The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Announces 2013 Dance Advance Grant Recipients

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
2013 Grantee: Individual, Planning
$25,000
Support to investigate movement and other vocabulary for crazy beautiful, a new choreographic “open workbook” process.

Leah Stein Dance Company
Research and training project in vocal and movement improvisation and composition
2013 Grantee: Company, Planning
$75,000
Support for research combining vocal and movement improvisation with composer Pauline Oliveros.

Nichole Canuso Dance Company
Solo performance
2013 Grantee: Company, Production
$64,500
Support for performances of Nichole Canuso’s new solo, created in residency relationships with three artists from the United Kingdom.

Pasión y Arte
Nuevo Flamenco: The Galvan Legacy
2013 Grantee: Company, Production
$150,000
Support for Nuevo Flamenco: The Galvan Legacy, a platform featuring the choreography of Israel Galvan as part of the 2014 Philadelphia Flamenco Festival.

Philadanco
Passing on the Heritage: Reconstructing Ulyssses Dove’s “Bad Blood”
2013 Grantee: Company, Production
$100,000
Support for the reconstruction of Bad Blood, choreographed by Ulysses Dove in 1984 and to be recorded by the Dance Notation Bureau.

Gabrielle Revlock
The Dance Apocalypse
2013 Grantee: Individual, Planning
First-time Grantee
$25,000
Support for development of The Dance Apocalypse, a duet with Nicole Bindler based on an inquiry into the nature of creative collaboration with advisor Jane Comfort.

SRUTI, The India Music and Dance Society
Malavika Sarukkai in “The Eternal River – A Journey in Bharatanatyam”
2013 Grantee: Presenting Organization, Production
$150,000
Support for the presentation of Malavika Sarukkai in The Eternal River – A Journey in Bharatanatyam and related residency activities.

Susan Hess Modern Dance
bb/he and dg/together again
2013 Grantee: Presenting Organization, Planning
$75,000
Support to identify institutional partners and cast members for the development of a new work by theater and dance director David Gordon in Philadelphia.

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While not a dancer himself, Weisz’s love for the arts and dance started as a child growing up in New York City. With parents, who were strong supporters of the arts and part of a community with an incredible array of notable artists in music, dance, theater, and fine arts, Weisz’s access and affinity for the performing arts took root. Upon attending college in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania in the mid-’70s, Weisz started performing as a puppeteer, magician, juggler, and fire eater as a means of supplementing his income. This soon grew into what became Rainbow Promotions Inc., one of the largest entertainment and special events producers in the region. It was here that he began to promote and book dance for major events throughout the city. Many of the dancers he worked within the early days of his company are now major choreographers in Philadelphia. At the same time, Weisz’s interest in computers and the early developments of what is now known as the Internet led him to also start another company, Delaware Valley On Line, which became one of the first regional ISPs. It was this combination of event production, internet development, and event marketing that led him to examine the use of the internet as a means to promote the arts. Dance continued to be a major interest for Weisz and in 2005 he founded PhiladelphiaDANCE.org as a major online resource to promote dance in the city. It was soon after that the Dance Journal was also founded as a way to provide an outlet for writing on a range of topics that encompass the ever-growing and emerging dance community in the region. Weisz continues to run both the non-profit PhiladelphiaDANCE and The Dance Journal on purely a voluntary basis with no income derived from any of his projects. He is also the Director of Graffito Works, an international platform for dancers and performing artists in Europe that creates site specific. More recently, Weisz has expanded his creative endeavors into the realm of photography through the establishment of ArtImagined.photo.

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