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Dance Advance Grant History 2002
|
Grantee |
Project Description |
Amount of Grant |
|
Nichole Canuso |
This project will support the creation of a new work based on a collection of Italian folk tales, investigating nonverbal storytelling and theatrical techniques. |
$10,000 |
|
Community Education Center |
This project will support CEC's New Edge artist residency program, which serves as an "incubator" for emerging artists to develop and produce new work. |
$20,000 |
|
Dance Theater of Pennsylvania |
This project will support the spring 2003 production of The Sleeping Beauty, providing funding for hiring both professional guest dancers as well as technical theater personnel. |
$20,000 |
|
This project will support advanced training opportunity for company members by bringing master dancer and teacher Immaculata Ortega to Philadelphia for a one-month teaching residency followed by a one week workshop with Martin Gaxiole. |
$20,000 |
|
|
Headlong Dance Theater, Brat Productions, Pig Iron Theater Company |
This Project of Common Interest project supports Dance Theater Camp 2002, a month-long series of classes, workshops, rehearsals, and discussions focusing on the interaction of dance and theater techniques, processes, and cross training opportunities between disciplines. |
$6,000 |
|
Headlong Dance Theater |
This project will support the company's development by bringing in dramaturg David Warner over the course of five months to explore source material in relation to choreographic process. |
$20,000 |
|
Roko Kawai |
This project will support continued investigation of two parallel tracks of inquiry: Japanese dance aesthetics with mentor Sachiyo Ito, and post-modern improvisation. It will culminate in the presentation of new and traditional work at the Painted Bride Art Center in Winter/Spring 2003. |
$10,000 |
|
Montgomery County Community College |
This project will support a one-week residency with Rennie Harris Puremovement, including master-classes, lecture/demonstrations, and main stage performances. |
$15,000 |
|
Moonstone |
Dance Libre will bring dancers and musicians from Ballet Folklorico de Santiago de Cuba to Philadelphia for ten days of artist-to-artist workshops with Kulu Mele African American Dance Ensemble, culminating in a performance with both groups at International House. |
$30,000 |
|
Philadanco |
This project will commission Alonzo King to create a new dance for the company to be performed in their 2002-2003 season at the Kimmel Center. |
$80,000 |
|
Philadelphia Folklore Project |
This project will support "Dance Happens Here," an initiative that offers technical assistance to a group of culturally-specific dance artists in urban neighborhoods, focusing on enhanced access to documentation resources and rehearsal space. |
$28,000 |
|
Philadelphia Fringe Festival |
This project will commission Headlong Dance Theater to create Britney's Inferno, a work on the theme of teen-pop iconography and its effect on youth culture. In addition to producing the work, the Fringe Festival will assist in preparing the work for national touring. |
$51,000 |
|
Rennie Harris Puremovement |
This project will support "The History of Hip-Hop Dance," the culminating performance of the fourth annual Illadelph Legends festival in June, 2003. The performance will feature hip-hop's legendary pioneering artists, with interwoven archival video documentation. |
$49,000 |
|
Temple University Library, Bryn Mawr College, and Group Motion Multi Media Dance Theater |
This Project of Common Interest will develop archival resources in dance at the Philadelphia Dance Collection at Temple University (PDCAT) through the video documentation of four significant Philadelphia artists: LaVaughn Robinson, Manfred Fischbeck, Brigitta Herrmann, and Hellmut Gottschild. |
$77,000 |
|
Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble |
This project will support an intensive, two-week training session for up to six company members in Ukraine, under the mentorship of choreographer Anatolij Kryvochyzha. |
$20,000 |
|
Wilma Theater |
This project will support DanceBoom!, a three-week festival showcasing the small, growing dance companies of the Philadelphia region. The 2003 festival will include an increased focus on traditional dance and targeted professional development assistance. |
$50,000 |
| 2002 Funding Total | $506,000.00 | |
| Cumulative Funding Total (1993-2002) | $3,668,250.00 | |