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BE INFORMED. GET EMPOWERED. Trending Topics will keep you up-to-date on key issues, like COVID-19, AB5 and others that are impacting you and the LA Dance Community.
For many in the dance field, it feels like a moment of reckoning. The nonprofit model is often likened to a three-legged stool, in which organizations rely on a proportional balance of public support, private contributions, and earned-revenue sources like ticket sales and classes. With grants in flux and audiences still not fully back to pre-pandemic levels, that stool has become wobbly.
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Glorya Kaufman, the philanthropist who transformed dance in Los Angeles through the establishment of an eponymous dance school at USC as well as a prominent dance series at the Music Center, among many other initiatives, died Tuesday. She was 95.
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Dance is one of the most underfunded arts disciplines, according to Raélle Dorfan, executive director of L.A.’s Dance Resource Center. She points to inherent economic challenges that inhibit the industry’s infrastructure and growth potential — such as limited funding sources — which consequently can make it challenging for companies and venues to fill seats.
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Wallis Annenberg, a deep-pocketed philanthropist who helped transform the city through massive donations to arts, education and animal welfare causes, died Monday morning at her home in Los Angeles from complications related to lung cancer, the family said. She was 86.
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Thirteen arts service organizations across Los Angeles County are receiving funding from the LA Arts Recovery Fund, highlighting the essential role these organizations play as the backbone of the region’s vibrant cultural ecosystem.
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To support local arts nonprofits and the communities they serve, the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture has announced $5.59M in grants to 349 nonprofit organizations through its 2025-2026 Organizational Grant Program (OGP) and Community Impact Arts Grant (CIAG) awards.
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A series of budget bills signed by the California Legislature on July 1 have restored the $11.5 million Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund, intended to help pay performers and keep small performing arts venues in operation.
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On May 18 at Crenshaw Yoga and Dance, everybody in the large studio, which was now also filled with chairs and bleachers, showed up to celebrate Black and LatinX choreographers from the Leimert Park dance community and beyond.
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So, what you’re telling me is… I spent the majority of my youth in dance classes, paid a small fortune for my training, studied for years to receive a dance degree… all to be told I “only have a couple good years” to live-out my best life as a professional dancer?
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The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to create a Grand Avenue Cultural District to boost the visibility of the arts scene in a corridor of downtown that includes the Broad museum, Center Theatre Group, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Opera, REDCAT and the Colburn School.
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A new TikTok trend is bringing pangs of nostalgia to the internet as people bring back an iconic ’90s dance.
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State arts agency awards nearly $19.5 million in total funding support that reflects its commitment to advancing arts, culture, and creativity in every county in the state
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A coalition of major arts organizations and philanthropists in Los Angeles led by the J. Paul Getty Trust announce the creation of the LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund, an emergency relief fund for artists and arts workers in all disciplines who have lost residences, studios, or livelihoods or have otherwise been impacted by the devastating Los Angeles fires.
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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is pleased to announce 1,474 awards totaling $36,790,500 to support the arts in communities in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Washington, DC.
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Remembering the former Alvin Ailey artistic director, Judith Jamison. Look back on her iconic beauty and dance moments to celebrate her legacy.
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Emily May explores what’s behind the artworld’s ongoing fascination with an ephemeral art form
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The New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) shares important news regarding the National Theater Project (NTP) and the National Dance Project (NDP) and honors the longtime generosity of the Mellon Foundation.
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The LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games announce Emmy-winning writer/producer and Los Angeles arts leader Maria Arena Bell as Chair of the LA28 Cultural Olympiad, the celebrated arts and culture platform that has accompanied the Games in every host city for more than one hundred years.
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For its second major grant announcement of fiscal year 2024, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is pleased to announce more than $110 million in recommended grants in all 50 states and U.S. jurisdictions.
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Governor Newsom, Senate President pro-Tempore Mike McGuire, and Speaker Robert Rivas have announced the California budget plan for 2024-25. An agreement was reached between legislators to restore approximately 75% of state funding for the arts that had been cut in the Governor’s May budget.
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To explore how organizations’ bottom line and working capital have fared over the last few years, we analyzed data from FY 2019 to 2023 collected from 233 organizations through the Cultural Data Profile.
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Dance education pioneer and founder of the nation’s first dance department at UCLA, Alma Hawkins developed the prototype for the dance department of equal status to the Art, Music, and Theater departments in the UCLA College of Fine Arts.
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In Fall 2023, Dance Source Houston (DSH) introduced the first edition of the Physical Therapy Dance Exchange. The event was part of their Day of Dancer Health, modeled after the Dance Resource Center’s Day of Dancer Health program.
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At the Paris 2024 Games, the breaking competition will comprise two events – one for men and one for women – where 16 B-Boys and 16 B-Girls will go face to face in spectacular solo battles.
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The first-of-its-kind, “Healing, Bridging, Thriving: A Summit on Arts and Culture in our Communities” brought together leaders from various sectors, including government officials; policymakers; artists; advocates; academics; and philanthropic, labor, and community leaders.
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Chita Rivera, who appeared in more than 20 Broadway musicals over six decades, has died at age 91, according to her daughter, Lisa Mordente.
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