overview

In addition to our own creative work, FACT/SF began offering direct support to artists in the field in 2014. Since then, we have provided material resources, money, and opportunity for 81 lead artists (choreographers, dancers, and teachers). As a defined and multi-faceted effort, FACT/SF Fieldwork launched in 2018. Fieldwork currently includes eight programs:

• Production Support Grants give direct support to contemporary dance productions happening in San Francisco.

• FACT/SF Summer Dance Festivals bring together diverse and high-quality contemporary dance works by choreographers from different regions.

• Summer Dance Lab Scholarships
  cover 100% of the tuition cost for our annual, 10-day workshop.

• Fiscal Sponsorship offers financial oversight, grant writing support, mentorship, and professional coaching to performing artists who are not otherwise incorporated as their own 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

• PORT is a touring platform and model for creating opportunities for exchange between choreographers/dance companies from different regions.

• Summer & Winter Dance Labs provide training opportunities in an inclusive, non-competitive environment.

• FACT/SF Membership, currently a pilot program, gives Bay Area dancers access to affordable year-round training and deep discounts to attend workshops and performances

values

FACT/SF Fieldwork supports the visibility, viability, and vitality of contemporary dance in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Fieldwork prioritizes supporting contemporary dance artists who identify as BIPOC and/or LGBTQ+.

HISTORY

Launched in 2018, Fieldwork has provided opportunity, support, education, and professional development for 81 lead artists and more than 400 of their collaborators. In 2021, FACT/SF’s dance classes and workshops were incorporated into Fieldwork to foster cross-programatic engagement.

Fieldwork is a natural outgrowth of the field-development work FACT/SF has been doing since 2013. Five years after our founding in 2008, Jeanne Pfeffer and Charles Slender-White took a strategic planning retreat to evaluate both what FACT/SF had accomplished and what we could develop for the future. Our commissioning program, JuMP, came out of this meeting. Once each year for three years, JuMP provided a comprehensive commissioning opportunity for a Bay Area-based artist. We commissioned work from Liz Tenuto in 2014, collaborative duo Lauren Simpson and Jenny Stulberg in 2015, and Katerina Wong in 2016. In 2015, FACT/SF began building a model for peer-organized regional touring (PORT). We launched PORT in 2017 with the LA Contemporary Dance Company, and will continue to build out this model in the coming years to support tours of other choreographers and companies.

FIELDWORK LEAD ARTISTS (2014-2024)

Sophie Minouche Allen
Larry Arrington
Gwen Benitez
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Elby Brosch
Genevieve Carson
Alfonso Cervera
Tanya Chianese
Mia J. Chong
Erin Coyne
Alma Esperanza Cunningham
Ciarra D’Onofrio
Kristin Damrow
Rafi Ruffino Darrow
Joy Davis
Dia Dear
Sierra Don
Marlee Doniff
Taylor Donofrio
Shane Donohue
Melecio Estrella
Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş
Liam Fleming
Zoe Fyfe
Eric Garcia
James Graham
Emily Hansel
Niara Hardister
Lacey Heffernan
Stephanie Hewett
Elle Hong
Taryn Vander Hoop
Chinchin Hsu
Zoe Huey
Antoine Hunter
Kim Ip
Héctor Jaime
Maurya Kerr
Shaun Keylock
Courtney King
Bridget Kirk
taylor knight
Carly Kontra
Megan Kurashige
Shannon Kurashige
Joe Landini
Emma Lanier
Megan Lowe
Nico Maimon
Conni McKenzie
Samuel Melecio-Zambrano
Eric Mullis
Amelia Nommensen
Stina Nyberg
Nkei Oruche
Amit Patel
Nicole Peisl
Swetha Prabakaran
Ki’ Shae Qetlah
Jocelyn Reyes
Angela Rollins
Molly Rose-Williams
Isabel Rosenstock
Zaquia Mahler Salinas
Ishika Seth
Maria Silk
Lauren Simpson
Dazaun Soleyn
Jenny Stulberg
Estrellx Supernova
Rosanna Tavarez
Liz Tenuto
anna thompson
Alexandra Tiscareno
Brianna Elyse Torres
Kaya Tsurumi
Andrew Ward
Riley Watts
Katerina Wong
Melissa Lewis Wong
Chloë Zimberg

Photos by Robbie Sweeny