Moving Forward Capital Campaign Report

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.”