NEA Dance Grants 2020: All 178 Awards
178 NEA dance grants for fiscal year 2020, totaling $4.2M.
| Year | Recipient | City | Amount | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $95,000 | To support dancer salaries for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's national tour. New commissions and historical repertory dance works will be performed on a four-month tour of th… |
| 2020 | Dance/USA | Minneapolis, MN | $90,000 | To support Dance/USA's core programs, including the Institute for Leadership Training, Dance Forum convenings, national research initiatives, and dance archiving activities. Dance/… |
| 2020 | Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $90,000 | To support the American Dance Platform and the Joyce Theater Productions. The Platform is held during the Association of Performing Arts Professionals' annual conference to promote… |
| 2020 | Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc. | Becket, MA | $85,000 | To support artist fees and commissions at the virtual Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. The festival will feature Brian Brooks Moving Company, Gauthier Dance // Dance Company Theaterh… |
| 2020 | Trisha Brown Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $80,000 | To support the planning and rehearsals costs for the reconstruction and performances of Trisha Brown's 1991 work Astral Converted and other works. |
| 2020 | Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $80,000 | To support a period of creative development and rehearsal in preparation for performances. Artists will also develop key outreach and educational activities to accompany the perfor… |
| 2020 | Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc. | New York, NY | $80,000 | To support staff salaries for planning a national tour. Dance Theatre of Harlem will take time to strategize on how best to approach a national tour in light of the effects of COVI… |
| 2020 | New York City Ballet, Inc. | New York, NY | $75,000 | To support the artistic salaries for the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Justin Peck featuring a commissioned score by Nico Muhly. Support for these artist… |
| 2020 | New York Live Arts Inc. | New York, NY | $75,000 | To support staff and dancers salaries for creation of work. NYLA programs support the creation of new works by movement-based artists at all career levels through residencies and c… |
| 2020 | Dance Place | Washington, DC | $70,000 | To support technical residencies and community engagement programs with artists at Dance Place. The season will include a selection of artists from the D.C. area and throughout the… |
| 2020 | American Dance Festival, Inc. | Durham, NC | $65,000 | To support planning costs and commissions fees for the American Dance Festival. |
| 2020 | Friends of NORD, Inc. | New Orleans, LA | $65,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2020 | Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $60,000 | To support dancer salaries for a national tour celebrating the work of Paul Taylor. While on tour, the company will deliver community engagement activities such as artist/audience … |
| 2020 | World Arts West | San Francisco, CA | $60,000 | To support artist fees and staff and marketing costs associated with planning for the annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. Due to COVID-19, the festival which showcases and … |
| 2020 | Discalced, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $60,000 | To support the creation of a new dance and restaging of an older work by Artistic Director Mark Morris. The new work, The Waltz, will be set to music by composer Maurice Ravel and … |
| 2020 | Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $55,000 | To support dancer salaries and choreographer fees for American Ballet Theatre's (ABT) Women's Movement program. The program supports the creation, exploration, and staging of new w… |
| 2020 | Pacific Northwest Ballet Association | Seattle, WA | $50,000 | To support the commission and artistic fees for a new work by Edwaard Liang, artistic director of BalletMet. Featuring an original orchestral score by Oliver Davis, the work will p… |
| 2020 | New Orleans Ballet Association | New Orleans, LA | $50,000 | To support a 50th anniversary concert celebration and related activities. The concert will feature several international dancers performing contemporary and classical works. It wil… |
| 2020 | Florida State University | Tallahassee, FL | $45,000 | 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… |
| 2020 | Karen Peterson and Dancers, Inc. | Pinecrest, FL | $45,000 | 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… |
| 2020 | San Francisco Ballet Association | San Francisco, CA | $45,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new ballet. Alongside the performances, the company will offer a range of educational opportunities to the community related to the ne… |
| 2020 | Miami City Ballet, Inc. | Miami Beach, FL | $40,000 | To support dancer salaries for the company premiere of choreographer Justin Peck's Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes. Peck's reimagining of Agnes DeMille's iconic work will introduce Sout… |
| 2020 | Danspace Project, Inc. | New York, NY | $40,000 | To support portions of a performance program curated by Judy Hussie-Taylor and Okwui Okpokwasili. The number of performances were reduced due to COVID-19. |
| 2020 | President and Trustees of Bates College | Lewiston, ME | $40,000 | To support planning and administrative costs for the Bates Dance Festival. |
| 2020 | International Association of Blacks in Dance, Inc. | Washington, DC | $40,000 | To support performances at the annual International Conference and Festival of Blacks in Dance. This national gathering of Black dance professionals in the United States will take … |
| 2020 | White Bird | Portland, OR | $40,000 | To support the planning and presentation of dance companies as part of the White Bird Uncaged series. Performances by Niv Sheinfeld & Oren Laor and marketing activities were suppor… |
| 2020 | Regents of the University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | $40,000 | To support Northrop's commission fees for new dance works and planning costs for Martha Graham Dance Company's The EVE Project . Northrop will commission new dance works from the P… |
| 2020 | CABD INC | Jamaica, NY | $40,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2020 | Philadelphia Dance Company | Philadelphia, PA | $35,000 | To support the creation and presentation of PHILADANCO!'s Fast Forward: New Work, New Voices, a program that will feature the work of new and emerging choreographers. Celebrating 5… |
| 2020 | Stephen Petronio Dance Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $35,000 | To support the continuation and expansion of the Bloodlines project, whose goal is to protect a lineage of postmodern dance. This iteration will include future generations in the c… |
| 2020 | Ballet Tech Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $35,000 | 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 … |
| 2020 | Ballet Arizona | Phoenix, AZ | $35,000 | To support the virtual performance series Ballet Under the Stars. Live performances will be filmed and broadcast digitally. Ballet Under the Stars makes ballet accessible to indivi… |
| 2020 | Yard, Inc. | Chilmark, MA | $35,000 | To support staff salaries for planning for Yard Arts' winter and summer performing seasons. YARD ARTS will plan to welcome a diverse mix of dance companies to receive access to stu… |
| 2020 | Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $35,000 | To support the creation of a year-long, on-line Dancing Disability Lab leading up to an in-person residency experience. During the remote engagement and in-person gathering, partic… |
| 2020 | Performance Zone, Inc. | New York, NY | $35,000 | To support The Field's creative resources and capacity-building programs for national dance artists. Programming will address artists' core needs like fundraising and long-term pla… |
| 2020 | Cleveland Modern Dance Association | Cleveland, OH | $30,000 | To support DANCECleveland's planning for a performance of the Stephen Petronio Company. |
| 2020 | National Institute of Flamenco | Albuquerque, NM | $30,000 | To support the annual Festival Flamenco Alburquerque. The online festival will bring together professional flamenco artists from around the world to participate in a series of virt… |
| 2020 | Dance Service New York City, Inc. | New York, NY | $30,000 | To support Dance/NYC's Junior Committee and continued expansion of the organization's web resources. The Junior Committee develops field leaders of the future by providing leadersh… |
| 2020 | AXIS Dance Company | Berkeley, CA | $30,000 | To support a national tour of dance performances and engagement activities. AXIS will tour contemporary dance works performed by artists with and without disabilities. The company … |
| 2020 | Dance Film SF, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $30,000 | To support the San Francisco Dance Film Festival's convenings including screendance films, documentaries, and live performance. The festival will happen in two parts with the fall … |
| 2020 | Dimensions Dance Theater, Inc. | Oakland, CA | $30,000 | To support the Rites of Passage dance education program for youth. The year-round project brings traditional African dance, music, and contemporary African-derived art to youth. Ac… |
| 2020 | Fresh Meat Productions | San Francisco, CA | $30,000 | To support the research and creation phase of Sean Dorsey Dance’s new work The Lost Art of Dreaming. The work will imagine trans/gender-nonconforming/queer futures, challenging lon… |
| 2020 | Alonzo King LINES Ballet | San Francisco, CA | $30,000 | To support the creation of a new work by choreographer Alonzo King and vocalist Lisa Fischer. The work will use dancers from LINES Ballet to explore the spiritual convergence of mu… |
| 2020 | Vail Valley Foundation | Avon, CO | $30,000 | To support virtual programming as part of the Vail Dance Festival. The festival will present a curated series of archival films, as well as the premiere of new choreography, made f… |
| 2020 | Performing Arts Houston | Houston, TX | $30,000 | To support the world premiere and co-commission of An Untitled Love, choreographed by Kyle Abraham in collaboration with his company A.I.M, alongside accompanying engagement activi… |
| 2020 | STREB Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $30,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2020 | Velocity Dance Center | Seattle, WA | $30,000 | To support virtual iterations of the Strictly Seattle and Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation summer dance festivals. The festivals comprise a month-long immersion in contempor… |
| 2020 | Heritage Works | Detroit, MI | $30,000 | To support planning and virtual engagement activities as part of the Heritage Works' 20th anniversary. The anniversary celebration may include local artist commissions, virtual res… |
| 2020 | Spectrum Dance Theater | Seattle, WA | $30,000 | To support the re-staging and virtual presentation of Artistic Director Donald Byrd's The Harlem Nutcracker. Originally premiered in 1996, the story centers on an African-American … |
| 2020 | Nashville Ballet | Nashville, TN | $25,000 | To support dancer and staff salaries for the presentation of Attitude: Other Voices, a full evening of original dance works. Choreographers Jennifer Archibald, Erin Kouwe, Matthew … |
| 2020 | Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | To support artist residencies at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago. Ron K. Brown/EVIDENCE and the Trisha Brown Dance Company will be in residence for at least one week t… |
| 2020 | Dallas Black Dance Theatre | Dallas, TX | $25,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Hope Boykin. Boykin's work will focus on the theme of love and will draw from her own writings and poetry on… |
| 2020 | Chicago Human Rhythm Project | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | To support the annual Rhythm World festival. Rhythm World is a festival of tap and percussive dance including performances, residencies, workshops, classes, and conferences for all… |
| 2020 | Alabama Dance Council, Inc. | Huntsville, AL | $25,000 | To support programming at the Alabama Dance Festival. Programs include a New Works Concert featuring Southern choreographers, showcases of regional dance companies, master classes,… |
| 2020 | Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater | Minneapolis, MN | $25,000 | To support a series of movement and story workshops and performances for veterans and their caregivers at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. During the workshops, compan… |
| 2020 | Northeast Ohio Center for Choreography | Akron, OH | $25,000 | To support NCCAkron's Residencies and Dancing Labs for dance artists, including remote and virtual activities. Creative/Technical Residencies focus on the realization of new dance … |
| 2020 | Spanish Dance Arts Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $25,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2020 | Sharron Miller's Academy for the Performing Arts, Inc. | Montclair, NJ | $25,000 | To support in-school dance education residencies, and general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Students will explore tap, ballet, West African, jazz, and theat… |
| 2020 | Green Box Arts Project | Green Mountain Falls, CO | $25,000 | To support artist fees for the participation of the American Ballet Theatre Professional Company at the Green Box Arts Festival. The company will develop new work, perform it with … |
| 2020 | Flyaway Productions | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support performances of Meet Us Quickly With Your Mercy by choreographer Jo Kreiter. The work is a public art performance featuring aerial dance that brings together Black, Jewi… |
| 2020 | Gina Gibney Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support new commissions for Gibney Dance's Insider/Outsider performance series. Choreographers Banning Bouldin, Mark Caserta, and Yin Yue will develop new works that investigate… |
| 2020 | George Mason University | Fairfax, VA | $20,000 | To support artist fees for Swing Out at the Center for the Arts, directed by choreographer Caleb Teicher. The Center for the Arts will host a residency activities and performances … |
| 2020 | Dance Saint Louis | Saint Louis, MO | $20,000 | To support the planning for the annual Spring to Dance Festival featuring various genres of dance. |
| 2020 | BalletX | Philadelphia, PA | $20,000 | To support the creation and virtual presentation of The Under Way by choreographer Rena Butler and composer Darryl Hoffman. The contemporary ballet is inspired by the Underground R… |
| 2020 | On the Boards | Seattle, WA | $20,000 | To support Solo: A Festival of Dance. The festival for local artists explores the solo performance as a rebellious act of self-expression and features an evening length program. |
| 2020 | Dances For A Variable Population | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support virtual dance workshops and performances. The project will feature the creation of new works by senior professional dance artists to revive and renew dance traditions, b… |
| 2020 | Movement Research, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support the presentation of free and low-cost public performance programs, including part of the Movement Research at the Judson Church series and the Movement Research Festival… |
| 2020 | Culture Mill, Inc | Saxapahaw, NC | $20,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2020 | Duke University | Durham, NC | $20,000 | To support a residency and performances by American Ballet Theatre as part of Duke Performances' Ballet Futures series. Ballet Futures comprises performances, community engagement … |
| 2020 | Flying Foot Forum | Minneapolis, MN | $20,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2020 | Del E. Webb Center for the Performing Arts | Wickenburg, AZ | $20,000 | To support the creation of a new work by Alonzo King LINES Ballet. The project is part of the Made in Wickenburg artist residency program. |
| 2020 | Arts Resources in Collaboration, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support the Eye on Dance Legacy Archive project. ARC will organize, assess, identify, and safeguard elements of the archive for full public access. The project builds on the ins… |
| 2020 | transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project | San Diego, CA | $20,000 | 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… |
| 2020 | Jose Limon Dance Foundation | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support the reconstruction and rehearsals of masterworks in preparation of the company's 75th anniversary celebration. The company will reconstruct and rehearse There is a Time … |
| 2020 | Thin Man Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2020 | Infinity Dance Theater Company, Ltd. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support physically integrated dance classes for people with disabilities, a workshop series for dance educators as part of the company's 25th anniversary season, and general ope… |
| 2020 | Pilobolus, Inc. | Washington, CT | $20,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2020 | Dance Institute of Washington | Washington, DC | $20,000 | To support online dance education programs. Educational opportunities include the company's school and the Positive Directions Through Dance initiative, a year-long arts learning p… |
| 2020 | Parsons Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2020 | OhioDance | Columbus, OH | $15,000 | To support the continued expansion and development of the OhioDance Virtual Dance Collection, an archive of Ohio's dance history for the public domain. The Virtual Dance Collection… |
| 2020 | Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2020 | Texas International Theatrical Arts Society | Dallas, TX | $15,000 | To support artist fees associated with the presentation of France's Malandain Ballet Biarritz and related education and engagement activities. Performances will take place in the M… |
| 2020 | Dance Films Association, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | To support the virtual 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 th… |
| 2020 | Visions In Rhythm | Austin, TX | $15,000 | To support planning costs and artist fees for the Tapestry Dance Company's online Soul to Sole Festival, a national education and performance forum for the art of tap dance. The pr… |
| 2020 | St. Catherine University | Saint Paul, MN | $15,000 | To support development of a subsidized rental program for dance and theater groups in the Frey Theater. The 200-seat facility will provide a much-needed performance space in the Tw… |
| 2020 | Dance Spotlight, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | To support the documentation and preservation of the Martha Graham dance technique. The project will complete post-production for a comprehensive digital record of Graham's vision … |
| 2020 | Cuyahoga Community College Foundation | Cleveland, OH | $15,000 | To support performances and residency activities by Compagnie Herve KOUBI, a co-presentation by Tri-C Presents and DANCECleveland. Residency activities include master classes for t… |
| 2020 | Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Inc. | Pittsburgh, PA | $15,000 | To support choreographer fees for the presentation of dance works as part of the program Here & Now. Kyle Abraham's Quiet Dance, Dwight Rhoden's Simon Said, and a new ballet by art… |
| 2020 | ODC Theater | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new dance work. Larry Arrington will examine western dance as a series of folk dances in his work No Quarter. |
| 2020 | Ragamala Dance | Minneapolis, MN | $15,000 | To support the creation of Fires of Varanasi, a new multidisciplinary dance work from Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy. The mother-daughter, first-generation Indian-American team will ex… |
| 2020 | Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Inc. | Jamaica, NY | $15,000 | To support the presentation of dance artists at the annual Making Moves Dance Festival. The virtual festival will promote early career and emerging professional choreographers of N… |
| 2020 | Dance Exchange, Inc. | Takoma Park, MD | $15,000 | To support the creation and presentation of Future Fields by choreographer and Artistic Director Cassie Meador. The work will be built through dance, performance, and community par… |
| 2020 | Festival Dance & Performing Arts Association, Inc. | Moscow, ID | $15,000 | To support the virtual Festival Dance Youthreach Project, an educational program with professional dance companies serving rural communities. Professional dance companies will pres… |
| 2020 | Lubovitch Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2020 | Lafayette College | Easton, PA | $15,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2020 | Center for Performance Research, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $15,000 | To support professional development and technical assistance services to New York City's experimental dance and performance communities. The services include access to rehearsal sp… |
| 2020 | CounterPulse | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support the Artist Residency and Commissioning (ARC) program, which provides space and support for emerging and mid-career choreographers. The ARC program supports residencies f… |
| 2020 | Joe Goode Performance Group | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support a free, virtual dance education program for students. The Inspired Bodies program develops the artistic and creative abilities of students, leading to the creation and p… |
| 2020 | Epiphany Dance Theater | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support artist fees for the San Francisco Trolley Dances festival. The annual site-specific, free dance festival features the work of local choreographers along a MUNI/Metro lig… |
| 2020 | Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre | Brooklyn, NY | $15,000 | To support the creation of a new virtual interactive work and planning costs for the premiere and tour of the evening-length work Last Ward. Artistic Director and Choreographer Sam… |
| 2020 | New Dialect | Nashville, TN | $15,000 | To support contemporary dance education programming for youth and adults. The project will include daily technique classes, master classes, community workshops, youth dance camps, … |
| 2020 | San Diego Dance Theater | San Diego, CA | $15,000 | To support personnel costs for a series of site-specific dance performances as part of the annual San Diego Trolley Dances. In partnership with the Metropolitan Transit System (MTS… |
| 2020 | Viver Brasil Dance Company | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | To support the development of a new strategic plan for the organization. Over the course of the last several years, the organization has shifted from being founder-led to an one th… |
| 2020 | Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo Inc | New York, NY | $15,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2020 | Asian Improv aRts | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support staff salaries and artistic fees for the rehearsal period of a new site-responsive, multimedia dance project by Lenora Lee Dance. The performance will take place on Alca… |
| 2020 | Katha Dance Theatre | Crystal, MN | $15,000 | To support a tour of Kathak Yatra: The Journey of Kathak Dance through rural Minnesota. Choreographed by Artistic Director Rita Mustaphi, Yatra explores the evolution of dance thro… |
| 2020 | Nevada Ballet Theatre, Inc. | Las Vegas, NV | $15,000 | To support the creation of a new work by choreographer Trey McIntyre. Advanced students of the Southern Nevada Academy of Nevada Ballet Theatre will participate in a remote-learnin… |
| 2020 | Chicago Dancemakers Forum | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | To support two residency programs that support dance creation and dance writing. Participation will enable artists to increase their capacity to develop new audiences, instigate me… |
| 2020 | cmDance | Denver, CO | $15,000 | To support Lindy on the Rocks: Origin Stories Virtual Series. The Origin Stories Virtual Workshop Series will take place on multiple weekends over the course of three to four month… |
| 2020 | Dancing in the Streets, Inc. | Bronx, NY | $15,000 | To support It's Showtime NYC!, a program for street dancers to develop choreography and train in freestyle technique. In addition to developing new works, dancers will have the opp… |
| 2020 | A Better Jamaica, Inc. | Jamaica, NY | $15,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2020 | Koresh Dance Company | Philadelphia, PA | $15,000 | To support the creation and presentation of Tikvah by Artistic Director Ronen Koresh as part of the company's 30th anniversary season. Meaning "hope" in Hebrew, Tikvah will include… |
| 2020 | Rampart Theater Project | Los Angeles, CA | $13,000 | To support the BlakTinx Dance Festival and Alumni Concert. Now in its eighth year, the virtual festival will present the works of professional Black and Latinx choreographers while… |
| 2020 | Nava Dance Theatre | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation of a multimedia Bharatanatyam and visual arts production exploring class and caste constructs in the South Asian diaspora. Choreographer Nadhi Thekkek's wor… |
| 2020 | Oregon Ballet Theatre | Portland, OR | $10,000 | To support planning and production costs for the company premiere of Twyla Tharp's Baker's Dozen and a revival of Agnes de Mille's Rodeo. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the project … |
| 2020 | Aspen Santa Fe Ballet | Aspen, CO | $10,000 | To support dancer salaries for Aspen Santa Fe Ballet's national tour. The tour will bring Aspen Santa Fe Ballet to communities across the United States. In addition to a range of p… |
| 2020 | Art Sweats, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation and premiere of (A)Way Out Of My Body by choreographer David Dorfman. David Dorfman Dance will present the dance work, which will confront aging, grief, and… |
| 2020 | Racing Thoughts, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | To support production costs of a documentary related to Jane Comfort's Unvarnished America, a touring retrospective of Comfort's seminal dance and theater works. The works tackle i… |
| 2020 | Vangeline Theater Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | To support presentation of dance artists at the New York Butoh Institute Festival. The festival will focus on female butoh artists to address the gender disparity in the art form. … |
| 2020 | Houston Ballet Foundation | Houston, TX | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. . |
| 2020 | Dance Works, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | To support Pentacle's comprehensive management support for the dance community. Activities will include mentoring, administrative support, work sessions on arts administration topi… |
| 2020 | Des Moines Performing Arts | Des Moines, IA | $10,000 | To support the presentation of CINDERELLA. Ballet Biarritz will perform CINDERELLA at the Des Moines Civic Center and present master classes for local students and professionals, a… |
| 2020 | Joffrey Ballet | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support the presentation of Bliss!, a short ballet by choreographer Stephanie Martinez. Set to Igor Stravinsky's Dumbarton Oaks Concerto, the ballet is based on the life of phil… |
| 2020 | Milwaukee Ballet Company, Inc. | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Milwaukee Ballet dancer and choreographer Nicole Teague-Howell in celebration of the company's 50th anniversary. Teague-Ho… |
| 2020 | Community College of Baltimore County | Dundalk, MD | $10,000 | To support a choreographic and performance residency. Carolyn Dorfman Dance will participate in performances, question and answer sessions, and teach classes for students of Commun… |
| 2020 | Queens Theatre in the Park, Inc. | Corona, NY | $10,000 | To support the presentation of dance artists. A free series of performances featuring local women choreographers and women-led companies will be presented online. |
| 2020 | Ballet West | Salt Lake City, UT | $10,000 | To support the planning and rehearsals for a commission by choreographer Jennifer Archibald. Archibald is the Artistic Director of Arch Dance Company and Resident Choreographer at … |
| 2020 | Body Traffic | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support artistic staff salaries for BODYTRAFFIC's national tour. The tour may include works by national and international choreographers. The company works closely with local pr… |
| 2020 | Diavolo Dance Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support DIAVOLO Architecture in Motion's education and community programs during the company's national tour. The company will partner with venues to present community workshops… |
| 2020 | Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Jonah Bokaer. The new work will feature choreography by Jonah Bokaer, an architectural installation by Charles Renfro, and… |
| 2020 | Ballet Oklahoma, Inc. | Oklahoma City, OK | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of A Little Peace by choreographer Robert Mills. In honor of the victims and survivors, the ballet is being created for the 25th anniversar… |
| 2020 | ODC | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation of Decameron, Up for Air, a new dance work by ODC/Dance. Based on Boccaccio's Decameron, the evening-length work will be a collaboration between ODC's three… |
| 2020 | NWD Projects Inc. | South Miami, FL | $10,000 | To support National Water Dance 2020, a simultaneously coordinated event of live streamed performances around the country. Participants will create group dances through live video … |
| 2020 | Jazzantiqua Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support a free community jazz dance training program for youth who typically do not have access to training and experiences in the performing arts. Professional teaching artists… |
| 2020 | Cincinnati Ballet Company, Inc. | Cincinnati, OH | $10,000 | To support the presentation of Pursuit by Cincinnati Ballet's resident choreographer Jennifer Archibald. The piece is a work about the often hidden financial and societal contribut… |
| 2020 | Isadora Duncan Foundation for Contemporary Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the creative development and work-in-progress showing of Wild Beauty, a program of Isadora Duncan works and original works by choreographer Lori Belilove. The Duncan pie… |
| 2020 | Ballet Metropolitan, Inc. | Columbus, OH | $10,000 | To support the creation of new ballets by BalletMet dancers. The program will include open rehearsals and will expand the dancers' choreographic careers under the mentorship of Art… |
| 2020 | Blue Lapis Light, Inc. | Austin, TX | $10,000 | To support the creation and planning of Belonging, Part Two, a site-specific aerial dance performance by choreographer Sally Jacques. This creation period will be the basis of a fu… |
| 2020 | Atlanta Ballet, Inc. | Atlanta, GA | $10,000 | To support a new work by choreographer Dwight Rhoden. The piece will use contemporary ballet to demonstrate themes of devotion, tenacity, love, and compassion. The performance will… |
| 2020 | Dayton Performing Arts Alliance | Dayton, OH | $10,000 | To support artist fees for a production of works by choreographers Stephen Mills and Septime Webre. The planned performances will include Red Roses by Mills and Fluctuating Hemline… |
| 2020 | Project Bandaloop | Oakland, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation of a comprehensive archival plan. The company will begin the work of assessing and cataloguing archival footage, photos, drawings, artistic notes, and produ… |
| 2020 | Anne Bluethenthal and Dancers | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the presentation of Life in the Containment Zone Under Quarantine, directed by choreographer Anne Bluethenthal in collaboration with the ensemble Skywatchers. Skywatcher… |
| 2020 | Art of the Matter Performance Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the premiere of inCIVILITY: A Seat at the Table by choreographer Deborah Slater. Deborah Slater Dance Theater will co-present the work with ODC Theater. The piece will e… |
| 2020 | Mann Center for the Performing Arts | Philadelphia, PA | $10,000 | To support community engagement activities integral to the presentation of Deep Blue Sea, a new dance work by Bill T. Jones and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. The work… |
| 2020 | Ananya Dance Theatre | Saint Paul, MN | $10,000 | To support the creation and premiere of Dastak: I Wish You Me by choreographer Ananya Chatterjea. The work is inspired by the role of women in global communities of color, and will… |
| 2020 | MOVEIUS Contemporary Ballet | Washington, DC | $10,000 | To support rehearsal space and workshop/master classes as part of Dance Loft on 14's Creative Impact Festival and rehearsal subsidy project. The festival will build and nurture a n… |
| 2020 | KYL Dancers Inc. | Philadelphia, PA | $10,000 | To support the creation and performance of a new dance work by Executive Artistic Director Kun-Yang Lin. The new work will investigate how the expression of creativity changes as o… |
| 2020 | Threshold Dance Projects, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new dance by Artistic Director Jacqulyn Buglisi. Taking inspiration from poetry, Buglisi will continue her explorations of what it mea… |
| 2020 | Zaccho SF | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support planning costs for the annual San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the Festival could not occur. |
| 2020 | Noche Flamenca, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2020 | Dogtown Dance Theatre | Richmond, VA | $10,000 | To support performances and programming by dance artists. Dogtown Dance Theatre will present in-person/virtual community performance events, including the Richmond Dance Festival, … |
| 2020 | Dance Project, Inc. | Greensboro, NC | $10,000 | To support the North Carolina Dance Festival. The festival will showcase professional modern and contemporary choreography by North Carolina artists in mainstage livestreamed perfo… |
| 2020 | Rochester City Ballet, Inc. | Rochester, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Kataryn Skarpetowska, as part of the Women's Choreographer Initiative. The work will explore the relationship of groups an… |
| 2020 | Inta, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the planning period for Eiko Otake’s work The Duet Project. The Duet Project is a series of mutual and mutable movement experiments involving living and late collaborato… |
| 2020 | Creative Netwerk | Astoria, NY | $10,000 | To support the development of chapters, dance teacher training, and program expansion in California, Illinois, New York, and Oregon. EDN! provides free, weekly hip-hop and street d… |
| 2020 | School of American Ballet, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support a ballet training program for children. SAB's Children's Division will help develop the next generation of ballet artists and build artistry, social skills, and personal… |
| 2020 | Ballet Austin, Incorporated | Austin, TX | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2020 | Ko-Thi, Inc. | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | To support staff salaries and space rental costs for a concert series and archival exhibit celebrating the conclusion of the company's 50th anniversary season. The performances wil… |
| 2020 | Ririe-Woodbury Dance Foundation | Salt Lake City, UT | $10,000 | To support a rural tour of dance engagement programs. The company will work with presenting organizations in Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada, and Utah to engage with their communities and p… |
| 2020 | Brooklyn Ballet, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | To support a production of The Brooklyn Nutcracker in the Jewel Box. The production experiments with multicultural dance styles and technology by infusing the well-known ballet wit… |
| 2020 | Pennsylvania Ballet Association | Philadelphia, PA | $10,000 | To support planning costs for virtual dance education and outreach programs. Staff will design educational content that will be used to build online programming, which will include… |
| 2020 | Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts | Beverly Hills, CA | $10,000 | To support the presentation of dance companies as part of Dance @ The Wallis. This annual dance series aims to raise the stature of emerging Los Angeles-based companies, as well as… |
| 2020 | Chamber Dance Project | Washington, DC | $10,000 | To support the creation and production of virtual programming and a dance for camera film. The virtual programming includes repetory performed outside by dancers filmed from their … |
| 2020 | Sarasota Ballet of Florida, Inc. | Sarasota, FL | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2020 | Museum of Performance & Design | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the archiving, preservation, and dissemination of the personal papers of San Francisco Bay Area dancers and choreographers. Original video recordings, costumes, photogra… |
| 2020 | State of Alabama Ballet, Inc. | Birmingham, AL | $10,000 | To support dance education and engagement programs for students and adults. The company will produce an educational video introducing audiences to repertory performances as well as… |
| 2020 | The Cowles Center | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | To support MERGE, a performance and engagement project providing development resources for pairs of choreographers and companies to collaborate on new dance works. The Cowles Cente… |
| 2020 | Colorado Ballet Company | Denver, CO | $10,000 | To support Colorado Ballet's virtual performances. Performances of The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, and Alice (in wonderland) were presented virtually to schools, homeschools, and other … |
| 2020 | Dancers' Group | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support In Dance, a free online quarterly publication that promotes dance artists and activities in the San Francisco Bay Area. The publication gives readers in-depth informatio… |
| 2020 | Gotham Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the creation of new solo and duet works by Artistic Director Bebe Miller and other dance artists. The creation of the duets will be a transmission of Miller's practice t… |
| 2020 | Jacob Jonas The Company, Inc. | Santa Monica, CA | $10,000 | To support the Films.Dance program. The new program will bring together top dance choreographers and dancers from diverse backgrounds to create original dance short films. The seri… |
| 2020 | Eisenhower Dance Ensemble | Bloomfield Hills, MI | $10,000 | To support a dance education program in schools. The program stems from Stephanie Pizzo's ARC, a dance performance which investigated the effects of labeling and bullying on person… |
| 2020 | Allison Orr Dance Inc. | Austin, TX | $10,000 | To support staff salaries and touring coordinator fees to plan for a performance with the service and maintenance employees of Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Forklift Dancewor… |
| 2020 | Dance Continuum, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support artist fees for the production of Two Person Operating System Type 2 by choreographer Susan Marshall and visual artist Martha Friedman. The work is a durational performa… |
| 2020 | Base | Seattle, WA | $10,000 | To support a choreography residency program. Artists are given the opportunity to work for up to three consecutive weeks on development and experimentation of their dance practice.… |
| 2020 | RFCUNY Queens College | Flushing, NY | $10,000 | To support the CUNY Dance Initiative, a residency program. CDI provides rehearsal and performance venues for New York City-based dance companies and choreographers at select City U… |
| 2020 | University of North Carolina at Charlotte | Charlotte, NC | $8,595 | To support artist fees for an artist residency designed to expand the connections between the local classical Indian dance community with the UNC Charlotte Department of Dance. Dr.… |
| 2020 | Sruti, The India Music & Dance Society | Malvern, PA | $7,427 | To support the presentation of a dance production in the South Indian classical Kuchipudi style. This evening-length dance presentation by dancers Jaikishore and Padmavani Mosalika… |
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