WE DID IT !MOVING FORWARD:

THE CAMPAIGNFOR DANCE PLACE

3225 8TH ST NE, WASHINGTON, DC 20017

202.269.1600

DANCEPLACE.ORG

WITH YOUR HELP,

Brookland Artspace Lofts Groundbreaking – 2010

Artland/Brookland – 2012 Dance Place Groundbreaking – 2013

8th St Arts Park – 2016

Moving In – 1986

Dance Place raised $4.5 million through the

Moving Forward Campaign! Whether you’ve

never been to the new building or are here

every weekend, we’re proud to have you

as a part of our family. Join us as we take a

look at where we’ve been and where we’re

going next. “Arts Park rendering by Lee and Associates. Grand Re-Opening photo by Lisa Helfert. Construction photo courtesy of Dance Place. Art on 8th photo by Niesha Zeigler. Groundbreaking photo by David Dowling. Artland/Brookland photo by David Dowling. Brookland Artspace Loft Photo (c) Enoch Chan 2011. Brookland Artspace Lofts Groundbreaking courtesy of Dance Place. Moving In photo courtesy of Dance Place.

WE DID IT !

Brookland Artspace Lofts Open – 2011

WITH YOUR HELP,

Artland/Brookland – 2012 Dance Place Groundbreaking – 2013 Launch of Art on 8th – 2014

Capital Campaign Construction 2013 – 2014

Grand Re-Opening – 20148th St Arts Park – 2016

““It’s beautiful! So proud of my

Dance Place family for getting work done

and making their dreams a reality. The

space now fully reflects the life changing work going on inside the

building. And those theater seats? Much improved.”

Dance Place is bigger and better than ever before and it’s all due to the support of our powerful community!

PHOTO: DAVID DOWLING

ARA FITZGERALD PHOTO: PETER CUNNINGHAM

On June 6th, 2014, we moved back into our completed facility just in time for

our annual DanceAfrica, DC Festival. Through the wonderful design of Hickok

Cole Architects, guidance of our owner’s representative Richard Pilkinton

and hard work of Bognet Construction Company, we have expanded our

building from 7,000 to 10,500 square feet. Our totally renovated facility

now includes a greatly improved theater, second floor studio, wonderful

backstage area, expanded offices, inviting lobby, café area for refreshments

and vibrant exterior.

The state of the art Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation

Theater helps us serve artists, audiences and students with more comfort and grace.

Renovations include a new sprung floor, specially

designed retractable steel risers, comfortable theater

seats, hard-wired lighting grid, improved theater equipment and the enclosed Philip L.

Graham Fund Technical Booth. Behind the stage, our well-lit, spacious dressing room provides space for our talented artists to prepare (funded generously by an Anonymous donor).

Named after the Founding Director’s father, the Hyman M. Perlo Studio increases our capacity for serving artists with vital, affordable rehearsal space, provides a home for the Dance Place Step Team, serves as educational space for our teen Junior Staff program, as well as allows room for additional children’s classes and a new green room space for performers.

Our second floor expanded Prince Charitable Trusts Office Suite includes three enclosed offices, a new wing for our youth programs and production staff and meeting space.

Our bright new Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation Lobby provides a welcoming atmosphere for students and parents during daytime classes, professional dancers before rehearsal and audiences attending weekend performances. Café Florence is buzzing before the performances, at intermission and after the performances, as patrons enjoy their beverages and mingle with artists.

The outside our building with the Christopher Janney tower and “Touch My Building” installation is a favorite for children

and adults alike who are encouraged to place their hands on our building and enjoy the collage of sounds that respond.

PHOTO: DAVID DOWLING

VTDANCE/VINCENT E. THOMAS PHOTO: DAVID DOWLING

“YES! ANOTHER EXCELLENT ART ON 8TH SESSION. BROOKLAND AND GREATER NE ARE FORTUNATE TO HAVE DANCE PLACE AS AN ANCHOR AND INCUBATOR FOR THE GROWING ART SCENE HERE!”

Enlivening Our Community

PHOTO: NIESHA ZIEGLER

As part of our capital campaign, Dance Place pledged

to raise $500,000 in our Program Enhancement

Fund to support new artistic initiatives that would

expand our reach into our growing Brookland/

Edgewood neighborhood. For the past five years,

we have diversified our presentations to include free

outdoor public art programming that includes dance,

music, visual arts and gardening.

- FREDDIE DUNN, MUSICIAN AND BROOKLAND ARTSPACE LOFTS

RESIDENT

“YES! ANOTHER EXCELLENT ART ON 8TH SESSION. BROOKLAND AND GREATER NE ARE FORTUNATE TO HAVE DANCE PLACE AS AN ANCHOR AND INCUBATOR FOR THE GROWING ART SCENE HERE!”

Our Program Enhancement initiatives began with Dance Place’s Artland/Brookland Temporium in Summer 2012, supported by an ArtPlace grant awarded to the DC Office of Planning. Dance Place operated two 3-month “temporiums” in vacant spaces, transforming a former real estate office into the 12th Street Gallery and local restaurant Island Jim’s into an Arts Club. Following this model of free multi-disciplinary activities, Dance Place launched Art on 8th in Summer 2013, utilizing the Arts Walk at Monroe St. Market as a prime location. Now in our fourth year of Art on 8th, we have brought together almost 7,000 participants and 1,000 artists over 94 weekends, utilizing multicultural and family-friendly arts events as a force for community vibrancy and cohesiveness. Our free GET CREATIVE arts & crafts workshops continue indoors year-round.

Partnering with public, private and artistic entities, Dance Place continues to serve as a leading partner in Brookland/

Edgewood’s cultural and economic revitalization. We are engaged in extensive wayfinding and neighborhood marketing activities including: the installation of Art on 8th telephone pole banners; a first-ever Arts & Entertainment Map for Brookland/Edgewood; and an annual Fall neighborhood festival Be In Brookland/Experience Edgewood, in addition to our continuing Art on 8th programming.

WE AREN’T DONE YET!Our vision for a neighborhood “Arts Campus” concludes with the transformation of the vacant alley next to Dance Place into a creative gathering space, the 8th St Arts Park. Enabling us to expand our free cultural programs and increase opportunities for artists, the Park will be a site for public art commissions, artistic seating, flexible stage space, decorative surfacing for creative play and community gardening. The Park is being designed by Lee & Associates Landscape Architects, with leadership from a wonderful volunteer steering committee and funding from The Kresge Foundation. Look for the Grand Opening of the Park in 2016 and follow our progress at www.danceplace.org/arts-park

PHOTO: DAVID DOWLING

$250,000 – $599,999DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities

Ford Foundation

MARPAT Foundation

The Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation

$100,000 – $249,999Anonymous

Artspace Projects, Inc.

The City Fund

Deputy Mayor’s Office for Planning and Economic Development

Kresge Foundation

Leveraging Investments in Creativity

The Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation

National Endowment for the Arts Ou

r Town”

$50,000 – $99,999Jim Epstein

Philip L. Graham Fund

Office of Planning / ArtPlace

Carla Perlo & Richard Pilkinton

Prince Charitable Trusts

$20,000 – $49,999Anonymous

Robert Ades*

Yolanda Cole

DC Department of Small and Local Business Development

Electronic Theater Controls

Jannes Waples Gibson

Cindy Hallberlin & Joel Kanter

Local Initiatives Support Corporation

The Menkiti Group / Horning Brothers

$10,000 – $19,999Abramson Family Foundation

Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts

Dallas Morse Coors Foundation

Elizabeth & Bill Fogarty

Kathy & Gerald Freshley

Vincent Hurteau & Steve Henry

INTEC aec / Architects and Engineers

Klein Hornig LLP

Allan & Sheri Rivlin

Wendy Shapiro & Charles Ferris

$5,000 – $9,999 Damien Agostinelli & Janice Marks

Rich Bernardi & Joyce Wilker

Bognet Construction

Carol & Willis Bradwell

William & Brigid Brakefield

Lois England / The England Family

Deanna & Mark Francl

Carol Grave

Bill Hillegeist

Karen Brooks Hopkins

Rachel & Jared Paul

Deborah Riley & Mary Beth Flournoy

Denise Rollins

Jim Stiegman & Susie Ryan

Reggie Van Lee

““What a wonderful space to house and

foster creativity

and community”

Thank you to our generous donors!

CAPITAL CAMPAIGN FUNDING SOURCES

GOVERNMENT 33%

FOUNDATIONS 40%

CORPORATIONS 6%

SELF-HELP 10%

INDIVIDUALS 11%

Moving Forward: The Campaign for Dance Place $600,000 AND ABOVE

The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation

DC Department of Housing and Community Development

CAPITAL CAMPAIGN FUNDS FUNDING BY SOURCE

CORPORATIONS $315,300

SELF-HELP CREDIT UNION $500,000

FOUNDATIONS $2,031,000

GOVERNMENT $1,643,243

INDIVIDUALS $558,367 TOTAL: $5,047,910

BOARD OF DIRECTORS DURING THE CAMPAIGN RICH BERNARDI, CHAIR 2002 - 2009

DEANNA FRANCL, CHAIR 2009 - 2012

JANNES WAPLES GIBSON, CHAIR 2012 - PRESENT

CAROL BRADWELL

ROBERT ADES *

EDWARD APPLE

EVAN CROCKER

CINDY HALLBERLIN

JENNIFER HARDY

MIKE HENEHAN

BILL HILLEGEIST

W. CHRIS HOLLINSED

KAREN BROOKS HOPKINS

CHELLY JONES

JOY KERIN

BO MENKITI

CARLA PERLO

CAROLINE PETTI

DEBORAH RILEY

ALLAN RIVLIN

AMY RUTT

WENDY SHAPIRO

ALLAN SHAPIRO

EBONI THOMPSON

MARGUERITE THOMPSON

KIRSTIN NOE YEADO

* DECEASED

CAMPAIGN STEERING COMMITTEE CYRIL CROCKER

KATHY FRESHLEY

JANNES WAPLES GIBSON

JALAL GREENE

NJAMBI WYNN

DENISE ROLLINS

WENDY SHAPIRO

LEILA SMITH

DOUGLAS WHEELER

PROJECT PARTNERSARTSPACE, INC.

BOGNET CONSTRUCTION

EPSTEIN FINANCIAL ORGANIZATION

HICKOK COLE ARCHITECTS

RICHARD PILKINTON

SELF-HELP CREDIT UNION

DANCE PLACE STAFF MEMBERS DURING THE CAMPAIGN DIRECTORSCARLA PERLO, FOUNDING DIRECTOR

DEBORAH RILEY, DIRECTOR

AMANDA BLYTHE

KORIE BOOKER

VALERIE BRANCH

TRIANA BROWN

ANNIE CHOUDHURY

STEPHEN CLAPP

EMILY CREWS

JESSICA DOLEZAL

HEATHER DOYLE

JESSICA DUCEY

JUDY ESTEY

ADRIAN GALVIN

DACHE GREEN

SARAH GREENBAUM

APRIL GRUBER

HOLLY HALVORSON

DAVID HOPPER

STEFAN JOHNSON

CAROLYN KAMRATH JACKSON

DONNA KEARNEY

SARAH KRAMER

BEN LEVINE

AUSTIN MASON

BRIDGET MISKELL

RICHARD PILKINTON

KILEY POGAS

SHANNON QUINN

LEANNE REGAN

TINA SILVERMAN

SYLVIA SOUMAH

PATINA STROTHER

KATE TALLENT

KEVIN TERVALA

LATOYA WALDEN

DELANTE WHITE

ELIZABETH ZINNI

Thank you to our generous donors!$2,000 – $4,999Dianne Brace & Robert Lynch

Robert & Mary Buckley

Alex Clancy

Jamie Coronado & Norman Briere

Beth Davis

Martha Davis

Jeffrey & Kathleen Dolezal

DC SEU

Harriet Moncure Fellows & Jay Fellows

Bess & Michael Foley

Joseph Gangloff

Jack Gerard

Jennifer Hardy

Carolyn & Anthony A. Jackson

Sam Lanahan

Jill & Paul Levine

Linda Levine & Stuart Hershey

Anne McGuirk

Cheryl McQueen

Bo & Kymber Menkiti

PM Hospitality Strategies

Irma Poretsky

Ruth Rivin & Ron Boustead

Ellen Rosenthal

Laura Schandelmeier & Stephen Clapp

Michael Walton

Jill Weiler

William White

David Wolfel & Erika Lehman

Njambi & Earl Wynn

$1,000 – $1,999Anonymous (2)

Kim Baich

Chesapeake Chapter The Society Inc.

Martha & Gary Connor

Laura Cox

DancEthos

Dance Place Energizers Camp Families 2013

Winnie Dreier

Yvonne Edwards

Lionel Epstein & Elizabeth Streicher Epstein

Sarah Epstein & Donald Collins

James Estey & Janet Bralove

Uchenna Evans

Lynn Falk

Nancy Garruba & Chris Hornig

Jalal Greene

Hedy & Megan Gurrentz

Brian Harris

W. Christopher Hollinsed & Yolanda Alcorta

Illinois Tool Works Foundation

Bernard & Martha Jarvis

Donna Kearney

David Knepper

George & Rhea Kosovic

Linda, Mark & Sarah Kramer

Heidi Kurtze

Linda Le Cam

Charlotte Cameron Marshall

Bridget Miskell

Ellen Opper-Weiner

Dean & Karen Pogas

Carol Polakoff

Alice M. Rivlin

Rasheid Scarlett

Stanley M. & Sue Schwartz

Allan Shapiro

Shure Inc.

Karin & Steve Silverman

Pam & Gene Silverman

Tina Silverman

Leila Smith

Patricia Thomas

John Tichenor

Jan Van Dyke

Vicki Warren & Costas Avrakotos

George Wasserman Family Foundation

Adam Weers

Phan Winter

WPAS Women’s Committee

Yahya Yazdi

$500 – $999Anonymous

Ed & Susan Apple

Jane Brashares & Ron Weis

Julia Brennan

Capital Development Strategies LLC

Linda Carlson & Larry Himelfarb

Kimmie Dobbs Chan & Enoch Chan

Ellen Chenoweth

Julia Craighill

Emily Crews & Mikael Manoukian

Dance Exchange

Beverly Dennis

Jason Donaldson

David Dowling

Jane Franklin Dance

Erica Gibson

David Gill

Jack Gordon

Nelse Greenway

Infiniti Technologies

Scott & Marie Kamrath

Michael Kilmer & Tim Breidigan

Akua Kouyate

Sally LeBoff

Jessica Lin-Powers

Ethelyn Owen

Birdie & Steve Pieczenik

Jane Purinton & Jim Donahue

Shannon Quinn

Barbara & Rachael Raizen

ReVision dance company

Reginia Rogers

Emily Schmidt

Bernice Simmons

Robert Snider

Ed Steltzer

Polly Thibodeau

Vincent Thomas

Larry & Paulette Walker

Kathryn Zyla & Brian Scott

$250 – $499Anonymous (2)

Dr. Gail Alexander

alight dance theater

Patricia Angus

David Antonelli

Atlantic Electrical Supply

Baile’s Drum Works

Judith Berland

Daniel Perlo Bloom

Carmen Boston

Bowen McCauley Dance

Bruce L. Brown

Dr. James Brown & Barbara Boykin

Michelle Brown Johnson

Dana Tai Soon Burgess

Daniel & Andrea Burkholder

Suzanne Callahan

Choreographers Collaboration Project

Annie Choudhury

Adrienne Clancy

Merrill Collins

Jennifer Cover Payne

Coyaba Dance Theater

Adrianne M. Dale

Dance Place Energizers Camp 2013

Dance Place Fall Interns 2014

Dance Place Summer Interns 2013

Edgeworks Dance Theater

Cathy Eliot & Bill Haris

James Ellzy

Judy Estey

Ezibu Muntu Dance Theater

Farafina Kan

John Flournoy

Trudy Ann Flournoy

Marcia Freeman

Robin Gilmore

Glade Dance Collective

Robert Hall

Lynn Hamister

Doris Holzheimer & Gordon Hullar

David Hopper

Lorraine Ivester

George Jackson

Scott Kaminski

KanKouran West Africa Dance Company

Laura Kaufman

Kathy Lapinski

Fran & Winx Lawrence

Linda Lewett

Alicia Luchowski & Sam Turner

Robin Lyttle

Sharon Mansur

Philip & Evelyn Mattar

Daniel McDade

Lindsay & Bill McLaughlin

Lalise & Jerry Melillo

Taye Merryweather

Linda Miller

Gail Minor-Smith

Eileen & Dana Miskell

Steve Munoz

Aundrea Naylor

Lisa Paul

Sara Pearson & Patrik Widrig

Carl Podwoski & Virginia Lovejoy

Lauren & Mariel Procter

Karen Reedy

Sheila Riley

Bella Rosenberg

Lauren Rubenstein & Steven Shapiro

Sankofa Dance Theater

Annetta & Russell Sawyer

Hank & Charlotte Schlosberg

Sidney Schulman

Tara Sears & David Carlson

Laine Shakerdge

Melissa & Daniel Shriver

Galia Siegel

Andrew Slater

Debbie Smith-Steiner

Soul In Motion

Victoria Stanley

William Stevens

Story District

Lee & Albert Sturtevant

Lisa Swenton-Eppard

Kate Tallent

Stefani & Efan Thomas

Kwame & Germonique Ulmer

UpRooted Dance

Jill Veber

William & Susan Veber

Estela Velez

David Weinreich

Eric Weissman

Baakari Wilder

Cynthia Word

$1 – $249Anonymous (4)

Brett Abrams

Beth & Dennis Albaneze

Steve Allen & Patty Dickie

Richard Apatoff

Ernestine Arnold & Yvonne Boyd

Michelle Ava

Noa Banu

David Beczak

Jeffrey Bell

Brooke Belott

John Benton

Reena Bernards

Heather Bertrand

Ben Bialek

Rickie & Ray Bialek

Kristi Bigos-Miller

Amanda Blythe

Lynn Bock & Barry Barth

Regina Boyd

Margot Born

John Breast

Roberta Bregstone

Mary Brown

Greg Buch

Meleta Buckstaff

Rita Burns

Anne Burson

Stacy Cardillo

Briana Carper

Daniel Carter

Thomas Chase

Clarence Cherry

Janelle Chisholm

Lillian Cho

Lee Kimball Clark

Enrique Codas

Marcie Cohen

Morris & Dorothy Cohen

Tonka Collins

Ellen & Stanley Copeland

Therese Cox

Chante Cruse

Andrew Culbertson

Ellen Cull

Leah Curran

Raj Damodaran

Penelope Dann

Camilla Day

Carolyn & David DeVilbiss

Joanne Donaldson

Michelle Douglas

Emma Dozier

Lisa Dubay

Carol Dunn

Dane Edidi

Pamela Egnew

Theresa Etienne

James Farmer

Susan Farr

Dianne Farrington

Alan Fedorowsky & Stephanie Millon

Connie Fink

Patricia & Richard Fiske

Karen FitzGerald

Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble

Jennifer Franzen

Roslyn Frieser

Marilyn & Peter Fuchs

Deborah Anderson Gaddis

Geoffrey Garin & Debbie Berkowitz

Theresa Gasaway

Jill Gay

Abe & Charlotte Genderson

James Gentner

Margaret Gibson

Lucille Gidseg

Shannon Gipson

Jean-Michel Giraud

Rebecca Gitter

Chris Golden

Roberta & Lenny Goldstein

Pablo & Rosalyn Gonzalez

Gary Gregory

George Gurvin

Mark Haim

Beth Hamby

Nancy & Richard Havlik

Natasha Hawkins

Ashley Haymakers

Lisa Helfert

Danette Hensley

Ira Hersh

Lonna Hooks

Marcia & Bus Howard

Keisha Howard

Nancy Iacomini

Ann Jackson & Dean Wooden

Fred Jackson

Denise Jakobsberg

Enid Johnson

Jason Johnston

Tzveta Kassabova

Caroline Keith

Anthony Kochis

Donna & Irving Kramer

Bruce Krebs

Maiya Lay

Paulette Lee

Nettie Legters

Holly Lennihan

Ben Levine

Sarah Levitt

Barbara & Steven Lippai

Evan Lippincott & Krista Kurth

Trevor Litsey

Susan Lowen

Lucy Bowen McCauley

Philip & Anedra Lumpkin

Papaya Mann

Kathleen Manning

Jessica Marchant

William Matson

Pamela Matthews

Alvin Mayes

Nicole McClam Mcbrayer

Karen McCluskey & Misti French

Marie & Clent McCoy

Akosoa & Carl McFadgion

Dianne McRae

A. Howard & Sharon Metro

Manny & Polly Miller

Daniel Miller & Mary Schobert

Daisy Miller

William Mills

Gholam Motamedi

Florence Mudrick

Marc Muething

Andrea Nash

Ryan Nicholson

Lucinda Nobles

Edward O’Brien

Nancy Pallesen

Edwin Parker

Mitra Pedoeem & Jeffrey Strum*

Erica Pencak

Kacie Peterson

Polly Pettit & Peter Dowling

Kiley Pogas

Deborah Lee Polhemus

Dawn Prather

Larry & Phyliss Press

Lynnie Raybuck

Elinor Reed

Barry Remley

Sallie Rhodes

Tierra Rich

Judy Rivlin

Lynn & Donald Roberts

Emily Rorty

Carol Ross

Joyce S. & Jerald S. Sachs

Denaise Seals

Sara Sennett

Anthony Settel

Foon Sham

Yona Shulman

Margaret Siegel

Donald & Iyu Sillers

Brenda Silvils

Jalila Simmons

Calvin & Carla Smith

Sharon Snyder

Dawn Springer

Frances Stadler

Leslie Stein

Jackie Steven & Jason Horowitz

Rebecca & Gary Stevens

Alice Stewart

Briana Stuart

Karen Studd

Maury Sullivan

Anna Sullivan

Mark Talavera

Alison Talvacchio

Nadia Taran

Ira Tattelman

Robin & Meryl Todd

Galen Tromble

Doug Varone

Rob Vogel

Theresa Wallace

Gladys Watkins

Pam Weeks & John Ruml

Renee Weitzner

Douglas & Catherine Wheeler

Cindy & Phil Wilcox

Ralph Williams & Mike Thompson

La’Shaun Willis

Maida Withers

Rima Faber Wolff

Chantale Wong

Penelope Woolley

Elizabeth Zinni

*Deceased

As of August 31, 2015

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“It feels vibrant and exciting when

you walk into Dance Place for a

performance. Staff have offices that

are more adequate than before, plus the

studio and theater spaces are

vastly improved. The new space is a

marvelous addition to the changing

neighborhood.”