Choreographer Raewyn Hill.
Seven hundred and twenty-three submissions requesting close to $13 million in grants from Creative New Zealand have been narrowed down to $3.9 million going to 245 projects, in the latest February-May funding round.
Auckland dancers have done well. Choreographer Raewyn Hill receives $50,000 towards developing a workshop; $70,000
will boost the Atamira Dance Collective's creation of a work called Whakairo; and Touch Compass gets $87,000 to make a new work, The Feast.
Veteran choreographer Michael Parmenter is slipped a comparatively mere $5000 towards the score and set for a new work he is making with Footnote Dance.
MAU, which is taking the sensational Requiem to the London International Festival of Theatre, gets $50,000 towards travel and freight; the Auckland Dance Festival Trust's marketing and audience development strategies for this year's Tempo will benefit by $60,000; $37,000 will help Rifleman Productions take Dark Tourists to Wellington; and the Human Garden gets $20,600 to make a DVD and website for its production The Peep Shows.
Daniel Belton and Good Company have been granted $16,132 towards making a dance film.
In other grants in the latest round, the Massive Company gets $25,800 towards commissioning Albert Beltz to write and workshop a new play, Whero's New Net, and designer John Verryt gets $6100 to attend the PQ07 theatre design symposium in Prague. Also going to Prague are designers Sean Coyle, John Parker and Elizabeth Whiting, who each receive $4000.
The Indian Ink Theatre Company will receive $96,500 to make a new work, The Dentist's Chair, which will tour Hamilton, Tauranga, New Plymouth and Napier - but not Auckland at this stage.
On the musical front, grants include $14,000 to Mahinarangi Tocker to set the words of 17 poets to music, and $6000 to the NZ Trio to commission a work by Eve de Castro-Robinson; and the Large Group, founded by Michael Hurst, Jennifer Ward-Lealand and Christian Penny, receives $64,000 towards staging Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera at the Maidment mid next year.
