NEH grants to dance -- January 2023

[California]

The National Endowment for the Humanities just announced $28.1 million in grants, including several in dance scholarship.

The complete list: https://www.neh.gov/sites/default/files/inline-files/NEH January 2023 grants state by state list.pdf

Grants of interest in dance:

Kara Leaman Outright: $60,000 [NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication] Oberlin College Project Title: Analyzing the Connections Between Choreography and Music in Ballets by George Balanchine Project Description: Research and writing leading to a website analyzing the musicality of George Balanchine’s choreography.

Anthea Kraut Outright: $60,000 [Awards for Faculty] University of California, Riverside Project Title: Hollywood Dance-ins and the Reproduction of Corporeality Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book about Hollywood film musicals of the 1940s to the 1960s and the “dance-in,” a dancer who rehearsed a star’s choreography prior to filming.

Elisa Oh Outright: $40,000 [Awards for Faculty] Howard University Project Title: Choreographies of Race and Gender: Dance, Travel, and Ritual in Early Modern English Literature, 1558–1668 Project Description: Research and writing to complete a book analyzing race and gender hierarchies through representations of dance and movement in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature.

Jennifer Graber Outright: $60,000 [Fellowships] University of Texas, Austin Project Title: A New History of the Ghost Dance Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book on the history and cultural influence of the Ghost Dance (1870s–1970s).

Rebecca Rossen Outright: $60,000 [Fellowships] University of Texas, Austin Project Title: Moving Memories: Representations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Dance Project Description: Research and writing leading to a book about representations of the Holocaust in contemporary dance, from 1961 to the present, through consideration of works by Jewish and non-Jewish choreographers working in eight countries.