NEA Dance Grants in New York — Page 2

1,677 NEA dance grants for New York, totaling $50.4M.

YearRecipientCityAmountProject
2022Dance Films Association, Inc.New York, NY$15,000Purpose: 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…
2022Dance Spotlight, Inc.New York, NY$15,000Purpose: To support the documentation and preservation of the Martha Graham dance technique. Additional Project Description: The project will include scripting, rehearsals, and fil…
2022Cross Performance, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$15,000Purpose: To support the creation of a new work by choreographer Ralph Lemon. Additional Project Description: The new work will explore the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic, bein…
2022Parsons Dance Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$15,000Purpose: To support a national tour featuring works by David Parsons and a premiere by Rena Butler, as well as the creation of Butler's new work. Additional Project Description: Fu…
2022School of American Ballet, Inc.New York, NY$15,000Purpose: To support a ballet training program for children. Additional Project Description: School of American Ballet's Children's Division will help develop the next generation of…
2022Arts Resources in Collaboration, Inc.New York, NY$15,000Purpose: To support the Eye on Dance Legacy archive project. Additional Project Description: ARC will organize, assess, identify, and safeguard elements of the archive for full pub…
2022Dance Works, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$15,000Purpose: To support Pentacle's fiscal and infrastructure support services for artists. Additional Project Description: The program will offer free or highly subsidized fiscal and i…
2022Noche Flamenca, Inc.New York, NY$15,000Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a live flamenco production based on selected works of artist Francisco Goya. Additional Project Description: Artistic Director …
2022CAVE Organization, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$15,000Purpose: To support archival and preservation activities, including cataloging, digitization, and public events featuring the butoh form of Japanese dance theater. Additional Proje…
2022Pioneers Go East CollectiveNew York, NY$10,000Purpose: To support Crossroads, a series of curated dance performances, panel discussions, and workshops. Additional Project Description: Crossroads will center the voices of queer…
2022Juilliard SchoolNew York, NY$10,000Purpose: To support artist fees for the annual mainstage dance performances showcasing Juilliard dance students. Additional Project Description: Spring Dances will re-mount contemp…
2022Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc.New York, NY$10,000Purpose: To support the Instituto Coreográfico (Choreographic Institute), a choreographic creation and mentorship program. Additional Project Description: During the institute, cho…
2022Monica Bill Barnes & CompanyNew York, NY$10,000Purpose: To support artist fees for a national tour of "The Running Show," an evening-length dance performance, in collaboration with local performers in each venue's city. Additio…
2022Stephen Petronio Dance Company, Inc.New York, NY$10,000Purpose: To support an artist residency and rehearsals for the development of a new Stephen Petronio work and a new work for the Bloodlines project. Additional Project Description:…
2022Keigwin and Company, Inc.New York, NY$10,000Purpose: To support the creation and production of a new work by choreographer Larry Keigwin. Additional Project Description: The new work is inspired by George Gershwin's Rhapsody…
2022Dance Parade Inc.New York, NY$10,000Purpose: To support the annual Dance Parade and Festival. Additional Project Description: The parade will feature dancers, floats, and live music on a route through Manhattan, culm…
2022Calpulli Mexican Dance CompanyEast Elmhurst, NY$10,000Purpose: To support the production of a new work, Monarcas: Stories of Inspired Immigrants. Additional Project Description: The work will feature folkloric and contemporary dance s…
2022Gina Gibney Dance, Inc.New York, NY$10,000Purpose: To support the creation and production of a new work by choreographer Rena Butler for Gibney Company. Additional Project Description: The piece will be inspired in part by…
2022New Dance Alliance, Inc.New York, NY$10,000Purpose: To support the 36th Performance Mix Festival, which offers new explorations in dance and interdisciplinary performance by emerging and mid-career choreographers. Additiona…
2022Center for Performance Research, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$10,000Purpose: To support professional development and technical assistance services to New York City's experimental dance and performance communities. Additional Project Description: Th…
2022Art Sweats, Inc.New York, NY$10,000Purpose: To support the creation of a new work by David Dorfman Dance, with related public engagement activities. Additional Project Description: The work will explore themes of pe…
2022American Tap Dance Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$10,000Purpose: To support Tap City, an annual tap dance festival. Additional Project Description: Activities will include dance classes, choreography residencies, and performances assemb…
2022Inta, Inc.New York, NY$10,000Purpose: To support the creation of a new duet with visual artist Joan Jonas and a production of Eiko Otake's work, "The Duet Project," with related public engagement activities. A…
2022Vangeline Theater IncBrooklyn, NY$10,000Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a new work by the Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute. Additional Project Description: The project will combine butoh an…
2022Dorrance Dance IncorporatedNew York, NY$10,000Purpose: To support a rehearsal and planning period and related educational activities by Dorrance Dance. Additional Project Description: The company will rehearse repertory works …
2022Thresh, Inc.New York, NY$10,000Purpose: To support research and development for a new, full-length solo work by choreographer Preeti Vasudevan. Additional Project Description: Based on correspondence between the…
2022American Dance InstituteNew York, NY$10,000Purpose: To support choreographic residencies for dance artists at the LUMBERYARD facilities located in Catskill, New York. Additional Project Description: Choreographers will have…
2022Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$10,000Purpose: To support the presentation of dance works. Additional Project Description: The project will feature several artists ranging from those new to the field to those who are m…
2022La Donna Dance, Inc.New York, NY$10,000Purpose: To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Donna Uchizono. Additional Project Description: Activities will include several community performances at local o…
2022RFCUNY Queens CollegeFlushing, NY$10,000Purpose: To support the Kupferberg Center for the Arts' CUNY Dance Initiative, a series of residency programs. Additional Project Description: Dance companies and choreographers wi…
2022DOVA, Inc.New York, NY$10,000Purpose: To support the creation of To My Arms Restore, a new work by Doug Varone and Dancers performed to arias by G.F. Handel and a commissioned score. Additional Project Descrip…
2022Jose Limon Dance FoundationNew York, NY$10,000Purpose: To support salaries, artist fees, and travel costs for performances at the American Dance Festival. Additional Project Description: Performances may include repertory work…
2022Creative NetwerkAstoria, NY$10,000Purpose: To support program expansion and dance teacher training in California, Illinois, and New York. Additional Project Description: EDN! provides free, weekly hip-hop and stree…
2022Broadway Dance LabNew York, NY$10,000Purpose: To support artist fees for residency and mentorship programs for tap dance artists at Dance Lab New York. Additional Project Description: As many as three selected tap cho…
2022A Better Jamaica, Inc.Jamaica, NY$10,000Purpose: To support the Jamaica Dance Festival, a series of free dance performances. Additional Project Description: Held in Jamaica, Queens, the summer festival will feature perfo…
2022Freshkills Park Alliance, Inc.New York, NY$10,000Purpose: To support the development and presentation of "Wanderings," by choreographer Kathy Westwater. Additional Project Description: The work is inspired by the Fresh Kills Land…
2022Yaa Samar! Dance TheatreBrooklyn, NY$10,000Purpose: To support the creation of a new site-specific collaborative work. Additional Project Description: Directed by Artistic Director and Choreographer Samar Haddad King, the n…
2022Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo IncNew York, NY$10,000Purpose: To support the restaging of Vivaldi Suite, U.S. tour performances and related community engagement activities. Additional Project Description: The LBT Company will rehears…
2022Seneca Nation of IndiansSalamanca, NY$3,250Purpose: To support SINM Dance Project, a collaboration by the Seneca-Iroquois National Museum and choreographer, performance artist, visual artist, and Seneca Nation member Rosy S…
2021Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$80,000To support salaries for dancers and crew members. The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will rehearse and record several site-specific dances, and will present a virtual premiere …
2021Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$80,000To support the virtual presentation of dance artists, live-streamed from the Joyce's stage. Artists will include Ayodele Casel and Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards, Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENC…
2021New York Live Arts Inc.New York, NY$80,000To support staff salaries for the creation and presentation of works by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. The company will develop and perform Deep Blue Sea and What Prob…
2021Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc.New York, NY$80,000To support a national tour of Dance Theatre of Harlem. The tour will feature performances of works by choreographers such as Robert Garland, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Tiffany Rea-Fish…
2021Trisha Brown Company, Inc.New York, NY$60,000To support the planning, rehearsal, and production costs of a virtual production of The Decoy Project, a unique arrangement of Trisha Brown's 1979 work, Glacial Decoy. This arrange…
2021CABD INCJamaica, NY$60,000To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc.New York, NY$60,000To support staff salaries, artist fees, and space costs for a period of creative development and rehearsal in preparation for virtual and live performances. The company will rehear…
2021Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$55,000To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021New York City Ballet, Inc.New York, NY$50,000To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Kyle Abraham. Abraham will create the work during a residency at the Kaatsbaan Cultural Park in Tivoli, New …
2021UBW, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$50,000To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021Abraham.In.Motion, Inc.New York, NY$50,000To support the development of a new work by Artistic Director Kyle Abraham "Our Indigo: If We Were a Love Song" set to the catalogue of singer and songwriter Nina Simone.
2021Danspace Project, Inc.New York, NY$40,000To support virtual and in-person programming curated by Judy Hussie-Taylor with Ishmael Houston-Jones, Okwui Okpokwasili, Eiko Otake, and Reggie Wilson. In the Platform series, Hus…
2021Discalced, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$40,000To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021Jose Limon Dance FoundationNew York, NY$35,000To support performances of dance works as part of the company's 75th anniversary celebration at the Joyce Theater. The program will feature several Limón classics, a dance by Doris…
2021Ballet Tech Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$35,000To support a tuition-free ballet training program. Founded by choreographer Eliot Feld, the audition-based program provides beginning to advanced ballet training for New York City …
2021Performance Zone, Inc.New York, NY$32,000To support The Field's capacity building and life preparedness services for national dance artists. This suite of comprehensive tools and services, such as fundraising strategies, …
2021Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$30,000To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021Dance Service New York City, Inc.New York, NY$30,000To support Dance/NYC's virtual symposium, town hall meetings, and continued expansion of the organization's website. The symposium is focused on information sharing, innovation, an…
2021La Donna Dance, Inc.New York, NY$25,000To support the first phase of an archival and preservation project of dancer and choreographer Donna Uchizono's work with the New York Public Library. The first phase of the projec…
2021School of American Ballet, Inc.New York, NY$25,000To support a ballet training program for children. School of American Ballet's Children's Division will help develop the next generation of ballet artists and audiences through fre…
2021Infinity Dance Theater Company, Ltd.New York, NY$25,000To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021STREB Inc.Brooklyn, NY$25,000To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021Stephen Petronio Dance Company, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support rehearsal and staging costs for the company's performance season and the Bloodlines initiative. Program is expected to include world premieres of Petronio's 'Prayer for …
2021Dancing in the Streets, Inc.Bronx, NY$20,000To support It's Showtime NYC!, a program for street dancers to develop choreography, train in freestyle technique, and build administrative skills. Aspects of the program include d…
2021Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo IncNew York, NY$20,000To support the presentation of dance works on a national tour by The Trocks and related community engagement activities. Community engagement will include activities such as worksh…
2021RFCUNY Queens CollegeFlushing, NY$20,000To support the Kupferberg Center for the Arts' CUNY Dance Initiative. Dance companies and choreographers will participate in residency programs at City University of New York campu…
2021Spanish Dance Arts Company, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support national touring, performances, and audience engagement activities. The company will offer workshops, classes and lecture-demonstrations for communities of all ages and …
2021Creative NetwerkAstoria, NY$20,000To support the development of chapters, dance teacher training, and program expansion in California, New York, and Oregon. EDN! provides free, weekly hip-hop and street dance class…
2021Monica Bill Barnes & CompanyNew York, NY$15,000To support a virtual tour of "Keep Moving," an evening-length dance performance in collaboration with Hunter College dancers. “Keep Moving” is a digital performance series that fea…
2021Inta, Inc.New York, NY$15,000To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021Lubovitch Dance Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$15,000To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021Dance Films Association, Inc.New York, NY$15,000To support the virtual Dance on Camera Festival (DOCF) and Dance on Camera Tour. The festival, co-produced with Film at Lincoln Center, will include film programming that explores …
2021Dance Works, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$15,000To support Pentacle's comprehensive management support for the dance community. Activities will include mentoring, administrative support, work sessions on arts administration topi…
2021Movement Research, Inc.New York, NY$15,000To support the presentation of free and low-cost public performance programs, including Movement Research at the Judson Church and the Movement Research Festivals. The programs off…
2021Yaa Samar! Dance TheatreBrooklyn, NY$15,000To support the U.S. premiere of Last Ward, a new evening-length dance theater work. Last Ward tackles the universal human experience of facing death, relevant for many in light of …
2021Helen Simoneau DanseBrooklyn, NY$15,000To support salaries and artist fees for the creation and presentation of "Delicate Power," by choreographer Helen Simoneau. The work will examine how women hold and exert power thr…
2021Parsons Dance Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$15,000To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021Feath3r Theory Inc.Brooklyn, NY$15,000To support the feath3r theory's creation and presentation of Phantasia. Phantasia!, a design-driven dance-theater performance experience. Comprising video, projection, live and rec…
2021A Better Jamaica, Inc.Jamaica, NY$15,000To support the Jamaica Dance Festival, a series of free dance performances. Held in Jamaica, Queens, the summer festival will feature performances by professional dance companies. …
2021Dance Spotlight, Inc.New York, NY$14,434To support the documentation and preservation of the Martha Graham dance technique and general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The project will include pre-pr…
2021American Tap Dance Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support a virtual version of Tap City, an annual tap dance festival. Activities may include classes, choreography residencies, and performances.
2021DOVA, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the Instituto Coreográfico (Choreographic Institute), a choreographic creation and mentorship program. During the institute, a choreographer will be in residence at Ball…
2021Center for Performance Research, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$10,000To support professional development and technical assistance services to New York City's experimental dance and performance communities. The services may include access to rehearsa…
2021Juilliard SchoolNew York, NY$10,000To support artist fees for two productions in the New Dances series. New Dances will feature works by choreographers such as Trisha Brown, Matthew Neenan, Tiler Peck, Bobbi Jene Sm…
2021American Dance InstituteNew York, NY$10,000To support choreographic residencies for dance artists at the LUMBERYARD facilities located in Catskill, New York. Choreographers will have access to technical theater space and re…
2021George Balanchine Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support video editing of coaching sessions for the Balanchine Video Archives. Video editing will take place for historic Balanchine works coached by Bart Cook and Jacques D'Ambo…
2021Big Tree Productions, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the creation and rehearsals of a new dance work by choreographer Tere O'Connor. O'Connor also will create the sound score which will include vocalization from the dancer…
2021Gina Gibney Dance, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the creation of a new work by choreographer Gustavo Ramírez Sansano on the Gibney Company. Sansano will participate in a week-long virtual residency to develop the work,…
2021Dances For A Variable PopulationNew York, NY$10,000To support virtual and in-person dance workshops and free public performances. The project will feature senior professional dance artists alongside groups of non-professional senio…
2021Cross Performance, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$10,000To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021Dance Parade Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the virtual Dance Parade and Festival. The online festival includes live and pre-recorded dance performances, dance battle competitions, and dance classes.
2021Foundation for Independent Artists, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021Threshold Dance Projects, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the creation and presentation of Buglisi Dance Theatre's Reimagined Table of Silence Project. The site-specific dance by Artistic Director and Choreographer Jacqulyn Bug…
2021Broadway Dance LabNew York, NY$10,000To support a choreography lab that offers ballet choreographers free rehearsal space and dancers to assist with the creation process. As many as four selected choreographers are gi…
2021Gallim Dance Company, IncBrooklyn, NY$10,000To support a dance engagement program in Brooklyn's Clinton Hill community. The program is a hybrid of in-person and online activities and will include free and low-cost dance clas…
2021Dance Continuum, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the development of performance-installations for neurodiverse and neurotypical audiences, by choreographer Susan Marshall. Susan Marshall & Company will develop a new wo…
2021Brooklyn Ballet, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$10,000To support a production of "The Brooklyn Nutcracker." The performance includes multicultural dance styles and technology by infusing the well-known holiday production with authenti…
2021Thin Man Dance, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$95,000To support dancer salaries for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's national tour. New commissions and historical repertory dance works will be performed on a four-month tour of th…
2020Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$90,000To support the American Dance Platform and the Joyce Theater Productions. The Platform is held during the Association of Performing Arts Professionals' annual conference to promote…
2020Trisha Brown Company, Inc.New York, NY$80,000To support the planning and rehearsals costs for the reconstruction and performances of Trisha Brown's 1991 work Astral Converted and other works.
2020Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc.New York, NY$80,000To support a period of creative development and rehearsal in preparation for performances. Artists will also develop key outreach and educational activities to accompany the perfor…
2020Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc.New York, NY$80,000To support staff salaries for planning a national tour. Dance Theatre of Harlem will take time to strategize on how best to approach a national tour in light of the effects of COVI…
2020New York City Ballet, Inc.New York, NY$75,000To support the artistic salaries for the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Justin Peck featuring a commissioned score by Nico Muhly. Support for these artist…
2020New York Live Arts Inc.New York, NY$75,000To support staff and dancers salaries for creation of work. NYLA programs support the creation of new works by movement-based artists at all career levels through residencies and c…
2020Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$60,000To support dancer salaries for a national tour celebrating the work of Paul Taylor. While on tour, the company will deliver community engagement activities such as artist/audience …
2020Discalced, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$60,000To support the creation of a new dance and restaging of an older work by Artistic Director Mark Morris. The new work, The Waltz, will be set to music by composer Maurice Ravel and …
2020Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$55,000To support dancer salaries and choreographer fees for American Ballet Theatre's (ABT) Women's Movement program. The program supports the creation, exploration, and staging of new w…
2020Danspace Project, Inc.New York, NY$40,000To support portions of a performance program curated by Judy Hussie-Taylor and Okwui Okpokwasili. The number of performances were reduced due to COVID-19.
2020CABD INCJamaica, NY$40,000To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020Stephen Petronio Dance Company, Inc.New York, NY$35,000To support the continuation and expansion of the Bloodlines project, whose goal is to protect a lineage of postmodern dance. This iteration will include future generations in the c…
2020Ballet Tech Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$35,000To support a tuition-free ballet training program. Founded by choreographer Eliot Feld, the audition-based program provides beginning to advanced ballet training for New York City …
2020Performance Zone, Inc.New York, NY$35,000To support The Field's creative resources and capacity-building programs for national dance artists. Programming will address artists' core needs like fundraising and long-term pla…
2020Dance Service New York City, Inc.New York, NY$30,000To support Dance/NYC's Junior Committee and continued expansion of the organization's web resources. The Junior Committee develops field leaders of the future by providing leadersh…
2020STREB Inc.Brooklyn, NY$30,000To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020Spanish Dance Arts Company, Inc.New York, NY$25,000To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020Gina Gibney Dance, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support new commissions for Gibney Dance's Insider/Outsider performance series. Choreographers Banning Bouldin, Mark Caserta, and Yin Yue will develop new works that investigate…
2020Dances For A Variable PopulationNew York, NY$20,000To support virtual dance workshops and performances. The project will feature the creation of new works by senior professional dance artists to revive and renew dance traditions, b…
2020Movement Research, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support the presentation of free and low-cost public performance programs, including part of the Movement Research at the Judson Church series and the Movement Research Festival…
2020Arts Resources in Collaboration, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support the Eye on Dance Legacy Archive project. ARC will organize, assess, identify, and safeguard elements of the archive for full public access. The project builds on the ins…
2020Jose Limon Dance FoundationNew York, NY$20,000To support the reconstruction and rehearsals of masterworks in preparation of the company's 75th anniversary celebration. The company will reconstruct and rehearse There is a Time …
2020Thin Man Dance, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020Infinity Dance Theater Company, Ltd.New York, NY$20,000To support physically integrated dance classes for people with disabilities, a workshop series for dance educators as part of the company's 25th anniversary season, and general ope…
2020Parsons Dance Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc.New York, NY$15,000To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020Dance Films Association, Inc.New York, NY$15,000To support the virtual Dance on Camera Festival (DOCF) and Dance on Camera Tour. The festival, co-produced with the Film Society of Lincoln Center, will include film programming th…
2020Dance Spotlight, Inc.New York, NY$15,000To support the documentation and preservation of the Martha Graham dance technique. The project will complete post-production for a comprehensive digital record of Graham's vision …
2020Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Inc.Jamaica, NY$15,000To support the presentation of dance artists at the annual Making Moves Dance Festival. The virtual festival will promote early career and emerging professional choreographers of N…
2020Lubovitch Dance Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$15,000To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020Center for Performance Research, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$15,000To support professional development and technical assistance services to New York City's experimental dance and performance communities. The services include access to rehearsal sp…
2020Yaa Samar! Dance TheatreBrooklyn, NY$15,000To support the creation of a new virtual interactive work and planning costs for the premiere and tour of the evening-length work Last Ward. Artistic Director and Choreographer Sam…
2020Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo IncNew York, NY$15,000To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020Dancing in the Streets, Inc.Bronx, NY$15,000To support It's Showtime NYC!, a program for street dancers to develop choreography and train in freestyle technique. In addition to developing new works, dancers will have the opp…
2020A Better Jamaica, Inc.Jamaica, NY$15,000To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020Art Sweats, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the creation and premiere of (A)Way Out Of My Body by choreographer David Dorfman. David Dorfman Dance will present the dance work, which will confront aging, grief, and…
2020Racing Thoughts, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$10,000To support production costs of a documentary related to Jane Comfort's Unvarnished America, a touring retrospective of Comfort's seminal dance and theater works. The works tackle i…
2020Vangeline Theater IncBrooklyn, NY$10,000To support presentation of dance artists at the New York Butoh Institute Festival. The festival will focus on female butoh artists to address the gender disparity in the art form. …
2020Dance Works, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$10,000To support Pentacle's comprehensive management support for the dance community. Activities will include mentoring, administrative support, work sessions on arts administration topi…
2020Queens Theatre in the Park, Inc.Corona, NY$10,000To support the presentation of dance artists. A free series of performances featuring local women choreographers and women-led companies will be presented online.
2020Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$10,000To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Jonah Bokaer. The new work will feature choreography by Jonah Bokaer, an architectural installation by Charles Renfro, and…
2020Isadora Duncan Foundation for Contemporary Dance, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the creative development and work-in-progress showing of Wild Beauty, a program of Isadora Duncan works and original works by choreographer Lori Belilove. The Duncan pie…
2020Threshold Dance Projects, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the creation and presentation of a new dance by Artistic Director Jacqulyn Buglisi. Taking inspiration from poetry, Buglisi will continue her explorations of what it mea…
2020Noche Flamenca, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020Rochester City Ballet, Inc.Rochester, NY$10,000To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Kataryn Skarpetowska, as part of the Women's Choreographer Initiative. The work will explore the relationship of groups an…
2020Inta, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the planning period for Eiko Otake’s work The Duet Project. The Duet Project is a series of mutual and mutable movement experiments involving living and late collaborato…
2020Creative NetwerkAstoria, NY$10,000To support the development of chapters, dance teacher training, and program expansion in California, Illinois, New York, and Oregon. EDN! provides free, weekly hip-hop and street d…
2020School of American Ballet, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support a ballet training program for children. SAB's Children's Division will help develop the next generation of ballet artists and build artistry, social skills, and personal…
2020Brooklyn Ballet, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$10,000To support a production of The Brooklyn Nutcracker in the Jewel Box. The production experiments with multicultural dance styles and technology by infusing the well-known ballet wit…
2020Gotham Dance, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the creation of new solo and duet works by Artistic Director Bebe Miller and other dance artists. The creation of the duets will be a transmission of Miller's practice t…
2020Dance Continuum, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support artist fees for the production of Two Person Operating System Type 2 by choreographer Susan Marshall and visual artist Martha Friedman. The work is a durational performa…
2020RFCUNY Queens CollegeFlushing, NY$10,000To support the CUNY Dance Initiative, a residency program. CDI provides rehearsal and performance venues for New York City-based dance companies and choreographers at select City U…
2019Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$90,000To support the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's 2019 national tour. Repertory pieces in the tour may include historical and contemporary dance works by a variety of choreograph…
2019Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$90,000To support the presentation of dance artists. The Joyce will present a mix of established and emerging dance companies from the United States and abroad. Each company will receive …
2019Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc.New York, NY$80,000To support staff salaries and space costs for a period of creative development and rehearsals for the EVE Project. The company will rehearse new works by established and emerging c…
2019Trisha Brown Company, Inc.New York, NY$80,000To support performances, educational work, and the preservation of Trisha Brown's legacy. The project will include Trisha Brown: In Plain Site, a program that adapts Brown's works …
2019New York City Ballet, Inc.New York, NY$75,000To support the creation and presentation of new works by resident choreographer Justin Peck and choreographer Pam Tanowitz. This will be Peck's 18th ballet for New York City Ballet…
2019New York Live Arts Inc.New York, NY$75,000To support staff salaries related to the presentation of dance companies, as well as dancer salaries related to the development of a new work by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance …
2019Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$70,000To support the presentation of dance works on a national tour. The company will present Paul Taylor's master works, as well as his most recent dances, to audiences across the Unite…
2019Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$65,000To support the ABT Women's Movement program, which focuses on work created by female choreographers. There will be approximately three choreographers who will create new works for …
2019Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc.New York, NY$60,000To support salaries for the national tour during Dance Theatre of Harlem's 50th anniversary season. The tour will feature performances of works by choreographers such as Robert Gar…
2019UBW, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$55,000To support a national performance tour with engagement programs. The tour will benefit a broad population of audiences, artists, educators and the public through performing, engage…
2019Discalced, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$50,000To support the creation of new dance works and restaging of older works by Artistic Director Mark Morris. The new works will be set to composer Erik Satie's Sports et Divertissemen…
2019New York City Center, Inc.New York, NY$50,000To support performance fees for dance companies participating in the Fall for Dance Festival. The festival will feature a variety of artists and dance companies representing a broa…
2019Jose Limon Dance FoundationNew York, NY$50,000To support the preservation and restaging of master works from the company's repertory. The following works will be re-staged and rehearsed as part of the company's 75th anniversar…
2019Stephen Petronio Dance Company, Inc.New York, NY$40,000To support the re-creation, presentation, and tour of historic dance works, as well as a world premiere by Stephen Petronio. In celebration of its 35th anniversary, the company wil…
2019Danspace Project, Inc.New York, NY$40,000To support dance presentations, residencies, and developmental activities for choreographers. Each of these activities contributes to Danspace's Choreographic Center Without Walls,…
2019Dance Works, Inc.Brooklyn, NY$30,000To support Pentacle's research and comprehensive management support for the dance community. Activities include mentoring, administrative support such as direct staffing and intern…
2019Foundation for Independent Artists, Inc.New York, NY$30,000To support the creation, presentation, and touring of works by several dance artists. Art Bridgman & Myrna Packer will tour a work that merges performance and video and will offer …
2019Performance Zone, Inc.New York, NY$30,000To support The Field's creative resources and capacity-building programs for national dance artists. Led by local artists and companies, the National Field Network spans several U.…
2019STREB Inc.Brooklyn, NY$30,000To support technical rehearsals for the premiere of a new work, as well as community engagement programming for youth. As part of the company's 40th anniversary, the company will p…
2019Works and Process, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support the presentation of Dance Theatre of Harlem as part of the Rotunda Project series. Founded in 2017, the Rotunda Projects series provides artistic commissions, site-speci…
2019DOVA, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support a new dance work by Artistic Director Doug Varone. Inspired by the 1961 movie West Side Story, this work is an abstract interpretation inspired by aspects of the film, w…
2019Gina Gibney Dance, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support production services and documentation opportunities for dance artists. Artists will receive support through a broad portfolio of initiatives and resources, including reh…
2019CABD INCJamaica, NY$20,000To support a national tour and community engagement activities. The company will tour repertory work and its dance theater trilogy on race, culture, and identity: Mr. TOL E. RAncE,…
2019Lubovitch Dance Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support Lubovitch Dance's home season and national tour, plus educational outreach. The company will present Something About Night in New York City; participate in "A Celebratio…
2019Dance Service New York City, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support Dance/NYC's Symposium, town hall meetings, the Junior Committee, a conference, and continued expansion of the organization's website. The Symposium includes panel discus…
2019Kyle Abraham Abraham In MotionNew York, NY$20,000To support the development of a new dance work by Kyle Abraham, inspired by the music of D'Angelo. In collaboration with artist Joe Buckingham, Abraham will develop the work (the f…
2019Thin Man Dance, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support the first stage of creation of a new work by John Jasperse. The new work will explore themes of death, loss, and despair.
2019School of American Ballet, Inc.New York, NY$20,000To support the Boys Program, a tuition-free ballet training program, and related community activities. The program works toward a diverse and inclusive future for ballet by expandi…
2019Movement Research, Inc.New York, NY$15,000To support the presentation of free public performance programs. The Movement Research at Judson Church series provides artists with critical space to try out new ideas and show wo…
2019Monica Bill Barnes & CompanyNew York, NY$15,000To support performances and a U.S. Tour of The Running Show, a new work by Monica Bill Barnes. Barnes will re-work and expand the company's recent show, One Night Only, to create t…
2019Dance Films Association, Inc.New York, NY$15,000To support the Dance on Camera Festival (DOCF) and Dance on Camera Tour. The festival, co-produced with the Film Society of Lincoln Center, will include film programming that explo…
2019American Dance InstituteNew York, NY$15,000To support LUMBERYARD's dance production incubators and presentations. Resources provided to artists for the incubators will include rehearsal time and space, production residency …
2019Arts Resources in Collaboration, Inc.New York, NY$15,000To support the Eye on Dance Legacy Archive project The project will organize, assess, identify, and safeguard elements of the archive for full public access. The current phase of t…
2019Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the Instituto Coreografico (Choreographic Institute), a choreographic creation and mentorship program serving emerging and underrecognized Latino choreographers. Two cho…
2019Dances For A Variable PopulationNew York, NY$10,000To support dance workshops and free public performances. The project will feature senior professional dance artists alongside groups of non-professional senior dancers. The series …
2019Spanish Dance Arts Company, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana's creation and presentation of LATIDO with accompanying engagement activities. Choreographed by Jose Maldonado with an original score by Ga…
2019Fist and Heel Performance Group, IncBrooklyn, NY$10,000To support the creation and premiere of a new work by choreographer Reggie Wilson. The work builds on Wilson's investigations related to the early evolution of African-American spi…
2019Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo IncNew York, NY$10,000To support the restaging of Night Crawlers, a national tour, and related community engagement activities. Based on Jerome Robbins's ballet In the Night (1947), Night Crawlers, with…
2019George Balanchine Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the editing of videos and coaching sessions for the Balanchine Video Archives. Final editing work will take place on a video of Patricia McBride coaching Roman Mejia and…
2019Gallim Dance Company, IncBrooklyn, NY$10,000To support salaries and guest teacher fees as part of an ongoing dance engagement program in Brooklyn's Clinton Hill community. The program will include free and low-cost public da…
2019Yaa Samar! Dance TheatreBrooklyn, NY$10,000To support the final production phase of Last Ward, a new evening-length dance-theater work. Choreographed by Artistic Director Samar Haddad King and written and directed by Amir N…
2019Parsons Dance Foundation, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the creation of a new work by emerging choreographer Joan Rodriguez. The choreographer is a recent immigrant from Cuba who will reflect on her experience as it relates t…
2019Inta, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support Distance is Malleable, a series of collaborative duets with Eiko Otake and performing and visual artists. The works will be shared in non-theatrical spaces that enhance …
2019Dance Continuum, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the performers fees for the creation of Two Person Operating System Type 2 by choreographer Susan Marshall and visual artist Martha Friedman. The work will be a duration…
2019PalissimoNew York, NY$10,000To support the development and presentation of a new work by Artistic Director Pavel Zuštiak. The work will explore the metaphysical poetry of life, feature an original commissione…
2019Dance Spotlight, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the documentation and preservation of the Martha Graham dance technique. The goal is to create a comprehensive digital record of Graham's vision that demonstrates the ex…
2019Hudson Opera House, Inc.Hudson, NY$10,000To support a centennial celebration of the work of choreographer Merce Cunningham (1919-2009) at Hudson Hall. A dance performance by Stephen Petronio Company will be part of a prog…
2019Thresh, Inc.New York, NY$10,000To support the phase two development of Etudes, a new evening length work. Created by Indian classical dancer and choreographer Preeti Vasudevan, Etudes is an intimate dance betwee…
2019Rochester City Ballet, Inc.Rochester, NY$10,000To support the creation and premiere of Moulin d'Paris, a full-length ballet choreographed by Mark Diamond. The new work will stretch the dancers in the neoclassical ballet techniq…

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