to support international travel expenses incurred in connection with the preparation of a directory of American crafts specialists to conduct workshops with colleagues in Bulgaria in 1998.

to support participation by Russian dancers in ADF's 65th anniversary season in summer 1998.

to enable an American dance specialist to travel to Moscow and Yekaterinburg to give performances and conduct workshops in summer 1998.

to enable American historic site specialists to travel to Russia in spring 1999 to discuss operational procedures with curators and administrators of Russian estate museums in Khmelita, Abramtsevo, and Arkhangelskoe and to conduct a seminar in Moscow on institutional management and development.

to enable specialists from the Museum to travel to Siberia in summer 1998 to discuss with colleagues there the development of future museum exchanges and to explore the feasibility of making digital images of Siberian collections for use on the Internet.

to support A.R.T. to performances of King Stag, Six Characters in Search of an Author, and When the World Was Green at the Chekhov International Theatre Festival in Moscow in spring 1998.

to support an exchange in summer 1998 between Russian and American theater specialists in connection with the development of the Professional Training Institute, a joint program of A.R.T. and the Moscow Art Theater.

to enable members of ARYO from the United States to participate in performances given in connection with the Youth Olympics in Moscow in summer 1998.

to support a training program in arts administration and development in New York in summer 1998 for a cultural management specialist from Russia.

to support Polish participation in an exhibition entitled Personal Touch held at Art in General in fall 1998.

to enable American curators to conduct research in Moscow and St. Petersburg in summer 1998 in connection with the development of an exhibition and residency program for Russian and American artists entitled CrossCurrents.

to enable the ensemble to perform and give workshops in Bratislava, Slovakia, in spring 1998 in connection with a program entitled Evenings of New Music ’98.

to enable curators, critics, and scholars from Eastern and Central Europe to serve as visiting fellows at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard in 1998 and 1999.

to enable two contemporary arts specialists from Ukraine to travel to the United States in spring 1998 to visit arts institutions, meet with colleagues, and give lectures on contemporary Ukrainian art.

to enable faculty members in the arts and environmental sciences from St. Petersburg State University to meet with colleagues in the United States in connection with the Smolny College Collaboration project.

to support participation by American dance specialists and critics in the Silesian Dance Theatre’s Fifth Annual International Contemporary Dance Conference and Performance Festival held in Bytom, Poland, in summer 1998.

to enable the company to perform and give workshops in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Russia in 1999.

to provide supplementary support for performances by the Moscow Art Theater of Three Sisters at BAM in winter 1998.

to enable members of the Vaganova Ballet Academy and soloists from the Kirov Ballet in St. Petersburg to give performances and to participate in a symposium entitled The Presence of the Past at BAM in winter 1998.

to enable Eastern and Central European film specialists to participate in the festival East Side Story: Coming of Age Behind the Wall at the Museum in 1999.

to enable the company to present a performance piece entitled JET LAG at the Trafo House of Contemporary Art in Budapest in spring 1999.

to provide renewed support in 1998-1999 for ArtsLink, an exchange program organized by CEC International Partners for artists and arts administrators from the former Soviet Union, Eastern and Central Europe, and the United States.

to enable American artists and arts specialists to participate in a series of exhibitions and workshops in Russia in 1998 as part of a program entitled VisArt developed in collaboration with the National Centers for Contemporary Art in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

to support the international travel and related expenses of participants in activities of theParallel Fund for 2003, a program undertaken in collaboration with the Open Society Institute-St. Petersburg to support cultural exchange projects associated with St. Petersburg’s tercentenary.

to enable American performing arts presenters to visit St. Petersburg in spring 1999 to explore possibilities for arranging for a multidisciplinary cultural program to tour the United States in 2003 in celebration of St. Petersburg’s tercentenary.

and to provide supplementary support to enable the Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg to perform and give workshops in New York in winter 1999.

to enable an art historian from Prague and a security specialist from the National Gallery in Prague to conduct research and visit museums in the United States in 1999.

to participate in the Europe-Asia Music Festival in Moscow and Kazan in 1998.

to enable artists and arts managers from Eastern and Central Europe and the United States to participate in artists’ residencies, performances, collaborative projects, and international festivals in 1998-1999 in connection with DTW’s East/Central Europe Cultural Partnership program.

to provide supplementary support for the Kinetic Dance Theater from Moscow to perform and participate in symposia held in New York in spring 1998 in connection with a festival of Eastern and Central European dance entitled East of Eden.

to enable musicologists from Dartmouth to travel to Russia in 1998 to conduct research in Tuva in collaboration with colleagues there as part of a project entitled Musical Representations of Nature Among the Tuvan Pastoralists.

to enable members of the Gardzienice Centre of Theatre Practices in Poland to perform a work entitled Metamorphosis and to conduct workshops and training seminars for theater professionals and acting students in several American cities in fall 1998.

to support participation by Russian and American directors, actors, and playwrights in the National Playwrights Conference at the O'Neill Center and in the Shchelykovo Workshop in Russia in 1998 and to enable American theater specialists to travel to Russia to participate in the Repino Musical Theater Conference in spring 1999.

to support Russian participation in a symposium organized in 1998 by the Culture Center in New York entitled The Dancer's Legacy: A Tribute to Rudolf Nureyev.

to support participation by photographers and curators from the Slovak Republic in FotoFest’s 1998 International Month of Photography held in Houston in winter 1998.

to enable curators and cultural specialists from Russia and Eastern and Central Europe to participate in the Fifth International Festival Directors Meeting at FotoFest in 1998.

to provide support for the Chalupecky Award to enable an artist from the Czech Republic to participate in a three-month residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California, and to visit galleries, studios, and museums in New York in 1998.

to provide support for the Slovak Visual Arts Prize to enable an artist from the Slovak Republic to participate in a three-month residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California, and to visit galleries, studios, and museums in New York in 1998.

to enable the theater company Alfred ve Dvore from Prague to perform Hanging Man and to give workshops in New York in spring 1999.

to enable the music group Plastic People of the Universe from Prague to participate in theIntel New York Music Festival in New York in fall 1998.

to enable the Chamber Ensemble of the Prague FOK Symphony Orchestra to accompany the Czech surrealist silent film Erotikon during its tour to New York, Chicago, and San Francisco in spring 1999.

to provide support for international travel expenses involved in the planning and implementation of FCS’ cultural and environmental programs in Central Europe in 1999.

to support the exchange in 1998 and 1999 of American and Georgian museum specialists involved in planning the Georgian National Exhibition to be shown in the United States in 2001 and to support a training program in the United States for Georgian museum personnel.

to enable a team of American curators and museum specialists to travel to Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kirgizstan in 1998 to conduct preliminary research for a planned exhibition of Soviet and Central Asian avant-garde art of the 1920s and 1930s to be shown in the United States.

to enable organizers of the 1999 European Cultural Month in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, to come to the United States in 1999 to meet with arts groups and media representatives in connection with planning the American component of the festival.

to support American participation in seminars on museum management and development given at regional museums in Khabarovsk and Dudinka in 1998 in collaboration with the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.

to enable representatives of the Theatre to travel to Moscow and St. Petersburg in 1998 to meet with arts administrators to develop plans for an interactive Internet project entitled Global Performance Lab.

to provide international travel support to enable the Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg to perform and give workshops in New York in spring 1998.

to enable artists from Russia and Eastern and Central Europe to participate in the Workshop’s visiting artist program in 1998-99 and to provide travel funds for curatorial research in Moscow on a planned exhibition entitled The View From Here.

to enable a curator from ICI to conduct research in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and parts of the former Yugoslavia in 1998 in connection with the Eastern and Central European component of an exhibition entitled An Experiment: The Sixties’ Legacy to be shown in various cities in the United States in 2000.

to enable artists and curators from Eastern and Central Europe to participate in the Seventeenth Annual International Sculpture Conferenceheld in Chicago in spring 1998.

to enable two artists from the Czech Republic, selected in collaboration with the Soros Center for Contemporary Art in Prague, to participate in ISP’s artist-in-residence program in 1998.

to support the international exchange component in 1998-99 of a theater production entitled King Lear: A Eulogy to the 20th Century developed in collaboration with the International Classic Center of St. Petersburg.

to enable members of the Bolshoi Ballet of Moscow to participate in a performance and teaching residency at Jacob’s Pillow in summer 1999.

to enable members of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, in collaboration with the Moscow State Conservatory, the Gnessin Institute, and the Russian National Orchestra, to perform and to give workshops and master classes in Moscow in fall 1998.

to enable the company to perform and give workshops at theFifth International Contemporary Dance Conference and Performance Festival held in Bytom and to travel to other cities in Poland in summer 1998.

to enable theater specialists from Yugoslavia to participate in theUmbria International Workshop Series in summer 1998.

to support participation by American dancers and dance specialists in theThird International Festival of Movement and Dance on the Volga held in Yaroslavl, Russia, in summer 1998.

to enable a team of American and Central European curators to conduct research in 1999 and 2000 for an exhibition entitled Central European Avant-Garde to be shown at LACMA in 2001 and at the National Gallery in Prague in 2002.

to support the travel and related expenses in 1998 of American and Yugoslavian printmakers participating in a project entitled the PrintLine Collaborative Printmaking Exchange organized in collaboration with Cinema REX in Belgrade.

to enable museum specialists from the Gulag Museum in Kuchina, Russia; the Ghetto Museum in Terezin, Czech Republic; and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum to participate in a meeting held at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center in fall 1998 on the role of historic site museums of conscience in contemporary society.

to enable the company to perform Gospel at Colonus and Hajj in Moscow in spring 1998 at the Chekhov International Theatre Festival.

to enable a theater designer from Moscow to work with Mabou Mines on the development of a new theater piece based on the Russian play The Flea in fall 1998.

to enable a team of American archaeologists, scholars, and specialists to participate in collaborative research activities in Chersonesus, Ukraine, in spring 1998 as part of the Black Sea Project.

to enable a choreographer and dancers from Slovakia to travel to the United States to work on a collaborative piece entitledLong Distance Dialogues and to participate in performances with the company at Danspace in New York in fall 1998.

to enable an architectural preservation specialist from Bosnia to be in residence at M.I.T. in fall 1998 to give lectures and to work with colleagues there on the development of the Sarajevo Reconstruction Project.

to enable conservation and restoration specialists from the Kremlin Museum in Moscow to visit museum and conservation facilities in the United States in spring 1998.

to support the bilateral exchange in 1998 and 1999 of Russian and American conservation, education, and curatorial experts participating in the Metropolitan Museum/Hermitage Museum Exchange Program.

to enable representatives from the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg to meet with colleagues at the Metropolitan Museum in fall 1998.

to enable two design specialists from New York to travel to St. Petersburg in spring 1998 to discuss architectural and related planning issues involved in the possible expansion of the Hermitage Museum.

to participate in a series of symposia, master classes, and concerts in Russia, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, and Poland in 1999 in connection with a project entitled Traditions in Collision: The Many Faces of American Music.

to enable the associate curator of film and video at MoMA to travel to Russia and Ukraine in summer 1998 to conduct interviews with artists and cultural specialists in connection with an Internet project entitled Dispatches from Russia and Ukraine.

to enable the director and two members of the curatorial staff from the Moscow House of Photography to conduct research and meet with colleagues in the United States in winter 1999.

to enable two representatives of the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg to conduct research in American museums, libraries, and archives in spring 1999 in connection with a documentation project on Russian artists active in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries.

to enable American musicians and music specialists to travel to Yekaterinburg in spring 1998 to perform with the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra and to conduct master classes for musicians from the Orchestra and other Russian institutions.

to enable an ethnographer and a group of traditional singers and dancers from the Nomlaki/Noimuk/Pomo community in California to travel to Russia to participate in theSt. Petersburg International Arts and Music Festival and to visit the collection of American Indian artifacts in the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in St. Petersburg in summer 1998.

to enable the company to perform and conduct workshops in connection with the Fifth International Contemporary Dance Conference and Performance Festival held in Bytom, Poland, in summer 1998.

to support the international travel in 1999 of participants in an exhibition and residency program for Russian and American artists entitled CrossCurrents.

to support participation in 1998-99 by a Russian and an American conservator in a bilateral exchange program organized jointly by the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU and the Repin Institute in St. Petersburg.

to enable conservators from selected institutions in St. Petersburg to participate in a training program at NEDCC in 1998 on stain removal techniques.

to enable the theater company Teatr Polski from Bydgoszcz, Poland, to be in residence at the Point in summer 1998 to participate in discussions, workshops, and informal performances in connection with the development of a collaborative theater piece entitled Ubu Enchained.

to enable cultural and environmental specialists from Russia to participate in the Tibetan Medical Conference held in Washington, D.C., in fall 1998.

to support Eastern and Central European participation in a symposium in spring 1999 organized in collaboration with the New School University in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museum entitled Conceptual Art: Points of Origin.

to support the international travel and related expenses in fall 1998 of a curator and an artist from Ukraine participating in the planning and installation at the College of an exhibition entitled Dressed in White.

to support the international travel component of a faculty exchange program in 1999 for artists from RISD and from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava.

to enable artists and faculty members at Rutgers to participate in a series of exhibitions, lectures, symposia, and collaborative projects in performance art, photography, film/video, and art criticism with colleagues from Russia and Eastern and Central Europe during 1998-99 in connection with a program entitled Art in Transition: Artist Exchange Program.

to enable the Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble to perform Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Gruppen with the Janacek Philharmonic at the Prague Spring Festival in spring 1999.

to enable members of the Maxim Gorky Theater in Vladivostok, Russia, to be in residence at San Diego State University in 1999.

to enable S.O.H.K. to present a dance/performance piece entitled Unfinished Symphony and to conduct workshops in Estonia, Hungary, Macedonia, Russia, and the Slovak Republic in fall 1998.

to enable two artists from the Czech Republic to be in residence at Sculpture Space in spring 1998.

to enable a playwright from Albania to travel to the United States in 1998 to work on the development of a theater production entitled The Dead’s Kingdom to be presented at Seven Stages.

to enable members of the Silesian Dance Theater of Bytom, Poland, and a stage designer from Yugoslavia to be in residence at the Center in spring 1999.

to enable the company to perform and to conduct workshops in Prague in summer 1998 in connection with the international dance festival Tanec Praha.

to enable Eastern and Central European theater professionals to participate in a conference on professional actor training at the University’s Center for International Theater Research in the United States in 1999 and to support the exchange of American and Eastern and Central European theater specialists in 1999and 2000.

to enable scholars and specialists from Columbia University and the University of Texas to travel to Ukraine in summer 1998 to conduct workshops and to collaborate with colleagues from the Chersonesus Museum in Crimea on the development of an archaeological park.

to support participation by American conservation specialists in the restoration of Constantin Brancusi’s Endless Column in Târgu Jiu, Romania, in 1999.

to enable Roma performing artists from Russia and Eastern and Central Europe to perform in the United States as part of the project entitled The Gypsy Caravan in spring 1999.

to travel to Russia in summer 1998 to collaborate with the Buryat National Theater in Ulan-Ude on a performance piece entitled Tsagan Shuban and to perform elsewhere in Buryatia.

to support Buryat participation in performances of Flight of the White Bird at La MaMa E.T.C. in New York in spring 1999.

to enable a curator from YIVO to travel to Poland in connection with the organization of an exhibition held in Warsaw in spring 1998 entitled The Power of Persuasion: Jewish Posters from Pre-war Poland.