Dance: FY 2009 Grants

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

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American Masterpieces: Dance

American Tap Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the reconstruction of two dance masterworks by choreographer Brenda Bufalino. The works include Buff Loves Basie Blues (1991) and Haitian Fight Song (1988).

Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc. (aka American Ballet Theatre)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the presentation of choreographer Jerome Robbins' work Interplay by American Ballet Theatre II (ABT II), the junior company of American Ballet Theatre. The work will be performed across the United States, with accompanying educational and outreach activities.

Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago)
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the restaging and presentation of choreographer Mark Morris's Marble Halls on the Dance Center's students. In addition to a performance, there will be technique classes and lectures.

Connecticut College
New London, CT
$15,000
To support the reconstruction and presentation of choreographer Laura Dean's Skylight (1982) on Connecticut College dance students. The project will also include workshops, lectures, and informal performances for schoolchildren and adults.

Cunningham Dance Foundation, Inc. (aka Merce Cunningham Dance Company)
New York, NY
$60,000
To support the reconstruction of Squaregame, choreographed by Merce Cunningham in 1976. Squaregame features music by Takehisa Kosugi and decor by Mark Lancaster.

Dance Saint Louis
St. Louis, MO
$30,000
To support the presentation of the Spring to Dance Festival, featuring works by dance companies of the Midwest region and beyond. The festival will take place at the Touhill Performing Arts Center on the University of Missouri's St. Louis campus.

Dance Theatre Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the presentation of Season of Returns, a project highlighting works by choreographers Anna Halprin, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, and Donna Uchizono. Each presentation will include pre- and post-performance discussions and lobby talks, which are in-depth discourse on contemporary issues in dance and performance organized around specific themes.

Daniel Phoenix Singh & Company (aka Dakshina)
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support the restaging and presentation of Dreams and Rooms, by choreographer Anna Sokolow. The company will tour the works locally and nationally following the residency.

DeSales University
Center Valley, PA
$15,000
To support the restaging and presentation of Tensile Involvement (1953) and Blank on Blank (1987), by choreographer Alwin Nikolais (1910-93). DeSales University dance students will perform this work alongside the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, and offer master classes and lectures for other area college and high school students.

Eisenhower Dance Ensemble
Southfield, MI
$15,000
To support the presentation of choreographer Louis Falco's Escargot. The project will include master classes at several universities, open rehearsals, and post-concert discussions.

Five Colleges, Inc.
Amherst, MA
$15,000
To support the restaging of choreographer Mark Morris's Gloria. The project will involve a collaboration of dance, orchestra, and choral groups of the Five Colleges.

Henry Street Settlement
New York, NY
$40,000
To support NIKOLAIS: A Centennial Celebration, honoring the centennial of modern dance pioneer Alwin Nikolais (1910-93). The project will include restagings of Nikolais's works, all of which were created and originally mounted on Henry Street's stage.

House Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$80,000
To support the completion and digitization of the unfinished documentary Education of the Girlchild, by choreographer, singer, composer, and filmmaker Meredith Monk. The solo in part two of the work will be performed on a national and international tour.

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc. (aka The Pillow)
Becket, MA
$60,000
To support the presentation of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company as part of its 50-year history with Jacob's Pillow and Merce Cunningham's 90th birthday. The celebration will include audience engagement programming and exhibits drawn from materials in the Pillow's archives.

Joe Goode Performance Group
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the reconstruction and presentation of Joe Goode's seminal 1989 work 29 Effeminate Gestures, on a national tour. The solo piece, set to music by Erik Ian Walker, will include related educational activities such as lectures, panel discussions, open rehearsals, and question and answer sessions after performances.

José Limón Dance Foundation (aka Limón Dance Company)
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the revival of choreographer José Limón's seminal masterwork There is a Time, created in 1956. The work was developed with composer Norman Dello Joio, who created the accompanying score, Meditation on Ecclesiastes.

Lamar University
Beaumont, TX
$15,000
To support the restaging and presentation of choreographer Donald McKayle's Games. The work will be set on Lamar University dance students and presented to the university population, area secondary school students, and southeast Texas audiences.

Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc. (aka Martha Graham Dance Company)
New York, NY
$100,000
To support the reconstruction and presentation of Martha Graham's American Document (1938). The ballet was Graham's first theatrical work, her first to use spoken text, and the first to feature a male soloist.

Muntu Dance Theatre
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support the reconstruction and presentation of I've Known Rivers, choreographed by Dr. Pearl Primus in 1944. Project activities will include community engagement activities, an arts education component for K-12 students, master classes, performances, and a student matinee.

Nashville Ballet
Nashville, TN
$50,000
To support the reconstruction and presentation of Lew Christensen's Filling Station (1938). Nashville Ballet will premiere the ballet during its Winter Series at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center.

New Orleans Ballet Association (aka NOBA)
New Orleans, LA
$50,000
To support the presentation of choreographer Alwin Nikolais's (1910-93) work in a comprehensive project. The project will include a residency with the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, a residency by the Nikolais-Louis Foundation for Dance for Tulane University Dance Department students, and a variety of additional outreach and educational programs for the community.

New York City Ballet, Inc.
New York, NY
$150,000
To support the filming, digitizing, and presentation of an entire George Balanchine ballet online. The company will develop an additional online component that may include interviews with leading dancers, conversations with other artists and designers, and material from New York City Ballet's archives.

Nikolais/Louis Foundation for Dance
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the reconstruction of dances from Alwin Nikolais's 1956 ballet Kaleidoscope on the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company. The work will be presented in a showcase performance at Ririe-Woodbury's international summer workshop at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Northwest Vista College
San Antonio, TX
$15,000
To support the presentation of Performing History, Act II: Discovering Cross-border influences in Contemporary Arts, which will focus on reconstructing choreographer Anna Sokolow's Mural. The work will be restaged on Northwest Vista College students, sister colleges of the Alamo Community College District, and the Escuela Nacional de Danza Contemporanea dance company in Mexico.

Pacific Northwest Ballet Association
Seattle, WA
$40,000
To support the restaging, reconstruction of sets and costumes, and presentation of choreographer Ulysses Dove's Serious Pleasures. The piece will be presented in an all Dove performance at the Marion Oliver McCaw Hall in Seattle.

Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc. (aka Paul Taylor Dance Company)
New York, NY
$60,000
To support the reconstruction of Public Domain, created in 1968 by choreographer Paul Taylor. The work will be part of the company's annual performance at New York's City Center and will tour across the United States.

Regents of the University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
$15,000
To support the restaging and presentation of the seminal modern dance work Speeds, choreographed by Jennifer Muller in 1974. The work will be staged on the University of California Santa Barbara Dance Company and will be performed locally as well as on tour regionally, nationally, and internationally.

Repertory Dance Theatre
Salt Lake City, UT
$120,000
To support the presentation of dance works by Japanese American choreographer Michio Ito (1893-1961). The project will include a professional development workshop on the Ito technique and philosophy.

Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
Slippery Rock, PA
$15,000
To support the restaging of choreographer Doug Varone's Of the Earth Far Below (2003) on Slippery Rock dance majors. The project will include master classes and lecture-demonstrations for children and adults.

Southern Utah University
Cedar City, UT
$15,000
To support the restaging of choreographer Alwin Nikolais's Imago (1963)on Southern Utah University dance students. The residency activities will culminate with a final performance at Hunter College in New York City, as part of the Alwin Nikolais Centennial Celebration: Celebrating 100 Years of Nikolais (1910-2010).

Thodos Dance Chicago
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the restaging and touring of masterworks by choreographer Bob Fosse. The works, created in the early 1960s for television, include Cool Hand Luke, Mexican Breakfast, and Tijuana.

Trisha Brown Company, Inc. (aka Trisha Brown Dance Company)
New York, NY
$60,000
To support the reconstruction and touring of Opal Loop/Cloud Installation by choreographer Trisha Brown. First performed in a loft in SoHo, New York, in 1980, the work is a collaboration with Japanese fog artist Fujiko Nakaya.

UBW, Inc. (aka Urban Bush Women)
Brooklyn, NY
$30,000
To support the restaging of works from the Urban Bush Women repertory, by choreographer and Artistic Director Jawolle Willa Jo Zollar. Celebrating the company's 25th anniversary, the restaged works will be grouped into three programs: Zollar: After Hours, Zollar: Sunny Side Up, and Zollar: Rage and Power.

University of Idaho
Moscow, ID
$15,000
To support the restaging and notation of Suite of Three, by choreographer Jean Erdman. The University of Idaho Center for Dance, in conjunction with the Dance Notation Bureau and Jean Erdman interpreter Nancy Allison, will restage Creature on a Journey, Hamadryad, and Passage.

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
$15,000
To support the restaging of Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rehearsal) by choreographer Paul Taylor. The University of Michigan's Dance Department will perform the work with live musical accompaniment as part of its (Re)Visionary Dances concert.

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
To support the reconstruction and restaging of sections of Walking with Pearl...Southern Diaries, by choreographer Jawolle Willa Jo Zollar. The work will be presented by the University for Minnesota dance students as part the dance program, Continuously Rich: Legacies of Black Women Artists in American Concert Dance.

University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, NC
$15,000
To support the reconstruction and presentation of choreographer Martha Graham's Steps in the Street. The project will include a residency by a Martha Graham Dance Company member.

University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Winston-Salem, NC
$15,000
To support the restaging and presentation of Gallery, a dance created by Alwin Nikolais (1910-93), in celebration of Nikolais's 100th birthday. The project will include workshops, master classes, lectures, pre-concert talks on the Nikolais technique, as well as performances of Gallery in North Carolina and in New York at Hunter College as part of the Nikolais Sharing the Legacy Centennial Celebration.

University of the Arts
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
To support the reconstruction and presentation of choreographer Louis Johnson's Forces of Rhythm. Other activities will include open rehearsals, outreach activities, an open lecture and roundtable panel discussion, a question and answer session, and an exhibition of Louis Johnson's memorabilia in the university's gallery.

University of Washington
Seattle, WA
$15,000
To support the staging of choreographer Alwin Nikolais's Pond (1982). The University of Washington's Chamber Dance Company will present Trajectories: A Centennial Celebration of the Heritage and Legacy of Alwin Nikolais, a concert featuring Pond contextualized by choreographers who came before and after Nikolais, including Loie Fuller, Mary Wigman, Oskar Schlemmer, Tandy Beal, and Llory Wilson.

University of Wisconsin at Madison
Madison, WI
$15,000
To support a three-week residency with the Susan Marshall Dance Company to restage sections of Marshall's work Cloudless on University of Wisconsin dance students. The residency will feature master classes, daily rehearsals, and a free public presentation about Susan Marshall's work.

University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI
$15,000
To support the restaging of choreographer Mark Morris's Canonic 3/4 Studies (1982). The premiere of the work will coincide with Masculine/Feminine, a school-wide series focusing on gender and the arts, that will include activities in theater, film, music, visual arts, and dance.

Young Men's & Young Women's Hebrew Association (aka 92nd Street Y)
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the presentation of master choreographers during the 75th anniversary of the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center. The project will consist of the Y's annual Harkness Dance Festival, a special anniversary performance retrospective, and the Sundays at Three performance series.

Number of Grants: 43          Total Amount: $1,500,000

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