Project Grant 1533007089

This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program, provides $260,952 to the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation to continue the Alvin Ailey Choreographic Legacy Project. The Project will historically preserve choreography from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater repertory for restaging by professional dance companies and universities through cataloging production notes, performance histories, and...

The Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation will receive $978,876 through a Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Save America's Treasures program to make archival materials from Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater accessible for restaging. The Foundation will catalog and digitize technical information needed to restage ballets, collect and analyze dramaturgical content and rights information for each work, and develop "dance capsules" comprising this collected...

This $149,999 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) supports the "Making the Digital Dance" project at the University of Alabama. The project aims to develop digital infrastructure and tools to increase access to archival dance information across four existing digital performing arts archives. Key project activities include: Prototyping a dance data commons based on the Wikidata integration model to...

Urban Bush Women Inc., doing business as Urban Bush Women, was awarded a $430,500 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Save America's Treasures federal grant program (CFDA 15.929). The funding will support efforts from October 1, 2022 through December 31, 2025 to improve the management, preservation, and accessibility of Urban Bush Women's archival collections documenting the work of choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and the organization from 1984 to...

The Chicago Multi-Cultural Dance Center, Inc., Home of the Bryant Ballet (CMDC) received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). The funding will support personnel and facilities expenses from January 1, 2022 through January 31, 2023 to aid the organization's response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The NEA's Promotion of the Arts Grants to...

The Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. received a $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the presentation of dance artists at the Joyce Theater in New York, New York from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022. This award was provided through the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024), which aims to support opportunities for public participation in the arts and arts education, integrate the arts with strategies...

The Indigenous Roots Cultural Arts Center received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) to support the creation of a cultural district plan focused on the East 7th Street corridor in St. Paul, Minnesota. The grant will fund related community engagement activities from July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022. The Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and...

The Dayton Contemporary Dance Company received a $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). The funding will support personnel expenses from January 1, 2022 to June 30, 2022 to aid the organization's response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program, this award will help the Dayton...

The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota received a $341,182 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will fund the hiring of five collections and digitization staff positions and one curatorial position, as well as the purchase of digital photography equipment. This staffing and technical support will enable the digitization of over 6,000...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to African Dance Works of Heritage Works in Michigan. The grant was awarded under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) to support personnel, facilities, safety supplies, and marketing expenses from January 1, 2022 through March 31, 2023 in response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program aims to...