Washington, DC Office, National Headquarters
Dance/USA
1111 16th St. NW, Ste. 300
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202)833-1717; Fax: (202)833- 2686
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Andrea Snyder, Executive Director
Andrea joined Dance/USA as president and executive director in February 2000. She came to Dance/USA after having served as director of The Pew Charitable Trusts’ grant program, the National Initiative to Preserve America’s Dance (NIPAD) from 1993 to 2000, and as assistant director of the National Endowment for the Arts Dance Program from 1987 to 1993. Previously, she was a booking agent for Sheldon Soffer Management, where she was instrumental in adding Ballet Rambert, Pilar Rioja and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company to the artists’ roster. She served as executive director of Laura Dean Dancers and Musicians; administrator of the New York University Tisch School of the Arts Dance Department under the leadership of Stuart Hodes and Larry Rhodes; associate administrator for the Cunningham Dance Foundation, where she was responsible for the annual solicitation campaign as well as domestic booking; and assistant to Director Muriel Topaz of the Dance Notation Bureau. Andrea has served on grant panels for state arts councils in Maryland, North Carolina and Rhode Island, as well as for Arts International, the Capezio/Ballet Makers Dance Foundation and the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. She is an officer of the board for the American Arts Alliance, the national advocacy organization for the performing arts, and she remains a member of the 2005 inaugural Dance Magazine Board of Advisors. Since 1995, she has been moderator of The John F. Kennedy Center’s contemporary dance post-performance artist/audience discussions. In 2001, she received the Congress on Research in Dance Award for outstanding service to dance research. She has been a dancer and technique teacher, and adjunct professor in arts administration at The American University. She has a Bachelor of Science degree from The American University and a Master’s degree in Arts Management from NYU, and recently became a graduate of the James P. Shannon Leadership Institute.
email: asnyder@danceusa.org
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Katherine S. Fabian, Membership Manager
Katherine joined the Dance/USA staff in August 2007. Most recently, she served as the Sales & Marketing Intern at Americans for the Arts where she worked with the membership staff on updating their database and the communications staff to make plans for the 2007 National Arts & Humanities Month. Originally from South Florida, Katherine graduated summa cum laude from the University of South Florida in Tampa with a B.A. in dance studies and a minor in mass communications. Currently, she is in the Arts Management graduate program at The American University and serves as the graduate assistant for their Theatre Program. She plans to graduate in 2008.
email: Kfabian@danceusa.org
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Amy Fitterer, Director of Government Affairs
Prior to joining the Dance/USA staff, Amy served as the president of Student Advocates for the Arts, a national club committed to engaging students in cultural policy and lobbying. She has lobbied on the city, state and national level to increase government support for the arts and arts education and has motivated students throughout the country to participate in local advocacy efforts. Amy has held government affairs internships with The Center for Arts Education in New York and Americans for the Arts in Washington DC and has conducted research on the best practices and models for dancer career transition at the Research Center for Arts and Culture at Columbia University. From 2001 to 2006, Amy danced professionally with Peninsula Ballet Theatre in the San Francisco Bay Area while also serving as director of Lisa Spector’s Music School in Half Moon Bay, CA. Amy received her ballet training from the Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts in Connecticut. She holds a B.S. in piano performance from Indiana University and an M.A. in arts administration from Teachers College, Columbia University.
email: afitterer@danceusa.org
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Vicki Kimble, Director of Development
Vicki came to Dance/USA in October 2006 from Washington Performing Arts Society (WPAS) where she held the position of Director of Development. Ms. Kimble has 26 years experience in nonprofit management and fundraising. In her 16 years as Director of Development for WPAS, she worked with staff and management to develop artistic programs, educational initiatives, and fundraising strategies. Ms. Kimble is responsible for implementing a comprehensive fundraising campaign to raise $4 million for the annual fund and to secure the long-term financial stability of WPAS. Since 1990, contributed income increased from $1.7 million $3.9 million.
Prior to becoming Director of Development, Ms. Kimble directed WPAS’s corporate campaign, worked with the Dance Program Manager, and administered the Handel Festival Orchestra’s management contract. She holds a B.S. in political science from The American University and an M.P.A. from the University of Arkansas.
email: vkimble@danceusa.org
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John Munger, Director of Research and Information
John formally joined Dance/USA’s staff in 1996 after serving as a project consultant to the organization for many years. He has overseen the evolution of Dance/USA’s research department from a modest internal members’ survey to its present status as the primary national source for quantified information about professional dance. Prior to his years as an independent consultant providing financial planning and management services for arts organizations, John served as Business Manager and CFO of the Saint Paul United Arts Council, Associate Director and Financial Manager of the Minnesota Dance Alliance, and General Manager of the Nancy Hauser Dance Company and School. He has also served as a panelist for numerous local, state and national arts agencies. He has been an active artist in the field since the early 1970s, when he studied and performed extensively with former Horton company member Norman Cornick and with legendary modern dance pioneer Hanya Holm. He teaches Modern technique for Zenon Dance Company, choreographs and performs with his own Third Rabbit Dance Ensemble, and appears with Continental Ballet of Bloomington, MN, in character roles such as Drosselmeyer, Doctor Coppelius, and the Wicked Stepmother in “Cinderella.”
John can be reached in Minnesota at: 1451 Holton Street,
St. Paul, MN 55108; Phone: (651)-646-8076;
Fax: (651)646-7971
email: jrmdance@aol.com
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Director of Communications
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Monica Reid, Administration Manager & Development Associate
Monica joined Dance/USA in March 2004 after interning with the organization. A student of The Ailey School in 2002, and the Dance Institute of Washington in 2004, Monica enjoys learning from rigorous schools of dance. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science, with a minor in Dance, from Arizona State University and is currently completing a Masters degree in Arts Management from The American University.
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Tom Thielen, Director of Finance & Operations
Tom joined Dance/USA in December 2006 bringing more than 20 years of experience in the dance service industry and presenting field. He oversees budgeting and financial management for the organization and its branch offices, and provides general management over daily operations. He is formerly Executive Director of Florida Dance Association where he also programmed and produced the annual Florida Dance Festival. He has served as a grants panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, National Performance Network, Southern Arts Federation, Florida’s Division of Cultural Affairs, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the City of Miami Beach. He has been a consultant to the Louisiana Arts Council, Philadelphia Dance Alliance and other Florida nonprofit organizations. His experience with Dance/USA prior to joining the staff included serving on the Board of Trustees (2000-2005), as Service Organization Council Chair (2004, 2005) and as a member of the National Roundtable Planning Committee (2002, 2006) and Constituency Committee (2005-2006).
email: tthielen@danceusa.org
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Leslie Zucker, Director of Programming
Since 1999, she served as co-founder and vice-president of an international consulting firm specializing in training, technology and change management of microfinance institutions. In her role as a training consultant and director of an Inter-American Development Bank project aimed at combining modern distance learning technologies with best practices for staff training, she has worked in Latin America, Asia, Africa and Europe. Locally, she has worked as a human resource consultant to the Atlas Performing Arts Center in Washington, DC, and volunteers as a coordinator of the annual Washington DC improv festival and regional contact improv event. Ms. Zucker earned a bachelor of arts in Spanish from Northern Arizona University and a master of science in International and Intercultural Management from the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont. In her spare time, she practices ballet, modern, latin, ballroom, contact improv and 5 rhythms.
email: lzucker@danceusa.org
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Michelle Burkhart, Acting Director, Dance/NYC
MICHELLE N. BURKHART, Esq. was appointed Interim Director for Dance/NYC in October 2007 where she has worked in the capacity of Development Officer since 2006. Prior to Dance/NYC, Michelle worked with Complexions Contemporary Ballet where she held the position of Executive Director. Prior to becoming Executive Director, she worked as Administrative Director for Ballet Hispanico. Ms. Burkhart has over 10 years experience in non profit management, 6 years in for profit corporations, and a 12 year career as a professional dancer. Additionally, Michelle is an adjunct professor at New York University where she teaches various courses in the Arts Administration Graduate Program and has designed curriculum for the program. She has served as a non profit business consultant/advisor for various organizations across the country. She was named a Tenenbaum Leadership Institute Fellow at New School University in 2008. She holds a B.S. in Organizational Behavior from University of San Francisco as well as a J.D. with specialization in sports and entertainment law from Golden Gate University.
email: mburkhart@dancenyc.org
Dance/NYC can be reached in New York at 63 Greene Street, #605,
New York, NY 10012;
Phone: 212/966-4452;
Fax: 212/966-6424
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Lacy Althouse, Administrator/Development Associate
emai: lalthouse@dancenyc.org |
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Stephanie Wong, Interim Director, Dance/MetroDC
email:swong@dancemetrodc.org
Dance/MetroDC can be reached in Washington, DC at 1111 16th St. NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20036; Phone: 202/778-1190; Fax: 202/833-2686 |
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Roxanne Morgan-Rowley, Project Assistant, Dance/MetroDC
email: rmrowley@dancemetrodc.org
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Lois Welk, Director, Dance/USA Philadelphia
Lois became executive director, of Dance/Philadelphia in March 2007. She was inspired to study Modern Dance following a performance by dance legend Daniel Nagrin in her hometown of Buffalo, NY in 1970. She earned her Bachelors of Arts degree in Dance at State University College at Brockport, NY where Richard Bull was her mentor. Ms. Welk was a member of The Workgroup, an improvisational company directed by Daniel Nagrin.
In 1972, she founded the American Dance Asylum Inc. (ADA), a producing and service organization for the performing arts. From 1973-1979, she co-directed the ADA (then based in Binghamton, NY) with Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane. For more than 25 years the ADA has produced Welk’s artistic projects, among them The Parking Ramp Dances, The Train Station Dance, The Carousel Dance, The Hiawatha Island Dance and most recently Moving the Music. She has been a member of the dance faculty at 171 Cedar Arts Center (Corning, NY), Alfred University (Alfred, NY) and has taught for various arts-in-education programs across New York State. Her work as Executive Director of 171 Cedar Arts Center in Corning, NY (1988-2002) earned her a New York State Governor’s Arts Award in 1998. At 171 Cedar Arts Center, Welk developed a nationally recognized presenting program that included concert dance, artists’ residencies, a jazz series, family programming and a world folk music festival. Program growth warranted a capital campaign and expansion project that more than doubled program space adding a 170-seat black box performance space, exhibition space and two additional dance studios. From 2003-2006, Ms. Welk served as Artistic Director of The Yard Inc., a performing artists’ colony on Martha’s Vineyard. In January 2005, Ms. Welk was appointed the Director of the New York State DanceForce, a network of organizations and individuals working to increase the quality and quantity of dance in New York. As Director, Ms. Welk brought leadership to the re-structuring of the organization and expanded the reach of the programs.
Lois can be reached in Philadelphia at 32 North Front,
Philadelphia, PA 19106;
Phone: 215-922-5970 or 607-329-0467
email: loiswelk@danceusaphiladelphia.org |
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Suzanne Callahan, Project Manager, American Masterpieces: Dance - College Component
Phone: (202)955-8325;
Fax: (202)833-2686
email: callacon@aol.com |
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