NEWS

Read "Let’s Sick Dance" by Dia Dear

 

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“Earlier this year scientists announced the earth’s core’s rotation slowed down, stopped and maybe even changed direction. I think it’s a hint.”

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This article appears in the Fall issue of In Dance.

Community

YBCA Announces CAC’s Creative Corps Initiative Grant Awardees

The Creative Corps Initiative Awards, a partnership with the California Arts Council (CAC), will provide $3.36M in funding to artists in the San Francisco Bay Area. In collaboration with non-profit organizations from throughout the Bay Area, the Creative Corps Initiative is awarding $70,000 to 48 artists living and working in the Bay Area. Read more about the recipients…

 

Creative Work Fund announces $636,000 in grants to 13 Northern California artists to create new artworks with nonprofit organizations

Choreographer Eric Solano and World Arts West are collaborating to create Ipat a Kadsakay, is a new ritual dance work inspired by the Sagayan Dance from the Maguindanaon Ipat ritual, performed by Parangal Dance Company. Read more…

 

2023-24 Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency Awards

After a rigorous and illuminating process, three independent panelists awarded nine residencies: Natasha Adorlee and Keegan Arthur Olton – Ian Erickson – Jordan Glenn with Sudhu Tewari and Christopher Farstad and Mitch Stahlmann – Conni McKenzie – Seismic Thots [grisel torres/gg- Peekaboo – Joshua Icban] – Jocelyn Reyes – Melissa Lewis Wong – Sholeh Asgary and Dena Al-Adeeb – Truc Nguyen. Read more…

 

Welcome Chibueze, Zellerbach Family Foundation’s First Community Arts Fellow

The Community Arts Fellowship emerged from the foundation’s effort to activate its strategic framework: an integrated approach to grantmaking that promotes belonging, connection, and a shared sense of safety among people and communities across the Bay Area and California. In their role as Community Arts Fellow, Chibueze will help the foundation actualize its belief in the power of arts and culture to bring people together, change hearts and minds, and imagine a better future. Read more…

NEWS

Featured Space: BANDALOOP Studios

The new and improved facility includes: two 40×40 ADA dance floors, three 28 foot dance walls, a double wide mezzanine office suite for staff, dancers, technicians, and visiting artists, a wardrobe & fitting room for costume design, a full changing area with ADA bathrooms, as well as updated glass storefront door access, climate control, and insulation. Learn more…

 

Upcoming Deadlines

For more opportunities, visit our Grants, Residencies & Opportunities Calendar

Zellerbach Family Foundation: Community Arts

Supports the creation of work by Bay Area artists and access to the arts for Bay Area communities. Deadline to apply: Mon, Dec 18 at 5pm. Read more…

 

MAP Fund

Invests in performing artists and their work as the critical foundation of imagining and co-creating a more equitable and vibrant society. MAP’s 2024 grant cycle will provide grants to more than 90 new, live performance projects across the lands now known as the United States, including its territories and Indigenous tribal nations within. Each grantee will receive: a $25,000 grant for the creation and development of a new, live performance project, a $5,000 unrestricted general operating grant, and a $1,000 microgrant to redistribute to another artist in their community. Due Tue, Dec 19 at 2pm. Read more…

 

Indian Arts Research Center: Native American Artist Fellowships

Offers artist-in-residence fellowships annually to advance the work of established and emerging Native American artists. Each fellowship includes a monthly stipend, housing, studio space, a supplies allowance, full access to the IARC collections, and travel reimbursement to and from the School for Advanced Research. You must specify your affiliated tribe or nation.

  • The Ron and Susan Dubin Native Artist Fellowship (June 15-Aug 15) is dedicated to supporting traditional Native artistry.
  • Eric and Barbara Dobkin Native Artist Fellowship for Women (March 1-May 31): encourages the creativity and growth of indigenous women artists working in any media

Due Mon, Jan 15. Read more…

 

California Humanities: Project Grant

($10,000 to $25,000) Awarded twice a year to large scale public humanities projects of up to two-years duration from the award date. Appropriate programming formats include but are not limited to virtual and in-person interpretive exhibits, community dialogue and discussion series, workshops and participatory activities, presentations and lectures, conversations and forums, and interactive and experiential activities. Eligibility is limited to California-based nonprofit organizations and non-federal public agencies. Fiscally sponsored projects are eligible to apply if the fiscal sponsor meets all of the eligibility criteria. Awards must be matched with an equivalent amount of cash or in-kind resources over the life of the project. Note: Dancers’ Group is a California Humanities-approved, multi-application fiscal sponsor. Due Tue, Jan 16. Read more…

A female elder is surrounded by community members holding large round instruments as she looks down to play.
Oct 2023

Creating Joy so that We May Remember

Kim Requesto interviewed by Rowena Richie

When I think of sharing my work with an audience, I hope that everyone, regardless of their race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability, can learn, understand, and find connection. There are so many similarities and parallels to our lives, sometimes it takes art in order for us to see and feel it. 

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Oct 2023

Views from the Porch: Reflections on Dance as a Practice of Being

by Audrey Johnson

As I sit on a porch overlooking a small meadow, the sky in a sensual humid holdout with the rain, crickets holding their breath as the trees tease coming winds, I am breathing within my now near daily practice of attunement.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Nov 13

This November, Amy Seiwert’s Imagery will release the on-demand screening of SKETCH 13: Lucky. Offered in four parts, we will release a work every Wednesday. Each work will be available to view for 14 days. Grab a blanket and your favorite beverage, and enjoy these strikingly different ballets from the comfort of your home. Wed-Tue, Nov 8-21 - Visual Language by Trey McIntyre Wed-Tue, Nov 15-28 - Gilded by Hélène Simoneau Wed-Tue, Nov 22-Dec 5 - How it Feels by Amy Seiwert Tickets are pay-what-you-can and will give you 14-day unlimited access to on-demand screening for each work. An audio-described version of each work will be available. Closed Captions included.

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Nov 30

PERFECT. explores perfectionism and its impacts on the individual body, and the collective body, and seeks to dismantle notions of standards and norms (whose standards, whose norms!? RESPONSE. researches the space between stimuli and response; seeking what is possible in the pause, the breath, the moment, the choice… Fri, Dec 1: Special Guest Performance by ROCO dance’s Body Language and post-show Q&A This work is collaboratively created and co-authored. Each Collaborator has agency for what they share in this process, and authorship of their contributions for their future or concurrent personal and/or professional endeavors. Donations are happily accepted and appreciated to support the hard work of our creative team and free workshops, and events! For Tax deductible donations please click our CALI & CO donation page HERE: https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/MTg3NTE= For donations directly to our artists please venmo: @calidances with a note: perfect response (we would be oh so grateful, especially as dance is SO underfunded and undervalued!) CALI & CO dance is Fiscally Sponsored by Dancer’s Group.

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Dec 1

PERFECT. explores perfectionism and its impacts on the individual body, and the collective body, and seeks to dismantle notions of standards and norms (whose standards, whose norms!? RESPONSE. researches the space between stimuli and response; seeking what is possible in the pause, the breath, the moment, the choice… Fri, Dec 1: Special Guest Performance by ROCO dance’s Body Language and post-show Q&A This work is collaboratively created and co-authored. Each Collaborator has agency for what they share in this process, and authorship of their contributions for their future or concurrent personal and/or professional endeavors. Donations are happily accepted and appreciated to support the hard work of our creative team and free workshops, and events! For Tax deductible donations please click our CALI & CO donation page HERE: https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/MTg3NTE= For donations directly to our artists please venmo: @calidances with a note: perfect response (we would be oh so grateful, especially as dance is SO underfunded and undervalued!) CALI & CO dance is Fiscally Sponsored by Dancer’s Group.

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Dec 1

The Brooklyn-based performance ensemble Urban Bush Women visits for the Bay Area premiere of Hair & Other Stories, a full-length dance-theater work exploring race, identity, and concepts of beauty through the lens of Black women’s hair. Inspired by founder and 2021 MacArthur Fellow Jawole Willa Jo Zollar’s HairStories (2001), the participatory performance is a work of activism, awakening, and engagement, asking the audience to move, to comment, to reflect, and to bear witness. Choreographed and directed by co-artistic directors Chanon Judson and Mame Diarra Speis, Hair & Other Stories was developed from personal narratives gathered from participants at “Hair Party” sessions the company held with women across the country, as well as through the company’s ongoing collaboration with the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond’s “Undoing Racism” workshops. Join us for a post-performance moderated discussion on Fri, Dec 1 and post-performance community conversations on Sat & Sun, Dec 2–3. An Illuminations: “Individual & Community” event.

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Dec 2

Mark Foehringer’s Nutcracker Sweets is a unique 50-minute version of the Nutcracker specifically designed for families with young children. The production includes new choreography, scenic elements, costumes, and a scene where it snows on the audience. There is also a live 9-piece chamber orchestra with Keisuke Nakagoshi (San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Opera Parallele) as the pit conductor.

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Dec 2

Mark Foehringer’s Nutcracker Sweets is a unique 50-minute version of the Nutcracker specifically designed for families with young children. The production includes new choreography, scenic elements, costumes, and a scene where it snows on the audience. There is also a live 9-piece chamber orchestra with Keisuke Nakagoshi (San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Opera Parallele) as the pit conductor.

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