OUR MISSION
Building community through movement, Eryc Taylor Dance (est. 2006) is a New York City-based not-for-profit organization with a mission to advance appreciation of movement through creating and presenting original performances, conducting master classes, and curating movement-based community outreach workshops.
Eryc Taylor Dance (est. 2006) is a multi-mission NYC-based nonprofit founded by Artistic Director and dancer/choreographer Eryc Taylor, who has 35+ years of experience in the professional dance world. ETD uses dance to address critical issues within the local, state, and global communities. Programs include ETD Outreach, New Choreographers Grant, original productions, and workshops. ETD Outreach offers 20+ workshops weekly to vulnerable populations in 14 sites in four boroughs across NYC. New Choreographers Grant annually gives 3-5 emerging choreographers stipends, mentorship, and space to create/showcase their work. ETD’s concert dance repertory includes the ecological crisis alarm call, EARTH (2019, co-choreographed with five NCG recipients), presented at Brooklyn Botanic Garden and on PBS/WNET “Climate Artists.” The ‘90s nightlife-inspired Factory|Refractory, which debuted in 2022, had a six-show residency in NYC and was presented in Provincetown, MA, in 2023. Tours are planned for 2024. ETD’s latest work, CONTINUUM, is in development for a 2025 premiere.
Our community-based ETD Outreach program uplifts and empowers vulnerable populations with multidisciplinary workshops. Since the program’s launch in 2007, ETDO has conducted over 4,000 workshops, bringing the joy of movement, dance, and artistic expression to over 10,000 participants across all five boroughs of NYC and international communities in Mexico and beyond.
OUTREACH
Today, there are ETDO workshops in 14 sites in ten Districts across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx. Partnerships targeting at-risk and under-served communities include The Bridge, Lantern Community Services, Acacia Network, and Postgraduate Center for Mental Health. We have seven artists teaching up to 20 weekly workshops and are adding instructors specializing in visual art, creative writing, and music.
Eight of our ETDO sites focus on seniors in primarily Hispanic, Black, and Asian communities. Many participants face struggles like advanced age and limited mobility, addiction or substance abuse, mental illness, physical disabilities, and isolation.
PERFORMANCE
Eryc Taylor Dance performs and tours globally thanks to sponsorship from MAC Cosmetics, Google Nonprofits, Amazon, Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft, Deutsch Family Wine & Spirits, The Joyce Theater, and more. The Company has performed at venues such as the Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Joyce Soho, Theater, Joe's Pub at The Public Theater (NYC), New York Live Arts, Armando Manzanero Teatro and Teatro José Peón Contreras (Merida, Mexico), Martha Graham Studio Theater, Bryant Park Theater, Guild Hall (East Hampton, NY), SLATE (NYC), Mary Heaton Vorse House (Provincetown, MA), Busan Cultural Center (Busan, South Korea), and Province Lands Outdoor Amphitheater (Cape Cod, MA).
COLLABORATION
Artistic Director, Eryc Taylor, is driven through collaboration. Every season the company seeks out unique artists working from costume design to make-up design to photography to music composition. Eryc's love of collaboration has fostered strong relationships and produced beautiful work. Some of these artists include Scooter LaForge, David Kagen, Lois Greenfield, Rachel Neville, Steven Menendez, Daniel Tobias, New Wave Arts, and Gerald Busby.
CORE VALUES
As a non-profit dance company based in New York City, one of our core values is that all our performances, workshops, and events are accessible to provide equal access and opportunity to people with diverse abilities.
Our dance company and diverse team of instructors work with and contract people with disabilities and ensure that all rehearsals, workshops, and performance spaces utilized provide ramps, elevators, and alternative accessibility.
ETD aims to create works that connect with vast, diverse groups. Our intended audiences for most of our projects are multi-generational LGBTQIA+, BIPOC communities, their allies, and anyone who has felt the burden of history’s repetitive nature, struggles with current crises, and longs for freedom and connection at times of trauma and confusion.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Eryc Taylor
President & Artistic Director
Eric Gunhus
Outreach & Events
Nikita Cotton
Treasurer
Pamela Snyder-Gallagher
Member
It takes a village to keep ETD moving forward!
ETD gratefully acknowledges the ongoing contributions from our consultant team: