Foundation support for Ormao’s programs is an essential 18% of our annual budget in 2022. Individual Contributions in 2022 supported 17% of our annual budget. This financial support directly impacts your community so our professional modern dance company can continue to bring guest artists, dancers, and choreographers to the community and support the artists who live here. In addition our Community Engagement programs rely on this support and they include our Dance for Parkinson’s program, Hillside Dancing Your Stories Elders classes, and our Hands are for Holding program, an interactive school assembly program uses dance performance, gesture, and dialogue to explore bullying, healthy and unhealthy relationships, social isolation, boundaries, consent, and technological abuse. 

 

Currently we are supported by the Bee Vradenburg Foundation, Kirkpatrick Family Fund, The Strub Heer Fund, Ent Credit Union, and Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation and The Tiemens Private Wealth Management Group of Wells Fargo Advisors, Please give them a round of applause!

Ormao Dance Company has been blessed with many individuals contributing generously because they believe in the life-changing, creative experiences and our collaborative community spirit. 

 

We created the Ormao Hill Scholarship Fund to support dancers who have demonstrated a high level of dedication to the art of dance and a desire to continue studying dance in higher education.

 

Our 2022 Scholarship recipients are Claire Brown, Aurora Tobey, and Brier Witherow. 

Our 2021 Scholarship recipients were Lillian Parsons attending Colorado University in Boulder, Colorado and Mikaela Pearce attending Brigham Young University in Idaho.

During 2020 we placed our scholarship fund on hold. 

In 2017 we supported several young refugee students and Ms Celeste Brace.

In 2015 and 2016 our recipients were Ms. Melissa Stokes, Ms. Marley Ferguson Hautzinger, and Ms Hadleigh Swarts are currently enrolled at Colorado Mesa University, Colorado College, and CU-Boulder.

In 2014 our second award went to Ms. Oksana Kuzma who recently graduated with her BFA from University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana and is now dancing with Hedwig Dances in Chicago.

In 2013 our first award went to Ms. Heather Woolley who is now a CU-Boulder graduate, has served as Ormao’s Assistant Director of School Operations, and is now moving to NYC. In 2014 our second award went to Ms. Oksana Kuzma who recently graduated with her BFA from University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana and is now dancing with Hedwig Dances in Chicago. 

 

Thank you, thank you, philanthropy makes our world go around!