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From working with developers on affordable live/work housing for artists to offering key services to emerging arts organizations and expanding audiences for arts programming, Cultural Development Corporation (CuDC) is building DC’s arts industry and providing artists with greater opportunities to build their capacity. Among CuDC’s recent accomplishments over the past two years:
- Purchased and renovated Source on 14th Street, NW and embarked upon a $3.5M campaign to rehabilitate the performing arts center to provide office, classroom, rehearsal and performance space for Source resident companies and DC-based groups;
- Produced ACTIVATE!, Source’s community opening weekend, that welcomed hundreds of community families and friends for workshops and performances by Washington Improv Theater, Constellation Theatre Company, The In Series, Sol y Soul, Young Playwright’s Theatre, Adventure Theatre, Step Afrika!, Maru Montero Dance Company, BosmaDance, Sahara Dance and more;
- Produced Source Festival, inspired by the former DC theatre mainstay the Washington Theatre Festival, as an annual curated performing arts festival. The three week festival showcased 25 world premiere 10-minute plays, six one acts by local and national playwrights, six interdisciplinary commissioned pieces and 10 plays written, rehearsed and performed in 24 hours;
- Hosted more than 600 classes and rehearsals in the Dallas Morse Coors Dance Studio at Flashpoint, featuring Middle-Eastern and Southeast Asian dance classes from Sahara Dance and Dhoonya Dance, rehearsals for StepAfrika!, Maru Montero Dance Company, Dissonance Dance and other choreographers and participated in Dance Is the Answer Week for 2007 and 2008. The Dallas Morse Coors Dance Studio also functioned as a rehearsal hall for George Washington University’s Academy for Classical Acting during the 2007-2008 season and was the site for the 2008 Source Festival auditions;
- Hosted more than 360 performances and rehearsals in the Gilbert & Jaylee Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint, including theatre, music, dance, cabaret, improv and film;
- Presented 29 art exhibitions in the Gallery at Flashpoint, including Earth on Stone on Earth is Naturally So, a bewitching meditation on the human relationship with nature featuring the work of poets, filmmakers and visual artists from around the country;
- Presented 11 productions as part of the Mead Theatre Lab Program at Flashpoint and expanded the program to seven productions in the 2008 – 2009 season including three new works by emerging local theatre companies, a world-premiere dance, music and sculpture collaboration and the reading of a year-long play development project;
- Hosted 40 events in the Business Center at Flashpoint, including monthly resident organization meetings, New Space Roundtables, Arts Leaders Who Lunch Roundtables and industry specific workshops;
- Graduated five Flashpoint resident organizations: Capital Fringe, the producing body of the Capital Fringe Festival moved into donated office space after a very successful first year; Step Afrika!, having expanded from one to three full-time staff members moved into larger office space with access to rehearsal space; Black Women Playwrights’ Group, now with a national membership, moved to larger shared office space; Washington Improv Theater, with expanded staff and programming moved into Source; The In Series, also with expanded staff, took up residency at Source;
- Awarded the Washington Post Award for Innovative Leadership in the Theatre Community at the 2007 Helen Hayes Awards for CuDC’s commitment to saving and transforming Source (April 2007);
- Awarded the 2008 Mayor’s Arts Award for Excellence in Service to the Arts for the tremendous impact CuDC has had on the arts community as well as the community as a whole;
- Received theMeyer Exponent Award in recognition of Executive Director Anne Corbett and her work as a visionary leader;
- Began assisting the City of Takoma Park with the redesign of their auditorium to serve as a multi-user cultural and arts facility in addition to being the home to the City Council hearings;
- Began assisting Artspace Projects with the development of affordable live/work apartments in conjunction with a new facility for Dance Place in Brookland;
- Created a business plan for development of a cultural arts center as part of the Eastgate Gardens HOPE VI project in Ward 7 of Washington, DC.
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