Catch up on the dance world promotions, appointments, departures, and notable awards from the past month. Plus, a new funding opportunity is available for dance artists.

$2.4 million to give unrestricted support, professional development, and networking opportunities to 12 performing artists in music, theater, dance, and related fields in the Chicago area.

Chief Manny (Brandon Calhoun), Brendan Fernandes, Darrell Jones, Vershawn Sanders-Ward, and Robyn Mineko Williams are among the inaugural recipients of the Walder Foundation’s Platform Awards, each of which includes a $200,000 unrestricted grant and professional development opportunities.

Lili-Anne Brown, a Chicago native and a veteran of stages in Chicago and across the country, comes to Writers to direct this hot, new play, winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama by celebrated writer Katori Hall (The Mountaintop, P-Valley, Broadway’s Tina: The Tina Turner Musical).  

Experience an immersive performance by Robyn Mineko Williams and Artists with HISAKO’S HOUSE, running from August 16-25, 2024.

The Walder Foundation has announced that it will award $2.4 million to Chicago-area performing artists through the inaugural Platform Awards. Twelve music, theatre, dance, and interdisciplinary arts professionals will receive unrestricted grants of $200,000 each.

The Walder Foundation has named three Chicago-based performing artists, including two Columbia College Chicago alumni and one faculty member, as recipients of its prestigious 2024 Platform Awards.

“When you’re inside a rhythm, it entrains you, it imprints on you, it saturates along an infinite scale,” says Co-Curator and Associate Professor Darrell Jones who received an inaugural Platform Award from the Walder Foundation this past week.

Chicago’s Walder Foundation will award $2.4 million to performing artists through its inaugural Platform Awards, to support area mid-career music, theater, dance and interdisciplinary artists enriching the city’s creative and civic landscape.

Walder Foundation will award $2.4 million to performing artists through its inaugural Platform Awards.

The Skokie-based Walder Foundation is providing the unrestricted grants to music, theater, dance and interdisciplinary performance artists.

As part of its inaugural Platform Awards, the Skokie-based Walder Foundation is giving out $2.4 million in unrestricted grants to 12 local mid-career music, theater, dance and interdisciplinary performance artists.

Twelve Chicagoland performing artists to each receive an unrestricted grant and professional development opportunities.