Operating Support
Operating Support
Katha Dance Theatre creates, performs, and educates through the arts of dance, music, poetry, and storytelling.
Peggy Burnet: entrepreneur, art collector, and community volunteer; Uri Camarena: director of business consulting with Metroplitan Economic Development Association (MEDA); Michael Charron: arts educator and an arts and civic leader; Richard Cohen: attorney in private practice and a former state legislator; Sean Dowse: arts advocate, arts practitioner, and civic leader; Anthony Gardner, vice president, marketing and communications at CentraCare; Philip McKenzie: team lead with Boutique Air, founder and owner of Bluedoor 74, adjunct college faculty; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; Dobson West: retired attorney; Christina Widdess: nonprofit consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre
Peggy Burnet: entrepreneur, art collector, and community volunteer; Uri Camarena: director of business consulting with Metroplitan Economic Development Association (MEDA); Michael Charron: arts educator and an arts and civic leader; Richard Cohen: attorney in private practice and a former state legislator; Sean Dowse: arts advocate, arts practitioner, and civic leader; Anthony Gardner, vice president, marketing and communications at CentraCare; Philip McKenzie: team lead with Boutique Air, founder and owner of Bluedoor 74, adjunct college faculty; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; Dobson West: retired attorney; Christina Widdess: nonprofit consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre
ACHF Arts Access
A diverse audience of Minnesotans will learn and grow by experiencing Asian Indian art and culture through an ancient and expressive form of dance (Kathak). KDT will: Produce cross-cultural dance programming, outreach and residencies (virtual and/or live), Survey participants to understand their experiences, and Document feedback in post-show discussions, online, through email, website and social media 2: KDT will increase its capacity to bridge diverse cultures and enhance the Minnesota community through the Kathak arts of dance, music, poetry and storytelling. KDT will:* Redesign our website and make it more user-friendly for virtual performances/classes * Bring our studio ventilatioir-filtering system up to post-Covid standards* Train next generation of professional Kathak dancers and choreographers.
In addition to our virtual showcase series and continued hybrid classes, we created a successful pandemic-era live show that brought in new audiences. We collected comments/messages about our virtual showcases, looked at quantitative (student numbers) and qualitative (survey) responses to our hybrid classes, and distributed a post-show survey for our pandemic-era show 'Shaamya - Of Equality.'. 2: Our improved air-filtering system in our studio and revitalized tech have enabled us to resume in-person teaching and 100% hybrid learning options. The above-mentioned technologies have both helped us increase our capacity to reach more students. These improvements have helped us recognize further changes to make as we develop goals for a website redesign.
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