NATIONAL COLLEGE CHOREOGRAPHY INITIATIVE:
Supporting the Past, Present, and Future of American Dance
Table of Contents
Honor the Past, Imagine the Future
Opening Comments From Douglas C. Sonntag, NEA & Andrea Snyder, Dance/USA
The National College Choreography Initiative
Supporting the Past, Present and Future of American Dance
Overview by Suzanne Callahan.
Riffing on the Legacy
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar at Five College Dance Department, Massachusetts
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar’s new work, inspired by Pearl Primus, explored the honoring of African and African
American tradition through contemporary eyes.
Dancing Diasporas
University of Minnesota brings Cloud Gate and Taiwanese History to Minneapolis
Cloud Gate Dance Theater’s piece about Taiwanese migration highlighted how issues of identity can
arise when performing the work of a distinct culture.
The Joint is Jumping–from Hollywood Past to Campus Present
Rhode Island College Captures Jack Cole’s Jazz Legacy
Danny Buraczeski’s restaging of Jack Cole’s mastery illustrated how vernacular cultures were translated
onto movie screens and into a society’s memories of a particular era of American history.
Learning to Speak a New Language
Mastering Merce Cunningham at New World School of the Arts, Florida
The reconstruction of Merce Cunningham’s choreography and study of his technique embodied the
integrity that must be maintained in performing signature movement vocabulary by a master artist.
The Planets Align
Duke University Reconstructs Antony Tudor’s Long-Lost Ballet, North Carolina
The reconstruction of an Antony Tudor ballet showed the ways in which educators, professional dancers,
and students can work as a team to reenact dances from the ballet canon.
NCCI Tours to Washington, DC
A Capital Showcase–12 Grantees Perform at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
The culminating performances that took place at The Kennedy Center illustrated the kind of
unanticipated opportunities that developed as momentum built around NCCI.
Appendix
NCCI Project Synopses show the range of Artists, Dance Forms, and Works that were Completed in all 50 states plus DC
Credits
Back to information about the NCCI program.
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