"There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish."
— Warren Bennis
Donation Overview
Each year, Dallas Black Dance Theatre relies on individuals, corporations and foundations to raise nearly $1 million in support of its annual programming. Through your commitment, you will be demonstrating a dedication to dance training, an understanding of the importance for arts education for youth and an appreciation to the diversity of your community and the organizations that serve those communities.
Donate Online Today -
Select "Dallas Black Dance Theatre Fund"
*Online Donations Managed by the Communities Foundation of Texas.
For more information, contact the Development Office at (214) 871-2376.
Fast Facts about Dallas Black Dance Theatre...
- DBDT is Dallas' oldest, continuously operating professional dance company
- DBDT is a repertory dance company, performing works from multiple nationally and internationally known choreographers in the disciplines of modern, jazz, ethnic, and Liturgical.
- DBDT performs for a multicultural audience - locally, regionally, nationally, internationally (locally the audience is 56% African-American, 28% Caucasian, 6% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 2% Native American, and 5% Bi-Racial).
- DBDT employs 12 professional dancers on 11-month contracts; 9 of these dancers have a Bachelor's Degree and 2 are working on a Master's Degree
- DBDT II, the second performing company, features 12 aspiring dancers to support DBDT's local and regional educational outreach programs.
- The 35-year-old Dallas Black Dance Academy is the official school of DBDT and offers classes in ballet, jazz, tap, modern, African and Liturgical disciplines for ages 4 and up to more than 400 students per week.
- Bloom, DBDT's youngest performing ensemble, is comprised of 13 top level female dancers from DBDT's Academy ranging in age from 11 to 15.
- DBDT serves over 120,000 persons each year through performances, educational programming and community outreach.
- Through its educational outreach programs, DBDT annually serves a total of more than 20,000 youths in the DFW Metroplex and an additional 40,000 nationally and internationally.
- DBDT's arts-in-education curriculum meets the Texas Education Agency (TEA) and the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards.
- DBDT's arts-in-education residencies and outreach programs are designed to build critical thinking skills, connect youth to themselves and their own culture, and to invigorate the educational process by building connections between the construction and execution of dance as an art form and traditional learning techniques.
- DBDT routinely collaborates with the other nonprofit organizations, including the following during its 2008-09 Season: Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Nasher Sculpture Center, Children's Chorus of Greater Dallas, St. Paul United Methodist Church, and the Allen Philharmonic
- DBDT was named as an American Masterpiece Touring Artist for its 2007-2008 season by the National Endowment for the Arts
- DBDT was featured in the USA Today article, "10 Great Places to See the Evolution of Equality" (February 5, 2009)
- DBDT was featured in The New York Times article, "The 44 Places to Go in 2009," which listed the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts as number 17 (January 11, 2009)
- Notable performance venues to date include the Lincoln Center in New York City, The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta
- DBDT's international performances include the following countries: South Africa, Canada, Mexico, Austria, Ireland, Bermuda, Zimbabwe, Japan, Great Britain, Italy, Peru, and Spain
- Your support and investment in DBDT makes these and many more achievements possible!
Fabulous Wyly 100 - 100 Donors @ $1,000 Campaign for Inaugural Wyly Season
Join Dallas Black Dance Theatre as it moves its performing home from the historic Majestic Theatre in downtown Dallas to the Dee & Charles Wyly Theatre in the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts for its 33rd Season!
- 100 Donors @ $1,000 or above for Inaugural Wyly Season
- Exclusive benefits available
- Contact the Development Office at (214) 871-2376 to learn more
Dallas Black Dance Theatre is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization
