AMERICAN MASTERPIECES: DANCE (AMD) is the dance component of a major initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to acquaint Americans with the best of their cultural and artistic legacy.
The AMD project celebrates the extraordinary and rich evolution of dance and choreography in the United States. With its partners, NEFA and Dance/USA, the NEA will sponsor select performances, tours, and educational programs that will reach large and small communities throughout the United States.
AMD Reconstruction Grants provide funding for the reconstruction or restaging of American Dance works that are artistically, historically, and culturally significant.
AMD Reconstruction Grant projects will include educational and interpretive components such as study guides, student performances, lectures, and exhibitions. Projects will also have a substantial performance/touring aspect to ensure the works reach the broadest possible audience.
Because AMD views touring as essential to the success of a project, AMD Reconstruction Grants will be awarded in conjunction with AMD Touring Grants. In selecting projects, AMD will consider scale, geographic reach, and the representation of diverse ethnicities and artistic forms, as well as the historic significance of the work(s).
Deadline: March 1, 2006
AMD Touring Grants support the presentation and distribution of the work created by Reconstruction Grant recipients and a limited number of other nominated tours each touring season.
Dance companies may apply to receive Reconstruction and/or Touring Grants, with a limit of one proposed project in each category (although the project can consist of multiple works and/or choreographers.)
Deadline: November 1, 2006
AMD College Component (AMDCC): AMD funding will also be available to colleges and universities, through a program administered by Dance/USA, to support the restaging, performance, and documentation of significant dance choreography in order to provide dance students with access to the rich, but often inaccessible, legacy of American dance history.
