Salt Contemporary Dance Inc.

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“Expand the awareness, reach and capacity of salt unique performances and festivals. Continuously seek and create emerging and cutting-edge performances to stay at the most forefront of the dance industry. Educate dancers and community members on relevant, emerging contemporary performance through training programs, events, and outreach. In its first five years, salt has increased revenue and net income. Donors have more than doubled, and the current fundraising ratio is at a healthy 1%. The company is financially secure and the future looks promising. Salt held their first masquerade social event, vip night for donors, and link dance festival. Concert attendance was sustained. Salt had a turnover in dancers, with only four dancers staying, one previous salt dancer returning, one guest artists/choreographer dancing on the company, two apprentices moving up and joining the company. The company will have three apprentices this year, one from salt ii, one local, and one from out of state. Salt reorganized staff positions to include a touring and community involvement manager, donor and grant manager, education director, front of house manager, stage manager, and volunteer coordinator. For the 2018-2019 season, salt is increasing its visibility by joining launchpad, attending the waa conferencing, attending outreach at 50+ schools, and touring regionally. Salt is also increasing partnerships by being commissioned by utahpresents, presenting the spring concert with the university of utah dance dept, partnering with the university of utah for the link dance festival, and partnering with two additional studios for the salt training program. Salt's education program is adding a second location for the senior training program, and adding a third location for an adult company in the evening.”

“Increase visibility & partnerships - expand the awareness, reach and capacity of salt's unique performances. Short term: 1. By 2018-19, salt will be presented by utahpresents and begin the process of being chosen by other presenters through affiliation with the western arts alliance. 2. Salt will launch "salt dance" magazine to be a resource for dancers of all ages along the wasatch front. 3. Salt will increase partnerships to expand the link dance festival to serve 200 dancers (double the number of last year). Long term: 1. By 2021, salt will be presenting concerts to an audience of 23,220 including: fall (4,010), spring (4,010) and community (15,200) concerts. 2. By 2021, salt will be a national (10 days) and international (15 days) touring company.”

“Relevancy & growth - continuously seek and create emerging, cuttingedge choreography to remain innovative in the dance industry. Short term: 1. By 2018-19, salt will be able to pay dancers a wage of 275/week. To meet these goals, salt will continue in the endeavor of increasing the operating budget through ticket/event sales, sponsors, donors, and grants. Long term: 1. By 2019, salt will fundraise and begin processes to build on a new home with space for office space, studios, performance venues and rentable space. 2. By 2021, salt will be able to pay dancers a livable wage (1,000/week) plus benefits, thus attracting and keeping the finest dancers.”

“Education - educate dancers and community members on relevant, emerging contemporary dance through workshops, festivals, and a multi-tier training program for aspiring dancers. Short term: 1. By 2018-19, salt will have a four-tier training program reaching 50 aspiring dancers ages: 14-18 (salt senior), 18-25 (salt apprentices), 18+ (salt ii & salt pro) and a part-time education team (one education director, two company directors, one assistant) who facilitate and oversee all educational outreach and educational programming. 2. Salt will begin creating videos of workshops, live training sessions, and interactive mentoring. The efforts towards this becoming a reality are already underway through a mini video-training series distributed via social media. Long term: 1. By 2021, salt will have a four-tier training program reaching 100 aspiring dancers ages: 14-18 (salt senior), 18-25 (salt apprentices), 18+ (salt ii & salt pro) and a full-time education team (one program director, four company directors, two assistants) who facilitate and oversee all educational outreach and educational programming. 2. By 2021, salt will have an online portal for the global world of dancers to 1) access classes, workshops, live training sessions, and interactive mentoring 2) network with other dancers, choreographers, and companies and 3) connect with resources such as videographers, musicians, costumers, and trainers.”

“Dancers & contract fees 48,286 0 0 professional fees 1,223 0 0 choreographer fees 30,869 0 0 total 80,378 0 0”