- $600,000
Dark Genius: The Story of Jerome Robbins
Recipient: Lacy, Susan (New York, NY 10001 USA) in affiliation with Educational Broadcasting Corporation
Goal: Production of a two-hour documentary film chronicling the life and achievements of Jerome Robbins, choreographer and theater director (1918-98).
Description: DARK GENIUS: THE STORY OF JEROME ROBBINS (w.t.)is the first audio-visual documentary examining the life and work of the preeminent director/choreographer. Through Robbins's story, we gain insights into the history of American ballet; the evolution of American musical theater; the aspirations and struggles of immigrants as they strive to become assimilated into the fabric of American life; and the impact of HUAC on Robbins and on the Broadway theater. This two-hour program, including selections from some of the most significant American musicals and ballets, reveals not only the inner conflicts of a complex man, but illuminates the ways in which Robbins's story reflects America's search for identity in the twentieth century.
Grant: 181441 / TI-50033-06, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media TV Production, Year Awarded: 2006 - $132,000
Preservation of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Collection
Recipient: Rink, Bennett (New York, NY 10019 USA) in affiliation with Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.
Goal: The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater archives will be digitized to protect the collection of music manuscripts and orchestrations, photographs, scrapbooks, posters, souvenir books, and other materials that document the theater's performance history as well as Alvin Ailey's creative process and role as an educator.
Grant: 181729 / PT-50031-06, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Save America's Treasures, Year Awarded: 2006 - $256,206
Processing and Making Accessible the Jerome Robbins Collection
Recipient: Nichols, Madeleine M (New York, NY 10023-7498 USA) in affiliation with New York Public Library (New York, NY 10018 USA)
Goal: Processing, rehousing, and reformatting the Jerome Robbins (1918-1998) collection, which includes office records, scrapbooks, photographs, engravings and set and costume designs, films, videotapes, and audiotapes.
Grant: 158335 / PA-24118-02, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation/Access Projects, Year Awarded: 2002 - $30,000
Body and Soul (formerly Praise the Human Body! The Spiritual Tradition in American Modern Dance)
Recipient: Myers, Gerald (New London, CT 06320-0000 USA) in affiliation with American Dance Festival, Inc. (Durham, NC 27708 USA)
Goal: Planning of a three-part documentary film series examining the spiritual nature of dance in the history of modern dance in America.
Grant: 157096 / GN-30031-02, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media, Humanities Projects in, Year Awarded: 2002 - $243,493
Creating an Interface Between a Computer Animating Program and a Computer Program for Dance Notation
Recipient: Fox, Ilene K (New York, NY 10001 USA) in affiliation with Dance Notation Bureau (New York, NY 10010 USA)
Goal: The development of software to translate information between a computer animation program and a program for dance notation.
Grant: 158157 / PA-23702-01, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation/Access Projects, Year Awarded: 2001 - $300,700
When The Spirit Moves: The Africanization of American Movement
Recipient: Fleming, John E (Cincinnati, OH 45203 USA) in affiliation with National Afro-American Museum (Wilberforce, OH 45384 USA)
Goal: To support a national traveling exhibition and accompanying catalog on the history of African American dance and its influence on American popular culture.
Grant: 156226 / GM-25865-98, Division: Public Programs, Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in, Year Awarded: 1998 - $640,000
Free to Dance: The Black Tradition in American Modern Dance
Recipient: Reinhart, Charles (Durham, NC 27708 USA) in affiliation with American Dance Festival, Inc.
Goal: To support the production of a one-hour pilot film for a three-part documentaryseries on the African American tradition in 20th-century American modern dance.
Grant: 156905 / GN-25368-96, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media, Humanities Projects in, Year Awarded: 1996 - $200,000
Dance Heritage Coalition: Access to Dance Research Resources
Recipient: Kordish, Heike C (New York, NY 10018-0000 USA) in affiliation with New York Public Library (New York, NY 10018 USA)
Goal: To support a cooperative project to catalog primary research materials for the study of dance and to create detailed finding aids searchable on the Internet. Approximately 20,000 items and 100 linear feet of archives would be described.
Grant: 157901 / PA-22866-96, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation/Access Projects, Year Awarded: 1996 - $30,000
Closer to the Truth: The Black Tradition in American Modern Dance
Recipient: Reinhart, Charles (Durham, NC 27708 USA) in affiliation with American Dance Festival, Inc.
Goal: To support scripting of a one-hour pilot documentary film for a three-part series on the black tradition in modern dance.
Grant: 156895 / GN-25257-95, Division: Public Programs, Program: Media, Humanities Projects in, Year Awarded: 1995 - $963,015
Dance Heritage Coalition: Access to Resources for the History of Dance in Seven Repositories
Recipient: Kordish, Heike C (New York, NY 10018-0000 USA) in affiliation with New York Public Library (New York, NY 10018 USA)
Goal: To support a cooperative project to arrange, describe, catalog, and preserve primary resources held in seven repositories that document the history of dance, entering 5,000 records into the national bibliographic utilities.
Grant: 158856 / PS-20797-94, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation/Access Projects Pre 1996, Year Awarded: 1994 - $191,718
Reformatting DANCE IN AMERICA Videotapes
Recipient: Kinberg, Judy (New York, NY 10001-0000 USA) in affiliation with Educational Broadcasting Corporation (New York, NY 10001 USA)
Goal: To support the preservation of 17 programs from the "Dance in America" series that were originally broadcast on public television from 1976 through 1984.
Grant: 158794 / PS-20590-93, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation/Access Projects Pre 1996, Year Awarded: 1993 - $271,373
African-American Perspectives in Modern Dance
Recipient: Myers, Gerald (New London, CT 06320-0000 USA) in affiliation with American Dance Festival, Inc. (Durham, NC 27708 USA)
Goal: To support a series of nationwide public programs, in conjunction with a tour of performances, examining the roles and contributions of African Americans to the evolution of modern concert dance.
Grant: 157242 / GP-21784-92, Division: Public Programs, Program: Special Projects, Year Awarded: 1992 - $7,000
The International Encyclopedia of Dance, Vol 6, ed. by Selma Jeanne Cohen
Recipient: Withey, Lynne E (Berkeley, CA 94704 USA) in affiliation with University of California Press (Berkeley, CA 94720 USA)
Goal: To support the publication of the sixth and final volume of the INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DANCE.
Grant: 161004 / RP-21643-92, Division: Research Programs, Program: Scholarly Publications, Year Awarded: 1992 - $87,400
African-American Perspectives in Modern Dance
Recipient: Myers, Gerald (New London, CT 06320-0000 USA) in affiliation with American Dance Festival, Inc. (Durham, NC 27708 USA)
Goal: To support a series of nationwide public programs, in conjunction with a tour of performances, that will examine the roles and contributions of African Americans to the evolution of modern concert dance.
Grant: 157217 / GP-21701-91, Division: Public Programs, Program: Special Projects, Year Awarded: 1991 - $14,000
Limon Institute Modern Dance Archival Project
Recipient: Owen, Norton (New York, NY 10012 USA) in affiliation with Jose Limon Dance Foundation (New York, NY 10003 USA)
Goal: To support arrangement and description of the Jose Limon Dance Company ar- chives and production of a printed guide and machine-readable entries in the Research Libraries Information Network national bibliographic data base.
Grant: 159264 / RC-21870-90, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Reference Materials - Access, Year Awarded: 1990 - $7,000
International Encyclopedia of Dance, ed. by Selma Jeanne Cohen; 5 Volumes
Recipient: Withey, Lynne E (Berkeley, CA 94704 USA) in affiliation with University of California Press (Berkeley, CA 94720 USA)
Goal: To support the publication of a five-volume collection of illustrated articles on all aspects of dance.
Grant: 160896 / RP-21352-90, Division: Research Programs, Program: Scholarly Publications, Year Awarded: 1990 - $94,580
The Black Tradition in American Modern Dance
Recipient: Myers, Gerald (New London, CT 06320-0000 USA) in affiliation with American Dance Festival, Inc. (Durham, NC 27708 USA)
Goal: To support an examination of the achievements of black American choreographers in the development of 20th-century modern dance through panel discussions, symposia, and a booklet of essays.
Grant: 157160 / GP-21504-89, Division: Public Programs, Program: Special Projects, Year Awarded: 1989 - $72,821
The Black Tradition in American Modern Dance
Recipient: Myers, Gerald (New London, CT 06320-0000 USA) in affiliation with American Dance Festival, Inc. (Durham, NC 27708 USA)
Goal: To support a series of nine panel discussions and an interpretive booklet ex- ploring the achievements of black American choreographers in the development ofmodern American dance.
Grant: 157135 / GP-21422-88, Division: Public Programs, Program: Special Projects, Year Awarded: 1988 - $13,000
Soviet Choreography of the 1920s, by Elizabeth Souritz, translated by Lynn Vission
Recipient: Ferguson, Joanne (Durham, NC 27708 USA) in affiliation with Duke University Press
Goal: To support the publication of a study of Soviet choreography in the 1920s, a period of great innovation for the Russian ballet.
Grant: 160807 / RP-21144-88, Division: Research Programs, Program: Scholarly Publications, Year Awarded: 1988 - $81,312
Preserving America's Cultural Heritage By Providing Access to the Archives of the American Ballet Theatre
Recipient: Nichols, Madeleine M (New York, NY 10023-7498 USA) in affiliation with New York Public Library (New York, NY 10018 USA)
Goal: To support the arrangement and description of the musical scores, photographs, correspondence, and 280 linear feet of records from the archives of the Ameri- can Ballet Theater. The collection will be available for research.
Grant: 159159 / RC-21344-87, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Reference Materials - Access, Year Awarded: 1987 - Endowment for the humanities grants to category Dance History and Criticism; items 1-21 of 45 with a total funding of $4,235,618.