NEA Dance Grants in Rhode Island
23 NEA dance grants for Rhode Island, totaling $367K.
| Year | Recipient | City | Amount | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Newport Contemporary Ballet | Newport, RI | $30,000 | Purpose: To support the annual Newport Dance Festival. Additional Project Description: In recognition of America's 250th anniversary, the festival will explore the theme of freedom… |
| 2023 | Newport Contemporary Ballet | Newport, RI | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of dance companies as part of the Newport Dance Festival. Additional Project Description: The festival will offer performances, classes, and ar… |
| 2018 | Newport Contemporary Ballet | Newport, RI | $10,000 | To support the Great Friends Touring project, a touring model that offers reciprocal dance residency benefits for the participating companies. The project creates a new touring mod… |
| 2016 | Newport Contemporary Ballet | Newport, RI | $10,000 | To support the production of a new work using the Open for Dancing community engagement model. This distinctive model is a forum for the creation of new, site-specific work, and us… |
| 2015 | Newport Contemporary Ballet | Newport, RI | $10,000 | To support the Great Friends Touring project. The project creates a new touring model for small and mid-sized dance companies for whom touring opportunities are rare. The model off… |
| 2013 | Brown University | Providence, RI | $10,000 | To support the Dance Legacy Development Project presented by the American Dance Legacy Initiative. The American Dance Legacy Initiative will produce teaching methodologies, context… |
| 2013 | Newport Contemporary Ballet | Newport, RI | $10,000 | To support the expansion of Open for Dancing, a site-specific dance and arts festival. This biennial festival will include sites in Newport as well as at Providence's arts/industri… |
| 2011 | Everett | Providence, RI | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "Brain Storm," a multimedia dance/theater production that examines the current state of brain research and its implications for society.… |
| 2009 | Everett | Providence, RI | $25,000 | To support the preservation of jobs that are threatened by declines in philanthropic and other support during the current economic downturn. |
| 2009 | Everett | Providence, RI | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of THE SMILING LADY. The work will be a blend of dance, theater, and storytelling. |
| 2008 | Everett | Providence, RI | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "Silas the Teenager," an interdisciplinary dance-theater concert that utilizes movement, video, text, and sculptural set elements to exp… |
| 2007 | Everett | Providence, RI | $10,000 | To support the presentation of "The Marriage of Art and Science" with accompanying workshops for schools in Rhode Island and New England. Developed out of Everett Dance Theatre's p… |
| 2006 | Everett | Providence, RI | $10,000 | To support a retrospective concert in celebration of the company's 20th anniversary. The concert will take place at Rhode Island College's Sapinsley Hall Theater, with additional p… |
| 2005 | Everett | Providence, RI | $10,000 | To support the restaging and presentation of "The Science Project." The Science Project will be performed at the Carriage House Stage in Rhode Island and at the Skirball Cultural C… |
| 2004 | Everett | Providence, RI | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "Home Movies." The work will premiere at Trinity Repertory Theater, and include performances for middle and high school students. |
| 2003 | Everett | Providence, RI | $12,000 | To support the creation of a new evening-length work focusing on home and family. The piece will look at the stories of the individual family to uncover universal themes such as me… |
| 2003 | Festival Ballet Providence | Providence, RI | $10,000 | To support an interactive educational performance designed to reach underserved elementary school children. Teachers will receive resource information on dance with activities corr… |
| 2001 | Brown University | Providence, RI | $50,000 | To support the continuation of preservation and education activities. These activities include: preserving works by Talley Beatty, Pearl Primus, and Jean-Leon Destine; editing vide… |
| 2000 | Rhode Island Alliance for Arts in Education Arts Center | Providence, RI | $30,000 | To support a pilot program that will offer technical assistance to up to three states so that they may meet goals in dance arts education. The program will serve as a model for all… |
| 2000 | Everett | Providence, RI | $10,000 | To support the tour of Everett Dance Theatre's latest evening-length work. Somewhere in the Dream will involve week-long residencies in several states. |
| 1999 | Brown University | Providence, RI | $40,000 | To support the consortium project to commission Repertory Etudes and document endangered seminal dance works by founding members of the New Dance Group. This consortium project bet… |
| 1999 | Everett | Providence, RI | $10,000 | To support the creation of a performance piece concerning conflict resolution with accompanying workshops. The creation process will include Everett Dance Theatre members and talen… |
| 1998 | Everett | Providence, RI | $20,000 | To support the creation of a dance work titled "Somewhere in the Dream" for the Everett Dance Theatre, to be created through the participation of students, parents, and teachers, f… |
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