Grantee

Project Description

Amount of Grant

American Ballet Competition/Dance Affiliates

Dance Affiliates has been awarded a one-year grant to support the production, presentation, and marketing of Xmas Philes, a full-length work choreographed on Philadanco (aka Philadelphia Dance Company) by Daniel Ezralow, culminating in 13 performances across a two-week run at the Annenberg Center as a special event of the Dance Celebration/Next Move Series.

$55,000

Kim Arrow

$8,280

Myra Bazell

Myra Bazell’s one-year project is funded in the amount of $10,000 and will support research and development of new movement material leading to the creation of a new interdisciplinary work with seven dance artists and four musicians.

$10,000

Nichole Canuso

Nichole Canuso’s one-year project is funded in the amount of $10,000 to support the creation of an evening of short dances that explore character through movement. The full-evening program will include the reworking of previous choreography.

$10,000

Community Education Center (CEC)

CEC has been awarded a one-year grant in the amount of $20,000 for a project that will support two dance artists’ participation in a rehearsal and creation residency at CEC. The participating artists will receive marketing assistance, including photographic and video documentation.

$20,000

Nicole Cousineau

Nicole Cousineau’s one-year project is funded in the amount of $10,000 and will support the creation and performance of a site-specific work in collaboration with designer and composer Jorge Cousineau.

$10,000

Eleone Dance Theater

Eleone Dance Theater has been awarded a one-year grant in the amount of $20,000 to support a residency with New York choreographer Milton Myers, a noted teacher of the Horton modern dance technique.

$20,000

Flamenco Olé

Flamenco Olé has been awarded a one-year grant in the amount of $20,000 to support the commission and presentation of El Rocio, a new work choreographed by Antonio Granjero from Spain. Flamenco Olé will travel to Santa Fe, New Mexico, to work with Granjero, allowing participating artists to experience fully one of this country’s most intense flamenco environments.

$20,000

Group Motion Multi Media Dance Theater

Group Motion Multi Media Dance Theater has been awarded a one-year grant in the amount of $20,000 for a project that will increase rehearsal time, allowing participating artists to explore improvisational structures leading to new movement vocabulary. This project includes a three-week residency with Melanie Rios, a Guatemala-based choreographer.

$20,000

Headlong Dance Theater

Headlong Dance Theater has been awarded $20,000 in a one-year grant to support a project to hire sound designer and composer Rick Henderson to collaborate with the company in developing work over a period of five months.

$20,000

Headlong Dance Theater/Pig Iron Theater Company/Philadelphia Dance Projects

This Project of Common Interest is funded for one-year in the amount of $7,000 to support an interdisciplinary gathering of artists that will focus on cross-training connections between theater and dance. Entitled Dance Camp, this event will provide free classes, workshops, rehearsals, and discussions for Philadelphia’s many experimental dance and theater creators and performers. Headlong Dance Theater served as the lead project applicant for this proposal.

$7,000

International House

International House of Philadelphia has been awarded funding for a one-year project in the amount of $20,000 that will support a residency with the Philadelphia-based Congolese dance ensemble Eteko Bonyoma and master dancer Mulombe Gugungu from the Democratic Republic of Congo/Kinshasa (formerly Zaire).

$20,000

Roko Kawai

Roko Kawai’s individual artist project is funded in the amount of $10,000 and will support a one-year period of continued mentorship by master Sachiyo Ito, exploring the "body architecture," musicality, and energy in Japanese classical dance.

$10,000

Kulu Mele African American Dance Ensemble

Kulu Mele African American Dance Ensemble has been awarded a one-year company grant in the amount of $13,500 to support a residency with Guinean drummer and dancer M’Bemba Bangoura and dancer Youssouf Koumbassa, both indigenous African master artists.

$13,500

Melanie Stewart Dance Theater

Melanie Stewart Dance Theater has been awarded a one-year grant in the amount of $20,000 to produce the premier of Medea: Love is the Devil by choreographer/director Paule Turner, Duchess. The production will be an interdisciplinary retelling of Euripides’ Greek tragedy featuring original text, song, physical theater, live music, and dance.

$20,000

Matthew Neenan

Matthew Neenan’s project is funded for one year in the amount of $10,000 and will support a new 25-minute multimedia contemporary ballet for seven dancers. The ballet’s creation will involve video artist Tobin Rothlein.

$10,000

Painted Bride Art Center

Painted Bride Art Center has been awarded a one-year grant in the amount of $46,500. Funding will support extended residencies by choreographers Tamar Rogoff and H.T. Chen, along with their respective companies.

$46,500

Pennsylvania Ballet

Pennsylvania Ballet has been awarded funding in the amount of $80,000 to commission two world premieres: one by Christopher Stowell from the San Francisco Ballet, and the other by Kirk Peterson, Ballet Master of American Ballet Theater.

$80,000

Philadelphia Folklore Project/Odunde/Ga-Adangbe Association

As the lead applicant, Philadelphia Folklore Project has been awarded two-year funding for a Project of Common Interest in the amount of $60,000. This project will sustain a wide range of African dance traditions in Philadelphia. The grant includes extensive planning and organization-building strategies, leading to a daylong festival in 2003 that will offer African dance workshops and feature performances.

$60,000

Philadelphia Fringe Festival

Philadelphia Fringe Festival has been awarded funding in the amount of $50,000 to support the co-commission and presentation of a new work by San Francisco choreographer Joe Goode. The dance, entitled Transparent Body, will be researched in Philadelphia and premiered at the 2001 Fringe Festival.

$50,000

Point Breeze Performing Arts Center

Point Breeze Performing Arts Center has been awarded one-year funding in the amount of $25,000 that will support an intensive weeklong summer residency by two members of Pilobolus Too. This residency is designed to strengthen the artistic excellence, creative capacity, and technical preparation of the young dancers at PBPAC.

$25,000

Rennie Harris Puremovement

Rennie Harris Puremovement has been awarded one-year company funding in the amount of $45,000 to support a new evening-length work to be created by Rennie Harris. A landscape of movement, rhythm, sound, and image, Facing Mecca will offer dance as a vehicle for uniting people and cultures.

$45,000

LaVaughn Robinson

LaVaughn Robinson’s project is funded for one year in the amount of $10,000 and will allow this master artist to continue to rehearse and dance, and to initiate discussions about documenting his unique tap style. This project involves Mr. Robinson’s long-time partner and collaborator Germaine Ingram.

$10,000

SRUTI, The India Music and Dance Society

SRUTI has been awarded a one-year grant in the amount of $7,000 to support a dance performance by Priyadarshini Govind, one of India’s leading exponents of the bharatanatyam classical dance tradition. Ms. Govind’s performance will be supported by a live orchestra. The project includes marketing efforts to broaden SRUTI’s audiences in the Philadelphia region.

$7,000

Leah Stein

This project is funded for one-year in the amount of $10,000 and will support research and development of new movement material generated from the poems of Josey Foo. The project will focus on text as inspiration and resource in the creative process.

$10,000

Susan Hess Modern Dance

Susan Hess Modern Dance has been awarded a one-year grant in the amount of $10, 000 to enhance its Choreographers Project through a Masters Exchange. Master choreographer-teachers to conduct a full-day session each will include Diane Madden, Phyllis Lamhut, Gus Solomons, Jr., and Elizabeth Keen.

$10,000

Wilma Theater

The Wilma Theater has been awarded a one-year grant in the amount of $80,000. Their project will inaugurate an annual dance series, Dance Wilma!, that will showcase small, growing dance companies in the Philadelphia area.

$80,000