Dance Theater Workshop

Dance Theater Workshop at 219 West 19th Street in 2010, before becoming New York Live Arts

Dance Theater Workshop, colloquially known as DTW, is a New York City performance space and service organization for dance companies. Located as 219 West 19th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood 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.

In 2011, DTW merged with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company to become New York Live Arts.^[1] The move was prompted by a need for financial security, with the dance company coming in as the more financially secure organization of the two – DTW took on a considerable amount of debt in building its new facility. Jones, on the other hand, has been in search of a permanent venue for his company, and envisions the Duke Performance Center becoming an arts center similar to the 92nd Street Y.^[2]

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 received funding from organizations including:^[3]

• The Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher Foundation, Inc.
• Altria Group, Inc.
• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
• Arts & Business Council of New York
• 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 City Department of Cultural Affairs
• 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

See also

• List of theaters for dance

References

Notes

1. ^ "About" on the New York Live Arts website
2. ^ Taylor, Kate. "Dance Theater Merges With Bill T. Jones Troupe" New York Times (December 1, 2010)
3. ^ "Funders" on the Dance Theater Workshop website

External links

• Official website
  • DTW blog