NEA Dance Grants 2019: All 172 Awards
172 NEA dance grants for fiscal year 2019, totaling $4M.
| Year | Recipient | City | Amount | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc. | Becket, MA | $108,000 | To support presentations and creative development residencies for dance artists at The Pillow. Programs will support the presentation of new works and the artistic development of a… |
| 2019 | Dance/USA | Minneapolis, MN | $100,000 | To support Dance/USA's core programs, including the Institute for Leadership Training, national research initiatives, and a dance archiving education program. Dance/USA serves the … |
| 2019 | Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $90,000 | To support the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's 2019 national tour. Repertory pieces in the tour may include historical and contemporary dance works by a variety of choreograph… |
| 2019 | 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 … |
| 2019 | Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $80,000 | To support staff salaries and space costs for a period of creative development and rehearsals for the EVE Project. The company will rehearse new works by established and emerging c… |
| 2019 | Trisha Brown Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $80,000 | To support performances, educational work, and the preservation of Trisha Brown's legacy. The project will include Trisha Brown: In Plain Site, a program that adapts Brown's works … |
| 2019 | New York City Ballet, Inc. | New York, NY | $75,000 | To support the creation and presentation of new works by resident choreographer Justin Peck and choreographer Pam Tanowitz. This will be Peck's 18th ballet for New York City Ballet… |
| 2019 | New York Live Arts Inc. | New York, NY | $75,000 | To support staff salaries related to the presentation of dance companies, as well as dancer salaries related to the development of a new work by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance … |
| 2019 | Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $70,000 | To support the presentation of dance works on a national tour. The company will present Paul Taylor's master works, as well as his most recent dances, to audiences across the Unite… |
| 2019 | Dance Place | Washington, DC | $70,000 | To support Dance Place's technical rehearsal residencies for local and national dance artists and related community engagement programming. In addition to performing, dance compani… |
| 2019 | Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $65,000 | To support the ABT Women's Movement program, which focuses on work created by female choreographers. There will be approximately three choreographers who will create new works for … |
| 2019 | American Dance Festival, Inc. | Durham, NC | $60,000 | To support debuts at the American Dance Festival (ADF) and education activities. Festival debuts by choreographers Tommy Noonan & Murielle Elizéon, Taylor 2 Dance Company, Graham 2… |
| 2019 | Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc. | New York, NY | $60,000 | To support salaries for the national tour during Dance Theatre of Harlem's 50th anniversary season. The tour will feature performances of works by choreographers such as Robert Gar… |
| 2019 | Friends of NORD, Inc. | New Orleans, LA | $60,000 | To support youth dance programs and activities with Ballet Hispánico. The programs are a cultural community partnership with New Orleans Recreation Development Commission (NORDC) a… |
| 2019 | UBW, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $55,000 | To support a national performance tour with engagement programs. The tour will benefit a broad population of audiences, artists, educators and the public through performing, engage… |
| 2019 | Boston Ballet, Inc. | Boston, MA | $50,000 | To support Full On Forsythe, a repertory evening of dance works by William Forsythe. Works to be performed include Playlist (EP), Blake Works I, and a revival of Pas/Parts 2018. Bl… |
| 2019 | Pacific Northwest Ballet Association | Seattle, WA | $50,000 | To support the presentation of dance works and engagement activities by choreographers Robyn Mineko Williams and Justin Peck. As part of the Director's Choice program, Artistic Dir… |
| 2019 | Discalced, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $50,000 | To support the creation of new dance works and restaging of older works by Artistic Director Mark Morris. The new works will be set to composer Erik Satie's Sports et Divertissemen… |
| 2019 | World Arts West | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | To support the artistic direction and mentorship of dance companies as part of the annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. Festival Artistic Directors Patrick Makuakane, Latany… |
| 2019 | Miami City Ballet, Inc. | Miami Beach, FL | $50,000 | To support the presentation of George Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments. Also referred to as "A Dance Ballet Without a Plot," the company will perform this work at various venues … |
| 2019 | New York City Center, Inc. | New York, NY | $50,000 | To support performance fees for dance companies participating in the Fall for Dance Festival. The festival will feature a variety of artists and dance companies representing a broa… |
| 2019 | Jose Limon Dance Foundation | New York, NY | $50,000 | To support the preservation and restaging of master works from the company's repertory. The following works will be re-staged and rehearsed as part of the company's 75th anniversar… |
| 2019 | New Orleans Ballet Association | New Orleans, LA | $45,000 | To support the presentation of dance companies and related education and engagement programs. In celebration of its 50th anniversary, NOBA will present a special concert featuring … |
| 2019 | Houston Ballet Foundation | Houston, TX | $40,000 | To support rehearsal periods of new repertory works. The new works will premiere at the Wortham Theater Center's Brown Theater in March 2019 following a rehearsal period leading up… |
| 2019 | President and Trustees of Bates College | Lewiston, ME | $40,000 | To support the presentation of contemporary dance at the Bates Dance Festival. The festival will include dance company residencies, performances, and student dance classes. The pro… |
| 2019 | Stephen Petronio Dance Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $40,000 | To support the re-creation, presentation, and tour of historic dance works, as well as a world premiere by Stephen Petronio. In celebration of its 35th anniversary, the company wil… |
| 2019 | 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 presenting innovative regional, national, and international d… |
| 2019 | 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,… |
| 2019 | Florida State University | Tallahassee, FL | $40,000 | To support creative research laboratories for emerging dance artists and their collaborators at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography. The project brings together a d… |
| 2019 | Karen Peterson and Dancers, Inc. | Pinecrest, FL | $40,000 | To support Forward Motion, a festival and conference dedicated to physically integrated dance. The event will bring together national and international professional dancers with an… |
| 2019 | San Francisco Ballet Association | San Francisco, CA | $40,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Cathy Marston. The work will be presented to the public at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco. |
| 2019 | Regents of the University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | $40,000 | To support audience engagement activities as part of the Northrop Dance Series. Artists to be presented will include the Joffrey Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ballet … |
| 2019 | Philadelphia Dance Company | Philadelphia, PA | $35,000 | To support free student matinees, choreographic workshops, and professional training and rehearsals. Philadanco! performances will take place at the Kimmel Center for the Performin… |
| 2019 | Yard, Inc. | Chilmark, MA | $30,000 | To support YARD ARTS' artist research residencies and related community education and engagement activities. YARD ARTS will welcome a diverse mix of dance companies who will receiv… |
| 2019 | Dance Works, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $30,000 | To support Pentacle's research and comprehensive management support for the dance community. Activities include mentoring, administrative support such as direct staffing and intern… |
| 2019 | 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. In addition to performances by the company, children f… |
| 2019 | Foundation for Independent Artists, Inc. | New York, NY | $30,000 | To support the creation, presentation, and touring of works by several dance artists. Art Bridgman & Myrna Packer will tour a work that merges performance and video and will offer … |
| 2019 | Performance Zone, Inc. | New York, NY | $30,000 | To support The Field's creative resources and capacity-building programs for national dance artists. Led by local artists and companies, the National Field Network spans several U.… |
| 2019 | STREB Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $30,000 | To support technical rehearsals for the premiere of a new work, as well as community engagement programming for youth. As part of the company's 40th anniversary, the company will p… |
| 2019 | Cleveland Modern Dance Association | Cleveland, OH | $25,000 | To support dance presentations, a lecture-demonstration series, and a national dance convening. Companies to be presented will include Vertigo Dance Company and Alvin Ailey America… |
| 2019 | Fresh Meat Productions | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | To support a national tour of BOYS IN TROUBLE by choreographer Sean Dorsey and associated engagement activities. The work is about navigating masculinity and gender in contemporary… |
| 2019 | Velocity Dance Center | Seattle, WA | $25,000 | To support the Maximum Velocity summer dance festival. The festival is a month-long immersion in contemporary dance education, creation, performance, inquiry, and international exc… |
| 2019 | Dance Film SF, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | To support the San Francisco Dance Film Festival. The festival will feature film screenings, select live performances, question-and-answer sessions, and discussions. Additional pro… |
| 2019 | Sharron Miller's Academy for the Performing Arts, Inc. | Montclair, NJ | $25,000 | To support in-school dance education residencies in Newark and Paterson, New Jersey. Students will explore tap, ballet, West African, jazz, and hip-hop dance forms, while benefitin… |
| 2019 | The Cowles Center | Minneapolis, MN | $25,000 | To support The Cowles Center's student matinees and education programs. The activities will take place as part of an initiative to expand local dance audiences and strengthen the l… |
| 2019 | Alonzo King LINES Ballet | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | To support preparations and rehearsal costs for a new work by choreographer Alonzo King. The project will support the development of choreography and artistic fees. |
| 2019 | Works and Process, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support the presentation of Dance Theatre of Harlem as part of the Rotunda Project series. Founded in 2017, the Rotunda Projects series provides artistic commissions, site-speci… |
| 2019 | DOVA, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support a new dance work by Artistic Director Doug Varone. Inspired by the 1961 movie West Side Story, this work is an abstract interpretation inspired by aspects of the film, w… |
| 2019 | Irvine Barclay Theatre Operating Co. | Irvine, CA | $20,000 | To support the presentation of the Martha Graham Dance Company and Backhausdance. Education and outreach activities may include master classes, performance-related lectures, and sp… |
| 2019 | 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 d. Sabela grimes and Kimberly Bartos… |
| 2019 | Seattle Theatre Group | Seattle, WA | $20,000 | To support the presentation of dance companies. Batsheva Dance Company will perform its latest work, Venezuela, choreographed by Artistic Director Ohad Naharin; Dance Theatre of Ha… |
| 2019 | Alabama Dance Council, Inc. | Huntsville, AL | $20,000 | To support the Alabama Dance Council programming. Programs include a New Works Concert featuring Southern choreographers, showcases of regional dance companies, master classes, com… |
| 2019 | Ragamala Dance | Minneapolis, MN | $20,000 | To support the presentation of an evening of dance and music. Ragamala will share the stage with the string quartet Brooklyn Rider, who will open the evening with Healing Modes, a … |
| 2019 | Gina Gibney Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support production services and documentation opportunities for dance artists. Artists will receive support through a broad portfolio of initiatives and resources, including reh… |
| 2019 | ODC Theater | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the presentation of Tere O'Connor Dance's Long Run with related public activities. In addition to presenting dance performances, ODC Theater will hold public engagement … |
| 2019 | CABD INC | Jamaica, NY | $20,000 | To support a national tour and community engagement activities. The company will tour repertory work and its dance theater trilogy on race, culture, and identity: Mr. TOL E. RAncE,… |
| 2019 | Lubovitch Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support Lubovitch Dance's home season and national tour, plus educational outreach. The company will present Something About Night in New York City; participate in "A Celebratio… |
| 2019 | Leela Institute | West Hills, CA | $20,000 | To support a tour of SPEAK, a cultural program combining tap and kathak, to Hawaii. The work is a collaboration between kathak artists Rina Mehta and Rachna Nivas and tap artists M… |
| 2019 | 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… |
| 2019 | 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… |
| 2019 | Kyle Abraham Abraham In Motion | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support the development of a new dance work by Kyle Abraham, inspired by the music of D'Angelo. In collaboration with artist Joe Buckingham, Abraham will develop the work (the f… |
| 2019 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | Milwaukee, WI | $20,000 | To support an artist residency with Joe Goode Performance Group. During a one-week residency, the company will work with UWM Dance majors and UW-Whitewater students to create an or… |
| 2019 | Margaret Jenkins Dance Studio, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support the creation, rehearsal, and artist fees for Global Moves, an evening-length work. The work will be created in collaboration with Tanusree Shankar Dance Company (Kolkata… |
| 2019 | Thin Man Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support the first stage of creation of a new work by John Jasperse. The new work will explore themes of death, loss, and despair. |
| 2019 | School of American Ballet, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support the Boys Program, a tuition-free ballet training program, and related community activities. The program works toward a diverse and inclusive future for ballet by expandi… |
| 2019 | Del E. Webb Center for the Performing Arts | Wickenburg, AZ | $20,000 | To support the creation of a new work by ODC/Dance and related engagement activities. The project is part of the Made in Wickenburg artist residency program. |
| 2019 | Dimensions Dance Theater, Inc. | Oakland, CA | $20,000 | To support the Rites of Passage dance education program for youth. The year-round project brings traditional African dance and music and contemporary African-derived art to youth. … |
| 2019 | Heritage Works | Detroit, MI | $20,000 | To support a community-based program for Detroit residents with Wideman/Davis Dance and visual storyteller Olayami Dabls. The project will engage community members in conversations… |
| 2019 | Northeast Ohio Center for Choreography | Akron, OH | $20,000 | To support NCCAkron's Dancing Lab residencies in integrated dance and immersive media. These residencies provide process-oriented laboratory environments for choreographers to come… |
| 2019 | Vail Valley Foundation | Avon, CO | $20,000 | To support the Vail Dance Festival's NOW: Premieres program, as well as community programming for youth. The annual festival will present dance from both established and emerging c… |
| 2019 | Ko-Thi, Inc. | Milwaukee, WI | $15,000 | To support a series of performances and community engagement activities in celebration of Ko-Thi Dance Company's 50th anniversary. Activities will include training, repertory devel… |
| 2019 | Movement Research, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | To support the presentation of free public performance programs. The Movement Research at Judson Church series provides artists with critical space to try out new ideas and show wo… |
| 2019 | CounterPulse | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support the Artist Residency and Commissioning Program, which provides space and support for emerging and mid-career choreographers. The ARC Program supports five-month residenc… |
| 2019 | Oregon Ballet Theatre | Portland, OR | $15,000 | To support the company premiere of Alvin Ailey's Night Creature. One of Ailey's most popular works, Night Creature combines classical ballet with jazz and modern dance, using a lar… |
| 2019 | Dancing Grounds | New Orleans, LA | $15,000 | To support dance residencies for students. Students from public schools in New Orleans' Ninth Ward will study dance technique and choreography, leadership and teamwork, and physica… |
| 2019 | AXIS Dance Company | Berkeley, CA | $15,000 | To support dance education and outreach programs for youth and adults with and without disabilities and the company's performance engagements. AXIS will offer a variety of educatio… |
| 2019 | Texas International Theatrical Arts Society | Dallas, TX | $15,000 | To support the presentation of Dorrance Dance and related education and engagement activities. Dorrance Dance will perform ETM: Double Down, a collaboration between Michelle Dorran… |
| 2019 | Ballet West | Salt Lake City, UT | $15,000 | To support Ballet West's Choreographic Festival. The festival, formerly known as the National Choreographic Festival, will invite national and international ballet companies to per… |
| 2019 | Flyaway Productions | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support the creation of sets and costumes for The Wait Room, by Artistic Director Jo Kreiter. The new work incorporates dance, music, and oral history interviews with women whos… |
| 2019 | Monica Bill Barnes & Company | New York, NY | $15,000 | To support performances and a U.S. Tour of The Running Show, a new work by Monica Bill Barnes. Barnes will re-work and expand the company's recent show, One Night Only, to create t… |
| 2019 | 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 … |
| 2019 | Aspen Santa Fe Ballet | Aspen, CO | $15,000 | To support a national tour of dance performances. The company will travel to different cities across the United States to perform existing and new works. A new co-commission by cho… |
| 2019 | Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Inc. | Pittsburgh, PA | $15,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a collaborative production with the Dance Theatre of Harlem. Building on a prior successful collaboration, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre (PB… |
| 2019 | On the Boards | Seattle, WA | $15,000 | To support creative rehearsals, technical residencies, and media documentation for dance artists. On the Boards (OtB) will provide rehearsal space and technical residencies for art… |
| 2019 | National Black Arts Festival, Inc. | Atlanta, GA | $15,000 | To support teaching artists for the dance programming as part of the Move/Dance! program in partnership with Atlanta Public Schools. With a focus on middle school students in Title… |
| 2019 | Kansas City Ballet Association | Kansas City, MO | $15,000 | To support the presentation of ballets. The company will dance In the Upper Room by Twyla Tharp with music by Philip Glass, In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated by William Forsythe wit… |
| 2019 | Dance Films Association, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | To support the Dance on Camera Festival (DOCF) and Dance on Camera Tour. The festival, co-produced with the Film Society of Lincoln Center, will include film programming that explo… |
| 2019 | Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Inc. | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | To support the premiere of new works by Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. The performance at the Auditorium Theatre will fuse Cuban dance styles and traditions with Chicago street danc… |
| 2019 | American Dance Institute | New York, NY | $15,000 | To support LUMBERYARD's dance production incubators and presentations. Resources provided to artists for the incubators will include rehearsal time and space, production residency … |
| 2019 | Eugene Ballet | Eugene, OR | $15,000 | To support the creation and premiere of the ballet The Large Rock and the Little Yew. Based on a short story about courage, perseverance, self-respect, and hope, choreographer Suza… |
| 2019 | Ballet Metropolitan, Inc. | Columbus, OH | $15,000 | To support a program of ballets choreographed by Artistic Director Edwaard Liang. The company will perform Symphonic Dances set to music by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Beautiful Child set… |
| 2019 | National Institute of Flamenco | Albuquerque, NM | $15,000 | To support the annual Festival Flamenco Internacional de Alburquerque. The festival will bring together professional flamenco artists from around the world, including dancers, musi… |
| 2019 | Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater | Minneapolis, MN | $15,000 | To support a residency program engaging diverse communities in Birmingham, Alabama. With a focus on expressing stories of cancer through movement and voice, the project will includ… |
| 2019 | ODC | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support the creation and presentation of World's on Fire, a new work by Brenda Way and Kate Weare. Centered on universal themes of kinship, belief, suffering, and love that conn… |
| 2019 | Performing Arts Houston | Houston, TX | $15,000 | To support the presentation of Dorrance Dance. This presentation will be a part of SPA's Dance Series and will mark the Houston debut of Dorrance Dance. The company will perform ET… |
| 2019 | Project Bandaloop | Oakland, CA | $15,000 | To support a collaborative residency with Artistic Director Amelia Rudolph and musician Daniel Bernard Roumain. Roumain will train "on-rope" at the Bandaloop studio to learn to per… |
| 2019 | Pat Graney Performance, Inc. | Seattle, WA | $15,000 | To support rehearsal and set design costs for ATTIC, a new dance/installation work by Pat Graney. Rehearsals will take place throughout 2019 along with the design and construction … |
| 2019 | Dallas Black Dance Theatre | Dallas, TX | $15,000 | To support the Cultural Awareness dance performance series. During the 2019 series, the company will pay tribute to artists and civil rights activists Nina Simone and Odetta Holmes… |
| 2019 | Nashville Ballet | Nashville, TN | $15,000 | To support salaries for the creation and presentation of Lucy Negro, Redux, an original contemporary ballet by Artistic Director Paul Vasterling in collaboration with poet Caroline… |
| 2019 | Tapology Inc. | Mount Morris, MI | $15,000 | To support the annual Tapology Dance Festival. The festival, which features workshops, lectures and concert performances for the community, engages audiences in the practice of tap… |
| 2019 | 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 gives readers in-depth in… |
| 2019 | Professional Flair, Inc. | Cleveland, OH | $15,000 | To support activities that will further inclusivity in dance for people with disabilities. The Dancing Wheels Company will launch an international exchange program for dancers with… |
| 2019 | GroundWorks Dancetheater | Cleveland, OH | $15,000 | To support commissions and creative residencies with choreographers Brian Brooks and Robyn Mineko Williams. The new works will serve as creative content for an interactive workshop… |
| 2019 | Andanza, Inc. | San Juan, PR | $15,000 | To support a dance and community festival at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC). This cultural event, which serves a diverse community, includes free performances by Andanza and… |
| 2019 | Repertory Dance Theatre | Salt Lake City, UT | $15,000 | To support a year-long, in-depth dance education residency in Emery County/Emery School District, Utah. Professional teaching artists will provide lecture demonstrations, creative … |
| 2019 | Lucky Plush Productions | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | To support a technical residency for Rink Life, a dance theater work with a vocal driven score. The residency will give the company time and space to adapt Rink Life's staging and … |
| 2019 | Arts Resources in Collaboration, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | To support the Eye on Dance Legacy Archive project The project will organize, assess, identify, and safeguard elements of the archive for full public access. The current phase of t… |
| 2019 | Wesleyan University | Middletown, CT | $15,000 | To support a performance and residency activities featuring artist Netta Yerushalmy. Through this residency, Yerushalmy will explore ideas of tradition and how these traditions are… |
| 2019 | Dance Iquail | Philadelphia, PA | $15,000 | To support the development and rehearsals of Public Enemy, a community dance project. The work explores black male identity in the context of social issues. The project includes co… |
| 2019 | New Dance Theatre, Inc. | Denver, CO | $15,000 | To support the creation, rehearsals, and marketing for SALT, a mixed media and performance experience premiering as part of Cleo Parker Robinson Dance's 50th anniversary season. As… |
| 2019 | University of Nebraska at Lincoln | Lincoln, NE | $15,000 | To support an artist residency and performance featuring the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company at the Lied Center for the Performing Arts. In addition to the expanded performance of… |
| 2019 | University of Hawaii at Manoa | Honolulu, HI | $14,999 | To support the Asia Pacific Dance Festival. The multi-week festival focuses on providing access to, support for, and enhanced understanding of dance throughout the Asia-Pacific reg… |
| 2019 | Cuyahoga Community College Foundation | Cleveland, OH | $14,725 | To support performances and residency activities of Beijing Contemporary Dance Theater. Tri-C Presents and DANCECleveland will co-present the company in an evening of repertory dan… |
| 2019 | Visions In Rhythm | Austin, TX | $10,000 | To support the annual Soul to Sole Festival, a national education and performance forum for the art of tap dance. Tapestry Dance Company will invite a wide range of dancers from ar… |
| 2019 | Wonderbound | Denver, CO | $10,000 | To support the presentation of Boomtown, a dance choreographed by Artistic Director Garrett Ammon, featuring an original score by the band Chimney Choir. Conveyed through an urban … |
| 2019 | Amy Seiwert's Imagery | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the innovative use of projections and lighting for the SKETCH series, an annual creative laboratory for ballet-based choreography Several choreographers, including Amy S… |
| 2019 | Joffrey Ballet | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support the world premiere of Anna Karenina by choreographer Yuri Possokhov. The work will be a full-length story ballet that offers an emotional and intellectual space to explo… |
| 2019 | OhioDance | Columbus, OH | $10,000 | To support the virtual archiving and accessibility of Ohio's dance history. The collection will be expanded with additional interviews, and the development of workshops and materia… |
| 2019 | Towson University | Towson, MD | $10,000 | To support dance education programming for youth through AileyCamp Baltimore. AileyCamp Baltimore delivers programming based on the successful national AileyCamp model, founded in … |
| 2019 | Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the Instituto Coreografico (Choreographic Institute), a choreographic creation and mentorship program serving emerging and underrecognized Latino choreographers. Two cho… |
| 2019 | Virginia Arts Festival, Inc. | Norfolk, VA | $10,000 | To support the presentation of dance companies as part of the Virginia Arts Festival. The festival's dance series will feature performances and residencies by Dance Theatre of Harl… |
| 2019 | Richmond Ballet, Inc. | Richmond, VA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new ballet by choreographer Rex Wheeler. The new ballet will be presented as part of the company's signature Studio Series program for… |
| 2019 | BalletX | Philadelphia, PA | $10,000 | To support the creation of sets and costumes for Le Petit Prince, a new ballet by choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa. Based on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's book, this full-length ba… |
| 2019 | Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company | Kansas City, MO | $10,000 | To support the re-staging of Southern Exposure, a multimedia dance/theater work by Artistic Director Mary Pat Henry. The work tells the story of the civil rights movement and the a… |
| 2019 | Bridge Live Arts | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the Bridge Project with repertory performances, workshops, and documentation to commemorate the 100th anniversary of choreographer Merce Cunningham's birth. Former Cunni… |
| 2019 | Garrett Moulton Productions | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of Hunting Gathering, by choreographers Janice Garrett and Charles Moulton. The new work will examine themes of cooperation, connection, an… |
| 2019 | Dances For A Variable Population | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support dance workshops and free public performances. The project will feature senior professional dance artists alongside groups of non-professional senior dancers. The series … |
| 2019 | Red Clay Dance Company | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of The Art of Resilience 2.0, a site-specific dance work choreographed by Vershawn Sanders-Ward. The work will explore the theme of embodie… |
| 2019 | Verb Ballets | Cleveland, OH | $10,000 | To support performances of historic works by choreographer Ian Horvath and the completion of a documentary film about his life and career. Ian (Ernie) Horvath's works Laura's Women… |
| 2019 | Cincinnati Ballet Company, Inc. | Cincinnati, OH | $10,000 | To support the restaging of Firebird and Rite of Spring choreographed by Adam Hougland. Hougland will restage contemporary interpretations of these classical, dramatic ballets. Com… |
| 2019 | Spanish Dance Arts Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana's creation and presentation of LATIDO with accompanying engagement activities. Choreographed by Jose Maldonado with an original score by Ga… |
| 2019 | Collage Dance Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support a new site-specific work in partnership with the Wende Museum. Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre will use themes from the museum's exhibit Cold War Spaces to explore how in pr… |
| 2019 | Kalanidhi Dance Incorporated | Bethesda, MD | $10,000 | To support the second phase of the creation of Bhoomi (Earth), an original dance that explores humanity's complex and evolving relationship with the earth, drawing inspiration from… |
| 2019 | Fist and Heel Performance Group, Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation and premiere of a new work by choreographer Reggie Wilson. The work builds on Wilson's investigations related to the early evolution of African-American spi… |
| 2019 | Frequent Flyers Productions, Inc. | Boulder, CO | $10,000 | To support the Aerial Dance Festival. Festival activities include aerial and modern dance classes, a showcase of faculty work, and artist discussions on the creation process. The f… |
| 2019 | Ballet Memphis Corporation | Memphis, TN | $10,000 | To support choreographer and lighting designer fees for the creation and presentation of new and existing dance works. The works' themes include natural bodies of water, life cycle… |
| 2019 | Ananya Dance Theatre | Saint Paul, MN | $10,000 | To support the creation and premiere of Sutrajaal: Revelations of Gossamer by choreographer Ananya Chatterjea. Performances of the work will use oral histories from engagement acti… |
| 2019 | Ririe-Woodbury Dance Foundation | Salt Lake City, UT | $10,000 | To support the facilitation of dance engagement programs. The company will work with the Center for the Arts at Kayenta in Ivins, Utah and The Noorda Center for the Performing Arts… |
| 2019 | Deeply Rooted Productions | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support artist fees for the presentation of Essence, A Portrait of Four Women by choreographer Martial Roumain. The presentation will be complemented by engagement activities su… |
| 2019 | Joe Goode Performance Group | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support a free, in-school dance education program for students. The Inspired Bodies program develops the artistic and creative abilities of students, leading to the creation and… |
| 2019 | Dogtown Dance Theatre | Richmond, VA | $10,000 | To support performances and programming for dance artists including an on-line performance program. Dogtown Dance Theatre will present community performance events, including an on… |
| 2019 | Brownbody | Saint Paul, MN | $10,000 | To support research and development for the new work Tracing Sacred Steps. Combining modern dance and figure skating, the new work will explore the history and roots of Black socia… |
| 2019 | Ebony Repertory Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support staff salaries and development costs for the presentation of Los Angeles-based dance companies. The series has been committed to supporting an ongoing residency with New… |
| 2019 | Performing Arts Center Authority | Fort Lauderdale, FL | $10,000 | To support a multi-day presentation of the Paul Taylor American Dance Company. The company will hold as many as three performances, including one for public school students, as wel… |
| 2019 | Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the restaging of Night Crawlers, a national tour, and related community engagement activities. Based on Jerome Robbins's ballet In the Night (1947), Night Crawlers, with… |
| 2019 | Epiphany Dance Theater | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support artist and company fees for the presentation of San Francisco Trolley Dances. The annual site-specific, free dance festival features the work of local choreographers alo… |
| 2019 | George Balanchine Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the editing of videos and coaching sessions for the Balanchine Video Archives. Final editing work will take place on a video of Patricia McBride coaching Roman Mejia and… |
| 2019 | Anikaya/Akhra, Inc. | Somerville, MA | $10,000 | To support a creative and technical residency of Conference of the Birds by choreographer Wendy Jehlen. Inspired by Farid ud-Din Attar's poem, the dance theater work incorporates s… |
| 2019 | Regents of the University of California, Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | $10,000 | To support artist fees and housing costs for Cal Performances' presentation of Dorrance Dance. In addition to performing, Dorrance Dance will participate in education and community… |
| 2019 | Gallim Dance Company, Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | To support salaries and guest teacher fees as part of an ongoing dance engagement program in Brooklyn's Clinton Hill community. The program will include free and low-cost public da… |
| 2019 | Peoria Ballet Company | Peoria, IL | $10,000 | To support performances of The Nutcracker and accompanying educational activities. Peoria Ballet students, community members, and professional dancers will present public performan… |
| 2019 | Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center, Inc. | Boston, MA | $10,000 | To support the creation of a new work in collaboration with Lenora Lee Dance. The San Francisco-based company will create Convergent Waves, which will center on Boston's Chinatown … |
| 2019 | Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | To support the final production phase of Last Ward, a new evening-length dance-theater work. Choreographed by Artistic Director Samar Haddad King and written and directed by Amir N… |
| 2019 | New Dialect | Nashville, TN | $10,000 | To support contemporary dance education programming for youth and adults. The project will include daily technique classes, master classes, community workshops, youth dance camps, … |
| 2019 | Parsons Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation of a new work by emerging choreographer Joan Rodriguez. The choreographer is a recent immigrant from Cuba who will reflect on her experience as it relates t… |
| 2019 | Dance Alive!, Inc. | Gainesville, FL | $10,000 | To support artist fees for the creation of two dance works by choreographer Brian Carey Chung. The works will be a part of an effort to add contemporary dance to the Dance Alive Na… |
| 2019 | Inta, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support Distance is Malleable, a series of collaborative duets with Eiko Otake and performing and visual artists. The works will be shared in non-theatrical spaces that enhance … |
| 2019 | Dance Continuum, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the performers fees for the creation of Two Person Operating System Type 2 by choreographer Susan Marshall and visual artist Martha Friedman. The work will be a duration… |
| 2019 | Palissimo | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the development and presentation of a new work by Artistic Director Pavel Zuštiak. The work will explore the metaphysical poetry of life, feature an original commissione… |
| 2019 | Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts | Beverly Hills, CA | $10,000 | To support the presentation of Los Angeles-based contemporary dance companies as part of Dance @ The Wallis. This annual dance series aims to raise the stature of emerging local co… |
| 2019 | Katha Dance Theatre | Crystal, MN | $10,000 | To support the presentation of Shaamya - Of Equality, an original Kathak dance work choreographed by Rita Mustaphi and accompanied by a Gospel-inspired musical score. In conjunctio… |
| 2019 | St. Louis Dance Theatre | Saint Louis, MO | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Kirven Douthit-Boyd for The Big Muddy Dance Company. In addition to performances, Douthit-Boyd will teach ma… |
| 2019 | Dance Spotlight, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the documentation and preservation of the Martha Graham dance technique. The goal is to create a comprehensive digital record of Graham's vision that demonstrates the ex… |
| 2019 | Hudson Opera House, Inc. | Hudson, NY | $10,000 | To support a centennial celebration of the work of choreographer Merce Cunningham (1919-2009) at Hudson Hall. A dance performance by Stephen Petronio Company will be part of a prog… |
| 2019 | Moving Forward: Contemporary Asian American Dance Company | Washington, DC | $10,000 | To support dancers' salaries for the creation and presentation of two new works by Dana Tai Soon Burgess, inspired by exhibitions at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. As… |
| 2019 | cmDance | Denver, CO | $10,000 | To support the Lindy on the Rocks Vintage Dance Festival. The multicultural festival encompasses themed events such as Lindy on the Rocks, Hot Night Fusion, and the Denver Vintage … |
| 2019 | Audience Architects, NFP | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support the expansion of video and digital content on SeeChicagoDance.com and general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The online content will offer audienc… |
| 2019 | transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | To support CREATE, an intensive dance program for students. Students will participate in dance technique classes, choreography rehearsals, and a leadership workshop series which wi… |
| 2019 | Thresh, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the phase two development of Etudes, a new evening length work. Created by Indian classical dancer and choreographer Preeti Vasudevan, Etudes is an intimate dance betwee… |
| 2019 | Rochester City Ballet, Inc. | Rochester, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation and premiere of Moulin d'Paris, a full-length ballet choreographed by Mark Diamond. The new work will stretch the dancers in the neoclassical ballet techniq… |
| 2019 | Regina Klenjoski Dance Company | Wichita, KS | $10,000 | To support planning and rehearsal activity for touring performances of Far From Home, a new dance-theater work by Artistic Director Regina Klenjoski. The work will tour to communit… |
| 2019 | 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 cl… |
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