Operating Support
Operating Support
Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater's mission is to: 1)?Create, produce, and present public performances of new works and repertory by artistic codirectors Stuart Pimsler and Suzanne Costello, 2)?Provide opportunities for arts participation through SPDT's Community Connections programs, including Arts and Education, Arts and Health, and other Community Inclusive projects, 3)?Promote and strengthen the understanding of dance/theater through a variety of presentations and audience-performer dialogues.
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
Audiences in the Twin Cities and throughout Minnesota will experience original new work and repertory created, produced, and presented by SPDT. This outcome will be evaluated through numbers of performances, sizes of audiences (both real and virtual), and responses from audiences, which will be assessed through SPDT's audience-performer dialogues, audience surveys, and presenter feedback. 2: A broad range of Minnesotans will be impacted through SPDT's Community Inclusive, Arts and Education, and Arts and Health projects. Impacts will be measured using in-person, hard copy, and electronic feedback from community activities participants as well as responses from the company's presenter partners. SPDT will utilize these evaluations in planning future activities.
Although we had hoped for the return of in-person performances for the 2021/22 season, they remained in suspension due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We were able to reach Minnesota audiences through a variety of community activities, primarily movement workshops for caregivers (see next Outcome) as well as Stuart Pimsler's newly-published book, The Choreography of Care. 2: Despite the pandemic, SPDT was able to offer live and virtual activities to communities in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Minnetonka, Stillwater, and Rochester. SPDT utilized electronic and hard copy participant feedback as well as responses from presenter partners to measure impacts of its community activities. 'Thank you so much for providing this opportunity to our community!'--Minneapolis Participant.
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