Annual Report 2014-2015

D N A R G ING N N E P O RE SEASO

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Dear friends, THE 2014-2015 GRAND RE-OPENING SEASON, AN UNPRECEDENTED MILESTONE IN DANCE PLACE’S HISTORY, LAUNCHED IN OUR BEAUTIFULLY TRANSFORMED AND EXPANDED BUILDING SEPTEMBER 2014.

Many thanks to all those who made this dream become a reality, especially to the generous supporters who helped fund the Moving Forward Campaign, our designers Hickok Cole Architects, the construction by Bognet Construction Company and not least, our Board of Directors and staff who worked so tirelessly.

The new facility enables us to serve artists, audience members, students and families with a better theater, additional studio space and an uplifting atmosphere. We successfully carried out an ambitious year of diverse performances, co-commissions by world class choreographers, inspiring classes, educational and community programs that added to the vibrancy of our changing neighborhood.

It was an honor to be awarded a $500,000 leadership grant from the Kresge Foundation to support our role in creative placemaking, which will assist us in creating the 8th St Arts Park (with the anticipated opening in Fall of 2016) and our continued Art on 8th programming.

We are proud to continue our role as the “hub of dance activity” in Washington, featuring artists that call the Greater DC Metro area their home, accomplished US touring companies and international guests that help us connect to cultures from around the world.

Our goal through every program is to uplift society by nurturing creativity.

With deep appreciation,

Carla Perlo

Deborah Riley

Founding Director Director

“THE OPENING OF THIS BEAUTIFUL FACILITY REPRESENTS A MILESTONE IN THE MEYER FOUNDATION’S 34-YEAR RELATIONSHIP WITH DANCE PLACE...

In 1985, when Dance Place’s annual operating budget was $187,000 and it had just been kicked out of its home, this week’s ribbon-cutting would have been difficult to imagine...Yet today, with an annual budget of $1.5 million, a spectacular new space and nationally recognized programs, Dance Place is transformed. Sometimes it’s good to be

reminded that hard-won, incremental progress over many years can produce extraordinary results.”

RICK MOYERS, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE EUGENE & AGNES E. MEYER FOUNDATION “Celebrating the Transformation of Dance Place,” September 11, 2014

GROWING DIVERSE AUDIENCES & DEVELOPING ART ENTHUSIASTS – DANCE PLACE’S AUDIENCES 2014-2015

64% 52% People of Color

First-time attendees

FOUNDED IN 1980, DANCE PLACE BUILDS A COMMUNITY OF ARTISTS, AUDIENCES AND STUDENTS through high quality performances, commissions, training and educational programs for people of all ages. We are committed to enriching the field of dance locally, nationally and internationally. Our thriving arts campus serves as an anchor in the development of our Brookland/Edgewood neighborhood in Washington, DC.

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Programming by the Numbers SUPPORTING DIVERSE, BOLD AND HIGHLY CREATIVE PERFORMING ARTISTS

• Showcase of 126 performing companies over the course of 44 theater performance weeks • 11,000 audience members engaged with the arts at 79 indoor performances • Home to 7 companies: ReVision dance company, ClancyWorks Dance Company, Culture Shock, Washington, DC, DC Casineros, Coyaba Dance Theater, Dance Place Step Team and POP (People, Objects, Play) • Inaugural Alan M. Kriegsman Creative Residency Program. 2015 Artist: Koma Otake • First-ever Cuban Festival featuring artists Yissy Garcia, Rueda All Stars and Malpaso Dance Company

FROM CUBA TO DC CULTURAL DIPLOMACY AT WORK: Founding Director Carla Perlo serves as a lead curator for the National Performance Network’s Performing Americas Project.

Carla selected Cuban artist Yissy Garcia for an international tour in 2014 as part of NPN and in 2015 led a group of donors to Havana in Dance Place’s second annual Cuba trip.

• Co-commission of 4 new works by Deborah Riley, Daniel Phoenix Singh and Annielille Gavino Kollman (DC-area) and Cynthia Oliver from Illinois • 28th Annual DanceAfrica, DC Festival featuring 9 outstanding local and African companies, an African Marketplace, Master classes and free outdoor exhibitions/workshops • 1,300 hours of free rehearsal space provided to artists in our studios

TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION OF DANCERS AND ARTS PROFESSIONALS • Adult classes attracted

1,000 beginning students to

professional dancers each month • High quality dance instruction provided to in our Kids on the Move classes - a

405 children on-site

20% growth in enrollment

from the prior year •

19 college students/recent graduates received vital job training, dance instruction and free housing in our Internship Program

GUIDING YOUNG PEOPLE IN WARD 5 TOWARDS SUCCESS •

•

450 hours of tutoring, arts education and life skills provided to 20 children in the Energizers Afterschool Program 64 teenagers engaged in on-the-job training, arts electives and life skills workshops in our Energizers Junior Staff Program three days a week

• Summer Energizers Creative Arts Camp filled with and

53 campers

31 teenage Junior Staffers over 7 weeks (with 100% of

campers on full scholarship)

“THE CONTRIBUTIONS DANCE PLACE has made on my life are immeasurable...Joining the Dance Place summer camp and afterschool programs were about building community, becoming a leader, having the agency to pursue my interests and being empowered to leave a mark on the world.”

ENERGIZERS PROGRAM ALUMNUS

Connecting the arts with communities •

15,000

youth and families experienced inspiring performances throughout the area in our OutReach program

24 weeks of Art on 8th free

•

community programming served over audience members and artists

2,600 305

• OutReach classes engaged students in schools

17

•

722

500 children and local students given their first experience in a professional theater through our InReach performances and Family Series matinees

2014-2015 COMMUNITY PARTNERS Baltimore Native American Center Bennett Babies Brent Elementary School Brookland Artspace Lofts Brown Educational Campus Cure Festival DC General Fairfax Public TV French Maternal School Gallaudet University COMPACT (Fl) Imagine Hope Community Public Charter School: Tolson Campus Inspired Teachers Public Charter School Kelly Miller Middle School Kenyan McDuffie’s Senior Advisory Council Lee Montessori Public Charter School Luke C. Moore High School Mamie D. Lee School Maryland Youth Ballet The Menkiti Group

Moten Elementary School Mount Rainier Elementary School National Museum of the American Indian Nordstrom Norwood School Noyes Elementary School National Portrait Gallery Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart Ross Elementary School TC Williams High School The Arc Northern Chesapeake Region Tots to Teens Tyler Elementary School William E. Doar Jr. Public Charter School for the Performing Arts

RESIDENT COMPANIES

COMPANIES IN RESIDENCE 2014-2015 ClancyWorks Dance Company Culture Shock, Washington, DC DC Casineros Dance Company

CO-PRESENTERS AND ARTISTIC PARTNERS American Voices Center Stage / US Department of State Bureau of Education & Cultural Affairs Center Stage Reston CenterStage / Reston Community Center DC Capital Fringe Festival maDCap Monroe St. Market National Performance Network The Field, DC

Coyaba Dance Theater Dance Place Step Team POP (People, Objects, Play) ReVision dance company

EXPERIENCE BROOKLAND/EDGEWOOD – GROWTH IN ART ON 8TH PARTICIPANTS PERIENCE BROOKLAND/EDGEWOOD – OWTH IN ART ON 8TH PARTICIPANTS

FY13 -

FY13 -

FY14 -

FY14 FY15 FY15 -

INCOME BY SOURCE

DANCE PLACE BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2014 – 2015 Jannes Waples Gibson, Chair Wendy Shapiro, Vice Chair

Allan Shapiro Eboni Thompson

Earned Individuals Corporations Government Foundations In-kind/silent auction

$487,168 $183,910 $157,480 $336,835 $485,445 $14,823

Total

$1,665,661

In-kind/silent auction 1%

Foundations 29%

Earned 29%

Marguerite Thompson

Adam Weers, Treasurer Carol Bradwell, Secretary Carla Perlo, President Joseph Gangloff Cindy Hallberlin, Chair Emeritus

Individuals 11%

ADVISORY COUNCIL 2014-2015

Government 20%

Ed Apple Rich Bernardi

Corporations 10%

Elinor Coleman

Mike Henehan

Jim Epstein

Bill Hillegeist

Nancy Garruba

W. Chris Hollinsed

Chris Hornig

Karen Brooks Hopkins

Lesa McLaughlin

Bo Menkiti

Ellen Opper-Weiner

Deborah Riley

Erin Skinner

Allan Rivlin

David Sparkman

Denise Rollins

DANCE PLACE STAFF 2014 – 2015 Carla Perlo, Founding Director Deborah Riley, Director Amanda Blythe, Box Office Manager & Marketing Assistant Korie Booker, Energizers Afterschool Club Manager Triana Brown, Individual Giving Associate Annie Choudhury, Master Electrician & Stage Manager Emily Crews, Financial Director Judy Estey, Director of Grants Daché Green, Youth Leader David Hopper, Marketing Associate Carolyn Kamrath, Communications Director Donna Kearney, Junior Staff Program Director, Work/ Study Manager & Director of Dance Place Step Team

Sarah Kramer, Artistic Programming Manager, Development Associate, Company Manager of ReVision dance company Ben Levine, Theater & Technical Director Bridget Miskell, Individual Giving Manager Richard Pilkinton, Building Consultant & Financial Assistant Shannon Quinn, Director of NEXTgeneration Youth Programs & Artistic Director of ReVision dance company Sylvia Soumah, Director of African Dance Program & Artistic Director of Coyaba Dance Theater Kate Tallent, Graphic Designer Delante White, Youth Program Assistant Elizabeth Zinni, Office Manager & Internship Coordinator

BOARD OF DIRECTORS SPOTLIGHT As Founder and CEO of The Menkiti Group, Bo Menkiti is a passionate partner in the development of our Brookland / Edgewood neighborhood. His strong leadership has been essential throughout our Moving Forward Campaign, strategic planning and board development.

“Through the presentation of emerging and established artists and the delivery of high quality training and education programs for neighborhood youth…Dance Place Activates…Enlivens…Attracts…and Connects our Community. Thank you Carla, Deborah and the amazing Dance Place Team…you truly serve as the heartbeat and the life blood of our community.”

BO MENKITI

THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS FOUNDATIONS, CORPORATIONS, GOVERNMENT AGENCIES AND INDIVIDUAL DONORS WHO CONTRIBUTED TO DANCE PLACE’S ONGOING PROGRAMS AND GENERAL SUPPORT FUND! SEPTEMBER 1, 2014 – AUGUST 31, 2015 $90,000 & ABOVE DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities DC Trust, Catalyst for Youth Development Ford Foundation / DeVos Institute

$50,000 – $89,999 Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation MARPAT Foundation National Endowment for the Arts US Commission of Fine Arts / National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs Program

$20,000 – $49,999 Anonymous DC Office of the State Superintendent for Education Norman Fields Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation First Peoples Fund Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation National Performance Network New England Foundation for the Arts Share Fund

$10,000 – $19,999 Coleman Family Charities Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts Local Initiatives Support Corporation Reston CenterStage Shubert Foundation Hattie M. Strong Foundation

$5,000 – $9,999 Damien Agostinelli & Janice Marks BET* Bloomberg* Carol & Willis Bradwell Stephen & Jeanette Bruce Busboys & Poets* Dallas Morse Coors Foundation Charles Engelhard Foundation

Corina Higginson Trust Jane Daniels Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Lois England / The England Family Jannes Waples Gibson Graham Holdings Daniel Hitchcock & Linda Arvin Nancy Peery Marriott Foundation National Association of Latino Arts & Cultures Mars Foundation George Preston Marshall Foundation Jared & Rachel Paul Carla Perlo & Richard Pilkinton Juan Carlos Rincones & Tom Pheasant United Way of the National Capital Area

$2,000 – $4,999 Abramson Family Foundation Walter A. Bloedorn Foundation Bognet Construction* The Boston Foundation Bozzuto Group* Ciracom Inc.* Dimick Foundation Robert Friedson Linda Levine & Stuart Hershey Long & Foster MAP Fund Anne McGuirk Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Pepco* Sydney Polakoff & Carolyn Goldman Denise Rollins Zoe Scofield Wendy Shapiro Edward Sherman Elliot Totah / The Oxbridge Group The Menkiti Group* Wasserman Family Foundation World Bank Community Connections Fund

$1,000 – $1,999 Allstate* Bank of Georgetown*

Nancy Bushwick-Malloy Stephen Clapp & Laura Schandelmeier Jon Palmer Claridge John Clark & Ana Steele Clark Molly Davies Denchfield Roofing Eliot Feld Thomas Flournoy Nancy Garruba & Chris Hornig GRC Direct* Cindy Hallberlin & Joel Kanter Bill Hillegeist Gary & Laurie Kantor Tom Lane Fund Northrop Grumman ECHO Deborah Riley & Mary Beth Flournoy Alice M. Rivlin Melinda Salzman & W. Sherman Edwards Daniel Phoenix Singh Bill & Karla Stoner Schneider’s of Capitol Hill* Xerox

$500 – $999 Barbara Burton Richard Bynum Neil & Kathleen Chrisman Rose Ann Cleveland Yolanda Cole & Randy Mueller Cyril & Candy Crocker Alice & Jill Denney Mildred Dreier Sarah Epstein & Donald Collins Deanna & Mark Francl Carolyn Grave Ann Jimerson & Larry Klein George & Rhea Kosovic Kathy Lapinski Jill & Paul Levine Dorothy Dort Levy Katya Marin Karen McCluskey & Misti French Lesa McLaughlin Cheryl McQueen Edward Orzechowski Ethelyn Owen

DONOR SPOTLIGHT David Sparkman, former Board Vice Chair and Elinor Coleman, choreographer and philanthropist, have ensured Dance Place’s success with their guidance and support since 1980.

“Dance Place’s reputation and reach extends from the streets of Brookland / Edgewood throughout America and the rest of the world for merging the welcoming openness of community with cultivation of the highest standards of art. It is children from all backgrounds who grow into skilled artists and educated audience members and where professional dance artists enjoy the space needed to create great work.”

Mike & Lori Phillips MonaCheri Pollard Pamela Schonberger Sidney Schulman Mary Ellen Signorille Sarah Smith Andrea Snyder The Walker Family Njambi & Earl Wynn

$250 – $499 Anonymous Richard Apatoff Alan & Susan Berlow Rich Bernardi & Joyce Wilker Dr. James Brown & Barbara Boykin Katherine Brown Ruby Brown Michelle Brown Johnson Maureen Byrnes Linda Carlson & Larry Himelfarb Janelle Cash Cheswatyr Foundation Leonard Darby Beth Davis Carleene Dei Winnie Dreier Alan Fedorowsky & Stephanie Millon Anne Filippone Elizabeth & Bill Fogarty Joan Fowler Pat & Mark Freedman Kathy & Gerald Freshley Vikisha Fripp Joseph Gangloff Jill Gay Marsha Gransee & John Conway Karen Hein & Ralph Dell W. Christopher Hollinsed & Yolanda Alcorta John Hoskinson George Jackson Carolyn & Anthony A. Jackson Michelle Jones Nancy Kalodner James Kaplan & Mary Catherine Fish

John & Tommie Kelley Linda & Mark Kramer Anita Laury Jack & Stephanie Lester Merianne & Jeff Liteman Juliette Madison Stephen Malone Morrine & Dan Marantz Joyce Martin Ryan Martinez Robert Kirk Marx Philip & Evelyn Mattar Cynthia Mayeda Dr. Joan McInerney Cynthia McIver Harriet Moncure Fellows & Jay Fellow Ingrid & Craig Naylor Pat Neill & Wabi Aboudou Marie Nugent-Head Edith Perlo Deborah Lee Polhemus Ruth Rivin & Ron Boustead Lisa Rosenstein Matt Sheehan & Patricia Flanagan Tina Silverman Douglas Sonntag Nicole Soulanille Emily & Albert Sturtevant Patricia Thomas John Tichenor Lisa Traiger Nancy Umanoff Adam Weers Suzanne Weil Tracey Wells-Campfield Connie Brian Willams Linda Williams La’Shaun Willis Phan Winter Herbert O. Wolfe Foundation David Wolfel & Erika Lehman Kathryn Zyla & Brian Scott And the many other individuals who generously made contributions from $1-$249! *35th Anniversary Season Sponsor

PHOTO CREDITS:

Front Cover: Malpaso Dance Company by Roberto Leon; Page 2: Companhia Urbana de Dança courtesy of the artist; Page 4: zoe|juniper by Tim Summers; Page 5 (top to bottom): DanceAfrica, DC 2015. Photo (c) Enoch Chan 2015.

Gardening at Energizers Creative Arts Camp 2015; Page 6 (top to bottom): POP (People Objects Play); Photo (c) Enoch Chan 2015. DanceAfrica, DC 2015. Photo (c) Enoch Chan 2015.

DAVID SPARKMAN & ELINOR COLEMAN

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