| Grantee |
Description |
Amount of Grant |
| Myra Bazell |
"Extreme" will be a dance theater work for eight performers in collaboration with Rodney Whittenberg, composer, Conrad Bender, set and lighting designer, and Lisa Warda, lyricist. |
$ 10,000.00 |
| Nicole Cousineau |
This project will continue the collaboration between choreographer Nicole Cousineau and composer/visual artist Jorge Lehman in a site specific installation/project dealing with society through the isolation of our own separate realities, experiences and perspectives. |
$ 10,000.00 |
| Ariel Weiss Holyst |
Fiona Marcotty will create "Venue," a new 15-minute solo for Ms. Weiss Holyst with an original score by Tigger Benford. The solo will enrich the performer’s new direction as a solo artist. |
$ 6,500.00 |
| Roko Kawai |
To support the Kawai - Todd Project, an international collaboration between Kawai and Helen Todd, New Zealand lighting designer, with the assistance of performer/musical composer David Forlano. This project will result in the creation of "Hakobi/Carriage", a work that will integrate choreography, movement, light and sound. |
$ 10,000.00 |
| LaVaughn Robinson |
To assist and continue rehearsals with partner Germaine Ingram. |
$ 10,000.00 |
| Jeanne Ruddy |
To support an evening-length concert that will include a variety of new works to be premiered in Philadelphia. |
$ 10,000.00 |
| Paule Turner |
Turner will revisit an evening length solo dance theater work about a housewife who wants to change her life and begins by shooting her husband. This project will be a collaboration with Melanie Stewqart as director. |
$ 10,000.00 |
| Shawn Lamere Williams |
To support the study and performance of dance work based on the Umfundalai African dance technique with Glendola Yhema Mills. |
$ 10,000.00 |
| Group Motion Company |
To support the project, "Spaces," an evening length dance, video and music performance work. The project will explore different spaces and archetypal situations of modern society and involve interactivity between the three media. |
$ 30,000.00 |
| Headlong Dance Theater |
A continuation and expansion of recent work exploring narratives and texts as sources for making movement. The project will support collaboration between theater director Dacid Gammon four additional dancers. The project will use E.M. Forster's "A Story of Panic" as a starting point for an investigation of how to mine narrative creatively, while communicating a story that is unfamiliar to the audience. |
$ 20,000.00 |
| Pennsylvania Ballet |
To commission a work by Trey Mclntyre is hoped will become an active part of Pennsylvania Ballet's repertoire. |
$ 76,000.00 |
| Philadanco |
To support a new work by choreographer David Brown. This work will be part of a larger evening, "On the Shoulders of Our Ancestors," which Philadanco is producing to celebrate its 30th Anniversary. Mr. Brown's ballet will reflect the influence of his Caribbean heritage as well as African-American influences on his composition style. |
$ 77,000.00 |
| Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble |
To support an intensive two-week series of meetings and master classes with Mr. Anatolij Mykhajlovich Kryvokhyzha, former Artistic Director of the Yatran State Dance Company. |
$ 20,000.00 |
| Annenberg Center |
Support for programming on the Dance Celebration 1999 season. The series will include five companies each presenting four regular performances and one special matinee for schools, for a total of 25 performances. There will be additional residency activities at the University of the Arts. |
$ 10,000.00 |
| Community Education Center |
To support CEC’s on-going program of dance presentations: the Independent Performing Artists Project, which support the development and presentation of new work; Performance in An Intimate Space, a showcase for artists who have had a few performance opportunities and/or are working in an experimental realm; One Size Fits All, a n interactive program with commissioned work by choreographer, Carlos Dos Santos. |
$ 18,250.00 |
| Dance Affiliates |
To support the 12th season of Dance Affiliates' NextMove Festival, featuring four dance companies in twelve performances, and eight community outreach activities by these visiting artists. |
$ 30,000.00
|
| Great Valley Community Education Center |
To support a dance series with three national dance companies: Ballet Conciero de Puerto Rico, Ballet Met, and Donald Byrd–Jazz Train. |
$ 22,000.00
|
| Painted Bride Art Center |
To support the "Dance with the Bride" presenting season of dance for 1998-99 at this contemporary arts venue. |
$ 25,000.00
|
| Philadelphia Folklore Project |
Philly Dance Africa is a project to identify and present significant contemporary local first-generation African dancers, chiefly immigrants and refugees, who practice important regional and ethnic dance traditions. |
$ 19,750.00
|
| 1998 Funding Total |
|
$ 424,500.00 |
| Cumulative Funding Total (1993-1998) |
$ 1,164,420.00
|
