{"id":20,"date":"2016-02-28T16:55:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T16:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandbox.curlythemes.com\/pirouette\/?p=20"},"modified":"2016-02-28T16:55:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T16:55:24","slug":"adi-launches-scholarship-initiative-to-promote-racial-diversity-in-dance-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.curlythemes.com\/pirouette\/2016\/02\/adi-launches-scholarship-initiative-to-promote-racial-diversity-in-dance-training\/","title":{"rendered":"American Dance Institute Launches Scholarship Initiative to Promote Racial Diversity in Dance Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diversity is a hot-button topic\u00a0in today\u2019s dance world. It\u2019s often\u00a0linked to conversations about\u00a0the\u00a0rise of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dancemagazine.com\/news\/the-misty-copeland-effect\/\">Misty Copeland<\/a>, and\u00a0there have been many\u00a0notable\u00a0outreach efforts, such as\u00a0Charlotte Ballet\u2019s partnership with Dance Theatre of Harlem, American Ballet Theatre\u2019s Project Pli\u00e9, The Washington Ballet\u2019s recently launched program called Let\u2019s Dance Together and\u00a0the work done by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dancemagazine.com\/news\/33764\/\">International Association of Blacks in Dance<\/a>. Now, the American Dance Institute has launched its Future Artists Initiative, a scholarship program to fund\u00a0training for racially diverse dancers. In a press release from ADI, the organization\u2019s executive director Adrienne Willis said, \u201cWe feel ADI\u2019s Future Artists Initiative will make a great impact on the future of the art form, ensuring the stages of tomorrow reflect the rich diversity of American talent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After conducting extensive research with the help of Dance\/USA and IABD,\u00a0the organizations selected 40 pre-professional schools that\u00a0may nominate up 10 students for financial assistance.\u00a0In order to be eligible for funding this fall, schools have until April 15 to nominate their students, whose parent\/guardian must complete an application by May 15.\u00a0Perhaps what\u2019s most unique about this program is its ongoing nature:\u00a0As long as recipients continue their pre-professional training, they will continue to receive up to $5,000 annually until they turn 18. The money is intended not only to supplement dance training, but also assist with other associated costs (transportation, housing, shoes, clothing, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>On the surface,\u00a0this may sound like an attempt to use money to solve a problem, but the Future Artists Initiative seems to be digging deeper. Early in the process, they reached out to over 600 dance schools across the country to determine why talented students aren\u2019t always able to continue their training. Over 60 schools reported the high costs of tuition, supplies and transportation as the most prohibitive factors in keeping low-income families from quality\u00a0dance education.<\/p>\n<p>ADI\u2019s research also linked ballet\u2019s lack of diversity to an absence of role models that students can identify with. In\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dancemagazine.com\/inside-dm\/diversity-is-the-new-black\/\">\u201cDiversity Is the New Black\u201d<\/a>\u00a0in our January issue, writer Theresa Ruth Howard pointed to the very same issue, along with other changes that need to happen to eradicate ballet\u2019s diversity problem.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Future Artists Initiative, including ADI\u2019s\u00a0research, click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americandance.org\/future-artists\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dancemagazine.com\">Dance Magazine.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diversity is a hot-button topic in today\u2019s dance world. It\u2019s often linked to conversations about the rise of Misty Copeland, and there have been many notable outreach efforts, such as Charlotte Ballet\u2019s partnership with Dance Theatre of Harlem, American Ballet Theatre\u2019s Project Pli\u00e9, The Washington Ballet\u2019s recently launched program called Let\u2019s Dance Together and the work done by the International Association of Blacks in Dance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[8,13,16],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-training","tag-diversity","tag-scholarship","tag-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.curlythemes.com\/pirouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.curlythemes.com\/pirouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.curlythemes.com\/pirouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.curlythemes.com\/pirouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.curlythemes.com\/pirouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.curlythemes.com\/pirouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.curlythemes.com\/pirouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.curlythemes.com\/pirouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.curlythemes.com\/pirouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.curlythemes.com\/pirouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}