Support

Your Support
means
the World
to us

SIDF relies on grants, personal contributions, and corporate funding. Produced by Khambatta Dance Company, your gift supports SIDF in creating a deeper understanding and mutual appreciation of different cultures. It creates opportunities for local dance artists by placing their work in the context of national and international contemporaries. In addition to performances, SIDF invites the audience to take part in classes and interactive events indoors and outdoors, celebrating the joy of the moving body for all ages.

More than 35% of KDC/SIDF’s audience earns less than 65% of Seattle’s median wage. With your support SIDF provides innovative programming while keeping the festival highly accessible, maintaining ticket prices low, and making free tickets available to those who are economically disadvantaged.

SIDF presents a diversity of contemporary perspectives through dance including every dance form from Ballet, to Modern, to Jazz, to Hip Hop and more. Since its inception in 2006, SIDF has brought hundreds of dancers from over 35 countries to Seattle to perform alongside Seattle’s many outstanding artists and companies. Exposure to this rich cultural spectrum helps create greater understanding among all people, something that makes an international festival essential for our city.

Your support, especially during this challenging time, helps maintain the complicated organizational feat the festival requires. Much of this complexity, which make SIDF unique to Seattle, has become more costly due to recent events.

We value this mission deeply. We hope you will contribute to this unique vision bringing diverse cultures to our city and celebrating local dance.

Levels of Support

Universe Changer

$25,000+

Raynier Foundation

World Changer

$10,000-$24,999

ArtsFund, ArtsWA, Glenn H. Kawasaki Foundation, 4Culture

Luminary

$5,000 – $9,999

Amazon, Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs

Champion

$1,000 – $4,999

David Bell, Cora Lee Khambatta, Fred McDonald, Tricia Stromberg, South Lake Union Chamber of Commerce, Case Van Rij, Lorraine Toly, Western States Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts

Angel

$500 – $999

Walter Eubanks, Moira Bell, Karen Helde, Loretta Johnson, Terrel Lefferts, Michele Plorde, SalesForce/Tableau Software, Shep Salusky

Benefactor

$200 – $499

Anonymous, Issa Beekun, Janice Bristol, Phillip Buffington, Jeremy Conner, Susan Edelheit, Jean Edelhertz, Becky Forland, Erica and Stuart Garrie, Thomas Gil, Beth Glosten, Lisa Lightner, Arlene Martin, Robert and Catherine McKee, Melissa Mckinney, Catherine Nueva España and Tim Mowrer, Pzemek Pardyak, Terri Rau, Margarita Ruppert, Lise Sigward, Teresa Sparling, Kent Stowell and Francia Russell, Julie Tobiason, Mustafa and Tuba Torun

Sponsor

$100 – $199

Anonymous, Paul Barry, Avery Bell, Matthew Berger, Dean Carlson, Mona Ching, Don Farrow, Penny Hutchinson, Denise Johnson, Cyrus Khambatta, Drew Kiriazides, Melinda Leas, Anna Mansbridge, Sean McCain, Chi Michalski, Achim Nicklis, Allison Sheafe, Christian Swenson, Tim Tapping, Paula Weiss, Sara Wiseman, Deborah and Roger Wolf/Curtis

Supporter

$50 – $99

Shahzad Ahsan, Ursa Curatolo, Marcia Davis, Dave Elvin, Andrew Everett, Beth Everett, Matt Fikejs, Becky Forland, Marcia Friedman, Susan Harrison, Maya Leites, James Leonard, Dara Lillis, Loretta McCarthy, Denyse McFadden, Chi Michalski, Zoltan Pekic, Susan Platt, Sharon Sharpes, Nima Sherpa, Karin Stevens, Eva Stone, Robert Strah, Pam Tharl, Toni Thomas, Lenore Waldron, Heidi Wasch, Anna Wilde

 

Friend

$10 – $49

Michael Albala, Tala Baldwin, Lisa Berenson, Carolyn Butler, Karen Bystrom, Daniel Costa, Beth Coyote, Scott Davis, David Gardner, Glow Natural Skin Care, Anna Hirko, Sue Ann Huang, Caitlyn Lamdin, Kelly Lichtenwaldt, Shi-Chia Liao, Mark Lynd, Nicole Maroutsos, Daniel Mayer, Bridget McCarty, Danielle Nicholas, Karen Ozmun, Alan Radius, Theresa Paschich, Reflexion Productions, Jennifer Rice, Maryanne Seibert, Connie Segal, Hannah Vlieger, Judith Waldman

 

Many thanks to our institutional supporters