Grants to dance organizations by the National Endowment for the Arts

[California]

The National Endowment for the Arts has just announced 75 new grants, totaling $1,710,000, to dance organizations. Lots of familiar names in ballet. See pp. 25-42 for the dance grants.

http://arts.gov/sites/default/files/spring-2015-grant-announcement-discipline-list-revised.pdf

[sandik]

Some interesting details

Sarasota Ballet of Florida, Inc. (aka The Sarasota Ballet)
$25,000
Sarasota,FL
To support the presentation of ballets in celebration of the company's 25th anniversary season. The ballets to be presented will include Sir Frederick Ashton's "Marguerite and Armand," "Enigma Variations," and "A Wedding Bouquet." Other proposed performances may include Antony Tudor's "The Leaves are Fading," George Balanchine's "Stars and Stripes," and Bronaslava Nijinska's "Les Biches." In addition to the performances, there
will be a film series and lectures to amplify the season

Jose Limon Dance Foundation (aka Limon Dance Company)
$50,000
New York, NY
To support the Limon International Dance Festival. Coinciding with the company's 70th anniversary, the festival will bring together dance companies from around the world to perform a number of Jose Limon's master works. The festival also will partner with the Joyce Theater in New York City to be part of their educational program, which reaches K-12 students with dance education in their classrooms around the New York City metropolitan area

[Helene]

As noted in the Ballet News and Issues forum, New York Theatre Ballet received $15K to perform Jerome Robbins' "Antique Epigraphs," to be staged by Kyra Nichols.