Grantee Database

American Dance Abroad

• 2012
• Dance

To support the attendance of Asian presenters at the Guangdong Modern Dance Festival in China, November 2012, and to support a symposium and performances related to the festival. (Fiscally sponsored by DanceWorks, Inc.)

American Folklore Society

• 2012

to support for the first year of the China-U.S. Forum on Intangible Cultural Heritage (FICH) professional exchange program.

California College of the Arts

Country / Region:
• United States

• 2012
• Arts Criticism

for a two-week grant to enable Zoe Butt, executive director of Sàn Art in Ho Chi Minh City, to serve as a guest faculty member in the California College of Art’s M.A. Program in Curatorial Practice.

• 2001
• United States to United States

support for faculty members from the Yunnan Nationalities Institute to travel to Washington, New York and the Navaho Nation in connection with an exchange program

Cathedral of Saint John the Divine

• 2012

• 2012

• 2012

• 2012

Center for Religion and Media, NYU

• 2012
• Film/Video

to enable filmmaker Yang Lina to participate in the 2012 Reel China @NYU Documentary Film Festival.

Cho Seoungho

Country / Region:
• Korea

• 2012
• Film/Video
• United States to Cambodia

for a one-month grant to carry out research and shoot video at Angkor Wat in June 2012.

City Contemporary Dance Company

Country / Region:
• Hong Kong

• 2012
• Dance
• Hong Kong to Hong Kong

To support the participation of Yu Cheng Chieh and Marianne Kim in the Jumping Frames International Dance Video Festival 2012

• 1999
• Dance

Air fare support for Ralph Lemon's 3-week teaching residency in Beijing in Sept. 1999. Grant given to CROSS PERFORMANCE, INC.

• 1998
• Dance
• United States to Hong Kong

to enable four teachers from the American performance/research ensemble Image Lab to conduct Contact Improvisation workshops at the City Contemporary Dance Company in Hong Kong in summer 1998

• 1997
• Dance
• Hong Kong to Hong Kong

to enable Elise Bernhardt, Dancing in the Streets director to undertake a short-term residency

Sonja Dahl

Country / Region:
• United States

• 2012
• Crafts

for a six-month grant to research Javanese batik and indigo use in Indonesia in 2012.

Karla Diaz

Country / Region:
• United States

• 2012
• Visual Art

(Karla Diaz & Mario Ybarra) for a two-week residency to research a bird-watching subculture in Japan, with the goal of enriching and inspiring international discussion on immigration, language, science, the environment, culture, art-making, and community building.

Echigo Tsumari Triennale

• 2012
• Visual Art
• China, United States to Japan

to support the participation of visual artists Cai Guo-Qiang and Ann Hamilton from the United States and Wu Daxin from China in the fifth Echigo Tsumari Triennale, which will take place in Niigata from July 29 to September 17, 2012.

Bernard Ellorin

Country / Region:
• United States

• 2012
• Music
• United States to Malaysia

for an eight-month grant to carry out dissertation research on BajauLaut music in Sabah, Malaysia.

Billy Fox

Country / Region:
• United States

• 2012
• Other
• United States to Japan

for a six-week journey to rural Shimane Prefecture, Japan, to research the performance and religious rituals of Omoto kagura, an extremely rare form of shamanic dance, music, and theater practiced by a handful of Shinto shrines in the Iwami region.