| Grantee |
Project Description |
Amount of Grant |
| Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (Presenter) |
The application submitted by the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts was approved as a two-year grant in the amount of $109,820. This award is for the project "Ties that bind." This project links the Annenberg Center’s dance presenting series across the next two seasons to an effort to broaden audiences through new education and outreach activities, while also laying the groundwork to make the Philadelphia Dance Company (aka Philadanco) the Center’s first resident dance company. |
$109,820.00 |
| At Marah Dance Theater (Company) |
This one-year grant is awarded in the amount of $19,330 and is intended to support the revival of a 1994 work entitled "Westwards," originally choreographed by Stephen Wynne, artistic director of At Marah Dance Theater, on the Tanz Forum in Germany. "Westwards" will involve work with a dramaturg and will be performed in Philadelphia by At Marah Dance Theater in the winter of 2000. |
$ 19,330.00 |
| Eleone Dance Theater (Company) |
Eleone Dance Theater has been awarded a one-year grant in the amount of $20,000 to support a collaborative residency between the company and New York choreographer Abdel R. Salaam. Mr. Salaam will develop a work on members of Eleone Dance Theater to be performed in Philadelphia and on tour. |
$ 20,000.00 |
| Flamenco Ole (Company) |
Flamenco Ole has been awarded a one-year grant in the amount of $20,000 to support the creation of "Ritmos," a narrative-guided flamenco ballet by choreographer Luis Montero with an original score by Carlos Rubio. The commission of the new ballet will include production support for work with a lighting designer and a sound technician. |
$ 20,000.00 |
| Gabrielle Sigal (Independent artist) |
This project is funded for one-year in the amount of $10,000 and will support collaboration between several disciplines, including choreography and video. The project is designed to deepen the working relationships among the collaborating artists and will lead to the creation of a stage work based on the theme of voyeurism. |
$ 10,000.00 |
| Group Motion Company (Company) |
Group Motion Company has been awarded a one-year grant in the amount of $20,000 for a project that will include collaboration with two contemporary composers who will be paired with choreographers Carol Brown (London) and Group Motion artistic director Manfred Fischbeck. This project will continue to cultivate creative dialogue between Carol Brown and Manfred Fischbeck across a rehearsal process that that will take place in both England and the United States. |
$ 20,000.00 |
| Headlong Dance Theater (Company) |
Headlong Dance Theater has been awarded $20,000 in a one-year grant to support work with sound designer and composer Rick Henderson. This project will examine the ways in which music is able to enhance and expand the choreographic process through a collaborative dialogue between Headlong’s three artistic directors and the composer. |
$ 20,000.00 |
| LaVaughn Robinson (Independent artist) |
This project is funded for one-year in the amount of $10,000. This project is designed so that master artist LaVaughn Robinson will be able to continue to rehearse and develop new movement material in the tap dance form. This project will also continue to explore ways in which LaVaughn Robinson’s tap dance legacy may be preserved for future generations. |
$ 10,000.00 |
| Leah Stein
(Independent artist) |
This one-year project is funded in the amount of $10,000 and will support twenty-four weeks of rehearsal by the choreographer with six dancers in order to create two site-specific works and one work for the concert stage. The central choreographic "problem" that will be examined in these works is the relationship between growth and decay in both interior and exterior landscapes. |
$ 10,000.00 |
| Nicole Cousineau (Independent artist) |
This project, "Check Point," is funded in the amount of $10,000 and supports a collaboration between Philadelphia choreographer Nicole Cousineau and the German dance company Zen in the Basement. The creation process will take place in both the U.S. and in Germany and there will also be performances in both countries. |
$ 10,000.00 |
| Painted Bride Art Center (Presenter) |
The project, "Dance with the Bride," has been awarded funding for one-year in the amount of $80,000. This project funding will help support artist fees, production and marketing costs associated with the dance presenting series at the Painted Bride Art Center in 2000-2001. |
$ 80,000.00 |
| Paule Turner (Independent artist) |
This project, "Court," has been awarded funding for two years in the amount of $20,000. This project is designed to support an extended rehearsal period to facilitate the choreographic development of Paule Turner and will lead to the creation of new work. |
$ 20,000.00 |
| Pennsylvania Ballet (Company) |
The Pennsylvania Ballet has been awarded a one-year grant in the amount of $80,000 to support the commissioning and acquisition of three new works for the company’s repertory by choreographers Kevin O’Day, Jeffrey Gribler, and Jessica Lang. All three ballets will be premiered in the Fall 2000 Contemporary Series. |
$ 80,000.00 |
| Philadanco (Company) |
The Philadelphia Dance Company (aka Philadanco) has been awarded a one-year grant of $80,000 to support an expansion of the company’s repertory by the commissioning of four new works from women choreographers during the 2000-2001 season. The choreographers are: Bebe Miller, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Eva Gholson, and Elisa Monte. |
$ 80,000.00 |
| Philadelphia Dance Project (Presenter) |
The Philadelphia Dance Project has been awarded a one-year grant of $20,000 in support of "Post-Judson Journey." This project is designed to provide a series of practical training and professional development opportunities for working artists. "Post-Judson Journey" will reference the ongoing legacy of post-modernism in dance through workshops, classes and other public activities. |
$ 20,000.00 |
| Philadelphia Folklore Project (Presenter) |
The Philadelphia Folklore Project has been awarded a two-year grant in the amount of $74,000. This project, "Dance Happens Here," is designed to support culturally specific dance artists in urban neighborhoods and to link these artists and communities through highly visible collaborative programming. |
$ 74,000.00 |
| Philadelphia Fringe Festival (Presenter) |
The Philadelphia Fringe Festival has been awarded a one-year grant in the amount of $38,000 to support the project "Uptown Meets Downtown." This project will commission two dance "anchors" for the 2000 Fringe Festival: Elo Jorma and Eric Schoefer. Mr. Jorma is currently with the Netherlands Dance Theater and will work with dancers from the Pennsylvania Ballet while Mr. Schoefer, from Philadelphia, will create a site-specific event at a special Festival venue. |
$ 38,000.00 |
| Philip Grosser (Independent artist) |
Project funding for one-year in the amount of $10,000 will support the commissioning of a new dance partnership between Philadelphia choreographer Philip Grosser and New York choreographer and dancer Alan Good. The collaboration will result in a duet to be performed by these artists at the Conwell Dance Theater at Temple University. |
$ 10,000.00 |
| Roko Kawai (Independent artist) |
This project, "Inquiry: Traditional Japanese Dance," has been awarded one-year funding in the amount of $10,000. This support will provide for an intensive training and research project for Roko Kawai under the mentorship of traditional master Sachiyo Ito from New York. Kawai is interested in the dialogue between the disciplines of traditional dance and improvisation. |
$ 10,000.00 |
| SCRAP Performance Group (Company) |
This $20,000-awarded project, entitled "What makes SCRAP?," will support a year of laboratory studio time for SCRAP’s artistic directors. This period will allow for a re-examination of the collaborative working methods practiced by SCRAP’s three choreographers (aka artistic directors) as they approach the task of making movement collectively. |
$ 20,000.00 |
| Susan Hess Modern Dance (Presenter) |
This project is funded for one-year in the amount of $20,000 and will bring together six major dance creators to reflect on their contributions to the development of an American art form. "Six Evenings with American Dance Pioneers" will be presented at the Painted Bride Art Center and will feature Ernestine Stodell, Merce Cunningham, Donald McKayle, Trisha Brown, Carmen DeLavallade, and Annabelle Gamson. |
$ 20,000.00 |
| Department of Dance, Temple University (Presenter) |
This project is funded for one-year in the amount of $30,000 and will support the re-staging of the work "Familias," by choreographer Merian Soto. This dance and theater work is a community project that explores the life and culture of a Latino family. |
$ 30,000.00 |
| Tyler School of Art (Presenter) |
This one-year grant will be in the amount of $43,850 and will result in the commission of new site-specific works by choreographers Clyde Evans and Leah Stein in performances at historic Bartram’s garden in Philadelphia. This project will involve the public in the creative process through long-term artist residencies. |
$ 43,850.00 |
| 2000 Funding Total |
|
$ 775,000.00 |
| Cumulative Funding Total (1993-2000) |
$ 2,464,970.00 |
