Operating Support
ACHF Arts Access
To maintain a full-time, artistically excellent dance company; to serve as an incubator for top-level choreography; to tour throughout Minnesota. Critical reviews; choreographer feedback; dancer feedback; audience surveys; website and emailed surveys; student questionnaires; independent evaluation. 2: Zenon will expand our work with the adult Twin Cities deaf and hard of hearing community through targeted audience development initiatives. Focus groups; informal feedback; website surveys; and emailed surveys. We will also be reprising the Zenon Ambassadors program, through which deaf and hard of hearing adults assist us in determining strategies and outcomes.
Zenon premiered works by Minnesota choreographers Wynn Fricke and Chris Schlichting, collaborated with Mila Vocal Ensemble, and toured across Greater Minnesota. All evaluation methods proposed were used. Critical reviews and audience surveys of Zenon's Twin Cities season and the new work were excellent. Audiences were larger than anticipated despite being a non-anniversary year. 2: Zenon extended its Deaf Dance Ambassador program for the deaf/hard of hearing community and hosted previews and receptions during our season. New partnerships and outcomes were evaluated as proposed. Many partnerships will be evolving into new initiatives in FY 2016. Audience growth is slow but steady a notable achievement when working with this population.
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