2011 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence

[ March 11, 2010 deadline ]

Artists Communities | Dance | Design | Folk & Traditional Arts | Literature
Local Arts Agencies | Media Arts | Museums | Music | Musical Theater
Opera | Presenting | Theater | Visual Arts

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

Dance

Alabama Dance Council, Inc.
Birmingham, AL
$10,000
To support the presentation of the 2011 Alabama Dance Festival. The statewide festival will feature performances by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, showcases of Alabama dance companies, pre-professional and professional master classes, professional development workshops, summer intensive auditions, and dance education workshops.

Alonzo King's LINES Ballet
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the creation of a new work by Artistic Director Alonzo King. The new work will infuse the classical form of ballet with Sephardic song, music originating from the Jewish communities of medieval Spain and Portugal.

Alverno College
Milwaukee, WI
$10,000
To support the presentation of performances by artists Heidi Latsky, Morgan Thorson, Eiko & Koma, and Nora Chipaumire/Souleymane Badolo. These artists were chosen because they represent a broad range of physical abilities and movement styles, originating from African, Japanese, and Western traditions.

Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc. (aka Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater)
New York, NY
$100,000
To support the United States tour. The company will offer performances and a wide variety of outreach activities in more than 25 American cities. The 2011 tour will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Ailey's masterwork Revelations; feature a new ballet by former company member Christopher Huggins and a company premiere by Camille A. Brown; and include a new production of Ailey's Mary Lou's Mass.

American Dance Festival, Inc.
Durham, NC
$70,000
To support the series Dance and Visual Arts: Images that Move Us. The presentations will include the Trisha Brown, Paul Taylor, Pilobolus, and Shen Wei dance companies; reconstructions by Meredith Monk and Twyla Tharp; and other works by French and South African choreographers.

American Tap Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the dance festival Tap City. Activities will include training, education, special events, and performances by artists and companies such as Jared Grimes, Lane Alexander, Acia Gray, Deborah Mitchell, Barbara Duffy and Company, RumbaTap, Tapage, and Parallel Exit, and international artists Sarah Petronio (Paris) and Kazu Kumagai (Japan).

Armitage Foundation Ltd. (aka Armitage Gone! Dance)
New York City, NY
$20,000
To support Armitage Gone! Dance's creation and presentation of Izutsu (The Well Cradle), a new work by choreographer and Artistic Director Karole Armitage. The new work is named for the 14th-century Noh play by writer Zeami Motokiyo and features set designs by visual artist Banks Violette and music by contemporary Japanese composer Ayuo.

Art Sweats, Inc. (aka David Dorfman Dance)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the presentation of a new work by Artistic Director and choreographer David Dorfman. Tentatively titled Come, And Back Again, the work explores the music and character of punk legend Patti Smith.

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
Aspen, CO
$20,000
To support a national and international tour of dance performances. Other touring activities will include question-and-answer sessions, master classes, and open rehearsals.

Atlanta Ballet, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
To support the New Works Series, a commissioning program for new works by mid-career choreographers. Poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph will join with choreographer Amy Seiwert to create a new work for the company that will be performed at the Alliance Theater in Atlanta.

AXIS Dance Company
Oakland, CA
$20,000
To support Dance Access & Dance Access/KIDS! education and outreach programs. These activities will offer a variety of dance events for youth and adults with and without disabilities who are locally based as well as nationally on tour.

Ballet Austin, Inc.
Austin, TX
$20,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new full-length ballet choreographed by Artistic Director Stephen Mills. The musical score, based on a non-vocal transcription of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute, will be performed by the Austin Symphony Orchestra, and the ballet will feature large dancer-manipulated shadow puppets created by ShadowLight Productions.

Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Ronald K. Brown. The abstract work will be set to percussive Caribbean rhythms that will explore the intersection of the African and Latino Diasporas in the Caribbean and Latin America.

Ballet Memphis Corporation
Memphis, TN
$20,000
To support the creation and presentation of Where the Girls Are, Part Two. The project will include the works of choreographers Jane Comfort, Julia Adams, Damien Patterson, Emily Coates, and Lacina Coulibaly.

Ballet Metropolitan, Inc. (aka BalletMet Columbus)
Columbus, OH
$20,000
To support the world premiere of 7 Deadly Sins, created for BalletMet Columbus. Choreographers Dwight Rhoden, Ma Cong, Gina Patterson, James Kudelka, and Amy Seiwert will create the work in collaboration with Columbus-based Shadowbox, a performance troupe known for its musical theater productions.

Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc. (aka American Ballet Theatre)
New York, NY
$100,000
To support American Ballet Theatre's presentation of The Bright Stream, choreographed by artist-in-residence Alexei Ratmansky. The full-length story ballet, set to music by Dmitri Shostakovich, will be presented at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC; The Metropolitan Opera in NYC; and Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles.

Ballet West
Salt Lake City, UT
$20,000
To support the presentation of the annual Innovations program for emerging choreographers to create new works. Prior to the premiere, Artistic Director Adam Sklute will facilitate a "Viewpointe" panel discussion featuring the artists and a video presentation.

Bates College
Lewiston, ME
$30,000
To support dance artist residencies as part of the annual Bates Dance Festival. Titled Nurturing a Sustainable Dance Community, the project will include David Dorfman Dance, Gallim Dance, Nicholas Leichter Dance, and Zoe Scofield/Juniper Shuey.

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

Big Tree Productions, Inc. (aka Tere O'Connor Dance)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support creation and presentation of dance by Tere O'Connor Dance. O'Connor is known for his evening-length works; but for this project he will create three shorter works accompanied by pre-recorded music to comprise an evening of dance.

Blue Lapis Light, Inc.
Austin, TX
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of Devotion, a site specific aerial dance performance over the Colorado River in Austin. The work will include an ensemble of dancers suspended above the water and others performing at the edge of river bank to music composed by Graham Reynolds, sound design by William Meadows, and an excerpt from Swan Lake performed by a solo cellist.

Boston Ballet, Inc.
Boston, MA
$30,000
To support the presentation of choreographer Jerome Robbins' ballets Antique Epigraphs and Afternoon of a Faun at the Boston Opera House. Artistic Director Miko Nissinen has renewed the company's emphasis on the Balanchine and Robbins canon and the importance of neo-classicism as the foundation of contemporary ballet which was largely influenced by the work of Robbins.

Capoeira Foundation, Inc. (aka DanceBrazil)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support DanceBrazil's creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer and Artistic Director Jelon Vieira. Origen will be accompanied by an original score played live by company musicians that will fuse and juxtapose the established traditions and contemporary practices of Afro-Brazilian and West African culture.

Career Transition For Dancers, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support The National Outreach Project, a series of career-counseling seminars for dancers. Plans include two-day group and individual sessions about transitioning from a dance career and will cover topics such as the emotional aspects of coping with change, personal and professional assessment, identifying individual talents, career exploration and goal-setting strategies, returning to school, and starting your own business.

Carolina Ballet, Inc.
Raleigh, NC
$15,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer and principal dancer Attila Bongar. The staging of this work is in line with the company's mission of creating and presenting innovative new works by choreographers.

Chicago Dancing Company NFP
Lombard, IL
$10,000
To support the presentation of local and national dance companies. The project will include a lecture-demonstration at the Museum of Contemporary Art.

Chicago Human Rhythm Project
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the 21st annual tap festival Rhythm World. The project will include residencies, performances, and education and outreach activities.

Cincinnati Ballet Company, Inc.
Cincinnati, OH
$20,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by resident choreographer Adam Hougland, set to Igor Stravinsky's Firebird score. The project will include open rehearsals, pre-performance lectures, and a master class taught by Hougland at Cincinnati Ballet Center.

Civic Center of Greater Des Moines
Des Moines, IA
$10,000
To support the presentation of the Civic Center Dance Series. Presented at the Civic Center Main Hall, performances will include Pilobolus, Martha Graham Dance Company, and James Sewell Ballet.

Cleveland Modern Dance Association (aka DANCECleveland)
Cleveland, OH
$25,000
To support DANCECleveland's presentation of Parsons Dance Company and Building New Presenters for Dance Across America's Heartland. Dance St. Louis and Dance Affiliates, Philadelphia, aim to establish Sandusky State Theatre (Ohio) as a dance presenter by expanding dance performances and educational and outreach programming into new venues in Ohio (as well as Pennsylvania and Missouri).

College Community Services, Inc. (aka Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts (BCBC)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support the World Stages: Dance series at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts. Various cultural, classical, and modern dance forms will be represented by these companies performing in the Walt Whitman Theatre: Tango Buenos Aires, Moiseyev Dance Company, Russian National Ballet Theatre, Compañía Flamenco José Porcel, and Brooklyn-based Urban Bush Women.

Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of The Dance Center)
Chicago, IL
$40,000
To support The Dance Center's presentation of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, co-presented with the Harris Theater for Music and Dance and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. While in residence, both companies will offer community engagement and education programs throughout the city in schools, community centers, city parks, and art galleries.

Complexions-A Concept In Dance (aka Complexions Contemporary Ballet)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the creation of new works choreographed by Co-Artistic Director Dwight Rhoden as centerpieces of a Salute to Desmond evening. This evening-length program will celebrate the artistry of dance icon Desmond Richardson as he marks his final season as a touring performer with the company.

Contemporary Dance Arts, Inc. (aka Shapiro & Smith Dance)
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support Shapiro & Smith Dance's creation and presentation of When We Last Spoke, a new work choreographed by Artistic Director Joanie Smith. The work will draw on Danial Shapiro and Smith's investigations into the body language of non-dancers, accompanied by an instrumental score punctuated by female voices composed by Scott Killian.

Contemporary Dance Theater, Inc.
Cincinnati, OH
$25,000
To support the Guest Artist Series of contemporary dance concerts. Artists under consideration include Doug Varone, Zvi Gotheiner/Zvi Dance, Jess Curtis, Garth Fagan, The Seldoms, David Dorfman, and Dayton Contemporary Dance Company.

CounterPulse
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the Artist Residency and Commissioning Program for local emerging and mid-career choreographers. The program will include residencies during which artists will rehearse, collaborate, teach, and perform new work, while teaching week-long workshops in the community.

Cunningham Dance Foundation, Inc. (aka Merce Cunningham Dance Company)
New York, NY
$100,000
To support the final Legacy Tour of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Before its closure, the company will tour 15 states and abroad, incorporating performances of current repertory as well as revivals of historic Cunningham works, including Events, his signature, site-specific work created for unconventional spaces.

Dance Affiliates
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support dance presentations by Keigwin + Company, Dendy Dancetheater, and Aszure Barton & Artists. Each residency will include performances at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on the University of Pennsylvania campus, and a wide range of arts education activities.

Dance Continuum, Inc. (aka Susan Marshall & Company)
NEW YORK, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of The Knife Split the Melon by the Susan Marshall & Company. In collaboration with Jeff Sugg (video projection designer), Marshall will use her company members and professional actors to create a full-length piece that will include both live performance and dance on film.

Dance Heritage Coalition, Inc.
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support the development of The Artist's Legacy Toolkit. Dance artists (in various stages of artistic development and maturity) are expected to benefit from the resource materials that will assist them in building their legacies.

Dance Saint Louis
St. Louis, MO
$30,000
To support dance presentations and related activities. Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, MOMIX, and the Martha Graham Dance Company will perform at the Touhill Performing Arts Center on the University of Missouri-St. Louis campus and will offer master classes to local dance students and teachers as well as pre-performance talks as part of the Speaking of Dance series, hosted by Artistic and Executive Director Michael Uthoff.

Dance Theatre Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$90,000
To support the presentation of dance companies in the Commissioning and Residency Program, Fresh Tracks Performance and Residency Program, and the Studio Performance and Residency Series. Each program will include pre- and post-performance discussions, web-based interviews with the dance companies' artistic directors and dancers, active blogs, and special studio showings.

Dance/USA (on behalf of Dance/Philadelphia)
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support Dance/Philadelphia's presentation of the 2011 Philadelphia Dance Showcase. As a means to encourage collaboration, the showcase at the Jeanne Ruddy Performance Garage will be an opportunity for Philadelphia artists, national and international presenters, and producers to meet and find new ways of connecting.

Dance/USA
Washington, DC
$100,000
To support professional development services for the professional nonprofit dance field. The activities will include an annual Roundtable (in Chicago), a mentoring program for emerging leaders, capacity building for the research department, upgrading the website, and a Dance Forum, which takes place in New York during the Association of Performing Arts Presenters conference.

Dance/USA (on behalf of Dance/NYC)
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support Dance/NYC's series of professional development programs and town hall meetings for dancers. These programs will cover topics such as cultivating administrative and management skills for dancers and administrators, technology, financial management, fundraising, marketing, programming, education, and legal issues.

DanceArt, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the WestWave Dance festival. As part of the 20th anniversary celebration, there will be a Choreographers and Composers Consortium, which will result in the commission of four collaborative works by pairs of dance and musical artists.

Dancers' Group
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support In Dance, a publication targeted to dance artists in the San Francisco/Bay Area. The issues appear in print as well as on the Dancers' Group website, and include a comprehensive performance calendar, summer workshop guide, reviews of dance companies, performance auditions, jobs, grant news listings, and downloadable podcasts of special interviews and features.

DanceWorks, Inc. (aka Pentacle)
New York, NY
$35,000
To support Pentacle's series of infrastructure support programs for small to mid-sized New York and Los Angeles dance companies. The programs will include the Leg-Up Project, which pairs artists with a mentor; the Cultivating Leadership in Dance internship program, which pairs dance companies with promising young administrators; Help Desk/Los Angeles, which was created to meet the needs of Los Angeles dance artists and also pairs mentors with dancers; and The Back Office, a program to address the administrative staffing needs of choreographers based at universities in Los Angeles.

Danspace Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support Choreographic Center Without Walls 2, a multi-year research and development project to find best practices for supporting the creative process of choreographers. The project will include Platform 2011: Retro(Intro)Spective, The Work of Susan Rethorst, curated by Melinda Ring, and Platform 2011: Body Madness, curated by Judy Hussie-Taylor in collaboration with Cori Olinghouse and David Parker.

Discalced, Inc. (aka Mark Morris Dance Group)
Brooklyn, NY
$65,000
To support Mark Morris Dance Group's creation and presentation of new works and the revival of a work choreographed by Morris. Works will include a new version of Acis and Galatea, the 18th-century opera written by George Frideric Handel; the creation of a work set to a piano trio composed by Austrian composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel; and the revival of Resurrection (2002), set to Slaughter on 10th Avenue by Richard Rodgers.

Dominic Walsh Dance Theater
Houston, TX
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of dance works at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts in Houston. The project will include the company premiere of Pas de Dans by choreographer Mats Ek and the world premiere of Walsh's Victor Frankenstein, co-created with Houston poet Addie Tsai.

DOVA, Inc. (aka Doug Varone and Dancers)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the creation and presentation of Movable Points of Entry by Doug Varone and Dancers. Choreographed by Varone, the work will be set to The Planets Suite by Gustav Holst and will include animations projected on stage by media artist John Toth.

E. Monte Motion, Inc. (aka Elisa Monte Dance)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the revival and presentation of dance works during the company's 30th anniversary. Works choreographed by Artistic Director Elisa Monte will be performed from each of the company's three decades, such as White Dragon (1985), Volkmann Suite (1996), and Light Lies (2002).

Evidence, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
To support dance performances on the 2011 national tour and at The Joyce Theater in New York City. Artistic Director Ronald K. Brown's works Ife/My Heart, Ebony Magazine, Order My Steps, Truth Don Die, Grace, and the premiere of the new work Wonderful Place (inspired by and set to the music of Stevie Wonder) will be performed.

Florida Dance Association, Inc.
Miami, FL
$30,000
To support dance festivals in Tampa, Gainesville, and Miami Beach. Components include public performances and education, training, and professional development programs for students, teachers, choreographers, and other dance professionals.

Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL
$20,000
To support artist residencies at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography. Resident artists will have access to dance studios, a proscenium theater, black box studio, audio lab, computer media lab, costume shop, dressing rooms, a conditioning studio, and conference rooms.

Flyaway Productions
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the creation of Wall Ball, a new site-specific dance that celebrates the continuum between art and sport. The work will be created by Artistic Director Jo Kreiter and composer Beth Custer who will conduct interviews with students, families, and staff from Sunnyside Elementary to get their perspectives on movement in daily life, which will inform the sound score and aerial movement.

Foundation for Dance Promotion, Inc. (aka Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company)
New York, NY
$55,000
To support the national tour of works by the Bill T. Jones/ArnieZane Dance Company. Fondly Do We Hope...Fervently Do We Pray of The Lincoln Suite, Serenade/The Proposition, Between Us, and Body Against Body will be presented, along with educational and outreach activities that will enable "five points of contact" with the community in each tour city.

Foundation for Independent Artists, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the presentation of new dance works on tour and in New York City. Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer will tour their new work Double Exposure which integrates performance and video technology; Nora Chipaumire will tour lions will roar, swans will fly, angels will wrestle heaven, and rains will break, gukurahundi; Nicholas Leichter will create a new work in collaboration with DJ Chucky Brown; and Ben Munisteri will create the final installment in a series of short dances.

Garth Fagan Dance, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$15,000
To support Conversations with Garth, a series of collaborative dialogues between Garth Fagan and a range of other leading artists. Each conversation will include a performance by Garth Fagan Dance and various selections of the other artists' work, such as that of Judith Jamison, artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and Carmen de Lavallade, renowned dancer and choreographer.

George Balanchine Foundation, Inc.
NEW YORK, NY
$20,000
To support The Archive of Lost Choreography, a project to preserve George Balanchine's works. To familiarize the present-day dancers with Balanchine's works that are no longer performed or in danger of disappearing from the repertory, veteran Balanchine dancers will impart their knowledge through teaching and coaching sessions.

Houston Ballet Foundation
Houston, TX
$50,000
To support the creation and presentation of new ballets. The world premiere of a work by Finnish choreographer Jorma Elo and the premiere of Grinning in Your Face by the company's associate choreographer Christopher Bruce will be complemented by historical information about the ballets, images, and artist interviews presented on the company's website.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$35,000
To support the Inside/Out Choreographic Workshop, a program for emerging choreographers to create new work. Current and former company dancers will create works - complete with costumes, sound, and lighting design - which will be performed in Chicago venues.

Institute of Contemporary Art
Boston, MA
$20,000
To support a dance education and performance series titled Make, Dance, See. Choreographers involved in the project include Bill T. Jones, Elizabeth Streb, Alexandra Beller, Sean Curran, Arthur Aviles, and Heidi Latsky.

Inta, Inc. (aka Eiko & Koma)
New York, NY
$40,000
To support residency activities associated with the Retrospective Project, focused on dances choreographed by Eiko & Koma. During residencies at the Baryshnikov Arts Center (New York City) and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Eiko & Koma will perform and present various events.

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc. (aka The Pillow)
Becket, MA
$90,000
To support dance company residencies and performances. International companies in residence will be Ballet Geneve (Switzerland), Akram Khan (United Kingdom), Rocio Molina (Spain), Laboratory Dance Project (South Korea), and Beppie Blankert (The Netherlands); the U.S. artists will include Trisha Brown, Sarah Michelson Company, and Zoe/Juniper.

Joe Goode Performance Group
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new piece by choreographer Joe Goode, in collaboration with architect Cass Calder Smith. The work will examine the relationship between house and body.

Joffrey Ballet
Chicago, IL
$30,000
To support the creation and presentation of works by choreographers Edwaard Liang and Yuri Possokhov. Liang, a New York City Ballet dancer/choreographer, will create his second work for the company and Yuri Possokhov (a Bolshoi-trained dancer currently the San Fransico Ballet's choreographer in residence) will create his first work for the company.

José Limón Dance Foundation (aka Limón Dance Company)
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the presentation of performances and outreach activities associated with the Five Borough Tour to New York communities. The project features the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Rodrigo Pederneiras and composer Paquito d'Rivera, residency activities, and outreach programs in schools that will draw from Limón's masterworks Emperor Jones and La Malinche for source material.

Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. (aka The Joyce Theater)
New York, NY
$90,000
To support the Dance Presentation Program. Dance companies from the United States and abroad under consideration include Tango Fire (Argentina); Russell Maliphant, associate artist of Sadler Wells (London); Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo (Monaco); Chunky Move and Sydney Dance Company (Australia); and Gesel Mason Performance Projects and Pilobolus (U.S.).

Kansas City Ballet Association
Kansas City, MO
$20,000
To support the presentation of Jerome Robbins' ballet Moves, (A Ballet in Silence). Created in 1959, the work is performed without accompaniment and features the stark clarity of the body as an expressive instrument, placing the focus on precise and changing choreographic patterns.

Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey, Inc. (Consortium)
Kansas City, MO
$10,000
To support a residency by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. In partnership with the YWCA of Greater Kansas City, the project will include public performances and a mini-school performance at the Kaufman Center for the Performing Arts, the regional premiere of a new piece, performances for area youth, pre-performance discussions with the Ailey Ambassadors, and other outreach activities.

Keigwin and Company, Inc. (aka Keigwin + Company)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of Starstruck, a new work choreographed by Artistic Director Larry Keigwin. Scheduled to premiere at The Joyce Theater (NYC) and commissioned by longtime partner Bates Dance Festival, it will be an integral part of the company's repertory during the 2011-12 touring season, highlighted by a multidisciplinary art exhibit at the Bates College Museum of Art, free lecture-demonstrations, and weekly studio showings open to the public.

Kentucky Dance Council, Inc. (aka Louisville Ballet)
Louisville, KY
$20,000
To support the Louisville Ballet's commission of a new work by resident choreographer Adam Hougland and the acquisition of Stanton Welch's ballet Madame Butterfly as part of the company's Repertoire Enhancement Project. Since the project's inception in 2003, the company has added 36 works, further developing the artistry of the dancers and increasing audience interest in the company.

Ko-Thi, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$10,000
To support the 2011 Harvest Concert Series titled Urban Rhythms. Dance activities will include a series of master classes and concert and school performances in stepping, hip hop, South African dance and poetry, hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee/Main Stage Theatre.

LEVYdance, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the presentation of The Sum of Its Parts, a new dance installation by choreographer and Artistic Director Ben Levy that explores the intersection between technology and communication. The installation features motion-sensing webcams that trigger projected animations which are then manipulated through custom-computer programs to activate the space in response to the audience and dancers.

Lubovitch Dance Foundation, Inc. (aka Lar Lubovitch Dance Company)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation of a new work by choreographer Lar Lubovitch. The work will be created in collaboration with costume designer Wendy Winters, lighting designer Jack Mehler, and Ransom Wilson, conductor of the Solisti New York Orchestra.

Lula Washington Contemporary Dance Foundation (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support the 23rd Annual International Conference of Blacks in Dance. In partnership with the California African-American Museum, the conference will bring together dance professionals from across the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean to network, strategize, and share their artistic experiences.

Lula Washington Contemporary Dance Foundation
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support a national tour. The company will visit cities such as Sandpoint, Caldwell, and Moscow, Idaho; Olympia and Seattle, Washington; St. Louis, Missouri; and Memphis, Tennessee.

Margaret Jenkins Dance Studio, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the creation and presentation of Quilt by choreographer Margaret Jenkins. A work based on the thematic weaving of parts of Jenkins' earlier works (1973-93), the performance will premiere at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

Miami City Ballet, Inc.
Miami Beach, FL
$40,000
To support the presentation of Promethean Fire choreographed by Paul Taylor. The company will premiere the work (a piece thought to be Taylor's response to the September 11th terrorist attacks) as part of its 25th anniversary season.

Milwaukee Ballet Company, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$10,000
To support the 4th International Choreographic Competition. In a competition designed to generate new ballet work and to keep dance alive and evolving for the next generation of dancers and choreographers, finalists will be challenged to create a new piece, after which a winner will be chosen to create an original work for the Milwaukee Ballet to premiere at the historic Pabst Theater.

Monica Bill Barnes & Company
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new evening-length contemporary dance work by choreographer Monica Bill Barnes, to be presented at The Joyce Theater in New York and on the company's national tour. The new work, performed to popular music, will be created for four dancers, and will juxtapose strong feminine and American influences with quirky characterizations, humor, and theatricality.

Movement Research, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the 2011 Movement Research Spring and Fall Festivals, a series of free and low-cost dance performances, classes, and workshops. The project will bring together multiple generations of artists, writers, critics, presenters, and the general public for the engagement, discussion, and examination of contemporary dance practices, improvisation, and performance forms.

Muntu Dance Theatre
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support commissioned works by choreographers Theo Jamison and Reggie Wilson with accompanying activities. Planned for the company's This Far by Faith project (celebrating the resiliency of the human spirit), the project will include performances at the Harris Theatre for Music and Dance, family matinees, community engagement activities, and an arts education component for students at elementary, middle, and high schools.

Nashville Ballet
Nashville, TN
$10,000
To support the presentation of Post Cards from the Boys choreographed by Sarah Slipper. The work is based on songs written by Nashville singer-songwriters Guy Clark and Darrel Scott, both of whom will perform live.

National Black Arts Festival, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$35,000
To support the creation and presentation of new dance works by choreographers and dancers Camille A. Brown, Kyle Abraham, and Gesel Mason. The artists will travel to their ancestral homelands in Africa, as determined by an analysis of their DNA, and will link with an African-based choreographer in the country of their origin to create joint works which will then be presented as part of the festival's DUETS project.

National Performance Network, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$70,000
To support national dance programs including Performance Residencies and the Creation, Community, and Freight Funds projects. The programs will enable the National Performance Network partners to create, commission, tour, and present contemporary dance artists around the country.

New Dance Theatre, Inc. (aka Cleo Parker Robinson Dance)
Denver, CO
$20,000
To support Cleo Parker Robinson Dance's presentation of Dream Catcher, a dance theater work. The work illustrates legendary stories about the cultural heritage of Native, African, and Mexican American people in the American West.

New Orleans Ballet Association
New Orleans, LA
$50,000
To support the presentation of dance performances and related education and outreach programs. Presentations will include the companies of David Parsons, Alonzo King's LINES Ballet, Trey McIntyre Project in collaboration with the New Orleans Preservation Hall Jazz Band, the Komenka Ethnic Dance and Music Ensemble, Corella Ballet Castilla y Leon (Spain), and Janti-Bi (Africa).

New York City Ballet, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
To support commissioned works by choreographers Susan Stroman and Lynne Taylor-Corbett. As part of the company's annual New Combinations evening, the new works will celebrate the anniversary of George Balanchine's birth.

NewArt New Mexico, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$10,000
To support Global DanceFest 2011. Artists to be presented include Stephen Petronio, Eiko & Koma, Yin Mei, and Kota Yamazaki (Japan).

Noche Flamenca, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a United States tour of flamenco dance programs. The company will premiere several new flamenco works during the tour, and outreach events will include a comprehensive in-school arts education program, student performances, master classes, and pre- and post-performance lectures.

North Carolina Dance Theatre
Charlotte, NC
$20,000
To support the presentation of ballet performances. The company's 40th anniversary repertory will include ballets by Dwight Rhoden, Jiri Bubenicik, Salvatore Aiello, George Balanchine, and Mark Diamond, and a "Woman Choreographers Series" featuring ballets by Twyla Tharp, Martha Graham, Jaqulyn Buglisi, and Emery LeCrone.

Northwest Professional Dance Project
Portland, OR
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of new dance works by choreographers Sara Slipper and Patrick Delcroix. These will be part of the New Works Project presentations and Behind the Scenes events, where members of the community are invited into the studio to observe the creative process.

Oberlin Dance Collective (aka ODC/Dance)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support ODC/Dance's creation and presentation of two world premieres by Artistic Directors Brenda Way and KT Nelson in celebration of the company's 40th anniversary. In addition to performances, the company will reach out to underserved audiences through its Educational Outreach Program that directly serves more than 400 students in San Francisco's public elementary and middle schools, and numerous communities on tour.

On the Boards
Seattle, WA
$20,000
To support a series of dance presentations and associated education and outreach activities. Artists will include Sarah Michelson, Catherine Cabeen, and Crystal Pite (Canada).

Pacific Northwest Ballet Association
Seattle, WA
$50,000
To support the Repertory Program—dance presentations of Mark Morris' Pacific, Richard Tanner's Ancient Airs and Dances, and a newly commissioned work by choreographer Marco Goecke. In addition to the performances, the project also will include education events such as lectures, open studio rehearsals, and question-and-answer sessions with dancers, choreographers, and artistic staff.

Palissimo, Inc.
NEW YORK, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new dance work, The Painted Bird Part II and III by choreographer Pavel Zustiak. The work will explore themes of migration, displacement, and resettlement and will include a commissioned score by electronic composer and string musician Christian Frederickson, visual projections by Robert Flynt, and set and costume design by Nicholas Vaughan.

Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre, Inc. (aka Rioult)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the completion of The Bach Evening choreographed by Pascal Rioult. The project represents the creation of the final section set to Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 6, with projections by Brian Beasley and a set design by Harry Feiner.

Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc. (aka Paul Taylor Dance Company)
New York, NY
$100,000
To support the creation and presentation of works by Artistic Director and choreographer Paul Taylor. The works will be performed during the company's home season at New York's City Center and on a national tour.

Pennsylvania Ballet Association
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
To support the presentation of William Forsythe's Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude and Christopher Wheeldon's Polyphonia, and the creation and presentation of a world premiere choreographed by Benjamin Millepied. The project will include the company's Accent on Dance education and outreach program.

Performance Zone, Inc. (aka The Field)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support The Field's 25th anniversary of the Strengthening National Artists and Communities project. Activities will include Artward Bound, a free creative residency for choreographers, and a national conference which serves independent performing artists with artistic and career development opportunities.

Pick Up Performance Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the final production of Portable Pirandello choreographed by David Gordon. The dance theater work will feature character-based movement incorporated with text adapted from the one-act plays of Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936).

Pilobolus, Inc.
Washington Depot, CT
$20,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work in collaboration with choreographer Shen Wei. Wei's dances incorporate visual and storytelling elements from traditional and contemporary visual arts and sculpture.

Pittsburgh Trust for Cultural Resources (on behalf of Pittsburgh Dance Council)
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support the presentation of dance companies with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Ballet Hispanico, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Stephen Petronio Company, Barak Marshall, and Tango Fire (Argentina) are companies planning to participate.

Ragamala Dance
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of Sacred Earth by choreographers Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy and ancillary education and outreach activities. The work, set to a commissioned score by composer/flutist Raman Kalyan, will include a backdrop of several large-scale panels painted by an Indian Warli folk artist (images depicting festivals, rituals, and village life) and Kolams (designs created with dry rice flour on the ground).

Richmond Ballet, Inc.
Richmond, VA
$20,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Val Caniparoli. The new work will premiere as part of Richmond Ballet's Studio Series Program, and be performed alongside selections from the company's repertory.

Robert Moses Kin
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of Fable and Faith by Artistic Director and choreographer Robert Moses. Moses will create the work in collaboration with playwright An Galjour, Bay Area vocal musicians Bay City Luv, and the San Francisco Boys Chorus, and it will premiere as the centerpiece of the company's 16th anniversary home season at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

San Francisco Ballet Association
San Francisco, CA
$85,000
To support the creation and presentation of new works by several choreographers, including Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson and choreographer-in-residence Yuri Possokhov. The project includes audience-engagement activities, such as community matinees for students and seniors, reduced-priced tickets, pre-performance discussions, a docent-training program, and podcasts of Meet the Artist interviews and Pointes of View lectures.

Shen Wei Dance Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the creation of a new work by Artistic Director Shen Wei and the presentation of several small-scale performances. Shen will use ancient text and collaborate with film/video and sound/music/voice artists to create the work, which will culminate with the presentation at the Park Armory Drill Hall.

Smuin Ballets-SF
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the world premiere works by choreographer Trey McIntyre and choreographer-in-residence Amy Seiwert. The company will work with the Community Access Ticket Service to provide complimentary tickets to underserved community members who may not otherwise be able to attend the performance.

Spring Lake Productions, Inc.
New Milford, CT
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of Angel Reaper by Artistic Director Martha Clarke and text by playwright Alfred Uhry. The new work will chronicle the life of Ann Lee, founder of the Shaker Movement, an 18th-century religious sect.

Stephen Petronio Dance Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the creation and presentation of The Modern World by choreographer Stephen Petronio. The work will fuse the collaborative efforts of composers Nico Muhly and Valgeir Sigurdsson, The Young People's Chorus of New York City, visual artist Walton Ford, fashion designer Caroline Seikaly, and resident lighting designer Ken Tabachnick.

Stepology
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the annual Bay Area Tap Festival and Santa Fe Tap Festival. Activities associated with the festivals will include workshops, mainstage performances, tap jams, and panel discussions.

Thin Man Dance, Inc. (aka John Jasperse Company)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new evening-length work by Artistic Director John Jasperse, commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). The work will be shown in BAM's Next Wave 2011 Festival.

Trey McIntyre Project
Boise, ID
$10,000
To support the creation of a new work by choreographer Trey McIntyre in collaboration with Ben Jaffe, creative director of Preservation Hall Jazz Band. The collaborators aim to create a fusion of sounds from New Orleans with McIntyre's choreography.

Trisha Brown Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
To support the creation of a new work by choreographer Trisha Brown. Commissioned by the Theatre National de Chaillot in Paris, France, the project will involve a collaboration with lighting designer Jennifer Tipton and costume designer Elizabeth Cannon.

Tulsa Ballet Theatre, Inc. (aka Tulsa Ballet)
Tulsa, OK
$20,000
To support the dance trilogy Exceptional Synergy. Featuring Slice to Sharp by Jorma Elo, Push Comes to Shove by Twyla Tharp, and Elite Syncopations by Sir Kenneth MacMillan, performances of the trilogy -- including one free dress rehearsal -- will take place at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center in the spring of 2011.

UBW, Inc. (aka Urban Bush Women)
Brooklyn, NY
$30,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new collaborative work by Co-Artistic Directors Jawolle Willa Jo Zollar and Nora Chipaumire. The work will be created during residencies in Tallahassee and Harlem with the assistance of a dramaturg, and will focus broadly on the issues of immigration and migration informed by Zollar's and Chipaumire's personal stories.

University of Notre Dame du Lac
Notre Dame, IN
$20,000
To support the presentation of Diavolo Dance Theater and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Diavolo will perform Fearful Symmetries, a new work co-commissioned by the university, and the Cunningham Company will perform Suite for Five, which premiered at Notre Dame in 1956.

Velocity Dance Center (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$15,000
To support the SCUBA National Touring Network for Dance. In partnership with the Southern Theater in Minneapolis, the project involves the cooperation of the Oberlin Dance Collective Theater (San Francisco) and Philadelphia Dance Projects.

Virginia Arts Festival, Inc.
Norfolk, VA
$10,000
To support Breaking Barriers and Building Bridges: A Celebration of African American Dance. Companies to be presented include Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Dance Theatre of Harlem Ensemble, and Philadanco.

Visions In Rhythm (aka Tapestry Dance Company)
Austin, TX
$10,000
To support the 11th annual Soul to Sole Tap Festival. Artists participating in the project include Acia Gray, Jason Samuel-Smith, Jason Janas, Brenda Bufalino, Barbara Phillips, and Linda Sohl-Ellison.

Washington Ballet
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support the presentation of Le Corsaire choreographed by Konstantin Sergeyev and staged by Anna-Marie Holmes. The work will be performed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.

WCV, Inc. (aka Wally Cardona Quartet)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support the final development and performances of the new work Tool is Loot choreographed by Wally Cardona and Jennifer Lacey. Residencies with a diverse community of artists and performances will take place in New York City; Washington, DC; and Paris, France.

Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT
$20,000
To support the Breaking Ground Dance Series. Artists to be presented include Akram Khan Company, Monica Bill Barnes, Kelley Donovan, and Bebe Miller Company.

White Bird
Portland, OR
$30,000
To support dance performances in the White Bird Uncaged series. Laboratory Dance Project, Yossi Berg/Oded Graf, and other companies will be presented in intimate-sized venues.

Yard, Inc.
Chilmark, MA
$15,000
To support choreographer residencies; creative, performance, and educational retreats; and a summer performing arts festival. Throughout the period of the residency, each artist will teach community classes, participate in interviews, and offer open rehearsals and discussions with the audience.

Zaccho SF
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support Zaccho Dance Theatre's 30th Anniversary Project. Highlighted programming will include the restaging of Artistic Director Joanna Haigood's seminal work The Monkey and the Devil in combination with outdoor performances at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum.

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