Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support a joint effort by the Cunningham Dance Foundation and the OpenEnded Group to preserve a signature solo dance by Cunningham and the digital artwork derived from it

Preserving Merce Cunningham's Loops

to support planning, including a detailed investigation of intellectual property rights issues, for the production of a series of broadcast-quality digital films documenting selected works of Merce Cunningham

Merce Cunningham Documentary

to support the digital filming of three Merce Cunningham dances for archival and scholarly purposes

Archival Recording

Cunningham Dance Company Rehearsal Weeks

for development of ways to increase earned and contributed income

Modern Dance Program

to create new work, including fresh adaptations of existing pieces, for its repertoire

to establish an artistic director's discretionary fund

toward making its rehearsal schedule more effective

Dance Companies Program

in support of efforts to adapt artistic and organizational goals to a changing economic environment

Dance Company Special Initiative

Single-Choreographer Dance Companies

to support artistic initiatives and company development

Single Choreographer Dance Companies

to support artistic initiatives and organizational development

to support the institution following losses incurred as a result of the events of September 11, 2001

Disaster Recovery Relief Fund

to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of its rehearsal and touring schedules

Touring-Rehearsals

Mondays with Merce

Living Legacy Plan

Artistic Director Discretionary Fund

to support research on the Merce Cunningham Dance Company archive

Merce Cunningham Archive Research

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

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

to create new work, including fresh adaptations of existing pieces, for the repertoire of the Nikolais Dance Theatre

to establish an artistic director's discretionary fund at the Alvin Ailey City Center Dance Theater

to support the continuation of work on the Paul Taylor Dance Archives

Paul Taylor Dance Archives

to establish an artistic director's discretionary fund at the Nikolais Dance Theatre

to strengthen administrative capacity and to support the creation of new work for Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company

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

to establish an artistic director's discretionary fund at the Murray Louis Dance Company

for general support of the Alvin Ailey City Center Dance Theater

Alvin Ailey City Center Dance Theater

to increase and improve developmental and production support for dance companies and to provide subsidized rehearsal space at Dance Art New York

Dance Presenters Initiative Pilot

to support the reconstruction of seven dances by choreographer Alwin Nikolais

Dance Restorations

to continue support for dance residencies

Dance Residencies

to increase and improve residency support for dance companies at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography

to support dance rehearsal space subsidies

Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy

to support the National Dance Project regranting program

National Dance Project

to support an expansion of the Center for Creative Research, and an increase in national dance touring grants

CCR & National Dance Tours

to support an archival assessment of properties, sets, sculptures, costumes, and other objects derived from Merce Cunningham’s art

Assessment of Cunningham Production Archive 

to strengthen services to choreographers and modern dance companies

to support the take-over of the lease on a space outfitted with 11 dance studios, and the purchase of necessary equipment

Dance Space Venue

to support subsidized rehearsal space for the professional nonprofit dance field

to support artist residencies at Gibney Dance

Artist Residencies at Gibney Dance

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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