MOVING CURRENT INC.
TAMPA, FLORIDA

Help sustain dance in Tampa Bay TODAY! MISSION + VISION + HISTORY mission Moving Current mission is to create a constant flow of dance into the Tampa Bay area and a place to work for dancers in our community by producing professional choreographers and an annual programs for Florida’s choreographers and their dancers. Moving Current works to collaborate with artists to create programs that provide people of every age and background the opportunity to learn and express themselves through dance, without compromising the integrity of contemporary dance. Moving Current envisions a strong contemporary dance community that has multiple opportunities for people of all abilities and backgrounds to enjoy and participate in contemporary dance. Founded in 1997, Moving Current Dance Collective has found its voice by bringing contemporary dance to the Bay Area. With a group of talented and diverse dancers, Moving Current has established itself as one of Southeastern Region’s top modern dance companies. Each season, Moving Current offers their community two professional concerts and NewGrounds, a concert dedicated to Florida’s chorographers. Moving Current has produced 80+ evening concerts presenting local and national choreographers, dancers, musicians, poets, actors, and visual artists. Along with original work by Cardinal, Hennessy & Bourgeois, they have also presented the work of Michael Foley, George Staib, Sara Sweet Rabidoux, David Dorfman, Stephanie Skura, Jennifer Nugent and Paul Matteson and many others. Moving Current also presents “On the Spot” which is an improvisational based concert series performed in non-traditional venues such as museums, outdoor locations, schools and various other non-theater performance spaces. Besides promoting professional choreographers and dancers, Moving Current is also committed to arts education for students of all ages. Every year the collective conducts workshops and residencies in public schools K-12, including our original performance of “Dancing Verbs, Adverbs & Similes” that merges language arts and dance for elementary school children. We offer classes in dance to the community and annually lead an Inter-Generational project funded in part by the Arts Council of Hillsborough County and centers around the Forever Moving Dance Group, dancers and movers ages 50-85, and Hillsborough County students ages 6 - 18. This group of individuals come together to interrelate through art and dance created from their own words and movement. In 2007, Moving Current was the Company in Residence at the Florida Dance Festival teaching and performing in Miami, FL. In addition, Moving Current produces an annual concert dedicated to emerging choreographers called NewGrounds. For 13 years, over 50 local and national choreographers and nearly 200 dancers have shared their exciting work with Tampa Bay audiences. Moving Current was the only organization to receive an Emerging Group Grant from the Arts Council of Hillsborough County in 1999. Since then, we have received funding from the State of Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, the Arts Council of Hillsborough County, South Arts, the Knox Family Foundation & the Gobioff Foundation along with many individual contributors. MOVING CURRENT | dance collective Help sustain dance in Tampa Bay TODAY! Moving Current is made possible by the generosity of our amazing sponsors and donors. It you would like to help bring dynamic contemporary dance programming to the Tampa Bay Area, donate here today! Help sustain dance in Tampa Bay TODAY! MOVING CURRENT | dance collective Help sustain dance in Tampa Bay TODAY!