PHILADANXO in "Conglomerate" by Anthony Burrell Photo: J. Harris PHILADANCO! Selected for National Arts Initiative Funded by The Wallace Foundation.
Wallace Foundation’s five-year, $100 million initiative focuses on the relationship between community orientation, resilience, and relevance
The Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO!) has been selected to participate in the first phase of The Wallace Foundation’s new five-year arts initiative focused on arts organizations of color[1], created as part of the foundation’s efforts to foster equitable improvements in the arts. Following an open call in 2021 that drew over 250 applicants, PHILADANCO! was selected as one of 18 nonprofit organizations representing dance and a diverse range of artistic disciplines, geographic locations, and communities served. Alongside the other selected organizations, PHILADANCO! will receive five years of funding to develop and pursue a project to address a strategic challenge. Researchers will document each organization’s work with the aim of developing useful insights about the relationship between community orientation, resilience, and relevance.
“We are very honored to be one of two dance companies invited to be part of the initiative,” states Joan Myers Brown, PHILADANCO!’s Founder and Executive Artistic Advisor. “We are looking forward to working with the wonderful cohort of organizations to explore and address issues that affect us all, such as succession, changing community needs, resilience, and sustainability.”
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PHILADANCO! RECEIVES 3.5 YEAR GRANT AWARD FROM THE MELLON FOUNDATION
$850,000 Grant will Support Staff Expansion, New Programming, Archive Preservation and Upgrade of its Philadelphia Headquarters
The Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO!) is excited and honored to announce the awarding of a 3.5 year grant from the Mellon Foundation to support staff expansion, new programming, the cataloging and preservation of archives, and the upgrade and renovation of the company’s University City headquarters and nearby residential apartments. The $850,000 grant, one of the largest investments in the 52-year-old dance company’s history, provides essential resources that will allow PHILADANCO! to invest in its staff to maintain its dance excellence and innovation, build out its educational and community programming, and preserve its legacy of artistic achievement and leadership that has been built over the last five decades.
PHILADANCO! Founder and Executive Artistic Advisor Joan Myers Brown states “The Mellon Foundation has been one of the most important partners of PHILADANCO! and Black dance companies in America, valuing the work we do to commission, perform, and preserve works by African American choreographers and other artists of color and to be an important incubator of emerging talent from all walks of life. We are honored that the Foundation has chosen to make this significant investment in PHILADANCO!’s artistic and educational future which includes preserving our history and enhancing the role we can plan in our various communities.”
Read more here
Wallace Foundation’s five-year, $100 million initiative focuses on the relationship between community orientation, resilience, and relevance
The Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO!) has been selected to participate in the first phase of The Wallace Foundation’s new five-year arts initiative focused on arts organizations of color[1], created as part of the foundation’s efforts to foster equitable improvements in the arts. Following an open call in 2021 that drew over 250 applicants, PHILADANCO! was selected as one of 18 nonprofit organizations representing dance and a diverse range of artistic disciplines, geographic locations, and communities served. Alongside the other selected organizations, PHILADANCO! will receive five years of funding to develop and pursue a project to address a strategic challenge. Researchers will document each organization’s work with the aim of developing useful insights about the relationship between community orientation, resilience, and relevance.
“We are very honored to be one of two dance companies invited to be part of the initiative,” states Joan Myers Brown, PHILADANCO!’s Founder and Executive Artistic Advisor. “We are looking forward to working with the wonderful cohort of organizations to explore and address issues that affect us all, such as succession, changing community needs, resilience, and sustainability.”
Read more here
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PHILADANCO! RECEIVES 3.5 YEAR GRANT AWARD FROM THE MELLON FOUNDATION
$850,000 Grant will Support Staff Expansion, New Programming, Archive Preservation and Upgrade of its Philadelphia Headquarters
The Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO!) is excited and honored to announce the awarding of a 3.5 year grant from the Mellon Foundation to support staff expansion, new programming, the cataloging and preservation of archives, and the upgrade and renovation of the company’s University City headquarters and nearby residential apartments. The $850,000 grant, one of the largest investments in the 52-year-old dance company’s history, provides essential resources that will allow PHILADANCO! to invest in its staff to maintain its dance excellence and innovation, build out its educational and community programming, and preserve its legacy of artistic achievement and leadership that has been built over the last five decades.
PHILADANCO! Founder and Executive Artistic Advisor Joan Myers Brown states “The Mellon Foundation has been one of the most important partners of PHILADANCO! and Black dance companies in America, valuing the work we do to commission, perform, and preserve works by African American choreographers and other artists of color and to be an important incubator of emerging talent from all walks of life. We are honored that the Foundation has chosen to make this significant investment in PHILADANCO!’s artistic and educational future which includes preserving our history and enhancing the role we can plan in our various communities.”
Read more here
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