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Time goes fast!

We're now gearing up for our 42nd Season of Dance!

If you would like to see what we've been doing for the last 4 decades, just go to the 40 Years of Dance tab, and you can take a peek at the work we've created over 40 years.

Our 41st Season included two premiere works: Verify You Are Human (after that prompt that often comes up when one is logging onto some websites), and The Ripple Effect, a thoughtful and sometimes humorous exploration of how all of our actions, for good or for worse, ripple out beyond us to affect the world. In between we also presented Something for the Holidays and this year's Davis Dance Project Dance and the Art of Living in IRL (in real life), which explored the wonderful nature of dance as an important tool for keeping a person "present in the moment" and the effect that has on our brains, our sense of being, and our ability to connect with others. We finished off the season with some short pieces performed at the Dance Workshop's annual Student Concert.

So what's next? We're working on getting out the word about our dance scholarship program which is part of our Dance as Education community programming.

And, as always, a huge thank you to all who so generously helped support the PTDT on this year's Big Day of Giving!

This year our goal was $20,000, and with your help, we made it and more, for a grand total of $21,952 that will go towards supporting our work in the community.

Your support helps us maintain and grow our programs which, in addition to premiering new works in concert for 41 years, include our Dance For Parkinson's program which provides free movement classes for people living with Parkinson's Disease and their caregivers in both Davis and Sacramento, 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, last year we began a scholarship program providing opportunities for community members for whom dance training may not fit the family budget. This year (2025 - 2026) we are pleased to offer scholarships to 4 different dancers!

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

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Application, in English

Application, in Spanish

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 are especially grateful for the support that has evolved into the Neuhauser & Kellogg Dance Scholarship Fund.