NEA Dance Grants in Tennessee
52 NEA dance grants for Tennessee, totaling $788.5K.
| Year | Recipient | City | Amount | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Nashville Ballet | Nashville, TN | $30,000 | Purpose: To support a production of Swan Lake. Additional Project Description: The performances by Nashville Ballet will be accompanied by live music provided by Nashville Symphony… |
| 2026 | New Dialect | Nashville, TN | $25,000 | Purpose: To support a contemporary dance education project that offers professional development and community engagement opportunities for youth and adults, including pre-professio… |
| 2025 | Collage Dance Collective, Inc. | Memphis, TN | $25,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and production of the ballet "Romeo & Juliet," by Artistic Director Kevin Thomas. Additional Project Description: The new production will expand up… |
| 2024 | New Dialect | Nashville, TN | $25,000 | Purpose: To support Dance Dialectics, a contemporary dance education project that offers professional development and community engagement opportunities for youth and adults, inclu… |
| 2024 | Nashville Ballet | Nashville, TN | $24,000 | Purpose: To support dancer salaries for the creation and presentation of new dance works as part of the Attitude performance series, with related engagement activities. Additional … |
| 2024 | CreatiVets | Nashville, TN | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and production of a new work with Exit12, a contemporary dance company, and associated engagement activities. Additional Project Description: The w… |
| 2023 | New Dialect | Nashville, TN | $20,000 | Purpose: To support Dance Dialectics, a contemporary dance education project that offers professional development and community engagement opportunities for youth and adults, inclu… |
| 2023 | Nashville Ballet | Nashville, TN | $15,000 | Purpose: To support dancer salaries for the creation and presentation of dance works by a variety of choreographers. Additional Project Description: Anthology will weave together s… |
| 2023 | Ballet Memphis Corporation | Memphis, TN | $10,000 | Purpose: To support planning and development for Ballet Memphis' updated production of "Nutcracker." Additional Project Description: The project will include choreographic workshop… |
| 2022 | New Dialect | Nashville, TN | $20,000 | Purpose: To support Dance Dialectics, a dance education project that offers professional development training, community classes, and multi-week intensives for dance artists in Ten… |
| 2022 | Tennessee Performing Arts Center Management Corporation | Nashville, TN | $15,000 | Purpose: To support artist fees for the presentation of the Ailey II company at Tennessee Performing Arts Center. Additional Project Description: Programming may include works such… |
| 2021 | Nashville Ballet | Nashville, TN | $20,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Collage Dance Collective, Inc. | Memphis, TN | $15,000 | To support the creation and performance of a new ballet by Artistic Director Kevin Thomas based on the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. Collage Dance Colle… |
| 2021 | New Dialect | Nashville, TN | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2020 | Nashville Ballet | Nashville, TN | $25,000 | To support dancer and staff salaries for the presentation of Attitude: Other Voices, a full evening of original dance works. Choreographers Jennifer Archibald, Erin Kouwe, Matthew … |
| 2020 | New Dialect | Nashville, TN | $15,000 | To support contemporary dance education programming for youth and adults. The project will include daily technique classes, master classes, community workshops, youth dance camps, … |
| 2019 | Nashville Ballet | Nashville, TN | $15,000 | To support salaries for the creation and presentation of Lucy Negro, Redux, an original contemporary ballet by Artistic Director Paul Vasterling in collaboration with poet Caroline… |
| 2019 | Ballet Memphis Corporation | Memphis, TN | $10,000 | To support choreographer and lighting designer fees for the creation and presentation of new and existing dance works. The works' themes include natural bodies of water, life cycle… |
| 2019 | New Dialect | Nashville, TN | $10,000 | To support contemporary dance education programming for youth and adults. The project will include daily technique classes, master classes, community workshops, youth dance camps, … |
| 2018 | Nashville Ballet | Nashville, TN | $15,000 | To support the company premiere of Stephen Mills' "Light: The Holocaust and Humanity Project," and accompanying community engagement programming. The work will be presented at the … |
| 2018 | New Dialect | Nashville, TN | $10,000 | To support a year-long contemporary dance education project for children, teens, pre-professional dancers, professional dancers, and adults. The project will include daily techniqu… |
| 2017 | New Dialect | Nashville, TN | $10,000 | To support Dance Dialectics, a contemporary dance education project. Designed to create professional development and community engagement opportunities for children and adults at v… |
| 2017 | Ballet Memphis Corporation | Memphis, TN | $10,000 | To support the production and performances of three dance works. The company will perform work by George Balanchine, Trey McIntyre, and Julia Adam. A performance will include a pay… |
| 2016 | Nashville Ballet | Nashville, TN | $15,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "Layla & Majnun." The work is a new ballet by Artistic Director Paul Vasterling, with an original score by composer Richard Danielpour. … |
| 2016 | Ballet Memphis Corporation | Memphis, TN | $10,000 | To support the presentation of "Places," a performance of new dance works, which explores themes of the past, present, and future. Choreographer Joshua Peugh will create a new work… |
| 2015 | Nashville Ballet | Nashville, TN | $15,000 | To support the creation of a new ballet, "Frank N Stein." Artistic Director Paul Vasterling will lead the conceptualization of the ballet, overseeing the choreography by company da… |
| 2015 | Ballet Memphis Corporation | Memphis, TN | $10,000 | To support the presentation of a new work titled "I Am." The work will include four original pieces titled "I Am Woman," "I Am Man," "I Am Child," and "I Am." "I Am" will explore t… |
| 2014 | Nashville Ballet | Nashville, TN | $20,000 | To support the staging and presentation of choreographer Jiri Kylian's "Petite Mort" with live accompaniment by The Nashville Symphony. The work will be presented on the same bill … |
| 2014 | Ballet Memphis Corporation | Memphis, TN | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of dance works in a program titled World Wonders. Works presented will include Matthew Neenan's "Water of the Flowery Mill," Gabrielle Lamb… |
| 2013 | Nashville Ballet | Nashville, TN | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new ballet choreographed by Gina Patterson. The work will be accompanied by live music performed by local artists, which the company h… |
| 2013 | Ballet Memphis Corporation | Memphis, TN | $10,000 | To support AbunDANCE, an evening of dance performances which will consist of repertory work and a commissioned world premiere. The company will perform Trey McIntyre's High Lonesom… |
| 2011 | Ballet Memphis Corporation | Memphis, TN | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "Where the Girls Are 2." The project will include the works of choreographers Jane Comfort, Julia Adams, Damien Patterson, Emily Coates,… |
| 2011 | Nashville Ballet | Nashville, TN | $10,000 | To support the presentation of "Post Cards from the Boys" choreographed by Sarah Slipper. The work is based on songs written by Nashville singer-songwriters Guy Clark and Darrel Sc… |
| 2010 | Nashville Ballet | Nashville, TN | $60,000 | To support the reconstruction of Twyla Tharp's "The Story Teller" and Eugene Loring's "Billy the Kid." The works will be presented as part of Nashville Ballet's "American Originals… |
| 2010 | Ballet Memphis Corporation | Memphis, TN | $15,000 | To support the creation and presentation of AbunDance: Make a Joyful Noise, a series of dances based on vocal sounds. The works will be choreographed by Trey McIntyre, Jane Comfort… |
| 2010 | Nashville Ballet | Nashville, TN | $10,000 | To support the new choreographic adaption of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by Artistic Director Paul Vasterling. The work will premiere at the Polk Theater of N… |
| 2009 | Nashville Ballet | Nashville, TN | $50,000 | To support the reconstruction and presentation of Lew Christensen's ballet, Filling Station (1938). Nashville Ballet will premiere the work during its Winter Series at the Tennesse… |
| 2009 | Ballet Memphis Corporation | Memphis, TN | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of AbunDance:Visual Riches, a series of dances based on a work of art seen at a local museum or gallery. The works will be choreographed by… |
| 2009 | Nashville Ballet | Nashville, TN | $10,000 | To support the presentation and company premieres of Twyla Tharp's "Sinatra Suite" and James Canfield's "Jungle." The works will be presented during Nashville Ballet's winter serie… |
| 2008 | Ballet Memphis Corporation | Memphis, TN | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of dances based on religious music. The works will be choreographed by Julia Adam, Trey McIntyre, Dana Tai Soon Burgess, and Abou Lagraa, a… |
| 2008 | Nashville Ballet | Nashville, TN | $10,000 | To support the presentation and regional premiere of "Octet," by choreographer Twyla Tharp. The work is composed to music by bassist Edgar Meyer, a native of Nashville. |
| 2007 | Nashville Ballet | Nashville, TN | $10,000 | To support the presentation of ballets by choreographers Gina Patterson and Robert Philander-Valentine. The choreographers will collaborate with local musicians in a program titled… |
| 2007 | Nashville Ballet | Nashville, TN | $10,000 | To support Emergence 3, in consortium with Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music. Choreographers will be paired with music faculty to collaborate and create new dance works… |
| 2005 | Ballet Memphis Corporation | Memphis, TN | $10,000 | To support the New Works+New Artists series. The project enables aspiring choreographers from the company to choreograph on professional dancers. |
| 2004 | Nashville Ballet | Nashville, TN | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work. The work will be choreographed by Julia Adam in collaboration with singer/songwriters Tricia Walker, Ashley Cleveland, and K… |
| 2004 | Ballet Memphis Corporation | Memphis, TN | $9,478 | To support choral artists' fees for restaging the program, "As the Spirit Moves You," in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday in 2005. Ballet Memphis will collaborate with t… |
| 2003 | Ballet Memphis Corporation | Memphis, TN | $10,000 | To support two world premieres during the Dancing Together III repertory show. The premieres will be created by choreographer Trey McIntyre and Associate Artistic Director Karl Con… |
| 2003 | Nashville Ballet | Nashville, TN | $10,000 | To support the creation of new works through the "Emergence" choreographic initiative. Choreographers Heather Maloy and James Buckley, as well as Artist Director Paul Vasterling, w… |
| 2001 | Ballet Memphis Corporation | Memphis, TN | $10,000 | To support a repertory show entitled "Dancing Together II." The company will perform an encore of Trey McIntyre's Second Before the Ground, and Rennie Harris Puremovement, a Philad… |
| 2001 | Nashville Ballet | Nashville, TN | $5,000 | To support the creation of a ballet in collaboration with a country music artist. Artistic Director Paul Vasterling will collaborate with country music artist Hal Ketchum to create… |
| 1999 | Memphis Concert Ballet Corporation | Cordova, TN | $5,000 | To support the creation of a signature piece for Ballet Memphis by choreographer Trey McIntyre. The piece will celebrate the rich musical heritage of Memphis and its impact around … |
| 1999 | Tennessee Dance Theatre | Nashville, TN | $5,000 | To support a tour for dance workshops and a performance of "Cissy Welcome's Shimmy- She-Wobble." The workshops and performance will take place in Senatobia, MS. |
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