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Event registration is open for Bay Area Dance Week

To register your free events for Dance Week:

  1. Visit the Bay Area Dance Week Bopsidy Hub
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  4. Click “Submit an Event” and fill in your details.

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In Dance: Winter 2024 issue

Cover for Winter 2024 issue of In Dance

Guest Editor Rowena Richie writes “This issue of In Dance is dedicated to care. To unpacking what our art form and our community are experiencing and exploring when it comes to practicing and performing care. How have our views of care and safety evolved in recent years?”

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Community

 

Chitresh Das Dance takes Invoking the River on 3 City Tour of India

The tour has deep personal implications for Moraga and all the dancers as this is the first time the company is touring to India since the passing of Guru Pandit Chitresh Das, who was born and raised in Kolkata, India. Read more…

 

Brenda Way to be inducted into the California Hall of Fame

An induction ceremony will be held in February, followed by the opening of the 17th class artifact exhibit, and this event will be livestreamed. Details will be posted in the coming weeks. Read more…

 

Rainin Foundation Awards $810,000 In Arts Grants

The Kenneth Rainin Foundation awarded $810,000 to 32 small and mid-size arts organizationsthrough the New and Experimental Works (NEW) Program. Funded projects uplift underrepresented voices, offer spaces for healing and ritual and challenge assumptions around disability justice, climate change and equitable art making. This grant cycle marked the first time using the Common Application for the Arts and a review panel selection process. Read more…

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Upcoming Deadlines

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

 

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation: USArtists International

Supports in-person and virtual performances by American artists at engagements at international festivals and global presenting arts marketplaces outside of the United States. The program funds individuals and ensembles across all performing arts practices and disciplines. Grants provide up to $15,000 toward eligible travel expenses. For projects taking place between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025. Due Wed, Mar 27 at 8:59pm. Read more…

Virtual Drop-In Sessions (No registration required)

  • Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 10am-11:30pm
  • Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 7:30-9am

 

 

WESTAF: BIPOC Artist Fund

Provides resources to and for BIPOC artists living in the 16 states and jurisdictions in the WESTAF region. WESTAF will invest in the well-being and safety of BIPOC artists, cultural practitioners, and collaboratives by providing no-strings-attached funding and support. The BIPOC Artist Fund support is available for, but not limited to, any of the following:

  • Salary support
  • Technology/software
  • Materials or other resources
  • Holistic health

They anticipate distributing $6,000 – $12,000 per awardee. Due Sun, Mar 31 by 10:59pm. Read more…

 

 

Native Cultures Fund

Support projects that reflect the transmission of knowledge across generations, based in California Indian culture, art, values, and traditional practices. Grants can be made to individuals, non-profits, community partnerships, or Tribal Nations. Grants support artists, culture bearers, and educators from the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation peoples near the Oregon border, inland to the Paiute and Shoshone Nations along the Nevada border, and south to the Chumash peoples of the Santa Barbara area. Due Mon, Apr 1. Read more…

 

 

SVCREATES: Unrestricted Operating Grants

Provides general operating support for small nonprofit arts and culture organizations that:

  • Reflect the dynamic, diverse, and innovative character of Santa Clara County
  • Demonstrate commitment to equity, inclusion, and artistic vibrancy and relevance
  • Positively impact the County’s cultural ecosystem through active and sustained engagement with audiences, volunteers and artists
  • Pursue organizational sustainability in service to the local community

In 2024, they will accept applications from organizations with annual operating budgets between $250,000 and $1.2 million only. Due Fri, Apr 12. Read more…

 

 

Anonymous Was A Woman: Environmental Art Grants

Will distribute a total of $300,000 in funding—up to $20,000 per project—to support environmental art projects led by women-identifying artists in the United States and U.S. Territories. Projects should not only point at problems, but aim to engage an environmental issue at some scale. Projects must have a public engagement component that is free to attend and takes place within the grant term (Aug 2024 to Aug 2025). Open to artists in all disciplines. Due Tue, Apr 16 by 2pm. Read more…

  • Information Session: Wed, Mar 13, 11am

 

Sebastian Le and SanSan Kwan of Lenora Lee Dance
Feb 2024

Casting a Lens on Communities for 15 Years: Lenora Lee Dance

by Heather Desaulniers
Black and white photo of dancer thrusting torso/presence forward.
Feb 2024

Space to Speak

by Zackary Forcum

UPCOMING EVENTS

Mar 21

Five celebrated artists from across different mediums – dance, music, theater, visual art – are collaborating for the first time to create Unstill Life, an evening-length work. What was initially an intimate duet for Jaroslow and Shick has grown into a vibrant quintet. The five come together as equal partners in the making and performing of this work after decades of experience directing and being directed. They will pay particular attention to physicality, endurance, compromise and the joy and loss surrounding their lives now. Dancers' Group members pay $20 with code DG20.

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Mar 21

Ghostly Labor, by Vanessa Sanchez and La Mezcla delves into the rich history of labor in the US-Mexico borderlands, combining the art forms of Tap Dance, Mexican Zapateado, Son Jarocho and AfroCaribbean movement. Through a captivating fusion of polyrhythmic movement and an original score, the production examines the legacy of systemic labor exploitation and celebrates the resilience and unity found in collective resistance.

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Mar 22

Five celebrated artists from across different mediums – dance, music, theater, visual art – are collaborating for the first time to create Unstill Life, an evening-length work. What was initially an intimate duet for Jaroslow and Shick has grown into a vibrant quintet. The five come together as equal partners in the making and performing of this work after decades of experience directing and being directed. They will pay particular attention to physicality, endurance, compromise and the joy and loss surrounding their lives now. Dancers' Group members pay $20 with code DG20.

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Mar 22

In a castle reclaimed by nature and its beasts, the Great Hall transforms into a stage for a tale of fangs, horns and scales. Watch as the cast of creatures previously doomed to the shadows cavort together in a creepy crescendo of captivating climbs, catches and cartwheels.  This is BEWARE! A Monstrous Circus. Kinetic Arts Center’s Circus Spire is a pre-professional, multi-disciplinary circus youth troupe of 13 to 18-year-old artists, committed to excellence in circus arts training and performance. For over 14 years, Circus Spire has brought you amazing performances for you and your family. BEWARE! A Monstrous Circus, conceived and directed by Katherine Hutchinson, continues our tradition of excellence and entertainment, showcasing the hard work and dedication of these talented young artists.

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Mar 22

Ghostly Labor, by Vanessa Sanchez and La Mezcla delves into the rich history of labor in the US-Mexico borderlands, combining the art forms of Tap Dance, Mexican Zapateado, Son Jarocho and AfroCaribbean movement. Through a captivating fusion of polyrhythmic movement and an original score, the production examines the legacy of systemic labor exploitation and celebrates the resilience and unity found in collective resistance.

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Mar 22

A live performance that features new works by choreographers Rebecca Fitton, Cherie Hill, and Hope Mohr. Since 2023, the artists have collaboratively developed Dancing Distributed Leadership, a project that explores shared leadership through choreography, performance, and community engagement. Now, the artists share their inquiries and discoveries through a performative lens with three distinct dance premieres.

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