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Alaska
Junior Theater, Anchorage, Alaska
Grant
to support organization dedicated to bringing professional
theater to young audiences in Alaska. The organization,
which is 20 years old, provides live theater to more than
30,000 students in grades K through 8. Study guides
are prepared for distribution to teachers. This grant
will assist the theater to build upon its relationships with
rural school districts and Alaskan native regional and village
corporations and to bring performances to Kenai, Barrow, two
North Slope Borough villages, Kotzebue and Nome.
$8,400.00
Aurora Theater Company,
Berkeley, California
General support for 2001-2002 production season for Aurora
Theater in Berkeley. The Company, founded by prominent
Bay Area actress Barbara Oliver, is often described as "chamber
theater" because of its intimate performance space (70
audience seats) and its emphasis on subtlety, shadings of
feelings and ensemble responsiveness. A new performing
space which will increase audience capacity to 150 is being
constructed in Berkeley in the Arts District. The group
offers acting opportunities to talented Bay Area performers
and its company has the highest percentage of equity actors
in the Bay Area.
$12,500.00
California Shakespeare Festival,
Berkeley, California
Further support of Shakespeare in the Schools program
wherein actors from the Festival go to East Bay grade and
junior high schools to present scenes from Shakespeare's plays
and describe and discuss acting life. The program also
includes several special stage productions at the Festival's
theater in Orinda for school children.
$10,000.00
Heather Harrington Dance
Company, Brooklyn, New York
Grant to support production of a 90-minute modern dance
piece inspired by Shakespeare's MacBeth, choreographed
by outstanding dancer and director Heather Harrington,
with original music by Cam Millar. The dance performance
will take place at St. Mark's Church in New York in the spring
of 2003.
$10,000.00
Hoghton
Tower Shakespeare Center Trust, Lancashire, England
Second
installment of three year grant totaling $30,000 to support
the establishment of a Shakespeare study and performance center
in Lancashire, England. Shakespeare has numerous contacts
with Lancashire and is thought to have spent time at Hoghton
Tower and Preston. The Center will build upon this contact.
$10,000.00
Merola Opera Program, San
Francisco, California
Grant for general operating support for organization which
develops young singers by giving them opportunities to perform
in various operatic settings as well as having roles in main
stage San Francisco Opera productions.
$25,000.00
Oregon Shakespeare Festival,
Ashland, Oregon
Grant to sponsor the Festival's 2002 season production
of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
$25,000.00
San Francisco Opera, San
Francisco, California
Grant for sponsorship of the Opera's revival of Mozart's
Abduction from the Seraglio for the fall 2002 season.
The original production was presented under the sponsorship
of the Foundation in 1990.
$75,000.00
San
Francisco Shakespeare Festival, San Francisco, California
Grant
in support of Festival's production of Cinderella,
as a British pantomime version of the classic fairytale, for
holiday presentation. The classic British performance
is a farcical, over the top production with a blend of live
music, colorful sets and costumes, physical slapstick, lot
of topical comedy, audience participation and guest appearances
by well known local celebrities and personalities.
$10,000.00
Santa
Fe Opera, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Third
installment of five year grant totaling $250,000.00 for the
presentation of World or American premieres of modern
operas at Santa Fe. The Opera is famous for its support
of modern opera and composers through presentation of premieres
and commissioning new operas. For the 2002 season the
grant will support the American premiere of Kaija Saariaho's
L'Amour de Loin.
$50,000.00
Yerba Buena Center for the
Arts, San Francisco, California
Grant to support the completion and premiere presentation
of Herbert Siguenza's Cantinflas! and its related education
and outreach activities. This play is about one of the
20th century's most charismatic Mexican comic figures,
Cantinflas. The play has been developed through workshops
and readings and now is ready for a stage performance which
will occur in September 2002. The final performance
will be presented in a tent-like set in the manner of itinerant
performers of rural Mexico.
$12,500.00
Total:
$242,500.00
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