A nerve-racking year punctuated by tectonic shifts in key sources of support has prompted grant makers and recipients to ask big questions about the dance funding model. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation, and Ford Foundation—decades-long supporters of the performing arts—rained down a trio of blows in recent months, with each announcing that […]

In September, the New England Foundation for the Arts announced that one of its core programs, the National Dance Project, would be ending, at least in its current form, as the Mellon Foundation concludes the funding arc that’s supported the program for the past several decades.