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JUST IN: Dallas Black Dance Theatre Receives $100,000 Grant Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Aug 22, 2018 3:30 PM by Jeanne Prejean

Ann Williams*

Dallas Black Dance Theatre Founder Ann Williams and Executive Director Zenetta S. Drew are doing cabrioles and echappés with good reason. Thanks to The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s providing the International Association of Blacks in Dance a multi-year grant, the five founding dance companies of IABD each received a $100,000 unrestricted grant that “can be applied to general operating expenses.”

Dallas’ oldest leading dance company, DBDT joined Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Lula Washington Dance Theatre and The Philadelphia Dance Company in establishing IABD back in 1991.

According to Zenetta, “This unrestricted grant gives Dallas Black Dance Theatre the financial flexibility to be more efficient and secure in executing season plans for dancers, choreographers, and artistic programs and assists with mitigating the rising costs of employee benefits.”

IABD President/CEO Denise Saunders Thompson further explained, “These grants will enable five leading dance companies, that are all deeply vested in African American neighborhoods across the United States as evidenced by their operations of dance companies, facilities, programs, and schools, to pursue greater innovation and take new risks, both organizationally and artistically. Despite their creative excellence and international acclaim, many smaller and mid-sized Black dance companies have had to come to terms with inadequate capitalization and other business challenges.”

* Photo provided by Dallas Black Dance Theatre

 

Filed Under: Announcement, Arts, Beneficiaries, Dance, Foundation, FYI, Grants, JUST IN, Performing arts, Really!!!!!, Surprise!, Theater Tagged With: Ann Williams, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, Dallas Black Dance Theatre, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Denise Saunders Thompson, International Association of Blacks in Dance, Lula Washington Dance Theatre, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Philadelphia Dance Company, Zenetta S. Drew

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