NEA: 2005 GRANT AWARDS: Access to Artistic Excellence II


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2005 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence II

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

DANCE

33 Fainting Spells
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support the creation of dance films. Two films, created by choreographers Gaelen Hanson and Dayna Hanson with director Alan Caudillo, will be submitted to film festivals worldwide.

American Tap Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$11,000
To support the fifth-year anniversary of Tap City, The New York City Tap Festival. The project will include performances, master classes, tap workshops, panel discussions, and film seminars.

Andrew Cacho African Drummers & Dancers Economic Development, Inc.
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support the Youthworks 2005 project. Training will be provided in African/Caribbean drumming, dancing, stilt walking, and masquerades.

Arts Resources in Collaboration, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the digitization of Eye on Dance, an educational series of interviews with artists. The digitized sessions will be distributed nationally to libraries and educational institutions and broadcast on PBS in the New York City tri-state area.

Axis Dance Company
Oakland, CA
$25,000
To support Dance Access & Dance Access/KIDS!, an education/outreach program. The program offers a variety of events for youth, and adults with and without disabilities.

Batoto Yetu, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the presentation of Ngola Nzinga: Birth of Nzinga, choreographed by Artistic Director Julio Leitao. The work will be performed in New York, New Jersey, Colorado, and Kansas, and the project will include post-performance discussions, master classes, and workshops in African dance and drumming.

BodyVox
Portland, OR
$10,000
To support a tour in Oregon. The company will tour A Thousand Little Cities to Eugene, Roseburg, Monmouth, and Astoria, and offer performances, lecture-demonstrations, master classes, and post-performance discussions.

Boston Conservatory
Boston, MA
$10,000
To support the staging of reconstructions of Murray Louis and Martha Graham works by Boston Conservatory Dance Theater students. The Murray Louis works include Schubert Suite, Index, and Four Brubeck Pieces, and the work by Martha Graham is Dark Meadow.

Caribbean Dance Company
St. Croix, VI
$30,000
To support the Caribbean Dance Axis. The project will provide performances and post-performance discussions.

Chicago Human Rhythm Project
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the 15th anniversary of a summer tap festival. The festival will present four weeks of concerts, classes, and public demonstrations.

Chinese Cultural Productions (Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support a tour of traditional Chinese dance and outreach activities. The dance performances will be accompanied by Chinese music and will incorporate contemporary American stagecraft.

Dance Films Association, Inc.
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 Heritage Coalition, Inc.
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support a dance videotape archival project. The project will include the expansion of the National Dance Heritage Videotape Registry, distribution of booklets on videotape best practices and copyright issues, and the reformatting of 75 at-risk videotapes.

Dance Notation Bureau, Inc.
New York, NY
$23,000
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 St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
To support a residency by the José Limón Dance Company. The company will present the work Missa Brevis, which will incorporate local dancers.

Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc.
New York, NY
$90,000
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.

Dancer's 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 historic trolley lines. Trolley Dances will involve the local dance community, the San Francisco Municipal Railway (MUNI), and the inner-city communities of downtown San Francisco.

Dancing in the Streets, 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, Dancing in CityParks will feature Urban Bush Women in Red Hook, Brooklyn; Rennie Harris Puremovement in Queensbridge, Queens; and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in Harlem, Manhattan.

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

Eugene Ballet
Eugene, OR
$20,000
To support regional touring in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana. The tour will consist of performance and outreach programs in rural communities.

Festival Dance & Performing Arts Association, Inc.
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.

Frequent Flyers Productions, Inc.
Boulder, CO
$10,000
To support the Aerial Dance Festival 2005. The project will include classes, workshops, and performances.

Grand Rapids Ballet Company
Grand Rapids, MI
$10,000
To support performances and outreach activities. The company will present The Nutcracker, a lecture-demonstration for school children, and an evening of repertory performances in communities in Michigan.

GroundWorks Dancetheater
Cleveland Hts, OH
$10,000
To support a series of outreach activities. The project will include expansion of an intergenerational project with The Fairhill Center for Aging and The Intergenerational School, and the establishment of an annual workshop residency with the University of Akron Dance Institute.

Highways, Inc.
Santa Monica, CA
$10,000
To support the creation of a dance work with disabled veterans by choreographer Victoria Marks. The work will incorporate video art and documentation of the process by filmmaker Ellen Bromberg.

Idaho Dance Theatre Inc.
Boise, ID
$10,000
To support performances and educational outreach programs in rural communities in Idaho. The company will offer post-performance discussions with the artists, and an interactive school show to elementary school students.

International Tap Association
Boulder, CO
$12,000
To support the publication of interviews and articles that examine the heritage of tap dance. The materials will be published in International Tap Association's magazine, On Tap, and in two monographs designed to capture the legacy of legendary tap artists.

Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a consortium project to present dance in Lower Manhattan's Battery Park. The Joyce Theater will partner with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council to offer a range of dance company performances in the Evening Stars series, which takes place during the River to River Festival.

Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey, Inc. (consortium)
Kansas City, MO
$20,000
To support a consortium project for a residency with Ailey II. Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey will collaborate with Kaw Valley Arts and Humanities to present the company in performances and offer outreach activities to the community.

Ko-Thi, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$20,000
To support the Kuumba Festival, Harvest Concert Series, and a residency by choreographer Ronald K. Brown. Held at the Pabst Theater, the Kuumba Festival and Harvest Concert Series will take place in the spring and fall, respectively.

Lone Star Ballet, Inc.
Amarillo, TX
$10,000
To support performances and outreach activities for school children. The company will present The Nutcracker and offer free performances to school children and people with disabilities.

Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc.
New York, NY
$90,000
To support the revivals of works choreographed by Martha Graham. Letter to the World (1940) and Rite of Spring (1984) will be presented in New York during the company's 80th anniversary.

Miami City Ballet, Inc.
Miami Beach, FL
$30,000
To support the restaging of Dances at a Gathering, choreographed by Jerome Robbins. 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 10th International Ballet Festival of Miami. The festival includes ballet performances, open rehearsals, workshops, master classes, a lecture, and a dance film series.

Najwa
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.

New Dance Theatre, Inc. (Cleo Parker Robinson Dance)
Denver, CO
$25,000
To support a fall concert and a tour during the company's 35th anniversary. The company will perform and tour the works of Alvin Ailey, Chester Whitmore, and Christopher Huggins.

New York Baroque Dance Co. Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the 11th Baroque Ballet Workshop, a residency program to be held in Texas, New York, and California. The project will include classes, lectures, and performances.

Nikolais/Louis Foundation for Dance
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the preservation and presentation of a multimedia work by choreographer Alwin Nikolais. The works will be performed by the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Northern Plains Ballet
Bismarck, ND
$10,000
To support the presentation of a new ballet based on the Lewis and Clark expedition, titled The Encounter. The company will tour the work to other cities along the Lewis and Clark Trail, beginning with Great Falls, Montana.

Philadelphia Dance Company, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support the expansion of outreach activities. The company will offer post-performance question and answer series, lecture-demonstrations, master classes, career conferences, peer-to-peer conferences, teacher workshops, and open rehearsals to underserved youth, schools, and community groups in Philadelphia and while on tour.

Professional Flair, Inc. (consortium)
Cleveland, OH
$20,000
To support a consortium project to tour a national festival of integrated dance. AXIS Dance Company from Oakland, California will collaborate with Dancing Wheels on the planning and implementation of the festival.

Professional Flair, Inc. (Dancing Wheels)
Cleveland, OH
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a full-length work about Helen Keller, a new student piece, and the commissioning of a full-ensemble piece by choreographer Alison Becker Chase. The project will involve dancers and students with, and without, disabilities.

Repertory Dance Theatre
Salt Lake City, UT
$25,000
To support the presentation of 100 Years of Modern Dance. The project will include performances, educational workshops, and residencies in schools and communities across the United States as part of the company's 40th anniversary celebration.

Ringside Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$30,000
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. There will be a variety of activities at each Step Lively residency including lecture-demonstrations, creative movement classes, teacher workshops, open rehearsals, master classes, and parent/child workshops.

San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
To support the documentation and preservation of the dance collections of West Coast artists. These artists include Michael Smuin, Anna Halprin, Tandy Beal, and Chitresh Das.

Santa Fe Festival Ballet, Inc. (Aspen Santa Fe Ballet)
Santa Fe, NM
$10,000
To support the Youth Outreach Series. Activities include a series of performances, lecture-demonstrations, and workshops.

Temple University (consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
To support a consortium project to reconstruct, restage, and document a work by choreographer Talley Beatty. Temple University, in collaboration with Bryn Mawr College, will document Southern Landscapes, which will be performed by Philadanco.

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 VI will take place in collaboration with the Florida Dance Association.

University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
$20,000
To support the completion of the documentary Movement Revolution. The film features contemporary African dance troupes that performed in Tallahassee as part of the 2004 conference Movement Revolutions Dialogues: Contemporary Performance In and Out of Africa.

University of Maryland at College Park
College Park, MD
$15,000
To support the preservation of the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange archives. The archives will be made available to researchers at the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library.

Zaccho SF
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the production and presentation of Invisible Wings. The performance will include traditional dance, song, and storytelling from slave culture combined with theatrical interpretations and modern dance.

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