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FY 2010 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence | Challenge America Fast-Track Grants | Literature Fellowships (Prose)

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

MISSOURI

Better Family Life, Inc.
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Black Dance-USA: A Celebration in Movement. The project will consist of dance workshops, concerts by dance companies, lecture-demonstrations, and video, literature, and video and audio tapings.

Big River Association (aka River Styx)
Saint Louis, MO
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and distribution of River Styx, St. Louis's oldest literary magazine. Contributors are selected from an annual pool of 6,000 submissions.

Coterie, Inc. (aka Coterie Theatre)
Kansas City, MO
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the production of two new musicals in the Lab for New Family Musicals. The Broadway team of Henry Krieger and Bill Russell and their co-bookwriter Jeffrey Hatcher will premiere a Theater For Young Audiences (TYA) version of Lucky Duck, a rock/blues version of the story The Ugly Duckling and composer/writer team, Douglas Parker and Denver Casado will premiere their Mark Twain autobiographical musical, Life on the Mississippi.

Curators of the University of Missouri at Columbia (on behalf of The Missouri Review)
Columbia, MO
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and related expenses for The Missouri Review. Audiobook versions of the journal also will be produced.

Dance Saint Louis
St. Louis, MO
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support presentation of the River North Chicago Dance Company, Aszure Barton & Artists, and Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago. Performances will be presented at the Touhill Performing Arts Center on the University of Missouri-St. Louis campus.

Friends of Chamber Music (aka FCM or The Friends)
Kansas City, MO
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support presentations of chamber music, solo piano, early music, and educational programs. Six concerts and two What Makes It Great? educational programs will be presented.

Jazz St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Jazz St. Louis Artist Residency Program. Jazz performers Jeff, John, and Gerald Clayton (The Clayton Brothers) and the JazzReach organization's Metta Quintet will participate in two separate residencies.

Kansas City Ballet Association
Kansas City, MO
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Toni Pimble, artistic director of the Eugene Ballet. The work will premiere at the Lyric Theatre in Kansas City, and will feature music performed by the Kansas City Symphony.

Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey, Inc. (Consortium)
Kansas City, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a residency by Ailey II. The project, in partnership with the YWCA of Greater Kansas City, will include public and school performances and community outreach programs.

Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Inc. (aka The Rep)
Kansas City, MO
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the world premiere production of Venice, a new hip-hop musical by Eric Rosen and Matt Sax. The piece addresses the complexities of ethnic differences and conflict in the contemporary world, using Shakespeare's Othello as a narrative template.

Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support performances of Verdi's Rigoletto. Education and outreach activities will accompany the performances.

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
St. Louis, MO
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the world premiere of The Golden Ticket, by American composer Peter Ash with libretto by Donald Sturrock. Based on Roald Dahl's novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the opera expects to hold great appeal for children and adults.

ReStart, Inc. (Consortium)
Kansas City, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Arts at reStart for Adults. In partnership with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the multidisciplinary project is designed to provide homeless adults with three levels of weekly art presentations and instruction and subsequent opportunities to exhibit or perform their work.

Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
St. Louis, MO
$33,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Living Composers Series. Performances will take place at Powell Hall in St. Louis and during a California tour and will comprise programs of contemporary composers' works juxtaposed with other masterpieces which demonstrate thematic or compositional links in the music or between composers.

St. Louis Classical Guitar Society
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support student performances by the Venere Lute Quartet and the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. At the concerts for inner-city public school students, youth will be given vouchers to attend public performances with their families.

Unicorn Theatre
Kansas City, MO
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere of Green Whales, a new play by Lia Romeo. Producing Artistic Director Cynthia Levin will direct the production.

Unity Theatre Ensemble
Florissant, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the continued development, refinement, and production of The Cotton Club Revue. The piece highlights popular artists, music, songs, and dances from the history of New York's Cotton Club.

University of Central Missouri State University (on behalf of Pleiades & Pleiades Press)
Warrensburg, MO
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication of Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing and books of poetry. As part of its Unsung Masters Series, the press will publish a book of essays and a sampling of poems by an under-appreciated poet.

Upstream Theater
St Louis, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the adaptation and production of the Tragedy of the Death of Atahualpa, a drama from the Quechua oral tradition. The company will present an English translation of the work based on a 1950s adaptation by Bolivian writer Jesús Lara.

Washington University
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the project Telling Our Stories, featuring a performance and master class by Philadanco. Adult community members will be coached in storytelling through the written word, dance, and oral presentation, resulting in a public performance at the Missouri History Museum.


Number of Grants: 20          Total Amount: $360,500

 
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