Summary
A prominent grant program for dance, the National Dance Project, is distributing its final round of grants in its current form. The program, affected by the Mellon Foundation withdrawing its support, is providing 20 projects with up to $100,000 each. The future of the program remains uncertain, although the Doris Duke Foundation still plans to support it.
Key Facts
- The National Dance Project is giving out grants of up to $100,000 to 20 dance projects across the U.S.
- This is the last grant cycle in the current format because the Mellon Foundation stopped funding the project.
- The New England Foundation for the Arts runs the grant program.
- Projects like "THE 24/7 DINER" and "Echoing Memories in a Distant Future" are among the recipients.
- Indira Goodwine-Josias, the senior program director of dance at NEFA, expressed concerns about the future impact of the grant without Mellon's support.
- The Doris Duke Foundation will continue to support the project, potentially providing more information later this year.
- The National Dance Project started in the mid-1990s to fill the funding gap for dance caused by cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts.
