DANCE THEATER WORKSHOP

'Dance Theater Workshop' is a New York City performance space and service organization for dance companies.
Located on West 19th Street in the Chelsea section of Manhattan, DTW was founded in 1965 by Jeff Duncan, Art Bauman and Jack Moore as a choreographers' collective. In 2002 DTW opened its new Doris Duke Performance Center, which contains the 192-seat Bessie Schönberg Theatre.

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Scope

Artists

Funding

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Scope

More than 200 concerts and exhibits by some 70 contemporary dance, theater, music, visual and video artists are sponsored annually by Dance Theater Workshop.

Artists

Such notable artists as Mark Morris, David Gordon, Bill T. Jones, Susan Marshall, Ron Brown, Donald Byrd, H.T. Chen, David Dorfman, Doug Elkins, Molissa Fenley, Whoopi Goldberg, Janie Geiser, Bill Irwin, LadyGourd Sangoma, Ralph Lemon, Bebe Miller, Michael Moschen, David Parsons, Lenny Pickett, Merián Soto, Pepón Osorio, Paul Zaloom and hundreds of others found an early artistic home at Dance Theater Workshop.

Funding

The Dance Theater Workshop has been received funding^[1] from prestigious organizations, including:

★ The Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher Foundation, Inc.

★ Altria Group, Inc.

★ The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

★ Arts & Business Council

★ Asian Cultural Council

★ Association of Performing Arts Presenters Arts Partners Program

★ Australian Consulate-General

★ Big Apple Lights Corp.

★ Capezio/Ballet Makers Dance Foundation, Inc.

★ Carnegie Corporation of New York (on behalf of Michael Bloomberg)

★ Consolidated Edison Company of New York

★ Eileen Fisher

★ Electronic Theatre Controls, Inc.

★ The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc.

★ The Ford Foundation

★ Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Inc.

★ Gay City News

★ Goldman, Sachs & Co.

★ The Harkness Foundation for Dance

★ The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation

★ The James E. Robison Foundation, Inc.

★ The Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation

★ The Jerome Foundation

★ The Jerome Robbins Foundation

★ JPMorgan Chase

★ The Lila Acheson Wallace Theater Fund

★ Meet The Composer Fund

★ Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation

★ National Dance Project of the New England

★ Foundation for the Arts

★ National Performance Network

★ New York State DanceForce

★ The New York Times Company Foundation

★ Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour

★ The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation

★ The Rockefeller Brothers Fund

★ The Scherman Foundation

★ The Shubert Foundation

★ The Starr Foundation

★ The Starry Night Fund of the Tides Foundation

★ Time Out New York

★ Trust for Mutual Understanding

★ The William Randolph Hearst Foundation

External link

Dance Theater Workshop Official Website