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10/08/2026

📣 Spotlight: "Mississippi Goddam/Jazzing:Memoirs in Jazz" by Waverly Lucas for Ballethnic Dance Company Inc.!

"Mississippi Goddam/Jazzing:Memoirs in Jazz" was created for an exhibit at The Breman Museum that featured the work of Jewish photojournalist Herb Snitzer, who spent his career capturing the lives of jazz greats and the civil rights movement.

🗣️ "We feel that courageous works like "Mississippi Goddam" reflect the spirit of the civil rights movement and encourage people to fight for democracy and rights." — Choreographer Waverly Lucas/Ballethnic Dance Company Inc.

🗳️ Have you double checked your voter registration deadline? Be sure you're ready to hit the polls → https://www.usvotefoundation.org/state-election-dates-and-deadlines

The Breman Museum; Film (Glorious Days & Nights A Jazz Memoir), Karla Tyson, Njema Williams, Brooke Steppe, Charizma Lawrence, Calvin Gentry, Tyler Davilsaint

[Media Description: A vertical reel shows dancers from the Ballethnic Dance Company in black-and-white costumes performing on a dark stage. A blue tag reading "" appears over the footage. Below the video, text reads, "WE DANCED FOR DEMOCRACY. WILL YOU VOTE FOR IT?" and later "SHOW US YOUR VOTE IN MOTION." A red "SPOTLIGHT" badge and the text " by Dance/USA • THRU NOV 10" also appear, marking the video as part of Dance/USA's Dance2Vote campaign.]

10/05/2026

As the midterm elections approach and the political climate grows more heated, the pressure to “do something” is rising.

We are living through a formative period in our nation’s history, and we hope you will help shape what comes next.

👉 Read more about Bertrand Evans-Taylor's time at the Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference, Kate Folsom at the Hands Off the Arts protest at the Kennedy Center, and the pressure surrounding the upcoming midterm election → https://www.danceusa.org/ejournal/2026/09/25/september-advocacy-update

📸 Kate Folsom

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[Media Description: A carousel of 8 purple graphics with white text, Dance/USA logos, arrows, and line breaks. The slides contain writing from Bertrand Evans-Taylor about the upcoming midterms and reflections from his time at The Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference. In the middle of the carousel is a slide containing two photos from the Hands Off the Arts protest at the Kennedy Center.]

10/02/2026

📊 Forward Stance: Facts & Figures

👉 The data in our Forward Stance report shows Dance/USA's actual expenses, contributed revenue, and staffing in relation to median values for dance organizations nationally.

We've aimed to show this plainly, providing an accurate picture of where Dance/USA stands, including where it differs from the field it serves.

📑 Explore how we've sketched out a new strategic direction for Dance/USA in the full Forward Stance report →⁠https://www.danceusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Forward-Stance-Report-by-DanceUSA-Aug-2026.pdf

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[Media Description: A four-slide Dance/USA graphic highlighting facts and figures from the new Forward Stance Report. The slides show various charts, graphs, data, and information regarding Dance/USA's expenses, revenue, and staffing numbers. The graphics use a soft cream background with blue typography and purple hand-drawn abstract lines, and Dance/USA branding.]

10/01/2026

📣 Spotlight: "THE VOTE DANCE" created by Aparna Sindhoor, Anil Natyavedam and S M Raju!⁠
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"THE VOTE DANCE" is a visual story with Indian dance, martial arts, aerial dance, and music to attract the viewers to pay attention and to vote⁠
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🗣️ "This work was conceived as a short dance film to encourage people to vote. With movements inspired by Indian classical dance, Indian martial arts Kalari, aerial acrobatics we tell a story of the need to vote." — Choreographers Aparna Sindhoor and Anil Natyaveda
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🗳️ Today is the last day to submit work to be featured in our campaign! If you have a dance work that engages with ideas around democracy, and/or could inspire voter engagement among dance audiences, please submit a clip by TONIGHT at 11:59pm! → https://www.danceusa.org/dance2vote/dance2vote-2026-submissions⁠
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Co-Directors: Aparna Sindhoor, S M Raju and Anil Natyaveda; Editing: Raul Putran, S M Raju, Arnav Sindhoor; Animation: S M Raju and Bhaskar; Performers: Aparna Sindhoor and Anil Natyaveda, Shishir Kurup, Namrata Mohan, Kripa Guha, Stephanie Lawee, Sabari Kanagaraju, Dr. Srivalli T S, Medha Ramachandran, Pratibah Sindhoor, Arnav Sindhoor, Anupama A, Lekshmi A, Avani Uppalapatti, Beth Kellu, Mallika Sanyal, Leah Vincent, Jiya Rhiya; Video credit: S M Raju; Sound: Isaac Thomas Kottukapally⁠
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[Media Description: Three-slide graphic promoting Dance/USA’s 2026 Dance2Vote campaign. The first slide features a video excerpt from "THE VOTE DANCE," and the following slides share information about this being the last day to submit work for Dance2Vote. The graphics are a soft cream color with black text and white and blue Dance2Vote stickers and branding.]

09/29/2026

📣 Spotlight: Amazed By Grace Dance Ministry in "Lord of All"!⁠

Founded in 2023 by choreographer Nikka Maynard, Amazed By Grace Dance Ministry explores and celebrates the connections between West African dance and African American Praise Dance, two traditions that share deep ancestral roots and lives in the Bay Area.⁠

🗣️ "We remind audiences that every individual has value and that their voice can contribute to the strength and well-being of the community... We inspire audiences to recognize that participation in democracy is an extension of the same agency and empowerment expressed through movement." — Choreographer Nikka Maynard

🗳️ Leading up to the November 3 elections, we’re spotlighting dance works that can inspire audiences to vote. If you have a dance work that engages with ideas around democracy, and/or could inspire voter engagement among dance audiences, please submit a clip → https://www.danceusa.org/dance2vote/dance2vote-2026-submissions

Video: Spenser Willinson; Music: Lord of all: by JJ Hairston Youthful Praise and Hezakiah Walker; Dancers: Nikka Maynard, Jamila Fuller, Akilah Thomas, Sherice Tyler, Monicia Robinson, Sa’Niyah Jones-Hampton, Carrie Smith, Tavita Bass, Coco Kelley, Imani Abernathy, Kehinde Salter,
Juakila. McConnell⁠

[Media Description: A vertical reel shows Amazed By Grace Dance Ministry in blue and gold costumes, dancing outside on a wooden floor with grass and greenery surrounding them. A blue tag reading "" appears over the footage. Below the video, text reads, "WE DANCED FOR DEMOCRACY. WILL YOU VOTE FOR IT?" and later "SHOW US YOUR VOTE IN MOTION." A red "SPOTLIGHT" badge and the text " by Dance/USA • THRU NOV 10" also appear, marking the video as part of Dance/USA's Dance2Vote campaign.]

09/25/2026

Meet the Round 3 DFA Artist Fellows! Today, we’re excited to spotlight Dakota Camacho (Guiya/Yo'ña).

Dakota Camacho comes from the Matao/CHamoru peoples of Låguas and comes from the villages of Tomhom, Mongmong, and Hagåtña, and descends from the Che’ and Eging clans, and they also have Ilokano lineage. Camacho arrived in Guåhan, Låguas (the Mariånas) in the year 2011, to find Matao/CHamoru language and culture teachers. Camacho became friends with Jeremy Cepeda, a fino’ håya language teacher, and Jeremy guided Camacho on yo’ña (their) language learning journey. For many years, Camacho traveled around the world sharing their dance and musical creations, and cultivating relationships with Indigenous peoples in Aotearoa, Turtle Island (so-called “North/South America”), Hawai’i, and momentarily so-called Australia and Africa.

In 2019, Camacho and Cepeda started the Gi Matan Guma’ collective to give life to their ancestral language and traditions in an attempt to walk the path of ináfa’maolek (peace and equity for all living beings). Camacho started the MALI’E’ project to try and find ways to activate a Theory/Memory/Imagining of (Making) Matao [Creativity] through multi-disciplinary art. Today, Dakota is very happy to be working with Gi Matan Guma’ in Låguas and throughout the diaspora.

For a version of Dakota’s bio in CHamoru and to meet all the Round 3 DFA Fellows, visit the Dance/USA website → https://bit.ly/4rbFRaY

DFA is made possible with generous support from the Doris Duke Foundation.

Media descriptions located in the caption of each photo.

09/24/2026

📣 Going forward, Dance/USA will treat membership as field engagement.

Dues will not only be paid for individual benefit, but for participation in programs and activities in service to the field at-large.

📑 Explore how we've sketched out a new strategic direction for Dance/USA in the full Forward Stance report → https://www.danceusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Forward-Stance-Report-by-DanceUSA-Aug-2026.pdf⁠
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[Media Description: A six-slide Dance/USA graphic highlighting the organization’s new positioning surrounding membership. The slides review the new ways Dance/USA will treat membership, including numbers on their current member base and how it grows. The graphics use a soft cream background with blue typography, hand-drawn abstract lines, bee, and flower illustrations, and Dance/USA branding.]

09/21/2026

In a new interview with Stance On Dance, Dance/USA Director of Regranting Haowen Wang talks with journalist Emmaly Wiederholt about how the Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists Program (DFA) evolved, what the program learned about building with artists, and what it means to close a program well in a moment when arts funding is contracting broadly.

🗣️ “DFA... wanted to fund artists who examine how dance operates in the world and beyond the stage.” – Haowen Wang, Dance/USA Director of Regranting

Read the full interview to hear about the program's origins, what equitable grantmaking looked like in practice, and what these lessons may mean as DFA comes to a close → https://stanceondance.com/2026/09/14/haowen-wang-dance-usa/?fbclid=IwY2xjawUVLv1wZG9mAWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR6Q0DvXoY5NPvKy29PVLQdDGsQx8b7UQfk_GHMuHxypmomT5IUXJN8miWYTeQ_aem_kY6h2p7fz4eTtjT8ocTP1Q

📸 Round 2 DFA Artist Fellows and program team, photo by Michèle Steinwald

[Media Description: A carousel of 5 blue graphics with white text, Dance/USA logos, and icons that feature quotes and information regarding Stance on Dance's interview with Haowen Wang. On slide one is a group photo of the Round 2 DFA Artist Fellows and program team. Twenty or so people pose together, some kneeling on the ground, some in chairs, and some standing. A large screen appears behind them, with photos representing the Fellows who are joining the group virtually.]

09/17/2026

📣 Spotlight: "Bound" by Kyle Marshall!⁠
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Moving beyond the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, Bound is a dance to manifest a new destiny. Using text by Fredrick Douglass and performers, this cast of 5 performers and two musicians will explore (sub)text and subversive actions by embodying words, gestures, and rhythms to examine American ideals and realities. ⁠
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🗓️ The work premieres Nov. 5-7 at Danspace Project in NYC!⁠
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🗣️ "Bound engages democracy not as a fixed system, but as participatory practice shaped by voice, access, and collective action... [the work] encourages the audience to decipher what they witness, not dissimilar to how marginalized groups, not originally included in our founding documents, 'read between the lines' to demand democratic rights and freedom." — Choreographer Kyle Marshall
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🗳️ work submissions close October 1! ⁠
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If you have a dance work that engages with ideas around democracy, and/or could inspire voter engagement among dance audiences, please submit a clip → https://www.danceusa.org/dance2vote/dance2vote-2026-submissions
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Music: Cal Fish + Kwami Winfield; Creative Director (costume design and set) - Edo Tastic; Performers - Khalid Dunton, Justin Daniels, Syd Worthy Kyle Marshall and Kellye Smith; Musicians- Cal Fish and Kwami Winfield⁠
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[Media Description: A vertical reel shows a small ensemble of dancers, dressed in red tops and dark pants, performing contemporary choreography on a dark stage lit by a single overhead spotlight. They move through fluid, athletic phrases—lifting and supporting one another, dropping to the floor, and bursting into sharp unison gestures. A blue tag reading "" appears over the footage. Below the video, text reads, "WE DANCED FOR DEMOCRACY. WILL YOU VOTE FOR IT?" and later "SHOW US YOUR VOTE IN MOTION." A red "SPOTLIGHT" badge and the text " by Dance/USA • THRU NOV 10" also appear, marking the video as part of Dance/USA's Dance2Vote campaign.]

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