2025-12-04T19:04:23Z 2025-06-30 990 2024-07-01 871361252 DANCEAST COLLECTIVE DANC 6156011897 805 WOODLAND ST UNIT 314 NASHVILLE TN 372063765 Emily Masters Founder 6156011897 2025-12-04 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Emily Masters 805 Woodland St Unit 314 Nashville TN 37206 334000 false X X 2021 TN DancEast Collective provides accessible, community-centered dance education and performance opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds. Our goal is to expand access to high-quality dance training, support professional and emerging artists, and strengthen community through creative expression. We offer pay-what-you-can classes, youth programs, workshops with diverse teaching artists, and free or low-cost performances in accessible venues such as libraries and schools. DancEast also partners with local organizations to deliver arts programming to underserved communities. Through inclusive practices and a commitment to diversity, we ensure that dance is available to anyone who wishes to participate, regardless of financial, cultural, or physical barriers. 7 7 14 0 0 71733 35800 278694 298200 0 0 15416 0 365843 334000 0 0 0 0 184927 199342 0 0 0 126131 134010 311058 333352 54785 648 0 0 0 0 0 0 To cultivate a community of students, artists, and audiences by offering high-quality and accessible dance education, creation, performance, and engagement opportunities. false false 16400 9000 Dance for Every Body. DancEast Collective is committed to making dance accessible to students, artists, and audiences. The Dance for Every Body project was centered around the portion of our mission that seeks to offer highly-accessible, community-based dance programs. While a project focused on offering free dance instruction to pretty much anyone interested in moving their body may on the surface appear to be about dance education (and it is for sure), this project was just as much about exposure to the art of dance and building an appreciation for that art. The impact of the project is in the cultivation of love for the art of dance and the fact that we were able to offer the experience of dancing together as a community to many individuals - ranging from those with a fairly significant amount of dance education/experience to those who had never even stepped foot into a dance class before. DancEast has been offering and promoting dance education, artistry, and outreach throughout the Nashville community for more than a decade. Funding from the Metro Nashville Arts Commission - via a grant for $16,400 - allowed us to expand our reach in very exciting ways in FY25. Additional revenue is donations from community members and businesses. DancEast was founded with the intention of creating a space where anyone could dance in a positive and non-competitive environment, regardless of their background, body type, or socioeconomic level. This project moved us forward in pursuit of that goal. 1600 282200 DancEast Collective Youth. We were highly successful in achieving the goals for our youth programming in FY25. DancEast Collective served 63 youth between the ages of 8 and 18 in the DancEast Studio. We served an additional 28 youth in that age range in Metro Nashville Public Schools. The DancEast Collective Youth program was offered to 22 youth between the ages of 8 and 18 at no cost. An additional 12 students in that age range received dance instruction at a significantly reduced cost, and one 7-year-old did, as well. 20 youth in Metro Nashville Public Schools received dance instruction at no cost to them, and an additional 8 students in MNPS received instruction at a significantly reduced cost. 29.6% of the total 91 students served are BIPoC. While we contracted with 8, rather than the projected 14, teaching artists, we did surpass the goal of half of them identifying as BIPoC or LGBTQIA+ (75%). We paid them on average $60/hour, surpassing the goal of $50/hour. We met our goal of offering 2 youth dance performances for the community, surpassing our goal of 20 youth and 40 adults for the free show in December and also surpassing our goal of 20 free tickets given out for the April show. Revenue is from payments for youth dance lessons, ticket sales, and contracts with Metro Nashville Public Schools to provide after school dance programs. The grant was $1,600 from the Capezio Foundation. 8800 16000 DancEast Company. Being able to pay competitive wages to dancers is an incredibly important part of our mission. The fact that 3 of the 6 dancers in the company are Latine (1 born in Cuba and another in Mexico) is something of which we are quite proud. We hear from audiences that they are moved by the diversity of the company and the ingenuity of the movement they represent. A member of the audience at the free performance in the gallery at the downtown Nashville Public Library stated "I see collaboration. I see reaction. I see consciousness." He just happened into the performance but was moved to sit down and stay for the entirety of it. That single interaction was so perfectly representative of what we are trying to do by offering dance in unexpected places for anyone and everyone to experience and enjoy. This project was made possible in part by an Arts Project grant in the amount of $8,800 from the TN Arts Commission. Revenue is from ticket sales and payment for adults to take dance lessons. 0 true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false 0 0 14 true false false false false false false X 7 7 false false false false false false false true true false false true true false false false false false false false TN X Emily Masters 6156011897 805 Woodland St Unit 314 Nashville TN 37206 Lauren Melancon Education Director 30.00 X 45000 0 0 Emily Masters Executive Director 10.00 X 1 0 0 Lara Kennedy Operations Manager 20.00 X 24000 0 0 Elizabeth Wilkinson Artistic Director 20.00 X 30000 0 0 99001 0 0 0 true false false 0 25200 10600 35800 298200 298200 298200 334000 298200 0 0 45001 45001 120919 120919 33422 33422 20910 20910 5200 5200 3500 3500 100900 50450 50450 3500 3500 333352 195779 137573 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 648 0 0 0 0 0 X false false false false X 0 0 0 2700 65502 35800 104002 0 192455 195566 284925 298200 971146 0 0 0 15416 0 15416 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 192455 198266 365843 334000 1090564 0 0 0 1090564 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 192455 198266 365843 334000 1090564 X 1.00000 1.00000 0.00000 0.00000 false false false false false false false false false Part I, Line 1a None of those apply. Part VI, Line 11b Form 990 provided to all officers via email attachment. Part VI, Line 19 All are available upon request. I had emergency surgery in late September followed by ongoing health issues. Most recently I got strep and then had an allergic reaction to the antibiotics. So overall it's just been a very difficult quarter, and I'm finally well enough to sit down to complete this. As a small organization with a very small staff that is mostly focused on program delivery, the responsibility of filing the 990 falls solely on me. Deepest apologies for it being late.