Current site (google maps) and rendering for new site (Erdy McHenryArchitecture, LLC) PENNSYLVANIA BALLET UNVEILS SITE OF NEW BUILDING Louise Reed Center for Dance to include new School of Pennsylvania Ballet opening Fall 2012 Pennsylvania Ballet takes a momentous step with the unveiling of its future home on the Avenue of the Arts. The Louise [...]

The Micro Fund is a new project from PhiladelphiaDANCE.org that has been established as a means of creating a source for online donations to help fund dance projects in the region. This site is designed to offer members of the Philadelphia Dance Community the tools to effectively build a campaign and raise money. A hybrid [...]

For over thirty years, the Community Education Center (or as known by its fans as the CEC) located 3500 Lancaster Avenue, has served Powelton Village, West Philadelphia and for that matter, pretty much most of Philadelphia, as a community based arts and education center whose mission is to strengthen the sense of shared community among [...]

Nine local dance artists and organizations receive $929,000 in funding The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Dance Advance has awarded a total of $929,000 to nine outstanding and adventurous dance projects. The grantees represent four dance companies, two presenting organizations, and three individual artists. Dance Advance director Bill Bissell commented, “This year’s grantees [...]

For yearend 2010, PhiladelphiaDANCE.org, a registered trademark of Music & Motion Dance, operated and maintained a total of 12 domains as well as multiple social networking sites for the sole purpose of promoting dance in the greater Philadelphia region. All sites were operated without any costs to the dance community or its users. Funding for [...]

Mayor Michael A. Nutter, Chief Cultural Officer Gary Steuer and 200 arts professionals, advocates and artists celebrated the launch of the Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia Tuesday night at a special reception at TRUST in Old City. The challenge, a project of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to fund the best ideas for [...]

This report describes the demographic characteristics of U.S. adults that participated in the arts (such as concerts, plays, and dance performances) via electronic media (e.g., TV, radio, computers and portable media devices) in 2008, based on the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA). Separately, the report examines broad categories of arts participation via [...]

The Philadelphia Cultural Fund (PCF) will present the first recipients of the organization’s newest, landmark grants program — the Youth Arts Enrichment Grants, created to support projects and programs that use the arts to enrich the lives of young people both in and outside of school. The inaugural round of grants, totaling $357,700 (comprised of [...]

New Affinity Rewards Credit Card from PhiladelphiaDANCE.org will help fund new dance works and support local dance companies. There’s a new, convenient and rewarding way for people who support PhiladelphiaDANCE.org to fund the nonprofit group’s work. And it fits in a wallet.PhiladelphiaDANCE.org and CardPartner, Inc. have joined forces to launch five new images for 2010 [...]

The Philadelphia Cultural Fund (PCF) announced an exciting new grants program — Youth Arts Engagement Grants — created to support projects and programs that use the arts to enrich the lives of young people in and out of school.  The money for these first-time grant awards — a total of $350,000 — will be drawn [...]