The sun has set on the Irvine Dance in California program. Dance/USA is extremely grateful for the nine years of funding the James Irvine Foundation has provided, and to have served as the administrating organization supporting individual dance artists throughout the state of California. For additional information about grants available to California artists, please go to www.irvine.org.

Dance: Creation to Performance

Dance: Creation to Performance (DCP) was created in 2004 as part of the third three-year, $1 million grant to Dance/USA from The James Irvine Foundation, following the Irvine Fellowships in Dance and the California
DanceMaker Grants. All three now function under the umbrella of The Irvine Dance in California Program, which provides funding and support to the California dancemaking community. The goal of the program is to foster artistic excellence among a diverse group of dancemakers and to support innovative ways for them to share new dance works with communities across the State. It is administered by Julie Carson in Los Angeles for Dance/USA.

DCP Calendar of Performances

Meet the 2005 DCP Artists

Meet the 2004 DCP Artists

• Nineteen California Dance Artists Receive Dance: Creation to Performance Grants Totaling $225,000
  (August 2006, PDF)
  Dance/USA and The James Irvine Foundation announce the third year of Dance: Creation to Performance (DCP) awards, ranging from $5,000 to $20,000 each to 19 California-based dance artists, to support the creation and public sharing of new work.

• Twenty California Dance Artists Receive Dance: Creation to Performance Grants Totaling $225,000
  (July 25, 2005, PDF)
  Dance/USA and The James Irvine Foundation announce the second year of Dance: Creation to Performance (DCP) awards, ranging from $5,000 to $20,000 each to 20 California-based dance artists, to support the creation and public sharing of new work.

• Eighteen California Dance Artists Receive Dance: Creation to Performance Grants Totaling $225,000 (August 25, 2004; PDF, 128k)
  Dance/USA and the James Irvine Foundation have announced the first year of Dance: Creation to Performance (DCP) awards, ranging from $5,000 to $20,000 each to 18 California-based dance artists, to support the creation and public sharing of new work.

• Dance/USA Receives $1 Million from Irvine Foundation for Continued Support for California Dance Artists (December 22, 2003)
  Dance/USA has received a $1 million grant from The James Irvine Foundation to conduct "Dance: Creation to Performance" — a regranting program that will award 11 or more grants totaling $225,000 annually for three consecutive years.

From 1998 through 2003, the program administered two three-year initiatives that provided $1,380,000 in funding to dancemakers:

• The California DanceMaker Grants awarded 30 California dancemakers with promising artistic futures grants of $10,000 each for the development of new work.



• The Irvine Fellowships in Dance awarded 24 California dance artists of merit Fellowships of $30,000 each to support artistic development. These artists (Fellows) also received additional financial support enabling each Fellow to connect the learning and creative process generated by their original project to the general public.



• Irvine Fellowships in Dance Article:
  http://www.irvine.org/publications/iq/archive/vol4_issue1/arts.shtml