 Paul Gillis Photography Board of Directors
Charlotte Hollister,
Peg Schaefer,
Amy Firestone,
Linda Vitello,
Liz Hutcheson
Jennifer Wright
Emily Haggerty
Yulia Kunina
Staff
Jane Franklin, Artistic Director
Katie O’Connell, Admin. Asst.
Paul Gillis Photography
Company Dancers
Brianne Barrow Little
Andrea Ligon
Wayles Haynes
Amy Scaringe
Katie Tuebner
Emily Crews
Adam Buss
Adjunct Artists
Jason Donaldson
Colleen Bergeron
Elizabeth Fogarty
Lindsay McLaughlin
Peg Schaefer
Volunteers
Liz Hutcheson, Graphic Design
Michael Levy, I.T. Engineer
Ray Gniewek, Photography
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FACTS
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Jane Franklin Dance is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization under section 509(a) of the Internal Revenue Code EIN# 74-2179431.
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MISSION
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Jane Franklin Dance celebrates movement and makes dance accessible to a wide range of audiences through public performances, community engagement, dance education, and collaborations with artists from other disciplines. Providing a social, physical and creative exchange, Jane Franklin Dance bridges age, culture and even language to unite people through movement. Whether on stage, outdoors, in the classroom, or at a neighborhood gathering, Jane Franklin Dance shares collective experience.
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Jane Franklin Dance is supported in part by Arlington County Cultural Affairs Division and the Arlington Commission for the Arts, by Alexandria Commission for the Arts, by the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts; Senior Adult Endowment Fund of the Arlington Community Foundation, Washington Forrest Foundation, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Paul Mellon Arts in Education Program and by individual contributors.
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 Double Take at Torpedo Factory Arts Center
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COMPANY BIO
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Jane Franklin Dance crosses disciplines in partnership with music, media, visual artists and community participants. The Arlington based Dance Company offers ongoing programs for older adults, performances for children,dance education and collaborations blending dance with visual arts. •
Jane Franklin is a recipient of the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region Creative Communities Initiative grant for a dance/video project inspired by round wall skateboarding. • Jane Franklin Dance made its international debut in Puebla Mexico with the interactive real time media piece “Temporal Interference,” which was also performed at the College of Arts and Media at University of Colorado Denver and at Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. Dancers manipulate a life-size kinetic sculpture in Incidence which was presented by Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint, a program of the Cultural Development Corporation.
Jane Franklin was selected for the 2010 Source Festival “Artistic Blind Dates,” for Forward 5, a professional development program of Dance/MetroDC, for 2010 and 2011 VelocityDC Dance Festival, for Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival in March 2011 and for the Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival in May. A STAR Award recipient for “Outstanding Community Outreach,” Jane Franklin Dance was recently selected to receive the American Association of University Women Elizabeth Campbell Award for the Advancement of the Arts in Arlington. Ongoing projects include Forty+ – a celebration of creativity, aging and dance developed by Jane Franklin in collaboration with community based dancers past the age of 40 – and performances for children. Jane Franklin Dance tours for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Paul Mellon Arts in Education Program and the Virginia Commission’s Tour Directory. |
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