NEA Awards Grants to City Organizations

The Metropolitan Opera received a $100,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support a new production of Philip Glass's "Satyagraha," a co-production with the English National Opera that will begin in April 2008. The grant was one of 223 in New York State announced yesterday by the NEA. The NEA distributed a total of $20.2 million nationally, $5,721,000 of which went to organizations in New York State.

Dance companies were also big winners, with New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Cunningham Dance Foundation, and Paul Taylor Dance Company each receiving $90,000. DanspaceProject received two separate grants of $30,000 each: one to support its 11th season and another to support the design of its new home in the BAM Cultural District. Other grant recipients include Carnegie Hall, the New York Philharmonic, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dance Theater Workshop, the Joyce Theater Foundation, the Museum for African Art, Mark Morris Dance Group, the Jewish Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Asia Society, the Museum of Modern Art, and Jazz at Lincoln Center, which received $50,000 for programming and $40,000 to support the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Festival.