NEA Dance Grants 2011: All 199 Awards
199 NEA dance grants for fiscal year 2011, totaling $5M.
| Year | Recipient | City | Amount | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $100,000 | To support the United States tour. The company will offer performances and a wide variety of outreach activities in more than 25 American cities. |
| 2011 | Cunningham Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $100,000 | To support the final Legacy Tour of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Before its closure, the company will tour 15 states and abroad, incorporating performances of current repert… |
| 2011 | Dance/USA | Minneapolis, MN | $100,000 | To support professional development services for the professional nonprofit dance field. The activities will include an annual Roundtable (in Chicago), a mentoring program for emer… |
| 2011 | Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $100,000 | To support the creation and presentation of works by artistic director and choreographer Paul Taylor. The works will be performed during the company's home season at New York's Cit… |
| 2011 | New York City Ballet, Inc. | New York, NY | $100,000 | To support the commissioned works by choreographers Susan Stroman and Lynne Taylor-Corbett. As part of the company's annual New Combinations evening, the new works will celebrate t… |
| 2011 | Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $100,000 | To support American Ballet Theatre's presentation of "The Bright Stream" choreographed by artist-in-residence Alexei Ratmansky. The full-length story ballet, set to music by Dmitri… |
| 2011 | Cunningham Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $100,000 | To support the preservation and distribution of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's final performances at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City, in consortium with the Merce Cun… |
| 2011 | New York Live Arts Inc. | New York, NY | $90,000 | To support the COMMISSIONING AND CREATIVE RESIDENCY PROGRAM, FRESH TRACKS PERFORMANCE AND RESIDENCY PROGRAM, and the STUDIO PERFORMANCE AND RESIDENCY SERIES. Each program will incl… |
| 2011 | Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc. | Becket, MA | $90,000 | To support dance company residencies and performances. International companies in residence will include Ballet Geneve (Switzerland) and Laboratory Dance Project (South Korea); the… |
| 2011 | Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $90,000 | To support the Dance Presentation Program. Dance companies from the United States and abroad are under consideration including: Tango Fire (Argentina); Russell Maliphant, associate… |
| 2011 | San Francisco Ballet Association | San Francisco, CA | $85,000 | To support the creation and presentation of new works by several choreographers, including choreographer-in-residence Yuri Possokhov. The project includes audience-engagement activ… |
| 2011 | Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $80,000 | To support dance rehearsals in preparation for performances in New York City and on the U.S. tour. The company will rehearse new and existing works focused on a common theme of the… |
| 2011 | National Performance Network, Inc. | New Orleans, LA | $70,000 | To support national dance programs including Performance Residencies and the Creation Fund, Community Fund, and Freight Fund projects. The programs will enable the National Perform… |
| 2011 | American Dance Festival, Inc. | Durham, NC | $70,000 | To support the "Dance and Visual Arts: Images that Move Us" series. The presentations will include the Trisha Brown, Paul Taylor, Pilobolus, and Shen Wei dance companies; reconstru… |
| 2011 | Trisha Brown Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $70,000 | To support the creation of a new work by choreographer Trisha Brown. Commissioned by the Theatre National de Chaillot in Paris, France. |
| 2011 | Discalced, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $65,000 | To support Mark Morris Dance Group's creation and presentation of new works and the revival of a work choreographed by Morris. Works will include a new version of Acis and Galatea,… |
| 2011 | Gotham Arts Exchange, Inc. | New York, NY | $60,000 | To support the "Artist Access and Mentoring" program for emerging choreographers and the "Focus Dance" program at The Joyce Theater. The "Artist Access" program will allow emerging… |
| 2011 | New York Live Arts Inc. | New York, NY | $60,000 | To support a documentation/archiving and licensing/distribution program that will benefit and service the dance field nationwide. The project offers professional documentation of w… |
| 2011 | New York Live Arts Inc. | New York, NY | $55,000 | To support the national tour of works by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Works such as, Fondly Do We Hope...Fervently Do We Pray of The Lincoln Suite, Serenade/The Prop… |
| 2011 | Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $55,000 | To support the presentation of outdoor performances designed to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of 9-11-01 in Lower Manhattan's Rockefeller Park, in consortium with the Jose Limon… |
| 2011 | Pacific Northwest Ballet Association | Seattle, WA | $50,000 | To support the repertory program of dance presentations of Mark Morris' "Pacific," Paul Gibson's "The Piano Dance," Alexei Ratmansky's "Concerto DSCH," and a newly commissioned wor… |
| 2011 | Houston Ballet Foundation | Houston, TX | $50,000 | To support the world premiere of a work by Finnish choreographer Jorma Elo and the premiere of "Grinning in Your Face" by the company's associate choreographer Christopher Bruce. T… |
| 2011 | New Orleans Ballet Association | New Orleans, LA | $50,000 | To support the presentation of dance performances and related education and outreach programs. Presentations will include the companies of David Parsons, Alonzo King's LINES Ballet… |
| 2011 | STREB Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $50,000 | To support the audience development and access programs: Public/Action New York and Public/Action on Tour. Performances and classes for students will take place at Streb Lab for Ac… |
| 2011 | Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $40,000 | To support the 2011/2012 Legacy Projects, residencies by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. While in residence, both companies will … |
| 2011 | Miami City Ballet, Inc. | Miami Beach, FL | $40,000 | To support the presentation of "Promethean Fire," choreographed by Paul Taylor. The company will premiere the work as part of its 25th anniversary season (a piece thought to be Tay… |
| 2011 | Inta, Inc. | New York, NY | $40,000 | To support residency activities associated with the Retrospective Project, focused on dances choreographed by Eiko & Koma. During residencies at the Baryshnikov Arts Center (New Yo… |
| 2011 | Ballet Tech Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $40,000 | To support a tuition-free ballet training program. The program, founded by choreographer Eliot Feld, provides pre-professional arts training including an integrated public academic… |
| 2011 | Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc. | New York, NY | $40,000 | To support the education and community outreach initiative, "Dancing Through Barriers." The project will include performances, lecture-demonstrations, ballet master classes, and ot… |
| 2011 | Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Inc. | Chicago, IL | $35,000 | To support the Inside/Out Choreographic Workshop, a program for emerging choreographers to create new work. Current and former company dancers will create works - complete with cos… |
| 2011 | Dance Works, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $35,000 | To support Pentacle's series of infrastructure support programs for small to mid-sized New York and Los Angeles dance companies. The programs will include the Helpdesk/Chicago, Cul… |
| 2011 | Pennsylvania Ballet Association | Philadelphia, PA | $35,000 | To support the presentation of William Forsythe's "Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude" and Christopher Wheeldon's "Polyphonia," and the creation and presentation of a world premiere … |
| 2011 | Jose Limon Dance Foundation | New York, NY | $35,000 | To support the presentation of performances and outreach activities associated with the Five Borough Tour to New York communities. The project features the creation and presentatio… |
| 2011 | President and Trustees of Bates College | Lewiston, ME | $30,000 | To support dance artist residencies as part of the annual Bates Dance Festival. Titled Nurturing a Sustainable Dance Community, the project will include David Dorfman Dance, Nichol… |
| 2011 | Boston Ballet, Inc. | Boston, MA | $30,000 | To support the presentation of choreographer Jerome Robbins' ballets "Antique Epigraphs" and" Afternoon of a Faun" at the Boston Opera House. Artistic director Miko Nissinen has re… |
| 2011 | Dance Saint Louis | Saint Louis, MO | $30,000 | To support dance presentations and related activities. Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, MOMIX, and the Martha Graham Dance Company will perform at the Touhill Performing Arts Center… |
| 2011 | Shen Wei Dance Arts, Inc. | New York, NY | $30,000 | To support the creation of a new work by artistic director Shen Wei and the presentation of several small-scale performances. Shen will use ancient text and collaborate with artist… |
| 2011 | White Bird | Portland, OR | $30,000 | To support dance performances in the "White Bird Uncaged" series. Laboratory Dance Project (LDP), Yossi Berg/Oded Graf, and other companies will be presented in intimate-sized venu… |
| 2011 | Florida Dance Association, Inc. | Miami, FL | $30,000 | To support dance festivals in Tampa, Gainesville, and Miami Beach. Components include public performances and education, training, and professional development programs for student… |
| 2011 | UBW, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $30,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new collaborative work by co-choreographers Jawolle Willa Jo Zollar and Nora Chipaumire. The work will be created during residencies i… |
| 2011 | Joffrey Ballet | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | To support the creation and presentation of works by choreographers Edwaard Liang and Yuri Possokhov. Liang, a New York City Ballet dancer/choreographer, will be creating his secon… |
| 2011 | DOVA, Inc. | New York, NY | $30,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "Carrugi" by Doug Varone and Dancers. Choreographed by Varone, the work will be set to The Planets Suite by Gustav Holst and will includ… |
| 2011 | Dance Heritage Coalition, Inc. | New York, NY | $30,000 | To support the development of "The Artist's Legacy Toolkit." Dance artists (in various stages of artistic development and maturity) are expected to benefit from the resource materi… |
| 2011 | Danspace Project, Inc. | New York, NY | $30,000 | To support "Choreographic Center Without Walls," a multi-year research and development project to find best practices for supporting the creative process of choreographers. The pro… |
| 2011 | Nikolais/Louis Foundation for Dance | New York, NY | $30,000 | To support the reconstruction and presentation of Alwin Nikolais' "Gallery" by the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company. Gallery, which originally premiered in 1978, is a work that is lit … |
| 2011 | Dance Exchange, Inc. | Takoma Park, MD | $30,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "How to Lose a Mountain," a multimedia work choreographed by Cassie Meador. The project will include a series of community engagement ac… |
| 2011 | Dance Place | Washington, DC | $30,000 | To support the presentation of dance performances and accompanying residency activities at Dance Place. Artists to be presented include Rennie Harris, Illstyle & Peace Productions,… |
| 2011 | House Foundation for the Arts, Inc. | New York, NY | $30,000 | To support the creation, presentation, and national touring of the evening-length movement, music, and media work, "On Behalf of Nature," conceived by Meredith Monk. The concepts a… |
| 2011 | Dance Ring | New York, NY | $30,000 | To support the restaging of Jose Limon's ballet, "The Moor's Pavane," by the New York Theatre Ballet. The work is based on the Shakespearean tragency "Othello" and is set to "The G… |
| 2011 | Seventh Regiment Armory Conservancy, Inc. | New York, NY | $30,000 | To support the presentation of New York-based dance companies for the Park Avenue Armory's Dance Triptych program. Choreographers Shen Wei and Elizabeth Streb each will create a ne… |
| 2011 | Philadelphia Dance Company | Philadelphia, PA | $30,000 | To support Philadanco's creation and presentation of a new work by hip-hop choreographer Lorenzo "Rennie" Harris, and the revival of choreographer Billy Wilson's Rosa (1990), a wor… |
| 2011 | Stephen Petronio Dance Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $25,000 | To support development, rehearsal, and production costs for the re-staging of CITY OF TWIST by Stephen Petronio. 8/8/11: amendment changed work to CITY OF TWIST. Does NOT include p… |
| 2011 | Alonzo King LINES Ballet | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | To support the creation of a new work by artistic director Alonzo King. The new work will infuse the classical form of ballet with Sephardic song, music originating from the Jewish… |
| 2011 | Contemporary Dance Theater, Inc. | Cincinnati, OH | $25,000 | To support the "Guest Artist Series" of contemporary dance concerts. Artists under consideration include Doug Varone, Zvi Gotheiner/Zvi Dance, Jess Curtis, Garth Fagan, The Seldoms… |
| 2011 | Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc. | New York, NY | $25,000 | To support the national tour and a new work by choreographer Ronald K. Brown. The abstract work will be set to percussive Caribbean rhythms that will explore the intersection of th… |
| 2011 | Cleveland Modern Dance Association | Cleveland, OH | $25,000 | To support DANCECleveland's presentation of Parsons Dance Company and activities associated with Building New Presenters for Dance Across America's Heartland. Dance St. Louis and D… |
| 2011 | Evidence, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $25,000 | To support dance performances on the 2011 national tour and at The Joyce Theater in New York City. Artistic director Ronald K. Brown's works Ife/My Heart, Ebony Magazine, Order My … |
| 2011 | Muntu Dance Theatre | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | To support commissioned works by choreographers Theo Jamison and Reggie Wilson and associated activities. Planned for the company's This Far by Faith project (celebrating the resil… |
| 2011 | Foundation for Independent Artists, Inc. | New York, NY | $25,000 | To support the presentation and tour of new dance works by Art Bridgman & Myrna Packer, Nora Chipaumire, Nicholas Leichter, and Ben Munisteri, including outreach activities. |
| 2011 | Ririe-Woodbury Dance Foundation | Salt Lake City, UT | $25,000 | To support dance residency activities and performances at the Del E. Webb Center in Arizona and at the University of Southern Mississippi. The project will include lecture-demonstr… |
| 2011 | Gotham Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $25,000 | To support the The Bebe Miller Company's planning phase for Dance Fort, a web-based portal that will provide insight into the creation of a dance. The project will include a series… |
| 2011 | Pick Up Performance Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $25,000 | To support the development of an archive of choreographer David Gordon's 50-year body of work, in consortium with The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Go… |
| 2011 | Ragamala Dance | Minneapolis, MN | $25,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new Bharatanatyam work, "The World of 1,001 Buddhas," choreographed by Ranee and Aparna Ramaswarmy, in consortium with the College of … |
| 2011 | Eugene Ballet | Eugene, OR | $25,000 | To support regional dance touring and outreach activities in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. The company will present a repertory program, including artistic direct… |
| 2011 | Dance Heritage Coalition, Inc. | New York, NY | $25,000 | To support the creation of a free online database to match artists with appropriate archival partnerships for the preservation of their work, in consortium with the Los Angeles Dan… |
| 2011 | Dancing in the Streets, Inc. | Bronx, NY | $25,000 | To support the annual festival, Hip-Hop Generation Next: From the South Bronx to East Asia, in consortium with the Casita Maria Inc. In collaboration with the Casita Maria Center f… |
| 2011 | Ballet Arizona | Phoenix, AZ | $25,000 | To support Ballet Under the Stars, free ballet performances in local parks in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The company will perform classical and contemporary works at each perfo… |
| 2011 | Museum of Performance & Design | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | To support the inventory, digitization, and conservation services for the unidentified and at risk legacy materials, in consortium with Joe Goode Performance Group. The museum will… |
| 2011 | Tulsa Ballet Theatre, Inc. | Tulsa, OK | $20,000 | To support the dance trilogy EXCEPTIONAL SYNERGY. Featuring SLICE TO SHARP by Jorma Elo, PUSH COMES TO SHOVE by Twyla Tharp, and ELITE SYNCOPATIONS by Sir Kenneth MacMillan. |
| 2011 | Ballet West | Salt Lake City, UT | $20,000 | To support the presentation of the annual Innovations program for emerging choreographers to create new works. Prior to the premiere, artistic director Adam Sklute will facilitate … |
| 2011 | Joe Goode Performance Group | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new piece by choreographer Joe Goode, in collaboration with architect Cass Calder Smith. The work will examine the relationship betwee… |
| 2011 | Washington Ballet | Washington, DC | $20,000 | To support the presentation of "Le Corsaire" choreographed by Konstantin Sergeyev and staged by Anna-Marie Holmes. The work will be performed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the … |
| 2011 | Margaret Jenkins Dance Studio, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "Light Moves" by choreographer Margaret Jenkins. A work based on the thematic weaving of parts of her earlier works (1973-93), the perfo… |
| 2011 | George Balanchine Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support "The George Balanchine Foundation Video Archives," a project to preserve George Balanchine's works. To familiarize the present-day dancers with Balanchine's choreography… |
| 2011 | AXIS Dance Company | Berkeley, CA | $20,000 | To support Dance Access & Dance Access/KIDS! education and outreach programs. These activities will offer a variety of dance events for youth and adults with and without disabiliti… |
| 2011 | Ballet Austin, Incorporated | Austin, TX | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new full-length ballet based on Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute," choreographed by artistic director Stephen Mills. The musical score … |
| 2011 | Kansas City Ballet Association | Kansas City, MO | $20,000 | To support the presentation of Jerome Robbins' ballet "Moves: A Ballet in Silence." Created in 1959, the work is performed without accompaniment and features the stark clarity of t… |
| 2011 | Charlotte Ballet | Charlotte, NC | $20,000 | To support the presentation of ballet performances. The company's 40th anniversary repertory will include the ballets by Dwight Rhoden, Jiri Bubenicik, Salvatore Aiello, George Bal… |
| 2011 | Pilobolus, Inc. | Washington, CT | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work in collaboration with the Japanese choreographer Takuya Muramatsu of Dairakudakan. |
| 2011 | Ballet Metropolitan, Inc. | Columbus, OH | $20,000 | To support the world premiere of "7 Deadly Sins" created for BalletMet Columbus. Choreographers Dwight Rhoden, Ma Cong, Gina Patterson, James Kudelka, and Amy Seiwert will create t… |
| 2011 | Richmond Ballet, Inc. | Richmond, VA | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Val Caniparoli. The new work will premiere as part of Richmond Ballet's "Studio Series Program," and will be… |
| 2011 | Kentucky Dance Council, Inc. | Louisville, KY | $20,000 | To support the Louisville Ballet's commission of a new work by resident choreographer Adam Hougland and production costs for "The Three Musketeers. |
| 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 | Aspen Santa Fe Ballet | Aspen, CO | $20,000 | To support a national and international tour of dance performances. Other touring activities will include question-and-answer sessions, master classes, and open rehearsals. |
| 2011 | Institute of Contemporary Art | Boston, MA | $20,000 | To support a dance education and performance series titled "Make, Dance, See." Choreographers involved in the project are Bill T. Jones, Elizabeth Streb, Alexandra Beller, Sean Cur… |
| 2011 | Atlanta Ballet, Inc. | Atlanta, GA | $20,000 | To support the New Works Series, a commissioning program for new works by mid-career choreographers. Poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph will join with choreographer Amy Seiwert to create a n… |
| 2011 | Armitage Foundation Ltd. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support the Armitage Gone! Dance's creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer and artistic director Karole Armitage. The work will premiere at The Joyce Theater in… |
| 2011 | On the Boards | Seattle, WA | $20,000 | To support a series of dance presentations and associated education and outreach activities. Artists will include Sarah Michelson, Catherine Cabeen, and Crystal Pite (Canada). |
| 2011 | School of American Ballet, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support the tuition-free "Boys Program" and community outreach activities. The project will comprise no-fee auditions, free public ballet demonstrations, and a series of lecture… |
| 2011 | Cincinnati Ballet Company, Inc. | Cincinnati, OH | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work by resident choreographer Adam Hougland, set to Igor Stravinsky's "Firebird" score. The project will include open rehearsals,… |
| 2011 | Dance Notation Bureau, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support the recording in Labanotation of Martha Graham dances and the creation of an Online Video Archive of performed excerpts from these scores and other scores in the DNB arc… |
| 2011 | New Dance Theatre, Inc. | Denver, CO | $20,000 | To support Cleo Parker Robinson Dance's presentation of "The Dream Catcher," a dance theater work. The work illustrates legendary stories about the cultural heritage of Native, Afr… |
| 2011 | Florida State University | Tallahassee, FL | $20,000 | To support artist residencies at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography. Resident artists will have access to dance studios, a proscenium theater, black box studio, au… |
| 2011 | International Tap Association | Austin, TX | $20,000 | To support the further development of "Tap History Now," a Web site, archive digitization, database editing, and publication project designed to address the lack of documentation i… |
| 2011 | AXIS Dance Company | Berkeley, CA | $20,000 | To support the creation of a new work titled "Full of Words," choreographed by Marc Brew, in consortium with Very Special Arts of New Mexico. The company will be in residency in Al… |
| 2011 | Lula Washington Contemporary Dance Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | To support the 23rd Annual "International Conference of Blacks in Dance" in consortium with the California African-American Museum. The conference will bring together dance profess… |
| 2011 | University of Notre Dame du Lac | Notre Dame, IN | $20,000 | To support the presentation of Diavolo Dance Theater and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Diavolo will perform Fearful Symmetries, a new work co-commissioned by the university, … |
| 2011 | Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support AileyCamp, a summer program for inner-city youth, in consortium with the Children's Aid Society. The program will include dance training, performance opportunities, crea… |
| 2011 | Indian Performing Arts Samskriti | Sugar Land, TX | $20,000 | To support the Indian Dance in a Global Context Festival. The three-day international festival will feature lecture-demonstrations, performances, workshops, master classes, and pan… |
| 2011 | Wesleyan University | Middletown, CT | $20,000 | To support the Breaking Ground Dance Series presented by Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts. Artists to be presented include Rennie Harris Puremovement, Chunky Move, and Beb… |
| 2011 | Missouri Historical Society | Saint Louis, MO | $20,000 | To support the preservation of costumes from the Katherine Dunham Dance Company's collection, primarily those created by scenic and costume designer John Pratt. Once conserved, the… |
| 2011 | Crosspulse | Oakland, CA | $20,000 | To support the International Body Music Festival. The artists will include Slammin All-Body Band from Oakland, California and Barbatuques from Sao Paulo, Brazil. |
| 2011 | New York Baroque Dance Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support the French Ballet Project, which will include performances, residencies, workshops, and a conference. Artistic director Catherine Turocy will reconstruct Entree des sauv… |
| 2011 | Mary Pickford Institute for Film Education | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | To support the post-production phase of a documentary film about Jack Cole, a man widely acknowledged as the father of American jazz dance. The film will fuse narrative on Cole's l… |
| 2011 | Dallas Black Dance Theatre | Dallas, TX | $20,000 | To support the restaging and tour of "Pigs and Fishes," choreographed by Elisa Monte and associated educational activities. The work will be performed as part of the company's 35th… |
| 2011 | Portland Institute for Contemporary Art | Portland, OR | $20,000 | To support the presentation of a dance collaboration between Flemish/Moroccan dancer/choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Indian/French performer Shantala Shivalingappa, as well … |
| 2011 | Artspace Projects, Inc. | Minneapolis, MN | $20,000 | To support New Dance for New Audiences, an audience engagement project involving local dance companies and the new Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts in Minneapolis, M… |
| 2011 | University of Iowa | Iowa City, IA | $20,000 | To support a dance residency with Hubbard Street 2 presented by Hancher Auditorium. A variety of educational activities are planned as well as public performances and the creation … |
| 2011 | Jazz Tap Ensemble Inc. | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | To support the production of "Jazz Tap Originals - Percussion Mania," the second in a series that chronicles the creative life of Jazz Tap Ensemble, with a focus on the tap dancer … |
| 2011 | Museum of Performance & Design | San Francisco, CA | $19,000 | To support phase II of Full Spectrum: Preserving Rare & Diverse Bay Area Dance Video, 1985-2000. The project will create archival-quality digital masters of 100 selected dance reco… |
| 2011 | CounterPulse | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support the Artist Residency and Commissioning Program (ARC) for local emerging and mid-career choreographers. The program will include residencies during which artists will reh… |
| 2011 | Carolina Ballet, Inc. | Raleigh, NC | $15,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer and principal dancer Attila Bongar. The staging of this work is in line with the company's mission of creati… |
| 2011 | Complexions-A Concept In Dance | New York, NY | $15,000 | To support the creation of a new work, "What Come, Thereafter," choreographed by co-artistic director Dwight Rhoden as the centerpiece of a salute to Desmond Richardson. This eveni… |
| 2011 | Yard, Inc. | Chilmark, MA | $15,000 | To support choreographer residencies; creative, performance, and educational retreats; and a summer performing arts festival. Throughout the period of the residency, each artist wi… |
| 2011 | Velocity Dance Center | Seattle, WA | $15,000 | To support the SCUBA National Touring Network for Dance, in consortium with the Southern Theater Foundation. The project involves the cooperation of the Oberlin Dance Collective Th… |
| 2011 | Garth Fagan Dance, Inc. | Rochester, NY | $15,000 | To support "Conversations with Garth", a series of collaborative dialogues between Garth Fagan and a range of other leading artists. Each "conversation" will include a performance … |
| 2011 | American Tap Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | To support "Tap City", an annual summer tap festival. Activities will include training, education, special events, and performances by artists and companies such as Jared Grimes, L… |
| 2011 | Arts Resources in Collaboration, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | To support the continuation of the "Eye On Dance Archive Legacy Project." Materials in this archive include videotapes, photographs, dance periodicals, artist notes, studies, and e… |
| 2011 | Chinese Cultural Productions | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support a tour of the Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company to five California communities. With the tour, Cai aims to provide Chinese American audiences access to professional perform… |
| 2011 | Lobero Theatre Foundation | Santa Barbara, CA | $15,000 | To support "DANCEworks," a residency by an emerging choreographer on stage at the historic Lobero Theater. SUMMERDANCE Santa Barbara will collaborate on the project to provide an a… |
| 2011 | Dance Films Association, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | To support a national tour of the "Dance on Camera Festival." Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, DFA plans to hold domestic and international programs of one to six films … |
| 2011 | GroundWorks Dancetheater | Cleveland, OH | $15,000 | To support guest artist residencies with Broadway director Lynn Taylor-Corbett and Philadelphia Dance Company choreographer Roni Koresh. Each artist will develop a new work for the… |
| 2011 | Alaska Dance Theatre, Inc. | Anchorage, AK | $15,000 | To support an "Othello: The Moor of Venice," choreographed by Gillmer Duran to celebrate Alaska Dance Theater's 30th Anniversary. Othello will include participation of guest artist… |
| 2011 | Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | To support a residency by the Paul Taylor Dance Company and Taylor 2, in consortium with Binghamton University, State University of New York. The project will include a three-week … |
| 2011 | Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $15,000 | To support the creation and presentation of Why Patterns, choreographed by Jonah Bokaer in collaboration with visual artist Daniel Arsham and composer Alexi Georgopoulos. The work,… |
| 2011 | Velocity Dance Center | Seattle, WA | $15,000 | To support the Strictly Seattle Summer Dance Intensive, a dance training festival that engages professional dance artists with student dancers and culminates in the creation and pe… |
| 2011 | LEVYdance, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support the design and construction of prototypes for a multimedia and live art installation conceptualized by choreographer Benjamin Levy, in consortium with The Exploratorium.… |
| 2011 | Project Bandaloop | Oakland, CA | $12,000 | To support the multimedia element of a new dance/theater work choreographed by artistic director Amelia Rudolph in collaboration with multimedia designer Austin Forbord. |
| 2011 | NewArt New Mexico, Inc. | Albuquerque, NM | $10,000 | To support "Global DanceFest 2011." Artists to be presented include Stephen Petronio, Eiko & Koma, Yin Mei, and Faustin Linyekula. |
| 2011 | Keigwin and Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation, presentation and touring of EXIT, a new work choreographed by artistic director Larry Keigwin. Scheduled to premiere at The Joyce Theater (NYC), it will be… |
| 2011 | Milwaukee Ballet Company, Inc. | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | To support Genesis: 4th International Choreographic Competition. In a competition designed to generate new ballet work and to keep dance alive and evolving for the next generation … |
| 2011 | Dancers' Group | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support "In Dance," a publication targeted for dance artists in the San Francisco/Bay Area. The issues appear in print as well as on the Dancers' Group Web site, and include a c… |
| 2011 | Dance/USA | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | To support Dance/USA Philadelphia's presentation of the 2011 Philadelphia Dance Showcase. As a means to encourage collaboration, the showcase at the Jeanne Ruddy Performance Garage… |
| 2011 | Ko-Thi, Inc. | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | To support a series of workshops that will serve as the foundation for "Words from the Sole," a new work that blends poetry, hip-hop and traditional African dance. Dance activities… |
| 2011 | Palissimo | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of part two of a trilogy, "The Painted Bird," by choreographer Pavel Zustiak. The works will explore themes of migration, displacement, and… |
| 2011 | Visions In Rhythm | Austin, TX | $10,000 | To support the 11th annual Soul to Sole Tap Festival. |
| 2011 | Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre, Inc. | Astoria, NY | $10,000 | To support the completion of "Bare Bach," choreographed by Pascal Rioult. The project represents the creation of the final section set to Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concer… |
| 2011 | College Community Services, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | To support the World Stages: Dance series at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts Various cultural, classical, and modern dance forms will be represented by these companies … |
| 2011 | STEPOLOGY | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the annual Bay Area Tap Festival and Santa Fe Tap Festival. Activities associated with the festivals will include workshops, mainstage performances, tap jams, and panel … |
| 2011 | Emerge 125 Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the revival and presentation of dance works during the company's 30th anniversary. Works choreographed by artistic director Elisa Monte will be performed from each of th… |
| 2011 | Lula Washington Contemporary Dance Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support a national tour. The company will visit cities such as Sandpoint, Caldwell, and Moscow, Idaho; Olympia and Seattle, Washington; St. Louis; and Memphis. |
| 2011 | Dance Affiliates | Philadelphia, PA | $10,000 | To support the dance presentations of Keigwin + Company, Monica Bill Barnes & Company, Kate Weare Company, and Aszure Barton & Artists. Each residency will include performances at … |
| 2011 | Pittsburgh Trust for Cultural Resources | Pittsburgh, PA | $10,000 | To support the presentation of dance companies with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Ballet Hispanico, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Stephen Petronio Company, and Tan… |
| 2011 | ODC | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the ODC/Dance's creation and presentation of two world premieres by artistic directors Brenda Way and KT Nelson in celebration of the company's 40th anniversary. In addi… |
| 2011 | Movement Research, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the 2011 Movement Research Spring and Fall Festivals, a series of free and low-cost dance performances, classes, and workshops. The project will bring together multiple … |
| 2011 | Capoeira Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "Batuke," a new work by choreographer and artistic director Jelon Vieira. The driving force behind this piece will be the rhythms create… |
| 2011 | Chicago Dancing Company NFP | Lombard, IL | $10,000 | To support the presentation of local and national dance companies. The project will include a lecture-demonstration at the Museum of Contemporary Art. |
| 2011 | Contemporary Dance Arts, Inc. | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | To support Shapiro & Smith Dance's creation and presentation of "When We Last Spoke," a new work choreographed by artistic director Joanie Smith. Per amendment request dated 1/30/1… |
| 2011 | Flyaway Productions | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation of "Wall Ball," a new site-specific dance that celebrates the continuum between art and sport. The work will be created by artistic director Jo Kreiter and … |
| 2011 | Thin Man Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new evening-length work by artistic director John Jasperse, commissioned by The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). The work will be show… |
| 2011 | Career Transition For Dancers, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support The National Outreach Project, a series of career-counseling seminars for dancers. Plans include two-day group and individual sessions about transitioning from a dance c… |
| 2011 | Big Tree Productions, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of new works by Tere O'Connor Dance. O'Connor is known for his evening-length works; but for this project, he will create three shorter wor… |
| 2011 | Alverno College | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | To support the presentation of performances by artists Heidi Latsky, Morgan Thorson, Eiko & Koma, and Nora Chipaumire/Souleymane Badolo. These artists were chosen because they repr… |
| 2011 | Des Moines Performing Arts | Des Moines, IA | $10,000 | To support the presentation of the Civic Center Dance Series. Performances will include Pilobolus, Martha Graham Dance Company, and James Sewell Ballet presented at the Civic Cente… |
| 2011 | Dance/USA | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | To support Dance/NYC's series of professional development programs and town hall meetings for dancers. These programs will cover topics such as cultivating administrative and manag… |
| 2011 | Smuin Ballets-SF | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support world premiere works by choreographer Trey McIntyre and choreographer-in-residence Amy Seiwert. The company will work with the Community Access Ticket Service (CATS) to … |
| 2011 | Virginia Arts Festival, Inc. | Norfolk, VA | $10,000 | To support "Breaking Barriers and Building Bridges: A Celebration of African American Dance." Companies to be presented include Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Dance Theatre of… |
| 2011 | Trey McIntyre Project | Boise, ID | $10,000 | To support the creation of a new work by choreographer Trey McIntyre in collaboration with Ben Jaffe, creative director of Preservation Hall Jazz Band. The collaborators will creat… |
| 2011 | Noche Flamenca, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support a United States tour of flamenco dance programs. The company will premiere new flamenco works during the tour, and outreach events will include a comprehensive in-school… |
| 2011 | Monica Bill Barnes & Company | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation of a new dance work by choreographer Monica Bill Barnes, and its presentation, along with current repertory, at The Joyce Theater in New York and on the com… |
| 2011 | Pick Up Performance Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the production of "Beginning of the End," choreographed by David Gordon. The dance theater work will feature character-based movement incorporated with text adapted from… |
| 2011 | Ragamala Dance | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "Sacred Earth" by choreographers Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy and ancillary education and outreach activities. The work, set to a commissi… |
| 2011 | Blue Lapis Light, Inc. | Austin, TX | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of DEVOTION, a site specific aerial dance performance over the Colorado River in Austin, Texas. The work will include an ensemble of dancer… |
| 2011 | Chicago Human Rhythm Project | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support the 21st annual tap festival Rhythm World. The project will include residencies, performances, and education and outreach activities. |
| 2011 | Performance Zone, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support The Field's 25th anniversary of the "Strengthening National Artists and Communities" project. Activities will include "Artward Bound," a free creative residency for chor… |
| 2011 | Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey, Inc. | Kansas City, MO | $10,000 | To support a residency by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, in consortium with the YWCA of Greater Kansas City. The project will involve four public performances and a mini-s… |
| 2011 | Zaccho SF | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support Zaccho Dance Theatre's 30th Anniversary Project. Highlighted programming will include the restaging of artistic director Joanna Haigood's seminal work The Monkey and the… |
| 2011 | Dance Continuum, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the restaging and presentation of "Adamantine" by Susan Marshall & Company. An original score will be created and performed live by Peter Whitehead. |
| 2011 | Alabama Dance Council, Inc. | Huntsville, AL | $10,000 | To support the presentation of the 2011 Alabama Dance Festival. The statewide festival will feature performances by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, showcases of Alabama dance c… |
| 2011 | WCV, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | To support the final development and performances of a new work titled "Tool is Loot," choreographed by Wally Cardona and Jennifer Lacey. Residencies with a diverse community of ar… |
| 2011 | Northwest Professional Dance Project | Portland, OR | $10,000 | To support the "New Works Project," featuring the creation and presentation of new dance works by choreographers Sarah Slipper and Patrick Delcroix. Members of the community are in… |
| 2011 | Spring Lake Productions, Inc. | New Milford, CT | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "Angel Reaper" by artistic director Martha Clarke and text by playwright Alfred Uhry. The new work will chronicle the life of Ann Lee, f… |
| 2011 | Lubovitch Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation of a new work by choreographer Lar Lubovitch. The work will be created in collaboration with costume designer Wendy Winters and lighting designer Jack Mehle… |
| 2011 | Better Family Life, Inc. | Saint Louis, MO | $10,000 | To support "Black Dance-USA: A Celebration in Movement." The project will consist of dance workshops, concerts by dance companies, lecture-demonstrations, and video and audio tapin… |
| 2011 | Racing Thoughts, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new dance/theater work, "Beauty," choreographed by artistic director Jane Comfort. The work will premiere in New York City, and will b… |
| 2011 | DanceArt, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the WestWave Dance festival. As part of the 20th anniversary celebration, there will be a "Choreographers and Composers Consortium," which will result in the commission … |
| 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… |
| 2011 | Art Sweats, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation of a new work by artistic director and choreographer David Dorfman. Tentatively titled "Come, and Back Again." |
| 2011 | Robert Moses Kin | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "Fable and Faith" by artistic director and choreographer Robert Moses. In collaboration with playwright Anne Galjour, Bay Area vocal mus… |
| 2011 | H.T. Dance Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the development and presentation of a new version of the educational dance performance "Eight Strokes & the Moving Word." The performance will address themes of literacy… |
| 2011 | Dominic Walsh Dance Theater | Houston, TX | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of dance works at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts in Houston. The project will include the company premiere of "Pas de Dans" by ch… |
| 2011 | LEVYdance, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the presentation of COMFORT ZONE, a new dance installation by choreographer and artistic director Ben Levy that explores the intersection between technology and communic… |
| 2011 | Saint Louis Ballet Company | Chesterfield, MO | $10,000 | To support the presentation of "Romeo and Juliet," choreographed by artistic director Gen Horiuchi. The company will collaborate with the Variety Children's Charity of St. Louis to… |
| 2011 | Ballet East Dance Company | Austin, TX | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "Hear Me/See Me," a multimedia presentation of movement, spoken work, and live music, led by local choreographer Sharon Marroquin. The w… |
| 2011 | Robert L. Reed Tap Heritage Institute | Saint Louis, MO | $10,000 | To support the presentation of the 20th annual St. Louis Tap Festival. The festival will feature artists such as Arthur Duncan, Omar Edwards, Avi Miller, Ofer Ben, Dormeshia Sumbry… |
| 2011 | Floricanto Dance Theatre | Pasadena, CA | $10,000 | To support Danza Floricanto/USA's tour of the dance works "Alma Llanera-Spirit of the Plains," "Day of the Dead" and "Navidad." The company also will reprise two traditional folk d… |
| 2011 | National Institute of Flamenco | Albuquerque, NM | $10,000 | To support a tour of flamenco dance performances. The programs will be performed by the conservatory's performing groups: Ninos Flamencos, a children's group for ages five to 12; A… |
| 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.… |
| 2011 | Tigertail Productions, Inc. | Miami, FL | $10,000 | To support "danceAble XII," in consortium with the Florida Dance Association. The project will include performances, workshops, panels, and film screenings exploring and promoting … |
| 2011 | Dance Camera West | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support the presentation of the 2012 Dance Camera West Dance Media Film Festival. The festival will include a series of dance film screenings from around the world at various ve… |
| 2011 | New York Chinese Cultural Center, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support "Dance China 2011," an overview of Chinese dance and Chinese choreographers. The project will highlight the influence of Chinese traditional dance forms on modern dance … |
| 2011 | Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new dance work, "Cast from the Water's Edge/The Boundary Waters Project," during a residency in Ely, Minnesota. A company repertory pr… |
| 2011 | Epiphany Dance Theater | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of the annual San Francisco Trolley Dances, a series of site-specific dance performances that will take place along one of San Francisco's … |
| 2011 | River North Dance Company | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support the creation, premiere, tour and associated educational activities of a jazz dance choreographed by Artistic Director Frank Chaves. The work will be accompanied by an or… |
| 2011 | Nichole Canuso Dance Company | Philadelphia, PA | $10,000 | To support the creation and a work-in-progress series of "The Garden" by choreographer Nichole Canuso. The multimedia dance work will be created in collaboration with media artist … |
| 2011 | Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company | Kansas City, MO | $10,000 | To support the reconstruction and presentation of Anna Sokolow's "Session for Six." Sokolow Dance Theater/Dance Ensemble's artistic director Jim May will be in residence with the c… |
| 2011 | Daniel Phoenix Singh & Company | Washington, DC | $10,000 | To support Dakshina's reconstruction and presentation of Anna Sokolow's Frida and Homage to David Alfaro Siqueiros in consortium with the Baltimore Theatre Project. Working in clos… |
| 2011 | Dusan Tynek Dance Theatre Foundation Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "Portals," choreographed by Dusan Tynek, featuring the music by Aleksandra Vrebalov in a live performance by The Ethel quartet. The work… |
| 2011 | Festival Dance & Performing Arts Association, Inc. | Moscow, ID | $9,000 | To support the Festival Dance Youthreach Programs. Touring professional companies will provide free performances and master classes to third- to sixth-grade students in north centr… |
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