Millions to be matched.The National Endowment for the Arts National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Independent agency of the U.S. government that supports the creation, dissemination, and performance of the arts. It was created by the U.S. (NEA) awarded grants of nearly $60 million in April to complete the funding for budget 1998 in four categories: Creation & Presentation; Planning & Stabilization; Partnership Agreements with state and regional arts agencies; and Leadership Initiatives, which support dance touring and folk and traditional arts networking. This is the second distribution of the NEA's $81 million grantmaking funds authorized by Congress [see News, "Second Year of NEA's New Grant Structure a Battle," May 1998, on page 26]. Additional grants will be made in late summer in the categories of Leadership and Millennium Initiatives. Each grant must be matched by recipients at least dollar for dollar. Congress requires that 40 percent of NEA funds go to state and regional arts agencies in Partnership grants; in this round that amount is almost $33 million. Much of that money is then regranted by those agencies to artists in their communities in all fifty states and the U.S. territoties. Dancers and choreographers compete with other artists, teachers, presenters, and service organizations for funding at the state and regional levels. Leadership Initiatives this year supports extensive dance touring through the National Dance Project, a comprehensive, multiyear project mn by New England Foundation for the Arts (Boston); advancement of the arts as part of K-12 basic education, and thirty-four grants to develop and implement a national or multistate infrastructure for folk and traditional arts, including dance, through Southern Arts Federation The Southern Arts Federation (SAF), headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, is one of six not-for-profit regional arts organizations funded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). , Inc. (Atlanta). The National Dance Project is the single largest grantee An individual to whom a transfer or conveyance of property is made. In a case involving the sale of land, the buyer is commonly known as the grantee. grantee n. in this category at $500,000. Creation & Presentation is the Endowment's largest funding category, this round awarding $17 million to 613 grantees. Of that amount, $3,290,000 goes to dance applicants or those mulfidisciplinary projects that also involve dance. There are seven awardees of $100,000 or more: American Ballet Theatre American Ballet Theatre, one of the foremost international dance companies of the 20th cent. It was founded in 1937 as the Mordkin Ballet and reorganized as the Ballet Theatre in 1940 under the direction of Lucia Chase and Rich Pleasant. for performances and outreach; Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival 1998; American Dance Festival The American Dance Festival is a six-week summer festival of modern dance performances, and a school for dance currently held at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. and Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, summer dance concert series held annually near Lee, Mass., in the Berkshires. The site, originally an 18th-century farm, was purchased by the American modern dancer Ted Shawn in 1930, and three years later it became the home of his Men for the commissioning and presentation of dance works; [Merce] Cunningham Dance Foundation and Paul Taylor Dance Company Paul Taylor Dance Company, is a contemporary dance company, formed by Paul Taylor, an American choreographers of the 20th century. One of the early touring companies of American modern dance, the Company has "performed in more than 500 cities in 62 countries"[1] and Taylor 2 for presentation and touring; Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is a modern dance company based in New York, New York. It was founded in 1958 by choreographer and dancer Alvin Ailey. It is made up of 30 dancers as well as artistic director Judith Jamison and associate artistic director Masazumi Chaya. for new work and their 40th anniversary tour; Peter Martins and Wynton Marsalis for collaboration on a new ballet for New York City Ballet New York City Ballet, one of the foremost American dance companies of the 20th cent. It was founded by Lincoln Kirstein and George Balanchine as the Ballet Society in 1946. ; Helgi Tomasson and Mark Morris for new work, and to San Francisco Ballet for acquisition of a Kenneth MacMillan work; and The Kennedy Center Presents television specials. Most grants, however, fall in the $10,000 to $40,000 range, which provides only partial support for the creation and presentation of a dance work. Slightly more than $1 million overall was granted toward the creation and performance of new choreography. Nearly $8 million was approved for 155 grantees for Planning & Stabilization, including funds to Ballet West to prepare for future audience changes in Salt Lake City, Utah For ships of the United States Navy of the same name, see . Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake, or its initials, S.L.C. , when the city hosts the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. Another $75,000 goes to Discalced dis·calced adj. Barefoot or wearing sandals. Used of certain religious orders. [From Latin discalce , Inc., for development of a long-range plan to establish a dance school, educational outreach programs, and a permanent home for the Mark Morris Dance Group. Many other grants go toward planning and marketing, or establishing cash reserves or endowments. For a complete list of grants and additional information, call the NEA's Office of Communications at (202) 682-5570 or contact their Web site at http://arts.endow.gov. Arts Management, a five-times-a-year journal published since 1962 by Alvin H. Reiss, (212) 579-2039, reports $2 million in Ford Foundation awards to Baltimore's National Arts Stabilization (NAS) for research on the impact of stabilization programs on their arts recipients, and grants of more than $1 million in matching funds to five New York City arts groups, including Dance Theatre of Harlem Dance Theatre of Harlem, the first black classical ballet company. The group was founded in Harlem, New York City, by Arthur Mitchell, then of the New York City Ballet, the first black principal dancer of a classical company of international standing. and Alvin Alley American Dance Theater, to help them establish or expand cash reserves or endowments. NAS, (410) 332-1900, which just introduced its National Arts Stabilization Journal for managers, trustees, and funders of nonprofit arts organizations, offers consulting, research, executive education, and projects to help communities build strong foundations for the arts. Career Transition for Dancers received a $1-million grant to establish the Caroline and Theodore Newhouse Center for Dancers at 200 West 57th Street in New York City. The funds will go for space and maintenance of the permanent offices. The University of California at Los Angeles received a $2.5 million bequest for a musical theater program from the estates of Ray and Gwendolyn Bolger. Ray Bolger (1904-1987) was the dancer in "Slaughter On Tenth Avenue Slaughter on Tenth Avenue is the name of a ballet by Richard Rodgers. It was choreographed by George Balanchine. It occurs near the end of Rodgers and Hart's 1936 Broadway musical comedy On Your Toes. " (choreography by George Balanchine; music by Richard Rodgers) in the 1936 Broadway show On Your Toes. He can still be seen in the classic American films The Wizard of Oz. (1939) and Where's Charley? (1952). |
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