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Dance: FY2003 Grants

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

Access | Creativity | Heritage/Preservation | Organizational Capacity

Leadership | Panelists

Access

African American Dance Ensemble, Inc. (consortium)
Durham, NC
$35,000
To support community residencies celebrating the culture and traditions of Africa. The project will include a variety of outreach activities and performances in North Carolina.

Alex Regional Theatre Board (aka The Alex)
Glendale, CA
$20,000
To support performing arts educational outreach programs. Alex in the Schools will work with American Repertory Dance Company to develop the programs.

Andrew Cacho African Drummers & Dancers Economic Development, Inc.
Washington, DC
$10,760
To support workshops and performances as part of the Youthworks 2003 project. Children, teens and adults will be trained in African-Caribbean drumming, dancing, stiltwalking and masquerades.

Caribbean Dance Company of the Virgin Islands, Inc. (aka CDC)
St. Croix, VI
$30,000
To support the 2003 Caribbean Dance Axis. The project will provide performances for public day care centers, elementary schools and universities, school parents and senior citizens.

Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company
Union, NJ
$10,000
To support a tour to Los Angeles, Milwaukee and Miami for the Creating Cultural Communities on Tour program. The project will center around Artistic Director Carolyn Dorfman's work Mayne Mentshn (My People).

Cincinnati Ballet Company, Inc.
Cincinnati, OH
$30,000
To support the Home Cities Tour. The program will travel to the rural and suburban regions of Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky and Southeastern Indiana.

College of Saint Benedict
St. Joseph, MN
$20,000
To support a residency and the commissioning of a work by Diavolo Dance Theater. The residency will involve several partners including area teachers, the College of Saint Benedict Theater Department, Anna Marie's Shelter for battered women and Casa Guadalupe, a Hispanic community organization.

Dance Alive!, Inc.
Gainesville, FL
$10,000
To support expansion of touring in rural and underserved areas in Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana. The dance programs will include work by resident choreographers, George Balanchine and commissioned work by contemporary choreographers.

Dance Exchange, Inc. (aka Liz Lerman Dance Exchange)
Takoma Park, MD
$30,000
To support the Dance Exchange Toolbox Tour. The project will consist of a series of dance performances and training workshops that will disseminate the company's techniques and methodologies for community art.

Dance Films Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the Dance Camera Festival and international tour. The project will also include a Floating Cinema at Prospect Park in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Dance Project, Inc. (aka NC Dance Project)
Greensboro, NC
$10,000
To support the expansion of the North Carolina Dance Festival. The festival showcases local dance artists who travel to communities across the state.

Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc.
New York, NY
$90,000
To support a comprehensive educational outreach program that introduces children and adults to dance. Dancing through Barriers will include professional workshops for teachers, master classes, lecture performances, video assemblies and performances.

Dancing in the Streets, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the presentation of dance companies in free performances at public sites throughout New York City. Companies to be presented include Eiko and Koma, Taylor 2, Nrityagram Dance Ensemble and nicholasleichter dance.

Dimensions Dance Theater, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$10,000
To support a free dance program for youth. In the City/Rites of Passage provides youth with dance education and training.

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

Festival Ballet Providence
Providence, RI
$10,000
To support an interactive educational performance designed to reach underserved elementary school children. Teachers will receive resource information on dance with activities correlating to literacy and core curriculum academic subjects.

Festival Dance & Performing Arts Association, Inc.
Moscow, ID
$9,000
To support the expansion of the Festival Youthreach Project. The project provides free performances and master classes by touring professional dance companies for regional public schools students.

Frequent Flyers Productions, Inc.
Boulder, CO
$10,000
To support the Aerial Dance Festival 2003. The project will include classes, workshops and performances.

H.T. Dance Company, Inc. (aka H.T. Chen & Dancers)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the pilot phase of The Phoenix Project, a two-year initiative. The company will create a new, multidisciplinary dance program and a new work inspired by interviews with the Chinese American community.

Infinity Dance Theater
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a national workshop series on disability dance. The workshops will be held in New York, N.Y.; Washington, D.C.; and Columbus, Ohio.

Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey, Inc. (consortium)
Kansas City, MO
$20,000
To support a residency for Ailey II. Activities will include performances of Ailey II in Kansas City, a rural residency in Kansas and outreach activities throughout the bi-state metropolitan area.

Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
To support a tour to Mexico. The tour will consist of open rehearsals and performances at several venues.

Minnesota Dance Alliance
Minneapolis, MN
$28,000
To support phase one of Dance Imprints, a new residency and performance program. The project will connect dance artists to new communities and expand dance activities in geographically diverse areas throughout the Midwest.

Natya Dance Theatre (consortium)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support dance workshops for South Asian and Middle Eastern immigrant families in crisis. Natya Dance Theatre, an Indian classical dance organization, will work in consortium with Apna Ghar, a social service agency.

New Life Dance Inc. (aka Sara Pearson/PatrikWidrig & Company)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support preliminary site visits as a component of five touring engagements. The company will conduct residencies in Dartmouth, N.H.; Miami, Fla.; College Park, Md.; Missoula, Mont.; and Burlington, Vt. communities.

Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a tandem tour by Paul Taylor Dance Company and Taylor 2. The tour will include performances and classes and take place in Portland, Eugene, and Monmouth, Ore. and in Seattle, Wash.

Professional Flair, Inc. (aka Dancing Wheels)
Cleveland, OH
$10,000
To support the expansion of education programs and public performances. The project will provide opportunities for artists with and without disabilities by offering training, performing and employment opportunities.

Queens Theatre in the Park, Inc. (consortium)
Flushing, NY
$10,000
To support the International Movements Project, a new annual commissioning initiative. Mexican choreographer Alicia Sanchez will choreograph a new work.

Ringside, Inc. (aka STREB)
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
To support two components of Streb/Ringside's 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
Salt Lake City, UT
$30,000
To support residency activities. The company will travel to St. Bonaventure, New York and the underserved communities of Billings, Ronan and Helena, Montana.

Robert L. Reed Tap Heritage Institute, Inc.
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
To support the St. Louis Tap Festival. The event showcases locally, nationally and internationally known artists.

Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the Working with Artists, Sharing the Healing symposium. The symposium will explore strategies for integrating artistic expression and healing.

Tigertail Productions, Inc. (consortium)
Miami, FL
$10,000
To support a series of performances, workshops and symposia dedicated to exploring and promoting dance for people with disabilities. DanceAble IV will take place during the Florida Dance Festival.

Creativity

171 Cedar, Inc.
Corning, NY
$10,000
To support performance and residency activities. The 6th annual Cedar/Clemens Center Dance Series will include Philadanco, Pennsylvania Ballet and Shelley Oliver Tap.

African American Dance Ensemble, Inc.
Durham, NC
$10,000
To support the creation of a ballet suite, Luyala, based on the dance opera of the same name. Dr. Chuck Davis and Dr. William Banfield, the original choreographer and composer for the dance opera, will produce the ballet suite.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
New York, NY
$100,000
To support a national tour in 2003. The company will perform approximately 95 shows and conduct outreach activities in 17 cities and 12 states across the United States.

American Ballet Theatre (Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc.)
New York, NY
$70,000
To support the commissioning and presentation of original one-act ballets from Australian choreographers, Natalie Weir and Stanton Welch. The project will feature John Adam's Harmonium, and Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, with the New York Choral Society and American Ballet Theatre's resident orchestra.

American Dance Festival, Inc.
Durham, NC
$70,000
To support the commissioning and presentation of a range of modern dance choreographers. In addition to performances during American Dance Festival's 70th anniversary in 2003, the program will include educational activities.

Andanza, Inc.
San Juan, PR
$10,000
To support the commissioning of a work by choreographer Rodrigo Pederneiras and the creation of works by dancers of Andanza. The pieces will be presented in a production at the Luis A. Ferre Performing Arts Center.

Axis Dance Company
Oakland, CA
$15,000
To support the creation of a work for dancers with and without disabilities by choreographer Ann Carlson. The work will become part of AXIS Dance Company's touring repertory, and also will become part of a national, physically integrated dance tour.

Ballet Austin, Inc.
Austin, TX
$10,000
To support the creation of dance works set to the music of Austin bands. 3 by 3ŠBy 3 Live Bands will include works by choreographers Dwight Rhoden, Gina Patterson and Artistic Director Stephen Mills.

Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the creation of an evening-length presentation that will be performed at City Center. Graciela Daniele will restage her 1988 work, Cada Noche Tango, and choreographers Luis Perez and Sergio Trujillo will create additional sections.

Ballet Memphis Corporation
Cordova, TN
$10,000
To support two world premieres during the Dancing Together III repertory show. The premieres will be created by choreographer Trey McIntyre and Associate Artistic Director Karl Condon.

Ballet West
Salt Lake City, UT
$25,000
To support the presentation of Glen Tetley's Rite of Spring. The piece will be presented in Salt Lake City's Capitol Theatre.

BalletMet Columbus (Ballet Metropolitan, Inc.) Columbus, OH
$10,000
To support the commission of a world premiere. Australian choreographer Stanton Welch will create Don Quixote for BalletMet's 25th anniversary.

Bates College (on behalf of Bates Dance Festival) Lewiston, ME
$20,000
To support commissioning, presentation, outreach and educational activities. New Voices/New Works will include Doug Varone and Dancers, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Stephen Koplowitz/Robert Een and a group of disabled artists.

Bebe Miller Company (Gotham Dance, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the research and development of an evening-length work. The Landing/Place Project will integrate live performance and interactive digital media.

Better Family Life, Inc.
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
To support a national dance festival. Black Dance-USA: A Celebration in Movement, will consist of performances, dance workshops, discussion sessions, dance films, and African percussion and song classes.

Boston Ballet, Inc.
Boston, MA
$25,000
To support the presentation of Romeo and Juliet by Dutch choreographer Rudi van Dantzig. The production will be presented at the Wang Theatre and will include a variety of educational outreach programs.

Capoeira Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work based on the fusion of the Brazilian traditional art form of capoeira and modern dance. The work, created by Artistic Director Lelon Vieira and set to music by Brazilian composer Tot Gira, will premiere at the Joyce Theater.

Carolina Ballet, Inc.
Raleigh, NC
$10,000
To support the presentation of The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen. Lynn Taylor-Corbett has been commissioned to stage part of this new evening-length ballet.

Celebrity Series of Boston, Inc.
Boston, MA
$25,000
To support the presentation of modern and classical dance companies. The project is a collaboration between Celebrity Series and the Wang Center for the Performing Arts, and will include educational activities.

Cleo Parker Robinson Dance (New Dance Theatre, Inc.)
Denver, CO
$15,000
To support the creation and presentation of several works and artist residencies. The company will host artists Abdel Salaam, Bill T. Jones and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar to choreograph and conduct workshops and master classes.

COCA (Center of Contemporary Arts)
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
To support the presentation of dance companies and related residency activities. The Family Theatre series will include Step Afrika, Philadanco and MOMIX.

Colorado Ballet Company
Denver, CO
$10,000
To support the commissioning of a new work. Doug Varone will create the work, which will be presented at the Joyce Theater in New York.

Columbia College (on behalf of The Dance Center)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support dance presentation projects. Artists and companies will be in residence offering community engagement and public education programs.

Columbia Festival of the Arts
Columbia, MD
$10,000
To support a year-long residency project for a hip-hop dance company with a history of working with inner-city youth. Rennie Harris Puremovement will present Facing Mekka and will work with low income teens to develop their own works.

Contemporary Dance Theater, Inc.
Cincinnati, OH
$10,000
To support the presentation of artists. Local and national artists will be presented along with residency activities in the Guest Artist Series.

Cross Performance, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support research, community engagement and artistic development of a new work. House: Part 3 of the Geography Trilogy, choreographed by Ralph Lemon, will explore the complicated past and the rich folk culture of the Southern U.S.

Cunningham Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$90,000
To support the creation and presentation of a major new work by Merce Cunningham. The work will be created in collaboration with a music group and visual artist Robert Rauschenberg.

Curran Events, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the presentation of Sean Curran Company at the New Victory Theater. The company will perform a world premiere and repertory works.

Dallas Black Dance Theatre
Dallas, TX
$20,000
To support a New York residency. The residency will include public performances and several outreach activities in schools, churches and community centers.

Dance Continuum, Inc.
Putnam Valley, NY
$10,000
To support creation and presentation of new works choreographed by Susan Marshall. Sleeping Beauty and True Stories will premiere in at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival and then tour nationally.

Dance Place (D.C. Wheel Productions, Inc.)
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support performances and residencies by dance artists. The series will feature a roster of culturally and aesthetically diverse dancers and companies.

Dance Theater Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
To support an extended-run production series in Dance Theater Workshop's new performance center. The Carnival program features artists at various stages in their careers, and TheMainEvent series will present established, mid-career artists.

Dance Umbrella
Austin, TX
$20,000
To support the presentation of dance events. All artists will participate in residencies that will include professional-level master classes and workshops, pre- and post-performance discussions, panels and lecture demonstrations.

DANCECleveland (Cleveland Modern Dance Association)
Cleveland, OH
$15,000
To support presentations and extended educational residencies. Artists to be presented include Doug Varone & Dancers, Pilobolus Dance Theater, Gina Gibney Dance, Creach/Company, Twyla Tharp Dance and Garth Fagan Dance.

Dancers' Group (on behalf of Robert Moses' KIN)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. The piece will be the first part in a series of new works that looks at man's inhumanity to man, and will continue the choreographer's exploration of religion and spirituality.

Dansology, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation of the third piece in a trilogy. The Anatomy of Happiness will be a multi media dance work, with choreography and music by Artistic Director Koosil-ja Hwang and video by Caspar Stracke.

Danspace Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the sixth year of City/Dans. The program supports New York choreographers through various stages of their development and provides audiences with a deeper understanding of dance.

David Dorfman Dance (Art Sweats, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a suite of new solos and duets by Artistic Director David Dorfman. The new works, designed to be performed together or independently, will become part of the company's active touring repertory.

David Gordon/Pick Up Performance Company
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the creation and presentation of two new works. Choreographed by David Gordon, the works will premiere in New York City.

Dayton Contemporary
Dayton, OH
$35,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. The work will be a collaboration between choreographer Ronald K. Brown and jazz musician/composer Mulgrew Miller, and will premiere with Miller's jazz ensemble.

Donna Uchizono Company (La Donna Dance, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of new work. Choreographer Donna Uchizono will create a work that examines the ideas of letting go.

Dova, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the presentation of Doug Varone and Dancers at the Joyce Theater. The engagement will include the creation and presentation of a new work, Deconstructing English, as well as a New York premiere, a revival and current repertory dances.

Eiko & Koma (Inta, Inc.)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support a new evening-length work suitable for intimate venues. Instead of constructing an elaborate set, Koma will create a series of pastels that will be distributed to the audience as keepsakes.

Everett Dance Theatre
Providence, RI
$12,000
To support the creation of a new evening-length work focusing on home and family. The piece will look at the stories of the individual family to uncover universal themes such as mental health, substance abuse, isolation and assimilation.

Evidence, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the reconstruction and tour of the evening-length piece Dirt Road. The piece combines music and dance with text by the poets Essex Hemphill and Donald Woods, and choreographer Ronald K. Brown.

Florida Dance Association Inc.
Miami Beach, FL
$35,000
To support the 25th annual Florida Dance Festival. The program offers training for dance students and teachers, provides creative and collaborative opportunities for dance artists and presents public performances.

Foundation for Dance Promotion, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
To support a self-produced performance and residency in Harlem, New York. The project will include performances at Aaron Davis Hall and audience development activities.

House Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the remounting and presentation of Artistic Director Meredith Monk's ATLAS: an opera in three parts. The piece will be presented at the University of California, Los Angeles and Berkeley.

Houston Ballet Foundation
Houston, TX
$40,000
To support the world premiere of dance works. Choreographers Ben Stevenson, Paul Taylor and Trey McIntyre will create the works.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Chicago, IL
$30,000
To support the creation and presentation of new works and acquisitions during the company's 25th anniversary. The works will be presented during the company's spring engagement at the Ford Center of the Performing Arts Oriental Theatre.

Images of Cultural Artistry Inc.
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support the presentation of African and African-American dance. Dancing in the Circle of Our Ancestors will occur during the International Association of Blacks in Dance conference.

Institute for Spanish Arts
Santa Fe, NM
$10,000
To support a spring tour around the country. The project will begin at the Joyce Theatre in New York and culminate in a grand finale at the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe.

Intersection for the Arts (on behalf of Summerfest/dance)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the presentation of the 12th annual summer series. The project will include works by Bay Area choreographers at the Cowell Theater.

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc.
Lee, MA
$70,000
To support the residencies and performances of dance companies. Six artists will be presented during the series Breaking Ground in Context.

James Sewell Ballet (Ballet Works, Inc.)
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support performance and education activities in Rochester and St. Cloud, Minnesota. In Rochester, the company will perform at the Mayo Civic Center and teach master classes at the Rochester Ballet School, and in St. Cloud the company will perform at the Paramount Theater.

Jazz Tap Ensemble Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support Jazz Tap Ensemble: The Next Generation II. Artistic Director Lynn Dally will mentor the choreographic development of young artists.

JAZZDANCE by Danny Buraczeski
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. Danny Buraczeski will choreograph the work using Judy Garland as an inspiration.

Joe Goode Performance Group
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Artistic Director Joe Goode. Folk will focus on the lives of rural Americans and will be set to music inspired by Celtic music and early blue grass.

Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$30,000
To support the presentation of historic ballets from the Ballets Russes. The ballets include Les Noces, Parade and Le Sacre du Printemps.

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support a festival presentation of ballet companies. The International Ballet Festival will include a variety of educational and outreach initiatives.

John Jasperse Company (Thin Man Dance, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the second phase of a creation of a new work. The evening-length work examining the hierarchical mode of perception will premiere in Germany.

John Kelly & Co. (Dagmar Collective, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the final creation of a dance theater work by John Kelly, in collaboration with lyricist Mark Campbell and composer Michael Torke. The Paradise Project is an inspiration from the 1945 French film Les Enfant du Paradis (Children of Paradise) by Marcel Carne.

Jose Limon Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the commission and presentation of a work by an international choreographer. German choreographer Susanne Linke will collaborate with composer Wolfgang Bley-Borkowski and designer Marion Williams to create the work.

Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
To support dance presentation projects at the Joyce Theater. The projects include the Altogether Different series, the Dance Presentation Program and Joyce Soho Presents.

Kansas City Ballet Association, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$20,000
To support the presentation of works by choreographers. Merce Cunningham's Duets, Jerome Robbins' Afternoon of a Faun, Nacho Duato's Jardi Tancat and Alonzo King's Handel Trio will be part of the company's 45th anniversary.

Ko-Thi, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$20,000
To support two annual festivals. The Kuumba and Harvest Festivals will be held at the Pabst Theater.

LINES Contemporary Ballet
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Artistic Director Alonzo King. The piece will be based on folk music from the American South and will premiere at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Lubovitch Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a world premiere by Lar Lubovitch. The work will be presented during the company's 35th anniversary at City Center Theater with re-creations of earlier work.

Margaret Jenkins Dance Studio, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Margaret Jenkins. Delay 2 will premiere during the company's 30th anniversary season.

Mark Morris Dance Group (Discalced, Inc.)
Brooklyn, NY
$60,000
To support the creation of new works by Mark Morris. The works will be set to the music of 20th century composers Olivier Messiaen, Darius Milhaud and Igor Stravinsky.

Miami City Ballet, Inc.
Miami Beach, FL
$30,000
To support the presentation of a world premiere. The Neighborhood Ballroom, choreographed by Artistic Director Edward Villella, is a new work in four acts.

Miami Light Project, Inc.
Miami, FL
$5,000
To support the creation and presentation of an evening-length dance theater work. Hip-Hop Elements will be choreographed by Miami-based Ricardo "Speedy Legs" Fernandez.

Movement Research, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the 11th Improvisation Festival/NY. The festival is a celebration of dance improvisation, and will offer performances, classes, workshops, educational outreach and panel discussions.

Nashville City Ballet
Nashville, TN
$10,000
To support the creation of new works. Choreographers Heather Maloy and James Buckley, as well as Artist Director Paul Vasterling, will choreograph the works to music by faculty members of Vanderbilt's Blair School of Music.

National Performance Network, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$70,000
To support the creation of work and dance touring. The project will include dance residencies and related educational and outreach activities in over 21 communities throughout the United States.

New Orleans Ballet Association
New Orleans, LA
$15,000
To support the presentation of a series of dance companies representing modern, ballet and ethnic dance. National, international and local dance companies will perform in 17 concerts.

New York City Ballet, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
To support the New York Choreographic Institute. The Institute provides both established and pre professional choreographers with the resources to experiment with the process of creating new work.

North Carolina Dance Theatre
Charlotte, NC
$10,000
To support the presentation of a work. The company will present Na Floresta, by Spanish choreographer Nacho Duato.

Oakland Ballet Association, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$10,000
To support the commission of a new holiday production. The work will be choreographed by Siri Sat Nam Singh.

ODC Theater
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the first San Francisco International Festival of Contemporary Dance. The Festival will present emerging artists from the San Francisco Bay area and from around the world.

Pacific Northwest Ballet Association
Seattle, WA
$45,000
To support the world premiere of a new production of Swan Lake. Choreographed by Kent Stowell, the new production will coincide with the opening of Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, the new home of Pacific Northwest Ballet.

Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the re-creation and presentation of Harvest. The 10-year old piece was originally performed to a score by folk composer Douggie MacLean.

Pat Graney Company
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. The Vivian Girls, inspired by artist Henry Darger, will be choreographed by Pat Graney, with music by Amy Denio and Irish musician Martin Hayes.

Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$90,000
To support the creation and touring of work by Paul Taylor. The project will include a joint performance by the Taylor Company and the Houston Ballet at the Kennedy Center.

Pennsylvania Ballet Association
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
To support the presentation of ballet. The company will premiere The Firebird, choreographed by James Kudelka, and Concerto 488, by Lila York.

Philadanco (Philadelphia Dance Company, Inc.)
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
To support the commissioning of a new work. Alonzo King will create the work, which will appear during the company's residency at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.

Pilobolus, Inc.
Washington Depot, CT
$10,000
To support a collaboration to create a new work. Pilobolus will work with the St. Lawrence String Quartet and composer Christos Hatzsis to create The Gathering.

Pittsburgh Dance Alloy
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of new works. The project will include choreography by Bebe Miller, Galina Borissova, and Mark Taylor; a production by Sarah Skaggs; and the commissioning of a new score by composer Alice Shields.

Pittsburgh Trust for Cultural Resources (on behalf of Pittsburgh Dance Council)
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
To support the presentation of dance companies. Participants include Dayton Contemporary Dance Co., Grupo Corpo Brazilian Dance Theatre, Streb/Ringside, George Piper Dances and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co.

Ragamala Music and Dance Theater
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the presentation of a work. Bhakti (Devotion), choreographed by Associate Artistic Director Aparna Ramaswamy, will be presented at the Southern Theater.

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Cal Performances)
Berkeley, CA
$30,000
To support the commissioning of work, performances and residency activities of dance companies. The Dance Masters project will include the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Mark Morris Dance Group.

Richmond Ballet
Richmond, VA
$25,000
To support the Studio Theatre Series. The program will present works by emerging choreographers for a total of 40 performances.

Ririe-Woodbury Dance Foundation
Salt Lake City, UT
$10,000
To support a residency at the University of Utah with choreographer Carolyn Carlson. The teaching residency and creative workshop will include the development of a full-length work.

San Francisco Ballet Association
San Francisco, CA
$80,000
To support the presentation of work. The project will include company premieres of works by George Balanchine and Frederick Ashton, and an evening-length ballet by Mark Morris.

Shapiro & Smith Dance (Contemporary Dance Arts, Inc.)
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. The work will juxtapose the classic and contemporary figures of Medea.

Southern Theater Foundation
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the presentation of dance companies. The presentations will be part of Word in Motion, a series of family-focused workshops.

Spanish Dance Arts Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the presentation of a retrospective of the company's work. The retrospective is being created to celebrate the company's 20th anniversary in 2003.

Stephen Petronio Company
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the presentation and touring of new works. Stephen Petronio will collaborate with visual artists Cindy Sherman, Donald Baechler and Stephen Hannock to create Fallen Man, Rock Star and Stupid Cowboy.

Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, Inc.
Tampa, FL
$20,000
To support the residency of The Washington Ballet. The project will include performances, a new work, master classes, student workshops and community outreach.

The Field (Performance Zone, Inc.) (on behalf of Tere O'Connor Dance)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of an evening-length work. Choreographed by Tere O'Connor, the work will intermingle dance and film with environmental themes, and will include residencies in New York, Virginia and Massachusetts.

Tigertail Productions, Inc.
Miami, FL
$5,000
To support dance presentations during the 9th Tigertail Florida/Brazil and Guests Festival. The Festival will include performances, workshops, panels and symposia focusing on the Asian diaspora.

Trisha Brown Dance Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
To support the creation of a new work. The work will premiere at the International Festival de la Danse in Cannes, France.

Tulsa Ballet Theatre, Inc.
Tulsa, OK
$10,000
To support a repertory program of commissioned works. Choreographers Nicolo Fonte, Val Caniparoli and Mauricio Wainrot will create one-act ballets for the Festival of Creations program.

University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
$15,000
To support commissions and presentations by dance companies. Hancher Auditorium will present Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Paul Taylor Dance Company and the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Tawain.

Velocity Dance Center
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support a national dance touring alliance. The project will enable dance companies in Seattle, WA; San Francisco, CA; Philadelphia, PA; and Minneapolis, MN to perform in each city.

Washington Ballet
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support the commissioning of a new ballet by Trey McIntyre. The work will convey a dream journey set to popular music and will premiere at the Kennedy Center.

White Bird
Portland, OR
$15,000
To support the presentation of dance companies as part of The White Bird/Portland State University Dance Series. The series will include workshops and a co-commissioned work.

World Music, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$15,000
To support dance residencies and the presentation of Boston-based dance companies. The project will include performances, master classes, workshops, conversations with Boston choreographers and post-concert sessions.

WPAS (Washington Performing Arts Society)
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support dance presentations and residency activities. Companies will perform at Dance Place, George Washington University's Lisner Auditorium and the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland.

Yard, Inc.
Chilmark, MA $5,000
To support the Bessie Schoenberg Choreographers and Dancers Residency and a company residency. Four emerging choreographers and eight dancers will be in residence for five weeks and two dance companies will be in residence for four weeks.

Zaccho SF
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the presentation of an evening-length work. Dances Around the House will be created by choreographers Remy Charlip and Joanna Haigood, and will premiere at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Zorongo Flamenco Dance Theatre
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. The work, titled Manton, will be choreographed by Artistic Director Susana di Palma.

Zvi Gotheiner and Dancers
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a national tour and related residency activities. The company will tour Rites, choreographed by Artistic Director Zvi Gotheiner.

Heritage/Preservation

American Dance Festival, Inc. (consortium)
Durham, NC
$22,000
To support the Dance Critics Workshop. Journalists will attend performances followed by discussion and analysis, classes, informal sessions and seminars.

American Tap Dance Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the 2003 Tap City/Tap Workshop Intensive. The project includes professional-level master classes, tap workshops, an expanded youth program, luncheon seminars, panel discussions and film seminars about tap history.

Arts Resources in Collaboration, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the restoration of Eye On Dance video interviews. The restored sessions will be distributed nationally to libraries and educational institutions and broadcast on PBS in the New York City tri-state area.

Batoto Yetu, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation of Ngola Nzinga, choreographed by Artistic Director Julio T. Leitao. The piece will showcase African music, dance and folklore.

Dance Heritage Coalition, Inc.
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support internships in dance conservation. The interns will conduct archival assessments including basic conservation, materials handling and housing, and environmental requirements for dance-related artifacts.

Dance Notation Bureau, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the updating of existing dance scores using the computer program LabanWriter. Scores include Le Spectre de la Rose by Mikhail Fokine, New Dance by Doris Humphrey, Strange Hero by Daniel Nagrin, Le Tricorn by Leonide Massine, A Choreographic Offering by Jose Limon and Resettings by Senta Driver.

George Balanchine Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support updating and digitizing the publication Choreography by George Balanchine: A Catalogue of Works. The publication will also be made available on the Foundation's Web site.

Heritage & Tradition, Inc. (AVAZ International Dance Theatre)
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support the creation of a suite of classical Persian court dances. Choreographed by Associate Artistic Director Jamal, the works will mark the 25th anniversary of AVAZ International Dance Theatre.

International Tap Association
Boulder, CO
$10,000
To support Closing the Gap, a project examining the legacy and future of the art of tap. The project will bring together three generations of tap artists to examine aesthetic, philosophical and practical issues for the field.

John Butler Foundation, Inc.
Richmond, VA
$20,000
To support a condition assessment of the significant works of the late choreographer John Butler. The project will result in a comprehensive catalog of his works, spanning five decades.

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, Inc.
Fort Lee, NJ
$5,000
To support the presentation of a Beijing Opera dance by Liu Tao. The work will premiere at the company's Chinese New Year Festival presented at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.

National Institute of Flamenco
Albuquerque, NM
$10,000
To support the Festival Flamenca Internacional 2003. The Festival consists of performances and a variety of educational activities.

New York Baroque Dance Co., Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Baroque Ballet Workshop, a residency program to be held in Hunter, N.Y., San Rafael, Calif., and Denton, Texas. The project will include classes, concerts and lectures.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Check Your Body at the Door)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support a fine-cut edit of Check Your Body at the Door, a video documentary about popular, social, and club dances and dancers in New York City. The documentary is filmed in the clubs and the studio, and features a group of dancers, ages 16 to 46, demonstrating a variety of styles including free-form house jazz, hip-hop, vogueing, fast footwork and other new free styles.

Nikolais/Louis Foundation for Dance, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the Nikolais Festival. The project will document and present several dances of choreographer Alwin Nikolais in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of his death.

Repertory Dance Theatre
Salt Lake City, UT
$20,000
To support the reconstruction, performance and documentation of Steps of Silence, a work created in 1968 for Repertory Dance Theatre by choreographer Anna Sokolow. The project will enhance future study and appreciation of Sokolow's influence in modern dance.

Repertory Project
Cleveland Hts., OH
$5,000
To support the creation of a new work by Artistic Director Hernando Cortez. The piece will be choreographed to songs from the 1952 Moondog Coronation Ball and will honor founding Cleveland DJ Alan Freed.

SAMSKRI, Society for Indian Performing Arts
Houston, TX
$10,000
To support the first international conference on Kuchipudi Indian Dance. The conference will include panel discussions, presentation of scholarly papers, workshops and performances.

School of American Ballet, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Oral Preservation Project, documenting the evolution of the school, which was integral to the development of ballet in this country from the 1940s to the present. The project will involve interviews with individuals key to the school's history.

Organizational Capacity

Dance/USA
Washington, DC
$100,000
To support professional development services. The project includes the Spring 2003 Council Meeting, Dance/USA on Tour, Dance/BASIC, and the Dance/NYC professional development series.

Pentacle (DanceWorks, Inc.)
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the fifth cycle of an artist mentorship program. The Help Desk provides technical assistance to emerging and mid-career choreographers.

The Field (Performance Zone Inc.)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support a series of workshops and residencies. The project will include the creation of work, group feedback, retreats, a conference and a training program for arts managers.

Leadership

Dance/USA
Washington, DC
$500,000
To support the second round of the National College Choreography Initiative, a project that will bring classic American dances of the past century and newly commissioned works to students and audiences in communities across the nation. The project will involve two parts: the reconstruction or restaging of masterworks of the 20th Century by historically significant choreographers, and the creation or restaging of dances by contemporary choreographers.


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