EPISODE 97:
DANCE IN PUBLIC SPACES - COAST TO COAST WITH MELISSA RIKER
Host: Ethan Steimel
Release Date: 05/02/2022
Release Date: 05/02/2022
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Choreographer Melissa Riker joins the show to discuss running a non-profit dance company in Seattle and New York City.
Topics: ⭐️ Melissa's IRS audit ⭐️ Paying dancers 1099 or W2 ⭐️ Writing and applying for grants ⭐️ Artistically wild. Financially responsible. ⭐️ Cost of public permits versus renting a venue ⭐️ Arts grants via city funding and federal funding ⭐️ To become a non profit or partner with a fiscal sponsor |
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Links and Resources
Zoe | Juniper
Celeste Cooning - Visual Artist
Netta Yerushalmy - Choreographer
Fractured Atlas - Fiscal Sponsor
The Field - Fiscal Sponsor
Broadway Grosses
Bond Investing with Maithreyi Gopalakrishnan | Artistic Finance
Caite Henver - Projection Design of Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord | Artistic Finance
Lap Chi Chu - Lighting Designer of Morning Sun | Artistic Finance
Kinesis Project | Patreon
Melissa Riker
Choreographer and Artistic Director
Melissa Riker
Kinesis Dance Theatre
Melissa Riker is Artistic Director / Choreographer of Kinesis Project dance theatre. She is a dancer and choreographer who emerged as a strong creative voice in the NYC performance world. Riker is the Executive Producer of the EstroGenius Festival, Founder and Co-Director of Women in Motion and Founder and Collective Member of Dance Rising. Riker’s dances and aesthetic layer her training in ballet, modern dance, martial arts, theatre and circus. She invents large-scale out-door performances and spontaneous moments of dance for public spaces. "Melissa Riker explores ideas about how vulnerability exists both in people and in structures; it comes to life within an immersive environment of movement and whispers.” -NYTimes.
Kinesis Project is a bi-coastal dance organization that creates dance as public art, facilitates educational programs and produces site-specific performances with diverse communities. The company is at the forefront of art engagement and the cultural imperative of art in public space. Kinesis Project invents large scale, space-changing experiences and has been listed 3 times as a "Top To See" in the NY Times. Riker and Kinesis Project have cultivated the following of the company into an audience that understands they will be taken on a dance adventure, be offered a view into a space with new framing, and are continuing to grow the outreach and education elements of the company.
Celeste Cooning - Visual Artist
Netta Yerushalmy - Choreographer
Fractured Atlas - Fiscal Sponsor
The Field - Fiscal Sponsor
Broadway Grosses
Bond Investing with Maithreyi Gopalakrishnan | Artistic Finance
Caite Henver - Projection Design of Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord | Artistic Finance
Lap Chi Chu - Lighting Designer of Morning Sun | Artistic Finance
Kinesis Project | Patreon
Melissa Riker
Choreographer and Artistic Director
Melissa Riker
Kinesis Dance Theatre
Melissa Riker is Artistic Director / Choreographer of Kinesis Project dance theatre. She is a dancer and choreographer who emerged as a strong creative voice in the NYC performance world. Riker is the Executive Producer of the EstroGenius Festival, Founder and Co-Director of Women in Motion and Founder and Collective Member of Dance Rising. Riker’s dances and aesthetic layer her training in ballet, modern dance, martial arts, theatre and circus. She invents large-scale out-door performances and spontaneous moments of dance for public spaces. "Melissa Riker explores ideas about how vulnerability exists both in people and in structures; it comes to life within an immersive environment of movement and whispers.” -NYTimes.
Kinesis Project is a bi-coastal dance organization that creates dance as public art, facilitates educational programs and produces site-specific performances with diverse communities. The company is at the forefront of art engagement and the cultural imperative of art in public space. Kinesis Project invents large scale, space-changing experiences and has been listed 3 times as a "Top To See" in the NY Times. Riker and Kinesis Project have cultivated the following of the company into an audience that understands they will be taken on a dance adventure, be offered a view into a space with new framing, and are continuing to grow the outreach and education elements of the company.
