Dancer and choreographer Christopher Rudd  a 1998 high school graduate of New World School of the Arts  has received the first Inspiration Grant from the school’s Alumni Foundation Rudd  who has his own dance company RuddduR Dance  will use the $1 000 award to help him create Witness  a contemporary ballet inspired by the killings of Trayvon Martin  Michael Brown  Eric Garner and Freddie Gray  and the protests that have followed