NEA Dance Grants 2022: All 233 Awards
233 NEA dance grants for fiscal year 2022, totaling $4.4M.
| Year | Recipient | City | Amount | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Dance/USA | Minneapolis, MN | $75,000 | Purpose: To support Dance/USA's Dance Forum convenings, national research initiatives, and dance archiving activities. Additional Project Description: Dance/USA serves the national… |
| 2022 | Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $75,000 | Purpose: To support dancer salaries for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's national tour. Additional Project Description: New commissions and historical repertory dance works wil… |
| 2022 | National Institute of Flamenco | Albuquerque, NM | $75,000 | Purpose: To support artist fees for the 35th annual Festival Flamenco Alburquerque. Additional Project Description: The festival will bring together professional flamenco artists f… |
| 2022 | Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc. | Becket, MA | $75,000 | Purpose: To support artist fees for the 90th anniversary of the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. Additional Project Description: The festival will present the Limon Dance Company, Al… |
| 2022 | Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $75,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of dance artists at the Joyce Theater. Additional Project Description: A selection of international dance companies will be featured in public … |
| 2022 | Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc. | New York, NY | $75,000 | Purpose: To support salaries, artist fees, and travel costs for a national tour of Dance Theatre of Harlem. Additional Project Description: The tour will feature performances of wo… |
| 2022 | Dance Place | Washington, DC | $75,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of dance works, with related public engagement activities. Additional Project Description: Dance Place will present performances b… |
| 2022 | Friends of NORD, Inc. | New Orleans, LA | $65,000 | Purpose: To support tuition-free youth and senior dance education programs at NORDC/NOBA Center for Dance. Additional Project Description: The programs are produced through a cultu… |
| 2022 | American Dance Festival, Inc. | Durham, NC | $60,000 | Purpose: To support presentations at the American Dance Festival. Additional Project Description: Festival performances will include artists and companies such as Abby Z and the Ne… |
| 2022 | World Arts West | San Francisco, CA | $60,000 | Purpose: To support World Arts West Dances in the Park by the producer of the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. Additional Project Description: Through mentorship, artistic deve… |
| 2022 | Trisha Brown Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $60,000 | Purpose: To support the reconstruction, presentation, and documentation of dance works choreographed by Trisha Brown, along with related public engagement and preservation activiti… |
| 2022 | CABD INC | Jamaica, NY | $60,000 | Purpose: To support choreographic residencies, performances, and a national tour of work by choreographer Camille A. Brown. Additional Project Description: The national tour will i… |
| 2022 | New York Live Arts Inc. | New York, NY | $60,000 | Purpose: To support the development of new work as part of the Live Feed creative residency program. Additional Project Description: Live Feed is a multi-year program serving 12-15… |
| 2022 | Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $55,000 | Purpose: To support artistic salaries and fellowships for dancers related to the commission of new works. Additional Project Description: The company will expand its fellowship pro… |
| 2022 | New York City Ballet, Inc. | New York, NY | $50,000 | Purpose: To support artistic fees for the presentation of ballets as part of the Stravinsky Festival. Additional Project Description: The celebration will mark the 50th anniversary… |
| 2022 | UBW, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $50,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries and space rental costs for Urban Bush Women's development and national tour of Haint Blu, including community engagement activities. Additional P… |
| 2022 | New Orleans Ballet Association | New Orleans, LA | $50,000 | Purpose: To support artistic fees for dance performances, complemented by education programs for all ages. Additional Project Description: The company will present performances ref… |
| 2022 | Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $45,000 | Purpose: To support travel costs for American Ballet Theatre's engagement in Costa Mesa, California, as part of a national tour. Additional Project Description: In addition to perf… |
| 2022 | Philadelphia Dance Company | Philadelphia, PA | $40,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of new works by emerging choreographers. Additional Project Description: The selected choreographers will feature Francisco Gella … |
| 2022 | Danspace Project, Inc. | New York, NY | $40,000 | Purpose: To support staff costs and artist fees for a performance and residency program curated by Judy Hussie-Taylor along with Benjamin Akio Kimitch and Seta Morton for dance art… |
| 2022 | University of Washington | Seattle, WA | $40,000 | Purpose: To support performances of What Problem? by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at the Meany Center for the Performing Arts. Additional Project Description: The project… |
| 2022 | Discalced, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $40,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and performance of a new dance and restaging of an older work by Artistic Director Mark Morris. Additional Project Description: Mark Morris Dance G… |
| 2022 | Dance Service New York City, Inc. | New York, NY | $40,000 | Purpose: To support Dance/NYC's Symposium, town hall meetings, and continued expansion of the organization's website. Additional Project Description: The symposium will be focus on… |
| 2022 | President and Trustees of Bates College | Lewiston, ME | $40,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of contemporary dance and community engagement by Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group and Ananya Dance Theatre as part of the Bates D… |
| 2022 | Performance Zone, Inc. | New York, NY | $40,000 | Purpose: To support The Field's capacity building and life preparedness services for national dance artists. Additional Project Description: The Vision for Life Preparedness progra… |
| 2022 | New York City Center, Inc. | New York, NY | $40,000 | Purpose: To support commissioning fees and staff salaries for the Fall for Dance Festival. Additional Project Description: The festival will feature a variety of artists and dance … |
| 2022 | Abraham.In.Motion, Inc. | New York, NY | $40,000 | Purpose: To support a tour and related engagement activities for a mixed repertory program that honors past and present Black dance creators. Additional Project Description: Intend… |
| 2022 | Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $35,000 | Purpose: To support dancer and choreographer fees for the creation of a new work by choreographer Amy Hall Garner and related educational digital activities. Additional Project Des… |
| 2022 | Ballet Tech Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $35,000 | Purpose: To support a tuition-free ballet training program. Additional Project Description: Founded by choreographer Eliot Feld, the audition-based program provides beginning to ad… |
| 2022 | Fresh Meat Productions | San Francisco, CA | $35,000 | Purpose: To support a tour of Sean Dorsey Dance's work, The Lost Art of Dreaming, and related community engagement activities. Additional Project Description: The work imagines tra… |
| 2022 | Dallas Black Dance Theatre | Dallas, TX | $30,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and production of a new work by choreographer Jae Man Joo. Additional Project Description: Performances will take place in-person, virtually live s… |
| 2022 | Foundation for Independent Artists, Inc. | New York, NY | $30,000 | Purpose: To support the creation, presentation, and touring of works by dance artists. Additional Project Description: The artists—Ephrat Asherie, Nora Chipaumire, Beth Gill, and E… |
| 2022 | Tapology Inc. | Mount Morris, MI | $30,000 | Purpose: To support a tour of dance performances. Additional Project Description: The tour highlights traditions of call and response, tap dance and art for social change. Rooted i… |
| 2022 | Dimensions Dance Theater, Inc. | Oakland, CA | $30,000 | Purpose: To support the Rites of Passage dance education program for youth. Additional Project Description: The year-round project brings traditional African dance, music, and cont… |
| 2022 | Infinity Dance Theater Company, Ltd. | New York, NY | $30,000 | Purpose: To support physically integrated dance classes for people with disabilities and a workshop series for dance educators. Additional Project Description: Led by artistic dire… |
| 2022 | Yard, Inc. | Chilmark, MA | $30,000 | Purpose: To support creative residencies for choreographers. Additional Project Description: Selected choreographers will have daily access to resources such as studio and theater … |
| 2022 | Regents of the University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | $29,998 | Purpose: To support artist fees and administrative costs for the presentation of dance performances and audience engagement activities as part of the Northrop Dance Series. Additio… |
| 2022 | Dances For A Variable Population | New York, NY | $25,000 | Purpose: To support virtual and in-person dance workshops and free public performances. Additional Project Description: The project will feature senior professional dance artists a… |
| 2022 | AXIS Dance Company | Berkeley, CA | $25,000 | Purpose: To support a national tour of dance performances and engagement activities. Additional Project Description: AXIS will tour contemporary dance works performed by artists wi… |
| 2022 | Alabama Dance Council, Inc. | Huntsville, AL | $25,000 | Purpose: To support programming at the Alabama Dance Festival. Additional Project Description: Programming will include residencies with BODYTRAFFIC from the Los Angeles area; Atla… |
| 2022 | National Black Arts Festival, Inc. | Atlanta, GA | $25,000 | Purpose: To support the Move/Dance! education program in partnership with Atlanta Public Schools and Spelman College. Additional Project Description: Through a dance education prog… |
| 2022 | Dance Institute of Washington | Washington, DC | $25,000 | Purpose: To support dance education programs. Additional Project Description: Educational opportunities will include the company's school and mentoring programs that will provide y… |
| 2022 | Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater | Minneapolis, MN | $25,000 | Purpose: To support a series of movement and visual arts workshops at the South Dakota State Penitentiary. Additional Project Description: For several weeks, the company—in collabo… |
| 2022 | Sharron Miller's Academy for the Performing Arts, Inc. | Montclair, NJ | $25,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries and teaching artist fees for in-school dance education residencies. Additional Project Description: Students will explore tap, ballet, West Afric… |
| 2022 | Professional Flair, Inc. | Cleveland, OH | $25,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a new work by the Dancing Wheels Company & School, focusing on women of color who changed jazz history. Additional Project Desc… |
| 2022 | Mutual Dance Theatre and Arts Centers | Cincinnati, OH | $25,000 | Purpose: To support performances and residencies by Ballet Hispánico and RUBBERBAND Dance Group as part of the Jefferson James Contemporary Dance Theater Series. Additional Project… |
| 2022 | STREB Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $25,000 | Purpose: To support the creation of a new work by choreographer Elizabeth Streb, with related public engagement activities. Additional Project Description: Led by Streb in collabor… |
| 2022 | Green Box Arts Project | Green Mountain Falls, CO | $25,000 | Purpose: To support a residency and presentation of Ballet Hispánico. Additional Project Description: In addition to performances, residency activities will include dance classes, … |
| 2022 | Dancing in the Streets, Inc. | Bronx, NY | $22,000 | Purpose: To support a program for street dancers to develop choreography, train in freestyle technique, and build performance skills. Additional Project Description: Aspects of the… |
| 2022 | Boston Ballet, Inc. | Boston, MA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support a production of mixed repertory dance works by Boston Ballet. Additional Project Description: Performances will include works by choreographers such as George B… |
| 2022 | Lubovitch Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the documentation, preservation, and dissemination of the legacy of the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company. Additional Project Description: The basis of the project wi… |
| 2022 | Cleveland Modern Dance Association | Cleveland, OH | $20,000 | Purpose: To support dance presentations and community engagement activities by DANCECleveland. Additional Project Description: Companies to be presented will include Pam Tanowitz D… |
| 2022 | Pacific Northwest Ballet Association | Seattle, WA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of dance works that explore gender fluidity and challenge assumptions about movement in ballet. Additional Project Description: Pa… |
| 2022 | Dancing Grounds | New Orleans, LA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the Dance for Social Change festival led by Dancing Grounds' youth dance company. Additional Project Description: The youth company, DG Uprising, explores issue… |
| 2022 | New Dialect | Nashville, TN | $20,000 | Purpose: To support Dance Dialectics, a dance education project that offers professional development training, community classes, and multi-week intensives for dance artists in Ten… |
| 2022 | Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | Purpose: To support a dance festival at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago. Additional Project Description: The Dance Center will present a dance festival which will focu… |
| 2022 | University of Nebraska at Lincoln | Lincoln, NE | $20,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries and artist fees for the presentation of Kinetic Light's work DESCENT at the Lied Center for the Performing Arts, with related community engagemen… |
| 2022 | Movement Research, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | Purpose: To support production fees for the Movement Research at the Judson Church free performance series. Additional Project Description: The programs offer artists opportunities… |
| 2022 | Latsky Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | Purpose: To support casting and rehearsals for the development of Heidi Latsky Dance's "D.I.S.P.L.A.Y.E.D." Additional Project Description: The work is an immersive experience at t… |
| 2022 | Northeast Ohio Center for Choreography | Akron, OH | $20,000 | Purpose: To support NCCAkron's Dancing Labs, a technical residency, and a national convening for dance artists, including remote and virtual activities. Additional Project Descript… |
| 2022 | Dance Project, Inc. | Greensboro, NC | $20,000 | Purpose: To support residency activities with Wideman/Davis Dance. Additional Project Description: The residency will comprise multiple visits by the company to Greensboro for acti… |
| 2022 | Noorani Dance | Menlo Park, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support continued development of Saabit Qadam - Perseverance, a work featuring South Asian dance, music, and theater. Additional Project Description: The work will focu… |
| 2022 | Urban Artistry, Inc. | Silver Spring, MD | $20,000 | Purpose: To support professional development programming for artists. Additional Project Description: The Professional Development & Sustainability Exchange will offer an in-person… |
| 2022 | transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project | San Diego, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support CREATE, an intensive dance program for students. Additional Project Description: In this program, students explore dance and the performing arts through dance t… |
| 2022 | Dance Film SF, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the San Francisco Dance Film Festival. Additional Project Description: The festival includes dance films created for the camera, full-length recordings of stage… |
| 2022 | Deeply Rooted Productions | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | Purpose: To support productions and a collaboration with Deeply Rooted Dance Theater and Alfred Dove. Additional Project Description: Deeply Rooted Dance Theater will work with Alf… |
| 2022 | Velocity Dance Center | Seattle, WA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation. Additional Project Description: The festival comprises a month-long immersion in contemporary dance education, cr… |
| 2022 | Bradley Family Foundation, Inc. | Milwaukee, WI | $20,000 | Purpose: To support a residency and performance with Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group at Lynden Sculpture Garden. Additional Project Description: Wilson will develop h… |
| 2022 | Rosy Simas Danse | Minneapolis, MN | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of she who lives on the road to war, an installation/dance performance created in response to global loss and the collective need … |
| 2022 | Ko-Thi, Inc. | Milwaukee, WI | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of a concert featuring the Ton Ko-Thi Youth Performance Ensemble and Training Ensemble. Additional Project Description: The concert will includ… |
| 2022 | Safos Dance Theatre | Tucson, AZ | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the development and touring of Stories from Home, a new dance by Yvonne Montoya. Additional Project Description: Stories From Home will comprise a series of dan… |
| 2022 | CONTRA-TIEMPO Inc. | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Ana Maria Alvarez and pianist and composer Arturo O'Farrill. Additional Project Description: The wo… |
| 2022 | Spanish Dance Arts Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | Purpose: To support Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana's national touring performances and audience engagement programs. Additional Project Description: The program will commence with "… |
| 2022 | Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Inc. | Tivoli, NY | $20,000 | Purpose: To support a collaboration with Indigenous artists ShanDien LaRance, Steve LaRance, and local Lenape Artists and community members at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park. Additional P… |
| 2022 | Jess Curtis/Gravity, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of an ensemble work directed by Jess Curtis. Additional Project Description: The work will focus on social and cultural experience… |
| 2022 | Open The Circle | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | Purpose: To support final production costs for "Body of The City," a feature documentary film about the dance and music known as Chicago Footwork. Additional Project Description: T… |
| 2022 | Miami City Ballet, Inc. | Miami Beach, FL | $20,000 | Purpose: To support artist fees for the rehearsal and presentation of ballet performances. Additional Project Description: The program will feature Martha Graham's Diversion of Ang… |
| 2022 | Allison Orr Dance Inc. | Austin, TX | $20,000 | Purpose: To support an artistic residency for Forklift Danceworks with the City of Austin's Watershed Protection Department (WPD). Additional Project Description: Artistic research… |
| 2022 | Dancers' Group | San Francisco, CA | $17,000 | Purpose: To support In Dance, a free online quarterly publication that promotes dance artists and activities in the San Francisco Bay Area. Additional Project Description: The publ… |
| 2022 | Collage Dance Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a series of site-specific dances by Heidi Duckler Dance. Additional Project Description: The three pieces are inspired by Paul … |
| 2022 | Texas International Theatrical Arts Society | Dallas, TX | $15,000 | Purpose: To support artist fees for the presentation of national dance artists and related education and engagement activities. Additional Project Description: Dance artists will i… |
| 2022 | Dance Films Association, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the Dance on Camera Festival and Dance on Camera Tour. Additional Project Description: The Dance on Camera Festival, co-produced with Film at Lincoln Center, wi… |
| 2022 | Tennessee Performing Arts Center Management Corporation | Nashville, TN | $15,000 | Purpose: To support artist fees for the presentation of the Ailey II company at Tennessee Performing Arts Center. Additional Project Description: Programming may include works such… |
| 2022 | Flyaway Productions | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and production of a new work by choreographer Jo Kreiter. Additional Project Description: The aerial dance work will explore themes of sexual viole… |
| 2022 | Dance Force, Inc. | Atlanta, GA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and performance of a new work by choreographer Douglas Scott. Additional Project Description: The new work will be inspired by the fantasy novels A… |
| 2022 | Dance Spotlight, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the documentation and preservation of the Martha Graham dance technique. Additional Project Description: The project will include scripting, rehearsals, and fil… |
| 2022 | Project Bandaloop | Oakland, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of LOOM, a large-scale, outdoor, public vertical dance theater piece that incorporates textiles. Additional Project Description: L… |
| 2022 | Dayton Contemporary Dance Company | Dayton, OH | $15,000 | Purpose: To support artist fees for rehearsals in preparation for a national tour of Dayton Contemporary Dance Company. Additional Project Description: The rehearsal period for the… |
| 2022 | Joe Goode Performance Group | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support a free, in-school and after-school dance education program for students. Additional Project Description: The Inspired Bodies program develops the artistic and c… |
| 2022 | On the Boards | Seattle, WA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of a series of talks, performances, and screenings by artists. Additional Project Description: This project acts as a palindrome, with a series… |
| 2022 | Cross Performance, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the creation of a new work by choreographer Ralph Lemon. Additional Project Description: The new work will explore the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic, bein… |
| 2022 | Ananya Dance Theatre | Saint Paul, MN | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the development and production of "Nun Gherao" by choreographer Ananya Chatterjea. Additional Project Description: The dance work's themes are forced migration,… |
| 2022 | Virginia Arts Festival, Inc. | Norfolk, VA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of the Nashville Ballet as part of the Virginia Arts Festival's 25th anniversary season. Additional Project Description: Nashville Ballet will … |
| 2022 | Repertory Dance Theatre | Salt Lake City, UT | $15,000 | Purpose: To support On The Road Again, a statewide touring project. Additional Project Description: The dance residencies will include performances, school assemblies with question… |
| 2022 | San Diego Dance Theater | San Diego, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support Trolley Dances, a series of site-specific dance performances along the Metro Transit System in San Diego, and related educational programming. Additional Projec… |
| 2022 | Base | Seattle, WA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support a choreography residency program. Additional Project Description: Artists are given the opportunity to work for up to two consecutive weeks on development and e… |
| 2022 | Ragamala Dance | Minneapolis, MN | $15,000 | Purpose: To support a national tour of the dance work, Fires of Varanasi, by the Ragamala Dance Company. Additional Project Description: Conceived and choreographed by Ranee and Ap… |
| 2022 | New Dance Theatre, Inc. | Denver, CO | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Cleo Parker Robinson Dance in collaboration with the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra. Additional Project Description: … |
| 2022 | CounterPulse | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the Artist Residency and Commissioning program, which provides space and support for emerging and mid-career choreographers. Additional Project Description: The… |
| 2022 | Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Inc. | Pittsburgh, PA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support guest artist fees for the creation and presentation of a production featuring emerging choreographers. Additional Project Description: The performance will feat… |
| 2022 | Parsons Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | Purpose: To support a national tour featuring works by David Parsons and a premiere by Rena Butler, as well as the creation of Butler's new work. Additional Project Description: Fu… |
| 2022 | School of American Ballet, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | Purpose: To support a ballet training program for children. Additional Project Description: School of American Ballet's Children's Division will help develop the next generation of… |
| 2022 | Arts Resources in Collaboration, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the Eye on Dance Legacy archive project. Additional Project Description: ARC will organize, assess, identify, and safeguard elements of the archive for full pub… |
| 2022 | Keshet Dance Company | Albuquerque, NM | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the Movement for Mercy Project, a performance experience created both inside and outside prison walls. Additional Project Description: The collaborative project… |
| 2022 | Dance Works, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $15,000 | Purpose: To support Pentacle's fiscal and infrastructure support services for artists. Additional Project Description: The program will offer free or highly subsidized fiscal and i… |
| 2022 | Cape Fear Community College | Wilmington, NC | $15,000 | Purpose: To support an artist residency and performances by Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble at the Wilson Center. Additional Project Description: The company will perform Four … |
| 2022 | Kulintang Arts | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the development of Anting Anting Soul Dance, a site-specific, multidisciplinary ritual performance at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Additional Project … |
| 2022 | Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the Music Center's dance public engagement program. Additional Project Description: The program is an accessible, community-oriented initiative that uses dance … |
| 2022 | Noche Flamenca, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a live flamenco production based on selected works of artist Francisco Goya. Additional Project Description: Artistic Director … |
| 2022 | Circo Zero | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a dance performance project by Sarah Crowell and Keith Hennessy. Additional Project Description: Crowell and Hennessy will crea… |
| 2022 | SOLE Defined Inc | Landover, MD | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the filming and restaging of Zaz: The Big Easy. Additional Project Description: This original evening-length work was designed to immerse the audience in a New … |
| 2022 | University of North Carolina at Wilmington | Wilmington, NC | $15,000 | Purpose: To support artist fees for the presentation of Ballet Hispánico's work Noche de Oro and residency activities that celebrate the history and culture of Latinx artists. Addi… |
| 2022 | Ririe-Woodbury Dance Foundation | Salt Lake City, UT | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a new interdisciplinary work, Scenes for an Ending, by Raja Feather Kelly. Additional Project Description: Created around the t… |
| 2022 | George Mason University | Fairfax, VA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support a residency and presentation of Nrityagram dance company at the Center for the Arts. Additional Project Description: Nrityagram, a classical Indian dance ensemb… |
| 2022 | Seattle Theatre Group | Seattle, WA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support artist fees for the presentation of Dance Theatre of Harlem. Additional Project Description: In addition to performances, education and community engagement eve… |
| 2022 | CAVE Organization, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $15,000 | Purpose: To support archival and preservation activities, including cataloging, digitization, and public events featuring the butoh form of Japanese dance theater. Additional Proje… |
| 2022 | University of Hawaii at Manoa | Honolulu, HI | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the Asia Pacific Dance Festival. Additional Project Description: In a collaboration with East-West Center and other partners, the festival will present local an… |
| 2022 | University of Denver, Colorado Seminary | Denver, CO | $15,000 | Purpose: To support artist fees and administrative costs for dance presentations at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts, with related public programming. Additional Project D… |
| 2022 | Pioneers Go East Collective | New York, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support Crossroads, a series of curated dance performances, panel discussions, and workshops. Additional Project Description: Crossroads will center the voices of queer… |
| 2022 | Juilliard School | New York, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support artist fees for the annual mainstage dance performances showcasing Juilliard dance students. Additional Project Description: Spring Dances will re-mount contemp… |
| 2022 | Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the Instituto Coreográfico (Choreographic Institute), a choreographic creation and mentorship program. Additional Project Description: During the institute, cho… |
| 2022 | Rosin Box Project Inc. | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of contemporary ballet works. Additional Project Description: New dance works will be developed collaboratively by the company's a… |
| 2022 | Monica Bill Barnes & Company | New York, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support artist fees for a national tour of "The Running Show," an evening-length dance performance, in collaboration with local performers in each venue's city. Additio… |
| 2022 | Stephen Petronio Dance Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support an artist residency and rehearsals for the development of a new Stephen Petronio work and a new work for the Bloodlines project. Additional Project Description:… |
| 2022 | ShaLeigh Dance Works | Rougemont, NC | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a new dance theater work, "enVISION: Sensory Beyond Sight." Additional Project Description: The result of a collaborative creat… |
| 2022 | Keigwin and Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and production of a new work by choreographer Larry Keigwin. Additional Project Description: The new work is inspired by George Gershwin's Rhapsody… |
| 2022 | Dance Parade Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the annual Dance Parade and Festival. Additional Project Description: The parade will feature dancers, floats, and live music on a route through Manhattan, culm… |
| 2022 | Wonderbound | Denver, CO | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and production of new dance works by Artistic Director Garrett Ammon and Associate Choreographer Sarah Tallman, with related education programs. Ad… |
| 2022 | Visions In Rhythm | Austin, TX | $10,000 | Purpose: To support Tapestry Dance Company's annual Soul to Sole festival, a national education and performance forum for the art of tap dance. Additional Project Description: Tape… |
| 2022 | Dance Exchange, Inc. | Takoma Park, MD | $10,000 | Purpose: To support Future Fields, a collaborative performance project about climate change and agriculture. Additional Project Description: Led by Dance Exchange's Executive Direc… |
| 2022 | OhioDance | Columbus, OH | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the documentation, preservation, and expansion of the OhioDance Virtual Dance Collection®, an archival project of Ohio's dance history for the public domain. Ad… |
| 2022 | Calpulli Mexican Dance Company | East Elmhurst, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the production of a new work, Monarcas: Stories of Inspired Immigrants. Additional Project Description: The work will feature folkloric and contemporary dance s… |
| 2022 | Ebony Repertory Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support a residency and related community outreach activities by Garth Fagan Dance at Dance@theHolden. Additional Project Description: The residency may include perform… |
| 2022 | Gina Gibney Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and production of a new work by choreographer Rena Butler for Gibney Company. Additional Project Description: The piece will be inspired in part by… |
| 2022 | Cincinnati Ballet Company, Inc. | Cincinnati, OH | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the Bold Moves Festival. Additional Project Description: The festival will include mixed repertory ballet performances, lectures, film screenings, and question-… |
| 2022 | New Dance Alliance, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the 36th Performance Mix Festival, which offers new explorations in dance and interdisciplinary performance by emerging and mid-career choreographers. Additiona… |
| 2022 | Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy | Boston, MA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the development of a collaborative dance project with choreographer and director Peter DiMuro.. Additional Project Description: Activity will focus on the plann… |
| 2022 | Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation of a new work by choreographer Monique Haley and composer Pharez Whitted, with associated public programs. Additional Project Description: This mus… |
| 2022 | Apogee Arts | Brooksville, ME | $10,000 | Purpose: To support a series of short dance films created by Alison Chase/Performance. Additional Project Description: These short films will feature collaborations between artists… |
| 2022 | Center for Performance Research, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support professional development and technical assistance services to New York City's experimental dance and performance communities. Additional Project Description: Th… |
| 2022 | Ballet Metropolitan, Inc. | Columbus, OH | $10,000 | Purpose: To support dancer salaries and license and acquisition fees for mixed repertory dance performances by Ballet Met. Additional Project Description: The program will include … |
| 2022 | BalletX | Philadelphia, PA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support choreographer fees for a residency and the production of a new dance work. Additional Project Description: Choreographer Jennifer Archibald will create the new … |
| 2022 | Dance Brigade A New Group from Wallflower Order | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and production of From Cuba to Guinea. Additional Project Description: A collaboration between Susana Arenas Pedroso and Duniya Dance & Drum Compan… |
| 2022 | Open Dance Project Inc. | Houston, TX | $10,000 | Purpose: To support artist fees for the development and presentation of Bonnie & Clyde, an immersive dance theater performance. Additional Project Description: Personalizing the co… |
| 2022 | Festival Dance & Performing Arts Association, Inc. | Moscow, ID | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the Festival Dance Youthreach Project, an educational program serving rural communities. Additional Project Description: Touring professional national and inter… |
| 2022 | Zaccho SF | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support artist fees and production costs for the biennial San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival. Additional Project Description: Founded in 2014 by Zaccho Dance Theatre, t… |
| 2022 | Anne Bluethenthal and Dancers | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support a presentation of Towards Opulence, directed by choreographer Anne Bluethenthal in collaboration with the ensemble Skywatchers. Additional Project Description: … |
| 2022 | Revolution Dance Works | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | Purpose: To support an artist residency by April Sellers Dance Collective's continued development of the dance production "Rumble Strips." Additional Project Description: The proje… |
| 2022 | Diavolo Dance Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support DIAVOLO Architecture in Motion's The Veterans Project, a movement-based program for military veterans. Additional Project Description: The company will partner … |
| 2022 | Whim W'Him | Seattle, WA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support a program of new contemporary dance works by choreographers Maurya Kerr and Micaela Taylor. Additional Project Description: Guest choreographers Kerr and Taylor… |
| 2022 | Lucky Plush Productions | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the The Map of Now, a hybrid live and virtual dance-theater work. Additional Project Description: The work is the second installment in a three-part dance-theat… |
| 2022 | Gaspard&Dancers, Inc. | Durham, NC | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and production of a new work by choreographer Gaspard Louis and cellist, singer, and songwriter Shana Tucker. Additional Project Description: The w… |
| 2022 | DanzActiva, Inc. | San Juan, PR | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the preservation of DanzActiva's archives. Additional Project Description: DanzActiva staff will preserve more than two decades of dance pedagogy, performance, … |
| 2022 | Zorongo Flamenco, Inc. | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a theater and flamenco dance project, with associated public programming. Additional Project Description: Inspired by the 12th-… |
| 2022 | Art Sweats, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation of a new work by David Dorfman Dance, with related public engagement activities. Additional Project Description: The work will explore themes of pe… |
| 2022 | Pennsylvania Ballet Association | Philadelphia, PA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation of a short documentary dance film. Additional Project Description: The film will feature a powerful portrait of Pennsylvania Ballet dancers and com… |
| 2022 | American Tap Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support Tap City, an annual tap dance festival. Additional Project Description: Activities will include dance classes, choreography residencies, and performances assemb… |
| 2022 | Red Clay Dance Company | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | Purpose: To support artist fees for the creation and presentation of a new dance work by Vershawn Sanders-Ward. Additional Project Description: The work will explore the theme of e… |
| 2022 | Aspen Santa Fe Ballet | Aspen, CO | $10,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries for an after-school program based in Mexican Folklórico dance. Additional Project Description: This education program will promote learning in La… |
| 2022 | Chicago Dancemakers Forum | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | Purpose: To support staff costs and artist fees for Elevate Chicago Dance, a citywide event which will gather local, regional, and national dance presenters and curators to introdu… |
| 2022 | Leela Institute | West Hills, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and production of a new kathak work by Seibi Lee and Rina Mehta, with related educational activities. Additional Project Description: The piece wil… |
| 2022 | Brownbody | Saint Paul, MN | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the performance of Tracing Sacred Steps and associated activities. Additional Project Description: Merging modern dance with figure skating, the piece will expl… |
| 2022 | Inta, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation of a new duet with visual artist Joan Jonas and a production of Eiko Otake's work, "The Duet Project," with related public engagement activities. A… |
| 2022 | Vangeline Theater Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a new work by the Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute. Additional Project Description: The project will combine butoh an… |
| 2022 | Abilities Dance Incorporated | Brookline, MA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support a production of Firebird by choreographer Ellice Patterson. Additional Project Description: Abilities Dance Boston will cast dancers with and without disabiliti… |
| 2022 | Chicago Human Rhythm Project | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | Purpose: To support artists' fees for the Northside Southside Oneside and Rhythm World festivals. Additional Project Description: Stomping Grounds is a collaborative, citywide cele… |
| 2022 | Dorrance Dance Incorporated | New York, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support a rehearsal and planning period and related educational activities by Dorrance Dance. Additional Project Description: The company will rehearse repertory works … |
| 2022 | Joffrey Ballet | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and production of the family-friendly ballet Rita Finds Home, to be performed by the Joffrey Academy's advanced pre-professional students. Addition… |
| 2022 | Conga Kids | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support dance education and programming. Additional Project Description: Conga Kids uses online platforms and social-emotional learning (SEL) tools to provide dance ins… |
| 2022 | Performing Arts Center Authority | Fort Lauderdale, FL | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of American dance company Pilobolus on its 50th anniversary tour. Additional Project Description: The project will feature performances for the… |
| 2022 | Northwest Professional Dance Project | Portland, OR | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a new contemporary dance work. Additional Project Description: Choreographer Joseph Hernandez will create a new work in respons… |
| 2022 | ODC | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support dancer salaries for the creation and presention of dance works as part of the Dance Downtown series. Additional Project Description: The company will work with … |
| 2022 | Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts | Bethlehem, PA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support a residency with Passion Fruit Dance Company at Charter Arts. Additional Project Description: The residency for high school students will focus on Black excelle… |
| 2022 | Allegro Dance Project, Inc. | Lexington, KY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support an adaptive dance education program in schools for children with and without disabilities. Additional Project Description: Participants of all abilities will ha… |
| 2022 | Nimbus Dance Works Inc. | Jersey City, NJ | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation of a new dance work by choreographer Dawn Marie Bazemore and related education activities as part of the Dance and Democracy project. Additional Pr… |
| 2022 | Ballet Vero Beach Inc. | Vero Beach, FL | $10,000 | Purpose: To support artist fees for an adaptation of Firebird. Additional Project Description: The work will be based on both the original story and score, but with a new setting i… |
| 2022 | Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, Inc. | Englewood Cliffs, NJ | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of a series of videos featuring newly recorded performances and historic recordings to virtually celebrate the Year of the Golden Tiger Lunar N… |
| 2022 | Dance Saint Louis | Saint Louis, MO | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the annual Spring to Dance Festival featuring various genres of dance. Additional Project Description: The festival will present dance companies and artists fro… |
| 2022 | Mixed Bag Productions | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the production of 7 Excavations / at the edge of the shore and the edge of the world, an intensive workshop and residency program. Additional Project Descriptio… |
| 2022 | Nava Dance Theatre | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and production of Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies, a bharatanatyam dance work. Additional Project Description: The work will feature choreography by … |
| 2022 | Spectrum Dance Theater | Seattle, WA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support artist fees for the reimagining of Donald Byrd's The Harlem Nutcracker. Additional Project Description: Created in 1997, the work was set to a score by David Be… |
| 2022 | Epiphany Dance Theater | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support artist fees for the San Francisco Trolley Dances festival. Additional Project Description: Held in the fall, this annual site-specific, free dance festival feat… |
| 2022 | ODC Theater | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support artist and guest curator fees for the presentation of visiting and San Francisco Bay Area dance and contemporary dance artists. Additional Project Description: … |
| 2022 | Thresh, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support research and development for a new, full-length solo work by choreographer Preeti Vasudevan. Additional Project Description: Based on correspondence between the… |
| 2022 | American Dance Institute | New York, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support choreographic residencies for dance artists at the LUMBERYARD facilities located in Catskill, New York. Additional Project Description: Choreographers will have… |
| 2022 | Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of dance works. Additional Project Description: The project will feature several artists ranging from those new to the field to those who are m… |
| 2022 | La Donna Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Donna Uchizono. Additional Project Description: Activities will include several community performances at local o… |
| 2022 | RFCUNY Queens College | Flushing, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the Kupferberg Center for the Arts' CUNY Dance Initiative, a series of residency programs. Additional Project Description: Dance companies and choreographers wi… |
| 2022 | GroundWorks Dancetheater | Cleveland, OH | $10,000 | Purpose: To support a commission and creative residency with choreographer Rena Butler. Additional Project Description: The new work will serve as creative content for in-school ed… |
| 2022 | DOVA, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation of To My Arms Restore, a new work by Doug Varone and Dancers performed to arias by G.F. Handel and a commissioned score. Additional Project Descrip… |
| 2022 | Cuyahoga Community College Foundation | Cleveland, OH | $10,000 | Purpose: To support artist fees for performances and residency activities by MOMIX, a co-presentation by Tri-C Presents and DANCECleveland. Additional Project Description: Performa… |
| 2022 | Body Traffic | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries for BODYTRAFFIC's national tour. Additional Project Description: The tour will include works by national and international choreographers. The co… |
| 2022 | Margaret Jenkins Dance Studio, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the Encounters Over 60 program, celebrating the voices of older dance artists Additional Project Description: With a focus on artists over the age of 60, a sele… |
| 2022 | Jose Limon Dance Foundation | New York, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support salaries, artist fees, and travel costs for performances at the American Dance Festival. Additional Project Description: Performances may include repertory work… |
| 2022 | The Cowles Center | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | Purpose: To support MERGE, a performance and engagement project that provides a choreographer and a company development resources to collaborate on new dance works. Additional Proj… |
| 2022 | Pony Box Dance Theatre | Long Beach, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the Dance for Healing Project, a youth-focused therapeutic dance and trauma-informed mentorship program. Additional Project Description: Teaching artists will o… |
| 2022 | Ballet Arizona | Phoenix, AZ | $10,000 | Purpose: To support dancer fees for Ballet Under the Stars, a free outdoor performance series in local parks throughout the Phoenix metropolitan area. Additional Project Descriptio… |
| 2022 | Invertigo Dance Theatre | Culver City, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the development and presentation of Interior Design and related community engagement activities. Additional Project Description: Interior Design follows an inte… |
| 2022 | Creative Netwerk | Astoria, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support program expansion and dance teacher training in California, Illinois, and New York. Additional Project Description: EDN! provides free, weekly hip-hop and stree… |
| 2022 | Blue13 Dance Company Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of an immersive dance theater work. Additional Project Description: The work will be created collaboratively and directed by Artis… |
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