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In Dance: Winter 2024 issue
Guest Editor Rowena Richie writes “This issue of In Dance is dedicated to care. To unpacking what our art form and our community are experiencing and exploring when it comes to practicing and performing care. How have our views of care and safety evolved in recent years?”
Community
Chitresh Das Dance takes Invoking the River on 3 City Tour of India
The tour has deep personal implications for Moraga and all the dancers as this is the first time the company is touring to India since the passing of Guru Pandit Chitresh Das, who was born and raised in Kolkata, India. Read more…
Brenda Way to be inducted into the California Hall of Fame
An induction ceremony will be held in February, followed by the opening of the 17th class artifact exhibit, and this event will be livestreamed. Details will be posted in the coming weeks. Read more…
Rainin Foundation Awards $810,000 In Arts Grants
The Kenneth Rainin Foundation awarded $810,000 to 32 small and mid-size arts organizationsthrough the New and Experimental Works (NEW) Program. Funded projects uplift underrepresented voices, offer spaces for healing and ritual and challenge assumptions around disability justice, climate change and equitable art making. This grant cycle marked the first time using the Common Application for the Arts and a review panel selection process. Read more…
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Upcoming Deadlines
For more opportunities, visit our Grants, Residencies & Opportunities Calendar
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation: USArtists International
Supports in-person and virtual performances by American artists at engagements at international festivals and global presenting arts marketplaces outside of the United States. The program funds individuals and ensembles across all performing arts practices and disciplines. Grants provide up to $15,000 toward eligible travel expenses. For projects taking place between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025. Due Wed, Mar 27 at 8:59pm. Read more…
Virtual Drop-In Sessions (No registration required)
- Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 10am-11:30pm
- Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 7:30-9am
WESTAF: BIPOC Artist Fund
Provides resources to and for BIPOC artists living in the 16 states and jurisdictions in the WESTAF region. WESTAF will invest in the well-being and safety of BIPOC artists, cultural practitioners, and collaboratives by providing no-strings-attached funding and support. The BIPOC Artist Fund support is available for, but not limited to, any of the following:
- Salary support
- Technology/software
- Materials or other resources
- Holistic health
They anticipate distributing $6,000 – $12,000 per awardee. Due Sun, Mar 31 by 10:59pm. Read more…
Native Cultures Fund
Support projects that reflect the transmission of knowledge across generations, based in California Indian culture, art, values, and traditional practices. Grants can be made to individuals, non-profits, community partnerships, or Tribal Nations. Grants support artists, culture bearers, and educators from the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation peoples near the Oregon border, inland to the Paiute and Shoshone Nations along the Nevada border, and south to the Chumash peoples of the Santa Barbara area. Due Mon, Apr 1. Read more…
SVCREATES: Unrestricted Operating Grants
Provides general operating support for small nonprofit arts and culture organizations that:
- Reflect the dynamic, diverse, and innovative character of Santa Clara County
- Demonstrate commitment to equity, inclusion, and artistic vibrancy and relevance
- Positively impact the County’s cultural ecosystem through active and sustained engagement with audiences, volunteers and artists
- Pursue organizational sustainability in service to the local community
In 2024, they will accept applications from organizations with annual operating budgets between $250,000 and $1.2 million only. Due Fri, Apr 12. Read more…
Anonymous Was A Woman: Environmental Art Grants
Will distribute a total of $300,000 in funding—up to $20,000 per project—to support environmental art projects led by women-identifying artists in the United States and U.S. Territories. Projects should not only point at problems, but aim to engage an environmental issue at some scale. Projects must have a public engagement component that is free to attend and takes place within the grant term (Aug 2024 to Aug 2025). Open to artists in all disciplines. Due Tue, Apr 16 by 2pm. Read more…
- Information Session: Wed, Mar 13, 11am
UPCOMING EVENTS
Two bracing programs feature world premieres and major reprises by ODC's Founding Artistic Director Brenda Way, Associate Choreographer Kimi Okada, ODC Fellow KT Nelson and guest choreographer Sonya Delwaide. Both Program A and Program B conclude with Nelson's exhilarating Dead Reckoning, set to a commissioned score by composer and cellist Joan Jeanrenaud. Springing from the raucous world of cartoon, the front pages of the news, the intimacy of human connection, or the mystery of artistic process, Dance Downtown invites the viewer on a visceral, thought-provoking journey and simply breathtaking dance.
MOREQDF is thrilled to present FROLIC! as a 2024 Co-Production with CounterPulse, comrades in presenting radical and experimental work in the Bay. This year’s festival features eight artists across two exciting programs. From exploring dyke heartbreak through Afrobeat poetry, to drag embodiment of queer Xicanx cowboys, FROLIC! artists bring fearless depth, joyful experimentation, and mythic memory to the stage. Program A Works by Styles Alexander, Nol Simonse, IDHAX and Nahaulle, and Yvonne Onakeme Etaghene Program B Works by Quinn Dior, Melí Gómez & Annalise Carrillo Constantz, Ishami Dance Company, and Ebube Obioma & Ky Frances
MORENCDE presents an evening of modern dance based on five centuries of paintings and sculpture. From poignant to hilarious, the dances take their inspiration from artwork ranging from a sixteenth-century study of female musicians to a Matisse collage, the abstract precision of Mondrian, and Op Art, with stops along the way for impressionism and midcentury modern sculpture. Choreography by Artistic Director Natasha Carlitz and guest choreographers Alyssa Plummer and Avery Rissling Company dancers: Kerry Aradhya, Audra Edwards, Marie Hamel, Maggie Hurd-Fleck, Jeanne-Claudius Martin, Elizabeth Musco, Alyssa Plummer, Avery Rissling, Yu-Chen Rockwell, Clara Yang Guest dancers: Skylar Adams, Samantha Kennedy, Liam McCullar, Sophie Otewalt, and High Release Dance
MOREQDF is thrilled to present FROLIC! as a 2024 Co-Production with CounterPulse, comrades in presenting radical and experimental work in the Bay. This year’s festival features eight artists across two exciting programs. From exploring dyke heartbreak through Afrobeat poetry, to drag embodiment of queer Xicanx cowboys, FROLIC! artists bring fearless depth, joyful experimentation, and mythic memory to the stage. Program A Works by Styles Alexander, Nol Simonse, IDHAX and Nahaulle, and Yvonne Onakeme Etaghene Program B Works by Quinn Dior, Melí Gómez & Annalise Carrillo Constantz, Ishami Dance Company, and Ebube Obioma & Ky Frances
MORETwo bracing programs feature world premieres and major reprises by ODC's Founding Artistic Director Brenda Way, Associate Choreographer Kimi Okada, ODC Fellow KT Nelson and guest choreographer Sonya Delwaide. Both Program A and Program B conclude with Nelson's exhilarating Dead Reckoning, set to a commissioned score by composer and cellist Joan Jeanrenaud. Springing from the raucous world of cartoon, the front pages of the news, the intimacy of human connection, or the mystery of artistic process, Dance Downtown invites the viewer on a visceral, thought-provoking journey and simply breathtaking dance.
MOREQDF is thrilled to present FROLIC! as a 2024 Co-Production with CounterPulse, comrades in presenting radical and experimental work in the Bay. This year’s festival features eight artists across two exciting programs. From exploring dyke heartbreak through Afrobeat poetry, to drag embodiment of queer Xicanx cowboys, FROLIC! artists bring fearless depth, joyful experimentation, and mythic memory to the stage. Program A Works by Styles Alexander, Nol Simonse, IDHAX and Nahaulle, and Yvonne Onakeme Etaghene Program B Works by Quinn Dior, Melí Gómez & Annalise Carrillo Constantz, Ishami Dance Company, and Ebube Obioma & Ky Frances
MOREWHAT IS FISCAL SPONSORSHIP?
Dancers’ Group’s fiscal sponsorship program provides administrative guidance that can help you raise money to support your dance.