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Looking Forward to 2014, Fly-by-Night in the community

What We Do: Aerial Dance as Concert Dance; Aerial Dance Workshops; Scholarships to Dancers of Color; FREE After School Dance Classes; NYC Aerial Dance Festivals

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Looking Forward to 2014, Fly-by-Night in the community

Looking Forward to 2014, Fly-by-Night in the community

Looking Forward to 2014, Fly-by-Night in the community

Looking Forward to 2014, Fly-by-Night in the community

Looking Forward to 2014, Fly-by-Night in the community

What We Do: Aerial Dance as Concert Dance; Aerial Dance Workshops; Scholarships to Dancers of Color; FREE After School Dance Classes; NYC Aerial Dance Festivals

What We Do: Aerial Dance as Concert Dance; Aerial Dance Workshops; Scholarships to Dancers of Color; FREE After School Dance Classes; NYC Aerial Dance Festivals

What We Do: Aerial Dance as Concert Dance; Aerial Dance Workshops; Scholarships to Dancers of Color; FREE After School Dance Classes; NYC Aerial Dance Festivals

What We Do: Aerial Dance as Concert Dance; Aerial Dance Workshops; Scholarships to Dancers of Color; FREE After School Dance Classes; NYC Aerial Dance Festivals

Fly-by-Night Dance Theater, Inc.
Fly-by-Night Dance Theater, Inc.
Fly-by-Night Dance Theater, Inc.
Fly-by-Night Dance Theater, Inc.
3 Campaigns |
New York, United States
$2,296 USD 30 backers
45% of $5,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
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Program Summary

Fly-by-Night Dance Theater is a Professional Aerial Dance company led by Artistic Director Julie Ludwick. The company has a long history of providing arts programming for underserved communities by offering FREE arts workshops and FREE and reduced admission to their performances in New York City as well as opportunities to be professionally produced.

We serve the NYC Dance community in many ways:
  • We offer classes in Aerial and Improvisational Dance that are affordable (and often FREE) for diverse groups of people. Ms. Ludwick has a Masters Degree in Dance & Dance Education and has taught in the NYC area for over 20 years. She shares this knowledge with the young people in her local community at Muscota New School by offering FREE after school dance classes.
  • We award annual SCHOLARSHIPS for NYC dancers of color to study Aerial Dance with the company. Our audition class for the scholarship is open to any dancer of color to attend at no charge.
  • We professionally produce performances that push the artistic boundaries of dance into new territories and include live music whenever financially possible. Our performances blend Aerial Dance with Modern Dance and we create expressive and emotionally moving works that appeal to all ages.
  • We have produced 7 NYC Aerial Dance Festivals that bring together Aerial Artists from around the U.S. There is no fee to audition or perform in the festival.
 Our After School Dance Program educates students beyond movement - we also concentrate on essential life skills that help students succeed such as:

* Increasing students' Cooperative Skills

* Exercising Verbal Skills to Describe the Dances they See & Do

* Comparing the languages of Dance, Music & Visual Art

Our Scholarship for NYC dancers of color serves the whole community by providing a venue that brings together a diverse group of people to follow their passions. Integration in our society should come at every level and when adult students come together to improvise and share their artistic voices we all benefit.

Our Aerial Dance Festivals allow Aerial Dances to have their work produced professionally at no cost. They also receive DVD's and professional photos of their work which they can use when applying for grants or seeking other performing opportunities.

What We Need

Operational Funds. Individuals LIKE YOU run the non-profit economy.

Without individual financial support, a non-profit like ours cannot continue to operate. Although we do receive grants, the amount received through foundations and government programs pays only 1/4 of what it costs to do the work we do.

We would really like to be in the financial position to expand our programs (so we can serve more public school students, give out more Aerial Dance scholarships, pay for administration of another Aerial Dance Festival, etc.).

These are the types of things we spend our money on:

  1. We rent studio space to hold our scholarship classes
  2. We rent theaters to do our professional performances
  3. We pay our teachers
  4. We hire professional musicians to perform with us
  5. We purchase rigging for our Aerial classes and shows and materials for our after school classes
  6. We pay grant writers and administrative consultants to make sure our biggest resource (volunteer time) is used effectively

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Thank You!

$25 USD
A handwritten thank you and name on our company website.
Estimated Shipping
January 2014
2 out of 50 of claimed

Muscota Dance - Lift Off

$26 USD
A handwritten thank you and name on our company website.Your gift goes towards the Muscota New School FREE After School Program.
Estimated Shipping
January 2014
1 out of 100 of claimed

It's in the Bag

$50 USD
The thanks yous, your name on our website, and 3 Fly-by-Night bags.
Estimated Shipping
January 2014
3 out of 75 of claimed

Muscota Dance - More Classes

$51 USD
The thanks yous, your name on our website, and 3 Fly-by-Night shopping bags. Your gift goes towards the Muscota New School FREE After School Program.
Estimated Shipping
January 2014
1 out of 75 of claimed

A Picture is worth 1,000 words

$100 USD
The thanks and website credit, and 3 Fly-by-Night shopping bags, plus a Fly-by-Night Dance photo by Cristobal Vivar of VivarPhotos.com
Estimated Shipping
January 2014
0 out of 40 of claimed

Muscota Dance - Journey

$101 USD
The thanks and website credit, and 3 Fly-by-Night shopping bags, plus a Fly-by-Night Dance photo by Cristobal Vivar of VivarPhotos.com Your gift goes towards the Muscota New School FREE After School Program.
Estimated Shipping
January 2014
0 out of 20 of claimed

Pack Your Bags for 3 flights

$150 USD
The thanks and website credit, the bags, and our beginners' workshop (3 low-flying trapeze small group classes on Sunday afternoons in NYC in 2013).
Estimated Shipping
January 2014
0 out of 20 of claimed

Fly Solo

$250 USD
The thanks and website credit, the bags, a Fly-by-Night Dance photo by photographer Cristobal Vivar, and a private lesson in low-flying trapeze here in NYC in 2013.
Estimated Shipping
January 2014
0 out of 15 of claimed

Bring the Show Home

$500 USD
The thanks and website credit, the bags, a Fly-by-Night Photo by Cristobal Vivar, a lesson in low-flying trapeze for 1-4 people in NYC in 2013, and a DVD of Passages (our show that just premiered),
Estimated Shipping
January 2014
0 out of 10 of claimed

Get the Inside Scoop

$1,000 USD
The thanks and website credit, a lesson in low-flying trapeze for 1-4 people, plus coffee with Artistic Director Julie Ludwick for you and your group.
Estimated Shipping
January 2014
0 out of 5 of claimed

Celebrate with Us

$5,000 USD
The thanks and website credit, the bags, a DVD of Passages (our show that just premiered), a lesson in low-flying trapeze for up to 20 people, plus a reception for the private class with Artistic Director Julie Ludwick and other company members
Estimated Shipping
January 2014
0 out of 3 of claimed
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