to enable three Polish visual artists to participate in New Media Collaborations V as part of the 2009 Visiting International Artists Program.

to enable members of the Theatre of the Eighth Day from Poland to perform Wormwood at Abrons Arts Center as part of the Performing Revolution Festival in New York in fall 2009.

to enable company members to perform Rasa and Handel in St. Petersburg and Siberia in June 2008.

to enable Russian choreographer Elena Slobodchikova to be in residence at ADF and Hollins University in summer 2009.

to support American participation in the Grotowski Institute's Giving Voice 11: Harmonic Accord festival in Wroclaw, Poland, in April 2009, as part of the 2009 Grotowski Year.

to enable members of Teatr ZAR from Wroclaw, Poland, to travel to the United States in November and December 2009 for a 22-day tour to Chicago and Los Angeles.

to enable company members to conduct a four-week tour of Doruntine, their co-production with Teatri Oda of Kosovo, to Albania, Macedonia, and Kosovo in summer 2009.

to enable members of Goran Bregovic and His Wedding and Funeral Orchestra to perform as part of the Celebrate Brooklyn Performing Arts Festival in summer 2009.

to enable members of the Maly Theatre from St. Petersburg, Russia, to perform their production of Uncle Vanya at BAM in spring 2010.

to enable eight members of the Belarus Free Theatre to conduct a two-week residency at CalArts in fall 2009.

to enable members of the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music chorus and orchestra to travel to Prague in June 2009 to perform Murry Sidlin's Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin as the concluding event of the Keeping the Memory of the Holocaust Alive international conference.

to provide renewed support in 2009 for ArtsLink, an exchange program for artists and arts administrators from Central and Eastern Europe and the United States.

to support international travel expenses of four Americans participating in one-month public art residencies in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2009 and 2010 in connection with CEC's VisArt program.

to enable American performing arts presenters to attend theater festivals in Russia in 2009; to enable Russian playwrights, directors, and critics to participate in festivals, residencies, and conferences in the United States; and to support collaborations between theater directors from the United States and Russia as part of the New Directions--New Voices: Russian/U.S. Theater Initiative. 

to enable a staff member from the Museum Kampa in Prague to participate in a three-month residency in the United States in 2009.

to enable the members of the studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Vera Lutter to travel to Lodz, Poland, for preparatory residencies as well as participation in the opening of the exhibition On Ritals of Homecoming as part of the Festival of Dialogue of Four Cultures in September 2009.

to support the international travel expenses of Polish and American participants in the bilateral exchange project Poland: 2009 Searching for Revolution in Dance-Poland's Dance in the '80's, Revolution or Silence?

to support travel expenses in 2009 of artists, arts managers, performing arts presenters, and festival directors from the United States and Central and Eastern Europe participating in the East/Central Europe Cultural Partnership Program as part of DTW's Suitcase Fund.

to support American participation in the Perforations-Week of Live Art festival in Zagreb, Croatia, in fall 2009.

to enable company members to conduct a six-week retrospective tour to four cities in Poland in summer 2010.

to enable company members to participate in The International Festival of Modern Dance "Isadora" in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, in May 2009.

to enable members of Slavic Soul Party! to travel to Serbia to give performances as part of the Umbria Jazz Balkanic Windows Festival in Belgrade, Serbia, and to participate in a musical collaboration with members of the Elvis Ajdinovic Orkestar in summer 2009.

to support international travel expenses of artists and curators traveling from the United States to Poland in fall 2009 for the Krakow Unsound Festival, and to enable electronic music artists from Belarus, Poland, Romania, and Ukraine to travel to the United States for the first New York Unsound Festival in January 2010.

to enable Katyna Rubina and a translator/dramaturge from Moscow to be in residence at the O'Neill as part of the National Playwrights Conference in summer 2009.

to enable two Russian filmmakers to participate in the 55th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar in summer 2009.

to enable American photographers to travel to Poland in connection with the exhibition American Metaphor/Metafory Amerikanskie-Contemporary Pinhole Photography in fall 2009.

to support international travel and related expenses in 2009 associated with the Young Visual Artists Awards programs in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

to enable five American theater professionals to develop PRIMER/LEM, an object-based/multimedia theater piece, at the Rhodopi Internation Theater Collective in Smolyan, Bulgaria, in summer 2009.

to support the international travel expenses of Czech and American artists involved in the development and performance of Revolution!, an exploration of revolutions throughout history, as part of The New York Public Library's Performing Revolution Festival in November 2009.

to enable filmmaker Minna Zielonka-Packer and co-producer Sharon Levy to travel to Lodz, Poland, to give workshops based on Packer's film, The Lilliput.

to enable members of Nanohach from Prague to present their original work, Portrait, as part of the Perfoming Revolution Festival in New York and to collaborate with Taylor Mac on his production of The Lilly's Revenge.

to support Croatian and Czech participation in ISCP's residency program in 2009.

to enable company members from Slovenia's Ballet Maribor to present their production of Radio and Juliet at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in summer 2009.

to support artistic and curatorial travel associated with the opening of the exhibition, They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust, at the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow, Poland, in June 2009.

to enable members of the Ark Project from the United States to perform and conduct workshops at the Sheshory Festival in Ukraine in summer 2009.

to support the Russian visual artist residency program at the American Academy of Rome in 2009.

To enable members of the Gyori Ballet from Gyor, Hungary, to give performances of Petrushka at The Joyce as part of the Performing Revolution Festival in fall 2009.

to enable Ellen Stewart to conduct theater workshops in Zagreb, Croatia, in spring 2009, as part of the Project 12 program.

to enable Janeil Engelstad to travel to the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia in summer 2009 in connection with her oral history project, Voices from the Center.

to support international travel expenses in connection with performances of the National Stary Theater of Poland's production of Kalkwerk and The Chekhov International Theatre Festival's production of Boris Godunov as part of the 2009 Lincoln Center Festival.

to support international travel expenses in connection with Hungarian and Russian participation in the Mississippi Volga III Dance Festival in Minnesota in October 2009.

to support Location One's bilateral exchange program with the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Poland, in 2009.

to enable company members to perform FLAMINGO/WINNEBAGO at the Sterijino Pozorje International Theatre Festival in Novi Sad, Serbia, and at the Yoguslav Drama Theater in Belgrade, Serbia, in June 2009.

to enable Czech scenic designer Milan David to travel to New York in July and October 2009 to collaborate on Mabou Mines' production of FINN.

to support international travel and related expenses of Russian and American participants in the Hermitage Museum/Metropolitan Museum Exchange Program in 2009.

to support international travel expenses in 2009 and 2010 of American musicians, dancers, and theater artists participating in festivals in Central and Eastern Europe as part of USArtists International.

to support American participation in the Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art in September 2009.

to enable American participation in the Moscow Biennial's exhibition The Situation, curated by Elizabeth Grady, in September 2009.     

to support the international travel expenses between Houston and Prague in 2009 related to the curation and coordination of MFAH's exhibition The Roy and Mary Cullen Collection of Czech Art.

to support international travel expenses in 2009 of American and Russian museum professionals participating in an exchange between the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and The Museum of Modern Art.

to support the international travel expenses in 2009 of the Russian portion of Paul Winter's Flyways project.

to enable an American composer and an American pianist to participate in the HereNow New Music Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria, in fall 2010.

to enable Andrew Wiget and Olga Balalaeva to travel to Russia to assist the Yugan Khanty people in developing a master-apprenticeship folk arts program for the preservation of the Khanty Bear Festival traditions in summer 2009.

to enable artists from Armenia, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Romania to participate in The Generational exhibition in New York in spring 2009.

to enable company members to conduct workshops, master classes, and give performances in Moscow and St. Petersburg in fall 2009.

to enable company members to plan and implement the first summer dance course focused on training in site-specific choreography and performance in Bratislava, Slovakia, as part of the LAB1 (Laban Atelier) program at the Academy of Performing Arts in July 2009.

to enable two Polish artists to travel from New York to Siberia in summer 2009; two Performa staff members to travel to St. Petersburg and Moscow in June 2009 for planning meetings; and eight Russian artists to travel to New York for 10 days to participate in the Performa 09 biennial of new visual performance art.

to support international travel expenses to New York in 2009 associated with P.S. 122's Romania in Translation program. 

to enable company members to participate in the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, Poland, in June 2009.

to enable the cast and crew of Michal Zadara's Operetta, produced by the Capitol Theatre in Wroclaw, Poland, to conduct performances and open discussions in Philadelphia in September 2009.

to support Czech participation in the symposium African Art and Representation in the Modernist Age in Washington, D.C., in fall 2009.

to support the international travel expenses associated with Czech participation in Pilchuk's Summer Artist-in-Residence program in 2009.

to enable the SFIAF director to travel to Moscow in spring 2010 for the Golden Mask Performing Arts Festival and Awards and to bring the St. Petersburg-based ensemble DEREVO to San Francisco in May for a residency and performances in connection with the 2010 festival. 

to enable company members to premiere their new work with Tanzelarija Fire Dance Project at the Tanzelarija Contemporary Dance Festival in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in October 2009. 

to support American participation in Blip Festival in Poland in summer 2009.

to support international travel expenses in 2009 associated with American and Eastern and Central European theater specialists participating in the TCG/ITI Travel Grants program.

to support international travel expenses in connection with a bilateral exchange between Tricklock and Teatr Figur from Krakow, Poland, to collaborate on a new bilingual performance.

to enable company members to perform Traveling Songs and VioLens in Belgrade, Serbia, in April 2009.

to support the international travel of Croatian, Slovenian, and Polish artists in connection with the American premieres of Quartet v3.0 and DELIRIUM 27, to take place during the 2009-2010 theater season in New York.

to enable Wally Cardona and three company members to be in residence at Dance Agency TsEKH's 2009 Summer Intensive in Moscow.

to enable company members to perform their production of HAMLET at the Gdansk Shakespare Festival in Gdansk, Poland, in summer 2009.