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Causes: Arts & Culture, Arts Education, Dance, Film & Video
Mission: Citydance is an arts and education leader throughout the dc metropolitan area. With its mission to transform lives and communities through dance, citydance produces and presents world-class dance; trains young dancers for professional careers; and (continued on schedule o)
Programs: Citydance school & conservatory:citydance hired the highly-accomplished dancer and coach stanislav issaev to serve as ballet master. During his career, issaev won the gold medal at the international ballet competition, the worlds most prestigious dance competition. Conservatory students competed in the prestigious youth america grand prix semi-finals held in philadelphia in march 2017. Citydance school & conservatory received the outstanding school award, and choreographer-in-residence, robert priore, won first place in the ensemble category for his work fuego danced by conservatory students. Every citydance student who competed individually won awards in both classical and contemporary dance categories, including: isabell zombron: top 12 classical and contemporary corbin holloway: second place classical and contemporary brock jo maye: top 12 classical and third place contemporary(continued on schedule o)
citydance dream:citydance dream launched its first summer professional residency program to bring four renowned dance artists to dc to provide one-week residencies of high-quality dance instruction and repertory for dream students. Students in 9th-12th grades participated in four weeks of dance training for five hours each day. Participants took classes from local dance artists and professional guest artists from new york and california, including dancers from camille a. Brown & dancers and dance theatre of harlem as well as dance artists phil wright, jared jenkins and fredrick earl mosely. All summer programming was offered tuition-free. In december 2016, citydance was notified that its plans to open the dream center for dance in fall 2018 as part of the redevelopment project of a district-owned property would not proceed. As a result, we began to aggressively search for a new property. This effort resulted in securing a lease in june 2017 (see schedule o)
citydance presents and ignite:in fy17, citydance co-presented renowned companies dance theater of harlem and pilobolus dance theatre in partnership with washington performing arts. Citydances ignite resident artist program continued to support experimentation and innovation. Since the programs founding, we have provided local choreographers with the resources and support needed to create and present new work. For the past several years, we have been providing two artists, robert j. Priore and sarah j. Ewing, with multi-year support to maximize the programs impact, which has proven to be a very successful model with both artists having been recent recipients of the kennedy centers competitive local dance commissioning project award. In 2016/17, sarah j. Ewing received her fourth dc commission on the arts fellowship grant; was selected for a prestigious residency at ohio state university; and secured funding and resources (continued on schedule o)