Dance/NYC Closed July 19-27, 2025 for Summer Break
Monday, July 7, 2025
Dance/NYC Closed July 19-27, 2025 for Summer Break
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Dear Dance Community,
As we continue our work to support a more just and equitable dance ecosystem, we recognize the importance of pausing to rest, reflect, and recharge. Time for restoration is vital—not only for our individual well-being, but for sustaining our collective efforts.
To care for our team and prepare for the season ahead, Dance/NYC will be closed from Saturday, July 19 through Sunday, July 27, 2025 for summer break. Following the break, we will shift focus to internal planning and resetting from Monday, July 28 through Friday, August 1, 2025, during which public-facing programs and communications will be limited.
To help you continue to access important resources, you can find the answers to your most frequently asked questions including details on where you can get timely information about the field while we are away.
As we anticipate the rest of 2025, we will:
- Continue to focus on our internal infrastructure, concluding our current strategic planning process and sharing via a virtual community gathering in October.
- Build out Dance/NYC’s long-term co-leadership structure, including launching a public executive search.
- Celebrate Dance/NYC’s 13th birthday in August with a community-centered fundraising campaign.
- Continue stewarding resource distribution via our current grantmaking programs—Dance Advancement Fund, Rehearsal Space Subsidy, and the recently launched Dance Workforce Resilience Fund.
We’re grateful to be in this work with you, and look forward to continuing to learn, build, and move forward together.
With Appreciation,
The Dance/NYC Team
DANCE/NYC FAQs
Key Dates:
- July 16: Submit ads by 3:00 p.m. for website ads to run during the organizational break
- July 21-25: Dance/NYC offices closed, no external programs, limited communications and ad placements.
- July 28-August 1: Dance/NYC office reopens for internal activity: no external programs, limited external communications
- August 4: Resume all external programs and communications
Contact:
Please expect a delay in response to any email communications, phone calls, voicemails, and/or direct messages via social media received from July 21–August 2.
Advocacy:
1. We have just concluded the second iteration of the 'Our New York City Dance' campaign, a rallying call for the New York City dance community to come together and take action towards building an industry that is valued, protected, sustainable, and just.
- Experience the recording of our campaign launch event.
- Review our issue primers for everyday moves you can make to tackle major issues in the dance industry.
2. Check out our June Dance Worker Digest for important news and resources of particular interest to our community. Note: There will not be a Dance Worker Digest in July.
3. Review our Advocacy Alerts for our latest calls to action.
4. Visit Dance/NYC’s Advocacy page for upcoming events, news, and updates on legislative efforts at the federal, state, and local levels.
5. Visit Dance/NYC’s resource pages including:
• DWR Resource Library
• Racial Justice Resources
• Sexual Harassment Resources
• Land Acknowledgement Practice Resources
• Disability. Dance. Artistry Resources
• Immigrants. Dance. Arts. Resources
• Rehearsal Space Resources
• Fiscal Sponsorship Resources
6. Culture@3 calls and New Yorkers for Culture and Arts advocacy calls are currently on pause for the summer. These calls are for leaders of nonprofit cultural institutions in NYC to connect with each other and discuss advocacy issues central to the cultural sector. If you would like to join these calls as they resume in the Fall, email Lucy Sexton of New Yorkers for Culture & Arts at lucy@ny4ca.org.
7. Sign up for Governor Hochul’s mailing list for the latest news and guidelines
8. Join NYC Arts in Education Roundtable in advocating for the arts as essential to education for all students
9. Reference Arts Action Fund’s Breaking News Updates Impacting Arts and Culture for up-to-date national arts news.
10. Review Nonprofit New York’s legislative priorities for nonprofit organizations
11. Check out Dance/USA’s Key Advocacy Issues
Research:
1. Review Dance/NYC’s latest research report: State of NYC Dance 2023: Findings from the Dance Industry Census.
2. Review the results of the 2025 Cultural Development Fund Impact Survey, conducted by Dance/NYC and A.R.T/New York.
3. Dance/NYC’s research page also hosts a library of all of the past research reports for your use.
Dance.NYC, Advertisements, Communications, and Press:
- New accounts created during the summer break will be processed starting July 30, 2025.
- The deadline for entering the lottery for an August feature is July 25, 2025. Please note this is for individual profiles only.
2. Advertisements:
- If you are interested in advertising with Dance/NYC during this period, please note the following:
- Ads purchased between Friday, July 18 and Sunday, July 27, will not be processed until the week of July 28. Please plan accordingly
- There will be no Dance/NYC newsletter on Monday, July 21, 2025.
- For ads to run in the Monday, July 28 newsletter, ads must be submitted by 10:00 a.m. on Monday, July 28.
- For website ads to run during the organizational break, the submission deadline is 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 17.
- All ads and payments must be submitted via our website
- Ads purchased between Friday, July 18 and Sunday, July 27, will not be processed until the week of July 28. Please plan accordingly
- Listings and events added to Dance.NYC’s Community Calendar will continue to be available during the organizational break. To place a listing, please visit: www.dance.nyc/place-free-listings-and-purchase-ads
3. Press
- If you are a member of the press, please direct your questions to Michelle Tabnick, Michelle Tabnick PR, michelle@michelletabnickpr.com, 646-765-4773
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Learn more about the organization by browsing our website
Leadership Training, Networking and Convening:
Listed below are the upcoming events in Dance/NYC’s Networking & Convening portfolio:
1. Collective Motion: Dance/NYC’s 5-Year Commitment to the Field (webpage coming soon)
- Dance/NYC offers a virtual public convening in October 2025 to introduce its new strategic plan.
Revisit Past Events and Initiatives, as well as resources related to our major initiatives:
2. Experience Dance/NYC’s State of NYC Dance: Findings from the Dance Industry Census Research Performance Event from December 2023.
- Learn more about the Dance. Workforce. Resilience. (DWR) Initiative
- Explore tools and resources available on the DWR Hub.
3. Experience All Symposium 2022 sessions.
4. Disability. Dance. Artistry. Initiative
- Visit this page for information related to this initiative that aims to advance inclusion and access to the art form for disabled people including: research reports, resources and accessibility guides and recent fellowship recipients.
- Visit this page for information related to this initiative that aims to extend the role of dance artistry in fostering the inclusion, integration, and human rights of immigrants in NYC including: research reports, and resources.
Grantmaking:
Included below are resources related to our major regranting programs:
1. Dance Workforce Resilience Fund
- Applications for the Dance Workforce Resilience (DWR) Fund opened on June 18, 2025 and will be accepted on a rolling basis through March 3, 2026. Award notifications will be sent out following each month-long application round. For more information, visit Dance.NYC/DWRFund.
- For inquiries specific to the Dance Workforce Resilience (DWR) Fund, please email dwrfund@dance.nyc.
- This program is in the first year of a two-year grant cycle (2024-2026). New requests and applications to the Dance Advancement Fund are not accepted at this time.
- For inquiries specific to the Dance Advancement Fund, please email danceadvancementfund@dance.nyc.
2. Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program
- The Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program is continuing in its current form through 2026, supporting existing 2022-2024 grantees. New applications and requests to the Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program are not accepted at this time.
- For inquiries specific to the Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program, please email rehearsalspacesubsidy@dance.nyc.
Funders and Donors:
We are deeply grateful to our funders and donors and all they have enabled us to do so far this year, and in the many preceding.
1. Dance/NYC continues to advocate on behalf of the New York City metropolitan dance community. If you or anyone you know is interested in making a contribution and learning about the different ways to support Dance/NYC’s work and growing impact on the dance sector, please visit Dance.NYC/about/donate.
2. If you encounter any issues while attempting to donate online, please email sroer@dance.nyc and our Development team will support you in your generosity upon our return.
3. If you wish to donate, but prefer not to submit payment processing information through our secure online form, you can:
- Send your check to Dance/NYC, 218 East 18th Street, Ground Floor, New York, NY 10003, or
- Email sroer@dance.nyc and our Development team will offer alternative methods of donation upon our return.
4. If you would like to inquire about stock donations, please email sroer@dance.nyc and our team will provide you with next steps upon our return.
5. If you would like to make a donation through a donor-advised fund you can visit our donation page for further instructions.
