The Tomorrow of Dance™
The Tomorrow
of Dance™
NPAFE’s The Tomorrow of Dance™ (TTOD) is an ongoing international program that discovers and supports choreographic creators emerging both from inside and outside the traditional educational systems in order to translate their new works into continuing audience growth for ballet and contemporary dance.
Merce Conningham handwritten notations
Working in partnership with HarrisonParrott and HarrisonParrott Dance whose worldwide international work encompasses leading artists, orchestras, choreographers and dancers, NPAFE has purpose-built TTOD to:
- Help discover tomorrow’s leaders in these fields early in their careers,
- Connect them with mentorship, professional relationships, and production opportunities, and
- Set in place a continuing pipeline of new choreographic voices whose works will appeal to existing and especially new audiences.
TTOD leverages NPAFE’s ten-year record of identifying and supporting dancers and choreographers, ranging from artists at the beginning of their professional development to established creators and companies including Sidra Bell and Paul Taylor Dance Company.
It tracks which kinds of help can actually make a difference in a choreographer’s career, especially mentorship, creative opportunities, professional access, and audience exposure that can best contribute to an artist’s successful development.
NPAFE may eventually establish a separate Public Benefit Corporation to attract financial support for choreographers’ productions, commissions, touring, filmed and digital works, and other opportunities to reach even larger live and streaming audiences.
Why Do This? Increasingly less philanthropic funding is available for growing the audience for ballet and contemporary dance since many foundations have broadened or redirected their priorities toward education, social justice, the environment, community well-being, economic development and other needs.
TTOD intentionally addresses this reality by targeting corporate sponsorship as an important source of significant financial support, doing so by creating opportunities that advance choreographers while responding to corporate sponsor expectations: enhanced brand reputation and growing audience engagement more by digital reach than by live performance.
How We’ve Launched. TTOD is operating as a charitable program within NPAFE, the latter based in Washington, DC with relationships and activities formed over 11 years and extending across the United States, United Kingdom and Europe. NPAFE’s mission has been and remains identifying promising creators in ballet and contemporary dance, engaging experienced artists and industry professionals in their development, creating opportunities for them to create new works, and establishing credible measures of their career progress.
Discovery. TTOD is tracking which kinds of help actually can make a difference in a choreographer’s career, especially what kinds of mentorship, creative opportunities, professional access, and audience exposure can best contribute to an artist’s successful development, and then using those results to strengthen and expand the system for supporting future choreographic creators.
NPAFE’s The Tomorrow of Dance™ (TTOD) is an ongoing international program that discovers and supports choreographic creators emerging both from inside and outside the traditional educational systems in order to translate their new works into continuing audience growth for ballet and contemporary dance.
Merce Conningham handwritten notations
Working in partnership with HarrisonParrott and HarrisonParrott Dance whose worldwide international work encompasses leading artists, orchestras, choreographers and dancers, NPAFE has purpose-built TTOD to:
- Help discover tomorrow’s leaders in these fields early in their careers,
- Connect them with mentorship, professional relationships, and production opportunities, and
- Set in place a continuing pipeline of new choreographic voices whose works will appeal to existing and especially new audiences.
TTOD leverages NPAFE’s ten-year record of identifying and supporting dancers and choreographers, ranging from artists at the beginning of their professional development to established creators and companies including Sidra Bell and Paul Taylor Dance Company.
It tracks which kinds of help can actually make a difference in a choreographer’s career, especially mentorship, creative opportunities, professional access, and audience exposure that can best contribute to an artist’s successful development.
NPAFE may eventually establish a separate Public Benefit Corporation to attract financial support for choreographers’ productions, commissions, touring, filmed and digital works, and other opportunities to reach even larger live and streaming audiences.
Why Do This? Increasingly less philanthropic funding is available for growing the audience for ballet and contemporary dance since many foundations have broadened or redirected their priorities toward education, social justice, the environment, community well-being, economic development and other needs.
TTOD intentionally addresses this reality by targeting corporate sponsorship as an important source of significant financial support, doing so by creating opportunities that advance choreographers while responding to corporate sponsor expectations: enhanced brand reputation and growing audience engagement more by digital reach than by live performance.
How We’ve Launched. TTOD is operating as a charitable program within NPAFE, the latter based in Washington, DC with relationships and activities formed over 11 years and extending across the United States, United Kingdom and Europe. NPAFE’s mission has been and remains identifying promising creators in ballet and contemporary dance, engaging experienced artists and industry professionals in their development, creating opportunities for them to create new works, and establishing credible measures of their career progress.
Discovery. TTOD is tracking which kinds of help actually can make a difference in a choreographer’s career, especially what kinds of mentorship, creative opportunities, professional access, and audience exposure can best contribute to an artist’s successful development, and then using those results to strengthen and expand the system for supporting future choreographic creators.