NEA Dance Grants 2024: All 170 Awards
170 NEA dance grants for fiscal year 2024, totaling $5M.
| Year | Recipient | City | Amount | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Dance/USA | Minneapolis, MN | $100,000 | Purpose: To support Dance/USA's educational webinars, national research initiatives, and dance archiving activities. Additional Project Description: Dance/USA serves the national d… |
| 2024 | Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc. | Becket, MA | $70,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of Camille A. Brown and Dancers during the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. Additional Project Description: The company will have a week-long eng… |
| 2024 | Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc. | New York, NY | $70,000 | 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… |
| 2024 | National Institute of Flamenco | Albuquerque, NM | $70,000 | Purpose: To support artist fees for the Festival Flamenco Albuquerque. Additional Project Description: The festival will bring together professional flamenco artists from around th… |
| 2024 | Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $70,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of dance performances by emerging and established U.S.-based dance companies. Additional Project Description: Dance companies and choreographer… |
| 2024 | Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $70,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries, artist fees, and space costs for a rehearsal period for existing works, new commissions, and a documentary about the company. Additional Project… |
| 2024 | CABD INC | Jamaica, NY | $70,000 | Purpose: To support the completion of a new work by choreographer Camille A. Brown, a national tour, and accompanying engagement activities. Additional Project Description: The tou… |
| 2024 | UBW, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $70,000 | Purpose: To support the rehearsal and presentation of SCAT!, new dance-driven theater work co-conceived, directed, and choreographed by UBW founder Jawolle Willa Jo Zollar and Talv… |
| 2024 | New York Live Arts Inc. | New York, NY | $70,000 | 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… |
| 2024 | Friends of NORD, Inc. | New Orleans, LA | $70,000 | Purpose: To support tuition-free youth and senior dance education programs at NORD/NOBA Center for Dance. Additional Project Description: The programs are produced through a cultur… |
| 2024 | Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc. | New York, NY | $65,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries and travel costs for a national tour of Dance Theatre of Harlem. Additional Project Description: The tour will feature performances of works by c… |
| 2024 | American Dance Festival, Inc. | Durham, NC | $60,000 | Purpose: To support commissioned new works and presentations at the American Dance Festival. Additional Project Description: The festival will present works by artists and companie… |
| 2024 | World Arts West | San Francisco, CA | $60,000 | Purpose: To support the World Arts West Dance Festival. Additional Project Description: The festival will feature a diverse selection of cultural arts ensembles from Northern Calif… |
| 2024 | Northeast Ohio Center for Choreography | Akron, OH | $60,000 | Purpose: To support artists through NCCAkron's Dancing Labs and a Creative Administration Research (CAR) Learning Journey. Additional Project Description: This project will support… |
| 2024 | Philadelphia Dance Company | Philadelphia, PA | $60,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of "Our Voices, Our Choices...This is Us," a program exploring the unique and dynamic voices of women choreographers, including Ja… |
| 2024 | Embodiment Project | San Francisco, CA | $55,000 | Purpose: To support a dance festival and development of a pre-professional street dance training program. Additional Project Description: The festival is free to the public and inc… |
| 2024 | Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $50,000 | Purpose: To support dancer salaries for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's national tour. Additional Project Description: Dance works performed on this tour may include choreogra… |
| 2024 | Fresh Meat Productions | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 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 trans… |
| 2024 | New York City Center, Inc. | New York, NY | $50,000 | Purpose: To support commissioning and artist fees for the Fall for Dance Festival. Additional Project Description: The festival will feature a variety of artists and dance companie… |
| 2024 | Performance Zone, Inc. | New York, NY | $50,000 | Purpose: To support The Field's professional development services for national dance artists. Additional Project Description: The Vision for Life Preparedness program will provide … |
| 2024 | Parsons Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $50,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of dance works by Artistic Director David Parsons and choreographer Rena Butler, and related education activities. Additional Proj… |
| 2024 | Yard, Inc. | Chilmark, MA | $50,000 | Purpose: To support creative residencies for choreographers. Additional Project Description: Selected choreographers will have daily access to resources such as studio and theater … |
| 2024 | Abraham.In.Motion, Inc. | New York, NY | $50,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries for a tour of newly commissioned dance works. Additional Project Description: A.I.M by Kyle Abraham will add commissioned works by choreographers… |
| 2024 | Works and Process, Inc. | New York, NY | $50,000 | Purpose: To support residencies for underrecognized artists, which will include full studio-to-stage support. Additional Project Description: LaunchPAD (LP) will network with regio… |
| 2024 | Fideicomiso de Ballets de San Juan | San Juan, PR | $50,000 | Purpose: To support performances marking the 70th anniversary of Ballets de San Juan. Additional Project Description: Performances will take place in-person and will later be broad… |
| 2024 | Chicago Human Rhythm Project | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries and artist fees for the annual Stomping Grounds and Rhythm World festivals. Additional Project Description: Stomping Grounds is a collaborative, … |
| 2024 | Dance Iquail | Philadelphia, PA | $50,000 | Purpose: To support a tour of Public Enemy by choreographer Iquail Shaheed. Additional Project Description: The work explores Black male identity in the context of social issues in… |
| 2024 | PearlArts Movement and Sound | East Liberty, PA | $48,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Staycee Pearl and sound engineer Herman Pearl, aka Soy Sos. Additional Project Description: Through… |
| 2024 | Dance Service New York City, Inc. | New York, NY | $45,000 | Purpose: To support field-building programs and expansion of the organization's website. Additional Project Description: Activities will include Dance/NYC's dance field virtual cal… |
| 2024 | Ko-Thi, Inc. | Milwaukee, WI | $45,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of dance performances. Additional Project Description: Inspired by the Yoruba masked dance character called Egungun, the choreography and stagi… |
| 2024 | 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… |
| 2024 | Circo Zero | San Francisco, CA | $42,000 | Purpose: To support a training program to increase representation of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) and LGBTQ artists in designer and technician roles in the dance … |
| 2024 | Dallas Black Dance Theatre | Dallas, TX | $40,000 | Purpose: To support productions by choreographers Christopher L. Huggins, Allyne B. Gartrell, and Kareem B. Goodwin Additional Project Description: Choreographers Gartrell and Hugg… |
| 2024 | Trisha Brown Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $40,000 | Purpose: To support the rehearsal and production of works by Trisha Brown and a guest choreographer, and related public engagement and preservation activities. Additional Project D… |
| 2024 | Chicago City Theatre Company | Chicago, IL | $40,000 | Purpose: To support performances and programming celebrating the 50th anniversary of Joel Hall Dancers & Center. Additional Project Description: "Refocus: 50 Years of the Joel Hall… |
| 2024 | inkBoat, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $40,000 | Purpose: To support the development and performances of "Clouds from a Crumbling Giant," a dance project between inkBoat and Wudang West Cultural Center. Additional Project Descrip… |
| 2024 | Dances For A Variable Population | New York, NY | $40,000 | Purpose: To support dance workshops and free public performances. Additional Project Description: The project will feature senior professional dance artists alongside groups of non… |
| 2024 | Dancing in the Streets, Inc. | Bronx, NY | $40,000 | 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… |
| 2024 | New Orleans Ballet Association | New Orleans, LA | $40,000 | Purpose: To support artistic fees for the presentation of dance performances and educational programs for all ages. Additional Project Description: NOBA will present various dance … |
| 2024 | Sharron Miller's Academy for the Performing Arts, Inc. | Montclair, NJ | $40,000 | Purpose: To support staff and teaching artist salaries for in-school dance education residencies. Additional Project Description: Students will explore dance styles including tap, … |
| 2024 | Zaccho SF | San Francisco, CA | $40,000 | Purpose: To support the San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival. Additional Project Description: The festival will present theater and site-specific performances from youth dance compan… |
| 2024 | Movement Research, Inc. | New York, NY | $40,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of free and low-cost public performance programs, including Movement Research at the Judson Memorial Church and planning for the Movement Resea… |
| 2024 | Allison Orr Dance Inc. | Austin, TX | $40,000 | Purpose: To support Forklift Danceworks' creation and production of a performance project with water management personnel, local water scientists, and community members affected by… |
| 2024 | Robert Moses Kin | San Francisco, CA | $38,600 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a series of themed, commissioned, multidisciplinary, collaborative works. Additional Project Description: Each work will be und… |
| 2024 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | Milwaukee, WI | $38,292 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a new dance theater work from choreographer/writer/director/filmmaker David Rousséve. Additional Project Description: Rousséve … |
| 2024 | Dance Place | Washington, DC | $38,000 | Purpose: To support the District Choreographers Dance Festival, the Dance Africa DC festival, and the Dance & Disability residency. Additional Project Description: To maximize the … |
| 2024 | Dancing Grounds | New Orleans, LA | $35,000 | Purpose: To support the Dance for Social Change festival led by Dancing Grounds' youth dance company, and associated engagement activities. Additional Project Description: The yout… |
| 2024 | AXIS Dance Company | Berkeley, CA | $35,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries and artist fees for a national tour of dance performances and engagement activities. Additional Project Description: AXIS will tour contemporary … |
| 2024 | President and Trustees of Bates College | Lewiston, ME | $35,000 | Purpose: To support community engagement activities presented by Gesel Mason as part of the Bates Dance Festival. Additional Project Description: Mason will teach, have access to r… |
| 2024 | Heritage Works | Detroit, MI | $35,000 | Purpose: To support planning activities for an international exchange program celebrating the dance traditions, histories, and cultures in Detroit and Dakar, Senegal. Additional Pr… |
| 2024 | Danspace Project, Inc. | New York, NY | $35,000 | Purpose: To support a performance and residency program curated by Kyle Abraham with Judy Hussie-Taylor and Seta Morton. Additional Project Description: The multi-week program will… |
| 2024 | Brownbody | Saint Paul, MN | $35,000 | Purpose: To support the continued development of "Infinite Slow Drive/Obsidians in the Wild" by choreographers Lela Aisha Jones and Deneane Richburg. Additional Project Description… |
| 2024 | Infinity Dance Theater Company, Ltd. | New York, NY | $35,000 | Purpose: To support physically integrated dance classes for people with disabilities and training for dance educators. Additional Project Description: Led by Artistic Director and … |
| 2024 | Dance Film SF, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $35,000 | 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… |
| 2024 | Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo Inc | New York, NY | $35,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Durante Verzola, a national tour, and related community engagement activities. Additional Project D… |
| 2024 | Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, Inc. | Englewood Cliffs, NJ | $30,000 | Purpose: To support staff and artist salaries for a series of performances as part of the Year of the Dragon Lunar New Year Celebration. Additional Project Description: While perfo… |
| 2024 | Ragamala Dance | Minneapolis, MN | $30,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and premiere of Children of Dharma, a large-scale stage work by Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy, with community engagement programming. Additional Proje… |
| 2024 | Viver Brasil Dance Company | Los Angeles, CA | $30,000 | Purpose: To support the rehearsal and presentation of Rezas e Folhas, an original dance choreographed by Co-Artistic Director Vera Passos. Additional Project Description: The proje… |
| 2024 | Alabama Dance Council, Inc. | Huntsville, AL | $30,000 | Purpose: To support programming at the Alabama Dance Festival. Additional Project Description: Programming will include a residency with KM Dance Project. The festival also include… |
| 2024 | Chicago Dancemakers Forum | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | Purpose: To support a choreographic residency program for the Chicago dance community. Additional Project Description: The program offers choreographers stipends, free studio space… |
| 2024 | St. Louis Dance Theatre | Saint Louis, MO | $30,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of new dance works as part of the the Big Muddy Dance Company's BECOMING Artist Series. Additional Project Description: The artist… |
| 2024 | School of American Ballet, Inc. | New York, NY | $30,000 | Purpose: To support a ballet training and pre-professional development program. Additional Project Description: The project will focus on a class of 20-30 students in their final S… |
| 2024 | Garth Fagan Dance, Inc. | Rochester, NY | $30,000 | Purpose: To support restaging and performances of historical works. Additional Project Description: Performances will take place in New York City and Rochester and will feature “Se… |
| 2024 | 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… |
| 2024 | 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… |
| 2024 | Mutual Dance Theatre and Arts Centers | Cincinnati, OH | $30,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of dance companies Blue13 and Whim W'him, as part of the Jefferson James Contemporary Dance Theater Series. Additional Project Description: Eac… |
| 2024 | Noche Flamenca, Inc. | New York, NY | $30,000 | Purpose: To support touring performances of Searching for Goya. Additional Project Description: Created by Artistic Director Martín Santangelo and Choreographer/Principal Dancer So… |
| 2024 | Dance Resource Center of Greater Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $30,000 | Purpose: To support a studio rental program by Dance Resource Center. Additional Project Description: The program will provide artists and dance companies free or reduced rates for… |
| 2024 | University of Nebraska at Lincoln | Lincoln, NE | $30,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries and artist fees for the presentation of tap dance performances by the Syncopated Ladies at the Lied Center for the Performing Arts. Additional Pr… |
| 2024 | LayeRhythm Productions, Inc. | New York, NY | $30,000 | Purpose: To support monthly improvisational street/club dance and music performances; education programs; professional development workshops for youth and artists; and artist fees … |
| 2024 | Rosy Simas Danse | Minneapolis, MN | $30,000 | Purpose: To support the development of "O'nigöëiyosde: (mind of peace)," a dance and installation project by Rosy Simas. Additional Project Description: The project will feature a … |
| 2024 | Dance Wire | Portland, OR | $30,000 | Purpose: To support free career development services for dance artists. Additional Project Description: Services will include mentoring and career coaching, building administrative… |
| 2024 | Florida State University | Tallahassee, FL | $28,310 | Purpose: To support creative research residencies for dance artists and their collaborators at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC). Additional Project Descr… |
| 2024 | Calpulli Mexican Dance Company | East Elmhurst, NY | $28,000 | Purpose: To support a multi-state tour of Calpulli Danza Mexicana. Additional Project Description: The tour of Mexican folk dance will feature four works from the company's reperto… |
| 2024 | Aspen Santa Fe Ballet | Aspen, CO | $25,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries for an after-school program based in Mexican Folklórico dance. Additional Project Description: The education program will promote learning about … |
| 2024 | Center for Performance Research, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $25,000 | Purpose: To support professional development and technical assistance services for New York City's dance and performance communities. Additional Project Description: The services m… |
| 2024 | New Dialect | Nashville, TN | $25,000 | Purpose: To support Dance Dialectics, a contemporary dance education project that offers professional development and community engagement opportunities for youth and adults, inclu… |
| 2024 | Flyaway Productions | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | Purpose: To support the creation of a new work by choreographer Jo Kreiter. Additional Project Description: The aerial dance will draw from the stories of women who live and work i… |
| 2024 | Steffi Nossen Dance Foundation, Inc. | White Plains, NY | $25,000 | 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… |
| 2024 | Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater | Minneapolis, MN | $25,000 | Purpose: To support a series of movement and visual arts workshops for inmates in the Florida prison system. Additional Project Description: The Moving Beyond Bars project is desig… |
| 2024 | 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… |
| 2024 | Community Theater Project Corporation | Pittsburgh, PA | $25,000 | Purpose: To support planning and development for dance presentations at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater. Additional Project Description: The dance series will feature artists Jesse Fac… |
| 2024 | Blue Lapis Light, Inc. | Austin, TX | $25,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a site-specific aerial dance performance by choreographer Sally Jacques. Additional Project Description: The work will be a ref… |
| 2024 | A Step Beyond | Escondido, CA | $25,000 | Purpose: To support a production of "El Alebrije," a reimagining of "The Nutcracker," featuring a story of a Mexican American family and a young girl's quinceañera. Additional Proj… |
| 2024 | Andanza, Inc. | San Juan, PR | $25,000 | 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… |
| 2024 | Dancers' Group | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | 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… |
| 2024 | Kaleidoscope Dance Theatre Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $25,000 | Purpose: To support "Two Black Voices," a collaborative project to present, teach, and study two Black dance vocabularies. Additional Project Description: Through research, cross-a… |
| 2024 | Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Ltd. | Burlington, VT | $25,000 | Purpose: To support dance presentations at The Flynn. Additional Project Description: Dance presentations will include artists and companies such as Ballet Hispánico, Complexions C… |
| 2024 | Anne Bluethenthal and Dancers | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | Purpose: To support a presentation of Towards Opulence, the Opera II directed by choreographer Anne Bluethenthal in collaboration with the ensemble Skywatchers. Additional Project … |
| 2024 | Nashville Ballet | Nashville, TN | $24,000 | Purpose: To support dancer salaries for the creation and presentation of new dance works as part of the Attitude performance series, with related engagement activities. Additional … |
| 2024 | Diavolo Dance Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $21,000 | 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 … |
| 2024 | ChromaDiverse Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the second phase of a digitization and preservation project of archival materials for the Oakland Ballet Company. Additional Project Description: In partnership… |
| 2024 | New York City Ballet, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of new ballets by choreographers Tiler Peck and Amy Hall Garner. Additional Project Description: Peck is a Principal Dancer with N… |
| 2024 | Ananya Dance Theatre | Saint Paul, MN | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the development and production of "Antaranga" by choreographer Ananya Chatterjea. Additional Project Description: The dance work's themes draw from societal div… |
| 2024 | Kulu Mele African American Dance Ensemble | Philadelphia, PA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a West African dance and drumming performance. Additional Project Description: The performance will celebrate the retirement of… |
| 2024 | Dorrance Dance Incorporated | New York, NY | $20,000 | Purpose: To support a rehearsal and planning period for Dorrance Dance. Additional Project Description: The company will create new work and rehearse repertory in anticipation of l… |
| 2024 | Visions In Rhythm | Austin, TX | $20,000 | Purpose: To support Tapestry Dance Company's annual Soul to Sole festival, a national education and performance forum celebrating the art of tap dance. Additional Project Descripti… |
| 2024 | TU Dance | Saint Paul, MN | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of THREAT, a new evening-length dance work choreographed by Yusha-Marie Sorzano, with related engagement programming.. Additional … |
| 2024 | Project Bandaloop | Oakland, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the Updraft Artist in Residency program, focused on advancing LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) dance makers in vertical dance creatio… |
| 2024 | Dance Films Association, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | 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… |
| 2024 | Joffrey Ballet | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the commissioning of new works from emerging choreographers as part of the Winning Works Competition. Additional Project Description: The program will provide c… |
| 2024 | Dayton Contemporary Dance Company | Dayton, OH | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the restaging and performances of Esplanade by choreographer Paul Taylor, and Mourner's Bench and The Stack Up by choreographer Talley Beatty. Additional Projec… |
| 2024 | The Flavor Continues | Boston, MA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support artist residencies for street and club dance forms. Additional Project Description: The project will support artists at different locations in Cambridge, Massac… |
| 2024 | Joe Goode Performance Group | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support GUSH, a biennial festival featuring dance theater performances. Additional Project Description: With a focus on San Francisco Bay Area LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC (Black… |
| 2024 | Keep Rising to the Top Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | Purpose: To support free year-round professional dance education for youth and young adults. Additional Project Description: Students learn the fundamentals of integrated urban and… |
| 2024 | ODC Theater | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries and artist fees for the State of Play Festival and additional dance presentations. Additional Project Description: Selected using a multi-curator… |
| 2024 | White Bird | Portland, OR | $20,000 | Purpose: To support performances and community engagement activities by Black Grace Dance Company and Music from the Sole as part of the third annual WE ARE ONE Festival. Additiona… |
| 2024 | CounterPulse | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the Artist Residency and Commissioning program, which provides space and support for emerging and mid-career choreographers. Additional Project Description: The… |
| 2024 | Indiana University, Trustees of | Bloomington, IN | $20,000 | Purpose: To support an artist residency by Dance Theatre of Harlem presented by IU Auditorium. Additional Project Description: Activities during the weeklong residency may include … |
| 2024 | Oregon Ballet Theatre | Portland, OR | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of new dance works as part of the Made in Portland series. Additional Project Description: Made in Portland will highlight the wor… |
| 2024 | San Diego Dance Theater | San Diego, CA | $20,000 | 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… |
| 2024 | STREB Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the development of "SURF: A Maverick Wave," a new work by Artistic Director Elizabeth Streb. Additional Project Description: "SURF: A Maverick Wave" is the seco… |
| 2024 | Repertory Dance Theatre | Salt Lake City, UT | $20,000 | Purpose: To support a touring initiative serving rural communities in the western United States. Additional Project Description: The multi-day residencies will be planned collabora… |
| 2024 | Base | Seattle, WA | $20,000 | 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… |
| 2024 | La Donna Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the third phase of Donna Uchizono Company's archival project with the New York Public Library. Additional Project Description: The archival project continues to… |
| 2024 | Ishida Dance Company, inc. | Austin, TX | $20,000 | Purpose: To support performance programs of works by choreographer Brett Ishida and guest choreographers, and associated engagement activities. Additional Project Description: The … |
| 2024 | Ballet Theatre of Des Moines | Des Moines, IA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support performances and classroom curriculum that explore storytelling through ballet. Additional Project Description: The Storytelling Through the Art of Dance progra… |
| 2024 | Praize Productions Inc. NFP | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of "Complexions," by Enneréssa Davis and Monique Haley. Additional Project Description: The project is the first phase of a multi-… |
| 2024 | cmDance | Denver, CO | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the Lindy on the Rocks dance festival. Additional Project Description: The festival will comprise themed events featuring lindy hop, swing, and jazz dancing and… |
| 2024 | Houston Metropolitan Dance Center, Inc. | Houston, TX | $20,000 | Purpose: To support a dance residency program. Additional Project Description: The program is focused on Houston-based choreographers and companies working in jazz, modern, contemp… |
| 2024 | Infinite Flow - A Wheelchair Dance Company | Sherman Oaks, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and virtual production of I Am, We Are, a multidisciplinary performance directed by Marisa Hamamoto. Additional Project Description: The multidisci… |
| 2024 | Flamenco Works, Inc. | Albuquerque, NM | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the development and production of a dance work by choreographer Jesús Muñoz. Additional Project Description: The work is inspired by the "ranchera" song style, … |
| 2024 | Ballet Austin, Incorporated | Austin, TX | $20,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries and artist fees for the creation of a new work based in Mexican American culture by choreographer Jimmy Orrante. Additional Project Description: … |
| 2024 | San Diego State University Foundation | San Diego, CA | $19,993 | Purpose: To support a series of workshops and performances as part of an international collaboration between U.S. and Mexican artists. Additional Project Description: The primary g… |
| 2024 | OhioDance | Columbus, OH | $18,000 | Purpose: To support the expansion of the OhioDance Virtual Dance Collection®, an archival project of Ohio's dance history. Additional Project Description: OhioDance plans to add as… |
| 2024 | Des Moines Performing Arts | Des Moines, IA | $18,000 | Purpose: To support performances of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo and Pilobolus as well as associated engagement activities. Additional Project Description: Performances wi… |
| 2024 | Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $18,000 | Purpose: To support a residency by Rennie Harris Puremovement at Penn Live Arts. Additional Project Description: The residency will highlight the groundbreaking American hip-hop ch… |
| 2024 | Gina Gibney Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $18,000 | Purpose: To support artist fees for the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographers Spenser Theberge and Jermaine Maurice Spivey for the Gibney Dance company. Additio… |
| 2024 | Pegasus Musical Society | Dallas, TX | $18,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a dance work featuring Orchestra of New Spain musicians and dancers from the National Institute of Flamenco's Yjastros Flamenco… |
| 2024 | CreatiVets | Nashville, TN | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and production of a new work with Exit12, a contemporary dance company, and associated engagement activities. Additional Project Description: The w… |
| 2024 | Culture Mill, Inc | Saxapahaw, NC | $15,000 | Purpose: To support a tour of "When We were Queens" and the development of "How To Be A Visitor" by choreographers Murielle Elizéon, Tommy Noonan, and their collaborators. Addition… |
| 2024 | Latin Ballet of Virginia, Inc. | Richmond, VA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support Everybody Reads!, a program that promotes literacy, historical understanding, and cultural knowledge by exploring works of literature through dance. Additional … |
| 2024 | Performance Garage | Philadelphia, PA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the DanceVisions artist residency program at the Performance Garage. Additional Project Description: The program will provide Philadelphia-based choreographer a… |
| 2024 | New Dance Alliance, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the Performance Mix Festival, which will present new dance and interdisciplinary performances by emerging and mid-career choreographers. Additional Project Desc… |
| 2024 | 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 performances by Helen Sim… |
| 2024 | Festival Dance & Performing Arts Association, Inc. | Moscow, ID | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the Festival Dance Youthreach Project, an educational program that serves rural communities. Additional Project Description: Professional dance companies will p… |
| 2024 | Clemson University | Clemson, SC | $15,000 | Purpose: To support artist fees and administrative costs for a dance residency with the Syncopated Ladies, a tap dance company, at the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts. Additi… |
| 2024 | Dance Camera West | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support a dance film commissioning program for choreographers. Additional Project Description: The program will pair dance artists with seasoned dance filmmaking mentor… |
| 2024 | Ballet Metropolitan, Inc. | Columbus, OH | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of a mixed-repertoire program by choreographers Ma Cong, Edwaard Liang, and Yue Yin. Additional Project Description: Ma Cong and Edwaard Liang … |
| 2024 | BalletX | Philadelphia, PA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support a community dance festival hosted by BalletX. Additional Project Description: The festival will include dance works by various choreographers performed by the c… |
| 2024 | Dance Source Houston | Houston, TX | $15,000 | Purpose: To support an artist-in-residence program and the Barnstorm Dance Fest. Additional Project Description: The residency program will support choreographers by offering a sti… |
| 2024 | Vangeline Theater Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $15,000 | Purpose: To support dance performances as part of the New York Butoh Institute Festival. Additional Project Description: The Butoh festival will focus on female expression in Butoh… |
| 2024 | Tau Dance Theater | Aiea, HI | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the development and implementation of outreach programming. Additional Project Description: The project will provide training for artists to conduct outreach ac… |
| 2024 | Jean Appolon Expressions | Malden, MA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the development and rehearsal of a new dance production by Jean Appolon. Additional Project Description: Through contemporary Haitian-folkloric choreography, Af… |
| 2024 | Jess Curtis/Gravity, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of works by artists from the Beyond Gravity Artist Services program. Additional Project Description: Selected artists may include … |
| 2024 | Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre | Brooklyn, NY | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of dance works by Artistic Director Samar Haddad King at various college campuses with accompanying engagement activities. Additional Project D… |
| 2024 | Allegro Dance Project, Inc. | Lexington, KY | $15,000 | 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… |
| 2024 | Miami Dance Hub | Miami, FL | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of Miami Dances, a family-friendly weekend of performances, classes, discussions, and engagement. Additional Project Description: Each performa… |
| 2024 | Staibdance, Inc. | Atlanta, GA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of COSM, a new, multidisciplinary work by Artistic Director George Staib. Additional Project Description: The thematic content of … |
| 2024 | Moving Forward: Contemporary Asian American Dance Company | Washington, DC | $15,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries and artists fees for the creation and presentation of "Landscapes: A Dance Tribute to Toshiko Takaezu" by Artistic Director Dana Tai Soon Burgess… |
| 2024 | Invertigo Dance Theatre | Culver City, CA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support a festival of dance, film, and poetry. Additional Project Description: The festival will focus on the intersection of environmental justice and dance. Programmi… |
| 2024 | Li Chiao-Ping Dance, Inc. | Oregon, WI | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the second phase of "DIRTY LAUNDRY," a multimedia dance theater work that explores Asian American identity, culture, and historical events including the Stop As… |
| 2024 | 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 tap and percussive dance choreograph… |
| 2024 | CityDance Productions Inc | Washington, DC | $15,000 | To support the planning and development of a summer dance training program for youth. Additional Project Description: The curriculum will include classes in ballet and contemporary… |
| 2024 | Cora, Incorporated | Brooklyn, NY | $15,000 | Purpose: To support a series of artist residencies for rural and urban youth in Virginia and New York City. Additional Project Description: The project brings young people together… |
| 2024 | Segunda Quimbamba Folkloric Center | Jersey City, NJ | $13,288 | Purpose: To support the archiving of Afro-Puerto Rican dance and drum practices of the Puerto Rican diaspora. Additional Project Description: The project will work on the documenta… |
| 2024 | Atlanta Chinese Dance Company | Peachtree Corners, GA | $12,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of new and existing dance works featuring company members and guest artists. Additional Project Description: The production will include a reim… |
| 2024 | KnowBox Dance | Dallas, TX | $12,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of dance films at the kNOwBOX Dance Film Festival. Additional Project Description: The multi-day festival will include panels, workshops, youth… |
| 2024 | Esquina Tango Cultural Society of Austin | Austin, TX | $10,000 | Purpose: To support a visiting artist series featuring Afro-Latinx and Latinx dance forms. Additional Project Description: The series will include dance instruction and dance and m… |
| 2024 | DISCO RIOT | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support an artist residency program for emerging and established dance artists. Additional Project Description: The program will pair artists with free studio space for… |
| 2024 | Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and production of a new work by choreographer Shannon Alvis and composer Joe Cerqua. Additional Project Description: Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre wi… |
| 2024 | T Lang Dance | Mableton, GA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of "Out from the Deep: a Meditation for them Turners," a new work by T. Lang. Additional Project Description: The piece investigates the 1918 l… |
| 2024 | Our Steps, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of Jean Butler's What We Hold, a dance work that is shaped and influenced by Our Steps' work building a living archive of Irish da… |
| 2024 | Nevada Ballet Theatre, Inc. | Las Vegas, NV | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of new works created through collaborations between choreographers and composers. Additional Project Description: The project aims to provide a… |
| 2024 | Big Dance Theater | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation of "The Oath”, a dance film by choreographer Annie-B Parson. Additional Project Description: “The Oath” is part of a larger three-part dance projec… |
| 2024 | Contempo Physical Dance | Saint Paul, MN | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the commission of a new dance work and associated engagement activities.. Additional Project Description: Artistic Director Marciano Silva dos Santos will curat… |
| 2024 | Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center | Berkeley, CA | $10,000 | Purpose: To support commissions of new work and free dance classes as part of the Queering Dance Festival. Additional Project Description: The 2025 Queering Dance Festival will foc… |
| 2024 | Spanish Dance Arts Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a new work by flamenco artist Patricia Guerrero, set to an original score with live music by Francis Gómez. Additional Project … |
| 2024 | Creative Netwerk | Astoria, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support dance education programming for youth and professional development for dance teachers. Additional Project Description: The project consists of hip-hop and stree… |
| 2024 | Regina Klenjoski Dance Company | Wichita, KS | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of "Converge II," a joint performance series with Tristian Griffin Dance Company. Additional Project Description: Regina Klenjoski… |
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