Awards and Grants

On March 22, Judith Jamison, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's artistic director, will receive the 2010 Montblanc De La Culture Award for North America, an annual award for outstanding contributions in the arts. —posted 3/5/2010

Oregon Ballet Theatre has been awarded three foundation grants. OBT received $300,000 from The James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation and $80,000 from the Collins Foundation. In addition, the James R. Kuse Family Foundation will donate $75,000 over three years to fund OBT L.A.B. (Learn About Ballet), an outreach program targeting at-risk youth. —posted 2/23/2010

The Boeing Company Charitable Trust has granted the New England Foundation for the Arts $75,000 for its National Dance Project. —posted 2/18/10

Kansas City Ballet has been awarded a $900,000 challenge grant from the Kresge Foundaton earmarked for renovating the company's permanent home. The Todd Bolender Center for Dance and Creativity, named for KCB's former artistic director, will house the ballet company and its school. —posted  2/1//10

The Critics' Circle National Dance Awards were presented last night at the Royal Opera House in London. Winners include Alexander Grant (De Valois Award for Outstanding Achievement);  Leanne Benjamin, The Royal Ballet (Best Female Dancer); Paul Liburd, Scottish Ballet (Best Male Dancer); Ballet Black (Outstanding Company); and Merce Cunningham Dance Company (Best Foreign Dance Company). For the other awardees, see www.nationaldanceawards.com. —posted 1/21/2010

The MacArthur Foundation has awarded the Ruth Page Foundation a matching Challenge Grant of $100,000. —posted 1/15/10

American Ballet Theatre's Maria Bystrova has been named the Jennifer Alexander Dancer for 2010. The award is bestowed upon a senior female member of the corps de ballet who "best represents the professionalism, perserverance, and generosity that Jennifer herself embodied." Bystrova joined ABT in 2000. —posted 1/8/10

Dane Campell, director of Full Effect Dance Theatre, has been awarded the 2009 Dance Chicago Choreographer of the Year Award. He joins past awardees Lauri Stallings (2004) and Julia Rhoads (2002). —posted 12/22/09

Trisha Brown has been named the 2010/2011 Rolex Dance mentor. Brown joins past mentors Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, William Forsythe, and Jirí Kylián. Next spring, she will select her protégé from a group of Rolex-nominated finalists for a year-long creative collaboration. —posted 12/08/09

Liz Lerman Dance Exchange is a receipient of a $125,000 grant from MetLife Foundation. It will go towards the MetLife Foundation Healthy Living Initiave at Dance Exchange, a new program that combines art and wellness. —posted 10/30/09

American Ballet Theatre has been awarded a $500,000 matching grant from the Arison Arts Foundation. It will go towards ABT's pre-professional programs and will fund the ABT/Gold Scholar Partnership, awarded to YoungArts Awardees. —posted 10/30/09

Celebrated dancer and Complexions co-founder Desmond Richardson will receive the YoungArts Alumni Award at YoungArts' An Affair of the Arts gala on Jan. 16. Richardson is a 1986 YoungArts alumnus in modern dance. —posted 10/21/09

The Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. and New York City Ballet are 2 of 18 NYC cultural organizations that have received grants from the Rockefeller Foundation. The Joyce will use its funding for residencies and NYCB wil commission new works for a set designed by architect Santiago Calatrava. The grants are awarded over two years and range from $50,000 to $250,000 —posted 10/15/09

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theatre students Sterline Bara, 16, from Larkspur, CO, and Chauncie Parchment, from Brooklyn, NY, have been awarded full scholarships by the Dizzy Feet Foundation. —posted 10/14/09 

Ananya Chatterjea of Ananya Dance Theatre has been honored as the Local Mother of Environmental Justice by the Women’s Environmental Institute in St. Paul, MN. —posted 10/5/09