NEA Dance Grants 2000: All 176 Awards
176 NEA dance grants for fiscal year 2000, totaling $4.1M.
| Year | Recipient | City | Amount | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | New England Foundation for the Arts | Boston, MA | $500,000 | To support the fifth year of the National Dance Project, which supports the creation and touring of dance. The program provides presenters, dance companies, and audiences across th… |
| 2000 | National Performance Network, Inc. | New Orleans, LA | $125,000 | To support the National Arts Administration Mentorship Program, a learning structure to provide leadership development opportunities to emerging arts professionals by pairing them … |
| 2000 | Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $100,000 | To support the Repertory Works Expansion Project. American Ballet Theatre will premiere one-act repertory ballets from choreographers Mark Morris and Paul Taylor. |
| 2000 | Cunningham Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $100,000 | To support the creation and presentation of new works. Merce Cunningham will choreograph the two works that will be presented on a national tour. |
| 2000 | Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $80,000 | To support the creation and presentation of new dances. Artistic Director Paul Taylor will choreograph the works, and the premieres will coincide with major company engagements at … |
| 2000 | New York City Ballet, Inc. | New York, NY | $80,000 | To support the Diamond Project, an initiative to encourage both established and promising choreographers to work in the classical mode. The company will invite eight choreographers… |
| 2000 | Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $80,000 | To support a United States tour. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will perform approximately 96 shows in 20 states across the nation. |
| 2000 | George Balanchine Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $80,000 | To support a consortium project for the compilation of complete dossiers of Balanchine's popular work. Balanchine's work for Broadway, operetta, and films will be recreated and pre… |
| 2000 | American Dance Festival, Inc. | Durham, NC | $70,000 | To support the commission and presentation of a range of companies that showcase American modern dance. Landmarks and Landscapers in American Modern Dance-A Millennial Retrospectiv… |
| 2000 | Trisha Brown Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $70,000 | To support the creation of new works and the revival of a repertory classic. Choreographer Trisha Brown will collaborate with a composer on her second piece using jazz music to cre… |
| 2000 | Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc. | Becket, MA | $70,000 | To support the premiere of new works by up to six choreographers. Each engagement will offer an adult education curriculum of performances, participatory events, and public program… |
| 2000 | Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $70,000 | To support up to nine dance presentation projects. These projects include: Ronald K. Brown/evidence; Susan Marshall & Co.; the Altogether Different Series; H*Art*Chaos; Margie Gill… |
| 2000 | Discalced, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $70,000 | To support a retrospective performance series. The retrospective will cover the 20-year life of the Mark Morris Dance Group and will include up to 14 performances over three weeks … |
| 2000 | New York Live Arts Inc. | New York, NY | $70,000 | To support commissions and pre-production expenses associated with the future presentation of MainEvent and Carnival extended-run production series. The Carnival program features t… |
| 2000 | National Performance Network, Inc. | New Orleans, LA | $70,000 | To support up to 30 dance residencies and related educational and outreach activities in up to 25 states. The National Performance Network offers artists a defined system of fee su… |
| 2000 | San Francisco Ballet Association | San Francisco, CA | $70,000 | To support the acquisition, commission, and presentation of classical and contemporary ballets; and associated educational outreach programs. New choreography by Mark Morris, Lar L… |
| 2000 | Pacific Northwest Ballet Association | Seattle, WA | $50,000 | To support educational activities at Pacific Northwest Ballet School. Located in Seattle and Bellevue, the school will provide ballet and dance training to approximately 1,600 chil… |
| 2000 | Dance/USA | Minneapolis, MN | $50,000 | To support two meetings - the Ninth Biennial National Roundtable and the Winter Council. These two conferences are to provide professional development sessions, networking, problem… |
| 2000 | Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc. | New York, NY | $50,000 | To support a comprehensive educational outreach program that introduces children and adults to dance. The program, titled Dancing Through Barriers, will include a presentation of m… |
| 2000 | Anchorage Concert Association, Inc. | Anchorage, AK | $40,000 | To support a residency of the Hawaiian Dance Company Halau o Kekuhi. The residency will include 15-20 education/outreach activities and two public performances. |
| 2000 | University Musical Society | Ann Arbor, MI | $40,000 | To support performances and residencies of women dance artists and their companies. The project, titled Today's Women of Dance, Dance Theater, and Music Theater, will involve Bebe … |
| 2000 | Miami City Ballet, Inc. | Miami Beach, FL | $40,000 | To support a comprehensive dance education program for at-risk students. The project will provide a variety of activities such as lecture-demonstrations, teacher workshops/performa… |
| 2000 | George Balanchine Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $40,000 | To support Phase I development of new Internet-accessible, multimedia technologies to enhance the teaching of dance history. The Foundation will work with dance scholars and techni… |
| 2000 | Alliance for the Arts | Thousand Oaks, CA | $35,000 | To support the Dance Initiative of the Estate Project and costs for the production of a plan for Phase II. The initiative includes a program of publications, research on the impact… |
| 2000 | International House of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA | $30,000 | To support a consortium project with Philadelphia organizations to work with choreographer/dancer Rennie Harris. The consortium of Point Breeze Performing Arts Center, Art Sanctuar… |
| 2000 | Boston Ballet, Inc. | Boston, MA | $30,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Daniel Pelzig. The piece will be created to Samuel Barber's Concerto for Violincello and Orchestra. |
| 2000 | Houston Ballet Foundation | Houston, TX | $30,000 | To support the creation of new works. Trey McIntyre and Stanton Welch will create new dance works for the subscription season, while premieres for the Cullen Contemporary Series wi… |
| 2000 | Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Inc. | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | To support dances by leading and emerging choreographers through the New Works and Residency Program. The program will enable the choreographers to conduct week-long workshops for … |
| 2000 | House Foundation for the Arts, Inc. | New York, NY | $30,000 | To support the presentation of programs celebrating past work by Meredith Monk at the Lincoln Center's Festival 2000 in New York City. Titled "Meredith Monk: Voice Travel," the pro… |
| 2000 | Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Inc. | Pittsburgh, PA | $30,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a program of ballets inspired by uniquely American genres and themes that are important to Pittsburgh's heritage. Pittsburgh Ballet Thea… |
| 2000 | Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $30,000 | To support Martha Graham Dance Company's American Graham tour. The tour will travel to several states in the United States. |
| 2000 | Jose Limon Dance Foundation | New York, NY | $30,000 | To support the preservation of Jose Limon's work: THERE IS A TIME and Doris Humphrey's work INVENTION. |
| 2000 | Ballet Tech Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $30,000 | To support tuition-free professional ballet training and performance programs for New York City public school children, ages 8-18. The purpose of the school is to identify and supp… |
| 2000 | Washington Performing Arts Society | Washington, DC | $30,000 | To support dance presentations and residency activities. Artists involved in the project include Bebe Miller Company, LaLaLa Human Steps, Pat Graney Company, Companhia Paulo Ribero… |
| 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 | Philadelphia Dance Company | Philadelphia, PA | $30,000 | To support the presentation of new and revised works during the 30th-Anniversary home series. Works by choreographers Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Eva M. Gholson, Bebe Miller, and Elisa… |
| 2000 | Dance Works, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $30,000 | To support cycle two of the Help Desk project. This project provides technical assistance to choreographers and small dance companies. |
| 2000 | Ballet West | Salt Lake City, UT | $30,000 | To support the revival of a 1950 Willam Christensen ballet, "Nothing Doing Bar." The work will be recreated with costumes and sets in the same style as the original. |
| 2000 | National Dance Institute, Inc. | New York, NY | $30,000 | To support a program for training professional dancers in process pedagogy, a methodology of teaching developed by Artistic Director Jacques d'Amboise. The project will benefit dan… |
| 2000 | Foundation for Dance Promotion, Inc. | New York, NY | $25,000 | To support the creation of an evening-length work choreographed by Bill T. Jones. Oh? You Walk? has evolved out of Jones' desire to explore the themes of migration and longing for … |
| 2000 | Institute for Spanish Arts | Santa Fe, NM | $25,000 | To support a spring tour of Maria Benitez Teatro Flamenco to destinations in the South and Southwestern United States. The tour will include two weeks of rehearsals and a five-week… |
| 2000 | Dance Umbrella Boston, Inc. | Boston, MA | $25,000 | To support the creation and presentation of contemporary dance works. Companies in the series include Pilobolus Dance Theatre, Bill T. Jones, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and Urba… |
| 2000 | Danspace Project, Inc. | New York, NY | $25,000 | To support the third year of a program for New York choreographers. The goals of City/Dans are to nurture these artists throughout various stages of their development and to provid… |
| 2000 | Colorado Dance Festival, Inc. | Boulder, CO | $25,000 | To support the presentation of Let's Dance Together! the Americas. This is the final year of a four-year project that celebrates the dances of North/South/Central America and the C… |
| 2000 | Eugene Ballet | Eugene, OR | $20,000 | To support rural touring in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana. The tour will consist of performances and outreach programs. |
| 2000 | Atlanta Ballet, Inc. | Atlanta, GA | $20,000 | To support the expansion of Centre Dance, a residency program that reaches underserved communities. The program will be expanded to encompass community centers, in-school programs,… |
| 2000 | Dancing in the Streets, Inc. | Bronx, NY | $20,000 | To support Picture Red Hook, a site-specific production designed for an abandoned grain silo in Brooklyn. The production will feature performers from Zaccho Dance Theatre, large-sc… |
| 2000 | Pilobolus, Inc. | Washington, CT | $20,000 | To support the creation of an evening-length work comprised of up to four distinct sections for the full company of dancers. Artistic Directors Robby Barnett, Alison Chase, Michael… |
| 2000 | UBW, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $20,000 | To support the creation and premiere of a new work by choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. "Hair Stories" will combine dance, text, and vocal music, and will be created in collabo… |
| 2000 | Inta, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support creation and touring of a new work. When Nights Were Dark, a collaboration of dancer-choreographers Eiko & Koma and the composer-musical director Joseph Jennings, will t… |
| 2000 | Gotham Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support creation, work-in-progress performances, and pre-production costs of a dance/theater piece choreographed by Bebe Miller. Map of the Body will involve collaborators playw… |
| 2000 | Richmond Ballet, Inc. | Richmond, VA | $20,000 | To support the creation of several new works. Choreographers Val Caniparoli, Colin Connor, and Artistic Director Stoner Winslett will each create a ballet for the 1999-2000 season. |
| 2000 | Dayton Contemporary Dance Company | Dayton, OH | $20,000 | To support the commissioning of a new work. Artistic Directors Danial Shapiro and Joanie Smith of Shapiro & Smith Dance (Minneapolis, MN) will create the piece. |
| 2000 | Nikolais/Louis Foundation for Dance | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support preparation of materials that document the work and theater of Alwin Nikolais. The new works, created by Murray Louis, and the revival of an earlier work by Alwin Nikola… |
| 2000 | Garth Fagan Dance, Inc. | Rochester, NY | $20,000 | To support creation of a new work by artistic director Garth Fagan. Collaborators will include Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, and Wynton Marsalis, its a… |
| 2000 | Dance Place | Washington, DC | $20,000 | To support a series of professional performances and residencies by dance artists as part of the 20th anniversary programming. The series will feature a roster of culturally and ae… |
| 2000 | Kings Majestic Corporation | Brooklyn, NY | $20,000 | To support a new dance series. Companies to be presented in Black Dance: Tradition and Transformation 2000 include: Philadanco, Bre Dance Ensemble, M'Zawa Danz, and one internation… |
| 2000 | Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support a nationwide tour to launch the 30th Anniversary season. The project will include touring engagements in Los Angeles, Seattle, Houston, Tucson, and Fort Lauderdale, and … |
| 2000 | New Orleans Ballet Association | New Orleans, LA | $20,000 | To support the Celebration of Black Dance. The celebration will include presentation of the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company. |
| 2000 | Lula Washington Contemporary Dance Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | To support the 20th Anniversary performances. The performances will include world premieres by Lula Washington (Rites of Spring - 2000) and Donald McKayle (Story Dance Theatre), an… |
| 2000 | New York City Ballet, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support phase one of a consortium project with Ballet Society to preserve New York City Ballet documents, film, and videotapes. A comprehensive plan for an archive will help dan… |
| 2000 | New Dance Theatre, Inc. | Denver, CO | $20,000 | To support Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble's educational programs. Season of Schools, TraininGroup, and the International Summer Dance Institute are designed to use dance as a … |
| 2000 | Pittsburgh Dance Council, Inc. | Pittsburgh, PA | $20,000 | To support presentation of dance companies in celebration of Pittsburgh Dance Council's 30th anniversary. The roots of modern dance will be explored with a presentation of the Mart… |
| 2000 | Dance Exchange, Inc. | Takoma Park, MD | $20,000 | To support the Tool Box, a project to document, publish, and disseminate Dance Exchange methodologies. The Tool Box will be a central means by which the Dance Exchange documents an… |
| 2000 | Caribbean Dance Company | Christiansted, VI | $20,000 | To support the second year of Caribbean Dance Experience. The program will provide students between the ages of 5 and 11 an in-depth experience in their own dance traditions. |
| 2000 | Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | To support up to four components of the Dance Center's public programming. The components include the 10th Anniversary of DanceAfrica Chicago; presentation of David Dorfman Dance; … |
| 2000 | Ririe-Woodbury Dance Foundation | Salt Lake City, UT | $20,000 | To support a teacher education project in dance titled Curriculum Based Partnership. The company will conduct workshops in Idaho and Ohio in an effort to give teachers and students… |
| 2000 | Dance Heritage Coalition, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support America's Irreplaceable Dance Treasures: The First 100, as part of an American dance heritage preservation intiative. The list of endangered selections will be published… |
| 2000 | Repertory Dance Theatre | Salt Lake City, UT | $20,000 | To support the acquisition and performance of a work by Martha Graham. Former Graham dancer Kaye Richards will set the piece (Diversion of Angels) on the company. |
| 2000 | Kansas City Ballet Association | Kansas City, MO | $20,000 | To support the re-creation of the lost George Balanchine ballet RENARD. Created in 1947 to the Igor Stravinsky composition of the same name, Renard will be reconstructed by origina… |
| 2000 | Florida Dance Association, Inc. | Miami, FL | $20,000 | To support the 22nd Florida Dance Festival, including hundreds of master classes, workshops, and intensive study courses. The Festival includes students, dancers, teachers, choreog… |
| 2000 | Ko-Thi, Inc. | Milwaukee, WI | $20,000 | To support education outreach programs. These programs include free Get-to- Know-Ko-Thi community concerts, master classes, studio dance and drumming instruction, Drumtalk school r… |
| 2000 | Philadelphia Dance Company | Philadelphia, PA | $20,000 | To support the development of new ways for the International Association of Blacks in Dance to secure revenue and expand services to its members. The process includes funding the e… |
| 2000 | Oakland Ballet Association, Inc. | Oakland, CA | $15,000 | To support a 45 minute lecture/demonstration assembly program entitled "Steppin' Classic," offering a rudimentary overview of ballet. |
| 2000 | STREB Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $15,000 | To support development of a series of extreme action works. Titled Outrageous Acts: Exploring Outlawed and Untidy Action in America, these works will relate to the physical history… |
| 2000 | East Bay Center for the Performing Arts | Richmond, CA | $15,000 | To support a consortium project for an African Choreographers' Forum. The consortium of East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, Cal Performances in Berkeley, CA, and Kings Majesti… |
| 2000 | Dance Notation Bureau, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | To support the development of a multimedia database template for the dance community. The database will contain videotapes of performances and rehearsals of work, Labanotated score… |
| 2000 | Andrew Cacho African Drummers & Dancers Economic Development, Inc. | Washington, DC | $10,000 | To support workshops and performances as part of the Youthworks 2000 project. Children, teens, and young adults will be trained in African/Caribbean drumming, dancing, stiltwalking… |
| 2000 | Celebrity Series of Boston | Boston, MA | $10,000 | To support AileyCamp, a six-week, full scholarship summer program for at-risk middle school students. Dance will be used as a vehicle for developing self-esteem, creative expressio… |
| 2000 | Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey, Inc. | Kansas City, MO | $10,000 | To support the 2000 AileyCamp and outreach activities in conjunction with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater residency. The project reaches 50 students during AileyCampand over… |
| 2000 | Batoto Yetu, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | To support the production of "The Mukishi--One Day You Will Understand" Approximately 40 children between the ages of 4 and 17 will perform in this full-length African drama. |
| 2000 | San Diego Area Dance Alliance | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | To support the 14th annual International Association of Blacks in Dance conference. The purpose of the conference is to preserve and promote dance by people of African ancestry or … |
| 2000 | Sharir - Bustamante Danceworks | Austin, TX | $10,000 | To support outreach programming for a new dance theatre work. The Leaf Storm will incorporate music, poetry, and movement by choreographer Jose Luis Bustamante and singer/songwrite… |
| 2000 | Parsons Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support outreach programs for underserved communities under the direction of dancer/choreographer David Parsons. The company will provide a Community Outreach Program in nearly … |
| 2000 | New Life Dance Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support extended residencies and performances of a community-based multidisciplinary project. The company will have residencies in Lewiston, ME; Portland, ME; and Keene, NH. |
| 2000 | Zivili Kolo Ensemble, Inc. | Granville, OH | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of new works. The works will deal with the dance, music, and experiences of immigrant populations from the former Yugoslavia. |
| 2000 | Oregon Ballet Theatre | Portland, OR | $10,000 | To support the creation of a new dance work. Resident choreographer Trey McIntyre will create a ballet titled Aliss in Wonderland. |
| 2000 | Natya Dance Theatre | Oak Brook, IL | $10,000 | To support continuation of outreach programs in cities throughout the United States. Programs include performances to heighten awareness about Bharatanatyam, the classical dance st… |
| 2000 | Flying Foot Forum | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | To support the continued development of a percussive dance/theater piece and a work-in-progress performance. 1001 NAUGHAHYDE NIGHTS, choreographed by Joe Chvala, will incorporate p… |
| 2000 | Plam Dancers, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support creation of a new work and maintain other repertory for presentation in concerts. Choreographed by Doug Elkins, Wholly Matrimony will be a deconstruction of wedding danc… |
| 2000 | Kentucky Dance Council, Inc. | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | To support a Choreographer's Showcase. The Showcase will exhibit works by emerging choreographers from across the nation. |
| 2000 | Ballet Metropolitan, Inc. | Columbus, OH | $10,000 | To support the commissioning of a new work. Birgit Scherzer will premiere the work during one of the company's seasons. |
| 2000 | Pick Up Performance Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work. Wind in the Willows War Dance will be choreographed by David Gordon and performed at Danspace at St. Mark's Church in New Yo… |
| 2000 | Alonzo King LINES Ballet | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support creation and presentation of a new ballet by choreographer Alonzo King. The ballet will have stage effects designed and created by interdisciplinary artist Ed Tannenbaum… |
| 2000 | President and Trustees of Bates College | Lewiston, ME | $10,000 | To support extended creative residencies and commissioning, presentation, outreach, and educational activities in Portland and Lewiston, ME. Dance artists participating in the Bate… |
| 2000 | JAZZDANCE by Danny Buraczeski | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | To support creation of a new dance work by Danny Buraczeski. The work, titled Silence, will be set on the full company of eight dancers to the music of jazz pianist Bill Evans, usi… |
| 2000 | Milwaukee Ballet Company, Inc. | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of up to two ballets. Choreographer Kathryn Posin will create the works based on the music, culture, and ideas of Judaism, Christianity, an… |
| 2000 | Southeastern Development Foundation | Hammond, LA | $10,000 | To support artistic fees for the pilot project of the new "Louisiana Presenters Network Tandem Partners Program." The project will involve two phases of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange's… |
| 2000 | Foundation for Independent Artists, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support development and initial touring of new and expanded works. Mark Dendy will develop "Jam," commissioned by Symphony Space and set to a commissioned jazz score by Don Byro… |
| 2000 | Philadelphia Dance Alliance | Philadelphia, PA | $10,000 | To support the continued development and premiere of a new work by Rennie Harris. Rome & Jewels will be based on West Side Story and Romeo and Juliet, retold through the eyes of a … |
| 2000 | DOVA, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of an evening-length work. Doug Varone will choreograph the piece, and it will be presented in lower Manhattan during a one-week engagement… |
| 2000 | Racing Thoughts, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | To support creation and presentation of an evening length dance/theater work. Jane Comfort will collaborate with composer Toshi Reagon and poet/performer Carl Hancock Rux to create… |
| 2000 | Rhythm In Shoes, Inc. | Dayton, OH | $10,000 | To support the creation of a new work. Artistic Directors Sharon Leahy and Rick Good will collaborate with local performing artists, company members, and senior adults from southwe… |
| 2000 | Aman Folk Ensemble | Pasadena, CA | $10,000 | To support planning and rehearsal time for an evening-length work. The work will explore the music and dance of populations known for their nomadic lifestyles. |
| 2000 | Wagon Train Project Inc. | Lincoln, NE | $10,000 | To support the creation of a site-specific performance. HOME/Land will be created by choreographer Celeste Miller, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange company, producer Amy Lamphere, and a c… |
| 2000 | Cincinnati Ballet Company, Inc. | Cincinnati, OH | $10,000 | To support the creation of a new work by Australian choreographer Stanton Welch. Welch will create FINGERPRINTS to usher in the millennium. |
| 2000 | Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico | San Juan, PR | $10,000 | To support the creation of a ballet by choreographer Jimmy Gamonet de los Heros. The ballet will be based on a story by Puerto Rican author Rosario Ferre. |
| 2000 | Ohio Chamber Ballet | Akron, OH | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a ballet by Artistic Director Jeffrey Graham Hughes. The work will be set to Gustav Holst's The Planets. |
| 2000 | Field Papers, Inc. | Cambridge, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation of a new work. Choreographer Dana Reitz will investigate the interrelationship of movement, material environment, and light. |
| 2000 | Thin Man Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation of a group dance/performance work choreographed by John Jasperse. Choreographer John Jasperse will collaborate with set designer Matthias Bringmann and soun… |
| 2000 | Stephen Petronio Dance Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation of a new dance. Strange Attractors, choreographed by Stephen Petronio, will be a collaboration with a composer-singer and a sculptor-scenic designer. |
| 2000 | Zaccho SF | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support creation and presentation of a site-specific dance piece. Designed for a silo at an abandoned grain terminal in San Francisco, the work will involve large-scale projecti… |
| 2000 | Art Sweats, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of an evening-length work by choreographer David Dorfman and composer Amy Denio. The new work will premiere in the fall of 2000. |
| 2000 | Donald Byrd Dance Foundation, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation of a new work. Choreographer Donald Byrd will create a reinterpretation of the ballet Sleeping Beauty. |
| 2000 | College Community Services, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | To support the presentation of the World of Dance series program. The series premieres new and emerging artists in dance as well as folkloric dance companies from around the world. |
| 2000 | Glendale Arts | Glendale, CA | $10,000 | To support the presentation of contemporary dance companies and related residency activities for local schools and communities. Companies presented during Dance at the Alex include… |
| 2000 | Cross Performance, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | To support development and touring of a new work by choreographer Ralph Lemon. Geography Part 2: Asia/Belief will tour to California, Texas, and Illinois. |
| 2000 | University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | $10,000 | To support a series of public dance performances, residency activities, and community outreach. Legacies, Love Songs, & Ritual: Perspectives in Black Choreography will include Alvi… |
| 2000 | H.T. Dance Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation of a new work that will be a sequel to two previous works. Choreographed by H. T. Chen, the work will focus on today's immigrant youth and will tour to Ariz… |
| 2000 | Charlotte Ballet | Charlotte, NC | $10,000 | To support the acquisition and presentation of a contemporary work. William Forsythe's In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated will be presented during North Carolina Dance Theatre's 30th… |
| 2000 | Cuyahoga Community College Foundation | Cleveland, OH | $10,000 | To support a consortium project to present a dance series. Cuyahoga Community College's Office of Cultural Arts and DanceCleveland, America's oldest association of modern dance and… |
| 2000 | Dance Continuum, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support creation of a new dance/theater work choreographed by Susan Marshall. The piece will combine dance, music, and text. |
| 2000 | Dagmar Collective, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support a run of a dance/theater piece. Find My Way Home, created by John Kelly, will be presented in New York City. |
| 2000 | Jazz Tap Ensemble Inc. | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support the commission and tour of a new work by Bill Irwin. The work will explore transformations in the evolution of tap. |
| 2000 | Pat Graney Performance, Inc. | Seattle, WA | $10,000 | To support a northwest tour of the new work Tattoo. The company will present this work in Yakima and Olympia, WA; and Eugene, OR. |
| 2000 | Dance Umbrella | Austin, TX | $10,000 | To support a dance series. Transformation of Spirit will include performances by Jane Comfort and Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group. |
| 2000 | Pennsylvania Ballet Association | Philadelphia, PA | $10,000 | To support the presentation of two premieres. The company premiere of Daniel Pelzig's Nine Lives: Songs of Lyle Lovett, and a world premiere by Pennsylvania Ballet dancer Matthew N… |
| 2000 | Joffrey Ballet | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support the acquisition and presentation for an all-Copland evening, celebrating the 100-year anniversary of the composer's birth. Using the choreography of Martha Graham, Eugen… |
| 2000 | Alonzo King LINES Ballet | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the presentation of a national tour. |
| 2000 | New York Baroque Dance Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the Baroque Ballet Workshop, a residency program to be held in Delaware County, New York and Marin County, California. The focus of the project is to strengthen the prof… |
| 2000 | International Tap Association | Austin, TX | $10,000 | To support Tap 2001, a project examining the legacy and future of the art of tap. This project will bring together several generations of leading tap artists to examine essential a… |
| 2000 | Cortez & Co. Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation and touring of the Planet Soup Project. The project is a lecture- demonstration of authentic folk dances incorporated in Cortez's 1999 dance work Planet Sou… |
| 2000 | Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community, Inc. | Eatonville, FL | $10,000 | To support a residency and up to three dance performances of the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company. The company will be presented as part of the Annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival … |
| 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. |
| 2000 | Contemporary Dance Theater, Inc. | Cincinnati, OH | $10,000 | To support the continuation of the Guest Artist Series. Contemporary Dance Theater will present local and national artists in eight to ten performances. |
| 2000 | Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | To support a partnership between the Ifetayo Youth Ensemble and the Bebe Miller Company. Bebe Miller Company will act as the Youth Ensemble's company-in-residence, offering a serie… |
| 2000 | University of Southern Mississippi | Hattiesburg, MS | $10,000 | To support a collaboration of two campuses of the University of Southern Mississippi, local school districts, and the National Dance Institute for a residency program. The project … |
| 2000 | Andrew Cacho African Drummers & Dancers Economic Development, Inc. | Washington, DC | $10,000 | To support preservation of specific traditional African dances. The dances will be taught as part of the curriculum in school performances, institute workshops, and concerts, and w… |
| 2000 | Floricanto Dance Theatre | Pasadena, CA | $10,000 | To support the company's 25th anniversary celebration. The project will encompass the creation of a new full-evening work and the reprisal of some of the company's traditional piec… |
| 2000 | Washington Ballet | Washington, DC | $10,000 | To support DanceDC, an introduction of ballet to District of Columbia public school elementary students. The students will be exposed to ballet lessons, performances, and other edu… |
| 2000 | National Dance Institute New Mexico | Santa Fe, NM | $10,000 | To support a residency program of class instruction and performances. The project will serve fourth, fifth, and sixth grade children in Silver City, Magdalena, and Alamo, NM. |
| 2000 | Granite School District | Salt Lake City, UT | $10,000 | To support the extension of arts in education activities by Repertory Dance Theatre. The company will target six elementary schools over a 36-week period. |
| 2000 | Performance Zone, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the Fieldwork workshops. Fieldwork takes place in New York City as well as nine cities across the United States, and is an opportunity for up to 600 independent artists … |
| 2000 | Trinity Irish Dance Company | Chicago, IL | $9,000 | To support presentation of progressive Irish dance through a United States Millennium tour. The company will hold lecture-demonstrations for audiences in the communities it visits. |
| 2000 | MoveSpeakSpin | Ogden, UT | $8,000 | To support dance education activities that promote cross-curricular methods of teaching. The project will involve performances, demonstrations, teacher workshops, and development o… |
| 2000 | Yard, Inc. | Chilmark, MA | $7,000 | To support two annual residency programs. The Bessie Schnberg Choreographer & Dancer's Residency and The Company Residency are designed to allow choreographers and dancers the opp… |
| 2000 | Center for Cultural Exchange | Portland, ME | $5,000 | To support a series of ethnic dance events. |
| 2000 | Ballet East Dance Company | Austin, TX | $5,000 | To support the expansion and enhancement of Dare to Dance, a children's dance/theater program. The major components of this project are the additions of two instructors/choreograph… |
| 2000 | Friends of NORD, Inc. | New Orleans, LA | $5,000 | To support the 2000 Step Up Artist in Residence Program. Artists participating in the residencies include the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, the Watts Prophets, and Perks Dance Music T… |
| 2000 | Festival Dance & Performing Arts Association, Inc. | Moscow, ID | $5,000 | To support expansion of the Festival Dance Youthreach program. Four touring professional dance companies will present free performances for students of 17 elementary schools. |
| 2000 | Professional Flair, Inc. | Cleveland, OH | $5,000 | To support the development of a model school for the performing arts and continuation of lecture-demonstrations. Classes at the school will introduce dance technique and advanced t… |
| 2000 | Minot Area Council of the Arts Inc. | Minot, ND | $5,000 | To support a week-long residency for Wonder Wheels, a mixed-ability dance company based in Omaha, Nebraska. The project will include a mainstage performance, three |
| 2000 | Rhapsody In Taps, Incorporated | Long Beach, CA | $5,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a collaborative work. Linda Sohl-Donnell and Balinese composer/musician/dancer I Nyoman Wenten will create a work for Rhapsody in Taps' … |
| 2000 | Academy of Indian Performing Arts, Inc. | Gaithersburg, MD | $5,000 | To support the development and touring of a multimedia work exploring the creation of the universe. The production will tour to Texas, Massachusetts, Maryland, Vermont, Maine, Penn… |
| 2000 | Pearl Ubungen Dancers & Musicians | San Francisco, CA | $5,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work. The project will consist of a collaboration between Filipino American choreographer Pearl Ubungen and Filipino composer Joey… |
| 2000 | Evidence, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $5,000 | To support the creation of a new dance work by Ronald K. Brown. High Life will reflect the dynamics and acculturation process that is initiated by migration and immigration. |
| 2000 | Tigertail Productions, Inc. | Miami, FL | $5,000 | To support dancer/choreographer Demetrius Klein to create a new work. The dance/theater piece will be created for six dancers - three from South Florida and three from Brazil. |
| 2000 | National Institute of Flamenco | Albuquerque, NM | $5,000 | To support creation of a flamenco ballet. |
| 2000 | School of Hard Knocks, Inc. | New York, NY | $5,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work. Choreographer and Artistic Director Yoshiko Chuma and composer Marc Ribot will collaborate to create Reverse Psychology - Ag… |
| 2000 | State of Alabama Ballet, Inc. | Birmingham, AL | $5,000 | To support restaging and presentation of a classic ballet. Don Quixote will be restaged by Artistic Director Wes Chapman, Ballet Master Roger Van Fleteren, and guest artist Cynthia… |
| 2000 | Bre Dance Theatre | Riverside, CA | $5,000 | To support artists' fees and other costs for a tour to New York. The company will tour to 651, An Arts Center at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Majestic Theatre. |
| 2000 | Manhattan Tap, Inc. | New York, NY | $5,000 | To support creation of a tap dance work which blends tap dance with Brazilian-jazz. The new work will be choreographed by Heather Cornell, with music by Bob Telson. |
| 2000 | Tulsa Ballet Theatre, Inc. | Tulsa, OK | $5,000 | To support the presentation of a contemporary ballet set in the classical style. Val Caniparoli's full-length Lady of the Camellias will take place in February 2000. |
| 2000 | 171 Cedar, Inc. | Corning, NY | $5,000 | To support a consortium project for the fourth annual Dance Series. 171 Cedar Arts Center and the Clemens Center will present Moscow Festival Ballet, Irene Hultman Dance, Rennie Ha… |
| 2000 | Montana Ballet Company | Bozeman, MT | $5,000 | To support the presentation of an opera/ballet with live orchestra. A Tale of Two Russias, a ballet in two acts, will be accompanied by the Helena Symphony. |
| 2000 | Dance Films Association, Inc. | New York, NY | $5,000 | To support the 28th international dance film festival. Dance On Camera Festival 2000 will take place in New York, California, Wisconsin, and Ohio. |
| 2000 | Florene Litthcut's Inner City Children's Touring Dance Company, Inc. | Miami, FL | $5,000 | To support a 3-day rhythm tap workshop for underserved students. Classes will be taught by Laurie Johnson, Marshall Davis Jr., and Edwin Holland. |
| 2000 | June Watanabe in Company | San Rafael, CA | $5,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work. 5/15/45 - the last dance, will be a performance/installation/community dance for non-proscenium sites that will explore the … |
| 2000 | Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose, Inc. | San Jose, CA | $5,000 | To support the expansion of the Bharatanatyam Training Project. This community-based arts education program will provide approximately 100 youths, ages 6 to 19, instruction in clas… |
| 2000 | Thalia Mara Arts International Foundation | Jackson, MS | $5,000 | To support the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre residency. The residency will include two public performances, master classes for dance teachers and students, and related educati… |
| 2000 | Pittsburgh Dance Alloy | Pittsburgh, PA | $5,000 | To support educational programming and residencies. Activities include residencies in the Pittsburgh High School and Junior High School for the Performing Arts, movement classes fo… |
| 2000 | Movement Research, Inc. | New York, NY | $5,000 | To support the 8th annual Improvisation Festival/NY. The festival is a celebration of dance improvisation and will offer classes, workshops, performances, educational outreach acti… |
| 2000 | Tahoe Arts Project | South Lake Tahoe, CA | $5,000 | To support the presentation of Ballet Folclorico do Brasil. The project will include school lecture-demonstrations and a public performance. |
| 2000 | Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | New Orleans, LA | $5,000 | To support the fourth annual New Orleans Jazz Dance Project. The project will include classes, lectures, demonstrations, panel discussions, and performances by legendary dancers of… |
| 2000 | Los Lupenos De San Jose, Inc. | San Jose, CA | $5,000 | To support performances of Early California Suite for K-12 public school students. The performances will be offered free to 2,000 students from schools in the greater San Jose area… |
| 2000 | Ballet Florida, Inc. | West Palm Beach, FL | $5,000 | To support the continuation and expansion of City Dance Outreach. This dance/educational outreach program serves at-risk, underserved, and minority children from five inner-city el… |
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