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National Endowment for the Arts Announces First Round of Grants for FY 2009
Arts Endowment to invest more than $23 million to support arts and arts education projects nationwide
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) today announced its first round of funding for fiscal year 2009, including Access to Artistic Excellence, Challenge America Reaching Every Community Fast Track, and Creativing and Aging in America grants, and Creative Writing Fellowships for individuals. The Arts Endowment will distribute $23,215,500 in this first round of fiscal year 2009 funding to support 1,951 projects by nonprofit national, regional, state, and local organizations nationwide, as well as to 42 poets.
Congratulations to Dance/USA members and the dance field as recipients of 2009 Access to Artistic Excellence grants!
Consequences of Going to the Tape
by Alastair Macaulay
December 12, 2008
The New York Times
For several months the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has been announcing that many evenings of its current 50th-anniversary season at New York City Center will have live music, and which ones. There’s no question that live music makes a difference. If you watch Ailey’s classic “Revelations” from upstairs, there are moments when it’s almost as good to look at the singers as it is to watch the dancing. Nothing about the season’s opening gala was more terrific than the guests who sang, above all Jessye Norman, onstage amid shadow to deliver “Fix Me, Jesus.” But the other live-music performances — for “Revelations” and other ballets — have been sensational too; in Hope Boykin’s new work “Go in Grace,” the musicians are the main event.
Dancing Scientists Invade YouTube
by John Bohannon
November 20, 2008
ScienceNOW Daily News
Six weeks ago, the Gonzo Scientist challenged researchers around the world to interpret their Ph.D. research in dance form, film the dance, and share it with the world on YouTube. By the 11 p.m. deadline on November 23, 36 dances--including solo ballet and circus spectacle--had been submitted online. A panel of nine judges--the three winners of the first "Dance Your Ph.D." contest, three scientists from Harvard University, and three artistic directors of the dance company Pilobolus--scored the dances on their ability to bridge the art and science worlds.
So what does everyone win? Each will be paired with a professional choreographer this week, and together they will attempt to translate a scientific paper the researcher has authored into a dance. Then the four choreographers--all of whom are based in Chicago--will create a single four-part performance based on the papers. In February 2009, the winning scientists will be guests of honor at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Chicago, where, on February 13, they will have front-row seats to the world debut of THIS IS SCIENCE, a professional dance interpretation of their published research.
