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Dance Advance Grant History 2008
|
Grantee |
Project |
Award Amount |
|
BalletX |
Support to commission two female choreographers, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and Helen Pickett, as part of an examination of gender issues in ballet culture. |
$40,000 |
|
Community Education Center |
Support for three dancers and/or ensembles to participate in a ten-month-long New Edge Performing Artists residency. |
$40,000 |
|
Nicole Cousineau |
Support to collaborate with Jorge Cousineau and Geoff Sobelle on Deleted, a new interdisciplinary work. |
$20,000 |
|
Dancefusion |
Support for Reconstructing the Past, a retrospective of classic American modern dances that includes live music performance, in collaboration with Temple University's Boyer College of Music and Dance and The Curtis Institute of Music. |
$40,000 |
|
Brenda Dixon-Gottschild* |
Support for research on a biohistory of art and race chronicling the life and dancing times of Joan Myers Brown. |
$10,000 |
|
Group Motion Multi Media Dance Theater |
Support to commission composer Phil Kline and choreographer Wally Cardona for the dance installation REVIVAL, to be presented at the old Metropolitan Opera House on North Broad Street. |
$40,000 |
|
Headlong Dance Theater |
Support for Unbraiding, a five-month-long research and choreographic project inspired by the company's association with choreographer Tere O'Connor. |
$40,000 |
|
Jeanne Ruddy Dance |
Support to commission choreographer and theatrical director Martha Clarke to create a new dance theater work for the 2009 season. |
$45,000 |
|
Roko Kawai |
Support for Part 2 of the Izu House project in collaboration with Leah Stein, including travel to Japan to continue working with Tokyo artists and filmmakers. |
$20,000 |
|
Kulu Mele African American Dance Ensemble |
Support of travel to Guinea for engaging with traditional artists Marie Toure and M'Bemba Bangoura, leading to the creation of a new work inspired by the experience. |
$40,000 |
|
Leah Stein Dance Company |
Support for a second collaboration with the Mendelssohn Club Chorus to create a new dance with a commissioned musical score by Pauline Oliveros. |
$40,000 |
|
Nichole Canuso Dance Company |
Support for rehearsal and further development of Wandering Alice, a site-specific performance inspired by Lewis Carroll and Haruki Murakami. |
$40,000 |
|
Painted Bride Art Center |
Support for residencies and a performance involving three Caribbean dancer/choreographers: Cuban Marianela Boán and Tania Isaac from St. Lucia (who both now live in Philadelphia), and Gabri Christa from Curaçao. |
$55,000 |
|
Pennsylvania Ballet |
Support to acquire Kazimir's Colors by contemporary Italian choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti. |
$80,000 |
|
Philadelphia Dance Projects |
Support for Philadelphia Dance Projects Presents..., a collection of workshops, classes, and public programs at the Performance Garage. |
$25,000 |
|
Philadelphia Folklore Project |
Support for a new season of the Dance Happens Here Initiative, a project providing technical assistance that includes a professional development Dance Camp for Liberian and Cambodian dancers. |
$40,000 |
|
Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe |
Support to present two European choreographers for the first time in Philadelphia at the 2008 Live Arts Festival: Jerome Bel (France) and Jan Fabre (Belgium). |
$80,000 |
|
Susan Hess Modern Dance |
Support to expand the Choreographers Project and Masters Exchange mentoring project. |
$40,000 |
|
Tania Isaac Dance** |
Support to expand stuporwoman, a work about motherhood that includes three dancers, a playwright, an opera singer, and classical instrumentalists. |
$20,000 |
|
Team Office |
Support for a collaboration between Nichole Canuso Dance Company, PIMA Group, Subcircle, and Pasión y Arte, leading to the development of Team Office, a shared management system serving multiple companies and individual artists. |
$27,000 |
|
Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble |
Support for production costs of Steppes, a home season program in Philadelphia at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, including new costumes from the Ukraine for one work, and live music by master violinist Vasyl Popadiuk and his band Papa Duke. |
$40,000 |
|
Kate Watson Wallace |
Support of Store, the third installation of a trilogy of works to be performed in everyday spaces. |
$15,000 |
|
2008 Funding Total |
$837,000 |
|
|
Cumulative Funding Total (1993 - 2008) |
$7,615,250 |
|
* First-time grantee | ** First-time applicant