2013-14ANNUAL REPORT

ANNUAL REPORT

Chair’s Message ................................................... 4Message from the Co-Directors ......................... 5Propeller Dance Company ................................... 7Dancer’s Report .................................................... 10Dance Training ...................................................... 11Education & Outreach .......................................... 13Publicity ................................................................. 15Financial Report ................................................... 16The People ............................................................ 18

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Photo by Alvin Sim

Company dancer Sylvain Bouchard, warming up on Southam Hall Stage

Cover Photo: Out of the Box co-choreographed by Jessie Huggett and

Renata Soutter, dancers: AJ Tyson, Amelia Griffin, Heather Croisier, Ada

Tsang, Jessie Huggett, photo by: Alvin Sim

TRAINING

• Children’s

program

• Youth

and Adult

ProgramsEDUCATION

& OUTREACH

• School performances

and workshops

• Public engagement

• Mentoring

of teachers,

dancers, emerging

choreographers

• Collaborations with

community groups

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PROFESSIONAL

COMPANY

• Creation

• Performances

• Touring

• Professional

development

When you bring out the best in people beautiful things can happen.

The world changes as our perceptions change.

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Photo by Rachel Gray

Photo by Alvin Sim

CHAIR’S MESSAGE

Although I am just now completing my first year as Board Chair, I am a long-serving mem-ber of the Board of Directors. While, previously, I spent a career managing cultural programs and working with cultural agencies, Propeller has been my first direct in-volvement with a dance organization. I have enjoyed it im-mensely!

As Propeller’s artis-tic development has flourished through dance intensives with guest chore-ographers from oth-er countries, our emerging chore-ographers initiative and interdisciplinary projects, our leader-ship role in integrat-ed dance has been increasingly recog-

nized by the dance community and arts agencies. This past year, the full Dance Company has gone on tour to such far-flung outposts as Kitchener and To-ronto – each a logis-tic tour-de-force! As well, Propeller was asked to perform for a meeting of Dance Presenters from across Canada. Pro-peller has continued to expand its net-work: provincially, nationally and on the international level.

It is not surpris-ing that this artistic growth has contrib-uted to the effec-tiveness of our com-munity impact as expressed through our extensive pro-gram of educational performances and workshops, our rec-reational classes

for all ages, and our conference presen-tations.

As we look ahead we will strive, as always, to augment our fi-nancial base through grants, donations and sponsorships. Another key chal-lenge, not unfamiliar to not-for-profit cul-tural organizations with successful pro-grams, is to continue to build the adminis-trative systems and supports to sustain all of this activity. I look forward to an-other exciting year of accomplishment in the field of inte-grated dance.

Bob BowesChair of the Board of Directors

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MESSAGE FROM THE

CO-DIRECTORS Preparing an annu-al report is always a great way to reflect upon the past year and celebrate its successes. In 2013-2014 there was much to be proud of. Four projects in par-ticular marked new territory for the com-pany.

Our Emerging Cho-reographer’s Pro-gram is for emerging choreographers with disability – a rarity in Canada! Three art-ists were given the time, space, danc-ers and mentorship to create their dance works. It is so excit-

ing for us to support the development of new voices and new aesthetics in this way.

For the first time we were able to in-vite internation-al guest artists to create work on the company: Tara Brandel from Ire-land and Sonsherée Giles from California. Making international connections through intensive encounters is one way we can participate in this global movement of integrated dance. The exchange with our international col-

leagues keeps us inspired, and chal-lenges us into new areas.

Another major achievement was to take the entire pro-fessional company on an out-of-town tour, rather than a smaller cast tailored for special invita-tions. In all we were 16 people, includ-ing performers and support staff, who performed in Kings-ton, Kitchener and Toronto. What a feat! But we discovered it was possible, and we hope to do it again.

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Shara Weaver and Renata Soutter

Our children’s show at the Aviation and Space Museum in June was another big highlight of the year. This event al-lowed us to show-case the many ways Propeller celebrates diversity. We were honoured to have two artists from Ab-original Experiences and dancers from a special project we were involved in with the Ottawa In-uit Children’s Cen-tre participate in the show, as well as Leo Brooks of Treefrog Percussion who led a participatory en-trance procession to start the show.

Our season ended with a few good-byes: Judith Haney,

our administrator, returned to school and our President, David Scrimshaw, stepped down from the Board. We would like to thank them both for their dedi-cation to Propeller over the past years. We are lucky: David hasn’t gone far, he’s only shifted his en-ergies into being a dancer and giving support to our Mon-day evening Adult recreational class. We also welcome wheelchair dancer Sylvain Bouchard, who joined our pro-fessional company last fall.

This year our audi-ence numbers al-most tripled, the largest increase in

our seven-year his-tory. Our volunteer and donor base also grew. We have start-ed to think of our ac-tivities as resting on three pillars: the pro-fessional performing Company, Training, and Education & Outreach, reflected in the graphic that introduces this re-port. We have a lot to be thankful for, and this gives us energy to continue to grow and invest for the year to come.

Renata Soutter & Shara WeaverCo-Artistic and Executive Directors

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By valuing diversity and the unique con-tributions of each artist, the Propel-ler Dance Compa-ny creates artistic works that move audiences to expe-rience artists with disability as beautiful and powerful. We are known internation-ally for the powerful works we create with dancers with a broad range of disability (including those with physical, intellectual disabilities and men-tal health histories) and those without.

Creation & PerformancesIn the largest perfor-mance venue and prestigious event Propeller Dance has participated in to date, Shara Weaver and Rena-ta Soutter created a piece for the Na-tional Arts Centre’s production of the Hockey Sweater Family Adventure Concert in January. The production in-cluded the NAC Or-chestra playing live, Roch Carrier narrat-ing his famous story, and Ken Dryden as MC. The show re-ceived rave reviews,

and was sold out, attended by over 10,000 young audi-ence members. And this was our newest company dancer, Sylvain Bouchard’s first ever Propeller performance!

Tara Brandel from Ireland’s Croi Glan Integrated Dance Company spent two weeks with the com-pany in a creative residency in Octo-ber. Guest dancers Frank Hull (Toronto) and Jenn Abrams (Ottawa) joined the process, which cul-minated in a public showing of creative

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Backstage at the NAC (clockwise from top left) Renata Soutter, Roch Carrier, Ken Dryden,

Alain Trudel, Jessie Huggett, Amelia Griffin, Shara Weaver, Liz Winkelaar, Sylvain Bouchard

In rehearsal with Tara Brandel

research results. Tara also performed her solo Gawky and Awkward, which ex-plored her creative journey through dys-lexia.

Our second inter-national guest artist came at the end of our season, in June, to create a piece for young audiences. Sonsherée Giles from Axis Dance in California led the company in anoth-er 2-week creation residency. This was made possible through MASC and the US Embassy’s Diversity in Dance program, and will see us performing her piece, Dream

a Little Dream, in schools throughout the 2014-2015 sea-son.

Another import-ant creation peri-od for the company took place in March during the Emerging Choreographer’s Program, a special pilot program funded by the RBC Emerg-ing Artists Project. Through an open selection process, three artists were chosen: Liz Winke-laar and Moni Hoff-man of the compa-ny, and independent artist Frank Hull from Toronto, to create on the company with mentorship from the Co-Artistic Direc-

tors. The company performed the piec-es at 3wrx in the wrx at the Ottawa Dance Directive. There are currently no estab-lished choreogra-phers with disability working in Canada, and very few inter-nationally. Propeller Dance Company is changing that.

Touring & DevelopmentA major achieve-ment and undertak-ing of the year was the 3-city tour of the full company. In No-vember the compa-ny traveled to Kings-ton for the H’art Able Artists Festival, in February we per-formed at the Regis-

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try Theatre in Kitchen-er, and in April Toronto hosted us at the Dan-iels Spectrum Theatre during the Tangled Arts KidsFest. Reper-toire performed includ-ed Drifting Up, Ebb and Flow and What’s In a Box. With 16 peo-ple on the road, we were quite the gang. It was thrilling to have audiences outside our home community re-spond so positively to our work.

In June Propeller was invited by the Ontar-io Dances Network to present a show-case of work to pre-senters from not only across the province but also from across the country. The Cana-da Dance Festival was in full swing and many specialized dance pre-senters attended this morning showing and discussion. This could very well result in fu-ture touring opportu-nities for the Compa-ny to share its art with new audiences.

Professional developmentAlong with the new Emerging Choreogra-phers Program, Pro-peller continued to provide regular pro-fessional development

opportunities for our company members. Tara Brandel and Son-sherée Giles, both in-ternational guest art-ists, gave workshops for the company and public, while locals Pe-ter Ryan, Siôned Wat-kins and Fraser MacK-innon gave workshops on Improvisation and ballwork, Gyrokinesis and lighting design, respectively, to all of the company dancers. Continuing to expand the company’s phys-ical and performance abilities will benefit the work, and creating op-portunities to bridge integrated dance with the contemporary dance community will benefit all.

Looking aheadOur professional com-pany activities left us stimulated and thirsty for more creative op-portunities and growth. In the future, in-house choreographers Sout-ter & Weaver will cre-ate new pieces, and we hope to expand the length of Liz Win-kelaar’s creation Spas-ticus and incorporate the work into our on-going repertoire, along with look for future opportunities to work with select guest cho-reographers.

We got the touring bug, and hope to vis-it more cities with our work. In our dream of dreams, Propeller Dance Company will have a permanent home in Ottawa con-sisting of a teaching and rehearsal studio, a performance space and offices to run our operations. To do so, our donor base must grow; which it will as the impact of our work continues to prolifer-ate!

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My name is Bella Bowes and I have been a member of the Performing Group from the time Propeller Dance was formed. I like moving to the music, moving my feet a lot, doing the tango and twist-ing on the spot. I also like dressing up in costumes. I enjoy going to rehearsals and being a dancer that gets to give in-put into developing a dance and I espe-cially like working with the teensies (children).

Company dancers also work as teach-ing assistants and Bella assists at a new class for kids. I like the warm ups that we do with Siôned Watkins. Now, I help Siôned with the chil-dren’s class at the Shenkman Centre. Last week, I pre-tended to be a Hal-loween monster and I helped one of the

teensies get over her fear of being in a strange group. She climbed on my feet and we danced to-gether. It made me feel good.

Performing at the Tangled Arts Festi-val in Toronto was a highlight for me this year where we performed Ebb and Flow. I also enjoyed working on Spas-ticus with Liz Win-kelaar. I like Sylvain dancing in his chair and Rob moving around with his hat. I like banging my feet to the beat. Jes-sie and I get to drag Amelia off stage with her boots.

We used to per-form Black Fly and US when we went to the schools, now we do Dream A Little Dream. I really en-joyed working with Sonsherée Giles to develop this piece and I enjoy perform-

ing it. It is fun yelling, “Negative”, “Okay” and “We’ll see.” I can hear the music in my head. I like my dress. It is stretchy with spi-der net around my rib cage and I wear courtier gloves.

My favourite moment this year was doing a workshop with Ame-lia Griffin and Mark Rehder at the Jack Purcell Community Centre. There were lots of teensies and we pretended we were dollies. It was my Tinkerbell idea.

DANCER’S REPORT

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Arts education, and dance especially, can be a particular-ly effective way of building an inclusive society, contributing greatly to an individ-ual’s learning experi-ence and overall de-velopment. Creative integrated dance can teach learners to respect and cel-ebrate differences, it develops non-ver-bal communication skills, focus, prob-lem-solving skills, and it can improve independent deci-sion-making and discipline with re-gard to working in-dependently and

in a group. It helps people explore their views on life issues and on the human condition.

Propeller Dance of-fers recreational classes to the public on an ongoing basis. Our classes use a dance improvisation method that is open to all people. Partic-ipants use their own natural movements in exercises that emphasize indepen-dent choices. We introduce concepts such as warm ups, pathways, spacing, rhythm and move-ment phrasing.

Every class is ac-companied by live musicians and sup-ported by teaching assistants. Com-pany dancers have been mentored by the co-directors to learn the fine art of teaching or assisting in classes and con-tinue to gain exper-tise and leadership that inspire the next generation.

We know our slid-ing scale policy is appreciated and necessary. Close to 20 people with dis-ability and living on low-income received a partial scholar-

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ship so they could take Propeller Dance classes. Without this subsidy they would not be able to attend. For many students simply the cost of taking the bus to get to class makes at-tendance challeng-ing. Alleviating any additional financial stress keeps the classes truly acces-sible. Each year there have been incredi-ble impact stories of students becoming more involved, more confident, more cel-ebrated for their in-dividual talents and presence.

Children’s ProgramTwo new classes were launched in 2013 for youth and children at the Shen-kman Arts Centre in Orleans, thanks to special funding from TELUS and Green-shield Insurance

Company. The east end of Ottawa is an area that previous-ly had no integrated dance class offer-ings. New classes were launched and expert dance teach-ers Julie Anne Ryan and Amelia Griffin took the reins.

As mentioned, Pro-peller Avenue, the Children’s Program show in June was a wonderful success. Taking place in the Canadian Aviation and Space Museum Theatre, the show was a feast of di-verse dance by chil-dren and adults, in-cluding a procession directed by Treefrog Percussion, and guest artists Aborig-inal Experiences, as well as a ‘first time in theatre’ performance of the What’s in a Box Youth Commission from Dusk Dances.

The theatre had a rousing audience of close to 200 people in attendance.

Recreational adult and senior classesRecreational pro-gramming expanded across town and to broader age groups. Adding to the two regular adult class-es Monday nights in Vanier and Wednes-day nights in Cen-tertown we started a class for the 55+ age group at Ab-botsford House in the Glebe thanks to a grant from HRS-DC’s New Horizons program. Led by Liz Winkelaar and Ame-lia Griffin, Monday mornings became a lively place for gath-ering and expressing through dance. The group grew together so quickly that they performed in our end of year production

to much success. A reincarnation of this class continues now on Wednesday mornings taught by Renata and Liz.

Our adult recreation-al production Egress My Love at the end of May at the Avia-tion and Space Mu-seum theatre was close to sold out and received excellent feedback. Choreog-raphies directed by Renata, Shara, Ame-lia, and Liz, in full collaboration with the performers set to original commis-sioned music, video by Alexis Zeville and dashes of costume flair brought the au-dience to their feet. The show was fol-lowed by a recep-tion enjoyed by all. Another rousing year of dance for so many dedicated and tal-ented artists.

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Integrated dance teaching and expo-sure in schools can be extremely effec-tive in improving inclusion, with the close work between participants with dif-ferent abilities help-ing children to build relationships, im-prove understand-ing and increase the confidence, self esteem and learn-ing ability of children with and without disability. In Ontario schools, there is an increased demand for education specif-ic to special needs children and inclu-sive practices. Yet arts education has taken a back seat to other areas such as math and sci-

ence, even though it has been solidified as one of the four core components of Ontario’s manda-tory curriculum for grades 1 through 9.

Propeller Dance seeks to fill this gap by providing edu-cation and outreach activities to targeted communities.

School Perfor-mances and Work-shopsThe Propeller Dance Company performed seventeen shows in twelve schools in 2013-14, of which nine were for disad-vantaged schools, and conducted fif-teen workshops. All schools received

our Propeller Dance study guide giving teachers pre-show and post-show fol-low-up learning ac-tivities to do with their classes. Post-show interactive dance learning along with Q&A discussion followed each show; the dancers have improved their pub-lic speaking skills and shine as lead-ers. Our Workshops are wheels on, feet on and taught by a co-director and two company members in a co-teaching model, and accom-panied by a live pro-fessional musician.

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Propeller Company in school performance, photo by Erika Ferrarin

New schools visited included the Adult Learning Program, Philemon Wright High School in Hull for their West Que-bec Special Olym-pics event, and new schools in Barrhav-en: Chapman Mills and Mother Teresa High. Our perfor-mance at the Adult High School was at-tended by 500 mostly new Canadians and students with devel-opment disability. We had a rave return to Connaught, Centen-nial and Arch Street Public Schools. We were given our first school residency at Connaught Public School in April.

Through our school performances and workshops we have reached over 2,000 students.

Ottawa Inuit Children’s CentreA collaboration with the Ottawa Inu-it Children’s Centre became a year-long project, bridging dance and storytell-ing, with a Propeller teaching team of four artists involved, led by Renata, delivering a weekly after-school program dance class that evolved into a beautiful perfor-mance during the Propeller children’s end of year show at the Aviation and Space Museum the-atre on Sunday, June 8th. Building on its success, plans are in

the works to contin-ue a new collabora-tive project in 2015-2016.

Lectures and work-shops Arts Ottawa East Arts Council organized a Human Library during Nuit Blanche Ottawa at BlueBird Coffee House, Sep-tember 22, 2013. Propeller Dance art-ists Liz Winkelaar and Rob Chartier participated.

Outreach work-shops were given at Gloucester Asso-ciation for Children with Special Needs; South East Ottawa Community Health and Resource Cen-tre; two workshops for people living with mental illness at the Royal Ottawa Place; Rock, Rattle & Roll Camp at Jack Purcell Community

Centre; Camp Inspi-ration. We also had a special focus on outreach to children and families in Orle-ans to promote our new east end chil-dren’s program with workshops at Orle-ans Wood and Maple Ridge school.

Jessie Huggett gave a workshop at Able Artists Fes-tival in Kingston, and while on tour company members gave a workshop in Kitchener-Waterloo to Carousel Dance Centre’s EveryBODY dance program.

This year past, we have also increased the amount of pub-lic speaking work we have done and realize the incredi-ble potential that our work has to change people’s perceptions through dance and also through talks to our audiences. Also, there is a great amount of education and advocacy work that needs to be done to allow spe-cifically our dance peers to understand our work and value it as legitimate profes-sional contemporary dance work.

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Finale of Ottawa Inuit Children’s Centre project, Photo by Alvin SIm

Propeller in the NewsOctober 2013: Sean Zio’s blog “Push and Push Back: The Engaging Dance of Ottawa’s Propel-ler Dance”, reviews the work-in-prog-ress piece choreo-graphed by guest Tara Brandel. http://gumshoeblog.org/gum-shoe-home/2013/12/11/push-and-push-back-the-engaging-dance-of-otta-was-propeller-dance-com-pany

December 5, 2013: Megan Lalonde ar-ticle for the Orléans Star, “Propelling the disabled with dance”, profiles the children’s program and its ex-pansion into the East End. http://www.orleans-star.ca/Arts/2013-12-05/article-3531104/Propelling-the-disabled-with-dance/1

January 2014: Ju-lie Ireton’s article for The Glebe Report, “Dance and yoga at Abbotsford”, features Propeller Dance’s se-niors class launched in Fall 2014. http://www.glebereport.ca/2014/01/ex-cercise-and-movement/

February 2014: An-other article, “Yoga and Dance at Ab-botsford”, (no byline), on the same program appeared in Old Ot-tawa South’s monthly OSCAR. http://www.old-ottawasouth.ca/documents/oscar/2014/2014-02-Febru-ary.pdf

February 28, 2014: Two bloggers share their impressions of Propeller Dance’s performance at The Registry Theatre in Kitchener online. h t t p : / / g r a n d s o c i a l . c a /blogs/5310a866ccf570d-c421f87f7

March 21, 2014: Liz Winkelaar was inter-viewed by Alan Neal of “All in a Day” on CBC Radio to dis-cuss her piece pre-sented by Propeller at Ottawa Dance Di-rective to sold-out audiences as part of Propeller Dance ‘s Emerging Choreogra-phers Program. http://www.cbc.ca/allinaday/mu-sic-playlists/2014/03/21/fri-days-show---links-info-mu-sic-20/

Summer 2014: An online review of the company’s show Aqueous by Mer-cedes Deziel-Hupé was chosen to be in-cluded in The Dance

Current’s July/August 2014 photo essay, Pictures from an Ex-hibition: A Season in Reviews. The Dance Current also featured an online video de-picting excerpts of Drifting Up (one of four pieces in the Aqueous show) cho-reographed by Rena-ta Soutter. http://www.thedancecurrent.com/video/propeller-dance-drifting)

Social Media ActivityPropeller Dance sent 15 messag-es via MailChimp to subscribers of its electronic mailing list. Some messag-es were updates on classes, shows and other events in the Propeller world. Oth-ers were appeals for donations or input on Propeller’s website.

Propeller Dance posts to Facebook once a week, on av-erage. Its Facebook page has 499 likes, up from 300 at the beginning of the year.

Propeller Dance’s blog has three con-tributors with five posts over the past year.

PUBLICITY

PUBLICITY

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Each year our rev-enues have grown, and each year, much to our amazement, the growth exceeds the year previous. This year was the largest boost to our revenues yet, with a jump of just above 31%. We continue to run a healthy sur-plus, which will be

used to build orga-nizational capaci-ty to bring us to the next step of growth. Our goal for the year ahead is to stabilise rather than grow, and work towards great-er administrative capacity after years and years of artistic growth.

Revenue grew mostly through an increase in support from the private sector as well as a doubling of our public sector rev-enue. We received support from VLN Advanced Technolo-gies and the gener-osity of its president Dr. Mohan Vijay, from Telus, Greenshield Insurance, and the Royal Bank of Can-ada.

Earned revenue was up due to profes-sional fees from the sale of performanc-es while on tour. Two successful recitals for our adult and children’s recreation-al program brought in ticket revenue as well as The Propel-ler Dance Company giving more profes-sional performances in schools. More stu-dents in classes and pay-for-service per-

formance and work-shop fees continue to be a significant revenue generator for the organization.

On the expense side, touring expens-es went up with the addition of travel to out-of-town the-atres. A part-time administrator and our one-day a week bookkeeper were contracted, expert Liz Babiak continues to do our communi-cations and design, and three dance partner specialists assist in classes to make them safe and effective learning environments. Fund-raising expertise and grant writing assis-tance came from Elizabeth MacKin-non and Mena Gain-paulsingh.

In 2013-2014, Pro-peller Dance re-

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Thanks to supporters from RBC, Andrew

Arnott VP and Sue-Ellen Holst RBC

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ceived grants from the Ontario Trillium Foundation, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, City of Ottawa, Hu-man Resources and Skills Development Canada - New Hori-zons for Seniors Pro-gram, Greenshield Insurance Compa-ny, Harold Crabtree Foundation, Com-munity Foundation of Ottawa, Telus, Anon-ymous Foundation, Royal Bank of Cana-da.

In-kind support came from Orleans Young Players, MASC, 4 Office Automation, Bridgehead Coffee and Connaught Pub-lic School.

We received funding in order to:• Develop, main-

tain and grow the artistic quality of the company and maintain dance training programs for children, youth and adults;

• Launch a new rec-reational dance training program for seniors;

• Produce the works of the emerging choreographers project for artists with disability: a first in Canada;

• Tour the company for the first time;

• Build the capac-ity of the Propel-ler Dance organi-zation, including developing its financial and ad-ministrative ca-pacity;

• Bring works to young audienc-es in schools and theatres across the province and provide dance workshops for schools;

• Provide subsidies to students in fi-nancial need so no one is turned away from partic-ipation;

• Provide mentor-ship to dancers with disability to work as teachers and teaching as-sistants;

• Expand the youth and children’s rec-reational program to the east end of Ottawa with the addition of four new ongoing classes;

• Recruit a lead teacher for a new children’s program in the east end of Ottawa.

EXPENDITURESArtistic Fees $122,841

Management and Administration $99,825

Programming Expenses $29,154

Production $14,406

Facility Operating Expenses $10,918

Marketing $6,867

Fundraising and Development $6,093

HST Expense $5,903

Total Expenses $296,007

INCOMEEarned Revenue $57,123

Donations, Foundations, Corporate Grants $104,344

Government Grants $204,620

Other $427

Total Revenue $366,514

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The Company on tour

BOARDBob Bowes (Chair), William Graham, Caitlin Crockard, Monica Song

Founders: Alain Shain, Shara Weaver, Renata Soutter

COMPANY STAFFCo-Artistic/Executive Directors: Renata Soutter and Shara Weaver

Administrator: Judith Haney

Company Dancers: Sylvain Bouchard, Bella Bowes, Robert Chartier, Amelia Griffin, Moni Hoffman,

Jessie Huggett, Liz Winkelaar (representative to the Board of Directors)

OCCASIONAL STAFF (PRODUCTION)Guest Dancers: Kirsten Andersen, Julie Anne Ryan, Steve Wint, Frank Hull (Toronto), Jenn Abrams (Ottawa), Rhonda Doxtator and Theland Kicknosway of Aboriginal Experiences

Guest Choreographers: Tara Brandel, Sonsherée Giles, Moni Hoffman, Frank Hull, Liz Winkelaar,

Musicians: Angel Araos, Mike Essourdry, Mark Rehder, Dominique Saint Pierre, Jason Sonier

Guest Musicians: Leo Brooks, Devin Johnstone, Archie Kadloo

Costumes: Randi Cherry

Production & Touring: Sioned Watkins, Fraser Mackinnon, Mark Rehder

OCCASIONAL STAFF (TEACHING)Dance Teachers:

Amelia Griffin, Julie Anne Ryan, Renata Soutter, Shara Weaver, Liz Winkelaar,

Teaching Assistants: Moni Hoffman, Jessie Huggett, Robert Chartier, Bella Bowes, Steve Wint

OCCASIONAL STAFF (OPERATIONS)Communications: Liz Babiak

Development: Mena Gainpaulsingh

Administration: Elizabeth MacKinnon

THE PEOPLE

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Jenn AbramsLiz BabiakGeneviève BeaulieuNatalie BercovitzManon BlouinBecky BowesBob BowesLynda BowesLynda BrownEmma BryansTeresa ChanRobert ChartierPaul ChehowskiRandi CherryLinda ConwayDavid CopeCaitlin CrockardHeather CroisierRobert D’Aoust Colette DentonPeter Denton

Rosamaria DurandEdurne EganaNicole FerlandHilda Friesen-ThompsonLaurence GillesonBill GrahamRachel GrayGilly GriffinHuffy GriffinBarbara GrinfeldJoe HiscottDave HoffmanLinda HoffmanNancy HuggettCarolyn HunterIan HunterJudy HunterLiz HurleyHannah IrvingAsha JainAmanda Jete-Knox

Kevin JohnsonAnne JohnsonEric KnoxDan LalandeReg LangloisJean LantierLaura LyonsElizabeth MacKinnonAudrey MayoBeth MitchellMartha MoreJanet PennyFelix Penny-LantierMark RehderSophie Reussner-PazurBrenna Rivier Robert David ScrimshawRuth SecundaKeane ShoreAlvin SimDavid Sims

Marilyn SlocumRichard SlocumFiona SloofMonica SongMartin SoutterUta SoutterLys StevensShanti StuberKatie TrinqueAda TsangAJ TysonIsobel TrumanJohn UnderwoodTiffany VanceFrancesca VerhoeveLaura VerniestShellina WaljiJennifer WardBetsy WeaverRobin WintSteve Wint

VOLUNTEERS

Several anonymous donorsJennifer AbramsLarry BakerBob and Lynda BowesPeggy ByrneLorraine CarsonPaul ChehowskiFrances CherryRev. Gail ChristyYvonne Coutts MartingoDianne DuffyPrita EdwardsKatherine ForsterEloise Graham

William & Claire GrahamAnna GrealyBarbara GrinfeldJudith Haney & Chris MayoIda C. HendersonTwylla HodginsDoreen HoldenJane HuestonHannah IrvingIsthmus Inc.Asha JainElizabeth MackinnonLorna McLeanGreg MonteithEileen Olexiuk

Julia ParéJohn PaxtonIn memory of Alessandra SharkeyMonica Song and Alvin SimUta and Martin SoutterSylvia SpringMelissa StruthersTeresa TsangJohn UnderwoodDonald VerniestDrs Mohan and Hari VijayEugenie Waters

Elaine WebsterHerb WestmanElizabeth Winkelaar

IN-KIND SUPPORTERSMASC Connaught Public SchoolOYP4 Office AutomationOttawa Dance DirectiveBridgehead Coffee (Fairmont Avenue)

DONORS

FUNDERS

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