Past
Grantees

Donald Byrd/The Group, New York City, received a two-year grant of $16,000 in support of the current and the 1995-96 seasons. Donald Byrd/The Group tours extensively and performs regularly in its home city. In December of 1994, the company will perform at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and in January at the Joyce Theater. Byrd's new work, The Beast: The Domestic Violence Project, explores domestic violence as the genesis of widespread in the world. Byrd is also working on a new dance theater work with music by Duke Ellington titled The Harlem Nutcracker. This is the second grant that the Jerome Foundation has offered to choreographer Donald Byrd and his company.

Novelist SHARON CHMIELARZ received a grant to travel for two weeks in North and South Dakota, to research a writing project.

Playwright and performance artist Ken Choy received $5,000 for three months of travel and study in the Hawaiian Islands. Choy will interview and research his Native Hawaiian family and other Native Islanders, focusing on disenfranchisement and the disappearance of island culture due to industrialization, white settlement, tourism and environmental racism.

Composer Rebecca S. Dale received $1,173 to travel to Bloomington, Indiana, for 18 days to participate in "Words and Music: An Inter-American Composers Workshop." She'll study with composers George Crumb, Tania Leon, Juan Orrego-Salas and Donald Freund.