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Dance Advance Grant History 2003
|
Grantee |
Project Description |
Amount of Grant |
|
Charles Anderson |
Support for rehearsal, performance fees, and the commissioning of a live musical score for Funky Suite: Body and Soul, a dance work for male dancers that gives agency to issues related to contemporary Black, gay, and urban culture that will be produced in Philadelphia as part of Coming Out Week 2003. |
$9,000 |
|
Community Education Center |
Support for The New Edge Mix Enhancement Project, a program designed to build artistic capacity through hiring a technical production manager for the CEC Meeting House Theater; raising the quality of video documentation; and increasing marketing efforts for dance artists associated with the center. |
$18,000 |
| Nicole Cousineau | Support for the development of Crevice, a collaborative project to be performed at the Arts Bank Theater in September 2003 that brings together a creative team led by UK choreographer Carol Brown, Philadelphia choreographers and dancers Nicole Cousineau and Gin MacCallum, sound and lighting designer Jorge Cousineau, and filmmaker Alan Mehlbrech. | $9,000 |
| Dance Theater Camp/Headlong Dance Theater | Support for Dance Theater Camp 2003, a Project of Common Interest that includes cross-training in dance and theater and coordinated by Headlong Dance Theater, Pig Iron Theater, and Brat Productions. | $7,200 |
| Dance Theater of Pennsylvania | Support for the creation of A Midsummer Night's Dream, a new ballet to be choreographed by Matthew Neenan and featuring guest artists from the Pennsylvania Ballet. | $18,000 |
| Dancefusion | Support for the reconstruction of Time Plus, choreographed by Anna Sokolow for the Pennsylvania Ballet in 1968, to be supervised by Lorrie May, director of the Anna Sokolow Foundation, resulting in a professional videotape record that will be deposited in the Philadelphia Dance Collection at Temple University and in the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library. | $18,000 |
| Group Motion Multi Media Dance Theater | Support for commissioning a new dance from Japanese choreographer Kenshi Nohmi for the company that will be developed across a three-week creation residency at Community Education Center. | $18,000 |
| Tania Isaac (first time grantee) |
Support for the development and rehearsal costs associated with the expansion of home is where I am, an evening of performance to be presented as part of the Painted Bride Art Center's 2003-2004 season. | $9,000 |
| Roko Kawai | Support for Japanese Classical Dance Year 4: Context/Experimentation, a program of training with traditional Japanese dance artist Sachiyo Ito that will include performances produced at the Painted Bride Art Center during the 2003-2004 season, and provide further development of a body of experimental works based on the physicality, musicality and theatricality of Japanese contemporary dance. | $9,000 |
| Leah Stein Dance Company (first time grantee) |
Support of dancer rehearsal fees in order to allow development of On Site Philadelphia, a new artistic initiative, while also maintaining existing company repertory. | $18,000 |
| Shuyuan Li (first time grantee) |
Support for the acquisition of the Female Warrior Dance, a solo work from Chinese Opera to be developed through research and rehearsal in Beijing, working with master artist Professor Li Jinhong. | $9,000 |
| Montgomery County Community College | Residency support for the Nai Ni Chen Dance Company as part of the 2004 performing arts season at Montgomery County Community College, "Close to home...close to the world." | $13,500 |
| Moonstone, Inc | Educational and artistic development support for Kulu Mele African American Dance Ensemble and the Ballet Folklorico Cutumba de Santiago Cuba, brought together in Philadelphia as part of the dance component of the third annual Festival Cubano. | $27,000 |
| Painted Bride Art Center | Rehearsal and production support associated with the Philadelphia version of From the Horse's Mouth, to be presented by the Painted Bride Art Center as part of its 2003-2004 season and curated by Ann Vachon, artistic director of Dance Conduit. | $45,000 |
| Pennsylvania Ballet | Support for artist fees for choreographer Christopher Wheeldon and production designer Luisa Spinatelli as part of the creation of a new full-length Swan Lake, to be performed at the Academy of Music in June 2004. | $72,000 |
| The Philadelphia Dance Company | Support for We Too Dance...African American Men in Dance, a special program that will expand company repertory by working with choreographers Eleo Pomare and Christopher Huggins. | $72,000 |
| Philadelphia Fringe Festival | Support for the presentation of the Akram Khan Company in Kaash at the Arden Theater in September 2003, part of a residency in Philadelphia that will include special workshops by Mr. Khan at the University of the Arts and Swarthmore College. | $49,500 |
| Rennie Harris Puremovement | Support for the research and creation of My Name is..., a new performance work based on the autobiography of founder and artistic director Rennie Harris. | $54,000 |
| SRUTI, The India Music and Dance Society | Support for the presentation of Nrityagram, the Odissi company from Bangalore, India, at the Annenberg Center's Harold Prince Theater in July 2003. | $11,700 |
| Temple University Libraries | Support for The Reconstruction of Artistic Memory and Vision in Dance, a Project of Common Interest sponsored by Temple University, Bryn Mawr College, and Group Motion Multi Media Dance Theater, an initiative focused on recovering the artistic influence of Mary Wigman and German expressionist dance on Philadelphia choreographers Hellmut Gottschild, Manfred Fischbeck, and Brigitta Herrmann. | $37,800 |
| Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble | Support for the development of a structured educational program with a core ensemble of company dancers devised in collaboration with Stepan Zabredowski, Dean of Faculty at the Kiev Institute for Arts and Culture, and Andrew Pap, a member of the dance faculty at The University of the Arts. | $18,000 |
| The Wilma Theater | Support for DanceBoom! Festival, an initiative that offers capacity building opportunities for artists accompanied by performances that are focused in 2004 on cross-cultural and international collaborations; The 2004 event will provide enhanced contextual information for audiences through the publication of a festival catalogue. | $58,500 |
| 2002 Funding Total | $601,200.00 | |
| Cumulative Funding Total (1993-2003) | $4,269,450.00 | |