Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

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Public Knowledge

to support the programs of the American Dance Festival

Connecticut College: Theater Component, Project: Music and Dance, Total Theater - American Dance Festival

toward support of the Dance Television Workshop

Dance Television Workshop

to support commissioning and creative development residencies, dance documentation, preservation, and services to the field

Dance Related Organizations

toward support of its 1978 Dance Television Workshop

1978 Dance Television Workshop

to support dance reconstructions and organizational development

Dance Reconstructions and Development Staff

for development of ways to increase earned and contributed income

Short-Season Theatre/Dance Program

to support artistic initiatives and organizational development

to support commissioning of new work and to strengthen administrative capacity

to develop and extend its artistic activity

Seasonal Theatre/Dance Program

Program Support

to support new commissions, and revivals and reconstructions of classic works

Commissions & Masterwork Revivals

to continue support for American Dance Recon and the operations of American Dance Abroad

American Dance Abroad

to support the work of American Dance Abroad

to continue support for the New American Dance Initiative

New American Dance Initiative

2004 Dance Festival

Fall for Dance Festival

to support the 2005 Fall for Dance Festival

Dance Archives

to endow and support the Fall for Dance Festival

Fall for Dance Festival Endowment

to support the American Realness dance festival

American Realness Festival

general support of this national service agency for dancers and dance companies

General Support

to support American Realness, a dance and contemporary performance festival

to support the Orchestra’s American Music Festival

American Music Festival

to support the American Music Festival and related composer activities

toward costs of an inventory, analysis, and evaluation of the dance archives

to support artistic programs and leadership forums in the dance field

to support commissioning and residencies, dance documentation and preservation, and services to the field

to strengthen services to choreographers and modern dance companies

Dance Company Special Initiative

Spring for Music Orchestra Festival

to support the Improvise! festival and conference exploring improvisation and the orchestra

Improvise! Festival

to continue support for a festival celebrating contributions of African American orchestral and chamber musicians and its first tour to New York City

Gateways Festival

to support the 2007 American Composers Festival, Los Sonidos de Mexico

2007 American Composers Festival

to support Saira Barbaric launch the inaugural Mouthwater Festival of disabled creatives

Mouthwater Festival Support

to support the Pillow LAB dance residency program

Pillow Lab

Expanded Dance Programming

to support capacity building for a festival celebrating classical musicians of African descent

to assist the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater to develop ways to increase earned and contributed income

Modern Dance Program

to create new work, including fresh adaptations of existing pieces, for the repertoire of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Spring for Music

to support American Revolutions:  The United States History Cycle as follows:  $400,000 payable immediately and $200,000 to be matched one-to-one

American Revolutions

to support the creation of new work for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Single-Choreographer Dance Companies

to support American Revolutions: The United States History Cycle

American Revolutions Project

to support the commissioning of up to 37 new plays through American Revolutions:The United States History Cycle

to support the Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival

Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival

to support a Spring for Music: Orchestras Alive! festival of North American orchestras

Spring for Music - Orchestras Alive - Festival of North American Orchestras

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

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Borderlands Cultures

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Civic Engagement

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Evolving Higher Education

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Expanding Public Knowledge

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Monuments and Memory

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Multivocality

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Power of the Word

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Public Places‚ Public Stories

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Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

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