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The acclaimed choreographer, Christopher Williams, has been selected as the 2025 recipient of the Sybil Shearer Fellowship Residency at Ragdale, a nonprofit artist residency program and community in Lake Forest, IL. This prestigious opportunity, which we're proud to fund, continues our commitment to nurturing visionary dance artists. Described by the…

We at the Morrison-Shearer Foundation are thrilled to announce a new funding partnership with 3Arts for this year's Dance Award. The recipient is Robby Lee Williams, who embodies the spirit of innovation and dedication that both our organizations seek to foster. “The partnership between Morrison-Shearer Foundation and 3Arts is a…

In the fall of 2022, the Foundation discovered that the Hamburg Ballet would perform in Chicago at the Harris Theater in 2023 as part of a special tour celebrating John Neumeier’s 50th anniversary as its artistic director. MSF's Executive Director, Scott Lundius, called the Harris Theater’s CEO, Lori Dimun, setting…

Chicagoland’s dance community has an important and enduring friend in dance maverick Sybil Shearer and the Morrison-Shearer Foundation. The Foundation, established in 1991, perpetuates the legacy of dancer/choreographer Shearer and collaborator/photographer Helen Balfour Morrison as an inspiration for new creativity in the arts by providing grants, the Sybil Shearer Fellowship…