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Awards | Grants
2024 New York State Council on the Arts Grant: Bridgman|Packer Dance's 2024 programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
New York State Council on the Arts
2022 NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship in Choreography
NYFA
2021 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
NEA Art Works
2020 National Dance Project Finalist Award: Bridgman|Packer Dance is a 2020 NDP Finalist Grant Award recipient. Support was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to address sustainability needs during COVID-19 and in support of Ghost Factory.
New England Foundation for the Arts
2019 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
NEA Art Works
2018-19 Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Tours Roster: Bridgman|Packer Dance were chosen as the dance company for Mid Atlantic Tours Roster. Presenters in the Mid Atlantic States can receive Foundation funds to support the presentation of Bridgman|Packer Dance in 2018-19.
MAAF
2017 New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessies) for Outstanding Production
Bessie
2017 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
NEA Art Works
2017 USArtists International Grant: Bridgman|Packer Dance's appearance at the New Baltic Dance Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania (May, 2017) is supported by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Visit Site
MAAF
2017 Rapid Response: Bridgman|Packer Dance's appearance at New Baltic Dance Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania (May 2017) is supported in part by seed funds from Rapid Response, a project of American Dance Abroad.
ADA
2015 Forth Fund Award, from the National Performance Network to support the technology and completion of Remembering What Never Happened. The Forth Fund is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
NPN
2015 New England Foundation for the Arts Expeditions Touring Grant for a tour of Truck
New England Foundation
2015 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
NEA
2014 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
NEA
2014 National Performance Network Creation Fund Award: Remembering What Never Happened is a co-commissioning project of The Yard, Chilmark, MA in partnership with Opera House Arts Stonington, ME, Silvermine Arts Center New Canaan, CT, and the National Performance Network Creation Fund.The NPN Creation Fund is sponsored by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, Altria, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
National Performance Network Creation Fund
2013 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
NEA
2012 National Dance Project Touring Award, for a 2013-14 tour of Voyeur.
New England Foundation
2012 New England Foundation for the Arts Expeditions Touring Grant, for a tour of Voyeur.
New England Foundation
2012 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
NEA
2011 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
NEA
2010 Grant from The New York State Council for the Arts in support of their premiere of Double Expose at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, NYC
NYSCA
2010 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
NEA
2010 P. T. Barnum Award for Excellence in Entertainment to Art Bridgman from Tufts University
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2009 National Performance Network Creation Fund Award: Double Expose, premiered in March of 2010 at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, NYC, is a co-commissioning project of Out/North/VSA Arts, Anchorage in partnership with The Dance Umbrella, Austin and the National Performance Network Creation Fund. The NPN Creation Fund is sponsored by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, Altria, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
National Performance Network Creation Fund
2008 Guggenheim Fellowship in Choreography awarded jointly to Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer
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2008 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
National Endowment for the Arts
2007 New England Foundation for the Arts Expeditions Touring Grant, which supports the presentation of cross-disciplinary touring projects for New England communities.
New England Foundation
2007 Commission from Dance New Amsterdam (NYC) for Memory Bank
Dance New Amsterdam
2007 National Performance Network Creation Fund Award: Memory Bank was a co-commissioning project of The Bates Dance Festival in partnership with The Flynn Center for Performing Arts and the National Performance Network Creation Fund. The NPN Creation Fund is sponsored by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, Altria, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
National Performance Network Creation Fund Award
2007 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
National Endowment for the Arts
2006 Creative Development Residency in Dance and Technology at MANCC (Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University)
MANCC
2005 The 92nd Street Y New Works in Dance Fund for Under The Skin
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2005 National Performance Network Creation Fund Award: Under the Skin was a co-commissioning project of Contemporary Dance Theater of Cincinnati and The Dance Place in Washington, D.C. in partnership with the National Performance Network Creation Fund. The NPN Creation Fund is sponsored by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, Altria, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
National Performance Network Creation Fund Award
2005 Creative Connections Grant from Meet the Composer with support of ASCAP Foundation, Copland Fund, Ford Foundation, Jerome Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, Virgil Thomson Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Creative Connections Grant
2005 Dance Theater Workshop Digital Fellowship. This program includes a peer group of artists, researchers and technologists whose work and process explores the hybrid spaces between the performing arts and technology.
Dance Theatre Workshop
2005 Building Up Infrastructure Levels for Dance (BUILD) Grant, a program of New York Foundation for the Arts. BUILD is funded by The J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation with additional support from The Starry Night Fund of the Tides Foundation.
JP Morgan Chase
2005 USArtists International Touring Grant: a program of The National Endowment for the Arts with support from JPMorgan Chase and managed by Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation.
USArtists International Touring Grant
2004 Performing Americas Project, a partnership between The National Performance Network, and La Red de Promotores Culturales de Latinamerica y el Caribe for Bridgman|Packer tour of Central America.
The National Performance Network