A nerve-racking year punctuated by tectonic shifts in key sources of support has prompted grant makers and recipients to ask big questions about the dance funding model. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation, and Ford Foundation—decades-long supporters of the performing arts—rained down a trio of blows in recent months, with each announcing that […]

As an audience cheers, three teenage girls cross the stage in a line, to the high-energy beat of The Chainsmokers’ “Don’t Let Me Down.” They’re dressed in head-to-toe black, but each of their shirts is decorated with bright bulbs, flashing and blinking in various colors as they move. The performance is a product of STEM […]