Dance Theater Workshop, colloquially known as DTW, is a New York City

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 performance space and service organization for dance companies. Located as 219 West 19th Street between Seventh

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 and Eighth

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 Avenues in the Chelsea

Chelsea, Manhattan

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 neighborhood of Manhattan

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, 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

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company

The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company is an American dance company based out of Harlem in New York City. Founded in 1983 by Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane, the company made its debut performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music with the world premiere of Intuitive Momentum with lauded drummer...

 to become New York Live Arts. 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

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.

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

Mark Morris

Mark William Morris is an American dancer, choreographer and director whose work is acclaimed for its craftsmanship, ingenuity, humor, and at times eclectic musical accompaniments...

, David Gordon, Bill T. Jones

Bill T. Jones

Bill T. Jones is an American artistic director, choreographer and dancer.-Early life:Jones was born in Bunnell, Florida and his family moved North as part of the Great Migration in the first half of the twentieth century. They settled in Wayland, New York, where Jones attended Wayland High School...

, Susan Marshall

Susan Marshall

Susan Marshall is an American choreographer and dancer. She is the Artistic Director and Choreographer of Susan Marshall & Company which she formed sometime between 1982 and 1983, working initially with dancers Arthur Armijo, David Dorfman, Jackie Goodrich, and David Landis...

, Ron Brown, Donald Byrd, H.T. Chen, David Dorfman, Doug Elkins, Molissa Fenley, Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg

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, Janie Geiser, Bill Irwin

Bill Irwin

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, LadyGourd Sangoma, Ralph Lemon

Ralph Lemon

Ralph Lemon was raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Lemon has been classified as many things; an African American dancer, a choreographer, company director, a writer and a visual artist but he chooses to categorize himself as a conceptualist. He was raised in a religious environment where as a child...

, Bebe Miller, Michael Moschen, David Parsons, Lenny Pickett, Merián Soto, Pepón Osorio, Paul Zaloom

Paul Zaloom

Paul Finley Zaloom is a U.S. actor and puppeteer best known for his role as the character Beakman on the television show Beakman's World.-Career:...

 and hundreds of others found an early artistic home at Dance Theater Workshop.

Funding

The Dance Theater Workshop has received funding from organizations including:

• The Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher Foundation, Inc.
• Altria Group, Inc.
• The Andrew W. Mellon
  Andrew W. Mellon
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   Foundation
• Arts & Business Council of New York
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• Asian Cultural Council
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• 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
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  )
• Consolidated Edison Company of New York
• Eileen Fisher
• Electronic Theatre Controls, Inc.
• The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc.
• The Ford Foundation
  Ford Foundation
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• Foundation for Contemporary Arts
  Foundation for Contemporary Arts
  Foundation for Contemporary Arts , originally known as Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, is a nonprofit based foundation in New York City founded by artists Jasper Johns , John Cage, Elaine de Kooning and others in 1963. FCA offers financial support and recognition to contemporary...
  
  , 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
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  Foundation

External links

• • DTW blog