Performing Arts Program
2008 Grant Recipients

Grants Approved in Support of
the Performing Arts

2008

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
New York, NY

to support the 50th Anniversary Celebration of free performances in New York City

$10,000

American Ballet Theatre
New York, NY

toward support of New York performances during the 2007 2008 season

$25,000

American Music Center, Inc.
New York, NY

a three-year grant to match an endowment challenge grant to support the Live Music for Dance Program

$100,000

Armitage Gone! Dance
New York, NY

toward support of the two week New York City season at The Kitchen

$7,500

Arts Resources in Collaboration, Inc.
New York, NY

toward matching a National Endowment for the Arts challenge grant

$2,500

Bang on a Can, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY

for general operating support during the 2008 season

$7,500

Bang on a Can, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY

toward general operating support for the Bang On A Can Marathon

$7,500

Brooklyn Academy of Music, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY

for general operating support during the 2009 spring season

$50,000

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York, NY

to support the Society’s 2008 2009 initiatives on behalf of contemporary American music

$15,000

Columbia University
New York, NY

for general operating support of the Miller Theater’s 2007-2008 Early Music Series

$15,000

Columbia University
New York, NY

for general operating support of the Twentieth Anniversary Early Music Series during the Miller Theatre’s 2008-2009 season

$15,000

CSC Repertory LTD
New York, NY

for general operating support during the 2008 2009 season

$12,500

Cunningham Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY

to support the 2008 2009 New York City area performances and related public activities

$25,000

Dance Notation Bureau
New York, NY

to support the recording in Labanotation of a work ‘Celebration’ choreographed by Martha Graham (jointly funded with Research Library Program $15,000 total)

$5,000
Discalced, Inc. $15,000

toward general operating support for the Mark Morris Dance Group

Early Music Foundation
New York, NY

for general operating support during the 2007-2008 season

$7,500

Early Music Foundation
New York, NY

for general operating support during the 2008 2009 season

$7,500

The George Balanchine Foundation
New York, NY

toward support of the Video Archive Project

$10,000

House Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY

toward general operating support for Meredith Monk’s 2008 season

$10,000

House Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY

to support performances by Meredith Monk in New York City during the 2009 season

$10,000

Irish Repertory Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY

for general operating support during the 2008 2009 season

$7,500

Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY

for support of the 2008 ‘Evening Stars' dance series

$30,000

Juilliard School
New York, NY

to support a concert version of the John Adams opera 'The Death of Klinghoffer'

$15,000

Kaufman Center
New York, NY

to support the contemporary music concerts at Merkin Hall during the 2008 2009 season

$10,000

Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc.
New York, NY

to support the 2008 2009 presentation of 'Clytemnestra'

$15,000

Mint Theater Company
New York, NY

for general operating support during the 2007 2008 season

$15,000

Mint Theater Company
New York, NY

in support of the reclamation project of Ernest Hemingway's play, “The Fifth Column” (jointly funded with Research Library and Humanities Programs $6,000 total)

$2,000

Mint Theater Company
New York, NY

for general operating support

$7,500

Music at the Anthology, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY

to support a performance by “So Percussion” during the 2009 season

$5,000

Music at the Anthology, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY

for general operating support of MATA’s concert festival in New York City

$5,000

New York City Ballet, Inc.
New York, NY

toward support of the 2008 Jerome Robbins Celebration (jointly funded with the Humanities Program $50,000 total)

$25,000

New York City Center
New York, NY

toward support of the 2009 “Fall for Dance” Festival

$10,000

New York New Music Ensemble
Staten Island, NY

for general operating support during the 2008 2009 concert season

$5,000

New York Shakespeare Festival
New York, NY

toward support of a production of “Hamlet” during the 2008 Shakespeare in the Park season

$25,000

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY

for general operating support during the 2008-2009 “New Music Initiative”

$10,000

Paul Taylor Dance Company
New York, NY

to help support the Company’s annual New York City Center season

$25,000

Paul Taylor Dance Company
New York, NY

toward general operating support during the 2008 2009 season

$25,000

Pearl Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY

to support the resident acting company during the 2008 2009 25th Anniversary Season

$30,000
Red Bull Theater
New York, NY

for general operating support during the 2008 2009 season

$5,000

Riverside Symphony, Inc.
New York, NY

for general operating support for the orchestra’s 27th New York season

$12,500

Riverside Symphony, Inc.
New York, NY

for general operating support during the 2008 2009 season

$15,000

Roulette Intermedium, Inc.
New York, NY

for general operating support of the “Concert Series of Experimental and Adventurous Music” program

$5,000

Roulette Intermedium, Inc.
New York, NY

for general operating support during the 2008 2009 series of new music

$5,000

School of American Ballet, Inc.
New York, NY

to support the 2008 Summer Course scholarships

$25,000

Sequitur New Music Corporation
New York, NY

for general operating support during the 2008 2009 season

$5,000

Signature Theatre Company
New York, NY

to support the 2008-2009 season honoring the historic Negro Ensemble Company

$5,000

St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, Inc.
New York, NY

to support contemporary music programming during the 2008 2009 season

$20,000

Symphony Space
New York, NY

to support the contemporary music programs during the 2007 2008 season

$10,000

Theatre for a New Audience
New York, NY

for general operating support during the 2008 2009 season

$25,000

Trisha Brown Dance Company, Inc.
New York, NY

for general operating support during the 2008 2009 season

$15,000

Twin Lions, Inc.
New York, NY

toward support of the 2008 “Free for All at Town Hall” season

$10,000

Wooster Group
New York, NY

for general operating support during the 2008-2009 season

$5,000