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Pamela Trokanski Dance Theatre

News & Updates

Time goes fast! This year is our 40th season of Dance in Davis...

We've got our upcoming season dates, so mark your calendars now!

Our Fall concert, Leaving One's Self Behind (working title) will run on Saturday and Sunday, November 16 and 17th.

Something for the Holidays, Saturday, December 14

Davis Dance Project, Saturday and Sunday, March 1 and 2.

Spring Concert, Saturday and Sunday, May 3 and 4. The working title is Game Theory & Life Choices

Auditions for our upcoming season were held August 24.

We had a lovely turn-out for auditions for our 40th Season, with several new dancers joining us this year.

If you are someone who was interested in working with one of the companies (PTDT, Light Ballet Company, PTDT Apprentice Company or The Third Stage) but you missed auditions, please contact us at office@trokanski.com. We know that life happens and can arrange for auditions on other days.

The Big Day of Giving was May 2, 2024... 24 hours to give where your heart lives!

We believe in dance and multiple art forms as tools for physical and mental well-being, academic enrichment, and to support a thriving and connected community. And we want to Thank Everyone who helped us raise $14,432 this year!

Your support on the Big Day of Giving helps us maintain and grow our programs which, in addition to premiering new works in concert for 39 years, include our Dance For Parkinson's program which provides free movement classes for people living with Parkinson's Disease and their caregivers, our Second Wind Dance program which provide free classes for adults 65 and older, our week-long summer camp for school-age children 6 - 12 that uses movement and visual arts for academic enrichment in reading and writing, the Annual Davis Dance Project that produces collaborative community performances with free tickets for children 12 and younger, and our Dance in Public Places program with free classes for the community to learn dances and perform with the companies in public. Also, this year we began a scholarship program providing opportunities for community members for whom dance training may not fit the family budget.

To find out more about us on the Giving Edge: https://www.bigdayofgiving.org/organization/PTDT

In other news, the Dance Theatre performed Saturday, April 20 at the Sacramento Dance Sampler produced by Lorelei Bayne over at Sac State, and Sunday, April 28th, all three companies (PTDT, Light Ballet Company, and The Third Stage), will be performing with the Davis Chorale, led by Alison Skinner. That performance is at the Brunelle Hall at the DSHS Campus and starts at 3:00 pm. The companies will have one more performance following that, at the 39th Annual Student Concert for the Dance Workshop which is, of course, where we make our home.

All of which is to say that it has been a wonderful year...finally feeling like we are returning to a new wonderful normal with multiple performances and growing community outreach!

Here's the following day when we were all at the Brunelle Hall getting ready for the Davis Chorale performance ...LBC dancers with Artistic Director Taylor Herrera are marking out spacing on the stage.

We had a lot of time between teching and blocking and the actual performance at Sac State, so we took some pictures around the campus.

It's Donor Appreciation Time!

The Pamela Trokanski Dance Theatre would like to acknowledge Louise Kellogg, Distinguished Professor in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, UC Davis, and her husband Douglas Neuhauser, retired Information Systems Manager in the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, UC Berkeley, for their generous and continued support that has lasted decades. Louise sat on the PTDT board of directors for almost two decades, volunteering her time, energy and wisdom in support of our mission. Together they also generously supported the PTDT as donors.

We would like to especially thank Doug for his continued incredibly generous support, after Louise’s passing, naming the theater in honor of her memory. Together they have contributed, and continue to contribute, to the continued success of our work in the community.

We would also like to sincerely thank our other season supporters;

Thomas S Nesbitt, MD & Lisa DeAmicis (for over three decades of supporting our work!)

Susan Gelber (In memory of Eric Gelber...He was my music, I am his dance.)

Eva Hess

Melinda Waring

Linda Clevenger & Seth Brunner (for over three decades of support)

Jennifer Schultens

Mary Francesca Wright

Solveig & Horst Eltner

Jeanette & Martin Panchula

Valerie Whitworth

Medtronic: The Blackbaud Giving Fund

But wait! There's more...

We would like to acknowledge these donors on the Big Day of Giving:

Amy & Daniel Abramson

Junko Adams

Kim Baxter

Nicole Bell

Maria-Ines Benito

Analisa & Gareth Bevan

Nina Brunner

Seth Brunner

Stephen Brush

Lesley Byrns (Dedicated to Louise Kellogg)

Tom Cadman (In honor of Lynda Cadman)

Brandy Calderón

Robin Carlson

Linda Clevenger

Kaitlin Coppinger

Candace Cross-Drew

Rhiannon Elliot

Jan Fiore

Patrick Fitzgibbons

Daphna Fram & John Bruno

Patrick Gaffney

Evan & Michelle Goldberg

Darcie Griffin

Hugh Griffin (On behalf of Kay Griffin)

Kari Hagen

Linda Hayward (In memory of Jerry Hayward)

Katherine Hess

Catherine Jamison

Gerri Jansen

Marguerite Knipe

Karen Kubey

Autumn Labbe-Renault

Hank Lawson

Lyn Liuzzi

Carol Lynn

Ignaz Mandel

Mikaela Manzano

Jane McKendry

Myvanwy Morgan

Holly Nichols

Akiko Ogura

Jeffrey Pelz

Christine Pinnow

Ruth Rosenberg

Judy Rothschild

Elsa Ruiz-Duran

Robert Schulz

Patti Shade

Allegra Silberstein

Dawn Silberstein (In honor of Allegra Silberstein)

Alison Skinner

Katie Sorensen

Lisl Swinehart (In honor of Pamela Trokanski)

Sharon Taber

Janice Takeuchi

Michele Tobias

Robert Tobias

Gwyneth Tracy

Sharon Trokanski

Kathleen Turney

Stacey Vetter

Erie Vitiello

Loyla Vogel

Melinda Waring

Kari Wergeland

Marilyn Woollard

Jimmy & I-Hui Wu

Louis Ziskind

Again, thank you to all of you (including those who wished to remain anonymous) for all of your support.

One of our favorite sayings is a wonderful African proverb that states:

If you want to go fast, go alone.

If you want to go far, go together.

All of us together make so much possible! On behalf of both myself (Pamela) and the Board of Directors, we are deeply grateful.

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