Photo Collage: Upper Left Image: Dance Advancement Fund Grantee Miguel Gutierrez by Ian Douglas; Upper Right: Brandy White in Nimbus Dance's "Samuel Pott's Hollow Square by Joe Velez; Lower Right: Dance Advancement Fund Grantee Bombazo Dance Company (2016), Lower Left: Dance Advancement Fund Grantee Dancing In the Streets, Inc. by Loreto Jamlig FROM THE FOLKS AT Dance/NYC: The 25 recipients of the second iteration of the Dance Advancement Fund, made possible by the generous support of the Ford Foundation, to address the inequitable distribution of resources in the dance field and advance resilience by supporting dance makers with annual budgets between $25,000 and $1 million.
The Fund leverages Dance/NYC’s capacity as a regrantor and responds directly to the organization’s field research Dance/NYC’s State of NYC Dance and Workforce Demographics
(Dance.NYC/StateofDance2016), which shows that dance makers with annual budgets of less than $1 million comprise the lion’s share (84%) of total groups but have access to only 10% of the total revenue. The research also found that organizations in this budget sector demonstrate the greatest capacity to adapt and have workforces that better reflect the racial diversity and presence of disabled and immigrant people in New York City’s population than the workforces of larger organizations.
The recipients of the Dance Advancement Fund, which will each receive two-year general support awards of $5,000-$15,000 annually, from January 1, 2020, through December 31, 2021, are:
Bergen
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
Bronx
Arthur Aviles Typical Theatre/BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
The Black Iris Project (fiscally sponsored by New York Live Arts and The Foundation for Independent Artists, Inc.)
Bombazo Dance Co, Inc.
Dancing in the Streets
Davalois Fearon Dance (fiscally sponsored by The Foundation for Independent Artists, Inc.)
Full Circle Souljahs
Hudson
Kyle Marshall Choreography (fiscally sponsored by The Foundation for Independent Artists, Inc.)
Nimbus Dance
Kings
Big Dance Theater
Fist and Heel Performance Group
Jaamil Olawale Kosoko (fiscally sponsored by New York Live Arts)
Jiva Performing Arts
LEIMAY
MBDance (fiscally sponsored by Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance [BAAD!])
Miguel Gutierrez (fiscally sponsored by UNIQUE PROJECTS, INC.)
Something Positive, Inc.
Nassau
Eglevsky Ballet Company of LI, Inc.
New York
Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company
Born Dancing
Dances For A Variable Population
Divine Rhythm Productions (fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas)
Elisa Monte Dance
Queens
Ayazamana Ecuadorian Dance Group
Westchester
Sidra Bell Dance New York (SBDNY, Inc.)
Visit Dance.NYC/DanceAdvancement for details on Dance/NYC’s Dance Advancement Fund.
The Fund leverages Dance/NYC’s capacity as a regrantor and responds directly to the organization’s field research Dance/NYC’s State of NYC Dance and Workforce Demographics
(Dance.NYC/StateofDance2016), which shows that dance makers with annual budgets of less than $1 million comprise the lion’s share (84%) of total groups but have access to only 10% of the total revenue. The research also found that organizations in this budget sector demonstrate the greatest capacity to adapt and have workforces that better reflect the racial diversity and presence of disabled and immigrant people in New York City’s population than the workforces of larger organizations.
The recipients of the Dance Advancement Fund, which will each receive two-year general support awards of $5,000-$15,000 annually, from January 1, 2020, through December 31, 2021, are:
Bergen
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
Bronx
Arthur Aviles Typical Theatre/BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
The Black Iris Project (fiscally sponsored by New York Live Arts and The Foundation for Independent Artists, Inc.)
Bombazo Dance Co, Inc.
Dancing in the Streets
Davalois Fearon Dance (fiscally sponsored by The Foundation for Independent Artists, Inc.)
Full Circle Souljahs
Hudson
Kyle Marshall Choreography (fiscally sponsored by The Foundation for Independent Artists, Inc.)
Nimbus Dance
Kings
Big Dance Theater
Fist and Heel Performance Group
Jaamil Olawale Kosoko (fiscally sponsored by New York Live Arts)
Jiva Performing Arts
LEIMAY
MBDance (fiscally sponsored by Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance [BAAD!])
Miguel Gutierrez (fiscally sponsored by UNIQUE PROJECTS, INC.)
Something Positive, Inc.
Nassau
Eglevsky Ballet Company of LI, Inc.
New York
Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company
Born Dancing
Dances For A Variable Population
Divine Rhythm Productions (fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas)
Elisa Monte Dance
Queens
Ayazamana Ecuadorian Dance Group
Westchester
Sidra Bell Dance New York (SBDNY, Inc.)
Visit Dance.NYC/DanceAdvancement for details on Dance/NYC’s Dance Advancement Fund.
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