Past
Grantees

Carolyn Strachan received support for Drowned Rats, an allegorical comedy, a curious anthropological study of New Yorkers from a rat's point of view. Drowned Rats looks at our lives, through the eyes of the "other" voyeuristically, sometimes exotically, observing the rituals and minutiae of daily lives from the perspective of the underground.

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.