2009 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence

[ August 11, 2008 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.

Arts Resources in Collaboration, Inc.
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 deposited in the New York Public Library Dance Research Collection.

AXIS Dance Company (Consortium)
Oakland, CA
$20,000
To support a residency with choreographer David Dorfman that features community performers with and without physical disabilities. The project will be implemented in partnership with Dance Place in Washington, DC.

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; Red Mountain Park, Mesa; South Mountain Community College, Phoenix; Fountain Park, Fountain Hills; Tempe Center for the Arts Amphitheatre; and Steele Indian School Park, Phoenix.

Ballet Tech Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support a tuition-free ballet training program. 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
$15,000
To support the presentation of performances in Fergus Falls and Grand Rapids, Minnesota. The James Sewell Ballet will also offer free matinee performances for students, workshops, and related residency activities.

Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company
Union, NJ
$15,000
To support the re-establishment of the annual Summerdance program, a week-long intensive dance experience. The program ensures opportunities for individuals of various ages, socio-economic backgrounds, and abilities to participate in professional dance through classes, workshops, lectures, and performances.

CAVE Organization, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support CAVE's fourth biennial New York Butoh Festival. The festival will celebrate the origins and international evolution of Butoh, a contemporary dance form that emerged in Japan and is now practiced worldwide.

Chinese Cultural Productions (aka Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the tour of Silk Cascade by the Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company. The full-length concert, featuring a trio of dances choreographed by Artistic Director Lily Cai, will tour to five cities with large Chinese populations, including Los Angeles, Seattle, Minneapolis, Boston, and Houston.

CityDance Ensemble, Inc.
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support the restaging and presentation of Dust, created in 1977 by choreographer Paul Taylor. The work will premiere at the Harman Center for the Arts in Washington, DC.

Collage Dance Theatre
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support the creation of A Guide to An Exhibitionist, by choreographer Heidi Duckler. Dancers will work in life-sized frames at an art gallery.

Cunningham Dance Foundation, Inc. (aka Merce Cunningham Dance Company) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the development and expansion of Mondays with Merce. In partnership with New York University, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company will provide public access to Merce Cunningham's creative process through Internet broadcasts, DVD distribution, and live-streamed footage of material from the Merce Cunningham Studio.

D.C. Wheel Productions, Inc. (aka Dance Place)
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support the presentation of dance performances and accompanying residency activities. Touring and local artists selected represent African, step, and contemporary dance forms.

Dance Camera West
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support the presentation of the 2010 Dance Camera West Film Festival. The festival will present a series of screenings of films from around the world at various venues in Los Angeles.

Dance Exchange, Inc. (aka Liz Lerman Dance Exchange)
Takoma Park, MD
$15,000
To support the creation and presentation of Original Tea, an interactive installation choreographed by Artistic Director Liz Lerman. The work will combine dance, media, and conversation.

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 educational outreach activities.

Dance Heritage Coalition, Inc.
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support an upgrade to the Web site. The Dance Heritage Coalition will work with a three-person team, consisting of a Web editor, Web designer, and programmer, to make the Web site more user-friendly, flexible, and consistent with state-of-the-art encoding.

Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support educational and community outreach initiatives that expose children and adults to dance. Dancing Through Barriers will include lecture-demonstrations, special interactive 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
$20,000
To support a media and dance research residency for dance artists. In partnership with the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University in Tallahassee, two artists will be in residence for one to two weeks, followed by a one week premiere of their work at Dance Theater Workshop in New York City.

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

Dayton Contemporary Dance Guild, Inc. (aka Dayton Contemporary Dance Company)
Dayton, OH
$30,000
To support the restaging and tour of choreographer Ulysses Dove's Vespers. The project will include an educational component, which will offer lecture-demonstrations for underserved communities and a study guide for teachers.

Diamano Coura West African Dance Co.
Oakland, CA
$10,000
To support the 15th annual Collage des Cultures Africaines Festival. The community-based festival involves a series of drum, dance, and health and wellness workshops, as well as residencies and performances from Bay Area and international artists.

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

Epiphany Productions Sonic Dance Theater (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of site-specific dances along one of San Francisco's trolley lines. In partnership with Dancers' Group, a Bay Area dance service organization, the sixth annual San Francisco Trolley Dances will bring together the local dance community and the San Francisco Municipal Railway for two weekends of free performances.

Eugene Ballet
Eugene, OR
$20,000
To support regional dance touring and outreach activities in Oregon, Idaho, Washington, and Wyoming. The company will present repertory pieces, with accompanying education programs.

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.

Foundation for Dance Promotion, Inc. (aka Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support a series of events commemorating the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company's 25th anniversary, and the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth. The celebration will include the touring of several new dance works by choreographer Bill T. Jones, as well as series of workshops and collaborative performance opportunities.

Frequent Flyers Productions, Inc.
Boulder, CO
$10,000
To support the 11th annual Aerial Dance Festival. The festival will include classes, workshops, and performances.

Friends of Olympia Station (aka Tandy Beal & Company)
Felton, CA
$15,000
To support the creation and presentation of HereAfterHere: A Self-Guided Tour of Eternity, a new full-length dance work by choreographer Tandy Beal. The work will be interwoven with multi-generational dancers, text, abstract video, and brief video interviews with the public concerning their ideas about death.

Gotham Arts Exchange, Inc. (aka Zia Artists)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the presentation by Zia Artists of emerging choreographers as part of SummerDANZ, a two-week dance festival. The project will include an extensive mentoring component in which artists work with arts professionals to gain skills in general administration, development, marketing, touring, and production.

Hope Stone, Inc.
Houston, TX
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of Village of Waltz, by choreographer and Artistic Director Jane Weiner. The work will be performed to music by pianist Peter Jones, soprano Ana Godfrey, and violinist Sergei Galperin.

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

Jazz Tap Ensemble Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
To support the production of the DVD Jazz Tap Originals, an anthology of tap spanning the years 1979-2009. Produced and directed by Artistic Director Lynn Dally, the DVD will also feature premiere performances of new tap works with live jazz by company members.

Joffrey Ballet
Chicago, IL
$30,000
To support the preservation of 50 years of video material. The video archive contains recordings of performances, rehearsals, and choreographic workshops of ballets by Co-Founders Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino, as well as many other choreographers.

Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. (aka The Joyce Theater) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support Evening Stars, an outdoor dance festival that takes place in parks in Lower Manhattan. 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 for Ailey II as part of the celebration of Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey's 25th anniversary. In partnership with the YWCA of Greater Kansas City, the project will include public and school performances and community outreach programs.

Lula Washington Contemporary Dance Foundation (aka Lula Washington Dance Theatre)
LOS ANGELES, CA
$15,000
To support the commissioning of a new ballet by choreographer Christopher Huggins. The work will be performed at the company's 30th anniversary concert at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles.

Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc. (aka Martha Graham Dance Company)
New York, NY
$100,000
To support the creation of educational, outreach, and alternative performance programs based on political themes in the work of Martha Graham and other choreographers. Political Dance will involve the development of auxiliary programs appropriate to university and community settings.

Miami Hispanic Ballet Corp.
Miami, FL
$10,000
To support the 14th Miami Hispanic Ballet Festival. The festival highlights approximately 120 accomplished artists from more than 25 renowned ballet companies from Europe, Latin America, Asia, the Caribbean, and North America.

Museum of Performance & Design
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
To support Dance Stars of the West, an oral history project for three California dance artists. The artists are Jocelyn Vollmar (ballet), Naesio Paredes (Spanish dance), and Evelyn Cisneros (ballet).

Najwa Dance Corps
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support Cultural Empowerment Through Dance, an educational project that will offer classes, workshops, and lecture-demonstrations in African dance and drumming. The activities will be offered to youths ages 7 to 18 from local elementary schools, after-school programs, and social service agencies.

Natya Dance Theatre
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of an evening-length dance work that brings together bharatanatyam (classical Indian dance), Indian Carnatic music, western jazz, and Japanese taiko drumming. The Flowering Tree will be choreographed by Artistic Director Hema Rajagopalan and will be presented in Chicago venues.

New Life Dance, Inc. (aka PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the presentation of Sara Pearson and Patrick Widrig's Unmoored (Love Letters to New Orleans), a dance work featuring spoken word, video, and New Orleans music. PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER will present the work in a series of one- to two-week performance residencies.

Philadelphia Dance Company (aka Philadanco)
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support the restaging and presentation by Philadanco of dance works by choreographers Talley Beatty and Gene Hill Sagan during the company's 40th anniversary in 2010. The works will be part of a retrospective of African American choreographers and choreographers who have an appreciation for the African American experience in dance.

Pilobolus, Inc.
Washington Depot, CT
$15,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work, tentatively titled In Hot Pursuit. Co-Artistic Director Michael Tracy will collaborate with author and performer Steven Banks to create the work which will eventually tour the United States and abroad.

Professional Flair, Inc. (aka The Dancing Wheels Company & School)
Cleveland, OH
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Donald McKayle for the Dancing Wheels Company & School. The project will also include the development of a complete training manual and DVD of the Dancing Wheels Company technique.

Ragamala Music and Dance Theater (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
To support the completion and presentation of Sva (Vital Force), in collaboration with Wadaiko Ensemble Tokaro, taiko drummers from Nagano, Japan. The project will be implemented in partnership with A Center for the Arts in Fergus Falls, Minnesota.

Rhapsody In Taps, Inc.
Long Beach, CA
$20,000
To support the creation and presentation of Buckets and Frogs (working title) by choreographer Linda Sohl-Ellison and composer/percussionist Monti Ellison. The project will also involve refining the Tribute to Foster Johnson project, which is a tribute to the late Los Angeles tap master.

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
$25,000
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.

Robert L. Reed Tap Heritage Institute
Saint Louis, MO
$10,000
To support the presentation of the 18th annual St. Louis Tap Festival. The festival will include concerts, panel discussions, lectures, archival video showings, and workshops.

School of American Ballet, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the digitization of the Workshop Performance video library to coincide with the school's 75th anniversary. The project will also expand the Oral History Initiative to include interviews with all of the school's current faculty members.

Sokolow Theatre Dance Ensemble, Ltd.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the reconstruction and presentation of the dance work Frida as part of choreographer Anna Sokolow's 100th birthday in 2010. The works will be performed at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, where many of Sokolow's works premiered.

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 X will take place in partnership with the Florida Dance Association, an organization that serves, supports, and promotes the development of dance in Florida.

UBW, Inc. (aka Urban Bush Women)
Brooklyn, NY
$12,000
To support the annual Summer Institute, Community Building for Change, the foundation for the Urban Bush Women's community engagement activities. This 12-day dance intensive is open to adults and youth, and will be held in New Orleans.

Washington Ballet
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support an increase in performances of The Nutcracker for public school children, and upgrading sets of The Nutcracker for the Town Hall Education Arts & Recreation Campus in Anacostia. The Nutcracker will also be used as part of a teaching tool for DanceDC, a community engagement program in public schools that integrates language arts and creative movement.

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