Spectordance

SpectorDance (SD) has been a non-profit organization since 1996. Fran Spector Atkins is Founder and Artistic Director. The SD mission is to establish a vibrant center for the performing arts, offering a wide variety of dance-based activities, that connects diverse artists and audiences, bridges disciplines through collaboration, and celebrates the power of dance to inform and inspire. The SD vision is to utilize dance as a vehicle to open doors, ignite creativity, and fuel the human spirit. With generous community support, SD has established successful programs including our School, Company, Educational Outreach, and the Choreographers Showcases. All our programs are housed in, or administered from, a state-of-the-art studio and performance venue in Marina.

SpectorDance's mission is "To Create and Present Dance that Makes a Difference!" Everything we do-whether creative, pedagogical, community-oriented, or even managerial-serves this greater purpose. This mission uniquely defines all our work. Our vision is "A world where everyone is connected, informed, and inspired through the beauty and power of dance." We live in a world that has become divided in many ways: wealthy and poor, urban and rural, politically progressive and conservative, educated and uneducated. We see dance, grounded in the human body we all share, as a means of coming together communally. Moreover, we see dance as a vehicle for education and enlightenment. It can convey the truth amid the flurry of falsehoods. Finally, dance is not passive-for the audience as well as the dancer. Dance at its best can inform, build deep empathy, motivate and inspire action, and transform both participants and viewers. It is not just contemplation or artistic pleasure.