Past
Grantees

Dancer Ponepraseuth Suryadhay received $1,450 for ten days of travel and study in Santa Ana, California, and Des Moines, Iowa. In California, she'll meet visit a former mentor in Laotian classical dance. In Iowa, she'll meet with members of the Natasinh National Lao Dance and Music Ensemble. It is Suryadhay's desire to revitalize herself as a dancer and work on making Laotian dance a vibrant part of the Twin Cities community.

Theater for the New City, New York City, received $10,000 to support its emerging playwrights program in the 1994-95 season. Theater for the New City nurtures and develops emerging playwrights by giving them space to produce their work.

Ella Troyano received support for Latin Boys Go To Hell, a feature film based on a novel by Andre Salas, a 24 year old, second generation Mexican American writer. The film is set in a working class Latino neighborhood in Brooklyn. Troyano will use a melodramatic style prevalent in much of Mexican popular culture. The film is intended

Artist/photographer KATHERINE TURCZAN will travel to Ukraine and Belarus, for four weeks, to photograph women, meet and study the work of contemporary female photographers.

Danspace Project, New York City, as fiscal agent for choreographer Donna Uchizono, received a two-year grant of $16,000 in general support of Uchizono's choreography in the current and in the 1995-96 seasons. Uchizono is developing the Ivy Project, which will premiere at Dance Theater Workshop in December of 1995. This is the second grant authorized for Uchizono's work.

STEVEN WOODWARD, a sculptor, received a grant to spend four weeks in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles to broaden his understanding of the art being produced and exhibited there.

The Zenon Dance Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $36,000 to commission and perform new dance works by six emerging choreographers. In the 1994-95 season, commissions will be given to Bill Young, Robin Stiehm and a jazz choreographer yet to be selected. This grant marks the ninth consecutive year that the Foundation has awarded funds to Zenon to support choreographic residencies and commissions.

Writer Davida Adedjouma was awarded a grant to spend two months in Australia and surrounding islands. Adedjouma seeks a cultural exchange with black Australian women writers with whom she's been networking for the past two years. She plans to initiate collaborative writing and video projects with those artists.

Dancer/choreographer Sandy Agustin was awarded funding to spend six weeks in the Philippines studying Filipino dance in solo and duet form. The majority of her time will be spent with the Bayanihan Dance Troupe in Manila. Agustin's plan is to investigate as many dances as possible to blend into her modern dance vocabulary.

Composer, musician and educator, Marilyn Allysum received $1,000 to spend six days in the Bay Area of California. She'll take private study in classical music techniques and traditions of the Bansuri flute of India and Gu zhong harp of China. She hopes to bring musical exchanges and co-concerts to Minnesota audiences.