Friday, December 17, 1999
Ballet planning debut of original production
BY JACKIE DEMALINE
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Cincinnati Opera isn't the only local company with big plans for a new work. Look for Ballet 2000 (working title) from Cincinnati Ballet.
Choreographer is Australian Stanton Welch. “He's fabulous,” says ballet artistic director Victoria Morgan. “He's the hot thing in dance.”
Details aren't finalized, particularly those about the three “possibly four” other cities that would be sharing the new work. Ms. Morgan expects Cincinnati to have the world premiere. National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) support is $10,000.
Other NEA awards of regional interest include:
• $35,000 to Cincinnati Symphony “aimed at raising the esprits de corps” by supporting concerts featuring principal and section orchestra musicians as soloists.
• Contemporary Arts Center receives $25,000 to support the planning process for a new “impermanent collection” program. A group of visiting curators will be selected and available works of art identified for a series of long-term loan exhibitions.
• Contemporary Dance Theatre is awarded $10,000 to support its guest artist series.
• Culture Works in Dayton will use $7,000 from the NEA for its development of a comprehensive cultural facilities plan for the city.
• Two Dayton dance companies, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company and Rhythm in Shoes, received funds to create new work.
• Longtime Cincinnati media artist Jim Duesing, now based in Pittsburgh, will receive $25,000 toward the creation of computer animated Tender Bodies that will explore humans dependency on consumption and issues of diversity.
• Ohio's largest NEA grants for this quarter went to the Cleveland Orchestra ($175,000) and the Wexner Center ($85,000) in Columbus.
Cleveland Orchestra's funding supports the performance project Bridging the Century.
The Wexner's award is for commissions and residencies of up to 28 artists to create, complete and present new works during 2000-2001. All artists will participate in community and educational activities.
• Kentucky's largest grant of $45,000 goes to Actors Theatre of Louisville for a Humana Festival of New Plays production of a commission by playwright Mac Wellman. The theater hasn't announced its series, but another entry popping up with NEA support is Anne Bogart's War of the Worlds.
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