National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Fall Grant Announcement

To support DANCECleveland's performances, residency, and educational activities. Companies to be presented
may include Jessica Lang Dance, Ballet Biaritz, Monica Bill Barnes, and Dance Theater of Harlem. Performances
will be accompanied by master classes for high school, pre-professional, and professional dancers. In addition,
artists will participate in community appearances, pre-performance chats, and post-performance question-andanswer
sessions. DANCECleveland also will continue its early childhood literacy and movement program, Read to
LearnDance to Move, that helps pre-school and kindergarten children improve their reading readiness and
embrace creative movement.
Columbia College Chicago
$30,000 Chicago, IL
To support dance presentations and residencies at The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago. Activities will
include contemporary dance performances, audience and community engagement programs, and teaching
residencies. Artists to be presented may include Cynthia Oliver's COCo Dance Theatre, Doug Varone and
Dancers, and Bebe Miller Company. The companies will be in residence for at least one week to perform and to
conduct audience and community engagement activities such as in-school and after-school classes and
workshops, teen-related programs, community-based workshops, master classes for Columbia College Chicago
students, lecture-demonstrations, preview performances, film screenings, gallery installations, panel
discussions, open rehearsals, and pre- and post-performance conversations.
Contemporary Dance Theater, Inc. (aka Contemporary Dance Theater)
$10,000 Cincinnati, OH
To support the presentation of Contemporary Dance Theater's 44th and 45th Guest Artist Series. Artists to be
presented may include The Seldoms. Local, adjudicated choreographers also will present their work at the Area
Choreographers Festival. In addition to performances, the companies will share a variety of activities with the
community such as classes, lectures, workshops, and receptions. Activities for the traveling companies will be
tailored to the contextual nature of the performances and will be presented to the general public, grade school
children, performing arts students, and university students. The performances will take place in the Aronoff
Center for the Arts in Cincinnati, in partnership with the Cincinnati Arts Association.
CounterPulse
$20,000 San Francisco, CA
To support the Artist Residency and Commissioning (ARC) Program. The program identifies local emerging and
mid-career choreographers whose work is ready to be appreciated by a larger audience and provides space and
support for those artists to create new works. The ARC Program supports as many as three, five-month
residencies during which artists will create and perform new works. ARC provides three annual residency tracks
for dance and performing artists: Edge, focusing on disruptive contemporary work; Performing Diaspora,
focusing on culturally specific work on the edge of tradition; and Combustible, focusing on innovative and
technologically engaged work. Activities include work-in-progress showings where residents and the public
provide feedback on the work, as well as a mentor for each resident artist. After the residency period, ARC may
offer services such as fiscal sponsorship, and technical and administrative support.
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation
$20,000 Cleveland, OH
To support artists fees for performances and residency activities of Dance Theatre of Harlem. Tri-C Presents and
DANCECleveland will co-present the company. Performances will include works by choreographers Dianne
McIntyre and Francesca Harper. Residency activities may include an open rehearsal for area students, a workout
training session for high school athletes, a virtual conversation on writing about dance with DTH Artistic Director
Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of
December 7, 2016.