NEA Dance Grants 2023: All 212 Awards
212 NEA dance grants for fiscal year 2023, totaling $4.6M.
| Year | Recipient | City | Amount | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | National Institute of Flamenco | Albuquerque, NM | $75,000 | Purpose: To support artist fees for the Festival Flamenco Alburquerque. Additional Project Description: The 36th annual festival will bring together professional flamenco artists f… |
| 2023 | UBW, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $75,000 | Purpose: To support digitization and cataloging for the creation of the Urban Bush Women (UBW) Archive. Additional Project Description: The archiving project will preserve, organiz… |
| 2023 | Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc. | Becket, MA | $75,000 | Purpose: To support artists fees of the presentation of dance companies during the 91st Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. Additional Project Description: Artists to be presented inclu… |
| 2023 | Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $75,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of international dance artists at the Joyce. Additional Project Description: The artists will represent a selected mix of established, emerging… |
| 2023 | Wideman/Davis Dance of New York | Columbia, SC | $70,000 | Purpose: To support community engagement activities, documentation, and creation of an archive as part of "Migratuse Reimagined," a multi-year dance residency. Additional Project D… |
| 2023 | Friends of NORD, Inc. | New Orleans, LA | $70,000 | 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… |
| 2023 | International Association of Blacks in Dance, Inc. | Washington, DC | $65,000 | Purpose: To support performances at the annual IABD Conference and Festival. Additional Project Description: IABD's Conference and Festival is a convening focused on Black dance pr… |
| 2023 | CABD INC | Jamaica, NY | $65,000 | Purpose: To support the creation of a new work and a national tour of work by choreographer Camille A. Brown. Additional Project Description: The national tour will include works f… |
| 2023 | New York Live Arts Inc. | New York, NY | $65,000 | Purpose: To support the creation of new works by movement-based artists at all career levels through residencies and commissions. Additional Project Description: The project will c… |
| 2023 | World Arts West | San Francisco, CA | $60,000 | To support the World Arts West Dance Festival. Additional Project Description: Through mentorship, artistic development, and performance opportunities, the 45th annual festival wil… |
| 2023 | Dance/USA | Minneapolis, MN | $60,000 | Purpose: To support Dance/USA's annual conference, leadership webinars, national research initiatives, and dance archiving activities. Additional Project Description: Dance/USA ser… |
| 2023 | Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $60,000 | Purpose: To support dancer salaries on Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's national tour. Additional Project Description: Dance works performed on this tour may include choreograp… |
| 2023 | American Dance Festival, Inc. | Durham, NC | $60,000 | Purpose: To support presentations at the American Dance Festival, including newly-commissioned work. Additional Project Description: Festival performances will include works by art… |
| 2023 | Rosy Simas Danse | Minneapolis, MN | $60,000 | Purpose: To support the tour of she who lives on the road to war, a performance and immersive installation of moving images, sculpture, and sound by Rosy Simas. Additional Project … |
| 2023 | Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc. | New York, NY | $60,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries, artist fees, and travel costs for a national tour of Dance Theatre of Harlem. Additional Project Description: The tour will feature performances… |
| 2023 | Art Spark Texas | Austin, TX | $50,000 | Purpose: To support a dance education conference focused on integrated dance pedagogy and practice. Additional Project Description: The conference will advance critical conversatio… |
| 2023 | New Orleans Ballet Association | New Orleans, LA | $50,000 | Purpose: To support presentations of dance performances complemented by education programs for all ages. Additional Project Description: NOBA will present dance companies such as L… |
| 2023 | Philadelphia Dance Company | Philadelphia, PA | $50,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a program featuring an historic Black Dance work and new works by contemporary choreographers. Additional Project Description: … |
| 2023 | Trisha Brown Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $50,000 | Purpose: To support the reconstruction, presentation, and documentation of several pieces of choreography by Trisha Brown. Additional Project Description: The program will feature … |
| 2023 | Performance Zone, Inc. | New York, NY | $50,000 | 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… |
| 2023 | Zaccho SF | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | Purpose: To support the development and production of The Bronx Revolution and the Birth of Hip-Hop, a bicoastal collaboration by Joanna Haigood and the originators of East Coast h… |
| 2023 | Dayton Contemporary Dance Company | Dayton, OH | $49,253 | Purpose: To support a regional tour of Dayton Contemporary Dance Company. Additional Project Description: The tour's theme will focus on the past, present, and future of people in … |
| 2023 | Dance Institute of Washington | Washington, DC | $45,000 | Purpose: To support dance education programs. Additional Project Description: Educational opportunities for youth will include dance training, educational services, workforce devel… |
| 2023 | Yard, Inc. | Chilmark, MA | $45,000 | Purpose: To support creative residencies for choreographers. Additional Project Description: Selected choreographers will have daily access to resources such as studio and theater … |
| 2023 | Dance Service New York City, Inc. | New York, NY | $40,000 | Purpose: To support field-building programs and expansion of the organization's website. Additional Project Description: Activities will include Dance/NYC's symposium, a series of … |
| 2023 | Danspace Project, Inc. | New York, NY | $40,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries, artist fees, and accessibility expenses for a performance production and fellowship program. Additional Project Description: The production will… |
| 2023 | New York City Ballet, Inc. | New York, NY | $40,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of ballets by choreographers Keerati Jinakunwiphat and Alysa Pires. Additional Project Description: All performances will be at the company's h… |
| 2023 | Dance Place | Washington, DC | $40,000 | Purpose: To support the DanceAfrica DC Festival and the District Choreography Dance Festival at Dance Place. Additional Project Description: The 36th annual DanceAfrica Festival wi… |
| 2023 | President and Trustees of Bates College | Lewiston, ME | $40,000 | Purpose: To support performances and education activities as part of Bates Dance Festival's (BDF) Professional Training Program and Young Dancers Workshop. Additional Project Descr… |
| 2023 | Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $40,000 | Purpose: To support travel costs for the American Ballet Theatre's performances in Costa Mesa, California, as part of a national tour. Additional Project Description: The company w… |
| 2023 | Karen Peterson and Dancers, Inc. | Pinecrest, FL | $40,000 | Purpose: To support Forward Motion, a festival and conference dedicated to physically integrated dance. Additional Project Description: The event will bring together national and i… |
| 2023 | Abraham.In.Motion, Inc. | New York, NY | $40,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and production of new dance works. Additional Project Description: Abraham and A.I.M. will commission choreographers Rena Butler, Andrea Miller, an… |
| 2023 | Ballet Tech Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $40,000 | 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… |
| 2023 | Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $40,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries and space costs for a period of creative development and rehearsal in preparation for performances. Additional Project Description: The company w… |
| 2023 | Dallas Black Dance Theatre | Dallas, TX | $35,000 | Purpose: To support the restaging and presentation of Games (1951), by choreographer Donald McKayle. Additional Project Description: The work will be presented in a performance ser… |
| 2023 | 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… |
| 2023 | Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo Inc | New York, NY | $35,000 | Purpose: To support the restaging and presentation of "Yes, Virginia, Another Piano Ballet," a national tour, and related community engagement activities. Additional Project Descri… |
| 2023 | Dancing in the Streets, Inc. | Bronx, NY | $35,000 | Purpose: To support a program for street dancers to develop choreography, train in freestyle technique, and build performance skills. Additional Project Description: The program wi… |
| 2023 | National Black Arts Festival, Inc. | Atlanta, GA | $35,000 | Purpose: To support the Move/Dance! education program in partnership with Atlanta Public Schools and the Atlanta University Center. Additional Project Description: A partnership wi… |
| 2023 | Allison Orr Dance Inc. | Austin, TX | $35,000 | Purpose: To support Forklift Danceworks' creation of a new performance project with a focus on Black trail riding. Additional Project Description: Drawing from the rich history of … |
| 2023 | AXIS Dance Company | Berkeley, CA | $30,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries and artist fees for a national tour of dance performances with accompanying engagement activities. Additional Project Description: AXIS will tour… |
| 2023 | Velocity Dance Center | Seattle, WA | $30,000 | Purpose: To support the Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation. Additional Project Description: The festival will comprise a month-long immersion in contemporary dance education… |
| 2023 | Joe Goode Performance Group | San Francisco, CA | $30,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and production of a dance theater work. Additional Project Description: As We Go will explore how people live, die, and are cared for when aging or… |
| 2023 | 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… |
| 2023 | Dance Film SF, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $30,000 | Purpose: To support the San Francisco Dance Film Festival. Additional Project Description: The festival takes place twice a year and includes dance films created for the camera, fu… |
| 2023 | Movement Research, Inc. | New York, NY | $30,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of free and low-cost public performance programs, including Movement Research at the Judson Church and the Movement Research Festival. Addition… |
| 2023 | Nava Dance Theatre | San Francisco, CA | $30,000 | Purpose: To support Unrehearsed, an artist residency and commissioning program. Additional Project Description: The program will confront systemic structural prejudices in the Indi… |
| 2023 | Regents of the University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | $29,998 | Purpose: To support artistic and administrative fees for dance performance and audience engagement activities as part of the Northrop Dance Series. Additional Project Description: … |
| 2023 | Dancing Grounds | New Orleans, LA | $25,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries for the Dance for Social Change festival led by Dancing Grounds' youth dance company, and associated engagement activities. Additional Project De… |
| 2023 | Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc. | New York, NY | $25,000 | Purpose: To support Pa'lante Scholars, a professional studies program for emerging dance artists. Additional Project Description: The dance program will focus on artistic developme… |
| 2023 | Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $25,000 | Purpose: To support artist fees for the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Hope Boykin. Additional Project Description: In advance of the premiere, Artistic D… |
| 2023 | Visions In Rhythm | Austin, TX | $25,000 | 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: Danc… |
| 2023 | Mutual Dance Theatre and Arts Centers | Cincinnati, OH | $25,000 | Purpose: To support performances and residencies by Dallas Black Dance Theatre and Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre, as part of the Jefferson James Contemporary Dance Theater Series. Ad… |
| 2023 | transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project | San Diego, CA | $25,000 | Purpose: To support CREATE, an intensive dance program for students. Additional Project Description: In the CREATE program, students explore dance and the performing arts through d… |
| 2023 | Noche Flamenca, Inc. | New York, NY | $25,000 | Purpose: To support performances on tour of an original flamenco production based on Francisco Goya's art with accompanying engagement activties. Additional Project Description: Th… |
| 2023 | Wooden Floor for Youth Movement | Santa Ana, CA | $25,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries and artist fees for dance education programs and performances for youth. Additional Project Description: The program will provide youth with rigo… |
| 2023 | Jose Limon Dance Foundation | New York, NY | $25,000 | Purpose: To support performances by the Limón Dance Company and the creation of a new work. Additional Project Description: Performances will include repertory works such as Limón … |
| 2023 | Sharron Miller's Academy for the Performing Arts, Inc. | Montclair, NJ | $25,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries and teaching artists' fees for in-school dance education residencies. Additional Project Description: Students will explore tap, ballet, West Afr… |
| 2023 | Links Hall Inc. | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of J'Sun Howard's The Righteous Beauty of the Things Never Accounted For, and accompanying community engagement activities. Additi… |
| 2023 | Flyaway Productions | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the development and premiere of If I Give You My Sorrows, a new dance work and accompanying art exhibition. Additional Project Description: The new work will ex… |
| 2023 | University of Washington | Seattle, WA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries and artist fees for the presentation of RUBBERBAND in "Reckless Underdog," a new work by choreographer Victor Quijada at the Meany Center for the… |
| 2023 | Andanza, Inc. | San Juan, PR | $20,000 | Purpose: To support a dance and community festival at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo. Additional Project Description: Held in the winter, this multi-day cultural event includes fr… |
| 2023 | Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, Inc. | Englewood Cliffs, NJ | $20,000 | Purpose: To support artist fees for the presentation of dance works and live music as part of the Year of the Water Rabbit Lunar New Year Celebration. Additional Project Descriptio… |
| 2023 | Inta, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the creation, presentation, and tour of I Invited Myself, a new large-scale, multidisciplinary work by Eiko Otake. Additional Project Description: Otake will pe… |
| 2023 | Alabama Dance Council, Inc. | Huntsville, AL | $20,000 | Purpose: To support programming at the Alabama Dance Festival. Additional Project Description: Programming will include a residency with Helen Simoneau Danse. The council also will… |
| 2023 | Capacitor Performance | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the development and premiere of a new dance work featuring an interactive sculpture. Additional Project Description: Choreographers Antoine Hunter and Jodi Loma… |
| 2023 | Embodiment Project | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the development, presentation, and tour of a multidisciplinary dance production. Additional Project Description: The new work will feature elements of street da… |
| 2023 | Chicago Human Rhythm Project | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | Purpose: To support artists' fees for the annual Stomping Grounds and Rhythm World festivals. Additional Project Description: Stomping Grounds is a collaborative, citywide celebrat… |
| 2023 | Miami Dade College | Miami, FL | $20,000 | Purpose: To support Live Arts Miami's presentation of Haint Blu, a site-specific work created by Urban Bush Women. Additional Project Description: Haint Blu will take audiences on … |
| 2023 | Discalced, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of new works by choreographer Mark Morris. Additional Project Description: Mark Morris Dance Group will present Look of Love, set … |
| 2023 | Dance Works, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the relaunch of an online administrative platform to increase the capacity of performing artists. Additional Project Description: Pentacle's online platform nex… |
| 2023 | Fideicomiso de Ballets de San Juan | San Juan, PR | $20,000 | Purpose: To support a choreographic residency program and associated productions with Ballets de San Juan. Additional Project Description: The program will give a select number of … |
| 2023 | Community Theater Project Corporation | Pittsburgh, PA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support dance presentations at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater. Additional Project Description: The dance series will feature artists Mita Ghosal and slowdanger. In additio… |
| 2023 | Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | Purpose: To support artist fees and administrative costs for presentations at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago. Additional Project Description: LaTasha Barnes' dance wo… |
| 2023 | Viver Brasil Dance Company | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support Samba in the Streets, a free community engagement program for youth and adults. Additional Project Description: The program celebrates Afro-Brazilian dances and… |
| 2023 | Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater | Minneapolis, MN | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of "From Where I Sit," a performance project engaging a national cast of individuals with spinal cord injuries. Additional Project… |
| 2023 | University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the Tanner Dance Program's Side-by-Side (SBS) dance training residency program. Additional Project Description: The program uses the Utah State Dance Core Curri… |
| 2023 | New Dialect | Nashville, TN | $20,000 | Purpose: To support Dance Dialectics, a contemporary dance education project that offers professional development and community engagement opportunities for youth and adults, inclu… |
| 2023 | Northeast Ohio Center for Choreography | Akron, OH | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the NCCAkron's Dancing Labs and Creative Residencies programs. Additional Project Description: Mga Tsismosa, a group of Filipinx/a/o American dance artists and … |
| 2023 | Moving Forward: Contemporary Asian American Dance Company | Washington, DC | $20,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries and artist fees for the creation and presentation of a new work by Artistic Director Dana Tai Soon Burgess. Additional Project Description: The n… |
| 2023 | Spanish Dance Arts Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | Purpose: To support national touring, performances, and audience engagement activities. Additional Project Description: The project will commence with a retrospective program of ma… |
| 2023 | Works and Process, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the creation of "Caged Birds," a new dance work by street dancer/filmmaker Kash Gaines and a community of street dancers. Additional Project Description: The wo… |
| 2023 | Flamenco Works, Inc. | Albuquerque, NM | $20,000 | Purpose: To support Jesús Muñoz Flamenco's Fiesta Flamenca, a free dance festival of performances and educational programming. Additional Project Description: The flamenco festival… |
| 2023 | Garth Fagan Dance, Inc. | Rochester, NY | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and production of "The Rite of Spring," by choreographer Norwood Pennewell, in collaboration with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Additional … |
| 2023 | STREB Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the continued development of "SURF: Spin", a work by choreographer Elizabeth Streb that utilizes a custom, purpose-built machine that mimics the ocean’s turbule… |
| 2023 | Dance Resource Center of Greater Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support a studio rental program by Dance Resource Center. Additional Project Description: The program will provide artists and dance companies reduced rates for studio … |
| 2023 | RFCUNY Queens College | Flushing, NY | $19,949 | Purpose: To support the Kupferberg Center for the Arts' CUNY Dance Initiative, a series of residency programs for dance companies and choreographers. Additional Project Description… |
| 2023 | Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $19,865 | Purpose: To support restaging and presentation of William Forsythe's ballet The Barre Project/Blake Works II by Dance Theatre of Harlem as part of Penn Live Arts' Accelerator Progr… |
| 2023 | Katha Dance Theatre | Crystal, MN | $18,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of PANCHATANTRA, a new Kathak dance work based on a series of ancient Asian Indian animal fables. Additional Project Description: Kathak is the… |
| 2023 | Creative Netwerk | Astoria, NY | $18,000 | Purpose: To support a dance program for youths and professional development for dance teachers. Additional Project Description: The project consists of hip-hop and street dance cla… |
| 2023 | Base | Seattle, WA | $17,000 | Purpose: To support a choreography residency program. Additional Project Description: Artists will have the opportunity to work for up to two consecutive weeks on development and e… |
| 2023 | Regents of the University of California, Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, CA | $16,005 | Purpose: To support the exhibition Border Crossings: Exile and American Modern Dance, 1900–1955 and a related symposium. Additional Project Description: Curated by professors Ninot… |
| 2023 | Nashville Ballet | Nashville, TN | $15,000 | Purpose: To support dancer salaries for the creation and presentation of dance works by a variety of choreographers. Additional Project Description: Anthology will weave together s… |
| 2023 | Pioneers Go East Collective | New York, NY | $15,000 | Purpose: To support a series of curated dance performances, panel discussions, and workshops. Additional Project Description: The series will provide a safe space of creative inclu… |
| 2023 | Ragamala Dance | Minneapolis, MN | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the development of Children of Dharma, an interpretation of a novel by Keerthik Sasidharan, choreographed and directed by Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy. Additional… |
| 2023 | PearlArts Movement and Sound | East Liberty, PA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the PearlDiving Movement Residency. Additional Project Description: The program will provide selected artists/choreographers with rehearsal space, technical sup… |
| 2023 | Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Inc. | Tivoli, NY | $15,000 | Purpose: To support a creative residency and presentation of a new work by dance makers Emily Coates and Emmanuèle Phuon at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park. Additional Project Description:… |
| 2023 | Texas International Theatrical Arts Society | Dallas, TX | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of international dance artists and related education and engagement activities. Additional Project Description: Presentations will include Hami… |
| 2023 | ODC Theater | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of performance artists as part of the State of Play Festival. Additional Project Description: Two California-based dance artists will curate OD… |
| 2023 | La Donna Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | Purpose: To support an archival dance project with the New York Public Library. Additional Project Description: Project activities will continue the excavation of pre-existing mate… |
| 2023 | Virginia Arts Festival, Inc. | Norfolk, VA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Additional Project Description: Performances will take place in Norfolk and Newport News, Virginia. … |
| 2023 | Dorrance Dance Incorporated | New York, NY | $15,000 | To support a rehearsal and planning period for “The Nutcracker Suite” by Dorrance Dance. Additional Project Description: The company will rehearse repertory works such as "The Nutc… |
| 2023 | Malashock Dance & Company | San Diego, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of dance works by several emerging choreographers and Artistic Director John Malashock, as part of the Everyday Dances program. Ad… |
| 2023 | Stephen Petronio Dance Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of a new dance work. Additional Project Description: The program will include staging of one newly created work choreographed by Stephen Petron… |
| 2023 | Dance Spotlight, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the final phase of documentation and preservation of the Martha Graham dance technique. Additional Project Description: The project will include post production… |
| 2023 | CAVE Organization, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the creation of a new multidisciplinary work. Additional Project Description: Choreographers Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya will utilize Butoh dance, theater, … |
| 2023 | Museum of Dance | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support ROOTS, an exhibition consisting of workshops, panel discussions and performances. Additional Project Description: Resident artists Clyde Evans, Antwan Davis, an… |
| 2023 | Kulu Mele African American Dance Ensemble | Philadelphia, PA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support a reinterpretation of "Tajona: Dance of the Haitian Slaves," by Artistic Director Dorothy Wilkie and Music Director John Wilkie, in collaboration with Danys "La… |
| 2023 | Center for Performance Research, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $15,000 | Purpose: To support professional development and technical assistance services to New York City's experimental dance and performance communities. Additional Project Description: Th… |
| 2023 | Joint Forces Dance Company | Eugene, OR | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation a music and dance concert in collaboration with DanceAbility International and Orchestra Next. Additional Project Description: Per… |
| 2023 | Aspen Santa Fe Ballet | Aspen, CO | $15,000 | 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… |
| 2023 | Cleveland Modern Dance Association | Cleveland, OH | $15,000 | Purpose: To support dance presentations and community engagement activities by DANCECleveland. Additional Project Description: DANCECleveland will present the Limón Dance Company w… |
| 2023 | Indiana University, Trustees of | Bloomington, IN | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of Ballet Hispánico and accompanying engagement activities at IU Auditorium. Additional Project Description: The presentation may feature a wor… |
| 2023 | Muntu Dance Theatre | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the DanceAfrica Chicago Festival. Additional Project Description: The festival will feature performances, workshops, and film screenings. It will continue to bu… |
| 2023 | Calpulli Mexican Dance Company | East Elmhurst, NY | $15,000 | Purpose: To support a multi-state tour of Calpulli Danza Mexicana. Additional Project Description: The mid-Atlantic tour of Mexican folk dance will feature three works from the com… |
| 2023 | Dance Continuum, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the final development and premiere of "Rhythm Bath," series of performance-installations and community engagement activities, with choreographer Susan Marshall … |
| 2023 | Jean Appolon Expressions | Malden, MA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support touring performances of Jean Appolon's work, Traka. Additional Project Description: "Traka," meaning "troubles" in Haitian Creole, explores how dance, culture, … |
| 2023 | Epiphany Dance Theater | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | 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… |
| 2023 | Repertory Dance Theatre | Salt Lake City, UT | $15,000 | Purpose: To support performances of "I Am...", with related education and community engagement activities. Additional Project Description: The project will be a collaboration with … |
| 2023 | Oakland Ballet Company | Oakland, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of the Dancing Moons Festival and related touring performances. Additional Project Description: The festival will include new ballets by choreo… |
| 2023 | Red Eye Collaboration | Minneapolis, MN | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of "VASTNESSES," a new contemporary dance work by Valerie Oliveiro, at the Red Eye Theater. Additional Project Description: With t… |
| 2023 | Li Chiao-Ping Dance, Inc. | Oregon, WI | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the development and creation of DIRTY LAUNDRY, a multimedia dance theater work by choreographer Li Chiao-Ping and composer Byron Au Yong. Additional Project Des… |
| 2023 | 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… |
| 2023 | cmDance | Denver, CO | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the Lindy on the Rocks dance festival. Additional Project Description: The festival will encompass themed events featuring lindy hop, swing, and jazz dancing; H… |
| 2023 | Threads Dance Project | Minneapolis, MN | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of Let America Be America, a series of performances and community engagement programming. Additional Project Description: Grounded… |
| 2023 | LayeRhythm Productions, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of improvisational street/club dance and music performances, as well as professional development workshops for artists. Additional Project Desc… |
| 2023 | ShaLeigh Dance Works | Rougemont, NC | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of enVISION: The Next Chapter, an immersive dance-theater work, as well as accompanying engagement programs. Additional Project De… |
| 2023 | Regina Klenjoski Dance Company | Wichita, KS | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of "Converge," a joint performance series with Tristan Griffen Dance Company. Additional Project Description: The project will com… |
| 2023 | Diavolo Dance Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | 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 … |
| 2023 | Asian Improv aRts | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the planning and creation of a new site-responsive, multimedia dance project by Lenora Lee Dance. Additional Project Description: The new work will feature medi… |
| 2023 | Steffi Nossen Dance Foundation, Inc. | White Plains, NY | $15,000 | Purpose: To support adaptive dance education classes for children and adults with developmental and physical disabilities. Additional Project Description: The classes will be led b… |
| 2023 | 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 "Eye on Dance" (1981… |
| 2023 | Broadway Dance Lab | New York, NY | $15,000 | Purpose: To support an artist residency and mentorship program at Dance Lab New York. Additional Project Description: As many as three selected hip-hop/street styles choreographers… |
| 2023 | Dancers' Group | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | 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… |
| 2023 | The Cowles Center | Minneapolis, MN | $15,000 | Purpose: To support MERGE, a performance and engagement project presented by the Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts. Additional Project Description: The Cowles Center … |
| 2023 | Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre | Brooklyn, NY | $14,000 | Purpose: To support the final development and presentation of Gathering: New York City, a site-specific work choreographed and directed by Samar Haddad King. Additional Project Des… |
| 2023 | Bruce Wood Dance Company, Inc. | Dallas, TX | $12,000 | Purpose: To support a production of dance works by choreographers Joy Bollinger, Norbert De La Cruz III, and Bruce Wood. Additional Project Description: De La Cruz will create a ne… |
| 2023 | Allegro Dance Project, Inc. | Lexington, KY | $12,000 | 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… |
| 2023 | DOVA, Inc. | New York, NY | $12,000 | Purpose: To support the creation of a new dance work by Doug Varone and Dancers. Additional Project Description: Choreographed by Doug Varone, the work will focus on the topics of … |
| 2023 | Texas Woman's University | Denton, TX | $11,567 | Purpose: To support Space+Dance+Digital (S+D2), a dance research and development project creating dances to be accessed through augmented reality (AR). Additional Project Descripti… |
| 2023 | 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… |
| 2023 | Bridge Live Arts | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation of a new dance work as part of the Dancing Distributed Leadership project, with associated engagement activities. Additional Project Description: I… |
| 2023 | SB Dance | Salt Lake City, UT | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation of a new dance work to be performed in a mobile structure designed for outdoor spaces. Additional Project Description: As part of SB Dance’s Curbsi… |
| 2023 | Dance Films Association, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | 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… |
| 2023 | Noorani Dance | Menlo Park, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support performances of Saabit Qadam - Perseverance, led by Kathak artist Farah Yasmeen Shaikh. Additional Project Description: Shaikh will collaborate with dancers, mu… |
| 2023 | Dances of India | Saint Louis, MO | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and production of a new dance work with international and local artists. Additional Project Description: The new work will focus on the myths and s… |
| 2023 | Pacific Northwest Ballet Association | Seattle, WA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of new works by choreographers Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Kiyon Ross, and Edwaard Liang. Additional Project Description: Ochoa and Ros… |
| 2023 | Juilliard School | New York, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support artist fees for annual mainstage dance performances showcasing Juilliard dance students. Additional Project Description: Spring Dances will re-mount contemporar… |
| 2023 | Gallim Dance Company, Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the development of a new dance theater work, Run Lola Run, conceived by Andrea Miller. Additional Project Description: The new multidisciplinary work is an adap… |
| 2023 | CounterPulse | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the Artist Residency and Commissioning program, which provides space and support for emerging and mid-career choreographers. Additional Project Description: The… |
| 2023 | Ballet Metropolitan, Inc. | Columbus, OH | $10,000 | Purpose: To support artist fees for a mixed-repertoire program by choreographers Leiland Charles, Dana Genshaft, and Amy Seiwert. Additional Project Description: Each choreographer… |
| 2023 | Monica Bill Barnes & Company | New York, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support free presentations of Many Happy Returns. Additional Project Description: The presentations will include workshop studio showings as well as performances at the… |
| 2023 | Apogee Arts | Brooksville, ME | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the development and production of an intergenerational dance performance project by Alison Chase/Performance. Additional Project Description: The work will expl… |
| 2023 | Texas Ballet Theater, Inc. | Fort Worth, TX | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the expansion of the company's dance classes for students with disabilities, including Adaptive dance training for instructors. Additional Project Description: … |
| 2023 | KYL Dancers Inc. | Philadelphia, PA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the final development and presentation of new works by artists Weiwei Ma and Evalina Carbonell as part of Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers' Next Gen Incubator Project. Addi… |
| 2023 | Gina Gibney Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographers David Raymond and Tiffany Tregarthen of Out Innerspace Dance Theatre for the Gibney Dance company.… |
| 2023 | New Dance Alliance, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the Performance Mix Festival, which offers new explorations in dance and interdisciplinary performance by emerging and mid-career choreographers. Additional Pro… |
| 2023 | Coopdanza, Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the development and creation of an interdisciplinary dance work. Additional Project Description: Choreographers Cristina Cortés, Valkis Herrera and Rulan Tangen… |
| 2023 | Dance Exchange, Inc. | Takoma Park, MD | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the Dance On Festival, a multi-day event focused on dance and creative aging. Additional Project Description: The festival will bring together older adults, hea… |
| 2023 | Groove With Me, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support free dance classes for youth. Additional Project Description: Classes offered will include a variety of dance forms such as ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, hip… |
| 2023 | Madison Project | Santa Monica, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the California premiere of choreographer and dancer Ashwini Ramaswamy's Let the Crows Come, featuring live musical accompaniment at the Broad Stage. Additional … |
| 2023 | Before Your Eyes, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the AUNTSchive, a growing archival collection documenting hundreds of dance artists' creative outputs and outcomes from nationwide public performances and engag… |
| 2023 | Oregon Ballet Theatre | Portland, OR | $10,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries and artist fees for the creation and presentation of dance works by choreographers Rena Butler, Helen Simoneau, Samuel Hobbs, and Makina Hayashi … |
| 2023 | American Tap Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support Tap City, an annual tap dance festival. Additional Project Description: Activities may include dance classes and choreography residencies as part of the Tap Cit… |
| 2023 | Atlanta Chinese Dance Company | Peachtree Corners, GA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support a production of a new work inspired by the Asian American and Pacific Islander civil rights movement in 1982. Additional Project Description: The work includes … |
| 2023 | OhioDance | Columbus, OH | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the OhioDance Virtual Dance Collection®, an interactive website that documents and preserves the achievements of persons and institutions who have shaped the da… |
| 2023 | Del E. Webb Center for the Performing Arts | Wickenburg, AZ | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation of a new work by Parsons Dance and related engagement activities. Additional Project Description: As part of the Made in Wickenburg artist residenc… |
| 2023 | BalletCollective Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support design fees for the development and production of a new work. Additional Project Description: The new work references Homer's poem Odyssey, relating modern-day … |
| 2023 | Koresh Dance Company | Philadelphia, PA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support free dance performances in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia as part of the Neighborhood Connections project. Additional Project Description: The comp… |
| 2023 | Culture Mill, Inc | Saxapahaw, NC | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the planning and creation of "When We were Queens," a collaboration between dancer and choreographer Murielle Elizéon and musician Shana Tucker. Additional Proj… |
| 2023 | TU Dance | Saint Paul, MN | $10,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries and artist fees for the creation and presentation of new dance works by choreographers Stephanie Batten Bland, Alanna Morris, and Yusha-Marie Sor… |
| 2023 | Dance Canvas, Inc. | Atlanta, GA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support a mentorship program for young dancers. Additional Project Description: A collaboration between Dance Canvas and Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre, the mentorship … |
| 2023 | Peridance Ensemble, Ltd. | New York, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support choreographer and re-stager fees for performances in celebration of Peridance Ensemble's 40th anniversary season. Additional Project Description: The project wi… |
| 2023 | Amy Seiwert's Imagery | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support an artistic fellowship program. Additional Project Description: The program provides administrative and artistic tools required to transition from a career in p… |
| 2023 | Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of Passing, a visual performance work developed by choreographer Jonah Bokaer. Additional Project Description: Bokaer will work in… |
| 2023 | 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 dance companies wi… |
| 2023 | Dances For A Variable Population | New York, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support dance workshops and free public performances. Additional Project Description: The project will feature senior professional dance artists alongside groups of non… |
| 2023 | Staibdance, Inc. | Atlanta, GA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of ARARAT, a contemporary dance work by Artistic Director George Staib. Additional Project Description: The work will examine the … |
| 2023 | Vangeline Theater Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the development and restaging of Rivers Running Red, an historical work by American Butoh artist Joan Laage. Additional Project Description: The project will pr… |
| 2023 | ODC | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries and artist fees for the creation and presentation of dance works from Artistic Director Brenda Way and guest choreographer Dexandro Montalvo. Add… |
| 2023 | Mixed Bag Productions | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support "Within the heart," a dance project that will include workshops and performances. Additional Project Description: Led by Artistic Director Sara Shelton Mann in … |
| 2023 | Ballet Austin, Incorporated | Austin, TX | $10,000 | Purpose: To support dancer fees for the production of Light/The Holocaust & Humanity Project by choreographer Stephen Mills. Additional Project Description: The work is the result … |
| 2023 | St. Louis Dance Theatre | Saint Louis, MO | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the Big Muddy Dance Company's presentation of My Dear Watson. Additional Project Description: Directed and choreographed by Joshua L. Peugh, artistic director o… |
| 2023 | Atlanta Ballet, Inc. | Atlanta, GA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support a new work by choreographer Claudia Schreier. Additional Project Description: The newly commissioned work will be performed in a mixed repertory program at the … |
| 2023 | A Better Jamaica, Inc. | Jamaica, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the Jamaica Dance Festival, a series of free dance performances. Additional Project Description: Held in Jamaica, Queens, the summer festival will feature perfo… |
| 2023 | Newport Contemporary Ballet | Newport, RI | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of dance companies as part of the Newport Dance Festival. Additional Project Description: The festival will offer performances, classes, and ar… |
| 2023 | Eisenhower Dance Ensemble | Bloomfield Hills, MI | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the commissioning and development of a new work by choreographer Marc Brew in collaboration with company dancers. Additional Project Description: The new work w… |
| 2023 | GroundWorks Dancetheater | Cleveland, OH | $10,000 | Purpose: To support a residency by guest artist Spenser Theberge. Additional Project Description: In addition to working with company dancers to create a new dance work, Theberge m… |
| 2023 | Ananya Dance Theatre | Saint Paul, MN | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the development and production of MICHHIL: Procession by choreographer Ananya Chatterjea. Additional Project Description: The dance work's themes draw from the … |
| 2023 | Boom Arts, Inc. | Portland, OR | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of Flyaway Productions' apparatus-based dance show. Additional Project Description: Boom Arts will present the San Francisco-based aerial dance… |
| 2023 | Philadelphia Dance Projects | Philadelphia, PA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of dance works by several Philadelphia-based dance artists around the theme of legacy, as well as associated educational programmi… |
| 2023 | Northwest Professional Dance Project | Portland, OR | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a new contemporary dance work from choreographer Ihsan Rustem. Additional Project Description: Rustem will re-imagine the class… |
| 2023 | Pennsylvania Ballet Association | Philadelphia, PA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of new dance works by choreographers Juliano Nunes, Hope Boykin, and Adonis Fondianakis, as part of the company's New Works progra… |
| 2023 | Audience Architects, NFP | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | Purpose: To support See Chicago Dance's program for choreographers to create dance for video and film. Additional Project Description: The program will include a series of live wor… |
| 2023 | White Bird | Portland, OR | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of A.I.M by Kyle Abraham's An Untitled Love as part of the WE ARE ONE Festival. Additional Project Description: The festival will present dance… |
| 2023 | Lubovitch Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support artistic fees and staff salaries to document, preserve, and disseminate the second decade (1978-88) of the artistic legacy of the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company. A… |
| 2023 | Local Motion Project | Alexandria, VA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support professional development workshops for dance educators. Additional Project Description: The workshops will invest in the training of studio dance educators and … |
| 2023 | Dance Source Houston | Houston, TX | $10,000 | Purpose: To support an artist-in-residence program and Barnstorm Dance Fest. Additional Project Description: The residency program supports choreographers by offering studio space,… |
| 2023 | Ballet Memphis Corporation | Memphis, TN | $10,000 | Purpose: To support planning and development for Ballet Memphis' updated production of "Nutcracker." Additional Project Description: The project will include choreographic workshop… |
| 2023 | Joffrey Ballet | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of dance works as part of the Winning Works choreographic competition. Additional Project Description: The Joffrey will provide em… |
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