Project Grant 19063153323

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Festival Dance & Performing Arts Association Inc., doing business as Festival Dance, to support personnel, facilities, and marketing expenses in response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The grant was awarded on January 1, 2022 with a completion date of July 31, 2024. The funding supports Festival Dance under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). This...

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...

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 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded Muntu Dance Theatre Inc. a $100,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022. The grant funding will support personnel expenses to allow Muntu Dance Theatre Inc. to respond to and recover from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program aims to support opportunities for...

The Chicago Humanities Festival was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs program (CFDA 45.164). The grant will support the development and implementation of six in-person speaker programs on topics related to racial justice, gender equality, and building an inclusive society. These programs will be part of the Chicago Humanities Festival in 2022 and will take place in neighborhoods around Chicago....

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to the International Association of Blacks in Dance Inc. from January 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023 under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). The grant funding will support personnel and facilities expenses to aid the organization's response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program aims to support...

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...

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...

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded a $1,845,300 Project Grant to the Illinois Arts Council under the Promotion of the Arts Partnership Agreements program (CFDA 45.025). The grant will support arts programs, services, and activities carried out under the Illinois Arts Council's NEA-approved strategic plan from July 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023. A sub-award of $100,000 was provided to the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events to support its Community...

The Dance Place received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts to support personnel expenses from January 1, 2022 through August 31, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024), which supports opportunities for all people to participate in the arts and arts education, integrate the arts with strategies that promote well-being and resilience, and build capacity and infrastructure within...