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2024

August 15th - Summer 2024 Dance Presentations at The Ford
July 14th - Maria Arena Bell Named Chair of LA28 Cultural Olympiad
July 5th - National Endowment for Arts Announces its 2nd Round of FY 2024 Grants!
June 28th - Advocacy victory! Final California budget restores 75% of arts funding cuts.
May 22nd - Are Capital Reserves Amassed During the Pandemic Beginning to Erode?
April 18th - Local Wins for the Nation! Dance Education Pioneer Alma Hawkins Founded the First Dance Department at UCLA
April 12th - Dancers and Physical Therapists in Conversation: New Initiative at Dance Source Houston Opens Dialog
March 29th - Paris 2024 Olympic Games: Breaking
March 20th - Readout of White House Domestic Policy Council and National Endowment of the Arts “Healing, Bridging, Thriving” Summit on Arts and Culture in our Communities
February 8th - Chita Rivera, Broadway’s ‘first great triple threat,’ dies at 91
January 27th - Maurice Hines Jr., who went from tap-dancing brother act to Broadway trailblazer, dies at 80

2023

December 20th - Governor Newsom Announces Appointment for Executive Director of the California Arts Council
November 21st - As Part of TeenTix LA’s Advisory Board Since Inception, DRC is Excited to Share the Impact of the Program
October 18th - A Historic Moment for Dance in Los Angeles! Dance Resource Center Joins Forces with Three Acclaimed Performing Arts Venues to Provide Rehearsal Spaces for Free, Benefiting Dozens of Local Choreographers and Dancers
October 13th - Governor Newsom Signs Groundbreaking Laws: AB 812 and AB 590
October 11th - Rudy Perez and Laura Bleiberg Will Be Missed By LA’s Dance Community
October 4th - State funding approved to implement Equitable Payroll Fund (SB1116) to support small nonprofit performing arts organizations.
September 22nd - ‘What’s that foot thing?!’ Shufflers are doing the ‘running man’ at L.A.’s iconic places
September 15th - Dwight Rhoden Brings Contemporary Ballet and Professional Connections to Chapman University
September 12th - Study Finds Local Arts Agencies are Catalysts for Art Vibrancy
September 8th - DRC Members Receive Los Angeles Audience Choice Awards 2022-2023
August 2nd - Man Fatally Stabbed in Confrontation as He Danced at a Gas Station
July 31st - How are Dance Artists Using AI—and What Could the Technology Mean for the Industry?
June 27th - On the Record: Vinyl Fair Recap
June 20th - Adieu to two valiant dancing women of Los Angeles arts: Deborah Lawlor & Flip Manne
June 2nd - Alvin Ailey Takes Up Residency at L.A.’s Music Center
May 30th - UCLA makes a historic pick to lead its Center for the Art of Performance
May 25th - Dancers at this California topless bar to become only unionized strippers in U.S.
April 10th - Board of Supervisors Declares April as Arts Month
April 7th - The New England Foundation for the Arts Names Harold Steward as Next Executive Director
April 3rd - Maria Rosario Jackson Discusses Her First Year as Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts
March 31st - Choreographer Kyle Abraham Creates Dance for the 21st Century
March 27th - The International Association of Blacks in Dance: 2021 National Medal of Arts Recipient
February 10th - Rennie Harris Bridges the Past and Future
January 31st - Dancing resumes at studio targeted by Monterey Park gunman
January 27th - ‘Creative Recovery LA’ has Launched
January 20th - Education Emphasized in New Round of CAC Grants
January 13th - Bella Lewitzky: Dance Maven and Maverick

2022

December 16th - New Women Directors at Three Big Ballet Companies
December 14th - Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss , dancer and ‘Ellen DeGeneres Show’ DJ, dies at 40
December 12th - Illustrious Dance at The Wallis
December 9th - Los Angeles Artists Names 2022 Dance/USA Artist Fellows
December 5th - Irene Cara, ‘Fame’ and ‘Flashdance’ Singer, Dies at 63
November 28th - Remembering Anjani Ambegaokar: Kathak Dancer
November 11th - DRC Member LADP Celebrates 10 Years!
October 28th - The 2022 World Choreography Awards
October 21st - CCCADI Caribbean Emergency Relief Fund for Artists and Cultural Workers
October 14th - Dancing into Alternative Realities: Gender, Dance, and Public Space in Contemporary Iran
October 7th - A Leading Choreographer Joins the Ukrainian War Effort, With Classical Ballet
September 30th - Baryshnikov Arts Center Chooses Dance Veteran as Leader
September 23rd - Beloved dancer’s death on Ukraine battlefield underscores cost of war
September 16th - Tina Ramirez, Founder of Ballet Hispánico, Dies at 92
September 9th - WAA Announces New Executive Director
September 2nd - Sustainability By Dance and Music
August 26th - LA County Hands Out $4.5 Million in Arts Grants
August 19th - Farewell, Stefan Wenta (1929-2022)
August 12th - Celebrating Bruno ‘Pop N’ Taco’ Falcon (1964-2022)
August 5th - Remembering Richard Fein: Dancer and Physician (1953-2022)
July 6th - HOUSE APPROPRIATORS AGREE ON INCREASED ARTS & HUMANITIES FUNDING FOLLOWING MONUMENTAL HEARING
July 1st - The California Arts Council Surpasses the Previous Record for Grants Awarded for 2022.
May 16th - Equity Action Plan
January 3rd - REMEMBERING DANCE ARTIST RUBY JEANNE MILLSAP (1938-2021)

2021

December 2nd - Local Dance “Arrives” at The Wallis
October 13th - Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson Nominated to be Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts
October 13th - California Arts Council Doubles Number of 2021 Grant Awards Through Allocation Revisions
September 24th - Laura Bleiberg Named DRC’s Inaugural LA Dance Champion
September 23rd - Incomparable Debbie Allen awarded a Kennedy Center Honor and an Emmy Governor Award!
September 23rd - Emma Lewis Thomas Will Be Missed by LA’s Dance Community
August 5th - California Arts Council Announces 2021 Grant Award Recipients

2020

December 20th - The Show Must Go On – Our Response to COVID
December 19th - How a $970,000 Award Represents Hope and Change for a Black LA Dance Company
December 15th - Are You Eligible for the Small Business Relief Fund?

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