Dance Advancement Fund

Dance Advancement Fund 2022-2023 Review Panel

 

Purpose of the Review Panel

To advise and assist in reviewing applications to the Dance Advancement Fund (2022-2023) and achieving the Fund’s goals.

Dance/NYC provided a Panelist Guide, which included a full overview of the funding priorities, evaluation criteria and scoring rubric to aid panelists in determining the final group of recipients.

 

2022-2023 Dance Advancement Fund Panelists:

  • Aaron L. McKinney, Executive Director, Hi-ARTS
  • Danni Gee, Dance Curator & Programs Manager, SummerStage (City Parks Foundation)
  • george emilio sanchez, performance artist & activist
  • Ita Segev, Performance Artist, Writer and Community Mobilizer
  • J. Soto, Director of Engagement and Inclusion, Leslie Lohman Museum
  • Julia del Palacio, Director of Strategic Partnerships and Development, Kupferberg Center for the Arts | Queens College
  • Karesia Batan, Founding Director, Queensboro Dance Festival | The Physical Plant
  • Kiebpoli Calnek, Black*Acrobat
  • Leah Krauss, Senior Program Officer, Mertz Gilmore Foundation
  • Lillian Osei-Boateng, Program Manager for the Arts, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
  • Linda Murray, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
  • Maya Simone Z, Junior Committee (JComm), Dance/NYC
  • Omar Ingram, Programs Director, The International Association of Blacks in Dance

 

Eight dancers in motion on a light background, including contemporary performers and artists from the early 1980s NYC dance scene, two of whom are choreographers for the production, with text reading “WHAT WE HOLD,” February 13–14, 2026, presented by Peter Stathas Dance.

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