{"id":680,"date":"2015-06-28T10:35:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T14:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/?p=680"},"modified":"2015-06-30T10:48:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T14:48:07","slug":"attention-philadelphia-dancers-balletx-announces-choreographic-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/attention-philadelphia-dancers-balletx-announces-choreographic-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Attention Philadelphia Dancers! BalletX Announces Choreographic Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"

BalletX is Philadelphia\u2019s premier contemporary ballet company. Philadelphia dance companies are living in precarious times thanks to a brutal funding cut from the William Penn Foundation. Penn abruptly cut off funding for Dance\/UP, an umbrella organization that serves many local dance companies and supported it with $950,000 in 2011.<\/p>\n

This funding cut underscores the inherent risks of relying on a single funder, and as related news out of New York suggests, the problem isn\u2019t confined to Philadelphia. Fortuantely, BalletX seems to have a well-rounded revenue base. It\u2019s institutional funders include the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Shubert Foundation, Philadelphia Cultural Fund, and\u2014gulp!\u2014the William Penn Foundation.<\/p>\n

\"Ballet<\/p>\n

This bodes well for the future of the troupe and can explain why BalletX recently issued a call for applications for its 2016 choreographic fellowship.<\/p>\n

Read complete article at Black Celebrity Giving<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BalletX is Philadelphia\u2019s premier contemporary ballet company. Philadelphia dance companies are living in precarious times thanks to a brutal funding cut from the William Penn Foundation. Penn abruptly cut off funding for Dance\/UP, an umbrella organization that serves many local dance companies and supported it with $950,000 in 2011. This funding cut underscores the inherent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[34],"tags":[36],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Ballet-X-v1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6pLGr-aY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}