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Dannell (Dever) Shu
1998
Dance
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$1,500
DANNELL DEVER received a grant to spend three weeks at the Bates Dance Festival in Lewiston, Maine. Dever will be involved in a course of intensive study in contact improvisation with master teacher Nancy Stark Smith.
Dance
Robin Stiehm
1998
Dance
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$1,765
A grant was awarded to choreographer and dancer ROBIN STIEHM to spend 30 days in Yaroslavl, Russia. Stiehm will attend an international dance festival and develop collaborations with Russian dancers.
Dance
Morgan Thorson
1998
Dance
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$4,834
MORGAN THORSON, dancer and choreographer, was awarded a grant to spend nine weeks in Seattle, Washington, to study and be certified in Skinner Release Technique. Thorson will study with Stephanie Skouras, Robert Davidson and Joan Skinner, the Techniques masters.
Dance
Mary Collins
1997
Dance
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$3,000
MARY COLLINS, producer of the Twin Cities Tap Festival, received a grant to travel to Chicago, Illinois; St. Louis, Missouri; and Portland, Oregon. Collins will attend and examine long established tap dance festivals in each of the three cities in order to collect information which will contribute to the effectiveness of the festival in the Twin Cities.
Dance
Susana di Palma
1997
Dance
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$3,880
Choreographer and flamenco dancer SUSANA DI PALMA received funding to travel to Seville and Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. She will attend a flamenco festival and will also conduct research at the Foundacion del Arte Flamenco.
Dance
Morris Johnson, Jr.
1997
Dance
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$4,300
Choreographer MORRIS JOHNSON will examine the dances and culture of Salvador da Bahia and Manaus da Amazonas, Brazil. Over a four-week period, he will study with Ballet Folclorico da Bahia, attend festivals and performances in Salvador and experience Amazon Indian culture in the Manaus/Amazonas region.
Dance
Gwen LaVine
1997
Dance
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$1,626
Tap dancer and instructor GWEN LAVINE of Baxter, received a grant to attend the Florida Dance Festival in Tampa, Florida. She will undertake intensive tap study and classes in other dance styles at the Festival.
Dance
Teresa Neby
1997
Dance
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$2,500
Appalachian folk dancer TERESA NEBY received a grant to travel through Western North Carolina, Virginia and Eastern Tennessee. Under the guidance of folklorist Phil Jamison, she will study Appalachian traditions and dance.
Dance
Hedwidge M. Tripp
1997
Dance
Minnesota
Travel and Study
HEDWIDGE TRIPP, Artistic Director of Full House Dance Company in St. Cloud, received funding to travel to Huta Ginjang, North Sumatra, Indonesia. She will experience and study the traditional dances of the Toba Batak in the village of Huta Ginjang
Dance
Cathy Young
1997
Dance
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$1,300
Choreographer CATHY YOUNG received funding to travel to New York City to spend ten days in intensive yoga study with Susan Braham. In addition to being a yoga master, Braham is a dancer and choreographer who understands the particular needs of dancers.
Dance
Chris Aiken
1996
Dance
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$1,800
Dancer, choreographer and teacher CHRIS AIKEN received subsidy to travel to a Danceabilitly Conference and to the Breitenbush Contact Jam in Oregon, in order to connect with other artists doing integrated dance work and practicing improvisation. The Danceability Conference is being presented by Joint Forces Dance Company in Eugene, Oregon. The Conference gathers disabled and non-disabled dancers from across North America and Europe.
Dance
Djola Branner
1996
Dance
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$3,145
Artist DJOLA BERNARD BRANNER received a grant to study secular and sacred Haitian dance in Haiti. Branner will begin his studies at the Haitian-American School of Contemporary Ballet in Del Mas and will also attend the Rara Festival.
Dance
Katsushi D. Fukasawa
1996
Dance
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$3,950
Support was awarded to dancer KATSUSHI FUKASAWA to experience traditional Bharatanatyam dance in its place of origin. Fukasawa, for the past two years has been performing with Ragamala Music and Dance Theater, and will travel to India to study with noted teachers and to observe performance.
Dance
Donald LaCourse
1996
Dance
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$3,335
Subsidy was awarded to choreographer DONALD LACOURSE to attend a folklore festival in Rzeszow, Poland, and an intensive week-long dance workshop in Benesov, in the Czech Republic. He will increase his knowledge of the dances and folklore of these countries and regions. This investigation is being undertaken to create a week-long residency program and develop choreography for the Ethnic Dance Theatre
Dance
Diane Waller
1996
Dance
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$3,350
Choreographer DIANE WALLER received support to work with John Boesche, one of the leading projection designers in the country. Waller will travel to Chicago at two different times to sit in or planning and design meetings, to acquaint herself with Boesche's studio and his way of working. She will then travel to Calgary to observe the installation of a large project he is undertaking there.
Dance
Kim Konikow
1995
Dance
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$5,000
Executive Director of the Minnesota Dance Alliance, KIM KONIKOW will travel for two months in Australia and New Zealand for personal exploration and growth to support her professional work in the future.
Dance
Rita Mustaphi
1995
Dance
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$5,000
RITA MUSTAPHI, a choreographer, dancer and teacher, received a grant to travel for eight weeks in India to study the frontiers of Kathak innovations; collaborate with a choreographer; perform; create music with composers; and visit and research sculptures, classrooms and artists.
Dance
Linda Shapiro
1995
Dance
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$2,905
Choreographer, writer and performer, LINDA SHAPIRO will spend two weeks in Chicago, Illinois, to work with Liz Lerman and the Dance Exchange on a series of workshops and performances with a multi-cultural group of Polish, Greek and Latino-Americans.
Dance
Kelli A. Tennyson
1995
Dance
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$1,945
Dancer KELLI TENNYSON will attend a three-week workshop with Nancy Stark Smith in Northampton, Massachusetts, to broaden her experience as an improviser and to continue advancing her skills as a dancer.
Dance
Erin Thompson
1995
Dance
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$2,021
ERIN THOMPSON, a dancer, choreographer and teacher, will spend seven days in San Francisco, California, studying compositional ideas and processes using vocal work, text and images with Joe Goode in the Joe Goode Performance Group Workshop.