NEA Dance Grants 2013: All 175 Awards
175 NEA dance grants for fiscal year 2013, totaling $4.1M.
| Year | Recipient | City | Amount | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc. | Becket, MA | $100,000 | To support the presentation of artists representing diverse dance forms including Brazilian hip-hop, classical Indian dance, modern dance, and ballet, and the Creative Development … |
| 2013 | Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $85,000 | To support the Dance Presentation Program. Dance companies under consideration include artists in the "Nordic Dance" series (Tero Saarinen Company [Finland], Danish Dance Theater [… |
| 2013 | Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $80,000 | To support a United States tour that includes performances and a wide variety of outreach activities. The tour will feature new work by choreographers such as Robert Battle, Jiri K… |
| 2013 | Dance/USA | Minneapolis, MN | $80,000 | To support professional development services for the nonprofit dance field. Activities will include the annual conference in Philadelphia, a mentoring program for emerging leaders,… |
| 2013 | New York City Ballet, Inc. | New York, NY | $80,000 | To support the presentation of the All-American Music Festival, highlighting ballets from the company's repertory set to American music. The festival will include works by George B… |
| 2013 | STREB Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $80,000 | To support the audience development and access programs, Public/Action New York and Public/Action on Tour, based on Extreme Action, a method of movement developed by choreographer … |
| 2013 | Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $80,000 | To support development and rehearsals for the "Myth and Transformation" project's second season, which will explore the work of Martha Graham based on ancient and modern myths. |
| 2013 | San Francisco Ballet Association | San Francisco, CA | $75,000 | To support the creation and presentation of new ballets by several choreographers. Choreographers such as artistic director Helgi Tomasson and Alexei Ratmanksy as well as others wi… |
| 2013 | Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $75,000 | To support the creation and presentation of works by artistic director Paul Taylor. The pieces represent the 138th and 139th works for the company, and will be created in collabora… |
| 2013 | New York Live Arts Inc. | New York, NY | $70,000 | To support the presentation of dance companies in the Dance Theater Workshop Commissioning Program, the Studio Series Performance and Residency Program, and the Fresh Tracks Perfor… |
| 2013 | Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $70,000 | To support the world premiere of ballets by Alexei Ratmansky, set to symphonies by Dmitri Shostakovich. Activities will include performances of the new ballets at the Metropolitan … |
| 2013 | American Dance Festival, Inc. | Durham, NC | $65,000 | To support the American Dance Festival's 80th anniversary season. The festival will feature choreographers and companies who have played an important role at ADF such as Martha Gra… |
| 2013 | National Performance Network, Inc. | New Orleans, LA | $60,000 | To support national dance programs including the Creation Fund, the Forth Fund, Performance Residencies, Freight Fund, Community Fund, and annual meeting. The programs will enable … |
| 2013 | Philadelphia Dance Company | Philadelphia, PA | $60,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Christopher Huggins. Education and outreach activities will include workshops, performances for school-aged … |
| 2013 | Trisha Brown Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $60,000 | To support performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City, and other touring engagements. Education and outreach activities will include master classes, exhibitions… |
| 2013 | Discalced, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $60,000 | To support the creation and presentation of new works and a revival by choreographer Mark Morris. Morris will complete a new work set to Carl Maria von Weber's "Grand Duo Concertan… |
| 2013 | John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts | Washington, DC | $60,000 | To support the presentation of Ballet Across America III. Dance companies to be presented include Ballet Austin, Boston Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, North Carolina Dance Theatr… |
| 2013 | School of American Ballet, Inc. | New York, NY | $55,000 | To support the tuition-free Boys Program and community outreach activities. The project will comprise no-fee auditions, free ballet classes, free public ballet demonstrations, and … |
| 2013 | Houston Ballet Foundation | Houston, TX | $50,000 | To support the presentation of Stanton Welch's "Rite of Spring," and a new work by Taiwanese choreographer Edwaard Liang. The project will include information on each ballet such a… |
| 2013 | New Orleans Ballet Association | New Orleans, LA | $50,000 | To support the presentation of dance companies and related education and outreach programs. Presentations will include Jessica Lang, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, and the Martha Graham Da… |
| 2013 | Friends of NORD, Inc. | New Orleans, LA | $50,000 | To support a tuition-free youth and senior citizen dance education program. The program is organized by the NORDC/NOBA Center for Dance, which is a cultural community partnership o… |
| 2013 | Gotham Arts Exchange, Inc. | New York, NY | $50,000 | To support Focus 2014, an American platform of dance artists, which will include an artist mentoring component. Focus 2014 will feature more than 20 dance companies and will target… |
| 2013 | Boston Ballet, Inc. | Boston, MA | $40,000 | To support the presentation of an evening of ballets by choreographer Jiri Kylian including Wings of Wax (1997), Tar and Feathers (2006), and Symphony of Psalms (1978). Symphony of… |
| 2013 | Pacific Northwest Ballet Association | Seattle, WA | $40,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new ballet by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, and the presentation of "Diamonds" and "Agon," choreographed by George Balanchine. A… |
| 2013 | Miami City Ballet, Inc. | Miami Beach, FL | $40,000 | To support a world premiere of a new work by British choreographer Liam Scarlett. This will be Scarlett's second ballet created for the company. |
| 2013 | UBW, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $40,000 | To support the creation of a dance called "Hep Hep Sweet Sweet" by artistic director Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. The work will be the third in a series based on "place"--the first work… |
| 2013 | Dance Place | Washington, DC | $40,000 | To support Dance Place Presentations. The project includes the presentation of emerging and nationally-established dance artists, commissions of new choreography, accompanying resi… |
| 2013 | 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 with an integrated public academic educ… |
| 2013 | Dance Heritage Coalition, Inc. | New York, NY | $35,000 | To support the first phase of a region-based action plan for dance company videotape preservation. Funding will support the establishment of videotape digitization stations in Seat… |
| 2013 | President and Trustees of Bates College | Lewiston, ME | $30,000 | To support Cultivating Innovation and Community in Dance, a program of dance artist residencies as part of the annual Bates Dance Festival. The project will bring together leading … |
| 2013 | Ballet West | Salt Lake City, UT | $30,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "The Rite of Spring," by choreographer Nicolo Fonte, to commemorate the centenary of this work. The work will be performed to music by I… |
| 2013 | Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | To support contemporary dance residencies at The Dance Center at Columbia College Chicago and related outreach activities. The project will include the creation and presentation of… |
| 2013 | Dance Works, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $30,000 | To support the Arts Management Paradigm, a series of infrastructure support programs for small to mid-sized companies and independent choreographers in Los Angeles, Chicago, San Fr… |
| 2013 | Pennsylvania Ballet Association | Philadelphia, PA | $30,000 | To support the presentation of "Artifact Suite," choreographed by William Forsythe as well as a related symposium. In addition to performances, a symposium moderated by Dr. Linda C… |
| 2013 | Dance Saint Louis | Saint Louis, MO | $30,000 | To support dance presentations and related activities. The project will include New Dance Horizons, a program where four choreographers create new works for four St. Louis dance co… |
| 2013 | White Bird | Portland, OR | $30,000 | To support dance performances and community engagement activities in the White Bird Uncaged series. Compagnie Marie Chouinard (Canada), Illstyle & Peace Productions and up to two o… |
| 2013 | Jose Limon Dance Foundation | New York, NY | $30,000 | To support a national tour, corresponding residency activities, and performances in New York City. Performances will consist of new works and revivals from a repertory curated by a… |
| 2013 | Danspace Project, Inc. | New York, NY | $30,000 | To support the Choreographic Center Without Walls (CW2). The project will involve performances, creative or production artist residencies, and the production of post-performance an… |
| 2013 | Inta, Inc. | New York, NY | $30,000 | To support the completion of Eiko & Koma's archival project. The project will include the creation of a vast video archive of their past works, which will not only be shared with t… |
| 2013 | Nikolais/Louis Foundation for Dance | New York, NY | $30,000 | To support performances of Alwin Nikolais' work at The Joyce Theater in New York, New York by the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company of Salt Lake City, Utah. Amendment #1 (10/15/14): Rem… |
| 2013 | On the Boards | Seattle, WA | $30,000 | To support a series of dance presentations and associated education and outreach activities. Artists will include KT Niehoff, Catherine Cabeen, Heather Kravas, Zoe Scofield and Jun… |
| 2013 | Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc. | New York, NY | $30,000 | To support a national tour of the Dance Theatre of Harlem professional company. In addition to performances, the company will offer educational activities such as lecture-demonstra… |
| 2013 | Ririe-Woodbury Dance Foundation | Salt Lake City, UT | $30,000 | To support the creation, presentation, and touring of a new work by choreographer Doug Varone, in collaboration with University of Utah dance professor and media artist Ellen Bromb… |
| 2013 | Ballet Arizona | Phoenix, AZ | $30,000 | To support "Ballet Under the Stars," a free outdoor performance series in local parks throughout the Phoenix metropolitan area. The company will perform classical and contemporary … |
| 2013 | Eugene Ballet | Eugene, OR | $30,000 | To support regional dance touring and outreach activities. The company will present a repertory program including artistic director Toni Pimble's "Concerto Grosso" and "Still Falls… |
| 2013 | Dancing in the Streets, Inc. | Bronx, NY | $30,000 | To support the annual festival, "Hip-Hop Generation Next 2013: A 40th Anniversary Celebration." A partnership with the Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education, the project will … |
| 2013 | Repertory Dance Theatre | Salt Lake City, UT | $30,000 | To support A Sense of Place, a rural touring residency for Nevada, North Dakota, and Montana. Using dance to celebrate environmental awareness and encourage responsibility, RDT wil… |
| 2013 | Dayton Contemporary Dance Company | Dayton, OH | $30,000 | To support the commissioning of new works by choreographers in celebration of the company's 45th anniversary. New works will be created by choreographers Donald Byrd and Ronen Kore… |
| 2013 | Pilobolus, Inc. | Washington, CT | $30,000 | To support the International Collaborators Project, a long-term initiative for developing new work and engaging diverse audiences through innovative, cross-disciplinary collaborati… |
| 2013 | World Arts West | San Francisco, CA | $30,000 | To support artists' fees for the 35th annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. The festival presents dancers sustaining more than 100 distinct dance forms by providing underserv… |
| 2013 | Cleveland Modern Dance Association | Cleveland, OH | $25,000 | To support DANCECleveland's presentation of Mark Morris Dance Company, Lucky Plush Productions, and Alonzo King's LINES Ballet. The engagement of each company will include performa… |
| 2013 | Diavolo Dance Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "Fluid Infinities" set to Philip Glass's "Symphony No. 3," which will complete a trilogy of commissions from the Los Angeles Philharmoni… |
| 2013 | DOVA, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "Bilingua" by choreographer Doug Varone, in collaboration with Brenda Angiel Aerial Dance. Inspired by the Persephone myth and author Do… |
| 2013 | AXIS Dance Company | Berkeley, CA | $20,000 | To support Dance Access and Dance/Access KIDS! education and outreach programs. These activities will offer a variety of events for youth and adults with and without disabilities w… |
| 2013 | Evidence, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $20,000 | To support a national tour and performances at The Joyce Theater in New York City and at BRIC House in Brooklyn. The company will perform artistic director Ron Brown's evening-leng… |
| 2013 | CounterPulse | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the CounterPulse Artist Residency and Commissioning (ARC) Program. Activities will include the creation and presentation of contemporary works and one full-length world … |
| 2013 | Margaret Jenkins Dance Studio, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "Barrier Winds," a new work by Margaret Jenkins. Jenkins will bring dancers from San Francisco to Israel for a residency that will foste… |
| 2013 | Muntu Dance Theatre | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new collaborative dance and music work, "Memories N' Time," including community outreach activities. Artistic director Amaniyea Payne … |
| 2013 | Kansas City Ballet Association | Kansas City, MO | $20,000 | To support the presentation of a work by Karole Armitage, artistic director of Armitage Gone! Dance, based in New York City. This commission follows the success of Arctic Song, a w… |
| 2013 | Lubovitch Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support the creation, premiere, and touring of a new dance by choreographer Lar Lubovitch. The world premiere of the work will take place in New York City as part of the company… |
| 2013 | Dance/USA | Minneapolis, MN | $20,000 | To support Dance/NYC's series of professional development programs and town hall meetings for dancers, choreographers, and companies, as well as the expansion of programs on the We… |
| 2013 | Florida Dance Association, Inc. | Miami, FL | $20,000 | To support the Florida Dance Festival and the State Dance Festival. The Florida Dance Festival in Tampa is hosted by the University of South Florida, and the State Dance Festival i… |
| 2013 | Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "Occupant," choreographed by artistic director Jonah Bokaer, and created in collaboration with visual artist Daniel Arsham and composer … |
| 2013 | Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support the commission and presentation of dance works from Spanish choreographers as part of Season of Spain. The company will perform works from emerging choreographers Meritx… |
| 2013 | Aspen Santa Fe Ballet | Aspen, CO | $20,000 | To support a national tour of dance performances. In addition to performances, activities will include master classes with local dance schools and universities, audience question-a… |
| 2013 | La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support the world premiere of a new work inspired by Black Madonna icons, by choreographer Maureen Fleming. The project will combine Butoh-inspired dance, video, photography, an… |
| 2013 | Dallas Black Dance Theatre | Dallas, TX | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "Una Familia, Todos Unidos," a new work by choreographers Armando Silva and Richard Freeman, Jr. The work, meaning "One Family All Unite… |
| 2013 | Atlanta Ballet, Inc. | Atlanta, GA | $20,000 | To support the presentation of dance works by Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin. This project marks the start of a new works series in which Atlanta Ballet seeks out non-tradition… |
| 2013 | New Dance Theatre, Inc. | Denver, CO | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of TARA, by choreographer Kun-Yang Lin. The work draws its inspiration from Tara, the Buddhist Goddess, and aims to explore the transcenden… |
| 2013 | Ragamala Dance | Minneapolis, MN | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new dance work, "Song of the Jasmine," choreographed by artistic director Aparna Ramaswamy. Commissioned and co-presented by the Walke… |
| 2013 | Gotham Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support a national tour of "A History" and the creation of a new media work by choreographer Bebe Miller. "A History" will include a media installation and an interactive Web si… |
| 2013 | Dance Continuum, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support a national tour of "Bodies & Guitars," choreographed by Susan Marshall, along with an online video audience engagement program. Composer David Lang will create the score… |
| 2013 | Noche Flamenca, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support the presentation and tour of a flamenco dance based on Anton Chekov's story "The Huntsman." Education and outreach activities will include lecture-demonstrations, master… |
| 2013 | Alonzo King LINES Ballet | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the LINES Ballet Guest Choreography project. LINES Ballet will engage approximately 25 diverse choreographers to work with the pre-professional students of the LINES Bal… |
| 2013 | Foundation for Independent Artists, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of dance works on tour and in New York City. Bridgman/Packer Dance will present "Voyeur," an investigation of Edward Hopper's artwork throu… |
| 2013 | Museum of Performance & Design | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the digitization of images and papers of California dance luminaries, Lew Christensen and Anna Halprin for online access. Key images from each collection will be digitiz… |
| 2013 | Zaccho SF | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "Between Me & the Other World," a new work by artistic director Joanna Haigood. The work will employ video immersion technology by video… |
| 2013 | Lobero Theatre Foundation | Santa Barbara, CA | $20,000 | To support DANCEworks, a four-week residency for a nationally rising choreographer at the historic Lobero Theatre. SUMMERDANCE Santa Barbara will collaborate on the project to prov… |
| 2013 | Richmond Ballet, Inc. | Richmond, VA | $20,000 | To support the "New Works Festival," which will feature original ballets created for the company by both emerging and established choreographers. During their residency, artists wi… |
| 2013 | Stephen Petronio Dance Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "Like Lazarus Did," a new work by Stephen Petronio. The work, inspired by the mythology of resurrection, will be created in collaboratio… |
| 2013 | University of Nebraska at Lincoln | Lincoln, NE | $20,000 | To support a dance residency with STREB at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. The interdisciplinary project will involve university students from dance, gymnastics, computer scie… |
| 2013 | Washington Ballet | Washington, DC | $20,000 | To support the Washington Ballet's Community Engagement Program. The company will offer low-cost dance training and free and subsided professional dance performances to Washington … |
| 2013 | Velocity Dance Center | Seattle, WA | $20,000 | To support Maximum Velocity, a dance intensive consisting of two summer programs: Strictly Seattle and the Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation. Participants will engage in four… |
| 2013 | Arts Resources in Collaboration, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support the Eye On Dance Archive Legacy Project. The complete archive features more than three decades of recorded dance performances, conversations, plus countless print and vi… |
| 2013 | Chicago Film Archives, NFP | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | To support the second phase of the preservation and dissemination of the moving image and audio collection for dancer and choreographer Ruth Page (1899-1991). Comprising more than … |
| 2013 | Jess Curtis/Gravity, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the presentation of a new international choreographic research project, "Performance Research Experiment #2: Paradox of the Heart," by artistic director Jess Curtis. A c… |
| 2013 | BodyVox | Portland, OR | $20,000 | To support an audience engagement program. The project will feature the apprentice troupe BodyVox-2 in community events throughout Oregon. |
| 2013 | Project Bandaloop | Oakland, CA | $20,000 | To support the re-staging of Bandaloop's seminal mountain work, "Crossing," a site-specific mountain performance that crosses the Sierra Nevada range from East to West. "Crossing" … |
| 2013 | Dimensions Dance Theater, Inc. | Oakland, CA | $20,000 | To support the educational outreach program "Rites of Passage." The program will focus on the African Diaspora and will include classes in Congolese, West African, Afro-Haitian, Af… |
| 2013 | Philadelphia Dance Projects | Philadelphia, PA | $20,000 | To support the SCUBA National Touring Network for Dance. Now in its tenth year, the goal of SCUBA is to tour regionally established, nationally emerging artists to and from the par… |
| 2013 | Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | New Orleans, LA | $20,000 | To support guest artist expenses for the 2014 New Orleans Dance Festival, presented by the Department of Theatre and Dance. The festival will include classes, lectures, demonstrati… |
| 2013 | Trey McIntyre Project | Boise, ID | $15,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new ballet by choreographer Trey McIntyre. Working in collaboration with visual artist and designer Peregrine Honig (who will create t… |
| 2013 | Ebony Repertory Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | To support Dance@theHolden, a new dance presenting series. Artists to be presented include Complexions Ballet from New York City, hip-hop artist Rennie Harris from Philadelphia, as… |
| 2013 | Virginia Arts Festival, Inc. | Norfolk, VA | $15,000 | To support "Cultivating Community Through Dance," which will include the presentation of the Birmingham Royal Ballet, Keigwin + Company, and the Richmond Ballet. The project will i… |
| 2013 | Spanish Dance Arts Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | To support the revival of founder Roberto Lorca's Luz y Sombra (1987), national touring, and home-based performances during the company's 30th anniversary year. Touring and New Yor… |
| 2013 | LEVYdance, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support the company's 10th anniversary Oudoor Home Season. The company will restage and remount work from their history on custom built stages in a San Francisco alleyway, which… |
| 2013 | Spring Lake Productions, Inc. | New Milford, CT | $15,000 | To support the creation of a new dance theater work by Martha Clarke, in collaboration with former American Ballet Theatre soloist Alessandra Ferri. The inspiration for this new wo… |
| 2013 | Dance Films Association, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | To support the Dance on Camera Festival and the Dance on Camera Festival Touring Partners Program. The world's longest running annual dance film festival will include domestic and … |
| 2013 | Garth Fagan Dance, Inc. | Rochester, NY | $15,000 | To support a free dance program designed to serve at-risk youth. Garth Fagan Dance will partner with the YMCA and the Rochester City Police Department to design Stop the Violence: … |
| 2013 | Dance Ring | New York, NY | $15,000 | To support the presentation of Antony Tudor's "Soiree Musicale," "Trio Con Brio," "Judgment of Paris," and "Jardin aux Lilas." 9/20/13--Tudor program replaces restaging of Jose Lim… |
| 2013 | Joffrey Ballet | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | To support the "Lemonis Bridge Program." The initiative focuses on classical ballet training in Chicago's underserved communities for students in the first and second grades. |
| 2013 | Ballet Oklahoma, Inc. | Oklahoma City, OK | $15,000 | To support Oklahoma City Ballet's "K-12 BalletReach" program. Students will meet daily with a ballet instructor to learn ballet history, terminology, strength, and technique at the… |
| 2013 | GroundWorks Dancetheater | Cleveland, OH | $15,000 | To support guest artist residencies for international choreographers Noa Zuk and Rosie Herrera. Portions of each residency will take place in Cleveland and Akron, and include the c… |
| 2013 | Festival Dance & Performing Arts Association, Inc. | Moscow, ID | $12,000 | To support the Festival Dance Youthreach Project. Touring professional dance companies will present a range of dance genres including ballet, modern, jazz, and multicultural dance … |
| 2013 | Dancers' Group | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support "In Dance," a publication targeted to dance artists in the San Francisco Bay Area. The issues appear in print as well as on the Web, and include a comprehensive performa… |
| 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 | Tulsa Ballet Theatre, Inc. | Tulsa, OK | $10,000 | To support creation and presentation of world premieres from choreographers including Ma Cong, Nicolo Fonte, and Matthew Neenan as part of the company's series Off the Floor: Creat… |
| 2013 | Monica Bill Barnes & Company | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work, choreographed by Monica Bill Barnes, with related outreach activities. The new work will be presented at Trinity College in … |
| 2013 | Racing Thoughts, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new dance work by choreographer Jane Comfort, in collaboration with sound designer Brandon Wolcott and lighting designer Joe Levasseur… |
| 2013 | Keigwin and Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of Canvas, a new dance by artistic director Larry Keigwin, in collaboration with the company and ballet dancers. It will be created while t… |
| 2013 | La Donna Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the continuance of creation and the presentation of a new work by artistic director Donna Uchizono. Fire Underground (working title) will be an evening-length work desig… |
| 2013 | Dance/USA | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | To support Dance/USA Philadelphia's presentation of the 2013 Philadelphia Dance Showcase. The showcase at the Christ Church Neighborhood House will be an opportunity for Philadelph… |
| 2013 | Movement Research, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the 2013 Spring and Fall Movement Research Festivals, a series of free and low-cost dance performances, classes, workshops, and related activities. The festivals will ga… |
| 2013 | Boston Dance Alliance, Inc. | Boston, MA | $10,000 | To support Behind the Scenes: In Front of the Curtain Part II, a technical support service for Boston dance artists. Continued development and utilization of their Web and video ex… |
| 2013 | Ballet Austin, Incorporated | Austin, TX | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of Snow White, choreographed by Nelly van Bommel. The one-act ballet will be performed by Ballet Austin II dancers, and will be van Bommel'… |
| 2013 | Robert L. Reed Tap Heritage Institute | Saint Louis, MO | $10,000 | To support the presentation of the St. Louis Tap Festival. The festival includes a performance titled "All That Tap" presented at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center at t… |
| 2013 | Smuin Ballets-SF | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the presentation of West Coast premieres of ballets by choreographers Adam Hougland and Helen Pickett. The works will include Adam Hougland's Cold Virtues and Helen Pick… |
| 2013 | American Tap Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support Tap City - The New York City Tap Festival. Activities will include training, education, and performances. |
| 2013 | Carolina Ballet, Inc. | Raleigh, NC | $10,000 | To support the presentation of "Giselle" during the company's 15th anniversary season. The work will be staged by Olga Kostritzky and free performances will be provided for social … |
| 2013 | St. Catherine University | Saint Paul, MN | $10,000 | To support the "Women of Substance" series at The O'Shaughnessy Auditorium, and related outreach activities. Artists to be presented include Bebe Miller Company, Emily Johnson/Cata… |
| 2013 | Capoeira Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation of a new work, "Fe do Sertao," based on the Festival of Sao Joao by artistic director Jelon Vieira. The work is a reflection of the culture and the people o… |
| 2013 | Visions In Rhythm | Austin, TX | $10,000 | To support the annual Soul to Sole Tap Festival. 1/9/14--per FDR, numerous artist substitutions. |
| 2013 | Shen Wei Dance Arts, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work by artistic director Shen Wei. The work will feature a commissioned score by composer Daniel Burke. |
| 2013 | Pick Up Performance Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support a new work by David Gordon and accompanying residency activities. For this new work, Gordon will re-examine and re-contextualize an earlier works, "Uncivil Wars." |
| 2013 | DanceArt, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the annual WestWave Dance, in partnership with SAFEhouse, which will include the presentation of works by Bay Area choreographers in a shared program at Z Space and at O… |
| 2013 | Milwaukee Ballet Company, Inc. | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | To support the biennial Genesis International Choreographic Competition, which will result in the creation of new dance works. Three emerging, professional choreographers will be i… |
| 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… |
| 2013 | Charlotte Ballet | Charlotte, NC | $10,000 | To support the creation and world premiere of a new work by dancer and choreographer Jiri Bubenicek. Education and outreach programming will include presenting excerpts of Bubenice… |
| 2013 | ODC | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of new works by resident choreographers Brenda Way and KT Nelson. Way, ODC founder and artistic director, will create "Lifesaving Maneuvers… |
| 2013 | Performance Zone, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support entrepreneurial skill-building programs for independent choreographers and dance companies and "Artward Bound," a residency program that fosters the creation of new work… |
| 2013 | Epiphany Dance Theater | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the "San Francisco Trolley Dances." The festival includes presentations of free site-specific contemporary dance performances presented along a different city trolley or… |
| 2013 | Gina Gibney Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the development of Dance in Process, a new choreographic residency program, and the creation and presentation of an evening-length work dividingLine. The residency will … |
| 2013 | Chicago Human Rhythm Project | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support the annual Rhythm World, a tap and percussive dance festival. The performances and other activities will take place at Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, the Muse… |
| 2013 | Thin Man Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the development of a new evening-length work by choreographer John Jasperse, as well as the presentation of Jasperse's Fort Blossom revisited. The new work will feature … |
| 2013 | Armitage Foundation Ltd. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of an evening-length production "Fables on Global Warming" during a residency at the Krannert Center at University of Illinois, Urbana-Cham… |
| 2013 | Complexions-A Concept In Dance | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation of a new work by artistic director Dwight Rhoden and the restaging of a work by choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo. |
| 2013 | Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre, Inc. | Astoria, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work by artistic director Pascal Rioult. The work will be set to a commissioned score by composer Michael Torke, marking the third… |
| 2013 | Parsons Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the presentation of a new work by choreographer and former Parsons dancer Katarzyna Skarpetowska. The work will focus on the loss of life, mind, and innocence, and will … |
| 2013 | Northwest Professional Dance Project | Portland, OR | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work by artistic director and choreographer Sarah Slipper. The piece will consist of three thematically linked duets for one male … |
| 2013 | Laurie Foundation for the Performing Arts, Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Greek choreographer Andonis Foniadakis. The work will be created for 14 Cedar Lake dancers, and will include music by Fren… |
| 2013 | Alabama Dance Council, Inc. | Huntsville, AL | $10,000 | To support the presentation of the 2013 Alabama Dance Festival. The statewide festival will feature performances by Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion, a choreography concert, showcase… |
| 2013 | Dansology, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "I am capitalism," by artistic director and choreographer Koosil-ja Hwang and in collaboration with Geoff Matters, a composer, media art… |
| 2013 | NewArt New Mexico, Inc. | Albuquerque, NM | $10,000 | To support "JOURNEYS: A Global Celebration of Contemporary Dance and Discourse." Artists to be presented include Nora Chipaumire (Zimbabwe/United States), Phillipe Blanchard (Swede… |
| 2013 | Des Moines Performing Arts | Des Moines, IA | $10,000 | To support the presentation of the Civic Center Dance Series. Companies presented in the series include Momix, Garth Fagan Dance, and Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. |
| 2013 | Big Tree Productions, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation of a new dance by artistic director Tere O'Connor. "BLEED" will be the result of merging three distinct dances into a fourth one. |
| 2013 | Career Transition For Dancers, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the National Outreach Project. The project takes career counseling services on a national tour with scheduled events to begin the conversation for many dancers about the… |
| 2013 | Threshold Dance Projects, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work, Butterflies and Demons by choreographer Jacqulyn Buglisi. The work will focus on human trafficking, and will include live mu… |
| 2013 | Chicago Dancing Company NFP | Lombard, IL | $10,000 | To support the presentation of local and national companies as part of the Chicago Dancing Festival. Festival activities will include free performances, open rehearsals, open compa… |
| 2013 | WCV, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation of THE SET UP, choreographed by Wally Cardona. The work will be made in collaboration with other contemporary dance artists such as Jennifer Lacey and tradi… |
| 2013 | Montgomery County Community College | Blue Bell, PA | $10,000 | To support the residency and presentation of the South Asian dance company, Nrityagram, sponsored by the Office of Cultural Affairs. The project will feature performances of two cl… |
| 2013 | University of Notre Dame du Lac | Notre Dame, IN | $10,000 | To support presentations of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, David Parsons Dance Company, and MOMIX at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. Each company will offer residency ac… |
| 2013 | Dance Notation Bureau, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the recording of dance works in labanotation and the continuation of the Online Digital Video Archive Project. The DVA comprises short digital video clips of dances in t… |
| 2013 | Art Sweats, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the final development and presentation of "Come, and Back Again," an evening-length dance work by choreographer David Dorfman. Inspired by the artistry of Patti Smith, s… |
| 2013 | Dance Camera West | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support the presentation of the Dance Camera West Dance Media Film Festival. Programs will include international short dance films, a documentary series, a short film series, si… |
| 2013 | Crosspulse | Oakland, CA | $10,000 | To support the United States tour of "Body Music," which showcases movement, rhythm, sound, and voice, and will include concerts, and education and outreach activities. The project… |
| 2013 | Capacitor Performance | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the presentation of "Okeanos," by choreographer Jodi Lomask, in partnership with the Aquarium of the Bay in San Francisco. The organizations will produce a 60-minute dan… |
| 2013 | Brown University | Providence, RI | $10,000 | To support the Dance Legacy Development Project presented by the American Dance Legacy Initiative. The American Dance Legacy Initiative will produce teaching methodologies, context… |
| 2013 | Princeton Ballet Society | New Brunswick, NJ | $10,000 | To support the world premiere of Douglas Martin's "Firebird" with live music of Stravinsky's full score. |
| 2013 | Cincinnati Ballet Company, Inc. | Cincinnati, OH | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a world premiere production of "Frampton and CB Live," featuring works by several choreographers, and music by guitarist Peter Frampton.… |
| 2013 | Professional Flair, Inc. | Cleveland, OH | $10,000 | To support "Rock that Rolls." Dancing Wheels will commission emerging choreographers from New York City to create new works for the company to music from Rock and Roll Hall of Fame… |
| 2013 | Newport Contemporary Ballet | Newport, RI | $10,000 | To support the expansion of Open for Dancing, a site-specific dance and arts festival. This biennial festival will include sites in Newport as well as at Providence's arts/industri… |
| 2013 | Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | To support "Running North: The Green Bay Project," which will engage communities of Green Bay, Wisconsin, and culminate in a performance. Participants will include children and fam… |
| 2013 | Ballet Works, Inc. | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | To support the James Sewell Ballet Mentorship and Residency programs in Red Wing and Grand Rapids, Minnesota. As part of the residency, young dancers from these areas will attend a… |
| 2013 | Sarasota Ballet of Florida, Inc. | Sarasota, FL | $10,000 | To support a celebration of the life and works of Sir Frederick Ashton. The celebration will feature performances of Ashton's most historically significant ballets and an exhibit f… |
| 2013 | Chinese Cultural Productions | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support Lily Cai Dance Company's national tour. Each touring engagement will include an evening-length performance of pieces from the company's permanent repertoire, an interact… |
| 2013 | River North Dance Company | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support the creation and tour of a new jazz dance work by choreographer Kevin Iega Jeff. Jeff is the artistic director of Chicago's Deeply Rooted Dance Theater and began creatin… |
| 2013 | Moving Forward: Contemporary Asian American Dance Company | Washington, DC | $10,000 | To support Dancing the Dream, an audience engagement project at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. During a residency, Dana Tai Soon Burgess & Co. will create two si… |
| 2013 | Gallim Dance Company, Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | To support "Clinton Hill Arts," a dance engagement program in Brooklyn's Clinton Hill community. The project will include community classes and workshops, open company rehearsals, … |
| 2013 | Daniel Phoenix Singh & Company | Washington, DC | $10,000 | To support the reconstruction and presentation of choreographer Anna Sokolow's dance theater work, "From the Diaries of Franz Kafka" (1980). The company will present performances, … |
| 2013 | The Cowles Center | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | To support Lifting the Dance Community to New Heights, a project to engage and expand dance audiences and strengthen the local dance community. The Cowles Center will give as many … |
| 2013 | Allison Orr Dance Inc. | Austin, TX | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of PowerUP by choreographer Allison Orr, in collaboration with the employees of Austin's Municipal Energy Department. The third in a series… |
| 2013 | Sharron Miller's Academy for the Performing Arts, Inc. | Montclair, NJ | $10,000 | To support the expansion of an in-school dance education residency program in the East Orange School District. The academy works with the Office of Assessment for the New Jersey De… |
| 2013 | Battery Dance Corporation | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the Dancing to Connect Institute, a program for engaging communities in modern dance. The Institute will take place for dance artists in New York City for two weeks in t… |
| 2013 | Dance Institute of Washington | Washington, DC | $10,000 | To support the "Positive Directions Through Dance" program. This free, year-round program provides underserved teenagers classes in classical ballet, modern, hip-hop, African dance… |
| 2013 | Andanza, Inc. | San Juan, PR | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of works by choreographers Carlos Ivan Santos and Antonio Gomes and the presentation of the company's annual production, Andanza at the Mus… |
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