FUNDING CREDITS


2022 - 2023

Friends of Special Projects:
Anonymous, Ed Redlich & Sarah Timberman, Mark Sheinkman & Melissa Karter, Maud Winchester & Lucas Reiner, Melinda Buckwalter, Yanira Castro

Grants & In-kind:
Cargo
Emily Harvey Foundation

Made possible with the generous assistance of New York Live Arts.


Its Shadow

The on-going development of Its Shadow is made possible, in part, by Gerald Oppenheimer Family Foundation, Dance/NYC - Coronavirus Dance Relief Fund, and the friends of Special Projects, including: Lucas Reiner & Maud Winchester, Pablo Woodward, and Ryan Hill. 


Strange Engagements

The creation of Strange Engagements was made possible, in part, by the Danspace Project Commissioning Initiative and Production Residency Program with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This work was made possible, in part, through a 2019 Movement Research Residency, funded by the Katharine S. and Axel G. Rosin Fund. Initial development of this work was supported through a Bennington College Dance Program residency. Production support was provided by the friends of Special Projects.


Forgetful Snow

Commissioned by The Kitchen and The Box gallery, Los Angeles, Forgetful Snow is made possible with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, The Jerome Robbins Foundation, and The Harkness Foundation for Dance. Ring received support from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space program through a real estate donation from Savanna. This work was developed, in part, with support from Gibney Dance Center's Dance in Process residency program and the residency program at Mount Tremper Arts. Additional funding provided by the friends of Special Projects, and a fellowship from the Chora Council of the Metabolic Studio, a project of the Annenberg Foundation.

Early development of Forgetful Snow was funded by the Friends of Special Projects: Anonymous, Shelley Berger & Lothar Schmitz, Karen Bernard, Melinda Buckwalter, Yaniro Castro, Terry Creach, Mariem & Donald Emmer, Steven Fierberg, Carol Flanagan & Paul Chavez, Peggy Florin, Richard Freundlich, Margit Galanter, Chris Galaske, Naomi Goldberg Haas, Kimberly Hamlin, Kitty Highstein, Sylvia Lezak, Morgan May, Richard Michaels, Cori Olinghouse, Felton Perry, Claire Phillips, Lucas Reiner & Maud Winchester, Jeffrey Ring & Beth Marcus, Marion Ring, Mark Sheinkman, Stuart & Judith Spence, Lenny & Robert Steinberg, Carolin Theuring, Aynsley Vandenbroucke, Nina Winthrop.

Finishing Funds for Forgetful Snow were provided by 157 Kickstarter Backers: Jesse Olsen Bay, Michael McGuffin, Karen Bernard, Cori Olinghouse, Tirtza Even, Christopher Ryan Renni-Calliope, Antonietta Vicario, Juliana May, Andrea Haenggi, Kristin Finley, Peggy Cheng & Chris Morrow, Paul Rucker, Monica Townsend Braunstein, Rain Pletcher, Christopher Carlone, Ben Pryor, Doug Post, Stephen Santamaria, Sherwood Chen, Chase Pashkowich, Robert Gustafsson, Cherie Burnett, Alex Bechtel, Judy Bressler, Laura Parker, RoseAnne Spradlin, Dawn Clements, Rebecca Brooks, Sarah Workneh, Marjorie Malone, Yanira Castro, Claire Phillips, Roger & Corina, Susan Silton, Marisa Williamson, Jessica Wilson, Steve Briggs, Anoka Faruqee, Howard Silver, Marion Ring, Mila Radulovic, Carolynn LaRocca/Peach Tree Pottery, Scott Sinkler, Kimberly Hamlin, Milka Djordjevich, Paul Chavez & Carol Flanagan, Jeffrey Ring & Beth Marcus, Victoria Rogers, Jody Oberfelder, Mark Sheinkman, Edwin & Alina Holladay-Young, Mary Collins & Martin Kersels, Kristina Kersels, Sarah A.O. Rosner, Kayvon Pourazar, Ann Pibal & Colin Brant, Mina Nishimura, Nancy Agabian, Maria-Ines Tripodi, Ralph Meyers, Judy Lieff, Jim McElroy, Jesse White, Sayte, Christine Elmo, Laurel Snyder, Andrew Champlin, Kathryn Sullivan, Tomorrow’s Man, Lizabeth A Young, B. Karl, Sylvia Lezak, Marilyn Maywald, Andrea, Ramey, Shelley Berger & Lothar Schmitz, Eric Damon Walters, Alexandra Albrecht, Simon Egleton, Steven & Pamela Nagler, Kathy Brew, Beth Gill, James Turnbull, Vivian Greene, Mara McCarthy, Ryan Hill, Catherine Hamilton, Jennyfer Haddad, June Scott, Marlene Adelstein, Huffa Frobes-Cross, Kira Vollman, Steven Fierberg, Steen H Madsen, Neil Greenberg, Daniel Winterich, Terry Creach, Andrea Simon, Lydia Szamraj, Frank Trippett Rathbone, Levi Gonzalez, Sarah Tully, Joy Silverman & George S. Bermudez, Lakshmi Aysola, Jane South, Annie Blair Lieber, Molly Lieber, Peter West, Dina Sherman, Fredrik Nilsen, Gregory Smith, Karl Erickson & Gretchen Larsen, Estelle Woodward Arnal, Robin Wilson, Allan Seward, Cecilia Seaward. Melinda Buckwalter, Jan Freed, Rebecca Davis, Asuka Hisa, Jon Golbe, Sydney Cooper, Amy Baumann, Jared Schwartz, Anonymous 1, 2, 3, Emilia McCool, Marissa Robbins, Larissa Velez-Jackson, Derrick Belcham, Abigail Levine, Sarah Elgart, Tatyana Tenenbaum, Gabriella Tarantella, Miguel Gutierrez, Laura Meyers, Elyse Poppers, Taryn Ann Brown, Julia Pearlstein, Leslie Dick, Stacy Spence, D. Spinelli, Vanessa Anspaugh, Annelizabeth Wells, The Kitchen, Shehrezad Maher, Naomi Goldberg Haas, Roxanne Steinberg, Dead Writer, Conor Brown, Luciana Achugar, Halee Beucler, Jan Munroe, and Eugenia Lai & Julien Bismuth. Special Thanks to Morleigh Steinberg, Major Patrons Paul and Karen McCarthy, and one anonymous co-commissioner.


c lo  u   d
Melinda Ring researched, developed and honed c lo  u   d  with financial, administrative and residency support from the Dance in Process program at Gibney Dance with funds provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This project was made possible, in part, through The Movement Research Artist-in-Residence Program, funded, in part, by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Davis/Dauray Family Fund. It was supported in part by the Center for Performance Research’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Artist in Residence program. Funding was also provided by The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Grants to Artists program, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and friends of Special Projects..

c lo  u   d was commissioned by the Chocolate Factory Theater
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Shiny Angles in Angular Time
Melinda Ring and Renée Archibald researched, developed and finessed Shiny Angles in Angular Time with financial, residency, and sabbatical support from Whitman College. This project was made possible, in part, through The Movement Research Artist-in-Residence Program, funded, in part, by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Davis/Dauray Family Fund. It was supported in part by the Center for Performance Research’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Artist in Residence program. This project would not have been possible without the generous support of individual donors, including the friends of Special Projects.

Shiny Angles in Angular Time was commissioned by the Chocolate Factory Theater.



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X, was made possible, in part, with funds from the 2009-2010 Danspace Project Commissioning Initiative with support from the Jerome Foundation.

Additional funding for was provided by, John Bellucci, Nina Winthrop, Judith and Stuart Spence, Lenny and Robert Steinberg, Michael McGuffin, Howard Silver, Pablo Woodward, Gerald Oppenheimer Family Foundation, Edward Redlich and Sarah Timberman, Jill and Peter Kraus, the Foundation for Contemporary Art and friends of Special Projects.


Mouse Auditions

Mouse Auditions was created in part through The Field’s Artist Residency program, supported by Lambent Foundation Fund of the Tides Foundation. The work was funded by The Friends of Special Projects, especially the Gerald Oppenheimer Family Foundation and commissioned by Headlands Center for the Arts.


Hmmm...

Hmmm… was developed with the help of a Dance Theater Workshop Outer/Space residency grant and the Mabou Mines/Suite Resident Artist program. It is also made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Funding was provided by the Friends of Special Projects.

Presentation at the Kitchen was made possible with generous support from Altria Group, Inc., The Greenwall Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, the Jerome Foundation, the Jerome Robbins Foundation, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.


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