2008 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence

[ August 13, 2007 deadline ]

Dance | Design | Folk & Traditional Arts | Literature | Local Arts Agencies
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Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

Dance

Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc. (aka Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support AileyCamp New York, a summer program that includes dance training, creative writing instruction, and personal development and communication workshops. The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater program, in partnership with the Children's Aid Society, will take place in Washington Heights and Staten Island.

American Tap Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the eighth annual New York City Tap Festival. The project will include classes, performances, panel discussions, and film presentations.

Arts Resources in Collaboration, Inc. (aka ARC)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the digitization of Eye on Dance, an educational series of videotaped interviews with dancers and choreographers. The digitized sessions will be distributed nationally to libraries and universities, and broadcast on New York City PBS and cable stations.

Ballet Arizona
Phoenix, AZ
$20,000
To support free ballet performances in local parks in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Ballet Under the Stars will be performed in Sahuaro Ranch Park, Glendale; Tempe Center for the Arts Amphitheatre, Tempe; Estrella Mountain Ranch Park, Goodyear; Fountain Park, Fountain Hills; Red Mountain Park, Mesa; and Steele Indian School Park, Phoenix.

Ballet Tech Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support a tuition-free ballet training program for New York City public school children. The program, founded by choreographer Eliot Feld, provides pre-professional arts training, including an integrated public academic education and a student performance troupe.

Ballet Works, Inc. (aka James Sewell Ballet)
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the presentation of performances in Fergus Falls and Rochester, Minnesota. The James Sewell Ballet will also offer free matinee performances for students, workshops, and related residency activities.

Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet
Carlisle, PA
$10,000
The support the presentation of the DiscoverDance Program. The program introduces at-risk children in first and second grades to dance.

Colorado Ballet Company
Denver, CO
$15,000
To support the creation and presentation of a touring school dance show. The show will include multimedia elements, dance exercise for students, and performances by Colorado Ballet's Studio Company.

Dance Camera West
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support the presentation of the 2009 Dance Camera West Film Festival. The project will present a series of screenings from around the world at various venues in Los Angeles.

Dance Films Association, Inc. (aka DFA)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the national tour of the Dance on Camera Festival. The festival will include domestic and international films and related educational outreach activities.

Dance Heritage Coalition, Inc.
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support the continuation of the establishment of Dance Heritage Preservation hubs to transfer analogue dance videotapes to digital formats for preservation purposes. The project will involve staff training and digitization of 200 hours of videotape at the first hub site, Ohio State University.

Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support educational and community outreach initiatives that expose children and adults to dance. Dancing Through Barriers will include lecture-demonstrations, video assemblies, special student performances, master classes, dress rehearsals, and various workshops conducted in New York City and around the country.

Dance Theatre Workshop, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the launch of a pilot program to support choreographers experimenting with media during a research residency. In collaboration with the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University in Tallahassee, artists will be in residence for one to two weeks, followed by a one-week premiere of their work at Dance Theater Workshop.

Dance/USA (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$51,000
To support the fourth U.S. delegation of artists, presenters, and managers at the Internationale Tanzmesse, in Düsseldorf, Germany. The project, in collaboration with Dancers Group, will provide opportunities for American dance artists and companies to perform, teach, and collaborate in Europe and around the world.

Dancing in the Street, Inc. (aka Dancing in the Streets)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the second annual Hip-Hop Generation Next. The full-day block party at Coffey Park in Red Hook, Brooklyn, will feature a variety of hip-hop artists.

Dayton Contemporary Dance Guild, In. (aka Dayton Contemporary Dance Company)
Dayton, OH
$25,000
To support the restaging of significant works of choreography as part of the company's 40th anniversary program, titled Engraving Our Legacy. Choreographers whose works will be restaged include Donald McKayle and Doug Varone.

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. I Am Deeply Rooted focuses on mentoring ensemble members alongside the professional company for eight months per year, while providing low-cost programming for Chicago-based youth for the remaining four months of the year.

Dimensions Dance Theater, Inc.
OAKLAND, CA
$15,000
To support a free dance program for children and young adults. Rites of Passage will provide a variety of African and African-derived dance and music styles as well as performance opportunities.

E. Monte Motion, Inc. (aka Elisa Monte Dance)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the revival of Feu Follet and Audentity, choreographed by Artistic Director Elisa Monte. The works will be presented on tour across the United States and overseas.

Epiphany Productions Sonic Dance Theater
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of site-specific dances along one of San Francisco's trolley lines. The fifth annual San Francisco Trolley Dances will bring together the local dance community and the San Francisco Municipal Railway (MUNI) for two weekends of free performances.

Eugene Ballet
EUGENE, OR
$20,000
To support regional dance touring and outreach activities in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana. The company will present repertory pieces, as well as the education programs Children of the Raven and The American Dance Sampler.

Festival Dance & Performing Arts Association, Inc.
Moscow, ID
$9,000
To support the Festival Dance Youthreach Programs. Touring professional companies will provide free performances and master classes to students in north central Idaho and eastern Washington.

Garth Fagan Dance, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$25,000
To support the preservation of choreographer Garth Fagan's work, which spans 37 years. The company will disseminate, digitize, and preserve its collection of performance videos, programs, press clippings, and other pertinent materials.

Geneva Concerts, Inc.
Geneva, NY
$10,000
To support a residency by the Taylor 2 Company in Geneva, New York. The three-week residency will include outreach activities for youth and young adults at 11 designated sites in rural and underserved areas surrounding Geneva, and will culminate with a performance by the Paul Taylor Dance Company.

Gotham Arts Exchange, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the presentation of emerging choreographers at Dance Theater Workshop. The project will include an extensive mentoring component, where artists work with arts professionals in general administration, development and marketing, touring, and production.

GroundWorks Dancetheater
Cleveland, OH
$10,000
To support the expansion of educational outreach activities for youth and children, and creative residencies by guest choreographers. The educational programming is offered for students between grades three and eight, and will be offered to schools in proximity to the company's performance locations.

H.T. Dance Company, Inc. (aka H.T. Chen & Dancers)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the creation of a new education program. The fully staged program will incorporate dance, music, and video projections.

Henry Street Settlement
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the RE:MOVE dance series, a new performance initiative aimed to bring together the community of the Lower East Side in Manhattan. The series will consist of 23 live modern dance performances at the Abrons Art Center in New York City.

House Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a pilot educational program at New York's LaGuardia High School to convey the work and philosophy of Artistic Director Meredith Monk. The program will include Monk's work in movement, voice, film/video, and interdisciplinary performance.

International Tap Association
Boulder, CO
$15,000
To support Tap Access, a project that will include Web site upgrading, archive digitization, and production of a publication. The project will document and preserve the heritage of the American art form of tap, while providing information resources to ensure tap's future.

Jazz Tap Ensemble Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support the creation and presentation of a tap dance involving storytelling, choreographed by Artistic Director Lynn Dally. The work will premiere at the Joyce Theater in New York.

Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support Evening Stars, an outdoor dance festival that takes place in Lower Manhattan's Battery Park. The project, in partnership with the Alliance for Downtown New York, will feature several dance companies.

Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey, Inc. (Consortium)
Kansas City, MO
$10,000
To support a residency with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater celebrating Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey's 25th anniversary. The project, in partnership with the YWCA of Greater Kansas City, will include public and school performances and community outreach programs.

Ko-Thi, Inc. (aka Ko-Thi Dance Company)
Milwaukee, WI
$20,000
To support the presentation of Ko-Thi's education programs, Ton Ko-Thi and DrumTalk. The programs offer African dance and music classes to students throughout Wisconsin.

LINES Contemporary Ballet (aka LINES Ballet)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Artistic Director Alonzo King. The work will be created in collaboration with electronic music composer Leslie Stuck.

Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc. (aka Martha Graham Dance Company)
New York, NY
$100,000
To support final rehearsals and presentation of Clytemnestra, Martha Graham's only full-length work. The work will premiere at New York University's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts and then tour across the United States.

Mixed Bag Productions (aka Contraband)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support Tribes of the Familial, a new dance work by Contraband choreographer/director Sara Shelton Mann. The project will focus on exploring the cultural roots of different artists, and how they chose their art forms.

Muntu Dance Theatre
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the Dancing Thru Decades initiative. The project will use dance and music to explore the cultural, social, political, and economic trends within the North Lawndale and Douglas communities in Chicago.

Music and Arts Center for Humanity, Inc.
Bridgeport, CT
$10,000
To support The Music and Arts Center for Humanity Ailey Camp. Students will learn modern, jazz, tap, and African dance, and take classes in creative communication and personal development.

National Institute of Flamenco (aka Conservatory of Flamenco Arts)
Albuquerque, NM
$10,000
To support the presentation of dance companies that are part of the Conservatory of Flamenco Arts. The Ninos and Alma companies and Yjastros, the American Flamenco Repertory Company, will perform in Albuquerque, on tour, and at the Festival Flamenco Internacional.

Nikolais/Louis Foundation for Dance
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the presentation, preservation, and documentation of Tower, choreographed by Alwin Nikolais. The dance will be mounted on the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company.

Odyssey Dance Theatre
Salt Lake City, UT
$10,000
To support the annual Shut Up & Dance spring repertory season at Kingsbury Hall in Salt Lake City. Choreographer Mia Michaels will create an original dance work for the company titled Higher Ground, to the music of Stevie Wonder.

Orlando Ballet, Inc.
Orlando, FL
$20,000
To support the presentation of performances at the Tampa Performing Arts Center. Orlando Ballet will present a Balanchine program, The Nutcracker, and Fireworks, a repertory program.

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
To support the Summer Performance Series, featuring free performances in non-traditional settings. The company will perform as part of Allegheny County's Summer Concert series and Cranberry Township's Concert Series.

Repertory Dance Theatre (aka RDT)
Salt Lake City, UT
$20,000
To support the reconstruction, notation, and performance of Castor and Pollux, choreographed by Elizabeth Waters. The work is choreographed to music by Harry Partch, and will incorporate originally designed percussion instruments by Partch with live musicians on stage.

Rhapsody In Taps, Inc.
Long Beach, CA
$15,000
To support the creation and presentation of Mambo Musings, by choreographer and Artistic Director Linda Sohl-Ellison, and the creation of a work that is a tribute to the late Los Angeles tap master Foster Johnson. The works will be performed at the Aratani Japan America Theatre.

Ringside Inc. (aka STREB)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
To support PUBLIC/ACTION, an audience development and access program. The project will support residency and outreach programs for PUBLIC/ACTION NEW YORK and PUBLIC/ACTION ON TOUR.

Ririe-Woodbury Dance Foundation (aka Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company)
Salt Lake City, UT
$20,000
To support dance residency activities in communities across the United States. The project will include lecture-demonstrations, creative movement classes, teacher workshops, open rehearsals, master classes, parent/child workshops, lectures, and performances.

San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
To support Preserving the Dance Iconography of the West Before the Digital Era. A project that will preserve the early history of dance in the West, 400 images dating from 1850 representing the wealth of dance history in the West will be preserved.

Sokolow Theatre Dance Ensemble, Ltd
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the reconstruction, performance, and preservation of Anna Sokolow's work Dreams, created in 1961. The work will be part of the celebration of Anna Sokolow's 100th birthday (1910-2000) in 2010, which will include activities scheduled at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, the Holocaust Museum in Cincinnati, and during a tour in Italy.

Solomons Company/Dance, Inc. (aka PARADIGM)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographers Dwight Rhoden and Jonah Bokaer for the dance ensemble PARADIGM. The work will premiere at Dance Theater Workshop in New York City.

Tigertail Productions, Inc. (Consortium)
Miami, FL
$10,000
To support a series of performances, workshops, panels, and film screenings exploring and promoting dance for people with disabilities. DanceAble IX will take place in collaboration with Shake-A-Leg Miami, an organization that fosters lifelong independence and quality of life for individuals with disabilities.

Tulane University (aka Adminstrators of the Tulane Educational Fund)
New Orleans, LA
$15,000
To support the 13th annual New Orleans Heritage Dance Festival. The festival will include dance classes, lectures, and performances celebrating the Afro-based drum and dance traditions of the Caribbean and the Americas.

UBW, Inc. (aka Urban Bush Women)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
To support educational activities of the Urban Bush Women dance company for youth, artists, educators, and the general public. The programs will include Builders, Organizers, and Leaders through Dance (BOLD); the annual Summer Institute, Community Building for Change; and activities related to the company's international collaboration with Compagnie JANT-BI of Senegal.

Velocity Dance Center
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support the presentation of the Strictly Seattle Summer Dance Intensive. The project will provide dance education for dancers across the West Coast region, the nation, and the world.

Verb Ballets
Cleveland, OH
$10,000
To support The All Ohio Dance project, an exchange and creation of new works by three Ohio dance companies. Companies participating in the project include Verb Ballets, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, and BalletMet.

Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
$10,000
To support the Antares Residency Project, a four-week teaching residency with Mexican choreographer Miguel Mancillas. Mancillas's company, Antares Danza Contemporanea, will perform at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) during the final week of the residency.

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