A granting program for artists and organizations creating work in the San Francisco Bay Area, supporting the many diversities of Bay Area dance (race, ethnicity, genre, age, gender, orientation, ability, experience, location).
The program is funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation with additional support from the Fleishhacker Foundation, Grants for the Arts, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, and the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation. CA$H was designed in 1999 by artists for artists through the organizational work of Dancers’ Group and Theatre Bay Area. If you have questions, email [email protected]
2025 AWARDEES
Dancers’ Group is pleased to announce that we have awarded $100,000 in grants to 20 Bay Area dance artists and organizations.
Each grantee will receive $5,000 as part of the 2025 round of CA$H Dance.
Artists
Antwan Davis
Cyrah L. Ward
gizeh muñiz
Javier Stell-Fresquez
Kira Fargas
Natalya Janay Shoaf
Ronald Creer
Saharla Vetsch
Styles Alexander
Tania Santiago
Organizations
Concept o4
David Herrera Performance Company
Grupo Folklorico Quetzalen
Herencia Guantanamera
Ishami Dance Company
MasFX Carnival Dance Experience
MovingGround
MPWRD Artist’s Collective
Rang De Indian Folk and Bollywood Dance Company
Sakura Ren
Read the awardees’ project descriptions
Dancers’ Group received 105 applications for this round of funding—71 applications from individual artists/partnerships/collectives, and 34 applications from organizations. After 25 years of grantmaking, this was the second-highest number of applications received.
We were able to provide grants to 10 artists and 10 organizations, highlighting dance forms including body percussion, Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Caribbean dance styles, Mexican folklórico, Drag, Aerial performance, Filipinx-American movement, HipHop, Indian folk dance, Awa Odori Japanese dance, and more. This year, a number of grantees also described their practices as multidisciplinary, site-specific, and rooted in ritual, ancestry, narrative, and storytelling.
Two panels (one for each application category) of working artists and artist administrators reviewed applications this round. The panelists were Audrey Johnson, Becca Dean, Hien Huynh, Joti Singh, Rowena Richie, and Sammay Dizon.
Learn more about the 2025 CA$H guidelines, eligibility, and review.
To learn about theatre applications, visit Theatre Bay Area.
