Organizations Filed Purposes:
Ngoma Center for Dance (N-Go-mah) is a 501(c)3 arts organization whose mission is to provide a conduit between multicultural dance artists and their enthusiasts, across generations and social classes, with a deeper understanding of the art of dance through intense community integration, inspirational performance, competitive training, and artist development.
Dissonance Dance Theatre (founded in 2007) is the Resident Ballet of Ngoma Center for Dance. Named One of the 11 small-but-mighty dance companies outside of LA and NYC by Dance Spirit Magazine, Dissonance Dance Theatre is a Washington, DC-based professional dance company founded in 2007 by Shawn Short. Since its inception, Dissonance Dance Theatre has performed for local and national audiences on the east coast and in the mid-west states.
Launched in the Summer of 2020 in partnership with Dog Bark Media LLC (a DC-based media company), Ngoma Film Works (NFW) is a program that highlights urban and classic society, human relationships, cultural history, and visual-choreo art through documentaries and narrative film. Created to further Ngoma's ability to enlighten artists through creative innovation, expand its audience viewership and build new video and visual artist relationships for future collaboration, NFW's strengthens further its mission of community integration, inspirational performance, and artistic development. Goals of the Program: 1. Create original stories that further the field of dance. 2. Push creative innovation that celebrates the African-American experience. 3. Pose questions through narrative film, to engage and inspire.
The official school of Dissonance Dance Theatre, DC's Only African-American managed, and nationally-recognized contemporary ballet. The Ngoma School's programs (founded in 2014) are Summer DanceLab, school-year program, community dance classes, Saturday Hip-Hop, Workforce:DanceDC. Programs enroll students at least seven years old.
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 |
|---|
| Chris Holland | Technical Director | 5 | $0 |
| Phillip Fobbs | Admin and Teacher | 31 | $0 |
| Quoc Tran | Board Member | 5 | $0 |
| Tony Thomas | Board Member | 5 | $0 |
| Anthony Hyman M Ed | Board Member | 5 | $0 |
| Dr Benjamin A Dukes Phd Licsw | Board Member | 5 | $0 |
| Jessica Potts | Secretary | 5 | $0 |
| Tyler Lewis | Vice Chairman | 5 | $0 |
| Dave Domzalski | Chairman | 5 | $0 |
| Anthony Spivey | Admin - Treasurer | 27 | $0 |
| Shawn Short | CEO - President | 60 | $0 |
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