York. This program provides contemporary dance choreographers and their collaborators with fully supp…
2016Spaceworks NYC Inc.Brooklyn, NY$10,000To support Dance Lit, a community-based residency program for dancemakers to build deeper connections with communities where they create work. The pilot program will take place at …
2016New York Baroque Dance Company, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the Hispanic Baroque Intensive. Participants will attend technique classes and lecture-demonstrations covering Spanish dances from the Baroque through the Enlightenment …
2016Research Foundation for the State University of New York, SUNY at BuffaloAmherst, NY$9,900To support the Arts in Education/Dance Initiative at the University of Buffalo Center for the Arts. Based on the Lincoln Center model of aesthetic education, Claire Jacob-Zysman an…
2015Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$100,000To support the Dance Presentation Program, which will feature a mix of established and emerging dance companies from the United States and abroad. Dance companies may include BodyT…
2015Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$100,000To support the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's 2015 United States tour. The tour may feature works by choreographers such as Aszure Barton, Bill T. Jones, Hans Van Manen, Wayn…
2015New York City Ballet, Inc.New York, NY$100,000To support the restaging of Auguste Bournonville's "La Sylphide" by Ballet Master-in-Chief Peter Martins. While the company's reputation and legacy is built on the neo-classical, n…
2015Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$90,000To support the creation and presentation of a new full-length version of "The Sleeping Beauty," by choreographer Alexei Ratmansky. The ballet will be performed to the original scor…
2015New York Live Arts Inc.New York, NY$90,000To support the creation and presentation of new work in the Dance Theater Workshop Commissioning Fund Program, the Studio Series Performance and Residency Program, the Fresh Tracks…
2015Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc.New York, NY$80,000To support development and rehearsal related to the Martha Graham Dance Company's 90th anniversary season. The season will include work from the Shape & Design project, revivals of…
2015Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$75,000To support the presentation of dance works on a national tour. The company will present some of Taylor's masterworks as well as his most recent dances to audiences across the Unite…
2015Discalced, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$70,000To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Mark Morris and the restaging of "Pacific." The new work will be featured in Tanglewood Music Center's 75th …
2015School of American Ballet, Inc.New York, NY$70,000To support the tuition-free Boys Program and community outreach activities. The project will comprise no-fee auditions, free ballet classes, free public ballet demonstrations, and …
2015Trisha Brown Company, Inc.New York, NY$60,000To support the presentation of performances in New York City and on tour across the U.S., including a restaging of Brown's "Present Tense" (2003), with sets by Elizabeth Murray and…
2015STREB Inc.Brooklyn, NY$60,000To support PUBLIC/ACTION, STREB's central community engagement program. Conceptually, the program is designed to break down the barriers between artist and audience. PUBLIC/ACTION …
2015Ballet Tech Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$50,000To support a tuition-free ballet training program. Founded by choreographer Eliot Feld, the program provides pre-professional dance training integrated with a public school educati…
2015Jose Limon Dance FoundationNew York, NY$50,000To support the Limon International Dance Festival. Coinciding with the company's 70th anniversary, the festival will bring together dance companies from around the world to perform…
2015Dance Works, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$40,000To support Pentacle's Help Desk and Back Office programs. Pentacle provides artists administrative and management support so they can focus on creating and performing their work. H…
2015UBW, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$35,000To support the creation and presentation of "Walking with Trane, Side A," an interdisciplinary dance work conceived and choreographed by Artistic Director Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. I…
2015Dance Heritage Coalition, Inc.New York, NY$35,000To support technical assistance to the dance field and the development of new training resources and online tools. DHC is the national standard-bearer for preservation and records-…
2015Foundation for Independent Artists, Inc.New York, NY$30,000To support the creation, presentation, and touring of dance works by several artists. Dance Heginbotham will create a new work with a commissioned score by composer Ethan Iverson. …
2015Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc.New York, NY$30,000To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Robert Garland. 3/13/15, Amend 1: different Balanchine-inspired work will be developed, no participation by …
2015Lubovitch Dance Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$30,000To support the creation and presentation of a new dance by Lar Lubovitch and public engagement activities. The world premiere of the work will take place in New York City as part o…
2015DOVA, Inc.New York, NY$30,000To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Artistic Director Doug Varone. The work titled "ReComposed" will be a response to paintings of American abstract expressio…
2015Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc.New York, NY$30,000To support Instituto Coreografico (Choreographic Institute). A choreographic creation and mentorship program serving emerging and under-recognized Latino choreographers, the instit…
2015Performance Zone, Inc.New York, NY$25,000To support The Field's creative resources and capacity-building platforms for national dance artists. Participating artists will take advantage of Fieldwork, a peer-driven feedback…
2015Gina Gibney Dance, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support the Artist Residency Program at the Gibney Dance Studios. The program will give emerging and established dance artists the resources to create and develop work. Residenc…
2015Shen Wei Dance Arts, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support the development and presentation of a new work by Artistic Director Shen Wei, along with performances of repertory works. Per 7/7/15 scope, premiere "Untitled No. 12-2" …
2015Stephen Petronio Dance Company, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support the creation and presentation of a new work, "Non Locomotor," by Artistic Director Stephen Petronio. Conceived as a focal point for the company's 30th anniversary celebr…
2015Spanish Dance Arts Company, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support the creation and presentation of "Angeles," a new work by choreographer Angel Munoz in collaboration with composer Gaspar Rodriquez. Angeles will explore the divergent i…
2015Movement Research, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support the presentation of the free and low-cost public performance series, Movement Research at the Judson Church and Movement Research Festivals. The two programs will provid…
2015Dance Continuum, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support the New York City premiere of "Chromatic," choreographed by Artistic Director Susan Marshall. The work for three performers was created in collaboration with visual arti…
2015Thin Man Dance, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support the creation of new work, and performances in New York City during the 2015 Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) Conference. The first stage of development f…
2015Inta, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support Phase II of Eiko Otake's residency activities as well as a tour of a new work. Eiko will create "A Body in a Station" to be performed at the River to River Festival (NY)…
2015Danspace Project, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support the creation and presentation of new work through Danspace Project's Choreographic Center Without Walls Initiative. Project activities will include artist commissions, a…
2015Monica Bill Barnes & CompanyNew York, NY$20,000To support the creation and development of new work by Monica Bill Barnes. Drawing from the company's recent collaboration with radio host Ira Glass, and inspired by the idea of un…
2015Keigwin and Company, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support the creation and presentation of a new solo work by and for Artistic Director Larry Keigwin. Panic will mark Keigwin's first solo in a decade, as well as a return to per…
2015Dancing in the Streets, Inc.Bronx, NY$20,000To support Dancing through the Bronx, free performances that will engage diverse neighborhoods in the Bronx. The program will feature "Bolero Bronx," a site adaptive version of Lar…
2015Gotham Dance, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support a new project by Bebe Miller Company that will bring together choreographers to investigate the creative process. The project will focus on the conversations and interac…
2015Garth Fagan Dance, Inc.Rochester, NY$20,000To support the Stop the Violence Dance Alliance. The program will offer youth dance classes at the Garth Fagan Dance Studios, providing a positive, safe environment to underserved …
2015Pick Up Performance Company, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support the continued development of and an installation/exhibition for David Gordon's Archiveography project. Since donating his archives to the New York Public Library for the…
2015Youth America Grand PrixNew York, NY$15,000To support a regional audition model that connects dance students to professional training and career opportunities. YAGP will enlist dance professionals from a diverse range of or…
2015Center for Performance Research, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$15,000To support a dance rehearsal and creation program for New York City's experimental dance and performance communities. Through its rental program, CPR offers space for rehearsal at …

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