Number of Grants: 60 Total Dollar Amount: $1,332,000

Allison Orr Inc. (aka Forklift Andanza, Inc. Danceworks) $10,000 San Juan, PR $10,000 Austin, TX To support the creation and To support the creation and presentation of works by presentation of Journeymen by choreographers Carlos Santos and choreographer Allison Orr, in Lolita Villanua and the presentation of collaboration with the employees of the company's annual production, Austin's Municipal Energy Andanza at the Museum of Department. The third in a series of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico. The large-scale civic spectacles, the event new works will be presented at the will include original music by Graham Luis A. Ferre Performing Arts Center Reynolds performed by the Austin in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Symphony and led by conductor Peter commemorate the company's 15th Bay. anniversary.

Alonzo King's LINES (aka Arts Resources in Collaboration, LINES Ballet) Inc. (aka ARC) $20,000 , CA $20,000 New York, NY

To support the LINES Ballet Guest To support the Eye On Dance Archive project. LINES Ballet Legacy Project. The complete archive will engage approximately 25 diverse features more than three decades of choreographers to work with the pre- recorded dance performances, professional students of the LINES conversations, plus countless print Ballet training program, the LINES and visual elements including oral Ballet Summer Program, and the histories, research notes, scripts, and LINES Ballet BFA program at systems. Dominican University of California.

Ballet Arizona Battery Dance Corporation (aka $30,000 Phoenix, AZ Battery Dance Company) $10,000 New York, NY To support Ballet Under the Stars, a free outdoor performance series in To support the Dancing to Connect local parks throughout the Phoenix Institute, a program for engaging metropolitan area. The company will communities in . The perform classical and contemporary Institute will take place for dance ballet works at each performance, and artists in New York City for two weeks children from local elementary in the winter and summer and will schools who have worked with Ballet include theoretical and practical Arizona dancers through the Class Act courses, hands-on teacher training, program will showcase a short dance and workshops with public high piece. school students.

Ballet Oklahoma Inc. (aka BodyVox (aka BodyVox) ) $20,000 Portland, OR $15,000 Oklahoma City, OK To support an audience engagement To support Oklahoma City Ballet's "K- program. The project will feature the 12 BalletReach" program. Students apprentice troupe BodyVox-2 in will meet daily with a ballet instructor community events throughout to learn ballet history, terminology, Oregon. strength, and technique at the elementary and high school levels. Brown University 2ome details of the projects listed are $10,000 Providence, RI subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval. To support the Dance Legacy Development Project. The Works, Inc. (aka James Dance Legacy Initiative at Brown Sewell Ballet) University will produce teaching $10,000 Minneapolis, MN methodologies, contextual materials, engagement activities, and assessment To support the tools for Repertory Etudes based on Mentorship and Residency programs the style and repertory of Jose Limon in Red Wing and Grand Rapids, and Danny Buraczeski. Minnesota. Prior to the residency, young dancers from these areas will attend a master class and a performance at the company's studios in the Twin Cities.

Capacitor Chinese Cultural Productions (aka $10,000 San Francisco, CA Lily Cai Dance Company) $10,000 San Francisco, CA To support for the presentation of Okeanos, by choreographer Jodi To support Lily Cai Dance Company's Lomask, in partnership with the national tour. Each touring Aquarium of the Bay in San Francisco. engagement will include an evening- The organizations will produce a 60- length performance of pieces from the minute dance production with four company's permanent repertoire, an dancers, two contortionists, an interactive Chinese traditional dance acrobat, and an aerialist, along with workshop for children and families, a abstract aerial objects, a video, and an master class for dancers drawn from underwater film. four ancient Chinese movement concepts, and a presentation about the Chicago Film Archives, NFP (aka history of Chinese settlements in the CFA) area. 3ome details of the projects $20,000 Chicago, IL listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment To support the second phase of the approval. preservation and dissemination of the moving image and audio collection for D.C. Wheel Productions, Inc. (aka dancer and choreographer Ruth Page Dance Place) (1899-1991). Comprising more than $40,000 Washington, DC 900 moving image and audio items, the collection contains rehearsals and To support Dance Place Presentations. performances dating to 1922, and The project includes the presentation interviews and oral histories with of emerging and nationally Page from 1957-87. established dance artists, commissions of new choreography, accompanying residency activities, and festivals.

Dance Camera West Dance Institute of Washington (aka $10,000 Los Angeles, CA DIW) $10,000 Washington, DC To support the presentation of the Dance Camera West Dance Media Film To support the "Positive Directions Festival. Programs will include Through Dance" program. This free, international short dance films, a year-round program provides documentary series, a short film underserved teenagers classes in series, site-specific and outdoor classical ballet, modern, hip-hop, screenings, a Dance-A-Long, a , and jazz. Screendance Filmmakers Lab, Sundance Selects (the Los Angeles Dance Notation Bureau, Inc. (aka premieres of dance films), and several Dance Notation Bureau) panels with production professionals, $10,000 New York, NY producers, and distributors. To support the recording of dance Dance Films Association, Inc. (aka works in labanotation and the DFA) continuation of the Online Digital $15,000 New York, NY Video Archive Project (DVA). The DVA comprises short digital video clips of To support the Dance on Camera in the Dance Notation Bureau's Festival and the Dance on Camera (DNB) archive of labanotation scores. Festival Touring Partners Program. The world's longest running annual Dance Ring (aka New York Theatre dance film festival will include Ballet) domestic and international programs $15,000 New York, NY as well as a student film competition. To support the restaging of A Dance Heritage Coalition, Inc. Choreographic Offering (1964) by Jose $35,000 Washington, DC Limon, which will be produced by New York Theatre Ballet (NYTB) in To support the first phase of a region- collaboration with the Jose Limon based action plan for dance company Dance Company. The work was videotape preservation. Funding will created as a tribute to Limon's support the establishment of two mentor, choreographer Doris videotape digitization stations at Humphrey and premiered at the 1964 American Dance Festival and Arizona American Dance Festival. State University's School of Dance.

Dancing in the Street, Inc. (aka ten new works created in the program Dancing in the Streets) Re-Visioning No. 45. $30,000 Bronx, NY Dimensions Dance Theater, Inc. To support the annual festival, "Hip- $20,000 Oakland, CA Hop Generation Next 2013: A 40th Anniversary Celebration." A To support the educational outreach partnership with the Casita Maria program Rites of Passage. The Center for Arts and Education, the program will focus on the African project will include an international Diaspora and will include classes in dance competition, a block party at Congolese, West African, Afro-Haitian, Cedar Playground (formerly Cedar Afro-Cuban, modern, jazz, and Park, the historic location of the first Brazilian dance, as well as tap, ballet, hip-hop block party) and a site- percussion, spoken-word, acting, hip- specific dance work at the housing hop, and choreography. complex where DJ Kool Herc began hip-hop with a historic house party on August 11, 1973. $30,000 Eugene, OR

Daniel Phoenix Singh & Company To support regional dance touring and (aka Dakshina) outreach activities. The company will $10,000 Washington, DC present a repertory program including artistic director Toni Pimble's To support the reconstruction and Concerto Grosso and Still Falls the presentation of choreographer Anna Rain, as well as Jessica Lang's Solo in Sokolow's dance theater work, From Nine Parts. the Diaries of Franz Kafka (1980). The company will present performances, Festival Dance & Performing Arts post-performance discussions, and an Association, Inc. (aka Festival educational exhibition about Dance) Sokolow's vision, body of work, and $12,000 Moscow, ID her place in the modern dance continuum. To support the Festival Dance Youthreach Project. Touring Dayton Guild, professional dance companies will Incorporated (aka Dayton present a range of dance genres Contemporary Dance Company) including ballet, modern, jazz, and $30,000 Dayton, OH multicultural dance for elementary school students in north central Idaho To support the commissioning and and eastern Washington State. presentation of new works by choreographers in celebration of the company's 45th anniversary. New works will be created by choreographers Alonzo King, Lar Lubovitch, and Rennie Harris, part of Friends of NORD, Inc. (aka Gotham Arts Exchange, Inc. (aka Zia NORD/NOBA Center For Dance) Artists (the professional booking $50,000 New Orleans, LA department) $50,000 New York, NY To support a tuition-free youth and senior citizen dance education To support the Artist Access and program. The program is organized by Mentoring Program, part of the the NORDC/NOBA Center for Dance, Gotham Dance Festival, and Focus which is a cultural community 2014, an American platform of dance partnership of the New Orleans artists presented at the Association of Recreation Development Commission Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) and the New Orleans Ballet conference. The Artist Access and Association. 6ome details of the Mentoring Program will present mid- projects listed are subject to change, career artists during a two-week contingent upon prior Endowment festival at the New York University approval. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. Gallim Dance Company, Inc (aka Gallim Dance) GroundWorks Dancetheater $10,000 Brooklyn, NY $15,000 Cleveland, OH

To support a dance engagement To support guest artist residencies for program in Brooklyn's Clinton Hill international choreographers Noa Zuk community where Gallim Dance's and Johannes Wieland. Portions of studio is located. The project will each residency will take place in include community classes and Cleveland and Akron, and include the workshops, open company rehearsals, creation and performance of a work, and an extensive roster of public as well as numerous outreach performances. activities such as master classes, open rehearsals, artist talks, and Garth Fagan Dance, Inc. (aka Garth educational programs at local schools. Fagan Dance) $15,000 Rochester, NY Island Moving Company $10,000 Newport, RI To support a free dance program designed to serve at-risk youth. Garth To support the expansion of Open for Fagan Dance will partner with the Dancing, a site-specific dance and arts YMCA and the Rochester City Police festival. This biennial festival will Department to design Stop the include three sites in Newport as well Violence: Dance Alliance for teenagers. as at Providence's arts/industrial space, The Steel Yard.

Jess Curtis/Gravity, Inc. (aka Jess Lobero Theatre Foundation (aka Curtis/Gravity) The Lobero) $20,000 San Francisco, CA $20,000 Santa Barbara, CA

To support the presentation of a new To support DANCEworks, a four-week international choreographic research residency for a nationally rising project, Performance Research choreographer at the historic Lobero Experiment #2: Paradox of the Heat, Theatre. SUMMERDANCE Santa by artistic director Jess Curtis. A Barbara will collaborate on the project collaboration with French-German to provide an artist with significant dance and circus performer Jorg time and space to develop new work Muller, a full-length work will be on stage (instead of in a studio). created. Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc. (aka $15,000 Chicago, IL Martha Graham Dance Company) $80,000 New York, NY To support the "Bridge Program." The initiative focuses on classical ballet To support the second work of the training in Chicago's underserved Graham and Greek Myth project which communities for students in the first will explore Martha Graham's works and second grades. 7ome details of the based on Greek stories and dramas. projects listed are subject to change, The project will feature performances contingent upon prior Endowment and accompanying educational and approval. audience development programs.

John F. Kennedy Center for the Minnesota Shubert Center for Performing Arts (aka The Kennedy Dance and Music, Inc. (aka The Center) Cowles Center for Dance and the $60,000 Washington, DC Performing Arts) $10,000 Minneapolis, MN To support the presentation of Ballet Across America III. Dance companies To support Lifting the Dance to be presented include , Community to New Heights, a project , Dance Theatre of to engage and expand dance Harlem, North Carolina Dance audiences and strengthen the local Theatre, , dance community. The Cowles Center , Richmond Ballet, will give as many as 20 local dance The , and The companies affordable opportunities to Washington Ballet. present their work.

Moving Forward: Contemporary Philadelphia Dance Projects Asian American Dance Company $20,000 Philadelphia, PA (aka Dana Tai Soon Burgess & Co. (DTSB&Co.)) To support artists fees and travel for $10,000 Washington, DC the SCUBA National Touring Network for Dance. Now in its tenth year, the To support Dancing the Dream, an goal of SCUBA is to tour regionally audience engagement project at the established, nationally emerging National Portrait Gallery in artists to and from the participating Washington, D.C. Dana Tai Soon cities of Seattle, San Francisco, Burgess & Co. will create two site- Minneapolis, and Philadelphia. specific dance works in response to an exhibit on American dancers. Pilobolus, Inc. (aka Pilobolus) $30,000 Washington Depot, CT Museum of Performance & Design (aka Formerly, SF Performing Arts To support the International Library & Museum) Collaborators Project, a long-term $20,000 San Francisco, CA initiative for developing new work and engaging diverse audiences To support the digitization of images through innovative, cross-disciplinary and papers of California dance collaborations. Pilobolus will enlist luminaries, Lew Christensen and Anna Israeli author Etgar Keret, master Halprin for online access. Key images illusionists Penn & Teller, and from each collection will be digitized director/choreographer Trish Sie to including photograph's of co-create and perform new works on Christensen's Filling Station and tour throughout the U.S. and abroad. Halprin's Parades and Changes. Princeton Ballet Society (aka Nikolais/Louis Foundation for American Repertory Ballet) Dance (aka Nikolais/Louis) $10,000 New Brunswick, NJ $30,000 New York, NY To support the re-staging of To support performances of Alwin choreographer Kurt Jooss's The Green Nikolais' work at The Joyce Theater in Table. Created in 1932 for the New York, New York by the International Competition of RirieWoodbury Dance Company of Choreography in , American Salt Lake City, Utah. In addition, the Repertory Ballet's presentation of The Juilliard Dance Ensemble will perform Green Table will feature live music by Murray Louis' Four Brubeck Pieces, pianist Jonathan Benjamin and accompanied by the Juilliard School accompanied by a film about the Jazz Quartet Ensemble. 8ome details ballet-making process. of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

Professional Flair, Inc. (aka The Ririe-Woodbury Dance Foundation Dancing Wheels Company & School) (aka Ririe-Woodbury Dance Co.) $10,000 Cleveland, OH $30,000 Salt Lake City, UT

To support Rock that Rolls. Dancing To support the creation and Wheels will commission emerging presentation of new works by choreographers from New York City internationally renowned to create new works for the company choreographers on a national tour. to music from Rock and Roll Hall of For its 50th anniversary, the company Fame inductees. will commission Swedish-based choreographer Miguel Azcue to create Project Bandaloop (aka a new work and choreographer Doug BANDALOOP) Varone will collaborate with $20,000 Oakland, CA University of Utah dance professor and media artist Ellen Bromberg to To support the re-staging of create a new work. 9Some details of Bandaloop's seminal mountain work, the projects listed are subject to Crossing, a site-specific mountain change, contingent upon prior performance that crosses the Sierra Endowment approval. Nevada range from East to West. Crossing is a collaboration of highly River North Dance Company (aka trained dancers, mountain climbers, River North Dance Chicago, River and logistical strategists; North, RNDC) composer/musician Dana Leong will $10,000 Chicago, IL create an original score, which he will play from the cliff during part of the To support the creation and tour of a performance. new jazz dance work by choreographer Kevin Iega Jeff. Jeff is Repertory Dance Theatre (aka the artistic director of Chicago's RDT) Deeply Rooted Dance Theater and $30,000 Salt Lake City, UT began creating work for River North in 2001. To support A Sense of Place, a rural touring residency for Nevada, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Using dance to celebrate environmental awareness and encourage responsibility, RDT will perform works by choreographers Molissa Fenley, Ze'eva Cohen, Francie Lloyd, Eric Handman, and Zvi Gotheiner.

Sarasota Ballet of Florida, Inc. (aka STREB Inc. (aka formerly Ringside The Sarasota Ballet) Inc.) $10,000 Sarasota, FL $80,000 Brooklyn, NY

To support a celebration of the life To support the audience development and works of Sir Frederick Ashton. and access programs Public/Action The celebration will feature New York and Public/Action on Tour, performances of Ashton's most based on Extreme Action, a method of historically significant and an movement developed by exhibit featuring archival materials choreographer Elizabeth Streb. including photos and costumes. Performances and classes for students will take place at Streb Lab for Action School of American Ballet, Inc. (aka Mechanics (SLAM) the company's SAB) home in Brooklyn. $55,000 New York, NY Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater To support the tuition-free Boys $10,000 Minneapolis, MN Program and community outreach activities. The project will comprise To support Running North: The Green no-fee auditions, free ballet classes, Bay Project, which will engage free public ballet demonstrations, and communities of Green Bay, Wisconsin, a series of lecture-demonstrations to and culminate in a performance. the general public and underserved Participants will include children and students throughout New York City. families of the Oneida Nation, healthcare providers from Prevea Sharron Miller's Academy for the Health, St. Norbert College students, Performing Arts, Inc. and members of the Green Bay dance $10,000 Montclair, NJ community.

To support the expansion of an in- school dance education residency program in the East Orange School District. The academy works with the Office of Assessment for the New Jersey Department of Education to provide in-depth, long-term dance education in classrooms to schools that lack arts education curricula.

Tulane University (aka Administrators of the Tulane Washington Ballet Educational Fund) $20,000 Washington, DC $20,000 New Orleans, LA To support Washington Ballet's To support the honoraria, travel, Community Engagement Program. housing, and per diem expenses for The company will offer low-cost dance the 2014 New Orleans Dance Festival training and free and subsided guest artists. The festival will include professional dance performances to classes, lectures, demonstrations, and Washington residents at the Town performances celebrating the drum Hall Education, Arts and Recreation and dance traditions of the Brazil, Campus (THEARC), located east of the Congo, Cuba, and Haiti, contemporary Anacostia River. vernacular jazz dance styles, hip-hop, and New Orleans Heritage Traditions. World Arts West (aka San Francisco ome details of the projects listed are Ethnic Dance Festival) subject to change, contingent upon $30,000 San Francisco, CA prior Endowment approval. To support the 35th annual San University of Nebraska at Lincoln Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. The $20,000 Lincoln, NE festival presents dancers sustaining more than 100 distinct dance forms by To support a dance residency with providing underserved artists with STREB at the Lied Center for the opportunity to perform in a Performing Arts. The interdisciplinary professional setting. project will involve university students from dance, gymnastics, Zaccho SF (aka Zaccho Dance computer science, and engineering Theatre) and architecture, local K-12 students $20,000 San Francisco, CA and teachers, and the public in explorations of movement, space and To support the creation and community with Elizabeth Streb. presentation of Between Me & the Other World, a new work by artistic Velocity Dance Center (aka director Joanna Haigood. The work Velocity) will employ video immersion $20,000 Seattle, WA technology by video artist David Szlasa to depict a poetic expression of To support Maximum Velocity, a the feelings described in civil rights dance intensive consisting of two leader W.E.B. DuBois's social concept summer programs: Strictly Seattle and of "double consciousness." the Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation. Participants will engage in four weeks of education, creation, performance, inquiry, professional development, community participation, and exchange.