The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage has awarded $914,500 through Dance Advance to 9 dance projects for 2013. Fringe/Arts Available Light 2013 Grantee: Presenting Organization, Production $250,000 Recovery and presentation of choreographer Lucinda Childs’s 1983 work Available Light with collaborators John Adams (music) and Frank Gehry (architect/scenic design). Tania Isaac open notebook: crazy beautiful [...]

Twelve local dance artists and organizations receive $812,000 in funding The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage has awarded $812,000 through Dance Advance to 12 dance projects, representing seven individual artists, three dance companies, and two presenting organizations in the Philadelphia area. Two individual artists are first-time grantees; one is a first-time applicant. These projects [...]

Nine local dance artists and organizations receive $929,000 in funding The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Dance Advance has awarded a total of $929,000 to nine outstanding and adventurous dance projects. The grantees represent four dance companies, two presenting organizations, and three individual artists. Dance Advance director Bill Bissell commented, “This year’s grantees [...]

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, through Dance Advance, announced $920,000 in grants to 16 artists, companies, and presenting organizations for the 2010–2011 performing season. Four grants out of 16 went to first-time grantees. Projects funded by Dance Advance include local premieres of works by some of the world’s leading choreographers, including Roland Petit, [...]

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage announces the launch of danceworkbook, a series of web based and DVD-ROM publications produced by Dance Advance. The danceworkbook series will establish a body of reference material concerned with interrogating a variety of choreographic processe —stages of creation and development that form the ‘back story’ to the finished [...]

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage announces the launch of danceworkbook, a series of web based and DVD-ROM publications produced by Dance Advance. The danceworkbook series will establish a body of reference material concerned with interrogating a variety of choreographic processe —stages of creation and development that form the ‘back story’ to the finished [...]

Dance Advance in association with White Bird (Portland, OR) and anoukvandijk dc (Amsterdam, NL) present classes in The Countertechique© training of Dutch artist Anouk van Dijk. This workshop series will be led by company members Birgit Gunzl and Philipp Fricke. Live musical accompaniment will be provided by Tim Motzer. What is Countertechnique©? Anouk van Dijk [...]

Dance Advance today announced a record $917,000 in grants to 26 artists, companies, and organizations for the 2009-2010 performing season. From a total of 60 applicants requesting project support from Dance Advance, six grants went to first-time grantees and two to first-time applicants. Dance Advance is an artistic initiative of The Pew Center for Arts [...]