Current Fundraising Priorities

The Department of Dance Production and Enrichment Fund provides unrestricted support for innovative programming, diverse guest artists, and special projects prioritized by the department head. If you would like your gift to go to one of the following projects, please indicate that in the “Additional Instructions” section after you click “Continue” from Dance's giving site.

Storefront Studio

The Department of Dance has a new Storefront Studio space at 700 S Gregory in Urbana. We are raising funds to complete the space with mirrors and roller shades for Fall 2024.

Flatlands Dance Film Festival Retreat

The Flatlands Dance Film Festival is dedicated to supporting and presenting dance cinema, a medium which explores and innovates the intersections between filmmaking and dance making. As this annual festival continues to evolve and grow, we are committed to producing experimental film laboratory retreats for artists interested in collaboration, experiment, and the challenges of capturing the body in motion. The Flatlands retreat will serve as an incubator for work that can be produced for the festival in future years. Your contribution will help us launch our first retreat in summer 2024.

dancer looking up in an advertisement for Links Hall Alumni concert

Dance at Illinois Alumni Concerts

Alums Mark Kater (BFA ’80), Mariam Thiam (BFA ’04) and Paige Cunningham Caldarella (MFA ’07) is curating and producing a show of Dance at Illinois alumni works at Links Hall in Chicago, November 1-2, 2024. These evenings provide an opportunity for us to reconnect with our amazing alumni and offers them a chance to showcase their work. Your gift will help us provide each selected alum with an artist stipend and ensure that we will be able to continue to produce quality alumni concerts in the future.