NEA Dance Grants in Illinois
179 NEA dance grants for Illinois, totaling $3.5M.
| Year | Recipient | City | Amount | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Deeply Rooted Productions | Chicago, IL | $60,000 | Purpose: To support a dance tour and engagement activities in partnership with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Additional Project Description: The professiona… |
| 2026 | 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, … |
| 2026 | Chicago Human Rhythm Project | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | Purpose: To support the annual Rhythm World festival. Additional Project Description: In celebration of America's 250th anniversary, the summer festival will premiere new works set… |
| 2026 | Music and Dance Theater Chicago Inc. | Chicago, IL | $40,000 | Purpose: To support GALLIM's Bodies of Matter, a contemporary dance piece by choreographer Andrea Miller. Additional Project Description: Programming will include a public performa… |
| 2026 | Forward Momentum Chicago | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | Purpose: To support a summer dance program for youth. Additional Project Description: Forward Momentum Chicago will provide high-quality instruction in dance styles such as ballet,… |
| 2026 | Praize Productions Inc. NFP | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a new dance theater work by Enneréssa LaNette Davis. Additional Project Description: Rooted in and celebrating gospel music, th… |
| 2026 | Black Girls Dance | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | Purpose: To support the production of Mary, A Holiday Dansical!, an interpretation of Langston Hughes' Black Nativity. Additional Project Description: Coinciding with the 125th ann… |
| 2026 | South Shore Drill Team & Performing Arts Ensemble | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | Purpose: To support a performance honoring the South Shore Drill Team's 45th anniversary. Additional Project Description: The performance will combine dance choreography with preci… |
| 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 | 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 … |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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… |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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… |
| 2022 | Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | Purpose: To support a dance festival at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago. Additional Project Description: The Dance Center will present a dance festival which will focu… |
| 2022 | Deeply Rooted Productions | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | Purpose: To support productions and a collaboration with Deeply Rooted Dance Theater and Alfred Dove. Additional Project Description: Deeply Rooted Dance Theater will work with Alf… |
| 2022 | Open The Circle | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | Purpose: To support final production costs for "Body of The City," a feature documentary film about the dance and music known as Chicago Footwork. Additional Project Description: T… |
| 2022 | Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation of a new work by choreographer Monique Haley and composer Pharez Whitted, with associated public programs. Additional Project Description: This mus… |
| 2022 | Lucky Plush Productions | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the The Map of Now, a hybrid live and virtual dance-theater work. Additional Project Description: The work is the second installment in a three-part dance-theat… |
| 2022 | Red Clay Dance Company | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | Purpose: To support artist fees for the creation and presentation of a new dance work by Vershawn Sanders-Ward. Additional Project Description: The work will explore the theme of e… |
| 2022 | Chicago Dancemakers Forum | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | Purpose: To support staff costs and artist fees for Elevate Chicago Dance, a citywide event which will gather local, regional, and national dance presenters and curators to introdu… |
| 2022 | Chicago Human Rhythm Project | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | Purpose: To support artists' fees for the Northside Southside Oneside and Rhythm World festivals. Additional Project Description: Stomping Grounds is a collaborative, citywide cele… |
| 2022 | Joffrey Ballet | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | Purpose: To support the creation and production of the family-friendly ballet Rita Finds Home, to be performed by the Joffrey Academy's advanced pre-professional students. Addition… |
| 2022 | Chicago Dance History Project | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | Purpose: To support a digitization initiative for dance artists to transfer and preserve documentation of their creative work. Additional Project Description: The Chicago Dance His… |
| 2022 | Links Hall Inc. | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | Purpose: To support residencies for artists to research, develop, and present new work. Additional Project Description: Selected artists will be provided with three to five months … |
| 2021 | Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | To support artist fees for dance presentations and residencies at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago. Artists to be presented include Bebe Miller Company and Kyle Abraham… |
| 2021 | Open The Circle | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | To support the creation of Body of the City, a feature documentary film about the dance and music style Chicago Footwork. The film will feature first-hand accounts with the most in… |
| 2021 | Deeply Rooted Productions | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | To support artist fees for a residency with choreographer Alfred Dove at Deeply Rooted Dance Theater. Dove will lead a choreographic residency with company and student dancers and … |
| 2021 | Joffrey Ballet | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support artist fees for the creation of a new one-act ballet production of Of Mice and Men by Cathy Marston. Based on John Steinbeck's novel, the work will feature a new score c… |
| 2021 | Lucky Plush Productions | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Chicago Human Rhythm Project | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2020 | Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | To support artist residencies at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago. Ron K. Brown/EVIDENCE and the Trisha Brown Dance Company will be in residence for at least one week t… |
| 2020 | Chicago Human Rhythm Project | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | To support the annual Rhythm World festival. Rhythm World is a festival of tap and percussive dance including performances, residencies, workshops, classes, and conferences for all… |
| 2020 | Chicago Dancemakers Forum | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | To support two residency programs that support dance creation and dance writing. Participation will enable artists to increase their capacity to develop new audiences, instigate me… |
| 2020 | Joffrey Ballet | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support the presentation of Bliss!, a short ballet by choreographer Stephanie Martinez. Set to Igor Stravinsky's Dumbarton Oaks Concerto, the ballet is based on the life of phil… |
| 2019 | Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | To support artist fees for dance presentations and residencies at The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago. Artists to be presented include d. Sabela grimes and Kimberly Bartos… |
| 2019 | Chicago Human Rhythm Project | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | To support the annual Stomping Grounds and Rhythm World festivals, and a national tour. Stomping Grounds is a collaborative, citywide celebration of rhythmic expression and cultura… |
| 2019 | Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Inc. | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | To support the premiere of new works by Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. The performance at the Auditorium Theatre will fuse Cuban dance styles and traditions with Chicago street danc… |
| 2019 | Lucky Plush Productions | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | To support a technical residency for Rink Life, a dance theater work with a vocal driven score. The residency will give the company time and space to adapt Rink Life's staging and … |
| 2019 | Joffrey Ballet | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support the world premiere of Anna Karenina by choreographer Yuri Possokhov. The work will be a full-length story ballet that offers an emotional and intellectual space to explo… |
| 2019 | Red Clay Dance Company | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of The Art of Resilience 2.0, a site-specific dance work choreographed by Vershawn Sanders-Ward. The work will explore the theme of embodie… |
| 2019 | Deeply Rooted Productions | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support artist fees for the presentation of Essence, A Portrait of Four Women by choreographer Martial Roumain. The presentation will be complemented by engagement activities su… |
| 2019 | Peoria Ballet Company | Peoria, IL | $10,000 | To support performances of The Nutcracker and accompanying educational activities. Peoria Ballet students, community members, and professional dancers will present public performan… |
| 2019 | Audience Architects, NFP | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support the expansion of video and digital content on SeeChicagoDance.com and general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The online content will offer audienc… |
| 2018 | Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | To support artist fees for dance presentations and residencies at The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago. Artists to be presented include Spectrum Dance Theatre and Tere O'Co… |
| 2018 | Chicago Human Rhythm Project | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | To support the annual Stomping Grounds and Rhythm World festivals, and a national tour. Stomping Grounds is a collaborative, citywide celebration of rhythmic expression and cultura… |
| 2018 | Joffrey Ballet | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Nicolas Blanc, Joffrey Ballet master and principal coach. The work will transport audiences through five worlds amid compo… |
| 2017 | Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | To support dance presentations and residencies at The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago. Activities will include contemporary dance performances, audience and community enga… |
| 2017 | Joffrey Ballet | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Swedish choreographer Alexander Ekman. The work will explore the relationship between design and dance. Ekman's work is kn… |
| 2017 | Chicago Human Rhythm Project | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | To support the annual Stomping Grounds and Rhythm World festivals, and a national tour. Stomping Grounds is a collaborative, citywide celebration of rhythmic expression and cultura… |
| 2017 | Links Hall Inc. | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | To support a commission of new work and movement workshops by artist Darrell Jones. The commission is of a new process-based dance work. Completing research residencies in Chicago,… |
| 2017 | Thodos Dance Chicago | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support the restaging and presentation of "Nos Duraturi" by dancer and choreographer Bella Lewitzky. Nos Duraturi will be restaged by former dancers of the Bella Lewitzky Dance … |
| 2017 | Chicago Dancemakers Forum | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support Elevate Chicago Dance. The showcase is the culminating activity of the Regional Dance Development Initiative (RDDI) Chicago. The citywide event will gather regional, nat… |
| 2017 | Lucky Plush Productions | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support the creation and premiere performance of "Rooming House," a new dance-theater work. To create the work, co-creators Julia Rhoads and Leslie Danzig will draw from the sto… |
| 2016 | Joffrey Ballet | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | To support the choreography license for creation and presentation of a re-imagined "Nutcracker," choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon. Robert Joffrey's "Nutcracker" has been in th… |
| 2016 | Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | To support dance presentations and residencies at The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago. Artists to be presented includes, the Liz Gerring Company, and Tere O'Connor Dance. … |
| 2016 | Lucky Plush Productions | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support the final development and presentation of "Trip the Light Fantastic: The Making of SuperStrip," a new dance theater work by Artistic Director Julia Rhoads. The work will… |
| 2016 | Chicago Children's Theatre | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support the presentation of Thodos Dance Chicago's "A Light in the Dark: The Stories of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan." Co-choreographed by Ann Reinking and Melissa Thodos, wit… |
| 2016 | Chicago Human Rhythm Project | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support Chicago-based dance festivals that focus on American tap, percussive dance presentations, and cultural exchange. The 26th anniversary summer festival Rhythm World will i… |
| 2015 | Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | To support dance presentations and residencies at The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago. The project will include the creation and presentation of "Walking with 'Trane, Chap… |
| 2015 | Joffrey Ballet | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | To support the Chicago premiere of "Tulle" by Swedish choreographer Alexander Ekman. Premiered in 2012 at the Royal Opera House of Stockholm, "Tulle" was Ekman's first piece workin… |
| 2015 | Chicago Human Rhythm Project | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | To support percussive dance presentations as part of the 25th anniversary celebration of Chicago Human Rhythm Project. The programs will include the Stomping Grounds Festival in co… |
| 2015 | Lucky Plush Productions | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | To support a technical residency for the creation of "Trip the Light Fantastic," a new work by Artistic Director Julia Rhoads, in collaboration with video artist John Boesche. Insp… |
| 2015 | Audience Architects, NFP | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | To support Every Day is a Dance, a multi-tiered audience development/engagement campaign to strengthen Chicago dance organizations. The campaign's goals are central to Audience Arc… |
| 2015 | Muntu Dance Theatre | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "One Root, Many Branches," choreographed by Christopher Walker. The new work will explore the connectedness of the dance and music tradi… |
| 2014 | Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | To support dance presentations and residencies at The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago. The project will include the creation of a suite of works by Jawolle Willa Jo Zollar… |
| 2014 | Joffrey Ballet | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | To support the presentation of "Crossing Ashland," a ballet by Chicago-based choreographer Brock Clawsom. The work will be featured as part of the Contemporary Choreographers Progr… |
| 2014 | Muntu Dance Theatre | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "Lest We Forget," a new work choreographed by Artistic Director Amaniyea Payne in collaboration with company dancers. The new work will … |
| 2014 | Chicago Dancing Company NFP | Lombard, IL | $20,000 | To support the presentation of local and national companies as part of the 2014 Chicago Dancing Festival. Festival activities will include free performances, open rehearsals, open … |
| 2014 | Chicago Film Archives, NFP | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | To support the third phase of the preservation and dissemination of the moving image and audio collection for dancer and choreographer Ruth Page (1899-1991). Comprising more than 9… |
| 2014 | River North Dance Company | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | To support commissions, home and touring performances, and related educational and community engagement activities as part of the company's 25th anniversary. To honor the anniversa… |
| 2014 | Music and Dance Theater Chicago Inc. | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support the commission and presentation of a new work by choreographer Trey McIntyre and his company. The work will be performed with live accompaniment from young musicians of … |
| 2014 | Lucky Plush Productions | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of "The Queue," a new dance theater work by Artistic Director Julia Rhoads and Theater Director Leslie Danzig. Building on their previous a… |
| 2014 | Chicago Human Rhythm Project | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support Rhythm World, a tap and percussive dance festival. The project will include residencies, performances, Virtual Rhythms (an online videography/choreography competition), … |
| 2013 | Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | To support contemporary dance residencies at The Dance Center at Columbia College Chicago and related outreach activities. The project will include the creation and presentation of… |
| 2013 | Muntu Dance Theatre | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new collaborative dance and music work, "Memories N' Time," including community outreach activities. Artistic director Amaniyea Payne … |
| 2013 | Chicago Film Archives, NFP | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | To support the second phase of the preservation and dissemination of the moving image and audio collection for dancer and choreographer Ruth Page (1899-1991). Comprising more than … |
| 2013 | Joffrey Ballet | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | To support the "Lemonis Bridge Program." The initiative focuses on classical ballet training in Chicago's underserved communities for students in the first and second grades. |
| 2013 | Chicago Human Rhythm Project | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support the annual Rhythm World, a tap and percussive dance festival. The performances and other activities will take place at Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, the Muse… |
| 2013 | Chicago Dancing Company NFP | Lombard, IL | $10,000 | To support the presentation of local and national companies as part of the Chicago Dancing Festival. Festival activities will include free performances, open rehearsals, open compa… |
| 2013 | River North Dance Company | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support the creation and tour of a new jazz dance work by choreographer Kevin Iega Jeff. Jeff is the artistic director of Chicago's Deeply Rooted Dance Theater and began creatin… |
| 2012 | Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Inc. | Chicago, IL | $35,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Alonzo King, in collaboration with his company LINES Ballet. The work will be created through a residency at… |
| 2012 | Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | To support international contemporary dance residencies at The Dance Center. Companies under consideration include Cois Ceim Dance (Ireland), Delfos Danza Contemporanea (Mexico), a… |
| 2012 | Muntu Dance Theatre | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | To support the presentation of "The Journey," a series of performances chronicling the 40-year history of Muntu Dance Theatre through dance and music. The project will include moun… |
| 2012 | Joffrey Ballet | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new piece by choreographer Val Caniparoli. This will be Caniparoli's first piece for the company, which will be set to Music for Strin… |
| 2012 | Chicago Film Archives, NFP | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | To support the first phase of the preservation and dissemination of the moving image and audio collection for dancer and choreographer Ruth Page. The collection contains rehearsals… |
| 2012 | Chicago Dancing Company NFP | Lombard, IL | $10,000 | To support the presentation of local and national dance companies as part of the 2012 Chicago Dancing Festival. Festival activities will include performances, open rehearsals, open… |
| 2012 | Chicago Human Rhythm Project | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support the 22nd annual "Rhythm World," a tap and percussive dance festival. The project will include residencies, performances, and education and outreach activities. |
| 2011 | Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $40,000 | To support the 2011/2012 Legacy Projects, residencies by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. While in residence, both companies will … |
| 2011 | Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Inc. | Chicago, IL | $35,000 | To support the Inside/Out Choreographic Workshop, a program for emerging choreographers to create new work. Current and former company dancers will create works - complete with cos… |
| 2011 | Joffrey Ballet | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | To support the creation and presentation of works by choreographers Edwaard Liang and Yuri Possokhov. Liang, a New York City Ballet dancer/choreographer, will be creating his secon… |
| 2011 | Muntu Dance Theatre | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | To support commissioned works by choreographers Theo Jamison and Reggie Wilson and associated activities. Planned for the company's This Far by Faith project (celebrating the resil… |
| 2011 | Chicago Dancing Company NFP | Lombard, IL | $10,000 | To support the presentation of local and national dance companies. The project will include a lecture-demonstration at the Museum of Contemporary Art. |
| 2011 | Chicago Human Rhythm Project | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support the 21st annual tap festival Rhythm World. The project will include residencies, performances, and education and outreach activities. |
| 2011 | River North Dance Company | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support the creation, premiere, tour and associated educational activities of a jazz dance choreographed by Artistic Director Frank Chaves. The work will be accompanied by an or… |
| 2010 | Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $35,000 | To support a series of dance residencies, and 1306-Ten Years Later, a free, day-long celebration marking 10 years at the Dance Center's 1306 Michigan Avenue facility. The Dance Cen… |
| 2010 | Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Inc. | Chicago, IL | $35,000 | To support the Inside/Out Choreographic Workshops, a program for emerging choreographers to create new work. The workshop will culminate with a public performance of the resulting … |
| 2010 | Joffrey Ballet | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | To support the creation and presentation of new works by choreographers James Kudelka and Jessica Lang and a revival of co-founder Gerald Arpino's "Reflections." |
| 2010 | Muntu Dance Theatre | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | To support the commissioning of new works by Ron Brown and Idy Ciss. 2/01/12--The Ron Brown work was also premiered, but the Idy Ciss presentation was delayed until after the grant… |
| 2010 | Illinois State University | Normal, IL | $15,000 | To support the restaging of "Diversion of Angels," choreographed in 1948 by Martha Graham. The work will be restaged on the Illinois State University dance students during a reside… |
| 2010 | Chicago Human Rhythm Project | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support the 20th anniversary of the tap festival Rhythm World. The project will include residencies, performances, and educational and outreach activities. |
| 2010 | Hedwig Dances, Inc. | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support Hedwig Dances' 25th anniversary season including a concert celebration, a residency and various outreach programs. The anniversary concert will be held at the Dance Cent… |
| 2010 | Najwa Dance Corps | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support "Cultural Empowerment Through Dance." This educational project will offer classes, workshops, and lecture-demonstrations in African dance and drumming. The activities wi… |
| 2009 | Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Inc. | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | To support the preservation of jobs that are threatened by declines in philanthropic and other support during the current economic downturn. |
| 2009 | Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | To support residencies and related activities with choreographer Wayne McGregor and his company Random Dance, dance company Troika Ranch, and choreographer Koosil-ja and her compan… |
| 2009 | Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Inc. | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | To support the Inside/Out Choreographic Workshops, a program for emerging choreographers to create new work. The two-week workshop will culminate with a public performance of the r… |
| 2009 | Joffrey Ballet | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | To support the preservation of 50 years of video material. The video archive contains recordings of performances, rehearsals, and choreographic workshops of ballets by co-founders … |
| 2009 | Muntu Dance Theatre | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | To support the reconstruction and presentation of I've Known Rivers (1944) by Dr. Pearl Primus. |
| 2009 | Muntu Dance Theatre | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | To support the commissioning and performance of a new work by guest choreographer Abdel Salaam. The work will premiere at Columbia College's Harris Theater for Music and Dance in C… |
| 2009 | Thodos Dance Chicago | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | To support the restaging and touring of masterworks by choreographer Bob Fosse. The works, created in the early 1960s for television, include Cool Hand Luke, Mexican Breakfast, and… |
| 2009 | Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | To support the restaging and presentation of Marble Halls, by choreographer Mark Morris, during the student Repertory Performance Workshop. In addition to a performance, there will… |
| 2009 | Chicago Human Rhythm Project | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support the 19th annual Rhythm World tap festival. The project will include residencies, performances, and educational and outreach activities. |
| 2009 | Natya Dance Theatre | Oak Brook, IL | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of an evening-length dance work that brings together bharatanatyam (classical Indian dance), Indian Carnatic music, western jazz, and Japan… |
| 2009 | Najwa Dance Corps | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support "Cultural Empowerment Through Dance". This educational project will offer classes, workshops, and lecture- demonstrations in African dance and drumming. The activities w… |
| 2008 | Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Inc. | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | To support programs for emerging choreographers to create new work. These programs include the Inside/Out Choreographic Workshops, the National Choreographic Competition, and colla… |
| 2008 | Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | To support residencies and related programming with choreographers David Dorfman, David Rousseve and Banafsheh Sayyad. |
| 2008 | Joffrey Ballet | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | To support the presentation of ballets by Antony Tudor. The project will feature Lilac Garden, Dark Elegies, and Offenbach in the Underworld. |
| 2008 | Muntu Dance Theatre | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | To support the "Dancing Thru the Decades" initiative. The project will use dance and music to explore the cultural, social, political, and economic trends within the North Lawndale… |
| 2008 | Chicago Human Rhythm Project | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support the annual summer festival of tap and percussive dance, Rhythm World. The project will include educational, performance, and outreach activities. |
| 2008 | Luna Negra Danza Teatro | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of the Ladino Project by artistic director and choreographer Eduardo Vilaro. The work will premiere at the Harris Theater for Music and Dan… |
| 2008 | Deeply Rooted Productions | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support a new outreach initiative facilitated through Deeply Rooted Productions' pre-professional company, Deeply Rooted Dance Theater 2 (DRDT2). "I Am Deeply Rooted" focuses on… |
| 2007 | Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | To support contemporary dance company residencies at the Dance Center. The project includes community engagement and public education programs. |
| 2007 | Joffrey Ballet | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | To support the presentation of ballets as part of the company's 50th anniversary celebration in a program titled "Destiny's Dances." The ballets will include Leonide Massine's Les … |
| 2007 | Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Inc. | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | To support the Inside/Out Choreographic Workshop, a program for emerging choreographers to create new work. |
| 2007 | Muntu Dance Theatre | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Brazilian choreographer Rosangela Silvestre, and related education and outreach activities. The work will premiere as part… |
| 2007 | Chicago Human Rhythm Project | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support Roxanne Butterfly's participation in Tap 2007 dance programming. The project will include educational, performance, and outreach activities. |
| 2007 | River North Dance Company | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support the presentation and touring of a work choreographed by artistic director Frank Chaves, with an original score composed by Evan Solot. "Underground Movements" will be pr… |
| 2007 | Luna Negra Danza Teatro | Chicago, IL | $5,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Pedro Ruiz. The lighting will be designed by Clifton Taylor and the costumes will be designed by Edith Arias… |
| 2006 | Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | To support a series of contemporary dance presentations. The project includes community engagement and public education programs. |
| 2006 | Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Inc. | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | To support the "Program for Emerging and Developing Artists." Program for Emerging and Developing Artists will create five new works using the following projects: the Inside/Out Ch… |
| 2006 | Joffrey Ballet | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | To support the presentation of a revival of Twyla Tharp's "Deuce Coupe" and a newly commissioned work by Donald Byrd. Twyla Tharp's Deuce Coupe will be performed to music by the Be… |
| 2006 | Rockford Dance Company | Rockford, IL | $10,000 | To support Rockford Arts Link Learning for Youth in consortium with the Rockford Symphony Orchestra. The project will offer multidisciplinary, comprehensive arts experiences for th… |
| 2006 | Najwa Dance Corps | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support Cultural Empowerment Through Dance. The project will offer classes, workshops, lecture-demonstrations, and performances in African dance and drums to youths and adults. |
| 2005 | Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Inc. | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | To support a program for emerging choreographers to create new work. Program for Emerging and Developing Artists will involve the Inside/Out Choreographic Workshop for company danc… |
| 2005 | Joffrey Ballet | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | To support the presentation of dances at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University in Chicago. The American Masterworks program will feature Square Dance, by George Balanchine… |
| 2005 | Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | To support the presentation of African and Latino dance companies, along with community engagement and public education programs. The project includes the 15th anniversary of Dance… |
| 2005 | Najwa Dance Corps | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support Cultural Empowerment Through Dance. The project will offer classes, workshops, lecture-demonstrations, and performances in African dance and drums to youths and adults. |
| 2005 | Chicago Human Rhythm Project | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support summer tap festival presentations of concerts, classes, and public demonstrations. |
| 2004 | Joffrey Ballet | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | To support the presentation of The Ashton Evening. The program will commemorate the centennial of the birth of Sir Frederick Ashton, the late artistic director of the Royal Ballet … |
| 2004 | Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Inc. | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | To support the creation and presentation of dance works. Choreographers involved in the project include Christopher Bruce and Daniel Ezralow. |
| 2004 | Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | To support DanceAfrica Chicago 2004 and AfroContempo. Each company will conduct a one-week residency. |
| 2004 | Najwa Dance Corps | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support classes, workshops, lecture-demonstrations, and performances for youths and adults. |
| 2004 | Chicago Human Rhythm Project | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support a festival of tap and percussive dance. The project will include performances by national and international artists as well as educational activities including residenci… |
| 2003 | Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Inc. | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | To support the creation and presentation of new works and acquisitions during the company's 25th anniversary. The works will be presented during the company's spring engagement at … |
| 2003 | Joffrey Ballet | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | To support the presentation of historic ballets from the Ballets Russes. The ballets include Les Noces, Parade, and Le Sacre du Printemps. |
| 2003 | Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | To support DanceAfrica Chicago 2003, a residency with Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and African and African-American Voices in Dance. Artists and companies will be in residence o… |
| 2003 | Natya Dance Theatre | Oak Brook, IL | $10,000 | To support a consortium project of dance workshops for South Asian and Middle Eastern immigrant families in crisis. Natya Dance Theatre, an Indian classical dance organization, wil… |
| 2002 | Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Inc. | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | To support the acquisition of a ballet by choreographer Jiri Kylian. No More Play, created by Jir Kyli n, will begin the second phase of Hubbard Street's Kyli n Project, a repertoi… |
| 2002 | Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | To support "Into the West" and DanceAfrica Chicago 2002. |
| 2002 | Joffrey Ballet | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | To support the revival of a ballet. The piece to be revived is Robert Joffrey's Astarte, which premiered in 1968. |
| 2002 | Chicago Multi-Cultural Dance Center, Inc. | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support the expansion of a ballet-based dance instruction program. Dancing off the Streets, serving low income and minority children, will bring the studio-based program to scho… |
| 2002 | SCT Productions, Inc. | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support the presentation of Dance Chicago 2002. The five-week dance festival will include 250 dance groups and over 2000 artists from Chicago. |
| 2002 | River North Dance Company | Chicago, IL | $5,000 | To support the presentation and touring of Pulse. Choreographed by Daniel Ezralow, this piece is one of seven works that will tour throughout the United States during 2001-2002. |
| 2001 | Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Inc. | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | To support part of the New Works and Residency Program. The New Works and Residency Program will enable each artist to spend a one-week residency at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's … |
| 2001 | Joffrey Ballet | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | To support the acquisition and revival of up to four ballets. These ballets include Sacre de Printemps, Antony Tudor's Lilac Garden, and John Cranko's Taming of the Shrew and Jeux. |
| 2001 | Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | To support DanceAfrica Chicago 2001 and a series of international artists. The Dance Center will present DanceAfrica Chicago 2001 and a series of international artists. |
| 2001 | Trinity Irish Dance Company | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support the creation of new works and a progressive Irish tour. The company will conduct educational outreach programs for young people in the communities visited. |
| 2001 | Natya Dance Theatre | Oak Brook, IL | $5,000 | To support the continuation of outreach programs. The company will undertake two major outreach projects: Mitra - the Sounds and Legends of India, in collaboration with the Chicago… |
| 2001 | Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $5,000 | To support a consortium project to provide a set of programs for individuals to learn about dance. The Generational Dance Access Project will target young children, their caregiver… |
| 2000 | Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Inc. | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | To support dances by leading and emerging choreographers through the New Works and Residency Program. The program will enable the choreographers to conduct week-long workshops for … |
| 2000 | Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | To support up to four components of the Dance Center's public programming. The components include the 10th Anniversary of DanceAfrica Chicago; presentation of David Dorfman Dance; … |
| 2000 | Natya Dance Theatre | Oak Brook, IL | $10,000 | To support continuation of outreach programs in cities throughout the United States. Programs include performances to heighten awareness about Bharatanatyam, the classical dance st… |
| 2000 | Joffrey Ballet | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support the acquisition and presentation for an all-Copland evening, celebrating the 100-year anniversary of the composer's birth. Using the choreography of Martha Graham, Eugen… |
| 2000 | Trinity Irish Dance Company | Chicago, IL | $9,000 | To support presentation of progressive Irish dance through a United States Millennium tour. The company will hold lecture-demonstrations for audiences in the communities it visits. |
| 1999 | Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Inc. | Chicago, IL | $40,000 | To support the development, rehearsal, and presentation of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's 1999-2000 United States tour. The project will include fall and spring multi-state domesti… |
| 1999 | Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | To support the presentation of dance performances. The Columbia College- Dance Center's program will include a co-presentation with local artists; the 9th annual DanceAfrica Chicag… |
| 1999 | Muntu Dance Theatre | Chicago, IL | $12,000 | To support the reconstruction of "Purification Ritual" by Muntu founding Artistic Director Alyo Tolbert. The reconstruction will premiere in December 1999 as part of the company's … |
| 1999 | Trinity Irish Dance Company | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support presentation of Irish dance through Trinity Irish Dance Company's 1999-2000 tour. While on tour, Trinity dancers will conduct master classes for young people in communit… |
| 1998 | Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $40,000 | To support the presentation of Columbia College Dance Center's performances and residencies, including such artists and companies as David Rousseve/REALITY, the DanceAfrica Chicago… |
| 1998 | Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Inc. | Chicago, IL | $35,000 | To support dancers' salaries in support of the creation, maintenance, and revival of repertoire. This project will provide rehearsal support for 25 dancers to create new dances to … |
| 1998 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Urbana, IL | $18,000 | To support the presentation of a collaborative dance work titled "Time After" by choreographer Margaret Jenkins and actress Olympia Dukakis, the commissioning and presentation of J… |
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