AXIS Dance Company
California performing company internationally known for "integrated dance," with community outreach and education component "Dance Access" about disability, accessibility and collaboration.

AfroReggae
Cultural group (break-dance, capoeira, circus and 11-piece band) established in the favela (shantytown) of Vigário Geral, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1993. They aim "to take young people out of the drug trade through arts-based activities," working in the poorest, most violent communities in Rio. Insight programme: community-based mixed-arts workshops, debates and trainings.

Art Share Los Angeles
Community arts incubator whose mission is "to shape lives through art, education and community action." Free art classes, 99-seat dance studio and theater, the Warehouse Art Gallery, a computer lab, art studio, classroom spaces and 30 residential lofts for low-income artists. Programs: BLAST (Building Language and Art Skills Together), Community Beautification Program.

ArtSpot Productions
Multidisciplinary performance company based in New Orleans, La. projects include LCIW Drama Club, a theatre company of inmates at Louisiana Correctional Institute for Woman, founded by Kathy Randels in 1996, co-directed by Ausettua Amor Amenkum.

ArtSpring
Founded by Leslie Neal in 1992, provides specifically designed arts-based programming to women in correctional facilities and girls in the juvenile justice system and foster care. ArtSpring offers "Inside Out," the longest ongoing arts in corrections program for incarcerated women in the state of Florida.

Arts Share
Community arts program of the University of Iowa's Division of Performing Arts, School of Art and Art History and Writers' Workshop. Interactive performances, workshops, readings, residencies and master classes statewide by faculty artists and graduate students. School programs, Arts Share Summer Camp, Patient Voice Project offering creative writing classes to chronically ill hospital patients.

Aune Head Arts
Rurally based contemporary arts organization working closely with artists and communities in and around Dartmoor National Park, Somerset, England, since 1996. Commissions, residencies, workshops, training, professional development, building relationships with rural communities through artist-led creative projects. MA in Arts & Cultural Management at Dartington College of Arts. Projects: Focus on Farming, Women in Farming, Big Dance on Dartmoor.

Battery Dance
Community dance company in New York city that tours outside the country with the U.S. State Department.

Bird Brain
"Navigational project" by Jennifer Monson and dance company: five-year investigation of migratory pathways of whales and birds across northern and southern hemispheres.

Black August Hip Hop Project
International cultural-activist exchange founded by Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Stress Magazine, and Students for Jericho. Develops and implements International Human Rights Campaign using Hip Hop as a tool and common language. International network of hip-hop artists and activists in three countries. Hip Hop Activism workshops, exchanges between international communities, annual events, DVD and mix tape, benefits for political prisoners. Named after organization established in California prison system in early 1970s by men and women of the Black Liberation Movement.

Brooklyn College Art Lab
Arts and technology after-school site in Brooklyn, N.Y., serving some 700 students a year from some 30 high schools, averaging 80-100 students per day. Central node for The Arts Network at Brooklyn College Community Partnership, a creative learning network linking the college to the communities of Brooklyn; programs in seven Brooklyn high schools.

Celeste Miller and Company
A performance artist/choreographer working in communities all over U.S., in schools, with nurses, with mothers and daughters, with teachers. Has outstanding models for working with movement and math, science, social studies. Offers training in community arts techniques.

Children's Dance Foundation
Dance-education organization in Birmingham, Ala., reaching 3,000 children a week. Movement-to-Music program at 30 community sites, reaching 1,500 students ages 2-7 years; more than at-risk or disadvantaged, many with physical, emotional or mental disabilities.

CityStep
Harvard-Radcliffe student organization in partnership with Cambridge, Mass., public schools; undergraduate teams teach fifth-graders self-esteem through dance and theater. Founded1983 by Sabrina Peck.

Clabber, Coal & Ceilidh
Project at Scottish Mining Museum in Newtongrange, May 2006; 170 primary-school children and support staff from four primary schools attended workshops looking at mining life through dance, poetry and drama, song and percussion. Site includes feedback from students, teachers.

Comin' On Over: The Legacies of Urban Bush Women
A "hyperessay" (online, nonlinear essay with Internet hyperlinks) - by Ananya Chatterjea, Ahree Lee and the Walker Art Center -- about the dance-theater company Urban Bush Women.

Dance Arizona Repertory Theatre (DART)
Community partnership and repertory company of Herberger College Department of Dance at Arizona State University. Develops collaborative creative partnerships with area schools, after-school programs and local and national artists.

Dance Mission Theater
San Francisco-based organization including Dance Brigade, a six-member professional women's socio-political, dance-theater and drumming company; annual events showcasing emerging and established Bay Area choreographers; instructional dance program serving adults and youth; 140-seat Dance Mission Theater; rentals. Includes GRRRL Brigade, a dance, theater and taiko drumming company for girls ages 13 and up; and Junior GRRRL Brigade for ages 9-12; both perform regularly in Bay Area for school assemblies, demonstrations, conferences. Also GRRRLs Dance Camp, summers.

Dance4Life
International collaborative youth project against HIV/AIDS. Culminates in young people dancing nonstop for five hours worldwide on Saturday preceding World AIDS Day (December 1). Part of World AIDS Campaign supported by UNAIDS.

DanceArts Vancouver
Performing arts organization with projects for social change called Earth, Fire and Ice. Special focus on teens, environment. Directed by Judith Marcuse.

Even Exchange Dance Theater
Modern dance company based in Raleigh, N.C. Wide variety of community residencies and projects.

Foundation for Community Dance
National development agency for community dance in U.K. Projects, conferences, seminars, advice service, two regular journals.

Fountainhead: Black International Cinema
International, intercultural organization based in Berlin, Germany, producing annual film festival, weekly television program, publications, cinema distribution, dance theater.

Full Radius Dance
Atlanta-based modern-dance company including dancers with disabilities. Positive Motion program for children with disabilities.

Global Site Performance
Site-specific community choreographer Marylee Hardenbergh's organization, based in Minneapolis, Minn. Large performances with community members, including cancer patients and their caregivers, seniors, homeless men, mothers & daughters. Sites include Mississippi River, rivers, lakes, bridges, boats, large machines. Includes One River Mississippi, performed by hundreds along the river in 2006.

Great Leap
Performing-arts organization dedicated to principles of deepening race relations and promoting harmony between diverse cultural groups. School, youth programs. Rooted in Asian-American community of Los Angeles, Calif. Directed by Nobuko Miyamoto.

John Michael Kohler Arts Center
A 100,000-square-foot visual and performing-arts complex devoted to innovative explorations in contemporary art; new models for community arts; educational partnering with an emphasis on early-childhood education; presenting performing artists; supporting practicing artists through residencies and fellowships. Complex includes ten galleries, theater, interdisciplinary performance space, studio-classrooms, meeting spaces, gift shop and café. Community Arts Department, a programming department at the Arts Center has five programs: Connecting Communities, The ARTery, the Community Gallery, the Partnership Program and Community Events.

Kairos Dance Theatre
Intergenerational modern-dance company based in Minneapolis, Minn. Programs include The Dancing Hearts: Vital Elders Moving in Community; Dancing Heart Caregiver Training Program; residencies, classes, playshops. Founded by Artistic Director Maria DuBois Genné.

Liz Lerman Dance Exchange
National performance company and "school for movement arts and art movements, meshing people across generations, disciplines and styles," based in Takoma Park, Md. Offers training in community art techniques. Moving Dialogues: discussions on the intersections of the arts with other disciplines. Teen Exchange: artistic immersion program for Washington, D.C. area youth between the ages of 13 and 17 (includes The Rick Project).

Lokkala's Sabrang
Folk-art music and dance group based in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. Lokkala's Sabrang ("wanderer") is "a musical caravan throughout the Thar Desert." Cultural events, seminars, workshops, conferences, cultural tourism. Directed by Karun Goyal.

Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
Cultural organization in San Pablo, Calif. (San Francisco East Bay Area) training youth in traditional arts. School for the Arts, community events, cultural exchange, mentorship, touring group, community recording studio.

Martha Bowers Dance Theater Etcetera
New York based performance company bringing community members and professional artists together as performers in site-specific works that deal with issues relevant to the surrounding community. Offers training in community art techniques.

Moving in the Spirit
Dance and training programs for Atlanta, Ga., young people in inner-city shelters, schools, public housing. Apprenticeship Corporation teaching problems-solving, critical thinking, Kinetechs tech training program in theater production and stage management.

National Dance Institute
Nonprofit arts education organization founded in 1976 by Jacques d'Amboise. Uses dance "as a catalyst to engage children and motivate them towards excellence." In-school partnerships, workshops, public performances.

NiteStar Program
Drama, music and peer-education for pre-adolescents, adolescents and young adults living with HIV/AIDS. Includes direct service, training and technical assistance. Productions created by members of the company, with followup workshops, heighten awareness, provide accurate information and help to reduce risky behaviors. Founded by Dr. Cydelle Berlin in 1987. Located at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York City, N.Y.

Pat Graney Company
Dance/theater company based in Seattle, Wash. Includes dance in prisons.

Prison Creative Arts Project
Committed to original work in the arts in Michigan correctional facilities and juvenile detention centers, presenting prison artists in theate and dance performances and visual art; exhibits are online. Directed by Buzz Alexander.

Project Self Discovery
Cleo Parker Dance School program providing "pro-social alternatives to drugs, crime and violence" for youth in Denver. Twelve-week intensive offers 10-15 phase program: Mental Preparation, Art Classes, Rites of Passage, Community Performances and Graduation.

Prometheus Dance
Modern dance ensemble with community programs in prisons, battered women’s shelters, Alzheimer's Center, public schools. Free, after-school Technical Theatre and Design Program for hearing-impaired and at-risk teens. Elders Ensemble performing in senior centers, healthcare facilities, community events and with the main company in special choreographic projects. Founded 1987 by Diane Arvanites-Noya; directed by Noya and Tommy Neblett. Based in Cambridge, Mass.

Second Wave Dance
Leader in new community dance movement in Cornwall, England. Proponent of Noze Looan, updated Cornish roots dance and music featuring mass community participation.

Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater
Minneapolis, Minn.-based company that includes "Caring for the Caregiver," helping healthcare professionals find expression for complex emotional issues encountered in their work.

Tamalpa Institute
Movement-based healing arts program withtraining programs and workshops in the Halprin Process, integrating movement/dance, visual arts, performance techniques and therapeutic practices to support personal, interpersonal and social transformation, teaching new models for health, psychology, art and communication. Co-founded 1978 by Anna and Daria Halprin. Workshops, certification, degrees, professional registrations, CEUs, apprenticeships.

Tigertail Productions
Florida's pioneer presenter of innovative art since 1979. International exchanges, Tigertail Youth Project in Little Havana, danceAble, educational and community programs. Based in Miami, directed by Founder Mary Luft.

Village Dancers
San Francisco State University program (through S.F. Urban Institute) that sends students to teach free dance classes to children in San Francisco's Visitacion Valley and Bayview neighborhoods. Founded 2001 by Katherine Dunham Technique Dance Master Albirda Rose of SFSU’s School of Music and Dance; taught by SFSU’s graduate and undergraduate dance students. Annual concert.

Women at Work Domestic Violence Project
Project of Gina Gibney Dance in partnership with Sanctuary for Families and other organizations. Dance workshop for domestic violence survivors. Based in New York City.

Women@Work
Project of New York's Gina Gibley Dance focusing on domestic violence. Works with Safe Harbor victim-assistance organization.

Zaccho Dance Theatre
Site-specific dance and arts-education company with offices in San Francisco's Bayview/Hunter's Point district and partnerships with neighborhood social-service, educational and community-support institutions. Youth training in aerial dance, performance, community research; Zaccho Youth company of performers ages 11-14; student performances in S.F. theaters, artspaces. Directed by choreographer Joanna Haigood.

iLAND
iLAND = interdisciplinary Laboratory of Art, Nature and Dance. Dance research organization with "a fundamental commitment to environmental sustainability as it relates to art and the urban context." Cultivates cross-disciplinary research among artists, environmentalists, scientists, urban designers and other fields. Projects: iLAB (residency program) and iMAP (interdisciplinary Mobile Architecture and Performance). Jennifer Monson, artistic director.