Studio at 550

Thank you for your interest in supporting Eventual Dance Company! EDC, directed by Caitlin Canty, is raising funds to support producing our very first in-person evening-length show this June. Help us raise $5,000 by Valentine's Day!

All funds received will go directly toward equitable pay for rehearsal hours and performance fees for a cast of 7 dancers and 3 musicians as we prepare for our very first in-person evening-length show this June. Our show will feature two dances: a solo danced by Leila Magnolia Smith featuring a very sparkly disco-mirrored hula hoop, and an ensemble piece set to original music performed by a live band.

In solidarity with artist-activists in Boston such as Victoria Awkward of VLA Dance, MIDDAY Movement Series, Jenna Pollack and Projects, Detritus Dance, and others, Eventual Dance Company is committed to financial transparency. This means sharing the budget and financial information with all company members, audience, and funders, with the end goal of increasing financial support and pay equity in the arts. Please see this spreadsheet of our projected expenses.

In reality, to achieve what I would deem equitable pay for all the artists ($20 / hour for rehearsal hours, and a $200 performance fee per show), we need closer to $17,000 total. Even this feels embarrassingly low, given the current cost of living in the Boston area and the skill level of the performers. I chose $5,000 as a reasonable starting point given that this is our very first fundraiser, but any contribution above or beyond this amount will go a long way.

Because of our fiscal sponsorship with Studio@550, all donations are tax-deductible.

Thank you for donating and sharing with your networks. See you at the show!

Fundraiser photograph by Kristen Semedo.

Give to Midday Movement Series and help us FLOURISH! Donate now and get us to our goal of raising $7500 by Sunday Dec 19th.

Note: funds donated to this campaign are being collected by our fiscal sponsor, Studio@550. Rest assured your donations are going to MIDDAY!

PURPOSE

Midday Movement Series ("MIDDAY") is a grassroots initiative creating a shift in Greater Boston's artistic and cultural identity by cultivating a new generation of dance leaders. Since 2015, MIDDAY has been doing big work to impact Boston's dance ecosystem by using principles of eco-conservation, including interconnectivity, ingenuity, and more. We center emerging dance teachers as "keystone artists" in our sector's landscape, creating far-reaching, long-lasting, and cumulative change as they flourish in their own unique journeys.

PRESENT

Right now, MIDDAY offers:

...and we have even more planned for 2022!

FUTURE

Next year, we'll unveil our community-developed resource, Decentering Whiteness in Contemporary Dance Pedagogy (supported by the Cambridge Arts Council and Cambridge Community Foundation), but we also have a bounty of other (currently unfunded) projects we are ready to get started...but we need your help to make them a reality!

Here's a peek at some of our goals for next year:

ACTION

We've honed and deepened our work over the past two years despite the continued upheavals from COVID-19 and systemic racism. If these pandemics have taught us anything, it's that we ALL need to pitch in to make a better world, and we at the grassroots level are more powerful than we know, especially when we work collectively. We Need You!

Please give as generously as you can: the more we raise now, the more we can focus on our work and on you, our community, in the year ahead! Once you've donated, share this campaign with friends and on social media so we can get the word out even more.

Thank you. We can't wait to engage and thrive with y'all in 2022!