1. Company bio: Funding credit:
Jane Franklin Dance partners with digital and visual artists, Jane Franklin Dance is supported in part by
neighborhood participants, composers and musicians. The Arlington County through the Cultural Affairs
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company has been presented at the Velocity DC Dance Festival Division of the Department of Parks, Recreation
at Sidney Harman Hall, Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival, and Cultural Resources and the Arlington Com-
Source Festival, INTERSECTIONS: A New America Arts Festival mission for the Arts; by Alexandria Commission
at Atlas Performing Arts Center, Kennedy Center Millennium for the Arts, by the Virginia Commission for the
Stage, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Dance Place, Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts;
Grace Street Theater, Dance Bethesda, Old Dominion Universi- Senior Adult Endowment Fund of the Arlington
ty’s Choreographers’ Showcase, New York’s International Dance Community Foundation, Washington Forrest
Festival, Charlotte Dance Festival in North Carolina, Richmond’s Foundation, and the Virginia Museum of Fine
“Yes, Virginia-Dance!” and internationally in Mexico with the Arts Paul Mellon Arts in Education Program and
interactive Temporal Interference, which was then performed by individual contributors.
at College of Arts & Media at University of Colorado Denver.
Board of Directors Staff
Collaborative projects have received funding in multiple years
from the Virginia Commission, the Alexandria Commission, and Charlotte Hollister, Jane Franklin, Artistic Director
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the Arlington Commission for the Arts, American Composers Peg Schaefer, Katie O’Connell, Admin. Asst.
Forum – Washington DC Chapter and from foundations includ- Amy Firestone, Emily Haggerty, Marketing
ing Arlington Community Foundation and Washington Forrest Linda Vitello, Paul Gillis Photography
Foundation. Jane Franklin is a recipient of the Community Liz Hutcheson Moise Ngomsu Foki, development
Foundation for the National Capital Region Creative Com- Jennifer Wright
munities Initiative grant for a dance/video project inspired by Elizabeth Ruppert Adjunct Artists
round wall skateboarding. An installation art and dance piece,
Incidence, was presented by Mead Theatre Lab, a project of the Company Dancers Jason Donaldson
Cultural Development Corporation. Jane Franklin is a recipient Colleen Bergeron
of the American Association of University Women Elizabeth Andrea Ligon Diane Dorius
Campbell Award for the Advancement of the Arts in Arlington. Wayles Haynes Elizabeth Fogarty
Amy Scaringe Gerda Keiswetter
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Jane Franklin Dance conducts ongoing outreach for older Katie Tuebner Lindsay McLaughlin
adults and youth. Forty + in collaboration with community Daniel Zook Peg Schaefer
based dancers past the age of 40 has been seen at U.S. Emily Crews
Environmental Protection Agency “Diversity Day, in concert Jane Franklin
programs by Jane Franklin Dance, and throughout Arlington in For more information: Artistic Director
workshop and performance at numerous centers serving older
adults. Two books by Baltimore writer Elizabeth Spires have 703-933-1111 703-933-1111
been adapted into performances for children. Jane Franklin www.janefranklin.com http://www.janefranklin.com
Dance has been recognized by Virginia’s Governor’s Award for www.facebook.com
Excellence in the Arts and the company tours for the Virginia www.janefranklindance.blogspot.com
Museum of Fine Arts Paul Mellon Arts in Education Program www.youtube.com/janefranklindance
and the Virginia Commission’s Tour Directory.