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AMERICAN MUSIC CENTER LIVE MUSIC FOR DANCE PROGRAM AWARDS NEW GRANTS
- $212,450 to Support Live Music and Newly Commissioned Music for Dance in New York City and New Jersey
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NEW YORK – The American Music Center (AMC) has made grants totaling $212,450 to 27 dance companies in New York City and New Jersey as part of the 2008 round of the Live Music for Dance Program. The program helps dance companies meet the expense of musicians’ rehearsal and performance fees, as well as composer commissioning fees and copying costs for performances happening in New York City or New Jersey. Over the past 22 years, Live Music for Dance has distributed over 500 grants totaling more than $5 million to over 200 dance companies. For the fourth year in a row, thanks to a generous grant from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the program has included a separate funding category earmarked for New Jersey-based dance companies.
Current and past awardees represent a broad and diverse stylistic range in both arenas of music and dance. The unique nature of this program benefits both large companies performing established repertoire as well as smaller companies presenting new work. Funding from this program will support dance performances with live and/or new commissioned music throughout New York City and New Jersey in 2008, and will feature over 150 musicians and 27 composers will be engaged as a result of this round of the program.
This year’s grantees include: Anita ChengDance for “Rites of Summer” with live music by Gordon Beeferman; Cornfield Dance for “Dance for a Small Room,” featuring a commission from Koven J. Smith; Dansology for “Blocks of Continuality/Movement-Live Cinema (Blocks),” featuring a commission from Koosil-ja Hwang and Geoff Matters; Human Behavior Explorers for “The Prosaic Body,” featuring a commission by Michelle Nagai; Moving Theater for three new works featuring commissions by Nathan Davis, Mario Diaz de Leon and Du Yun in collaboration with the ICE Ensemble; SHUA Group for “1000 Nows,” for live music played by Stephen Cooper and ensemble players; Stephen Petronio Company for
“Beaty and the Brut,” featuring a commission by Fischerspooner, and Yin Mei Dance for “City of Paper,” featuring a commission by Richard Marriott. A complete list of grantees is attached.
The Live Music for Dance program was founded as the Pocket Orchestra Project in 1986 by the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), and the American Music Center. NYSCA conceived the idea for the Pocket Orchestra Project and co-administered the program for its first three years. From 1989 to 2003, Live Music for Dance was a program of the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, administered by the American Music Center. Beginning with the 2005 round of grants, AMC assumed sole responsibility for the program, including fundraising, application review, and grant administration.
“Live Music for Dance is essential to the dance community,” stated Joanne Hubbard Cossa, Executive Director of the American Music Center. “We are grateful to our consortium of funders who realize the importance of this unique program, and have made it a vital and growing resource for dance companies, composers, and musicians.”
Lead funding for Live Music for Dance in 2008 is provided by the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Baisley Powell Elebash Fund, the Harkness Foundation for Dance, The New York Community Trust – LuEsther T. Mertz Advised Fund, and the New York State Council on the Arts. Funding for New Jersey-based grantees is provided by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.
Since its founding in 1939, the American Music Center has been a leader in providing field-wide advocacy, connection, and support for new American music and the artists who create it. AMC’s programs and services help make possible countless performances of new music each year. AMC has a long history of providing financial support to the field and administers nearly $1.5 million in grants each year. These efforts have served to further the Center’s mission of building a national community for new American music.
Guidelines and application procedures for the program may be found on the AMC website at www.amc.net. The next application deadline will be in fall of 2008. |
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2008 Live Music for Dance Grantees
Dance Company |
State |
Grant |
Project Description |
Alborada Spanish Dance Theatre
www.alboradadance.org |
NJ |
$7,500.00 |
for live music for repertory performances and new works in New Jersey in 2008. |
Anita Cheng Dance
www.chengdance.org |
NY |
$10,000.00 |
for live music in collaboration with Gordon Beeferman for the new work “RITES OF SUMMER," in December 2008 at the Merce Cunningham Studio, New York City |
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Armitage Gone! Dance
www.armitagegonedance.org |
NY |
$5,000 |
for live music for the new work “PATTERNS IN A CHROMATIC FIELD,” an adaptation of Morton Feldman’s score of the same name in January, 2008 at The Joyce Theater, New York City |
Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company
www.carolyndorfmandanceco.org |
NJ |
$7,500.00 |
for live music for “ECHOES,” to take place in July 2008 at Dance Theater Workshop, New York City |
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Cornfield Dance
www.cornfielddance.org |
NY |
$2,500.00 |
for a new commission by Koven J. Smith and live music for "DANCE FOR A SMALL ROOM," in June 2008 at the Center, New York City |
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Dance by Neil Greenberg
www.neilgreenberg.org |
NY |
$15,500.00 |
for a new commission by Zeena Parkins and live music for “Really Queer Dance with Harps,” in June 2008 at the Bessie Schönberg Theater (Dance Theater Works), New York City |
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Danmari Ltd./Yass Hakoshima Movement Theatre
www.yasshakoshima.com |
NJ |
$10,000.00 |
for a new commission by Alla Borzova and live music performed by the Da Capo Chamber Players for the premiere of “ENCOUNTER UNDER THE CLOUD GATE,” in May 2009 at the Ailey Citigroup Theater, New York City. |
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Dansology, Inc.
www.dancekk.com |
NY |
$13,000.00 |
for a new commission by Koosil-ja Hwang and Geoff Matters for “BLOCKS OF CONTINUALITY/MOVEMENT-LIVE CINEMA (BLOCKS),” in December 2008 at Dance Theater Workshop, New York City |
Doug Varone and Dancers
www.dougvaroneanddancers.org |
NY |
$10,000.00 |
for live music for repertory performances in October 2008 at The Joyce Theater, New York City |
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Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana
www.flamenco-vivo.org |
NY |
$ 7,250.00 |
for a commission by Calvin Hazen and live music for the New York premiere of “CARMEN: EL BAILE,” in March 2008 at The Joyce Theater, New York City |
Human Behavior Explorers
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NY |
$ 7,600.00 |
for a new commission by Michelle Nagai and live music for the premiere of “THE PROSAIC BODY,” in September 2008, at CPR – Center for Performable Research in Brooklyn, NY |
Jane Comfort and Company
www.janecomfortandcompany.org |
NY |
$6,500.00 |
for a new commission by Joan LaBarbara and live music for the premiere of “AN AMERICAN RENDITION,” in fall 2008 at Dance Theater Workshop, New York City |
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Jill Sigman/Thinkdance
www.thinkdance.org |
NY |
$5,000.00 |
for a new commission by Kristin Norderval and live music for the premiere of “Our Lady of Detritus,“ in October 2008 at installations throughout New York City |
Jody Sperling/Time Lapse Dance
www.timelapsedance.com |
NY |
$ 4,000.00 |
for a new commission by Quentin Chiappetta and live music for "Ghost Breath," in October 2008 at the Ailey Citigroup Theater, New York City. |
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Lawrence Goldhuber/BIGMANARTS
www.goldhuber.com |
NY |
$ 12,500.00 |
for a new commission by Mark Orton and live music played by Tin Hat for "Sleeping Giant," in October 2008 at the Henry Street Settlement’s Abrons Arts Center, New York City |
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Loco7 Dance Puppet Theatre Company
www.loco7.com |
NY |
$10,000.00 |
for a new commission by Elizabeth Swados and live music for the premiere of “Room to Panic,” in October 2008 at La MaMa ETC, New York City |
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Moving Theater
www.movingtheater.org |
NY |
$12,500.00 |
for three new commissions by Nathan Davis, Mario Diaz de Leon and Du Yun and live music for the premiere of “3 X 3,” to be performed by ICE at the opening celebrations of WNYC’s new headquarters in November 2008, New York City |
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Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
www.nainichen.org |
NJ |
$10,000.00 |
for a new commission by Gerald Chenoweth and live music performed by Melody of Dragon and the Rutgers Percussion Ensemble for the premiere of “The Way of Five: Water,” in February 2008 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark, NJ; followed by the New York premiere in May 2008 at the Ailey Citigroup Theater, New York City |
Nimbus Dance Works
www.nimbusdance.com |
NJ |
$4,200.00 |
for live music by the Aaron Parks Trio for “Purmuted Pursuit,” in June 2008 at Grace Church Van Vorst, Jersey City, NJ |
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Racoco Productions
www.racoco.org |
NY |
$4,500.00 |
for a new commission by Chris Becker and live music performed by The Chris Becker Quartet for “Like Dirt,” in February 2008 at The Secret Theater, Long Island City, NY |
Sarah Michelson
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NY |
$7,500.00 |
for a new commission by Pete Drungle and rehearsal fees for “CRY CRY CRY CRY CRY CRY CRY CRY CRY.” |
SHUA Group
www.shuagroup.org |
NJ |
$5,800.00 |
for live music by Stephen Cooper and ensemble players for the new work “1000 Now,” premiering in 2008 |
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Stephen Petronio Company
www.stephenpetronio.com |
NY |
$10,000.00 |
for a new commission by Fischerspooner, and live music performed by the Young People's Chorus of New York City for the premiere of “BEAUTY AND THE BRUT,” in April 2008 at The Joyce Theater, New York City |
Tiffany Mills Company
www.tiffanymillscompany.org |
NY |
$3,500.00 |
for live music performed by Ikue Mori for the premiere of " LandFall," in June 1008 at The Duke on 42nd Street, New York City |
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Trisha Brown Dance Company
www.trishabrowncompany.org |
NY |
$8,500.00 |
for live music for “FORAY FORET,” in February 2008 at The Joyce Theater, New York City |
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Yin Mei Dance
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NY |
$8,500.00 |
for a new commission by Richard Marriott and live music for the premiere of “CITY OF PAPER,” in May 2008 at the Colden Center for the Performing Arts, Flushing, NY |
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Zach Morris/Tom Pearson, Third Rail Projects
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NY |
$3,600.00 |
for a new commission by Kris Bauman and live music performances of “VANISHING POINT” on June 25 – 28, 2008 at Danspace Project, St. Marks Church in New York City, New York. |
For more information, contact
Manager of Grantmaking Programs
American Music Center
30 W. 26th St., Suite 1001
New York, NY 10010
Tel: (212) 366-5260 x29
Email: grantmanager@amc.net
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