| Grantee |
Description |
Amount of Grant |
| Annenberg Center |
As a means of expanding its range and breadth of dance presentations and residency activities, the Annenberg Center will present four nationally/internationally renowned ballet companies in 1999-2000, including Suzanne Farrell's Masters of 20th Century Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Les Grands Ballet Canadians, and Ballet Florida. |
$ 20,000.00 |
| Dance Affiliates |
Dance Affiliates will present two modern dance series, entitled Dance Celebration and the NextMove Festival, hosting eight companies in 34 performances and 16 residency activities, during the 1999-2000 season. They are: Martha Graham Dance Company, David Parsons Dance Company, Pilobolus Dance Theatre, The Philadelphia Dance Company, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Sean Curran, Jump Rhythm Jazz Project and Chunky Move. |
$ 20,000.00 |
| Great Valley Community Education Foundation |
The Great Valley Community Education Foundation will present three national dance companies: Caribbean Dance Company, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, and Martha Graham Dance Company. Each project will include multiple performances for students, master classes, workshops, Meet the Artist sessions, community interactive activities and an evening community performance. |
$ 22,000.00 |
| Painted Bride Art Center |
Support for Dance With the Bride presenting program: artists’ fees, residencies, and educational programming. From Sept. through May 2000, DWB will stage 10 concerts and 20 performances. |
$ 20,000.00 |
| Philadelphia Folklore Project |
Philly Dance Africa identifies and presents local first-generation African dancers, chiefly immigrants and refugees, who practice regional and ethnic dance traditions. The Philadelphia Folklore project will expand on last year's program, presenting five ensembles in a daylong program of workshops. Two of the ensembles will stage weeklong residencies in neighborhood schools. |
$ 20,000.00 |
| Philadelphia Fringe Festival |
The Philadelphia Fringe Festival will coordinate the curated and adjudicated presentations of dance at the 1999 Festival. The project will present established national and international dance artists, highlighting a commissioned work by Doug Elkins and other headline artists. |
$ 23,000.00 |
| Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble |
To support the research and development of a new creation, the "Ivana Kupala Production." This full-length project and the associated activities during its creation will also initiate new working relationships with choreographers and dancers for the Voloshky Dance Ensemble. |
$ 37,200.00 |
| Group Motion Dance Company |
To commission a new work by three collaborating artists: choreographer Carol Brown, videographer Tobin Rothlein, and Manfred Fischbeck, artistic director of Group Motion and project director. The new composite dance work will be developed on Group Motion dancers in London and Philadelphia and premiere in March 2000. |
$ 20,000.00 |
| Koresh Dance Company |
To provide regular compensation to company dancers for pre-production rehearsals that will strengthen the artistic capacity of the company in order to facilitate national recognition for Koresh Dance Company. |
$ 18,600.00 |
| Pennsylvania Ballet |
To commission a new work by company member Matthew Neenan. This new dance will premiere on the April 2000 company program at the Merriam Theater and will feature a commissioned musical score by composer Robert Moran. |
$ 80,000.00 |
| Philadanco |
To support two special 30th anniversary projects, "On the Shoulders of our Ancestors," a project involving five choreographers, and a commission of a new dance by choreographer Dwight Roden. |
$ 72,000.00 |
| Myra Bazell |
For the creation, performance, and promotional support for an as-yet-untitled new work that will be an evening length project involving eight dance and theater artists. Collaborators for the new work will be choreographer Myra Bazell, writer Anne George and designer Conrad Bender. |
$ 18,000.00 |
| Eva Gholson |
To support a project of dance and music partnership on the theme of black women’s spirituality between Evelyn Simpson Curenton (composer,) Ursula Payne (dancer,) and Ms. Gholson (choreographer and project manager.) This is a unique three-way collaboration between three African-American female artists who have or continue to work in PA and who also have Southern roots. |
$ 18,000.00 |
| Michael Carson |
To create a collaborative dance and video project with choreographer Jennifer Muller, "Life Lessons: a series of six video movement essays." The finished tape will be 30 minutes long and will be based on a format combining movement and text. |
$ 18,000.00 |
| Rennie Harris |
To support creation of a new work, "Facing Mecca," to be performed by the company Rennie Harris Puremovement. The dance will explore movement that crosses boundaries within the hop-hop vocabulary as well as creating a new vocabulary from African dance idioms and will premiere in June 2001 in Philadelphia. |
$ 20,000.00 |
| Jeanne Ruddy |
To commission a dance work for the artist and her ensemble by choreographer Mark Dendy that incorporates gestural vocabulary with experimental use of text, movement, and dramatic characterization around themes related to "the diva." |
$ 18,600.00 |
| Eric Schoefer |
To develop a new dance and circus performance work, tentatively titled "Cirque Noir." This new work will involve further investigation of the suspension techniques Mr. Schoefer has explored over the past five years and will include a residency at the Montreal Circus School. Performances will take place at the Fringe Festival 2001. |
$ 18,600.00 |
| Ann Vachon |
To create an American interpretation of "Pierrot Lunaire" with a group of collaborating artists including videographer and designer Alan Powell and five participating choreographers. The score by Arnold Schonberg will be performed live. |
$ 13,950.00 |
| Nichole Canuso |
An evening length work for eight performers, this collaboration will involve the scripting of a narrative that develops characters and then setting them free within the guidelines of movement structures. The ingredients will include big beautiful dancing, quirky and subtle interactions, humor and pathos. |
$ 9,000.00 |
| Nicole Cousineau |
To support the creation and performance of a new site-specific work tentatively titled "Banking Hours." The work will be a collaboration with visual composer Jorge Cousineau who will compose a sound score and design the physical production. |
$ 9,300.00 |
| LaVaughn Robinson |
To support creative and historical research on tap master artists, leading to artistic evaluation on the incorporation of new material into revised format of existing material and the development of a new performance program based on the findings gathered during the project period. |
$ 10,000.00 |
| Dorothy Wilkie |
To research, choreograph, and costume a new dance work entitled "Spirit (The Lamba Project)" that will help people understand the communicative, spiritual, logical, and emotional dimensions of African dance. The project will culminate in a concert to be presented in the spring of 2000. |
$ 9,300.00 |
| Chamroeun Yin |
To research different styles of Cambodian court dance from three master artists in Cambodia. In deepening Mr. Yin's understanding of traditions associated with court dances. This project will extend the artist's solo dance material as well as his company's choreographic repertory. |
$ 10,000.00 |
| 1999 Funding Total |
|
$ 525,550.00 |
| Cumulative Funding Total (1993-1999) |
$ 1.689,970.00 |
