Organizations Filed Purposes:
CONTRA-TIEMPO is a bold, multilingual Los Angeles-based activist dance theater company creating physically intense and politically astute performance work that moves audiences to imagine what is possible. We create a new physical, visual and sonic vocabulary that collages Salsa, Afro-Cuban, hip-hop, and contemporary dance with theater, compelling text, and original music to bring dynamic multi-modal experiences to the concert stage. While our performances are consistently electrifying, what sets the company apart most is our unique relationship to our own community. CONTRA-TIEMPO takes an uncompromisingly radical approach to the ways in which artists function within communities and create their work. We intentionally engage diverse audiences, cultivate dancer leaders, and center stories not traditionally heard on the concert stage, using our engagement process to inform and continuously re-fuel our creative process, and vice-versa. Much like the communities we reach, CONTRA-TIEMPO is i
SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY PROGRAM FEES ARE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS AND DANCE EDUCATION PROGRAMS, SCHOOL INSTRUCTION ON STANDARDS-BASED PERFORMING ARTS CURRICULUM FOR K-12 (USUALLY 10-15 WEEKS OF INSTRUCTION). IN ADDITION TO A WEEKLY LOS ANGELES BASED COMMUNITY CLASS, MASTER CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS ARE HELD ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. CONTRA-TIEMPO WORKED WITH OVER 60,000 YOUNG PEOPLE THIS YEAR AND HAS BEEN INVITED TO PRESENT THIS INNOVATIVE MODEL OF DANCE EDUCATION TO OTHER PROFESSIONALS IN THE FIELD. EACH YEAR, CONTRA-TIEMPO OFFERS A SUMMER DANCE INTENSIVE PROGRAM FOR YOUNG PEOPLE (TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS). THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN A PLACE WHERE NEW COMPANY MEMBERS HAVE ALSO EMERGED.
DANCE PERFORMANCES ARE HELD THROUGHOUT LOS ANGELES COUNTY, NEW YORK CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, IOWA, TEXAS AND MANY OTHER STATES. THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, MANAGING DIRECTOR AND PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS HAVE ALL SERVED ON VARIOUS ARTS ADVOCACY PANELS, LEADERSHIP INSTITUTES AND PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES, REPRESENTING CONTRA-TIEMPO AS A LEADING FORCE IN IMPACTING THE FIELD OF DANCE AND THE PERFORMING ARTS. CONTRA-TIEMPO'S ARTS EDUCATION PROGRAMS HAVE GROWN EXPONENTIALLY AND HAVE EXPANDED FROM OVER 30 SCHOOLS IN LOS ANGELES.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Dawn Comer | President | 1.5 | $0 |
| Jonathan Lowe | Vice President | 1 | $0 |
| Ana Maria Alvarez-Lowe | exec/art direct | 40 | $0 |
| Cassondra Ruga | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Francisca Sanchez | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Sarah Culberson | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Vivian Rodriguez | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Tanya Finks | Director | 1 | $0 |
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