Awards

Brigitta Herrmann’s dance and choreography awards include:

Fellowships

PA Council on the Arts

Brigitta Herrmann Dance Excuse Me I Have to Make a Phone Call

Excuse Me I Have to Make a Phone Call

  • For EXCUSE ME I HAVE TO MAKE A PHONE CALL, in collaboration with Remo Saracini, 1987
  • For IMPRINTS, performed in Frankfurt & Leipzig, Germany & at the Painted Bride Arts Center, Philadelphia, 1989
  • For BARE ESSENTIALS, Movement Theater International Tabernacle Theater, Philadelphia, 1991
  • For  BETWEEN A DOOR AND ITS HINGES, performed at the Painted Bride Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA, 1992
  • For ENTRANCE TO HEAVEN; performed at Movement Theater International, Philadelphia, PA, 1993

 National Endowment for the Arts

  • Choreographers Fellowship. BREATHE, 1979

Residencies

  • Workspace for Choreographers, 1996 & 1997

Grants

  • Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Production Grants for Group Motion Multi Media Dance Theater, Philadelphia, 1974 – 1989
  • The International Theater Institute to attend and perform at the Mary Wigman Conference in Dresden, Germany, 1993.
  • PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE SPIRIT – Dance Advance, a program of the Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage, funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts, administered by The University of the Arts, 2008.

Commissions Include

  • The Yellow Spring Institute for the Arts, to produce ORBIT, 1980, 1986
  • Concord dance company of the Philadelphia College for the Performing Arts, MITOTE II, 1983
  • The Seven Arts Festival, Theater of the Living Arts, Philadelphia, EARTHMATTERS 1992
  • WHYY, Channel 12, Spot Light Series, for EARTHMATTERS, supported by a grant from the Pew Charitable Trust, 1992