Dances for a Variable Population
Dances for a Variable Population (DVP), is a multi-generational dance company and educational organization, promoting strong and creative movement among adults of all ages and abilities, with a special focus on seniors. Through free dance performance and workshop programming in city parks and transportation hubs, free classes in senior centers, community centers, and library sites across the city, DVP uses the power of dance to connect communities and support individual wellness.
- Year
- 2026
- Purpose
- The CCS grant will support a Senior Dance and Wellness Initiative, including the continuing free MOVEMENT SPEAKS® workshops serving 320 older adults in Morningside Heights and Harlem.
- Amount
- $4,000
- Year
- 2025
- Purpose
- The CCS grant supported the Senior Dance and Wellness Initiative, including the continuing free MOVEMENT SPEAKS® Seniors workshops.
- Amount
- $4,000
- Year
- 2024
- Purpose
- The CCS grant was used to support the Senior Dance and Wellness Initiative, including the continuing free MOVEMENT SPEAKS® workshops serving 480 older adults.
- Amount
- $4,000
- Year
- 2023
- Purpose
- The CCS grant was used to support the Senior Dance and Wellness Initiative, including: continuing free MOVEMENT SPEAKS® workshops, Dances for Seniors workshops, and the free public performances of Revival: Revelries.
- Amount
- $4,000
- Year
- 2022
- Purpose
- The CCS grant was used to support a Senior Dance and Wellness Initiative, including the continuing free MOVEMENT SPEAKS® workshops in Morningside Heights and Harlem at 8 locations and online, Dances For Seniors workshops in four senior centers, and the free public performances of Revival: Home/Body/Care at Grant’s Tomb.
- Amount
- $6,000
- Year
- 2021
- Purpose
- The CCS grant was used to support the Senior Dance and Wellness Initiative, providing free MOVEMENT SPEAKS® workshops serving older adults in West Harlem, Central Harlem, and the Upper West Side.
- Amount
- $5,000
- Year
- 2020
- Purpose
- The CCS grant was used to support the Senior Dance and Wellness Initiative. This will support continuing free MOVEMENT SPEAKS® workshops in West Harlem, Central Harlem, and the Upper West Side, and the creation of a new site-specific dance work REVIVAL 4: WISE BODIES, featuring renowned guest artists, neighborhood seniors and the DVP company performing at Grant’s Tomb in June 2020.
- Amount
- $4,000
- Year
- 2019
- Purpose
- The CCS grant was used to fund weekly dance workshops and a culminating performance that reached 175 senior participants. These programs impacted the lives of New York City's growing population of older adults, helping to improve their physical, mental, and emotional health, by fighting obesity, hypertension, social isolation, depression, and low rates of more than moderate exercise--risk factors that are especially prevalent among lower-income seniors.
- Amount
- $4,000