The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
Grants Awarded
2012
Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series
Susan Rethorst: Inquiring Mind/Choreographic Mind
$113,000
Group Motion Multi Media Dance Theater
New work by choreographer Susan Rethorst
$138,000
"Rhythmning" & Improvising History
$25,000
Kulu Mele African Dance & Drum Ensemble
Exploring the Intersection of Traditional and Contemporary Practice
$61,000
Yatran Choreography; Recovery and Restaging
$50,000
Body Against Body
$100,000
Artifact Suite
$150,000
Private Places
$50,000
3x3: Movement Voices for a Bharatanatyam Dancer
$25,000
We Are
$50,000
Mash-up Body Lab
$25,000
Unofficial Guide to Audience Watching Performance
$25,000
2011
John Jasperse's Fort Blossom
$58,300
Scholarly research and publication of a book on Philadelphia's black dance heritage
$55,000
Creation of contemporary dances on non-dancers to be performed in their homes
$165,000
ThinkingDance.net
$55,000
Directing My Dancers/Directing Myself
$78,100
New work by contemporary flamenco artist Rosario Toledo of Sevilla, Spain
$129,800
Philadelphia Live Arts Festival
Sidi Larbi's Play and Shantala Shivalingappa's Namasya
$260,700
The Flight Attendants Project
$55,000
Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble
New work by contemporary choreographer Mark Morris
$165,000
2011 Funding Total: $1,021,900
Cumulative Funding Total (1993–2011): $10,714,550
2010
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Basil Twist’s Petrushka
$92,000
American premiere of More Movements for Lachenmann
$80,500
The Lives of Giants by the Khmer Arts Ensemble
$64,400
Acquisition of choreography by Dianne McIntyre
$92,000
Parallel Destinies
$20,000
Company training project
$48,000
Choreographic research with Sophiline Cheam Shapiro
$8,000
TAKES
$66,700
Presentation of Fly: Five First Ladies of Dance
$80,500
Acquisition of Roland Petit’s Carmen
$99,750
Philadelphia Live Arts and Philly Fringe
Presentation of Lucinda Childs’ Dance
$172,500
Flatland 2010
$20,000
Raices Culturales Latinoamericanas
Latin Roots & Rhythms Festival May 2011
$46,000
New work with collaborators Todd Reynolds and Luke Dubois
$20,000
2010-2011 Choreographers Project and Master’s Exchange
$30,000
Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble
Restaging dances for tour
$75,000
2009
Presentation of Les escailles de la memoire (The Scales of Memory) by Urban Bush Women and Compagnie Jant-Bi
$23,000
New Edge Artists Service Program and Performance Series
$46,000
Americana
$46,000
Improvisation Lab
$46,000
An Expectation of Violence
$11,500
The Farewell
$11,500
New work with the 2nd Generation Silver Belles
$11,500
Everywhere
$23,000
Presentation of Gathering Clouds by Black Grace
$80,500
Acquisition of Passomezzo, by Ohad Naharin
$81,650
Company training with Hsu-Hui Huang of Cloud Gate Dance Theater
$23,000
ECHO: Repeating Lines
$46,000
Red Thread
$17,250
Office
$11,500
nEW 2009
$28,750
Branch Dance Series
$17,250
Montgomery County Community College
AXIS Dance Company Residency and Performance
$41,400
TAKES
$46,000
Commission of Rigidigidim De Bamba De: Ruptured Calypso by Cynthia Oliver
$63,250
Acquisition of In the Middle Somewhat Elevated by William Forsythe
$80,000
Philadelphia Dance History Project
$46,000
Collaboration between Germaine Ingram, Bobby Zankel and John Dowell
$40,000
Philadelphia Live Arts and Philly Fringe
Presentation of Chunky Move's Mortal Engine
$92,000
Raices Culturales LatinoAmericanas
Inter-American Latino Arts Festival
$46,000
Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble
Costuming and re-orchestration of the Carpathian dances
$46,000
2008
Commission by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and Helen Pickett
$44,000
Biohistory of art and race chronicling the life and dancing times of Joan Myers Brown
$10,000
New Edge Performing Artists Residency
$44,000
Group Motion Multi Media Dance Theater
REVIVAL
$44,000
Unbraiding
$44,000
Commision by Martha Clarke
$49,000
Store
$15,000
Kulu Mele African American Dance Ensemble
Travel to Guinea for engaging with traditional artists Marie Toure and M’Bemba Bangoura
$44,000
New dance with a commissioned musical score by Pauline Oliveros
$44,000
Wandering Alice
$44,000
Only Sleeping
$20,000
Residencies and performances with Caribbean choreographers Marianela Boan, Tania Isaac and Gabri Christa
$60,000
Acquisition of Kazimir’s Colors by Mauro Bigonzetti
$80,000
Philadelphia Dance Projects Presents…
$44,000
Dance Happens Here
$40,000
Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe
Presentation of Jerome Bel and Jan Fabre
$88,000
Izu House Project, Part 2
$20,000
Choreographers Project ans Masters Exchange
$44,000
stuporwoman
$22,000
Development of a shared management system
$30,000
Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble
Steppes
$44,000
2007
New work by Adam Houghland
$20,000
Nomad:The River
$10,000
Replaced Rituals
$10,000
2007-2008 New Edge Performing Arts Service Program
$20,000
Here
$10,000
Dancefusion
$20,000
Delaware Valley Arts Consortium
River North Dance Company Residency
$20,000
New work by Abdur R. Jackson
$20,000
Residency with Carmela Greco
$20,000
Dance Dialogue
$20,000
Physiognomy of the Spirit
$10,000
In the name of
$10,000
New work by Suzanne Linke
38,000
Izu House project
$10,000
Two Philadelphia premieres by Shen Wei Dance Arts
$65,000
Things I Told Nobody
$53,000
