Cora Dance Staff & Board of Directors

Artistic Director: Shannon Hummel shummel@coradance.org
Education Manager: Katie Dean kdean@coradance.org
Operations Manager: Nadia Tykulsker ntykulsker@coradance.org
Walkover Care & Administrative Assistant: Sarah Burke sburke@coradance.org
Events Coordinator: Michelle Grazio mgrazio@coradance.org
Development Consultant: Lauren Gibbs
Operations & Events Consultant: Rachel Wagner
Webmaster & Technical Support: Brandt Wagner
Education Intern: Louisa Martinez

Shannon Hummel/Cora Dance Company Members: Kelly Bartnik, Xan Burley, Galois Cohen, Katie Dean, Calia Marshall; Extended cast: Sarah Burke, Nadia Tykulsker

Cora School for Dance Faculty: Sarah Burke, Xan Burley, Courtney Cooke, Sarah Folland, Jennifer Schmermund

Board of Directors: Danielle Vidals, President; Ellen Vaz, Vice-President;
Kelly Bartnik, Treasurer/Artist Member; Shannon Hummel;

Cora Inc. strives to bring the work of choreographer and arts educator Shannon Hummel to the widest possible audience, with particular focus on communities who lack performing arts experiences due to limited financial resources or other isolating factors. Cora believes that creating a culture of trust and respect between diverse people allows all those involved in a creative endeavor - artists, students, audiences and community members - to learn from one another openly, take risks together and connect more deeply. Through the professional contemporary dance company, Shannon Hummel/Cora Dance, and its educational arm, Cora School for Dance, Cora brings high quality programs and performances to communities across the country.

The Cora School of Dance strives to be an exceptional dance school that feels like a home where students receive strong technical instruction while expanding their creativity and sense of community through dance and related arts. Cora breaks down socio-economic barriers that keep many families from being able to take advantage of quality dance education programs by providing all of our classes on a pay-what-you-can basis, turning no one away based on the ability to pay.

For more information, please contact:

Shannon Hummel/Cora Dance
201 Richards Street, Box #5
Brooklyn, NY 11231
(718) 858-2520
www.coradance.org

Cora, Inc. is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization which consists of the professional company – Cora Dance – and the educational arm of that company – The Cora School for Dance. Cora's programs have been supported this year by the The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, The Copper-Beech Foundation, The Brooklyn Community Foundation, The Brooklyn Arts Council/The New York State Council on the Arts Regrant Program, Michael & Cornelia Bessie Foundation, The Robertson Foundation, Materials for the Arts and by our generous individual contributors. We are proud that our programs have received community support in the areas of promotion and/or programming by Martha Bowers Dance Theater Etcetera, Red Hook Rise, PS 15, PAVE Academy Charter School, Red Hook Initiative, Red Hook Economic Development, among other generous institutions.