National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Fall Grant Announcement

and millennials, the work will demonstrate life's complexity of change, aging, enduring loss, and how we are
transformed by these experiences. Project activities may include workshops led by Slater and Johnston, lecturedemonstrations,
and performances at senior centers, George Washington High School, and Studio 210.
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
$20,000 Aspen, CO
To support a national tour of dance performances. The company will travel to diverse cities across the United
States with existing and new works. Additional new works will be commissioned by choreographers Fernando
Melo and Cherice Barton. Appropriate outreach activities will be provided to each community.
Atlanta Ballet, Inc. (aka Atlanta Ballet)
$20,000 Atlanta, GA
To support re-staging and presentation of "Firebird," by Yuri Possokhov. Performances and educational
demonstrations will be artistically adventuresome, socially relevant, and culturally reflective. Possokhov focuses
on non-traditional choreography and will give voice to more diverse dancers and audience members.
Presentations will take place at The Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre and include lecture-demonstrations for
high school students, and at Atlanta Ballet's College Dance Partner program at Kennesaw State University.
AXIS Dance Company (aka AXIS)
$20,000 Oakland, CA
To support Dance Access education and outreach programs. AXIS will offer a variety of events in the Bay Area
and on a national tour for youth and adults with and without disabilities who are based locally and nationally.
Project activities may include dance classes, professional-level dance training, teacher training, a dance
apprentice program for students with spinal cord injuries, community workshops, lecture-demonstrations, live
and virtual interaction with performance, and building creative dance skills.
Ballet Metropolitan, Inc. (aka BalletMet)
$20,000 Columbus, OH
To support the presentation of "Romeo and Juliet," by Edwaard Liang. BalletMet will stage this three-act
performance for its Ohio premiere which will include elaborate sets and costumes, swordfights, and dramatic
choreography. Students in BalletMet's Dance Academy will be cast in a variety of character roles. Educational
components will include a performance for school children and study materials for teachers to integrate in their
classrooms. The ballet will be performed at the Ohio Theatre in Columbus.
Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc. (aka American Ballet Theatre)
$90,000 New York, NY
To support American Ballet Theatre's 2017 domestic tour. In addition to its annual New York performance series
at the Metropolitan Opera House and David H. Koch Theater, American Ballet Theatre (ABT) will travel to Costa
Mesa, California, and Washington, D.C. ABT will perform full-length and repertory works. The tour will begin in
Washington where the company will perform "Swan Lake" under the direction of Artistic Director Kevin
McKenzie, followed by performances in Costa Mesa with new works from Artist-in-Residence, Alexei Ratmansky.
The tour will conclude with the presentation of "The Nutcracker" and will feature student performers from ABT's
William J. Gillespie School at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts.
Ballet West (aka N/A)
$20,000 Salt Lake City, UT
Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of
December 7, 2016.