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ESTABLISHED IN 1981 CROSS-CULTURAL DANCE RESOURCES CELEBRATES ITS 29th ANNIVERSARY IN 2010. With the average lifespan of a non-profit being 10 years, CCDR is well on its way to perpetuity.

Why this organization uses the word "Dance" in its name

(Click on line above for an explanation from CCDR's co-founder, Dr. Joann Kealiinohomoku!)

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Cross-Cultural Dance Resources, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, founded in 1981 and incorporated in the State of Arizona. The organization is dedicated to research about dance and supports many types of endeavors and activities with the dance field. Cross-Cultural Dance Resources, Inc. programs include research and consultation, performance events, discussions, and book promotions.

OPERATION OF CCDR is conducted by a small staff :The Director of Collections is co-founder Joann W. Kealiinohomoku, Ph.D. Policies are established by a Board of Directors, confirmed by the participation of its membership, the public, and various funding agencies.

SUPPORT is provided through membership dues, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, the Flagstaff Arts and Science Commission, donations and fund-raising activities. Special programs have been funded through grants from the Arizona Humanities Council, contributions from businesses and merchants, collaboration with other organizations, and the public. CCDR welcomes those who are interested in volunteering their time and skills. Contributions to CCDR as a non-profit organization are tax-deductible.

CCDR Vision Statement:

To enhance understanding of cultures through dance, and of dance through cultures, believing that dance and all the performing arts are the keys to understanding diverse peoples and their cultures, and will contribute to personal well-being and global peace.

CCDR Mission Statement:

To promote holistic understanding and appreciation of the diversity and significance of dance in cultural contexts, through research, consultation, and public presentations that incorporate both humanities and arts; to provide a "living museum" where people may explore and discuss dance cultures in a welcoming atmosphere; to maintain a library and archives that support the mission.

Goals:

• 1. Preserving Cross-Cultural Dance Resources, Inc.'s unique resources.
• 2. Developing Cross-Cultural Dance Resources, Inc.'s resources.
• 3. Expanding research opportunities.
• 4. Building the Endowment.
• 5. Maintaining a perpetual institution.
• 6. Improving access to Cross-Cultural Dance Resources, Inc.
• 7. Mentoring artists and scholars.
• 8. Increasing public awareness of Cross-Cultural Dance Resources, Inc.'s resources.

CCDR is a Concept:

Dance, defined broadly, occurs in every human society. Because all human universals are critical to societal maintenance, CCDR acknowledges that dance is not expendable. CCDR is dedicated to learning WHY dance is universal and WHY it is not expendable. It does this through programs that research dance, and it shares its findings with the public and with scholars.

CCDR is a Non-Profit Corporation for Consultation, Performance, and Research. Our purposes are charitable and educational: by promoting dance performances and research; by preserving and researching dance materials; by promoting a dynamic environment for dance events; by welcoming discussion and consultation. CCDR has also developed the use of Silhougraphs®. In the late 1960s Dr. Kealiinohomoku rendered photos of dancers into silhouettes. Dancers create shapes with their bodies, their costumes, and their paraphernalia. Several Silhougraphs®, reduced in size, are featured in this web site. What can you tell about these dancers?

CCDR Locations:

The CCDR Research Center is located within easy walking distance of downtown Flagstaff, Arizona and the Northern Arizona University. The Research Center facility includes:

• A library with more than 14,000 shelved items, that includes the books and pamphlets of Eleanor King and Gertrude Prokosch Kurath, both prominent in the fields of dance and dance scholarship.  The CCDR library, a non-lending library, is open to the public two days a week - Wednesday and Friday from noon to four, and by appointment.
• An audio-visual room that houses commercial and research sound recordings, slides, films, and videotapes.  Films include those made in the field by Nadia Chilkovsky Nahumck, renowned author and Labanotator.  Videotapes include the 30-hour JVC Anthology of World Music and Dance, and the 8-hour WNET series Dancing (for which CCDR and Dr. Kealiinohomoku were consultants).
• Files of clippings and manuscripts collected from numerous sources.
• Costume pieces and dance paraphernalia from cultures around the world.
• Musical instruments from dozen of cultures, including many collected during world travels by Dr. Daniel Crowley, anthropologist and folklorist.

The CCDR Business Office is located on the campus of Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. The CCDR Business Office serves CCDR by promoting membership in the organization, producing dance research guidance for ASU students and the public, and planning and presenting public events in partnership with the ASU Department of Dance that demonstrate the cultural functions of dance as a human universal.

CCDR is Energy:

CCDR taps into the affective values of human living that make life worthwhile, as they are expressed through the performing arts.

CCDR is sustained by the dance energy that permeates its space; by the people who participate with, at, and for CCDR; by the pervasive knowledge that dance is alive and viable throughout the world.

CCDR has been vitalized by the energies brought by its Research-Choreographer-in-Residence from 1988-1996:  Savannah Walling, Helen Pelton, David Appel, Beverly Brown, Nancy Zendora, Jonathan Lunn, Adair Landborn, Laura Whitman and Patricia Tate; and by the fundraising dinners to support the residency program, built around a cultural theme such as Thailand, the Middle East, and Japan.  CCDR activates events. CCDR has been instrumental in bringing vital dance energies and opportunities to Flagstaff since 1981 and to the ASU campus and community of Tempe since 2006.

CCDR has a Dream:

CCDR's vision is that the understanding of people, as expressed through dance and all the performing arts, will contribute to personal well-being and global peace.

CCDR envisions an increasing popular, holistic appreciation of dance, and an ever greater scholarly attention on dance.

Founded in perpetuity, CCDR envisions expansion. The CCDR Research Center and Business Office work collaboratively to:

• EXPANDED OUTREACH
  by establishing regional offices throughout the state and elsewhere.
• EXPANDED PUBLICATIONS
  As monies become available for publication, CCDR has several manuscripts in preparation.
• EXPANDED RESEARCH
  Opportunities and provisions for more interns and residents.  The development of the Silhougraph® Project.
• EXPANDED NETWORKING
  More collaboration with other organizations.  Greater use of CCDR as a resource by individuals and groups who are interested in cultural diversity and multi-culturalism.
• EXPANDED SPACE
  CCDR needs land and monies to build a larger facility in order to house archival space that is temperature and humidity controlled, with performance space, and housing for residents and guest artists.

Volunteer/Docent Program:

• Library - working with virtual library and physical library (entering data on computer and caring for shelved items)
• Hands on with archives and collections (organizing papers and filing, and repairing of costumes and musical instruments)
• Maintenance and repair of building
• Rendering Silhougraphs®
• Contacting possible donors
• Finding new members
• Researching special projects
• Grant writing
• Legal assistance
• Bookkeeping
• Serving on the Board
• Serving on the Advisory Council
• You name it!

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CCDR's BOARD OF DIRECTORS

PRESIDENT - Pegge Vissicaro

VICE-PRESIDENT - Elsie Ivancich.Dunin

SECRETARY - Danielle van Dobben

TREASURER - Joann Kealiinohomoku

EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER AT LARGE - GinaMarie . Harris

Jessica Yu

Adair Landborn

LEGAL COUNSEL - Kathleen Williamson, Attorney at Law

CCDR's ASU BUSINESS OFFICE - LaShonda L.Williams

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Cross-Cultural Dance Resources
518 S. Agassiz St.
Flagstaff, AZ 86001-5711
(928)774-8108
ccdr-researchcenter@ccdr.org

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