Momentum Program
Funding Amount
$10,000
Deadline
Deadline not published
Grant Type
Foundation
Overview
Program Type: Intensive three-year professional development program
Purpose: Strengthen touring capacity of Southern dance companies
Key Details:
- Intensive three-year professional development program
- Focuses on dance companies from the South
- Designed to strengthen touring capacity
- Five dance companies participated in the program (as of 2020)
Participating Companies (as of 2020):
- Dimensions Dance Theatre of Miami
- Helen Simoneau Danse
- New Dialect
- staibdance
- Wideman/Davis Dance
Funding: Emergency Sustainability Grants of $10,000 each were awarded to Momentum program participants in 2020 during COVID-19 pandemic
What South Arts Inc actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2025
- Grants in 2025
- 233
- Total given
- $9.25M
- Median grant
- $36K
- Range
- $5,000–$130K
- By dollars: North Carolina 8%, Georgia 5%, Florida 4%. Top recipient cities: Atlanta, GA; Nashville, TN; Durham, NC.
- 0% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
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Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Dance
- Performing arts
- Arts
- Professional development
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