WE DID IT ! MOVING FORWARD: THE CAMPAIGN FOR DANCE PLACE
3225 8TH ST NE, WASHINGTON, DC 20017 202.269.1600 DANCEPLACE.ORG
WITH YOUR HELP, WE DID IT ! Dance Place raised $4.5 million through the Moving Forward Campaign! Whether you’ve never been to the new building or are here Moving In – 1986
every weekend, we’re proud to have you as a part of our family. Join us as we take a look at where we’ve been and where we’re going next.
Arts Park rendering by Lee and Associates. Grand Re-Opening photo by Lisa Helfert. Construction photo courtesy of Dance Place. Art on 8th photo by Niesha Zeigler. Groundbreaking photo by David Dowling. Artland/Brookland photo by David Dowling. Brookland Artspace Loft Photo (c) Enoch Chan 2011. Brookland Artspace Lofts Groundbreaking courtesy of Dance Place. Moving In photo courtesy of Dance Place.
Brookland Artspace Lofts Groundbreaking – 2010
Brookland Artspace Lofts Open – 2011
Artland/Brookland – 2012
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8th St Arts Park – 2016
Grand Re-Opening – 2014
“It’s beautiful! So proud of my Dance Place family for getting work done and making their dreams a reality. The space now fully reflects the life changing work going on inside the building. And those theater seats? Much improved.”
Dance Place Groundbreaking – 2013
Capital Campaign Construction 2013 – 2014
Launch of Art on 8th – 2014
Dance Place is bigger and better than ever before and it’s all due to the support of our powerful community!
ARA FITZGERALD PHOTO: PETER CUNNINGHAM
On June 6th, 2014, we moved back into our completed facility just in time for our annual DanceAfrica, DC Festival. Through the wonderful design of Hickok Cole Architects, guidance of our owner’s representative Richard Pilkinton and hard work of Bognet Construction Company, we have expanded our building from 7,000 to 10,500 square feet. Our totally renovated facility now includes a greatly improved theater, second floor studio, wonderful backstage area, expanded offices, inviting lobby, café area for refreshments and vibrant exterior. The state of the art Morris and
Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater helps us serve artists, audiences and students with more comfort and grace. Renovations include a new sprung floor, specially designed retractable steel risers, comfortable theater seats, hard-wired lighting grid, improved theater equipment and the PHOTO: DAVID DOWLING enclosed Philip L. Graham Fund Technical Booth. Behind the stage, our well-lit, spacious dressing room provides space for our talented artists to prepare (funded generously by an Anonymous donor). Named after the Founding Director’s father, the Hyman M. Perlo Studio increases our capacity for serving artists with vital, affordable rehearsal space, provides a home for the Dance Place Step Team, serves as educational space for our teen Junior Staff program, as well as allows room for additional children’s classes and a new green room space for performers.
Our second floor expanded Prince Charitable Trusts Office Suite includes three enclosed offices, a new wing for our youth programs and production staff and meeting space. Our bright new Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation Lobby provides a welcoming atmosphere for students and parents during daytime classes, professional dancers before rehearsal and audiences attending weekend performances. Café Florence is buzzing before the performances, at intermission and after the performances, as patrons enjoy their beverages and mingle with artists. The outside our building with the Christopher Janney tower and “Touch My Building” installation is a favorite for children and adults alike who are encouraged to place their hands on our building and enjoy the collage of sounds that respond.
VTDANCE/VINCENT E. THOMAS PHOTO: DAVID DOWLING
PHOTO: DAVID DOWLING
Enlivening Our Community As part of our capital campaign, Dance Place pledged to raise $500,000 in our Program Enhancement Fund to support new artistic initiatives that would expand our reach into our growing Brookland/ Edgewood neighborhood. For the past five years, we have diversified our presentations to include free outdoor public art programming that includes dance, music, visual arts and gardening. Our Program Enhancement initiatives began with Dance Place’s Artland/Brookland Temporium in Summer 2012, supported by an ArtPlace grant awarded to the DC Office of Planning. Dance Place operated two 3-month “temporiums” in vacant spaces, transforming a former real estate office into the 12th Street Gallery and local restaurant Island Jim’s into an Arts Club. Following this model of free multi-disciplinary activities, Dance Place launched Art on 8th in Summer 2013, utilizing the Arts Walk at Monroe St. Market as a prime location. Now in our fourth year of Art on 8th, we have brought together almost 7,000 participants and 1,000 artists over 94 weekends, utilizing multicultural and family-friendly arts events as a force for community vibrancy and cohesiveness. Our free GET CREATIVE arts & crafts workshops continue indoors year-round.
Edgewood’s cultural and economic revitalization. We are engaged in extensive wayfinding and neighborhood marketing activities including: the installation of Art on 8th telephone pole banners; a first-ever Arts & Entertainment Map for Brookland/Edgewood; and an annual Fall neighborhood festival Be In Brookland/Experience Edgewood, in addition to our continuing Art on 8th programming.
WE AREN’T DONE YET! Our vision for a neighborhood “Arts Campus” concludes with the transformation of the vacant alley next to Dance Place into a creative gathering space, the 8th St Arts Park. Enabling us to expand our free cultural programs and increase opportunities for artists, the Park will be a site for public art commissions, artistic seating, flexible stage space, decorative surfacing for creative play and community gardening. The Park is being designed by Lee & Associates Landscape Architects, with leadership from a wonderful volunteer steering committee and funding from The Kresge Foundation. Look for the Grand Opening of the Park in 2016 and follow our progress at
www.danceplace.org/arts-park
Partnering with public, private and artistic entities, Dance Place continues to serve as a leading partner in Brookland/
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PHOTO: NIESHA ZIEGLER
PHOTO: DAVID DOWLING
Moving Forward: The Campaign for Dance Place
Thank you to our genero
BOARD OF DIRECTORS DURING THE CAMPAIGN
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation DC Department of Housing and Community Development
RICH BERNARDI, CHAIR 2002 - 2009 DEANNA FRANCL, CHAIR 2009 - 2012 JANNES WAPLES GIBSON, CHAIR 2012 - PRESENT CAROL BRADWELL ROBERT ADES * EDWARD APPLE EVAN CROCKER CINDY HALLBERLIN JENNIFER HARDY MIKE HENEHAN BILL HILLEGEIST W. CHRIS HOLLINSED KAREN BROOKS HOPKINS CHELLY JONES JOY KERIN BO MENKITI CARLA PERLO CAROLINE PETTI DEBORAH RILEY ALLAN RIVLIN AMY RUTT WENDY SHAPIRO ALLAN SHAPIRO EBONI THOMPSON MARGUERITE THOMPSON KIRSTIN NOE YEADO * DECEASED
PROJECT PARTNERS ARTSPACE, INC. BOGNET CONSTRUCTION EPSTEIN FINANCIAL ORGANIZATION HICKOK COLE ARCHITECTS RICHARD PILKINTON SELF-HELP CREDIT UNION
DANCE PLACE STAFF MEMBERS DURING THE CAMPAIGN DIRECTORS CARLA PERLO, FOUNDING DIRECTOR DEBORAH RILEY, DIRECTOR
CAMPAIGN STEERING COMMITTEE CYRIL CROCKER KATHY FRESHLEY JANNES WAPLES GIBSON JALAL GREENE NJAMBI WYNN DENISE ROLLINS WENDY SHAPIRO LEILA SMITH DOUGLAS WHEELER
CORPORATIONS
$315,300
SELF-HELP CREDIT UNION FOUNDATIONS
$500,000 $2,031,000
GOVERNMENT INDIVIDUALS
$1,643,243 $558,367
$20,000 – $49,999
TOTAL:
$5,047,910
SELF-HELP 10%
GOVERNMENT 33%
Abramson Family Foundation Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts Dallas Morse Coors Foundation Elizabeth & Bill Fogarty Kathy & Gerald Freshley Vincent Hurteau & Steve Henry INTEC aec / Architects and Engineers Klein Hornig LLP Allan & Sheri Rivlin Wendy Shapiro & Charles Ferris
Jim Epstein Philip L. Graham Fund Office of Planning / ArtPlace Carla Perlo & Richard Pilkinton Prince Charitable Trusts
CAPITAL CAMPAIGN FUNDING SOURCES
FOUNDATIONS 40%
DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Ford Foundation MARPAT Foundation The Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation
$50,000 – $99,999
CORPORATIONS 6%
FUNDING BY SOURCE
$10,000 – $19,999
Anonymous Artspace Projects, Inc. The City Fund Deputy Mayor’s Office for Planning and Economic Development Kresge Foundation Leveraging Investments in Creativity The Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Ou r Town”
ELIZABETH ZINNI
$250,000 – $599,999
$100,000 – $249,999
AMANDA BLYTHE KORIE BOOKER VALERIE BRANCH TRIANA BROWN ANNIE CHOUDHURY STEPHEN CLAPP EMILY CREWS JESSICA DOLEZAL HEATHER DOYLE JESSICA DUCEY JUDY ESTEY ADRIAN GALVIN DACHE GREEN SARAH GREENBAUM APRIL GRUBER HOLLY HALVORSON DAVID HOPPER STEFAN JOHNSON CAROLYN KAMRATH JACKSON DONNA KEARNEY SARAH KRAMER BEN LEVINE AUSTIN MASON BRIDGET MISKELL RICHARD PILKINTON KILEY POGAS SHANNON QUINN LEANNE REGAN TINA SILVERMAN SYLVIA SOUMAH PATINA STROTHER KATE TALLENT KEVIN TERVALA LATOYA WALDEN DELANTE WHITE
CAPITAL CAMPAIGN FUNDS
$600,000 AND ABOVE
INDIVIDUALS 11%
Anonymous Robert Ades* Yolanda Cole DC Department of Small and Local Business Development Electronic Theater Controls Jannes Waples Gibson Cindy Hallberlin & Joel Kanter Local Initiatives Support Corporation The Menkiti Group / Horning Brothers
$5,000 – $9,999 Damien Agostinelli & Janice Marks Rich Bernardi & Joyce Wilker Bognet Construction Carol & Willis Bradwell William & Brigid Brakefield Lois England / The England Family Deanna & Mark Francl Carol Grave Bill Hillegeist Karen Brooks Hopkins Rachel & Jared Paul Deborah Riley & Mary Beth Flournoy Denise Rollins Jim Stiegman & Susie Ryan Reggie Van Lee
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“What a wonderful space to house and
foster creativity and community”
ous donors! As of August 31, 2015 $2,000 – $4,999
Heidi Kurtze
Ed Steltzer
Lindsay & Bill McLaughlin
Lynn Bock & Barry Barth
Roberta & Lenny Goldstein
Dianne Brace & Robert Lynch
Linda Le Cam
Polly Thibodeau
Lalise & Jerry Melillo
Regina Boyd
Pablo & Rosalyn Gonzalez
Charlotte Cameron Marshall
Vincent Thomas
Taye Merryweather
Margot Born
Gary Gregory
Bridget Miskell
Larry & Paulette Walker
Linda Miller
John Breast
George Gurvin
Ellen Opper-Weiner
Kathryn Zyla & Brian Scott
Gail Minor-Smith
Roberta Bregstone
Mark Haim
Robert & Mary Buckley Alex Clancy Jamie Coronado & Norman Briere
Eileen & Dana Miskell
Mary Brown
Beth Hamby
Beth Davis
Carol Polakoff
$250 – $499
Steve Munoz
Greg Buch
Nancy & Richard Havlik
Martha Davis
Alice M. Rivlin
Anonymous (2)
Aundrea Naylor
Meleta Buckstaff
Natasha Hawkins
Jeffrey & Kathleen Dolezal
Rasheid Scarlett
Dr. Gail Alexander
Lisa Paul
Rita Burns
Ashley Haymakers
DC SEU
Stanley M. & Sue Schwartz
alight dance theater
Anne Burson
Lisa Helfert
Harriet Moncure Fellows & Jay Fellows
Allan Shapiro
Patricia Angus
Sara Pearson & Patrik Widrig
Danette Hensley
David Antonelli
Briana Carper
Ira Hersh
Bess & Michael Foley
Carl Podwoski & Virginia Lovejoy
Stacy Cardillo
Shure Inc. Karin & Steve Silverman
Atlantic Electrical Supply
Lauren & Mariel Procter
Daniel Carter
Lonna Hooks
Joseph Gangloff
Pam & Gene Silverman
Baile’s Drum Works
Thomas Chase
Marcia & Bus Howard
Jack Gerard
Karen Reedy
Tina Silverman
Judith Berland
Sheila Riley
Clarence Cherry
Keisha Howard
Jennifer Hardy
Leila Smith
Daniel Perlo Bloom
Janelle Chisholm
Nancy Iacomini
Carolyn & Anthony A. Jackson
Bella Rosenberg
Patricia Thomas
Carmen Boston
Lillian Cho
John Tichenor
Bowen McCauley Dance
Ann Jackson & Dean Wooden
Sam Lanahan
Lauren Rubenstein & Steven Shapiro
Jill & Paul Levine
Jan Van Dyke
Bruce L. Brown
Linda Levine & Stuart Hershey
Vicki Warren & Costas Avrakotos
Dr. James Brown & Barbara Boykin
Anne McGuirk
George Wasserman Family Foundation
Michelle Brown Johnson
Cheryl McQueen
Adam Weers
Bo & Kymber Menkiti PM Hospitality Strategies Irma Poretsky
Dean & Karen Pogas
Phan Winter WPAS Women’s Committee Yahya Yazdi
Ruth Rivin & Ron Boustead
Dana Tai Soon Burgess Daniel & Andrea Burkholder Suzanne Callahan Choreographers Collaboration Project
Sankofa Dance Theater Annetta & Russell Sawyer Hank & Charlotte Schlosberg
Lee Kimball Clark Enrique Codas Marcie Cohen Morris & Dorothy Cohen
Sidney Schulman
Tonka Collins
Tara Sears & David Carlson
Ellen & Stanley Copeland
Laine Shakerdge
Therese Cox
Melissa & Daniel Shriver
Chante Cruse
Galia Siegel
Andrew Culbertson
Mitra Pedoeem & Jeffrey Strum* Erica Pencak Kacie Peterson Polly Pettit & Peter Dowling Kiley Pogas Deborah Lee Polhemus Dawn Prather Larry & Phyliss Press Lynnie Raybuck Elinor Reed Barry Remley Sallie Rhodes Tierra Rich Judy Rivlin Lynn & Donald Roberts Emily Rorty Carol Ross
Fred Jackson
Joyce S. & Jerald S. Sachs
Denise Jakobsberg
Denaise Seals
Enid Johnson
Sara Sennett
Jason Johnston
Anthony Settel
Tzveta Kassabova
Foon Sham
Caroline Keith
Yona Shulman
Anthony Kochis
Margaret Siegel
Donna & Irving Kramer
Donald & Iyu Sillers
Bruce Krebs
Brenda Silvils
Maiya Lay
Jalila Simmons
Paulette Lee
Calvin & Carla Smith
Nettie Legters
Sharon Snyder
Holly Lennihan
Dawn Springer
Ben Levine
Frances Stadler
Sarah Levitt
Leslie Stein
Barbara & Steven Lippai
Jackie Steven & Jason Horowitz
Andrew Slater
Ellen Cull
$500 – $999
Adrienne Clancy
Debbie Smith-Steiner
Leah Curran
Anonymous
Merrill Collins
Soul In Motion
Raj Damodaran
Ed & Susan Apple
Jennifer Cover Payne
Victoria Stanley
Penelope Dann
Jane Brashares & Ron Weis
Coyaba Dance Theater
William Stevens
Camilla Day
Julia Brennan
Adrianne M. Dale
Story District
Carolyn & David DeVilbiss
Capital Development Strategies LLC
Dance Place Energizers Camp 2013
Lee & Albert Sturtevant
Joanne Donaldson
Linda Carlson & Larry Himelfarb
Dance Place Fall Interns 2014
Lisa Swenton-Eppard
Michelle Douglas
Njambi & Earl Wynn
Kate Tallent
Emma Dozier
Evan Lippincott & Krista Kurth
$1,000 – $1,999
Kimmie Dobbs Chan & Enoch Chan
Dance Place Summer Interns 2013
Stefani & Efan Thomas
Lisa Dubay
Trevor Litsey
Alice Stewart
Ellen Chenoweth
Edgeworks Dance Theater
Carol Dunn
Susan Lowen
Briana Stuart
Anonymous (2)
Kwame & Germonique Ulmer
Cathy Eliot & Bill Haris
UpRooted Dance
Lucy Bowen McCauley
Karen Studd
Kim Baich
Julia Craighill
Dane Edidi
James Ellzy
Pamela Egnew
Jill Veber
Philip & Anedra Lumpkin
Maury Sullivan
Chesapeake Chapter The Society Inc.
Emily Crews & Mikael Manoukian
William & Susan Veber
Papaya Mann
Anna Sullivan
Martha & Gary Connor
Dance Exchange
Judy Estey
Theresa Etienne James Farmer
Estela Velez
Kathleen Manning
Mark Talavera
Laura Cox
Beverly Dennis
Ezibu Muntu Dance Theater
David Weinreich
Jessica Marchant
Alison Talvacchio
DancEthos
Jason Donaldson
Farafina Kan
Susan Farr
Eric Weissman
William Matson
Nadia Taran
Dance Place Energizers Camp Families 2013
David Dowling
John Flournoy
Dianne Farrington
Trudy Ann Flournoy
Baakari Wilder
Alan Fedorowsky & Stephanie Millon
Pamela Matthews
Ira Tattelman
Erica Gibson
Cynthia Word
Connie Fink
Robin & Meryl Todd
Winnie Dreier
Marcia Freeman
Alvin Mayes Nicole McClam Mcbrayer
Galen Tromble Doug Varone
Ellen Rosenthal Laura Schandelmeier & Stephen Clapp Michael Walton Jill Weiler William White David Wolfel & Erika Lehman
Annie Choudhury
Jane Franklin Dance
Yvonne Edwards
David Gill
Lionel Epstein & Elizabeth Streicher Epstein
Jack Gordon
Sarah Epstein & Donald Collins
Nelse Greenway
James Estey & Janet Bralove Uchenna Evans
Glade Dance Collective
$1 – $249
Karen FitzGerald
Karen McCluskey & Misti French
Robert Hall
Anonymous (4)
Marie & Clent McCoy
Lynn Hamister
Brett Abrams
Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble
Scott & Marie Kamrath
Doris Holzheimer & Gordon Hullar
Beth & Dennis Albaneze
Michael Kilmer & Tim Breidigan
David Hopper
Infiniti Technologies
Lynn Falk
Akua Kouyate
Nancy Garruba & Chris Hornig
Sally LeBoff
Jalal Greene Hedy & Megan Gurrentz Brian Harris W. Christopher Hollinsed & Yolanda Alcorta Illinois Tool Works Foundation
Patricia & Richard Fiske
Robin Gilmore
Jessica Lin-Powers
Lorraine Ivester George Jackson Scott Kaminski
Michelle Ava
KanKouran West Africa Dance Company
Birdie & Steve Pieczenik
Laura Kaufman
Shannon Quinn Barbara & Rachael Raizen
Richard Apatoff Ernestine Arnold & Yvonne Boyd
Ethelyn Owen Jane Purinton & Jim Donahue
Steve Allen & Patty Dickie
Kathy Lapinski Fran & Winx Lawrence Linda Lewett
Noa Banu David Beczak Jeffrey Bell Brooke Belott John Benton Reena Bernards
Bernard & Martha Jarvis
ReVision dance company
Alicia Luchowski & Sam Turner
Donna Kearney
Reginia Rogers
Robin Lyttle
Ben Bialek
David Knepper
Emily Schmidt
Sharon Mansur
Rickie & Ray Bialek
Heather Bertrand
George & Rhea Kosovic
Bernice Simmons
Philip & Evelyn Mattar
Kristi Bigos-Miller
Linda, Mark & Sarah Kramer
Robert Snider
Daniel McDade
Amanda Blythe
Jennifer Franzen Roslyn Frieser Marilyn & Peter Fuchs Deborah Anderson Gaddis Geoffrey Garin & Debbie Berkowitz Theresa Gasaway Jill Gay Abe & Charlotte Genderson James Gentner Margaret Gibson Lucille Gidseg Shannon Gipson Jean-Michel Giraud Rebecca Gitter Chris Golden
Akosoa & Carl McFadgion Dianne McRae A. Howard & Sharon Metro Manny & Polly Miller Daniel Miller & Mary Schobert Daisy Miller
Rebecca & Gary Stevens
Rob Vogel Theresa Wallace Gladys Watkins Pam Weeks & John Ruml Renee Weitzner Douglas & Catherine Wheeler Cindy & Phil Wilcox
William Mills
Ralph Williams & Mike Thompson
Gholam Motamedi
La’Shaun Willis
Florence Mudrick
Maida Withers
Marc Muething
Rima Faber Wolff
Andrea Nash
Chantale Wong
Ryan Nicholson
Penelope Woolley
Lucinda Nobles
Elizabeth Zinni
Edward O’Brien Nancy Pallesen Edwin Parker
*Deceased
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“It feels vibrant and exciting when you walk into Dance Place for a performance. Staff have offices that are more adequate than before, plus the studio and theater spaces are vastly improved. The new space is a marvelous addition to the changing neighborhood.”