DOWNPOUR OF DONATIONS SAVES DANCE UMBRELLA.BOSTON--Jeremy Alliger, artistic director and producer of Boston's Dance Umbrella Dance Umbrella is an annual festival of modern and contemporary dance, held in London every October. First held in 1978, companies such as London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Siobhan Davies Dance Company, Shen Wei Dance Arts perform at venues , one of the nation's leading presenters of dance, announced on January 26 that he was suspending operations for the remainder of its 1999 season, citing an unexpected shortfall Shortfall The amount by which the capital required to fulfill a financial obligation exceeds available capital. Notes: Shortfall risk is often combated with an efficient hedging strategy created by a fund, group, institution, or individual. in ticket sales and grants. Under Alliger's direction since its founding eighteen years ago, Dance Umbrella is responsible for the long association of the Mark Morris Dance Group and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company with Boston audiences, along with successful events such as the first-ever aerial and wheel-chair dance festivals. Alliger said that he could resume the season if $300,000 could be raised immediately. His plight, and the realization that the demise Death. A conveyance of property, usually of an interest in land. Originally meant a posthumous grant but has come to be applied commonly to a conveyance that is made for a definitive term, such as an estate for a term of years. of Dance Umbrella would leave an unacceptable void in the cultural life of the city, brought an emergency response from national and local donors as varied as Philip Morris Companies, Inc. ($40,000), Fleet National Bank ($35,000), the Boston Globe Foundation ($20,000), the Clovelly Foundation ($15,000), and the Gillette Company ($10,000). The total of pledges and gifts, more than half from individual patrons and friends, brought in $250,000, allowing Alliger to announce on February 10 that the full season would resume on March 11 with performances by Meryl Tankard Meryl Tankard (b. 1955, Darwin, Northern Territory) is an Australian dancer and choreographer who has a wide national and international reputation. Tankard's father served in the Royal Australian Air Force and the family moved to various bases during her early years. Australian Dance Company. "We are now in a long-term strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. process," says Alliger. "We are looking at all areas of organizational capacity. Basically, everything is on the table." Plans are nearly complete for the 1999-2000 season, which will include two major commissions: a new work by Pilobolus, with Lenard Eto, one of the founding members of the Kodo Drummers This is a list of drummers, mostly in the fields of metal, rock, and jazz.
n. A chair mounted on large wheels for the use of a sick or disabled person. wheelchair, n dance troupe. "We have come out stronger because of the crisis," says Alliger. "A lot of doors have opened that were not open before. It's been a wake-up call for some sections of the funding community that assumed that someone else was taking care of us. It's a big story that we were in danger of closing, but it's a bigger story that we survived eighteen years without significant city or corporate support." |
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