Zaccho Dance Theatre
For General Operating Support
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Amount$145,000
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Program
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Date Awarded10/21/2020
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Term36 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
Zaccho Dance Theatre is dedicated to teaching and performing aerial dance. Zaccho’s theatrical productions are often site-specific and based in the African American experience. The organization offers 40 performances and the presentation of the San Francisco Aerial Dance Festival for more than 18,000 audience members each year. It also offers youth programs and mixed-age classes that serve 90 students through 27 distinct classes and workshops. This grant to Zaccho Dance Theatre supports the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.zaccho.org
Address
1777 Yosemite Avenue, Studio 330, San Francisco, CA, 94124-2688, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
Zaccho Dance Theatre creates and presents work that explores and offers new perspectives on the relationship of dance to place. Reaching almost 12,000 people at primarily free performances, Zaccho specializes in aerial choreography and site specific work of multiple scales, for which it is nationally recognized. Deeply rooted in its community of Bayview Hunters Point, a low-income diverse neighborhood that has been rife with crime, the organization provides a Youth Performing Arts program for the youth of Bayview, offering free or low-cost weekly classes to 100-150 at-risk youth annually, and Zaccho Youth Company, a pre-professional dance company made up of middle and high school students. Supplemental funding will provide additional funds to enhance administrative leadership for the remainder of the general operating grant period.
for the QR code pilot project
Zaccho Dance Theatre creates and presents work that explores and offers new perspectives on the relationship of dance to place. Reaching almost 12,000 people at primarily free performances, Zaccho specializes in aerial choreography and site specific work of multiple scales, for which it is nationally recognized. Deeply rooted in its community of Bayview Hunters Point, a low-income diverse neighborhood that has been rife with crime, the organization provides a Youth Performing Arts program for the youth of Bayview, offering free or low-cost weekly classes to 100-150 at-risk youth annually, and Zaccho Youth Company, a pre-professional dance company made up of middle and high school students. Support for a data tool to capture audience information at a series of free performances in September 2012 will enable the organization to develop methods for audience development on an ongoing basis.
for general operating support
Zaccho Dance Theatre specializes in aerial choreography and site-specific work that reaches nearly 12,000 people annually. Zaccho explores the history, character, and context of each performance site, often involving local communities in the creative process. Rooted in its low-income community of Bayview Hunters Point, the organization provides a Youth Performing Arts program with free or low-cost weekly classes to at-risk teens and a pre-professional dance company.
