2006 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence

[ August 15, 2005 deadline ]

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

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

Dance

All For One Foundation (on behalf of Lula Elzy New Orleans Dance Theatre)
New Orleans, LA
$10,000
To support the restaging of the Nutcracker Swing. The work will be accompanied by the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra.

American Tap Dance Foundation, Inc. (aka ATDF)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the sixth annual New York City Tap Festival. The project will include performances, master classes, tap workshops, panel discussions, and film seminars.

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

Ballet Arizona
Phoenix, AZ
$10,000
To support free dance performances in local parks in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Ballet Under the Stars will perform in Kiwanis Park,Tempe, AZ; Red Mountain, Mesa; Historic Sahuaro Ranch, Glendale; Steele Indian Park, Phoenix; Anthem, North Phoenix; and Estrella Mountain Park,West Valley of Phoenix.

Ballet Tech Foundation, Inc. (aka Ballet Tech)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a tuition-free ballet training program serving New York City public school children. The program provides pre-professional arts training, including an integrated public academic education and a student performance.

Ballet Works, Inc. (aka James Sewell Ballet)
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the presentation of full-length evening performances, student matinee performances, and master classes in Rochester and St. Cloud, Minnesota. The Rochester performance will take place at the Mayo Civic Center Presentation Hall, and the St. Cloud performance will take place at the Benedicta Arts Center.

Batoto Yetu, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of Life of Nzinga by Artistic Director Julio Leitao. The work will be created for youth accompanied by percussionists and puppets.

Caribbean Dance Company (aka CDC)
St. Croix, VI
$15,000
To support the Caribbean Dance Axis. The project will include performances and post-performance discussions.

Chinese Cultural Productions (aka Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support performances and residency activities. The Lost of the Red-Tasseled Spear, created by choreographer Lily Cai and composer Gang Situ, will be performed in Los Angeles, Seattle, Minneapolis, Boston, and Houston.

College of Saint Benedict
St. Joseph, MN
$10,000
To support the presentation of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in a week-long residency. The company will perform Views On Stage, Cunningham's first collaboration with sculptor Ernesto Neto, and offer education and outreach activities for students and adults.

Dallas Black Dance Theatre
Dallas, TX
$20,000
To support the presentation of performances during the company's 30th anniversary. The project will include the Majestic Theatre Home Series, a ballet choreographed by Allyne Gartrell to an original score created by Jonathan Baily Holland and performed by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra; new works by Dianne McIntyre and Ben Stevenson; and residencies in five cities.

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

Dance Exchange, Inc. (aka Liz Lerman Dance Exchange)
Takoma Park, MD
$10,000
To support a project that uses the Internet to disseminate information on choreographing dances based on the international human rights movement. A conference and institute will launch the project.

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 outreach activities.

Dance Notation Bureau, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the addition of new dance scores to an archive of notated dances. The scores will be documented using Labanotation, a method of recording dance movement.

Dance Space Center, Inc. (aka Dance New Amsterdam, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Artist in Residence Program. The program offers emerging choreographers the opportunity to create and perform work, as well as public classes, workshops, lecture demonstrations, informal showings, and a concert in Dance New Amsterdam's facility in lower Manhattan.

Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc. (aka DTH)
New York, NY
$40,000
To support an educational and community outreach initiative that exposes children and adults to dance. Dancing Through Barriers will include lecture-demonstrations, video assemblies, master classes, workshops, dress rehearsals, open rehearsals, performances, and teacher professional development workshops in cities across the United States.

Dance/USA (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$40,000
To support a consortium project for the participation of the United States delegation at the International Tanzmesse 2006 in Dusseldorf, Germany. Dance/USA will partner with Pentacle, Inc. to develop programs and coordinate the participation of artists and arts administrators at the conference, which was conceived to facilitate exchange among international dance artists.

Dancers' Group (on behalf of Epiphany Productions)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of site-specific dances along one of San Francisco's trolley lines. The third 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.

Dancing in the Street, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a series of dance programs in public parks in New York City neighborhoods. In collaboration with City Parks Foundation and three Red Hook organizations, Dancing in CityParks will feature Tamango, Ballet Hispanico, and Step Afrika! in Coffey Park, located in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Dayton Ballet Association (aka Dayton Ballet)
Dayton, OH
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a ballet by choreographer Alan Hineline. The work will be performed during the company's winter repertory program.

Dimensions Dance Theater, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$10,000
To support a free dance program for children and young adults. Rites of Passage, taught by professional dancers, provides dance education and training in a variety of styles.

Eugene Ballet
Eugene, OR
$10,000
To support regional dance touring in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. The tour will consist of performance and outreach programs in rural communities.

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

Florida Arts, Inc.
Fort Myers, FL
$10,000
To support the Florida Arts Dance Festival. The festival will include the presentation of choreographer Robert Battle and his company Battleworks, and a series of workshops for dance students and for youth and adults from the community.

Frequent Flyers Productions, Inc.
Boulder, CO
$10,000
To support the annual Aerial Dance Festival. The project will include classes, workshops, and performances.

GroundWorks Dancetheater
Cleveland Hts, OH
$10,000
To support educational outreach activities and guest artist residencies. The project will include workshops at schools for students in grades three to eight, performances, master classes, and the creation of new works by guest artists.

H.T. Dance Company, Inc. (aka H.T. Chen & Dancers)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a performance and an educational program. The company will present Heart of Grace, a work that brings the traditional lion dance into a contemporary context, and the student program Heart of the Lion.

Infinity Dance Theater Company, Ltd.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a national workshop series that offers instruction in modern dance technique for dancers with disabilities. Workshops will be conducted in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Maryland, West Virginia, and Ohio.

International Tap Association (aka ITA)
Boulder, CO
$10,000
To support a publication and Web site development project. The project will include the publication of interviews and articles on the American art of tap in the magazine On Tap, and in two monographs.

Li Chiao-Ping Dance, Inc.
Oregon, WI
$10,000
To support the tour of Laughing Bodies/Dancing Minds, choreographed by Li Chiao-Ping. Workshops, master classes, lecture-demonstrations, and performances will take place in Wisconsin, California, Iowa, Ohio, New York, and Canada.

Lone Star Ballet, Inc.
Amarillo, TX
$10,000
To support educational and community outreach for the Nutcracker.

Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc.
New York, NY
$80,000
To support the programs Graham: Lost and Found and Graham and the Classic Greek Theater. These programs will be launched in celebration of the company's 80th anniversary.

Miami City Ballet, Inc.
Miami Beach, FL
$30,000
To support the presentation and company premiere of Divertimento by choreographer George Balanchine. The work will be performed in Broward, Collier, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach counties.

Miami Hispanic Ballet Corp.
Miami, FL
$10,000
To support the XI International Ballet Festival of Miami. The festival includes ballet performances, open rehearsals, workshops, master classes, a lecture, and a dance film series.

MoveSpeakSpin (aka Dr. Schaffer & Mr. Stern Dance Ensemble)
Santa Cruz, CA
$10,000
To support a residency in Puerto Rico. The residency will include workshops for teachers, educators, and dancers on how to integrate dance and mathematics into the classroom; workshops for students in grades K-8; and a final performance.

Moving People Dance Theatre, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$10,000
To support the Santa Fe Dance Festival. The project will include performances and dance training.

Najwa (aka Najwa Dance Corps)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support Cultural Empowerment Through Dance. The project will offer classes, workshops, lecture-demonstrations, and performances in African dance and drums to youth and adults.

Nevada Ballet Theatre, Inc.
Las Vegas, NV
$10,000
To support the presentation of Val Caniparoli's Lambarena. The project will include educational and outreach activities.

New York Baroque Dance Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Monteverdi to Mozart Project, Part I. The project will document and preserve master works from the baroque and classical periods.

Orlando Ballet, Inc.
Orlando, FL
$10,000
To support performances of The Nutcracker at the Tampa Performing Arts Center. Local dance students will participate in the production.

Pat Graney Performance, Inc. (aka Pat Graney Company)
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support the creation of a book, Keeping the Faith: The Prison Project, by Pat Graney. The book will document 10 years of artistic programming in a United States women's prison and will include writings, photographs, and a CD-ROM.

Princeton Ballet Society (aka American Repertory Ballet) (Consortium)
New Brunswick, NJ
$10,000
To support a consortium project to present a series of performances, an exhibition, and an education and outreach program. American Repertory Ballet will partner with the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University to present A World of Dance: Russian Costume and Stage Design.

Professional Flair, Inc. (aka Dancing Wheels)
Cleveland, OH
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of new works by choreographers Nai-Ni Chen and Dianne McIntyre as part of the Guest Choreographer's Project. The works will be created for dancers with and without disabilities.

Repertory Dance Theatre (aka RDT)
Salt Lake City, UT
$15,000
To support an outreach and education program, "D" is for Dance. The project, targeted to Spanish speaking communities, will involve translating the narration, developing the curriculum, and touring the program across Utah and to other states.

Rhapsody In Taps, Inc.
Long Beach, CA
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of works as part of the company's 25th anniversary. The project will include a tribute to Gregory Hines, creation of a new work by Artistic Director Linda Sohl-Ellison, and outreach activities.

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

Ririe-Woodbury Dance Foundation
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, children's concerts, and performances.

Robert L. Reed Tap Heritage Institute
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
To support the 15th annual St. Louis Tap Festival. The festival features nationally and internationally acclaimed tap artists from around the United States in performances and residency activities.

Rockford Dance Company (Consortium)
Rockford, IL
$10,000
To support a consortium project to present Rockford Arts Link Learning for Youth. The project is a collaboration between the Rockford Dance Company, the Rockford Symphony Orchestra, and the Rockford Art Museum, and will offer multidisciplinary, comprehensive arts experiences for third-grade students in Rockford Public Schools.

San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
To support phase two of a project to preserve the archives of West Coast dance artists Tandy Beal, Chitresh Das, Anna Halprin, and Michael Smuin. The Dance Icons of the West project will provide scholars and the community with four comprehensive collections of print and video materials.

Sokolow Theatre Dance Ensemble, Ltd.
New York, NY
$5,000
To support the reconstruction and video documentation of Magritte, Magritte, choreographed by Anna Sokolow in 1970. The work will be added to the video collection of Anna Sokolow's work at the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts.

Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support WASH: Working with Artists, Sharing the Healing. The project includes a symposium at the Barbara Barker Center for Dance, Caring for the Caregiver movement/expression workshops, and Satellite Events, which will include artistic collaborations by participants and be presented throughout the community.

Tigertail Productions, Inc. (Consortium)
Miami, FL
$10,000
To support a consortium project for a series of performances, workshops, panels, and symposia exploring and promoting dance for people with disabilities. DanceAble VII will take place in collaboration with the Florida Dance Association.

Troika Ranch, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support the presentation of a dance and digital media project and the creation of a new work. The project will include performances, media workshops, symposia, and research residencies in California, Nebraska, and New York.

Tulane University (aka Adminstrators of the Tulane Educational Fund)
New Orleans, LA
$15,000
To support the New Orleans Heritage Dance Festival. The festival will include dance classes, lectures, and performances celebrating Afro-based dance traditions in North and South American and Caribbean cultures.

University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
$10,000
To support the second phase of the documentary film Movement (R)evolution: Contemporary Dance In and Out of Africa. The project will involve disemminating the documentary to film festivals, art museums, and universities; designing and duplicating a DVD; and creating a curriculum for presenters, schools, and universities.

Velocity Dance Center
Seattle, WA
$5,000
To support the 10th anniversary of a summer dance festival, the Strictly Seattle Dance Intensive, which offers instruction by Seattle artists.

Washington Ballet
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a full-length work by Artistic Director Septime Webre. The Latino Dance Project will combine traditional Latino dance and classical ballet to celebrate Latino culture.

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