1. Festival Dance & Performing Arts
We Bring You the World!

2. Festival Dance & Performing Arts
Fulfilling Our Mission Since 1972!

3. What Is Festival Dance?
• A non-profit, 501(c ) (3) organization.
•Largest private arts non-profit in the region in
terms of scope of programs and budget
•An organization governed by a volunteer
community board.
•An organization with a long history of
impactful dance education programs in the
Palouse and L-C Valley regions

4. Our Mission:
“Bringing the Arts to the People and
the People to the Arts” guided by the core values of:
Diversity,
Accessibility,
Nurturing of Local Talent,
Communtiy Involvement, and Artistic
Excellence,
….through programs of performances, education,
and outreach.

5. Our Volunteer Board of Directors
Brings You the World!

6. Our Volunteer Board of Directors
Sue Hinz, Chair
Gerald Henry, Vice-Chair
Mauricio Featherman, Secretary
Roberta McPherson, Treasurer
Johna Boulafentis
Janet Kendall
Mauri Knott
Ruthie Nellis
Gabriella Roemhildt
Terry Whipple
Dinah Zeiger
Brings You the World!

7. Our Honorary Board of Directors
Doug Baker, UI Provost
Dianne and Steven Daley-Laursen
Candis Donicht, Moscow Schools Superintendant
Michelle Hovey, US Bank
Dene Thomas, President LCSC
Susan and Bill Weed, owners KQQQ & NewsTalk

8. Festival Dance & Performing Arts Staff
Cynthia Barnhart, Executive Director
Amanda Schoenberg, Executive Assistant
Joann Muneta
Education Outreach Coordinator/
Grant Writer
Iris Chimburas, Building Cultural Bridges
Coordinator

9. Our History
•Founded in 1972 as Ballet Folk of Moscow
•Ballet Folk toured to 32 different states from 1974-
1982
•In 1974 became company in residence at UI
•Founders were Carl and Jaye Petrick
•Carl & Jaye started the Jr. Ballet Company
•Original location on campus was Ridenbaugh Hall
•Represented Moscow at the Expo 1974, Spokane
World’s Fair
•Ballet Folk gave first dance performance at Beasley
Coliseum, 1974- The Nutcracker
•Performed the first Nutcracker at the Spokane Opera
House with the Spokane Symphony in 1978 and 1979

10. Our History Continued
•Represented Idaho at the Kennedy Center in 1976
for the US Bicentennial
•Company changed name to American Festival Ballet
in 1978
•Performed in New York City at Brooklyn College in
1979
•Company moved to Boise in 1982, is now Ballet
Idaho which has merged with Eugene Ballet
•Festival Dance moved to PE Building in 1984
•Great Performances Series started in 1988
•38 Great Performances since beginning
•Presented Mikhail Barishnikov in 1989 in Spokane at
Opera House

11. Our History Continued
•Missoula Children’s Theatre residency in
Moscow every year since 1982
•Grant received from NW Area Foundation to
help establish Arts Councils in rural
communities: Troy, Potlatch, Lapwai
•Potlatch and Lapwai still have functioning arts
councils and Troy presents an annual Missoula
Children’s Theatre residency.

12. How Do We Achieve Our Mission?
•Festival Dance Academy
•Five Studios(Moscow, Lewiston, Lapwai, Genesee, Troy, Orofino, UI, LCSC)
•Great Performances Series
•Four Events/year
•Festival YouthReach
•Four Outreach Programs/year
•Twenty-four Discover Dance classes/year

13. Festival Dance Academy
•Moscow, Idaho
•Studios 212 and 110 in the UI PE Building
•Lewiston, Idaho
•LCSC Music Building, 1105 7th St.
•Lapwai, Idaho
•Elementary School Gym Saturdays
•Troy, Idaho and Orofino, Idaho
•High School Gym
•Genesee, Idaho
•School multi-purpose room on the stage

14. Festival Dance Academy Faculty

15. Festival Dance Academy Faculty
Mia Seshiki
Connie Benson
Crystal Bain
Rebecca Duraso, not pictured
Kristen Kallstrom
Katie Saunders
Mandy Smith
Lindsay Taylor, not pictured

16. Festival Dance Academy
•Professionally trained instructors
•Resident dance studio at the University of Idaho
•Limited class sizes for personalized instruction
•Emphasis on technique
•Over 30 years of dance education experience
•Studios: Moscow, Lewiston, Genesee, Troy
•Outreach programs
•Funded by state and national grants
•Member of local and national arts organizations
•Many performance opportunities!

17. Festival Dance Academy
•Moscow, Idaho
•Studios 212 and 110 in the UI PE Building
•Executive office – room 203
•FDPA instructors teach 4 college level courses in
exchange for studio and office space
•Greg Halloran is director of UI Dance Program
•Kathy Browder is HPERD Dept. Chair
•Mia Swartwood UI/FDA Instructor
•Nine instructors teach FDA classes for community
•Approximately 120 students

18. Moscow Studio History
•1970- First studio was located on 3rd Street where
Peck’s Shoe Clinic is now. It was called Moscow
Dance Theatre
•1971- Moved to a loft on Main Street above the old
Needle Nook
•1974- Moved to UI Ridenbaugh Hall and became a
non-profit organization, Ballet Folk of Moscow
•1984- Moved to UI PE Building, room 203
•1984- studio 212 built especially for Festival Dance
Academy
•2005 – FDPA largest donor for the new floor in studio
110- $5,000

19. Festival Dance Academy
•Lewiston, Idaho
•LCSC Music Building, 1105 7th St.
•Beautiful studio on campus
•FDPA instructor teaches 4 college level
courses in exchange for studio space
•Two instructors teach FDA classes there
•LCSC Director of Academic Affairs
•15 students

20. Lewiston Studio History
•1978- Deanna Vickers, wife of then LCSC President Vickers offered us the free
use of a studio in the old Music/Fine Arts Building and asked us to teach ballet
classes for the community. (among other reasons, she wanted her daughter to
take ballet and no one in the area was teaching it.) We taught there for 3 years.
•1981-The college reorganized space and needed the studio for something else
and we were not offered any other space.
•For one year we taught beginning ballet at the YWCA which worked OK, but not
a real dance floor and no mirrors.
•Mid-1980s- We rented a space up on Thain Rd., spent quite a bit building a
raised floor and putting in mirrors.
•Kept loosing money – parents said, “people don’t want to have to drive up to the
orchards.” So we closed that studio.
•At that time Kathryn Claassen and Rita had their own studio downtown so there
was real competition. They couldn’t make it either and closed their studio.

21. Lewiston Studio History
•After that, advanced students drove to Moscow 2 and 3 times a week.
•Then we were approached by the owner of a studio at our current Mader space who
was leaving town and wanted us to take over their lease. (Port City Dance)
•1995- we started with a rent of $ 575! and moved in. The rent began increasing
substantially every year.
•As small adjoining apartment was converted in to a dance studio to make two studio
spaces.
•We started doing Nutcracker in Lewiston so Lewiston students could perform at
home. Attendance fell off and people complained about the ticket price
•Lowered admission to $ 12 and unfortunately, as was predicted, we didn’t cover
expenses and had to stop performing Nutcracker there.

22. Lewiston Studio History
•After continuing losses, we didn’t renew our lease for the building. During this
process, we realized our lease required us to re-build the small apartment.
•We negotiated a $10,000 agreement with the landlord to cover expenses of
rebuilding the apartment so the ED wouldn’t have to oversee contractors, etc. which
would take away too much time from our programs.
•Beginning January 2007, FDPA established ballet program for LCSC – we provide
courses (1 credit each) for LCSC students in exchange for studio space
•Briefly rented space on Mondays from the American Legion Building
•Courses started at the new venues September 2007

23. Festival Dance Academy
•Genesee, Idaho
•School Stage/Theatre
•St. Mary’s Church, 732 Walnut
•Tuesdays
•Sue Krick is St. Mary’s contact
•Mostly young dancers (Ballet 3 is highest level)
•11 students

24. Genesee Studio History
•Started at the request of parents who wanted a
local studio.
•Was first located downtown. (Had a little wooden
stove – was freezing until it could heat up.)
•Melanie Malm taught all classes for four years
•Moved to St. Mary’s parish hall
•Alyssa Johnston taught all classes for three
years and left in 2007 when her husband
graduated.
•Studio has gradually lost students since

25. The Great Performances Series
•Only professional dance series between Seattle and Minneapolis!
•Had as many as six guest companies a year but have now cut back to three
touring companies and one self-produced event
•Used to present one musical every year until the Spokane Broadway Series
caused audience reduction.
•Now we have one ballet, one modern or jazz, one multi-cultural company
each year.
•Presented some of the leading touring dance companies in the country such
as, Paul Taylor Dance Co., Mark Morris Dance Group, Garth Fagan Dance
Co. and Royal Winnipeg Ballet.

26. The Great Performances Series
Musicals: A Chorus Line, My Fair Lady, Annie Get
Your Gun, Barnum, Will Rogers Follies, South
Pacific, Hello Dolly, Guys and Dolls, Forbidden
Hollywood, Forbidden Broadway, Brigadoon
Used to present musicals in the Spokane Opera
House including A Chorus Line, My Fair Lady, and
Evita.

28. “The spectacle is the color
and the breathtaking circus
acts that they do!”
The Golden Dragon Acrobats represent the best
of a time honored tradition that began more than twenty-seven
centuries ago.
Cirque D’Or combines award-winning acrobatics, costumes,
traditional dance, and ancient and contemporary music and
theatrical techniques to present a show of skill and beauty.
Direct form Hebei, China, the troupe has garnered
international acclaim.

31. Let Manding Jata transport you to the great Mali Empire
centered in the fabled city of Timbuktu to experience the
fascinating music, dance, and oral traditions of the Mande
speaking people of West Africa. The performance will include the,
“Sunjata Epic,” an unfurling of one of the great stories of human
history. Ancient and unusual instruments, colorful masks and
athletic displays of strength, grace and acrobatics make this
program a unique experience long to be remembered!

32. Group Rates!
10% savings for
your group of 10 or
more.
Call us at
Free Ticket for every 208.883.3267
15 tickets ordered.
to book your
(limit 5 free)
group for our next
Priority Seating show!

33. Festival Dance YouthReach

34. Festival Dance
YouthReach
•FREE performances for 5,000 students a year
•FREE Missoula Children’s Theatre residency
•FREE performances for rural communities of Potlatch, Tensed, Troy,
Deary, Genesee, Kendrick, Juliaetta, Lapwai, Colton, Colfax, Garfield,
and Palouse, including the Nez Perce and Coeur d’Alene Reservations

35. Festival Dance YouthReach Schedule
•FOR 5, 6 GRADES: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Oct. 12, 10am Beasley
•FOR 6, 7, 8 GRADES: Kusun - Oct. 13, 9:45am Moscow Jr. High
•FOR K-12 GRADES: Kusun - Oct. 13, 1:00pm Genesee HS
•FOR K-6 GRADES: Kusun - Oct. 14, 9:00am Potlatch Elem.
•FOR 3, 4 GRADES: Manding Jata – April 19, 10am Beasley
Contact us if you have questions!

36. Festival Dance YouthReach
Supported By:
U.S. Bancorp Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
Idaho Commission on the Arts
Moscow Mardi Gras Committee
Alturas Analytics
Moscow McDonalds

37. Festival Dance Discover Dance
•24 Outreach dance classes per year
•Funded by Idaho Community Foundation and
Idaho Commission on the Arts
•Classes have been taught in African Dance,
Jazz, and Irish Dance
•Schools Reached: Troy, Potlatch, Lewiston
High School, Russell, McDonald, West Park

38. Discover Dance

40. How Are We Funded?
Proud of 70% earned income!
•Academy Tuition
•Great Performances Series Ticket Sales
•Grants
•Corporate Sponsorships
•Advertisers
•Contributors

41. Academy
•Income:
•Tuition, registration fees, recital fees
•Expenses:
•Rent, telephone, utilities, insurance,
advertising, print/mail, supplies, recital
expenses, costumes, costumer, travel,
administration, teachers, payroll taxes

42. Great Performances Series
•Income:
•Ticket Sales, VPLAC Grant
•Expenses:
•Artist Fees, Insurance, Postage, Printing
& Reproduction, Advertising, Performance
Expense, Administration, Professional
Fees, Catering Expense

43. Grants
•Income:
•Money with stipulations and reporting
requirements
•Expenses:
• Grant-writer salary, printing, postage,
fulfillment

44. Corporate Sponsors
•Income:
•Sponsorships for performances and
programs
•Expenses:
• Administration, printing, postage

45. Advertisers
•Income:
•Advertisements in our Season Program
or other programs
•Expenses:
• Administration, printing, design fee,
postage, photos, supplies

46. Contributors
•Income:
•Donations and Contributions of Cash
•Expenses:
• Catering Fees, administration, printing,
fundraiser/venue expenses, postage,
supplies

47. Festival Dance:
It’s For You!
•Volunteer Board of Directors
•Tremendously rewarding experience
•Personal growth, increased awareness, and
appreciation of dance and the performing
arts
•Opportunity to make an invaluable
contribution to your community
•It’s Fun!

48. Board Responsibilities
TIME COMMITMENT: 1-2 hours/month with extra hours for
our Champagne Benefit
MEETINGS: Monthly September through June. (Currently
the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 5:30 pm in Moscow)
Meetings last about 1.5 hours. Directors are expected to
attend at least 7 of the 10 meetings each year.
TERM OF OFFICE: Each term is a three year term and is
renewable.

49. Board Responsibilities
DUES: A contribution of whatever amount is meaningful and
feasible for you. This donation should be made in the fall, if
possible.
ATTENDING PERFORMANCES, AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT:
Board Members are encouraged to attend performances
and school events if at all possible, and to help reach new
audiences by sharing information and enthusiasm with
friends, colleagues, and neighbors.

50. Board Responsibilities
FUND RAISING: Assist with the organization’s main fund
raiser, the CHAMPAGNE BENEFIT.
KEEPING INFORMED: Review financial reports, progress
reports, minutes, etc.
CONFIDENTIALITY: Information obtained through reports
or at meetings is to be kept confidential. Only the Executive
Director or Chair of the Board speaks for the organization.
LEGAL RESPONSIBILITIES: As the representatives of the
community, board members are expected to make sure the
organization fulfills its mission and is run responsibly and
well for the public good.

51. What Can You Do?
•Get excited about Festival Dance!
•Memorize our mission and become familiar with our programs.
•Bring a table-full of guests to the Champagne Benefit.
•Bring some friends to one or more of our performances.
•Invite a friend to our exclusive reception for contributors.
•Invite a potential FDPA supporter to lunch with Cindy so we can
find a fit for them either through volunteering, contributing,
sponsoring, or advertising with us.

52. What Can You Do?
•Coordinate with Cindy to set up speaking engagements with
your civic organization or other group.
•Give Cindy the email address of 10 people who would be
interested in our performances.
•Brainstorm about ways to expand our influence.
•Send out a post card to some friends announcing that you are a
new FDPA board member. Let them know you will answer any
questions about our performances.
•Give Cindy the mailing addresses of 10 people that would enjoy
our season brochure.

53. What Can You Do?
•Keep your eyes open for new marketing/advertising ideas.
•If you hear of a new trend in dance, or know of young dancers
that are interested in taking classes, let me know.
•Pay attention to any free advertising opportunities or
performance opportunities.
•Constantly conspire on our behalf.

54. What Can You Do?
Most of all………..
Enjoy your time with Festival Dance!
Know that you are treasured!
Know that you are making a difference!
Understand the profound connection between
the arts and the quality of life we all enjoy.

55. Thank You