Marylee Hardenbergh has received numerous awards including Fellowships from the NEA, McKnight and Soros Foundations. She is an Artist-in-Residence at the Center for Global Environmental Education at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Dance Magazine has highlighted her work in two articles (1996 and 2006). Her choreography constitutes a chapter in Site Dance: Choreographers and the Lure of Alternative Spacespublished by the University of Florida in 2009, and her chapter entitled “Global Water Dances: Embodying water solutions” in Emergent Possibilities in Global Sustainability demonstrates dance inspiring local communities (Routledge, 2016). She has been voted “Artist of the Year” twice in City Pages, a Twin Cities magazine, and last year received the 2015 Marian Chace Foundation award, delivering the keynote speech to the American Dance Therapy Association conference She serves on the board of Global Water Dances, where she was Artistic Director from 2009-2015.
HONORS
2015 Marian Chace Foundation Lecturer Award – Read the entire lecture.
2014 Artist Initiative Grant for Choreography from Minnesota State Arts Board
2014 Arts & Healing Network 2014 National Award
2013 Unity Avenue Foundation grant for Global Water Dances 2013
2012 Metropolitan Regional Arts Council grant for Solstice River XVI
2011 Onan Family Foundation grant for Solstice River XVI
2011 Quaker Hill Foundation grant for Global Water Dances
2009 Portland Regional Arts and Culture Council grant for Rain or Shine
2009 Metropolitan Regional Arts Council grant for Coldwater Springs Dance
2009 Onan Family Foundation grant for Solstice River XIII
2008 Metropolitan Regional Arts Council grant for Solstice River X11
2008 Quaker Hill Foundation grant for Acre, Israel performance
2008 Anacostia Watershed Society award for Green Dance
2007 River Action in Quad Cities: Arts Award for One River Mississippi
2007 New Orleans Tribute to Classical Arts “Special Achievement in Dance”
2006 Quad Cities Chamber of Commerce award for One River Mississippi
2005 McKnight Foundation challenge grant for One River Mississippi
2005 Lowry Hill Philanthropy grant for One River Mississippi
2005 Puffin Foundation grant for One River Mississippi
2005-2002 Mississippi Watershed Management Organization for Solstice River
2005-2002 Metropolitan Regional Arts Council grant for Solstice River
20041 Quaker Hill Foundation grant for One River Mississippi
2003 Unity Avenue Foundation for One River Mississippi
2003 McKnight Foundation planning grant for One River Mississippi
2002-2001 Xcel Energy Foundation grant for Mississippi River performance
2002 City of Minneapolis Office of Cultural Affairs grant for site-specific performance
2002 Carolyn Foundation grant for Solstice River 2002
2003-2001 Oswald Family Foundation grant
2001 Quaker Hill Foundation grant for Mother’s Day Dance
2001 Grant from Metropolitan regional Art Council
2000 McKnight Choreographer’s Fellowship
2000 “Partnership 2000” commission for collaboration with Israeli artists
1999 “Women of Substance” Series commission for Mother’s Day Dance
1997-98 McKnight Choreographer’s Fellowship
1997 Northern Lakes Arts Association commission for Ely’s lake dance
1997 Commission for Water Environment Federation national conference
1996 The Soros Foundation for Dance for Peace in Sarajevo, Bosnia
1996 Water Environment Federation’s Public Education Award for Plant Dance
1995 Metropolitan Regional Arts Council for Plant Dance
1995 “Artist of the Year” named by City Pages
1994-96 Two-year National Endowment for the Arts Choreographer’s Fellowship
1994 Minnesota State Arts Board: Career Opportunity Grant
1994 “Artist of the Year” named by City Pages
1993 Jerome Foundation Travel Grant to study Space Harmony in London
1993 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival to mount the Housatonic River Dance
1992-93 McKnight Choreographer’s Fellowship
1991-92 Walker Art Center’s commission for Sculpture Garden Opening
1990 William Harren Memorial Commissioned Music Grant
1989 Minnesota Dance Alliance Dancer Pool funded by the Jerome Foundation
1988 City of St. Paul: Riverfront Commission award to mount Barge Dance
1988 Minnesota Dance Alliance for the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
1987-88 McKnight Choreographer’s Fellowship
1987 Minnesota State Arts Board Career Opportunity Grant
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- McKnight Choreographer’s Fellowship
- McKnight Choreographer’s Fellowship