NEA Dance Grants 2018: All 161 Awards
161 NEA dance grants for fiscal year 2018, totaling $3.9M.
| Year | Recipient | City | Amount | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Dance/USA | Minneapolis, MN | $100,000 | To support Dance/USA's core programs, including the annual conference, the Institute for Leadership Training (ILT), the annual Dance Forum, national research initiatives, and a pil… |
| 2018 | Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $90,000 | To support the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's 2018 national tour. Repertory pieces in the tour may include historical and contemporary dance works by a variety of choreograph… |
| 2018 | Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $90,000 | To support the presentation of dance artists. The Joyce will present a mix of established and emerging dance companies from the United States and abroad. Each company will receive … |
| 2018 | Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc. | Becket, MA | $90,000 | To support the presentation of dance artists as well as a variety of education and outreach activities at the Pillow. Creative Development Residencies will support the development … |
| 2018 | New York Live Arts Inc. | New York, NY | $80,000 | To support commissioning, residency, and producing programs, as well as the development and tour of works by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. The project includes five c… |
| 2018 | Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $80,000 | To support staff salaries and space costs for rehearsals in preparation for 2019 performances. The company will rehearse new works and revive Graham classics around the theme of ge… |
| 2018 | Trisha Brown Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $80,000 | To support Trisha Brown Dance Company's touring, educational work, and the preservation of Trisha Brown's legacy. Performances of "Trisha Brown: In Plain Site" is a program that ad… |
| 2018 | Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $75,000 | To support American Ballet Theatre's 2018 national tour. In addition to its annual New York performances at the Metropolitan Opera House and David H. Koch Theater, ABT will travel … |
| 2018 | New York City Ballet, Inc. | New York, NY | $75,000 | To support a festival celebrating Jerome Robbins' centennial, including a world premiere of a new ballet by Justin Peck. Multiple ballets by Robbins will be presented at the festiv… |
| 2018 | Dance Place | Washington, DC | $60,000 | To support Dance Place's presentation of emerging and established dance artists. The project will include presentation of national and D.C.-based artists and co-commissions of new … |
| 2018 | Friends of NORD, Inc. | New Orleans, LA | $60,000 | To support NORDC/NOBA Center For Dance's youth and senior citizen dance education program. The year-round program is a cultural community partnership of the New Orleans Recreation … |
| 2018 | Discalced, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $60,000 | To support the creation of a new dance work and restaging of older works by Artistic Director Mark Morris. The new work will be set to composer Franz Schubert's “Piano Quintet in A… |
| 2018 | American Dance Festival, Inc. | Durham, NC | $60,000 | To support presentations and commissions of early to mid-career choreographers and a repertory company at the American Dance Festival, as well as dance presentations at New York Li… |
| 2018 | New York City Center, Inc. | New York, NY | $50,000 | To support the Fall for Dance Festival. Celebrating its 15th year, the 2018 festival will consist of multiple performances featuring a variety of as many as 20 artists and dance co… |
| 2018 | San Francisco Ballet Association | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | To support the creation and presentation of new ballets and a company premiere. Liam Scarlett and Yuri Possokhov will create two new repertory ballets. In addition, Benjamin Millep… |
| 2018 | UBW, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $50,000 | To support a national performance tour with engagement programs. Touring repertory will feature two multidisciplinary performance works, Hair and Other Stories and SCAT!, alongside… |
| 2018 | Boston Ballet, Inc. | Boston, MA | $50,000 | To support Parts In Suite, a performance program featuring repertory dance works. The dance works featured in the program may include William Forsythe's "Pas/Parts 2016," Justin Pe… |
| 2018 | Miami City Ballet, Inc. | Miami Beach, FL | $50,000 | To support the presentation of a centennial celebration of American choreographer Jerome Robbins. The all-Robbins evening will highlight some of the choreographer's most quintessen… |
| 2018 | Pacific Northwest Ballet Association | Seattle, WA | $50,000 | To support the presentation of dance works by emerging choreographers. As part of the New Works Initiative, Pacific Northwest Ballet will present "Little Moral Jump" by Alejandro C… |
| 2018 | World Arts West | San Francisco, CA | $45,000 | To support staff salaries for the annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. The festival will present world dance companies based in Northern California and provide underserved a… |
| 2018 | Florida State University | Tallahassee, FL | $40,000 | To support creative laboratories for emerging dance artists and their collaborators at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography. Creative laboratories bring together a d… |
| 2018 | School of American Ballet, Inc. | New York, NY | $40,000 | To support the School of American Ballet's Boys Program, a tuition-free and subsidized ballet training program, and related community outreach activities. In addition to no-fee aud… |
| 2018 | Heritage Works | Detroit, MI | $40,000 | To support a series of dance performances and story circle dialogues featuring visiting choreographers and visual artists. Artists including visual artist Olayami Dabl and choreogr… |
| 2018 | President and Trustees of Bates College | Lewiston, ME | $40,000 | To support the Bates Dance Festival. The festival will include dance company residencies, performances, and outreach activities. The project will bring together leading dance figur… |
| 2018 | New Orleans Ballet Association | New Orleans, LA | $40,000 | To support the presentation of dance companies and related education and outreach programs. NOBA will present a diverse season that includes new commissioned work, and many communi… |
| 2018 | Dance Works, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $40,000 | To support Pentacle's research and comprehensive management support for the dance community. Activities include mentoring, administrative support such as direct staffing and intern… |
| 2018 | Stephen Petronio Dance Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $40,000 | To support the re-creation of a Merce Cunningham work for Bloodlines and the creation of "Hardness 10," a new work by Stephen Petronio. This project will mark the fourth year of th… |
| 2018 | Danspace Project, Inc. | New York, NY | $40,000 | To support dance presentations, residencies, and developmental activities for choreographers. Each of these activities contributes to Danspace's Choreographic Center Without Walls,… |
| 2018 | White Bird | Portland, OR | $40,000 | To support the presentation of dance companies as part of the White Bird Uncaged series. White Bird Uncaged focuses on the world's most innovative regional, national, and internati… |
| 2018 | Regents of the University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | $40,000 | To support the presentation of a series of collaborative dance residencies and engagement activities at Northrop. Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, Company … |
| 2018 | Foundation for Independent Artists, Inc. | New York, NY | $40,000 | To support the creation, presentation, and touring of works by Faye Driscoll and John Heginbotham. Driscoll will develop and premiere her "Thank You for Coming" series at Montclair… |
| 2018 | Karen Peterson and Dancers, Inc. | Pinecrest, FL | $35,000 | To support a festival and conference dedicated to physically integrated dance. The event will bring together national and international professional dancers with and without disabi… |
| 2018 | Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc. | New York, NY | $35,000 | To support a national tour as part of the company's 50th anniversary season. The company will perform classical repertoire and newly created contemporary ballets, including works c… |
| 2018 | Houston Ballet Foundation | Houston, TX | $35,000 | To support the presentation of ballets. The works to be presented include a new work by Artistic Director Stanton Welch and Tim Harbour's "Filigree and Shadow." The company will al… |
| 2018 | STREB Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $30,000 | To support the creative development of "Falling & Loving," a collaboration with Anne Bogart and the SITI Ensemble Theater Company. STREB and SITI will create a piece that expresses… |
| 2018 | Jose Limon Dance Foundation | New York, NY | $30,000 | To support a national tour of the Limón Dance Company. Venues to host the company's tour include South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center (Miami, Florida) and The Joyce Theater (New Y… |
| 2018 | Ordway Center for the Performing Arts | Saint Paul, MN | $30,000 | To support the commission and presention of Weave, an intersectional Native dance project by Rosy Simas Danse. Weave will honor the interwoven and interdependent nature of our worl… |
| 2018 | Ririe-Woodbury Dance Foundation | Salt Lake City, UT | $30,000 | To support a tour of performances and residency activities. The company will present works from its repertory and collaborate with Arts for the Schools and Truckee High School Thea… |
| 2018 | 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 works to be performed will be from the company's r… |
| 2018 | Ballet Tech Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $30,000 | To support a tuition-free ballet training program. Founded by choreographer Eliot Feld, the audition-based program provides beginning to advanced ballet training for New York City … |
| 2018 | Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County | Los Angeles, CA | $30,000 | To support the presentation of Voyage and Trajectoire by DIAVOLO Architecture in Motion at The Music Center. The performances of Voyage will be the world premiere of the new work. |
| 2018 | Colorado Ballet Company | Denver, CO | $30,000 | To support Colorado Ballet's collaboration with fellow Denver dance companies Wonderbound and Cleo Parker Robinson Dance. Garrett Ammon, artistic director of Wonderbound and Cleo P… |
| 2018 | Philadelphia Dance Company | Philadelphia, PA | $30,000 | To support the development and creation of new works by PHILADANCO! alumni. Success Stories will celebrate the innovation and creativity of the artists. The project will allow them… |
| 2018 | Yard, Inc. | Chilmark, MA | $30,000 | To support contemporary dance performances and artist residencies. Residencies may include performances, showings, pop-up performances, educational programs, and weekly seminars fe… |
| 2018 | On the Boards | Seattle, WA | $30,000 | To support dance presentations, residencies, and developmental activities for choreographers. A Northwest incubator for contemporary dance, OtB will work with local, national, and … |
| 2018 | DOVA, Inc. | New York, NY | $30,000 | To support the creation of "everything is fine" by Doug Varone, a new work comprising ten short dances. Inspired by poems of former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins, the work will … |
| 2018 | Inta, Inc. | New York, NY | $30,000 | To support the touring of Eiko Otake's solo project for non-theatrical spaces, "A Body in Places." These non-theatrical spaces can be as large as a transportation hub or as tiny as… |
| 2018 | Performance Zone, Inc. | New York, NY | $25,000 | To support The Field's creative resources and capacity-building programs for national dance artists. Participating artists will take advantage of Fieldwork, a peer-driven feedback … |
| 2018 | Vail Valley Foundation | Avon, CO | $25,000 | To support the Vail Dance Festival. The festival, lasting two weeks in the city of Vail, Colorado, will present dance from both established and emerging choreographers and attendee… |
| 2018 | Wesleyan University | Middletown, CT | $25,000 | To support dance performances and residency activities at Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts. Artists Raphael Xavier and Contra-Tiempo will engage students and the local com… |
| 2018 | Dimensions Dance Theater, Inc. | Oakland, CA | $25,000 | To support the Rites of Passage dance education program for youth. The project brings traditional African dance and music and contemporary African-derived art to youth throughout t… |
| 2018 | American Dance Institute | New York, NY | $25,000 | To support LUMBERYARD's Inaugural Upstate Season 2018 of residencies and performance opportunities for dance artists. Resources provided to invited artists will include rehearsal t… |
| 2018 | Dance Film SF, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | To support the San Francisco Dance Film Festival. The festival will feature as many as four days of film screenings around the city, select live performances, question-and-answer s… |
| 2018 | Cleveland Modern Dance Association | Cleveland, OH | $25,000 | To support DANCECleveland's performances, residency, and educational activities. Companies to be presented will include Grupo Corpo, Che Malambo, and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. … |
| 2018 | Alabama Dance Council, Inc. | Huntsville, AL | $25,000 | To support the Alabama Dance Festival. The festival will include performances and a residency by Ballet Memphis, audience engagement residencies by guest choreographers, a New Work… |
| 2018 | Dance Resource Center of Greater Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | To support technical assistance to dance companies working with veterans, including the production of a culminating performance. This project will serve Los Angeles-area dance comp… |
| 2018 | Velocity Dance Center | Seattle, WA | $20,000 | To support the Maximum Velocity summer dance festival. Comprising Strictly Seattle and the Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation, Maximum Velocity is a month-long immersion in co… |
| 2018 | George Balanchine Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support the editing of videos and coaching sessions for the Balanchine Video Archives. The Video Archives were devised to capture the first-hand memories and insights of dancers… |
| 2018 | Alonzo King LINES Ballet | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the creation and world premiere of a ballet by Alonzo King, in collaboration with the Kronos Quartet. The work will be presented at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in Sa… |
| 2018 | Thin Man Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support the final stage of creation and premiere of a new evening-length work by John Jasperse. The project activities will include rehearsals in New York City, a developmental … |
| 2018 | GroundWorks Dancetheater | Cleveland, OH | $20,000 | To support commissions and creative residencies. As part of the company's 20th anniversary season, choreographers Banning Bouldin and Dianne McIntyre will be commissioned to set wo… |
| 2018 | Fresh Meat Productions | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support community forums, workshops, classes, and question-and-answer sessions during a national tour of BOYS IN TROUBLE by choreographer Sean Dorsey. The work is about navigati… |
| 2018 | University of Nebraska at Lincoln | Lincoln, NE | $20,000 | To support the presentation of Rennie Harris Puremovement's Lifted! at the Lied Center for the Performing Arts. The work follows a young black man who is surrounded and supported b… |
| 2018 | Gotham Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support Vault, Bebe Miller Company's ongoing intergenerational artist-driven convening of artists, curators and scholars to share innovative methodologies for conceiving, docume… |
| 2018 | AXIS Dance Company | Berkeley, CA | $20,000 | To support dance education and outreach programs for youth and adults with and without disabilities. AXIS will offer a variety of educational opportunities in the Bay Area and on a… |
| 2018 | Sharron Miller's Academy for the Performing Arts, Inc. | Montclair, NJ | $20,000 | To support in-school dance education residencies in Newark and Paterson, New Jersey. SMAPA has been working with students in Kindergarten through the eighth grade at Newark's Quitm… |
| 2018 | Aspen Santa Fe Ballet | Aspen, CO | $20,000 | To support a national tour of dance performances. The company will travel to different cities across the United States with existing and new works. A new co-commission by choreogra… |
| 2018 | Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | To support artist fees for dance presentations and residencies at The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago. Artists to be presented include Spectrum Dance Theatre and Tere O'Co… |
| 2018 | ODC | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of new dance works. Co-Artistic Director KT Nelson will choreograph "Path of Miracles," a collaboration between ODC/Dance and the SF choral… |
| 2018 | ODC Theater | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the presentation of dance works by Rashaun Mitchell, Cori Olinghouse, and Bobbi Jene Smith. |
| 2018 | Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support the Instituto Coreografico (Choreographic Institute), a choreographic creation and mentorship program serving emerging and underrecognized Latino choreographers. Choreog… |
| 2018 | Project Bandaloop | Oakland, CA | $20,000 | To support the development of "#LAPublicCanvas," the latest iteration of "#PublicCanvas," a large-scale vertical dance by choreographer Amelia Rudolph. BANDALOOP will reimagine thi… |
| 2018 | Dance Service New York City, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support Dance/NYC's Symposium, town hall meetings, the Junior Committee, a conference, and continued expansion of the organization's website. The Symposium includes panel discus… |
| 2018 | Gina Gibney Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support commissions, production support and performance opportunities for emerging and established dance artists. Artists will experience support through a broad portfolio of in… |
| 2018 | Ragamala Dance | Minneapolis, MN | $20,000 | To support a dance festival celebrating the company's 25th anniversary. The festival will highlight Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy's journey as immigrant artists whose creative vision … |
| 2018 | Chicago Human Rhythm Project | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | To support the annual Stomping Grounds and Rhythm World festivals, and a national tour. Stomping Grounds is a collaborative, citywide celebration of rhythmic expression and cultura… |
| 2018 | Arts Resources in Collaboration, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | To support the Eye on Dance Legacy Archive and Access Project. The project will systematically organize, assess, identify, and safeguard elements of the archive for full public acc… |
| 2018 | Diavolo Dance Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | To support DIAVOLO Architecture in Motion's education and outreach programs during the company's national tour. The company will partner with venues to focus education and outreach… |
| 2018 | Dancers' Group | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support In Dance, a free print and online monthly publication that promotes dance artists and activities in the San Francisco Bay Area. The publication includes a comprehensive … |
| 2018 | FringeArts | Philadelphia, PA | $15,000 | To support the re-creation of dance choreography by contemporary dance pioneer John Bernd, co-directed by Ishmael Houston-Jones and Miguel Gutierrez. Using rediscovered archival ma… |
| 2018 | International Association of Blacks in Dance, Inc. | Washington, DC | $15,000 | To support the 31st annual International Conference and Festival of Blacks in Dance. This national gathering of black dance professionals in the United States will take place in Da… |
| 2018 | Professional Flair, Inc. | Cleveland, OH | $15,000 | To support the commission and presentation of new dance works. Dancing Wheels will commission as many as three new works from advanced, mid-range and emerging choreographers with d… |
| 2018 | Epiphany Dance Theater | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support San Francisco Trolley Dances in its 15th anniversary year. The Epiphany Dance Theater presents a site-specific, free dance festival featuring the work of local choreogra… |
| 2018 | Margaret Jenkins Dance Studio, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support the creation of "Shadows and Embers." In 1988, Jenkins collaborated with Yoko Ono on a work which had, as its central metaphor, the cry for peace. The set consisted of 1… |
| 2018 | CONTRA-TIEMPO Inc. | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | To support the creation of an evening-length work, joyUS. The urban Latin dance theater piece will explore the idea of joy in relation to struggle and conflict. Developed with resi… |
| 2018 | Dance Institute of Washington | Washington, DC | $15,000 | To support the Positive Directions Through Dance program and Washington Reflections Dance Company. The free, year-long arts learning program serves at-risk youth with dance trainin… |
| 2018 | Tulsa Ballet Theatre, Inc. | Tulsa, OK | $15,000 | To support the presentation of dance works "The Green Table" and "Rassemblement." "The Green Table," originally staged in Paris in 1932, explores the frustration and horror of war.… |
| 2018 | Repertory Dance Theatre | Salt Lake City, UT | $15,000 | To support audience engagement activities as part of a new dance initiative to celebrate the many vibrant cultures of Utah. This initiative will thread through RDT's season of comm… |
| 2018 | Garth Fagan Dance, Inc. | Rochester, NY | $15,000 | To support community outreach and dance education for youth. Garth Fagan Dance will provide dance training and performance opportunities for school-aged children, as well as free l… |
| 2018 | Creative Netwerk | Astoria, NY | $15,000 | To support the development of chapters, dance teacher training, and program expansion in Chicago, Illinois, and Houston, Texas. EDN! provides free, weekly hip-hop and street dance … |
| 2018 | Festival Dance & Performing Arts Association, Inc. | Moscow, ID | $15,000 | To support the Festival Dance Youthreach Project, an educational outreach program with professional dance companies in rural communities. Touring professional dance companies will … |
| 2018 | Jessica Lang Dance, Inc | Long Island City, NY | $15,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Jessica Lang in tribute to the music of Tony Bennett. Drawing from her early training in jazz and musical theater, Lang wi… |
| 2018 | Ballet West | Salt Lake City, UT | $15,000 | To support the presentation and promotion of new ballet works at the National Choreographic Festival. The 2018 festival will focus on the perspective and leadership of female chore… |
| 2018 | National Institute of Flamenco | Albuquerque, NM | $15,000 | To support residency activities for flamenco artists traveling from Spain to New Mexico. Through the Visiting Artist Line, NIF brings the world's finest professional flamenco artis… |
| 2018 | Spectrum Dance Theater | Seattle, WA | $15,000 | To support the creation of a new work by Donald Byrd. This new work will continue Byrd's focus on creating awareness about human trafficking and draw parallels to historical black … |
| 2018 | Kyle Abraham Abraham In Motion | New York, NY | $15,000 | To support the touring of dance works by Artistic Director Kyle Abraham. The company will present Abraham's "Dearest Home" and "Live! The Realest MC" in select U.S. cities and abro… |
| 2018 | Eugene Ballet | Eugene, OR | $15,000 | To support the premiere of "Peer Gynt," a multimedia ballet by choreographer Toni Pimble based on Henrik Ibsen's fairy tale play. In collaboration with designer Andy Warfel and vid… |
| 2018 | Monica Bill Barnes & Company | New York, NY | $15,000 | To support the creation of a new work by Monica Bill Barnes. This developmental phase will consist of rehearsals, workshops, design meetings, residency activities, venue tryouts, t… |
| 2018 | La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new solo performance work, "Time No Line," by John Kelly. Based on Kelly's journals, the work will engage younger generations and prov… |
| 2018 | Cincinnati Ballet Company, Inc. | Cincinnati, OH | $15,000 | To support the dance productions of Nicolo Fonte's "Carmina Burana" and George Balanchine's "Serenade." Community engagement activities may include meet-the-artist events, open reh… |
| 2018 | Atlanta Ballet, Inc. | Atlanta, GA | $15,000 | To support a new dance work by Tara Lee, choreographer and company member of Atlanta Ballet. Inspired by the stars, "blink" will be performed at The Cobb Energy Performing Arts Cen… |
| 2018 | Nashville Ballet | Nashville, TN | $15,000 | To support the company premiere of Stephen Mills' "Light: The Holocaust and Humanity Project," and accompanying community engagement programming. The work will be presented at the … |
| 2018 | Joffrey Ballet | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Nicolas Blanc, Joffrey Ballet master and principal coach. The work will transport audiences through five worlds amid compo… |
| 2018 | Movement Research, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | To support the presentation of free and low-cost public performance programs. The programs will include Movement Research at the Judson Church and Movement Research Festivals. The … |
| 2018 | Research Foundation for the State University of New York, SUNY at Buffalo | Amherst, NY | $14,199 | To support UB Center for the Arts' pilot program to provide dance education in Buffalo schools. Modeled after the Lincoln Center Institute for Aesthetic Education, the university w… |
| 2018 | Bruce Wood Dance Company, Inc. | Dallas, TX | $10,000 | To support the re-staging, presentation, and archival development of I'm My Brother's Keeper by Bruce Wood (1960-2014). I'm My Brother's Keeper is a dance theater work about men an… |
| 2018 | Nevada Ballet Theatre, Inc. | Las Vegas, NV | $10,000 | To support presenting a dance work by choreographer Gerald Arpino. The year 2018 marks the tenth anniversary of Arpino's passing. The company will perform Arpino's ballet, Light Ra… |
| 2018 | Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | To support a residency to engage diverse communities in and around Springfield, Massachusetts. The project will serve students in the performing arts and health sciences from Unive… |
| 2018 | New Dialect | Nashville, TN | $10,000 | To support a year-long contemporary dance education project for children, teens, pre-professional dancers, professional dancers, and adults. The project will include daily techniqu… |
| 2018 | The Cowles Center | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | To support performances by Minnesota-based dance companies. The project will utilize an artist-centered approach by employing a box office structure and support platform that mitig… |
| 2018 | Zorongo Flamenco, Inc. | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | To support a residency with flamenco artist Belén Maya as part of the MAJAS apprentice program. The MAJAS program introduces students to Artistic Director Susana di Palma's choreog… |
| 2018 | Crosspulse | Oakland, CA | $10,000 | To support the development, creation, and production of a multigenerational, collaborative Body Music performance and interactive production, PASS IT DOWN. The performance and inte… |
| 2018 | Valencia College | Orlando, FL | $10,000 | To support the re-staging and presentation of Paul Taylor "3 Epitaphs" by Valencia College students. Francie Huber, an award-winning principal dancer with the Paul Taylor Dance Com… |
| 2018 | Dogtown Dance Theatre | Richmond, VA | $10,000 | To support performances and programming for dance artists. Dogtown will present local community performance events, including the Richmond Dance Festival, Dogtown Presenter's Serie… |
| 2018 | Joe Goode Performance Group | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new dance work about safe havens by choreographer Joe Goode. Performances will take place at the historic Haas-Lilienthal House, which… |
| 2018 | Pilobolus, Inc. | Washington, CT | $10,000 | To support the creation of a new work as part of the International Collaborators Project. Eye-Opening is based on a BBC broadcast lecture by Richard Dawkins that explored how the n… |
| 2018 | Dance Continuum, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the premiere and public engagement events for "Construction," a collaboration between Susan Marshall and the So Percussion ensemble. Marshall developed the work in colla… |
| 2018 | Smuin Ballets-SF | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the presentation of dance works as part of the company's 25th anniversary season. Artistic Director Celia Fushille has curated a selection of artists to honor the past, … |
| 2018 | University of Washington | Seattle, WA | $10,000 | To support the staging, presentation and documentation of Harald Kreutzberg's Dances Before God, a triptych of solo dance works. Kreutzberg (1902-68) played a major role in the dev… |
| 2018 | Lobero Theatre Foundation | Santa Barbara, CA | $10,000 | To support a residency with choreographer Doug Elkins, part of the DANCEworks program. SUMMERDANCE Santa Barbara will collaborate on the project to provide New York City-based arti… |
| 2018 | transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | To support CREATE, an intensive dance program for students. The CREATE program will create and present "Light Within the Cracks," which includes original contemporary dance, spoken… |
| 2018 | Moving Forward: Contemporary Asian American Dance Company | Washington, DC | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of Sillhouettes, a new multimedia dance and video projection project by Artistic Director Dana Tai Soon Burgess. As the first choreographer… |
| 2018 | Painted Bride Art Center | Philadelphia, PA | $10,000 | To support a creative residency with choreographer Jumatatu M. Poe and J-Sette artist Donte Beacham. The project will offer several pop-up performances in predominantly African-Ame… |
| 2018 | Infinity Dance Theater Company, Ltd. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support integrated dance classes and choreography workshops for people with disabilities and a teacher training series. Dance educator Kitty Lunn will lead free weekly dance cla… |
| 2018 | Broadway Dance Lab | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support a choreography lab that offers dance artists free rehearsal space and dancers to assist with the creation process. As many as five selected choreographers, at various st… |
| 2018 | Jess Curtis/Gravity, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support artist fees for the creation and presentation of a new dance work by choreographer Jess Curtis about sight and perception. The company will partner with LightHouse for t… |
| 2018 | Parsons Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation of new work by David Parsons in collaboration with emerging choreographer Eoghan Dillon. The work will be developed for performances for people with learnin… |
| 2018 | Peridance Ensemble, Ltd. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support a dance residency at Stony Brook University in Long Island, New York. During the three-day residency, the company will perform a full-length repertory program at Stony B… |
| 2018 | Kim Robards Dance, Inc. | Denver, CO | $10,000 | To support the Moving Possibilities to Performance program. Professional dance performances of original choreography by Kim Robards will be presented. The program also includes a s… |
| 2018 | Northeast Ohio Center for Choreography | Akron, OH | $10,000 | To support a series of research and development residencies for choreographers. Each residency will offer choreographers and visiting dancers two or more weeks of unrestricted acce… |
| 2018 | Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose, Inc. | San Jose, CA | $10,000 | To support performances of Stories of Justice, an original dance work using Bharatanatyam dance. The work will comprise six to eight dance pieces that collectively examine non-viol… |
| 2018 | Noche Flamenca, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the research, development, and performance of a new dance work based on the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone. The work will be adapted and choreographed by Martín Sa… |
| 2018 | cmDance | Denver, CO | $10,000 | To support the Lindy on the Rocks Vintage Dance Festival. The multicultural festival encompasses themed events held in the same venue such as Lindy on the Rocks, Hot Night Fusion, … |
| 2018 | Visions In Rhythm | Austin, TX | $10,000 | To support Tapestry Dance Company's annual Soul to Sole Festival, a national education and performance forum for the art of tap dance. The company will invite a wide range of dance… |
| 2018 | Newport Contemporary Ballet | Newport, RI | $10,000 | To support the Great Friends Touring project, a touring model that offers reciprocal dance residency benefits for the participating companies. The project creates a new touring mod… |
| 2018 | American Tap Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support Tap City, an annual tap dance festival. Activities will include master classes, choreography residencies, tap films presentations, and performances assembling profession… |
| 2018 | OhioDance | Columbus, OH | $10,000 | To support the creation of a documentary film based on the OhioDance Virtual Dance Collection and the expansion of the online archive. The project will include the creation of a do… |
| 2018 | Contempo Physical Dance | Saint Paul, MN | $10,000 | To support a commission of choreographer Nildinha Fonsêca, of Brazil's Balé Folclóico da Bahia. Fonsêca will create and set a new dance on the company drawing from her Afro-Brazili… |
| 2018 | Des Moines Performing Arts | Des Moines, IA | $10,000 | To support the Dance Series, a presentation of professional dance companies. The companies to be presented will include Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, MOMIX, and Ballet Hispanico. I… |
| 2018 | Flyaway Productions | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "Tender," an aerial dance work. The project is a large scale public art performance that will take place in the Tenderloin neighborhood … |
| 2018 | Keigwin and Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of new works by Larry Keigwin. In honor of Leonard Bernstein's centennial in 2018, the company will develop new companion works set to the … |
| 2018 | CounterPulse | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the Artist Residency and Commissioning (ARC) Program, which provides space and support for emerging and mid-career choreographers to create new works. The ARC Program su… |
| 2018 | Oregon Ballet Theatre | Portland, OR | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Darrell Grand Moultrie. Using the men's trio from his 2015 work, "Instinctual Confidence," as a springboard, Moultrie will… |
| 2018 | Ananya Dance Theatre | Saint Paul, MN | $10,000 | To support the creation of "Shaatranga: At the Edge of New Worlds" by Ananya Chatterjea. To support the creation of "Shaatranga: Women Weaving Worlds" by Ananya Chatterjea. |
| 2018 | Flying Foot Forum | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | To support Flying Foot Forum's 25th anniversary concert featuring a program of percussive dance and music. Artistic Director Joe Chvala will create new work, restage previous works… |
| 2018 | Charlotte Ballet | Charlotte, NC | $10,000 | To support "The Most Incredible Thing," a dance choreographed by Javier de Frutos, based on a Hans Christian Andersen story. The story explores the importance and value of creativi… |
| 2018 | Gallim Dance Company, Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | To support an ongoing dance engagement program in Brooklyn's Clinton Hill community. Based in the company's artistic and administrative home in a historic church in Clinton Hill, B… |
| 2018 | Ballet Austin, Incorporated | Austin, TX | $10,000 | To support the creation and performance of a contemporary ballet by Pam Tanowitz. The work will feature Tanowitz's exploration of pattern and form using complex movement phrases. P… |
| 2018 | Richmond Ballet, Inc. | Richmond, VA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of dances as part of the New Works Festival. The festival was designed to commission new ballets in a non-traditional format. Several artis… |
| 2018 | Virginia Arts Festival, Inc. | Norfolk, VA | $10,000 | To support dance performances as part of the annual Virginia Arts Festival. The project includes public performances and community engagement activities, including master classes a… |
| 2018 | Racing Thoughts, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | To support an archiving project to preserve the history of Jane Comfort and Company. The company will greatly expand the archive page of its website, tracing the genesis and develo… |
| 2018 | CityDance Ensemble, Inc. | Washington, DC | $10,000 | To support professional guest artist residencies at CityDance Conservatory. Guest artists lead master classes, teach professional choreography, create new repertory, and perform wi… |
| 2018 | Texas International Theatrical Arts Society | Dallas, TX | $10,000 | To support the presentation of dance performances by Alonzo King LINES Ballet. TITAS Presents will feature Alonzo King LINES Ballet as part of a curated series of dance performance… |
| 2018 | Five Colleges, Incorporated | Amherst, MA | $10,000 | To support a dance residency for students with choreographer Camille A. Brown. The residency will include the restaging and public performances of Brown's "New Second Line" by two … |
| 2018 | Bradley Family Foundation, Inc. | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | To support a residency and performance with Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group at Lynden Sculpture Garden. Wilson will adapt his work "Citizen," a piece investigating ci… |
| 2018 | Zoe Juniper | Seattle, WA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a 360-degree, virtual reality dance film. Filmed from a dancer's performance perspective, viewers will feel as if they are moving in spa… |
| 2018 | Dance Films Association, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the Dance on Camera Festival (DOCF) and Dance on Camera Tour. The festival, co-presented with the Film Society of Lincoln Center, will include film programming that expl… |
| 2018 | Armitage Foundation Ltd. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support a contemporary dance production of "You Took a Part of Me" by Armitage Gone! Dance. Based on a classic novel, the dance production will be modernized through a feminist … |
| 2018 | Joint Forces Dance Company | Eugene, OR | $10,000 | To support a series of national teacher trainings for dance educators, choreographers, and performers in the DanceAbility method. DanceAbility International will offer professional… |
| 2018 | Dances For A Variable Population | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support dance workshops and free public performances. The project will celebrate renewal of 20th-century modern dance, featuring senior professional dance artists alongside grou… |
| 2018 | Spanish Dance Arts Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation of a new dance work, public engagement activities in New York City, and a national tour. The new dance, "Eterna," is a 30-minute work for 6 dancers and four… |
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