NEA Dance Grants 2025: All 76 Awards
76 NEA dance grants for fiscal year 2025, totaling $2.3M.
| Year | Recipient | City | Amount | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Friends of NORD, Inc. | New Orleans, LA | $100,000 | Purpose: To support tuition-free dance education programs at NORD/NOBA Center for Dance. Additional Project Description: The programs are produced through a community partnership w… |
| 2025 | Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $91,000 | Purpose: To support a creation and rehearsal period in preparation for the Martha Graham Dance Company's 100-year anniversary celebrations. Additional Project Description: The comp… |
| 2025 | Fideicomiso de Ballets de San Juan | San Juan, PR | $70,000 | Purpose: To support performances of Ballet Coppélia by Ballets de San Juan. Additional Project Description: In addition to live performances of a new staging of the work, the compa… |
| 2025 | UBW, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $70,000 | Purpose: To support the completion and launch of the Urban Bush Women (UBW) Archive. Additional Project Description: The final phase of the archive project will add oral histories … |
| 2025 | Dance/USA | Minneapolis, MN | $70,000 | Purpose: To support Dance/USA's national research initiatives and dance archiving activities. Additional Project Description: Dance/USA serves the national dance field through rese… |
| 2025 | 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… |
| 2025 | Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc. | New York, NY | $70,000 | 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 Firebird b… |
| 2025 | American Dance Festival, Inc. | Durham, NC | $65,500 | Purpose: To support presentations at the American Dance Festival, including newly commissioned work. Additional Project Description: Festival performances will include works by art… |
| 2025 | International Association of Blacks in Dance, Inc. | Washington, DC | $62,500 | Purpose: To support performances at the annual IABD Conference and Festival. Additional Project Description: The IABD Conference and Festival is a convening focused on Black dance … |
| 2025 | Philadelphia Dance Company | Philadelphia, PA | $60,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of Then & Now, a program featuring both remounted and a newly commissioned work, with related engagement activities. Additional Project Descrip… |
| 2025 | Art Spark Texas | Austin, TX | $60,000 | Purpose: To support regional dance education conferences focused on dance pedagogy and practice for dance students with disabilities. Additional Project Description: The gatherings… |
| 2025 | Dance Institute of Washington | Washington, DC | $60,000 | Purpose: To support dance education programs. Additional Project Description: Educational opportunities for youth will include classes and workshops for dance training, dance condi… |
| 2025 | Sharron Miller's Academy for the Performing Arts, Inc. | Montclair, NJ | $50,000 | Purpose: To support in-school dance education residencies. Additional Project Description: Students will explore tap, ballet, West African, jazz, and theater dance forms, while par… |
| 2025 | Abraham.In.Motion, Inc. | New York, NY | $50,000 | Purpose: To support professional and artistic dance training. Additional Project Description: Two free, week-long intensive workshops will provide technique and repertory classes, … |
| 2025 | 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… |
| 2025 | Houston Ballet Foundation | Houston, TX | $50,000 | Purpose: To support a production of choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa's ballet Broken Wings, based on the life of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. Additional Project Description: The… |
| 2025 | Dancing in the Streets, Inc. | Bronx, NY | $50,000 | Purpose: To support a program for street dancers to develop choreography, train in freestyle techniques, and build performance skills. Additional Project Description: The program w… |
| 2025 | Miami City Ballet, Inc. | Miami Beach, FL | $50,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Alexei Ratmansky, in celebration of Miami City Ballet's 40th anniversary. Additional Project Descri… |
| 2025 | Dance Service New York City, Inc. | New York, NY | $42,500 | Purpose: To support field-building programs and expansion of the organization's website. Additional Project Description: Activities will include the continued development of Dance/… |
| 2025 | AXIS Dance Company | Berkeley, CA | $40,000 | Purpose: To support AXIS's national tour of dance performances and engagement activities. Additional Project Description: AXIS will tour contemporary dance works performed by artis… |
| 2025 | CityDance Productions Inc | Washington, DC | $35,000 | Purpose: To support a summer dance training program which brings in professional artists to work with students. Additional Project Description: The curriculum will include classes … |
| 2025 | Feel the Beat Corp | Denver, CO | $30,000 | Purpose: To support dance classes at Colorado Movement Lab for individuals with and without disabilities. Additional Project Description: The program includes dance instruction in … |
| 2025 | Ragamala Dance | Minneapolis, MN | $30,000 | Purpose: To support a national tour of Children of Dharma and related community engagement programming. Additional Project Description: The tour will include performances in Chicag… |
| 2025 | 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 Collage Dance Collective. The festival also… |
| 2025 | Infinity Dance Theater Company, Ltd. | New York, NY | $30,000 | Purpose: To support physically integrated dance classes focused on people with disabilities and training for dance educators. Additional Project Description: Led by Artistic Direct… |
| 2025 | cmDance | Denver, CO | $30,000 | Purpose: To support the Lindy on the Rocks dance festival. Additional Project Description: The festival will comprise themed events featuring lindy hop and swing dancing. The festi… |
| 2025 | Karen Peterson and Dancers, Inc. | Pinecrest, FL | $30,000 | Purpose: To support Forward Motion, a festival and conference dedicated to physically-integrated dance. Additional Project Description: The event will bring together professional d… |
| 2025 | Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, Inc. | Englewood Cliffs, NJ | $30,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of dance works in celebration of the Year of the Horse Lunar New Year and accompanying education activities. Additional Project De… |
| 2025 | Moving Forward: Contemporary Asian American Dance Company | Washington, DC | $25,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a modern dance trilogy, "Artists of New Mexico: A Tribute to Ailes Gilmour, Rudolfo Anaya and Georgia O'Keeffe," choreographed … |
| 2025 | Andanza, Inc. | San Juan, PR | $25,000 | Purpose: To support a dance and community festival at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo. Additional Project Description: The multi-day cultural event includes free performances by An… |
| 2025 | Collage Dance Collective, Inc. | Memphis, TN | $25,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and production of the ballet "Romeo & Juliet," by Artistic Director Kevin Thomas. Additional Project Description: The new production will expand up… |
| 2025 | Dancers' Group | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | Purpose: To support the commission and publication of free online articles that promote dance artists and activities in the San Francisco Bay Area. Additional Project Description: … |
| 2025 | Wideman/Davis Dance of New York | Columbia, SC | $25,000 | Purpose: To support the creation of a new multimedia dance work. Additional Project Description: The project will support research into community and company archives and the devel… |
| 2025 | Flyaway Productions | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | Purpose: To support the creation of a new work by choreographer Jo Kreiter. Additional Project Description: The site-specific and aerial dance will draw inspiration from the storie… |
| 2025 | 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… |
| 2025 | University of Hawaii at Manoa | Honolulu, HI | $25,000 | Purpose: To support the Asia Pacific Dance Festival. Additional Project Description: The festival will focus on the cultures of Hawai'i, the Pacific, and Asia and is built around e… |
| 2025 | Allegro Dance Project, Inc. | Lexington, KY | $22,000 | Purpose: To support a dance and music program for students with and without disabilities. Additional Project Description: Participants of all abilities will have the opportunity to… |
| 2025 | Creative Netwerk | Astoria, NY | $20,000 | Purpose: To support dance education programming for youth and professional development for dance teachers. Additional Project Description: The project will consist of hip-hop and s… |
| 2025 | Texas International Theatrical Arts Society | Dallas, TX | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of community education and engagement programs by American and international dance artists. Additional Project Description: Featured dance comp… |
| 2025 | La Donna Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the fourth phase of Donna Uchizono Company's archival project with New York Public Library (NYPL). Additional Project Description: The archival project will con… |
| 2025 | Nichole Canuso Dance Company | Philadelphia, PA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of Lunar Retreat, a new interactive performance featuring audio-visual installations and choreographic exchanges between audiences… |
| 2025 | Ballet Arizona | Phoenix, AZ | $20,000 | Purpose: To support dancer salaries for Ballet Under the Stars, a free outdoor performance series in local parks throughout the Phoenix metropolitan area. Additional Project Descri… |
| 2025 | 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… |
| 2025 | STREB Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the creation of a new performance incorporating STREB’s choreography with advanced visual and audio technology elements. Additional Project Description: The new… |
| 2025 | Philadelphia Dance Projects | Philadelphia, PA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support programming focused on the history of dance in Philadelphia as part of America250, including a guided tour led by historian Lynn Matluck Brooks and a premiere p… |
| 2025 | Keigwin and Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | Purpose: To support "Sundown Dances," a community dance event of classes and performances, including the premiere of a new work by Artistic Director Larry Keigwin. Additional Proje… |
| 2025 | Project Bandaloop | Oakland, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of "FLOCK," a vertical dance theater work, and accompanying engagement activities. Additional Project Description: The third and f… |
| 2025 | Performing Arts Center Authority | Fort Lauderdale, FL | $20,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of Step Afrika! at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. Additional Project Description: The Washington, DC-based professional dance comp… |
| 2025 | Alonzo King LINES Ballet | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | Purpose: To support staff salaries and artist fees for the creation and presentation of a new work with choreography by Artistic Director Alonzo King. Additional Project Descriptio… |
| 2025 | Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater | Minneapolis, MN | $20,000 | Purpose: To support a series of movement and visual arts workshops for inmates at the South Dakota Women's Prison. Additional Project Description: The program will help inmates exp… |
| 2025 | Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Inc. | Tivoli, NY | $20,000 | Purpose: To support a creative residency and presentation of a new work by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company (BTJ/AZC) as part of Kaatsbaan Cultural Park's annual festival program. … |
| 2025 | Spanish Dance Arts Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of Quinto Elemento (Fifth Element) and related engagement and touring activities. Additional Project Description: Quinto will celebrate individ… |
| 2025 | Repertory Dance Theatre | Salt Lake City, UT | $15,000 | Purpose: To support public exhibitions celebrating Utah's dance legacy. Additional Project Description: The exhibitions will include materials from the company's archive. The exhib… |
| 2025 | PUSH FOLD | Portland, OR | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the Union PDX Festival of Contemporary Dance. Additional Project Description: The festival will feature artist-facilitated talks, public performances, classes, … |
| 2025 | George Balanchine Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | Purpose: To support video recording and editing of coaching sessions for the Balanchine Video Archives. Additional Project Description: The video archives were devised to capture t… |
| 2025 | LayeRhythm Productions, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | Purpose: To support improvisational Street and Club dance and music performances, education programs, professional development workshops for youth and artists, and artist fees for … |
| 2025 | Trinity Irish Dance Company | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and premiere of a new work in collaboration with Michelle Dorrance. Additional Project Description: The project will support rehearsals, a technica… |
| 2025 | Ballet Wichita, Inc. | Wichita, KS | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and planning of new dance works by choreographers Mollie Sansone and Yusha-Marie Sorzano, with related educational programming. Additional Project … |
| 2025 | 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… |
| 2025 | Boston Ballet, Inc. | Boston, MA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support costs related to the rehearsal period and presentation of choreographer Claudia Schreier's "Slipstream." Additional Project Description: Schreier's work, set to… |
| 2025 | 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 Ball… |
| 2025 | 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 public a… |
| 2025 | American College Dance Association, Inc. | Severna Park, MD | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the National College Dance Festival. Additional Project Description: The festival will include programming for high school and college students such as dance cl… |
| 2025 | Anikaya/Akhra, Inc. | Somerville, MA | $15,000 | Purpose: To support a dance residency and performances of "The Women Gather" by choreographer Wendy Jehlen at Gallaudet University. Additional Project Description: The work include… |
| 2025 | 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… |
| 2025 | Culture Mill, Inc | Saxapahaw, NC | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the development of a new work by choreographers Murielle Elizéon and Tommy Noonan, in collaboration with dancers living with and without Parkinson's disease. Ad… |
| 2025 | Stefanie Nelson Dance Group | New York, NY | $15,000 | Purpose: To support a series of dance workshops focused on disabled artists and students. Additional Project Description: The workshops will engage people with intellectual and dev… |
| 2025 | Dance Films Association, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the Dance on Camera Festival. Additional Project Description: The festival will include film programming that explores the broad spectrum of dance film from aro… |
| 2025 | Winifred Haun & Dancers | Oak Park, IL | $15,000 | Purpose: To support a residency collaboration between Winifred Haun & Dancers and Indigenous dance groups in the Norton Sound region of Alaska. Additional Project Description: The … |
| 2025 | Miami Light Project, Inc. | Miami Shores, FL | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the development and premiere of Tropical Depression, a new multimedia dance theater work by choreographer Rosie Herrera, in collaboration with creative coder Ro… |
| 2025 | Ballet Vero Beach Inc. | Vero Beach, FL | $15,000 | Purpose: To support teaching artist salaries for a dance and literacy program in elementary schools. Additional Project Description: The Page to Stage program includes student work… |
| 2025 | Dance Force, Inc. | Atlanta, GA | $13,000 | Purpose: To support the creation of a work by choreographer Douglas Scott for Full Radius Dance. Additional Project Description: The new work will explore the Japanese concept of "… |
| 2025 | Rejoice Diaspora Dance Theater | Portland, OR | $12,000 | Purpose: To support the presentation of "Griot Project," an evening-length dance performance exploring the role of the griot, a keeper of oral tradition, throughout history. Additi… |
| 2025 | Fist and Heel Performance Group, Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and premiere of a new work by choreographer Reggie Wilson. Additional Project Description: Wilson will be looking back to his previously created wo… |
| 2025 | Ananya Dance Theatre | Saint Paul, MN | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the development of "Swapno Jhnap: Dream Jumping" by choreographer Ananya Chatterjea. Additional Project Description: The dance work's themes draw from complex n… |
| 2025 | Cuyahoga Community College Foundation | Cleveland, OH | $4,048 | Purpose: To support artist fees and travel costs for performances and residency activities by hip-hop and breaking dancer Raphael Xavier. Additional Project Description: A co-prese… |
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