The Holidays are a season to gather, and also a season of giving. At LA Dance Chronicle, we are proud to be a rare place that serves and connects the LA dance community by covering all things dance from a SoCal perspective. In 2024 alone, LADC has released over 295 reviews, profiles, previews, and a weekly performance round up, bringing the total to 2,113 reviews and articles since our 2017 launch. As we continue as a beacon for SoCal dance, please consider LA Dance Chronicle in your year-end giving.
Anita Mann, a long-time supporter of dance and philanthropist has offered a challenge grant, matching donations up to $10,000. Your donation, in any amount, will help us achieve that matching donations to fund the year-round performance calendar and to continue LA Dance Chronicle’s mission to connect dance companies with dance audiences, and to pay our amazing team of writers who provide the words to match the dancing.
Here’s what we do and why your support matters:
What we do: LADC provides in-depth reviews, interviews, and coverage of LA’s diverse artistic voices.
Why it matters: In addition to cultivating the audience for dance, LADC coverage provides important documentation that local dance companies have successfully included in grant applications and to presenters that gives an independent voice to the nature of their work and creativity. As SoCal newspapers eliminate dance writers and reviews, LADC is that rare place for dance coverage.
What we do: 2025 will see our existing weekly roundup of concert dance performances extended to a separate year-round Performance Calendar.
Why it matters: Local dance companies will be better able to plan performances when able to see what other performances are scheduled on different dates.
What we do: LADC ’s growing trove of oral histories of significant, but often overlooked LA-based dance artists and expansion to include links to existing video of their works.
Why it matters: These oral histories of significant artists and with the addition of available video links, capture the legacy of these artists for researchers, archivists, and future generations of dancers.
If you are involved in dance as a dancer, company staff, choreographer, or dance lover, by including LA Dance Chronicle in your year-end giving you continue our work and supports new efforts that leaders of LA’s dance community tell us will help their companies thrive. Please help dance lovers here in SoCal and beyond continue to read about what is new and exciting in the art of dance.
Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday Season and all the best in the New Year!
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