Aug. 24--Hubbard Street Dance Chicago will receive $500,000 from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, it was announced Monday. The grant money will go toward the Chicago dance company's long-term goals and operations.
Hubbard Street was one of 18 organizations to receive grants through a new initiative, the Leadership Grants Program for Dance (and was one of only nine to be awarded a half-million dollars). According to the foundation, "grantees distinguished themselves by the quality of their choreography, the impact of their touring on communities across the country, and the successful expansion of their own initiatives and educational programming."
The money must go toward operations, versus building projects or other "brick-and-mortar" plans. The other recipients are Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; Alonzo King LINES Ballet; AXIS Dance Company; Ballet Hispanico; the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Danspace Project, Inc.; Jacob's Pillow Dance; the Joyce Theater; Margaret Jenkins Dance Company; Mark Morris Dance Group; ODC Dance/San Francisco; Stephen Petronio Company; Ragamala Dance; STREB; Paul Taylor Dance Company; Urban Bush Women; and White Bird.
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is named after the late philanthropist and gives money to support work in medicine, environmentalism and the arts.
