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FY 2005 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence

Dance | Design | Folk & Traditional Arts | Literature | Local Arts Agencies
Media Arts | Multidisciplinary | Museums | Music | Musical Theater
Opera | Presenting | Theater | Visual Arts

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

PRESENTING

Aaron Davis Hall, Inc.
New York, NY
$55,000
To support commissioning and programmatic activities for the development of works by artists of color. The second phase of a three-year initiative titled Waterworks will involve performing and multidisciplinary artists.

Arizona State University (on behalf of ASU Public Events)
Tempe, AZ
$30,000
To support the Beyond Broadway Series. Participating artists will include jazz violinist Regina Carter, choreographers Trisha Brown and Bill T. Jones performing world premieres, and composers/musicians Daniel Bernard Romain and Philip Glass.

Asia Society
New York, NY
$40,000
To support a consortium project to commission a multimedia work titled Five Streams. In a collaboration with MassMOCA, director/filmmaker Ibrahim Quraishi, sound artist DJ Spooky, choreographer Paul Shah, and visual artist Shahzia Sikander will create a work that weaves interlocking narratives drawn from three canonical works of Hindu and Indo-Islamic literature.

Brooklyn Academy of Music, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$55,000
To support the annual Next Wave Festival. Now in its 21st year, the festival will feature U.S. artists who have been nurtured by the Brooklyn Academy of Music and will present new works by international artists.

Center for Cultural Exchange
Portland, ME
$20,000
To support a commissioning, production, and touring initiative titled Unintended Consequences. Director Marty Pottenger will create and direct a multimedia performance based on the repercussions of September 11, 2001, on refugee and immigrant communities in Maine.

City Parks Foundation
New York, NY
$20,000
To support New Works, New Voices 2005 for the 20th anniversary of the Central Park Summerstage program. The project will be a continuation of annual presentations of new cross-disciplinary work or debut presentations by emerging, regional, and international artists.

Flynn Theatre for the Performing Arts, Ltd.
Burlington, VT
$55,000
To support the commissioning and presentation of new and existing works. Projects will include a collaboration between choreographer Ron Brown and singer/composer Nnenna Freelon, Big Dance Theatre, choreographer Cathy Weis, and theater companies Mabou Mines and Penumbra Theatre.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$55,000
To support performances and related activities of Lincoln Center Festival 2005. The summer festival will feature traditional and contemporary multidisciplinary works as well as symposia and lectures that inform the presentations.

Miami-Dade Community College
Miami, FL
$40,000
To support the Cultura del Lobo performance series and residency activities focusing on contemporary work. The Cultural Affairs Department at Miami-Dade Community College will produce and present new and culturally specific works with an emphasis on Latin American and Caribbean cultures.

Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, IL
$35,000
To support the development and presentation of new performing arts projects. Projects will include performances, residencies, conferences, an exhibit, discussions, a civics institute, and a Chautauqua Assembly.

On the Boards
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support the New Performance Series. Ancillary activities such as master classes, post-performance question-and-answer sessions, panels, and workshops also are planned.

Performing Arts Chicago
Chicago, IL
$30,000
To support the PAC/edge Performance Festival, a six-week series that includes performances, exhibitions, and educational activities. The festival is designed to explore and celebrate the intersections between theater, dance, creative writing, performance, and the humanities.

Regents of the University of California at Davis
Davis, CA
$35,000
To support New Works Rooted in Old World Traditions. The project will present the reinterpretations of classic and traditional art forms through new contemporary performing arts productions at the Mondavi Center.

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles (on behalf of UCLA Live)
Los Angeles, CA
$30,000
To support the International Theatre Festival. Performances will feature artists and ensembles that extend the boundaries of theater by using unique combinations of media and pioneering new approaches to historic literary and dramatic texts.

San Francisco Performances, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
To support the presentation of chamber music, vocal and instrumental recitals, jazz, and contemporary dance. Related workshops and lectures will help audiences to increase their understanding and enjoyment of the live performances.

Scottsdale Cultural Council (on behalf of Scottsdale Center for the Arts)
Scottsdale, AZ
$25,000
To support the presentation of performing artists whose works reflect or are inspired by compelling social and global issues. The project is designed to connect audiences with the performers and to foster dialogue among the participants on important issues of our time.

Spoleto Festival USA
Charleston, SC
$20,000
To support a series of performances during the 2005 festival season. Spoleto Festival USA will produce and present a range of multidisciplinary work, juxtaposing traditional repertoire with the new, performed by both established and emerging artists.

University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc.
Lawrence, KS
$20,000
To support Conflict and Creativity. The series of performances and community conversations will explore the impact of political and social turmoil on young foreign artists from China, Israel, Ireland, and Cuba.

University of Maryland at College Park (on behalf of Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center)
College Park, MD
$40,000
To support American Sensibilities. Presentations in dance, music, and theater will explore American heroes and mavericks and examine the concepts of conflict and courage.

Walker Art Center, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$55,000
To support New Home for New Work: Connecting Contemporary Performance with Community. Large-scale, commissioned residency projects will support artists in the on-site creation and presentation of new work.

Washington Performing Arts Society (consortium)
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support a consortium project titled the ArteAmericA series. In partnership with GALA Hispanic Theatre, the project will include performances and residencies celebrating Latino cultures throughout the Americas.


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