NEA Dance Grants 2021: All 203 Awards
203 NEA dance grants for fiscal year 2021, totaling $4.3M.
| Year | Recipient | City | Amount | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $80,000 | To 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 … |
| 2021 | Dance/USA | Minneapolis, MN | $80,000 | To support Dance/USA's core programs, including the virtual Institute for Leadership Training, virtual Dance Forum convenings, national research initiatives, and dance archiving ac… |
| 2021 | Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc. | Becket, MA | $80,000 | To support artist fees for the Pillow Lab artist residency program and the presentation of dance artists at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. The festival will bring Brian Brooks … |
| 2021 | Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $80,000 | To 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… |
| 2021 | New York Live Arts Inc. | New York, NY | $80,000 | To 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… |
| 2021 | Dance Place | Washington, DC | $80,000 | To support staff salaries and artist fees for the presentation of dance companies and choreographers from the Washington, D.C. region. Dance Place will select artists that represen… |
| 2021 | Alonzo King LINES Ballet | San Francisco, CA | $80,000 | To support the restaging and presentation of "The Collective Agreement," by Artistic Director Alonzo King. The work includes an orchestral score and light installation by long-time… |
| 2021 | Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc. | New York, NY | $80,000 | To 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… |
| 2021 | Friends of NORD, Inc. | New Orleans, LA | $64,500 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | American Dance Festival, Inc. | Durham, NC | $60,000 | To support virtual and in-person presentations at the American Dance Festival. Festival performances will include a historical reconstruction from Pilobolus and virtual presentatio… |
| 2021 | World Arts West | San Francisco, CA | $60,000 | To support staff salaries for the virtual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. Through mentorship, artistic development, and performance opportunities, the annual festival showcase… |
| 2021 | Trisha Brown Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $60,000 | To 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… |
| 2021 | CABD INC | Jamaica, NY | $60,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $60,000 | To 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… |
| 2021 | Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $55,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | New York City Ballet, Inc. | New York, NY | $50,000 | To 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 … |
| 2021 | UBW, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $50,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | International Association of Blacks in Dance, Inc. | Washington, DC | $50,000 | To support EVOLVE, a series of regional dance summits hosted virtually and in-person. The summits will comprise programming tailored to the unique needs of the host region, dance c… |
| 2021 | New Orleans Ballet Association | New Orleans, LA | $50,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Karen Peterson and Dancers, Inc. | Pinecrest, FL | $50,000 | To support Forward Motion, a festival and conference dedicated to physically integrated dance. The event will bring together national and international professional dancers with an… |
| 2021 | Abraham.In.Motion, Inc. | New York, NY | $50,000 | To 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. |
| 2021 | Boston Ballet, Inc. | Boston, MA | $40,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | President and Trustees of Bates College | Lewiston, ME | $40,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Pacific Northwest Ballet Association | Seattle, WA | $40,000 | To support the presentation of works by choreographers Edwaard Liang and Christopher Wheeldon as part of the Rep 6: Director's Choice program. The works will be produced for film, … |
| 2021 | Danspace Project, Inc. | New York, NY | $40,000 | To 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… |
| 2021 | Discalced, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $40,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Fresh Meat Productions | San Francisco, CA | $40,000 | To support the development and premiere of Sean Dorsey Dance's new work The Lost Art of Dreaming and related community engagement activities. The work will imagine transgender and … |
| 2021 | Florida State University | Tallahassee, FL | $40,000 | To support creative research laboratories for emerging dance artists and their collaborators at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography. The project brings together a d… |
| 2021 | Regents of the University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | $40,000 | To support artist fees and administrative costs for the presentation of dance performances and audience engagement activities as part of the Northrop Dance Series. Northrop will pr… |
| 2021 | Jose Limon Dance Foundation | New York, NY | $35,000 | To 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… |
| 2021 | Ballet Tech Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $35,000 | To 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 … |
| 2021 | Performance Zone, Inc. | New York, NY | $32,000 | To 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, … |
| 2021 | Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $30,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Dance Service New York City, Inc. | New York, NY | $30,000 | To 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… |
| 2021 | Philadelphia Dance Company | Philadelphia, PA | $30,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | National Institute of Flamenco | Albuquerque, NM | $30,000 | To support artist fees for the 34th Annual Festival Flamenco Alburquerque. The festival will bring together professional flamenco artists from around the world to participate in a … |
| 2021 | Dimensions Dance Theater, Inc. | Oakland, CA | $30,000 | To support the Rites of Passage dance education program for youth. The year-round project brings traditional African dance, music, and contemporary African-derived art to youth. Ac… |
| 2021 | Vail Valley Foundation | Avon, CO | $30,000 | To support the presentation of dance companies at the Vail Dance Festival. The annual, multi-week festival will present dance from both established and emerging choreographers, and… |
| 2021 | Yard, Inc. | Chilmark, MA | $30,000 | To support Yard Arts' Offshore Creation Residencies. Selected choreographers and dance companies will have daily access to studio and theater space, as well as additional resources… |
| 2021 | Sharron Miller's Academy for the Performing Arts, Inc. | Montclair, NJ | $30,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | La Donna Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $25,000 | To 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… |
| 2021 | Northeast Ohio Center for Choreography | Akron, OH | $25,000 | To support the Dancing Lab: Beyond Bharatanatyam with Ashwini Ramaswamy, the Technical Residency: Bird of Paradise with Pioneer Winter, and a Creative Administration Residencies/Re… |
| 2021 | AXIS Dance Company | Berkeley, CA | $25,000 | To support a tour of dance performances and virtual engagement activities. AXIS will conduct an international tour of contemporary dance works performed by artists with and without… |
| 2021 | Professional Flair, Inc. | Cleveland, OH | $25,000 | To support a nationwide tour of physically integrated dance companies, coordinated by the Dancing Wheels Company & School. In addition to the performances, there will be workshops … |
| 2021 | Dance Film SF, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | To support the San Francisco Dance Film Festival. Programming includes the Co-Laboratory which brings choreographers, filmmakers, dancers, composers, engineers, and others together… |
| 2021 | Ballet Arizona | Phoenix, AZ | $25,000 | To support Ballet Under the Stars, a free outdoor performance series in local parks throughout the Phoenix metropolitan area. In addition to performances by the company, children f… |
| 2021 | Duke University | Durham, NC | $25,000 | To support SLIPPAGE@Duke's digital publications, lectures, and webinars that provide information and analyses of African diaspora dance. These resources will provide a model of an … |
| 2021 | San Francisco Ballet Association | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVD-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | School of American Ballet, Inc. | New York, NY | $25,000 | To 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… |
| 2021 | Dance Institute of Washington | Washington, DC | $25,000 | To support dance education programs. Educational opportunities will include the company's school and mentoring programs. The DIW also will offer the Positive Directions Through Dan… |
| 2021 | Infinity Dance Theater Company, Ltd. | New York, NY | $25,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | STREB Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $25,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Mutual Dance Theatre and Arts Centers | Cincinnati, OH | $25,000 | To support the presentations and residencies of Philadanco and Sidra Bell Dance NY as part of the Jefferson James Contemporary Dance Theater Series. The goal of this signature perf… |
| 2021 | Irvine Barclay Theatre Operating Co. | Irvine, CA | $20,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Bradley Family Foundation, Inc. | Milwaukee, WI | $20,000 | To support the planning period for a residency with Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group at Lynden Sculpture Garden. Wilson will be developing his work Power, a piece exam… |
| 2021 | Stephen Petronio Dance Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To 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 … |
| 2021 | Miami City Ballet, Inc. | Miami Beach, FL | $20,000 | To support choreographer fees and planning costs in preparation for the North American premiere of Alexei Ratmansky's Swan Lake. Using the notation plans from an 1895 production of… |
| 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 | Cleveland Modern Dance Association | Cleveland, OH | $20,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Nashville Ballet | Nashville, TN | $20,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Alabama Dance Council, Inc. | Huntsville, AL | $20,000 | To support virtual programming for the Alabama Dance Festival. Virtual events may include classes with BODYTRAFFIC, a New Works Concert featuring Southern choreographers, showcases… |
| 2021 | Ragamala Dance | Minneapolis, MN | $20,000 | To support digital and outdoor dance programming. Programming will include film screenings, master classes, lectures, performances, and arts activities for adults and children. |
| 2021 | Dallas Black Dance Theatre | Dallas, TX | $20,000 | To support virtual presentations of Talley Beatty's Mourner's Bench and Claude Alexander III’s A Tender Pardon. Both pieces will be reimagined for online viewing and will be filmed… |
| 2021 | Wideman/Davis Dance of New York | Columbia, SC | $20,000 | To support the development of a curriculum based on a one-month residency and public performances of the interdisciplinary dance installation, Migratuse Ataraxia. The main objectiv… |
| 2021 | Velocity Dance Center | Seattle, WA | $20,000 | To support the Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation. The festival comprises a month-long immersion in contemporary dance education, creation, performance, inquiry, and nationa… |
| 2021 | National Black Arts Festival, Inc. | Atlanta, GA | $20,000 | To support the Move/Dance! Program, a dance education program for youth that celebrates the cultural heritage of Black Dance in America. In partnership with Atlanta Public Schools … |
| 2021 | Dancing in the Streets, Inc. | Bronx, NY | $20,000 | To 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… |
| 2021 | Joe Goode Performance Group | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | To support performances of Time of Change, a new site-specific work that will explore the history of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood in San Francisco. Joe Goode, with a team of BIP… |
| 2021 | Del E. Webb Center for the Performing Arts | Wickenburg, AZ | $20,000 | To support the creation of a new work by Red Sky Performance and the re-staging of a full-length dance by the Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Company and related engagement activities. … |
| 2021 | Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo Inc | New York, NY | $20,000 | To 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… |
| 2021 | RFCUNY Queens College | Flushing, NY | $20,000 | To 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… |
| 2021 | Viver Brasil Dance Company | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | To support Samba in the Streets, a free community engagement program for youth and adults. The program celebrates Afro-Brazilian dances and music through dance workshops, interacti… |
| 2021 | Spanish Dance Arts Company, Inc. | New York, NY | $20,000 | To support national touring, performances, and audience engagement activities. The company will offer workshops, classes and lecture-demonstrations for communities of all ages and … |
| 2021 | Creative Netwerk | Astoria, NY | $20,000 | To 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… |
| 2021 | Dance Iquail | Philadelphia, PA | $20,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic |
| 2021 | Show Box L.A. | Downey, CA | $20,000 | To support the creation of NOStalgia POP, a new work by Primera Generación Dance Collective. The work will explore the anti-assimilationist pachuco culture in Los Angeles during th… |
| 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 | St. Louis Dance Theatre | Saint Louis, MO | $20,000 | To support the creation and presentation of Black, Brown, and Beige, a new collaborative work of dance, music, and theater. In partnership with Jazz St. Louis and the Black Reperto… |
| 2021 | Dance Camera West | Los Angeles, CA | $16,000 | To support the translation of existing live performance works into a dance films. The project will provide up to 4 choreographers with a production team, equipment and mentor to tr… |
| 2021 | Visions In Rhythm | Austin, TX | $15,000 | To support Tapestry Dance Company's 21st annual Soul to Sole Festival, a national education and performance forum for the art of tap dance. Tapestry Dance Company will invite a wid… |
| 2021 | Monica Bill Barnes & Company | New York, NY | $15,000 | To 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… |
| 2021 | Inta, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Texas International Theatrical Arts Society | Dallas, TX | $15,000 | To support artist fees and travel costs for the presentation of Alonzo King's LINES Ballet. Performances will take place in the Winspear Opera House in the Dallas Arts District and… |
| 2021 | Virginia Arts Festival, Inc. | Norfolk, VA | $15,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Flyaway Productions | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support the creation and production of The Apparatus of Repair by choreographer Jo Kreiter. The work is a public art performance featuring aerial dance that brings focus to the … |
| 2021 | Lubovitch Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | ODC | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support dancer salaries to develop a new dance film based on the stage work Up for Air (Decameron) by choreographers Brenda Way, KT Nelson, Kimi Okada, and Kate Weare. The film … |
| 2021 | Dance Films Association, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | To 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 … |
| 2021 | ODC Theater | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support artist fees and staff costs for the virtual presentation of new works by local choreographers. The online festival will present works by José Navarrete and Debby Kajiyam… |
| 2021 | Robert Moses Kin | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Dance Works, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $15,000 | To support Pentacle's comprehensive management support for the dance community. Activities will include mentoring, administrative support, work sessions on arts administration topi… |
| 2021 | Keshet Dance Company | Albuquerque, NM | $15,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Seattle Theatre Group | Seattle, WA | $15,000 | To support staff salaries and artist fees for the presentation of work by dance company A.I.M. (Abraham in Motion). The company, led by Artistic Director Kyle Abraham, will extend … |
| 2021 | Joint Forces Dance Company | Eugene, OR | $15,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Project Bandaloop | Oakland, CA | $15,000 | To support the second phase of development of a new vertical dance work in collaboration with musician Daniel Bernard Roumain. During this phase, the artists will work together to … |
| 2021 | Art Spark Texas | Austin, TX | $15,000 | To support planning for a dance education conference focused on integrated dance pedagogy and practice. Conference planning will include consultations with dance educators, artisti… |
| 2021 | Movement Research, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | To 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… |
| 2021 | Dance Now! Ensemble | Miami Beach, FL | $15,000 | To support an artistic exchange between Dance NOW! Miami and the Limón Dance Company. The exchange between the two dance companies will include performances by each company and in … |
| 2021 | Dancical Productions Inc. | Atlanta, GA | $15,000 | To support a production of Women Hold Up Half The Sky, by artistic director Terrie Ajile Axam and performed by Total Dance and Axam Dance Theatre Experience. The work celebrates an… |
| 2021 | Museum of Performance & Design | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support the cataloguing and digitization of original photographs, posters, scores, videos, and documents of dancer/choreographer Anna Halprin. Documents will be posted to the fr… |
| 2021 | Noorani Dance | Menlo Park, CA | $15,000 | To support the creation of Saabit Qadam - Persistence, a work of South Asian dance, music and theater, led by Co-Artistic Directors Farah Yasmeen Shaikh and Vinita Sud Belani. The … |
| 2021 | Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre | Brooklyn, NY | $15,000 | To 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 … |
| 2021 | Leela Institute | West Hills, CA | $15,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Helen Simoneau Danse | Brooklyn, NY | $15,000 | To 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… |
| 2021 | Compania de Danza Siglo XXI | Guaynabo, PR | $15,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Collage Dance Collective, Inc. | Memphis, TN | $15,000 | To support the creation and performance of a new ballet by Artistic Director Kevin Thomas based on the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. Collage Dance Colle… |
| 2021 | Parsons Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $15,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Andanza, Inc. | San Juan, PR | $15,000 | To support a dance and community festival at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC). Held in the winter, the cultural event includes free performances by Andanza and students from i… |
| 2021 | Kulintang Arts | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | To support the development and production of Nursing These Wounds, led by choreographer Alleluia Panis. The large-scale, immersive dance performance and film project will investiga… |
| 2021 | Feath3r Theory Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $15,000 | To support the feath3r theory's creation and presentation of Phantasia. Phantasia!, a design-driven dance-theater performance experience. Comprising video, projection, live and rec… |
| 2021 | Moving Forward: Contemporary Asian American Dance Company | Washington, DC | $15,000 | To support salaries and artist fees for the creation of new dance works by Artistic Director Dana Tai Soon Burgess The works will focus on social justice issues and be inspired by … |
| 2021 | A Better Jamaica, Inc. | Jamaica, NY | $15,000 | To 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. … |
| 2021 | Ko-Thi, Inc. | Milwaukee, WI | $15,000 | To support the expansion of a partnership between Ko-Thi Dance Company and Wisconsin Lutheran College through a series of workshops, master classes, and performances. The partnersh… |
| 2021 | ARTogether | Oakland, CA | $15,000 | To support the creation of a new work by choreographer and director Prumsodun Ok. The work includes Cambodian and Japanese myth, Khmer classical dance, Japanese Buddhist drumming, … |
| 2021 | Dance Spotlight, Inc. | New York, NY | $14,434 | To 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… |
| 2021 | Cuyahoga Community College Foundation | Cleveland, OH | $10,030 | To support virtual performances and residency activities by Ronald K. Brown/Evidence Dance Company, a co-presentation by Tri-C Presents and DANCECleveland. Online residency activit… |
| 2021 | American Tap Dance Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support a virtual version of Tap City, an annual tap dance festival. Activities may include classes, choreography residencies, and performances. |
| 2021 | DOVA, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the Instituto Coreográfico (Choreographic Institute), a choreographic creation and mentorship program. During the institute, a choreographer will be in residence at Ball… |
| 2021 | Center for Performance Research, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | To support professional development and technical assistance services to New York City's experimental dance and performance communities. The services may include access to rehearsa… |
| 2021 | Juilliard School | New York, NY | $10,000 | To 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… |
| 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 | Ballet West | Salt Lake City, UT | $10,000 | To support a partnership with Sundance Institute for choreographers and composers at the Choreographic Festival. The Choreographic Festival hosts national and international ballet … |
| 2021 | Wonderbound | Denver, CO | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of Penny's Dreadful, a new dance work by Artistic Director Garrett Ammon. For this work, Ammon will lean into the sensational gothic tradit… |
| 2021 | American Dance Institute | New York, NY | $10,000 | To 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… |
| 2021 | George Balanchine Foundation, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To 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… |
| 2021 | OhioDance | Columbus, OH | $10,000 | To support the continued expansion and development of the OhioDance Virtual Dance Collection. This interactive website documents, preserves, and historicizes the achievements of pe… |
| 2021 | Madison Project | Santa Monica, CA | $10,000 | To support planning costs for the performance of Odeon by New York-based Ephrat Asherie Dance and accompanying engagement activities at The Broad Stage. Odeon explores themes of mu… |
| 2021 | Big Tree Productions, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To 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… |
| 2021 | Gina Gibney Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To 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,… |
| 2021 | Women in Dance Inc. | Wallingford, CT | $10,000 | To support the Women In Dance Leadership Conference. The conference will engage dance professionals and dance students through a keynote address, speeches, master classes, workshop… |
| 2021 | Capacitor Performance | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support Capacitor XR, an initiative that utilizes sculpture, live dance, gallery presentations, virtual reality animation, and augmented reality experiences. Through augmented r… |
| 2021 | Eisenhower Dance Ensemble | Bloomfield Hills, MI | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Colorado State University | Fort Collins, CO | $10,000 | To support a residency with Urban Bush Women for Colorado State University's dance program and the Fort Collins community. Urban Bush Women will engage university participants and … |
| 2021 | Philadelphia Dance Projects | Philadelphia, PA | $10,000 | To support development and presentation of softly as i leave you, a new work by choreographer Tommie-Waheed Evans. softly as i leave you is a work centered on liberation and being … |
| 2021 | Li Chiao-Ping Dance, Inc. | Oregon, WI | $10,000 | To support artist fees for the creation and touring of the multimedia dance work Here Lies the Truth. The work, exploring fact and fiction, will be choreographed by Li Chiao-Ping i… |
| 2021 | Anne Bluethenthal and Dancers | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Aspen Santa Fe Ballet | Aspen, CO | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Oregon Ballet Theatre | Portland, OR | $10,000 | To support dancer salaries for OBT RAW, a virtual presentation of dance performances. The works to be performed will include dances by George Balanchine, William Forsythe, Nacho Du… |
| 2021 | Lucky Plush Productions | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | St. Catherine University | Saint Paul, MN | $10,000 | To support a residency with Urban Bush Women at The O’Shaughnessy. The residency is designed to galvanize students, staff, faculty, artists, activists, audiences and communities th… |
| 2021 | Body Traffic | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Dances For A Variable Population | New York, NY | $10,000 | To 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… |
| 2021 | Cross Performance, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Cincinnati Ballet Company, Inc. | Cincinnati, OH | $10,000 | To support Cincinnati Ballet's Bold Moves Plus. This performance program will be live streamed and recorded as well as include opportunities to meet the artists participating in th… |
| 2021 | Mixed Bag Productions | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of 7 Excavations, a text-based movement performance choreographed and directed by Sara Shelton Mann. 7 Excavations is a legacy project seek… |
| 2021 | Diavolo Dance Theatre | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, Inc. | Englewood Cliffs, NJ | $10,000 | To support virtual dance presentations celebrating the Lunar New Year. With the help of community partners such as schools, libraries, and arts organizations, the works will be str… |
| 2021 | Dance Parade Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the virtual Dance Parade and Festival. The online festival includes live and pre-recorded dance performances, dance battle competitions, and dance classes. |
| 2021 | Dance Exchange, Inc. | Takoma Park, MD | $10,000 | To support the creation and development of engagement activities for Of Equal Place: Isotopes in Motion, a dance choreographed and directed by Elizabeth Johnson and Keith Thompson.… |
| 2021 | Performing Arts Houston | Houston, TX | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Lula Washington Contemporary Dance Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Zaccho SF | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Foundation for Independent Artists, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Dancing Grounds | New Orleans, LA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of dance films by Dancing Grounds' youth dance company. The company, Dance for Social Change, will premiere these student films online and … |
| 2021 | Chicago Human Rhythm Project | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Performing Arts Center Authority | Fort Lauderdale, FL | $10,000 | To support a multi-day residency by Ronald K. Brown's EVIDENCE: A Dance Company at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. In addition to public performances, the engagement al… |
| 2021 | Festival Dance & Performing Arts Association, Inc. | Moscow, ID | $10,000 | To support the Festival Dance Youthreach Project, an educational program serving rural communities. Touring professional dance companies will present a range of dance genres for gr… |
| 2021 | Threshold Dance Projects, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To 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… |
| 2021 | Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Ananya Dance Theatre | Saint Paul, MN | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Epiphany Dance Theater | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support artist fees for the San Francisco Trolley Dances festival. Held in the fall, annual site-specific, free dance festival features the work of local choreographers along a … |
| 2021 | Dance Saint Louis | Saint Louis, MO | $10,000 | To support the annual Spring to Dance Festival featuring various genres of dance. The festival will present dance companies and artists from around the country at The Big Top perfo… |
| 2021 | cmDance | Denver, CO | $10,000 | To support the Lindy on the Rocks Vintage Dance Festival. The multicultural festival will encompass themed events such as Lindy on the Rocks, a festival featuring the lindy hop, sw… |
| 2021 | Miami Light Project, Inc. | Miami Shores, FL | $10,000 | To support ScreenDance Miami, an annual festival highlighting local and international choreographers and filmmakers who work at the intersection of dance and film. Held during a tw… |
| 2021 | Brownbody | Saint Paul, MN | $10,000 | To support the research and development of Tracing Sacred Steps. Merging modern dance with figure skating, the piece will explore the history and roots of Black social dances. Trac… |
| 2021 | Fictional Artists' Contemporary Theatre/San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and production of Split, by choreographer Charles Slender-White. The work will consider the evolution of the LGBTQ+ identity formation for more than a centu… |
| 2021 | CONTRA-TIEMPO Inc. | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation of a dance film for the production of Azúcar!, by choreographer Ana Maria Alvarez. Using sugar as a metaphor, the work will use salsa, hip-hop, and Afro-Cub… |
| 2021 | Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre | Missoula, MT | $10,000 | To support Ballet Beyond Borders, an international dance festival. The multi-day event will consist of performances, classes, film screenings, and a conference. |
| 2021 | Sarasota Cuban Ballet School, Inc. | Sarasota, FL | $10,000 | To support a dance training program and a performance featuring excerpts from classical ballets and original contemporary works. Following a six-week summer intensive dance trainin… |
| 2021 | City of Akron, Ohio | Akron, OH | $10,000 | To support the presentation of Inlet Dance Theatre and associated community events, as part of the Heinz Poll Summer Dance Festival. The performances and engagement activities will… |
| 2021 | Invertigo Dance Theatre | Culver City, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and development of The Dream Eaters by Artistic Director Laura Karlin and related community engagement activities. The work is an intergenerational dance th… |
| 2021 | Choregus Productions | Tulsa, OK | $10,000 | To support the Summer Heat International Dance Festival. The festival will include dance performances, educational programming, and community activities. |
| 2021 | Saint Louis Ballet Company | Chesterfield, MO | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | The Cowles Center | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | To support MERGE, a performance and engagement project providing development resources for pairs of choreographers and companies to collaborate on new dance works. The Cowles Cente… |
| 2021 | Dancessence, Inc. | Santa Monica, CA | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Children's Home Society of New Jersey | Trenton, NJ | $10,000 | To support the Trenton Education Dance Institute's music and dance education program. TEDI teachers will instruct elementary, middle, and high school students in live music and dan… |
| 2021 | transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | To support CREATE, an intensive dance program for students. Students will participate in dance technique classes, choreography rehearsals, and a leadership workshop series which wi… |
| 2021 | Bridge Live Arts | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of Ensemble for Non-Linear Time by visual artist Ranu Mukherjee and choreographer Hope Mohr. The work will consist of a video installation … |
| 2021 | Broadway Dance Lab | New York, NY | $10,000 | To 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… |
| 2021 | Gallim Dance Company, Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | To 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… |
| 2021 | Towson University | Towson, MD | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Cape Fear Community College | Wilmington, NC | $10,000 | To support a production and community dance residency with Invertigo Dance Theatre at the Wilson Center. The company will perform "Formulae and Fairy Tales," a repertory piece abou… |
| 2021 | Oberlin College | Oberlin, OH | $10,000 | To support artist talks, panel discussions, intensive workshops, performances and reconstructions of seminal works as part the Critical Mass: CI @ 50 conference. Organized by Oberl… |
| 2021 | Dance Continuum, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support the development of performance-installations for neurodiverse and neurotypical audiences, by choreographer Susan Marshall. Susan Marshall & Company will develop a new wo… |
| 2021 | Garrett Moulton Productions | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation and presentation of a dance performance by choreographers Janice Garrett and Charles Moulton. |
| 2021 | Atlanta Chinese Dance Company | Peachtree Corners, GA | $10,000 | To support a production of Together by Co-Artistic Director Kerry Lee and choreographer AJ Paug, and related community activities. The production will showcase a collection of folk… |
| 2021 | Jazzantiqua Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support the LEGACY Jazz Project, a free, community jazz dance training program for teens in Los Angeles. Designed to explore the roots and continuum of the jazz dance tradition,… |
| 2021 | New Dialect | Nashville, TN | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Brooklyn Ballet, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | To support a production of "The Brooklyn Nutcracker." The performance includes multicultural dance styles and technology by infusing the well-known holiday production with authenti… |
| 2021 | Amy Seiwert's Imagery | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support "Stronger in the Broken Places," a dance film choreographed by Amy Seiwert. The film will explore re-forming identity when outside influences fracture one's sense of sel… |
| 2021 | Thin Man Dance, Inc. | New York, NY | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Ririe-Woodbury Dance Foundation | Salt Lake City, UT | $10,000 | To support the touring of a new dance created by Culture Mill co-directors Murielle Elizéon and Tommy Noonan and performed by the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company. Performances will be… |
| 2021 | Allison Orr Dance Inc. | Austin, TX | $10,000 | To support a public screening and panel discussion as part of the On the Job Live series of creative conversations with essential workers of Austin, Texas. Forklift Danceworks will… |
| 2021 | Dancers' Group | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | To support In Dance, a free online quarterly publication that promotes dance artists and activities in the San Francisco Bay Area. The publication gives readers in-depth informatio… |
| 2021 | Repertory Dance Theatre | Salt Lake City, UT | $10,000 | To support the re-staging and presentation of Six Songs from Ellis, an exploration of first-person immigration stories by choreographer Marsha Knight. A multi-genre production anch… |
| 2021 | Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts | Beverly Hills, CA | $10,000 | To support general operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | MashUp Contemporary Dance Company | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | To support the creation of a dance film that explores the racial tensions within the feminist movement as part of the company's National Women's Equality Day celebration. The proje… |
| 2021 | Katha Dance Theatre | Crystal, MN | $10,000 | To support the development of "PANCHATANTRA," a new dance work celebrating the company's anniversary. Based on an ancient Asian-Indian collection of animal fables, the work will fe… |
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