MISSION
Eryc Taylor Dance is a nonprofit dance company dedicated to fostering community connections through diverse and inclusive artistic expression. Through movement, ETD addresses social and environmental issues, creates and presents original performances and dance films, offers master classes, and commissions new works. ETD supports emerging choreographers and curates workshops for underserved communities. ETD strives to inspire change and bring awareness to critical issues across NYC and beyond.
VISION
ETD envisions inspiring and empowering communities through dance performances and movement workshops, fostering radical acceptance and connection among diverse groups. Eryc Taylor's choreography merges contemporary dance with multimedia elements, crafting immersive, thought-provoking experiences. Our ETD Outreach program is dedicated to using dance for social change and community building. We prioritize accessibility and diversity in all our endeavors.
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, JUSTICE, & INCLUSION STATEMENT
ETD is dedicated to making all performances, workshops, and events accessible to individuals with varying abilities. Our team of instructors collaborates with and hires people with disabilities, ensuring that all spaces used for rehearsals, workshops, and performances are equipped with ramps, elevators, and alternative accessibility options. We also provide closed captioning for all performance videos. ETD creates works that resonate with wide-ranging audiences, particularly multi-generational LGBTQIA+, BIPOC communities and their allies.
PC: Nikola Bradonjic @johnnie_brada
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Our ETD Outreach program uplifts vulnerable communities across the NYC Metro area through movement workshops. Today, there are ETDO workshops in 14 sites in ten Districts across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx. Eight of our ETDO sites focus on seniors in primarily Hispanic, Black, and Asian communities. Many participants face struggles like advanced age and limited mobility, addiction or substance abuse, mental illness, physical disabilities, and isolation.
ETDO Key Partners
Acacia Network
Loisada
Lantern Community Services
Center for Urban Community Services, Fountain House, Odyssey House, The Felix Organization, Hour Children, Post Graduate Center for Mental Health, S:US
Districts We Serve:
District 3, Erik Bottcher
District 6, Gale Brewer
District 8, Diana Ayala
District 14, Pierina Sanchez
District 16, Althea Stevens
District 17, Rafael Salamanca
District 40, Rita Joseph
District 45, Farah Louis
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To ETD's founder, Eryc Taylor, artistic excellence is a commitment to opening up new horizons of creativity and expression, continuously striving for innovation, and maintaining the highest quality standards in every aspect of one's work.
Performance Locations
Armando Manzanero Teatro & Teatro José Peón Contreras (Merida, Mexico)
Busan Cultural Center (Busan, South Korea)
Bryant Park Theater
Guild Hall (East Hampton, NY)
Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater (NYC)
Joyce Soho Theater
Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors
Martha Graham Studio Theater
Mary Heaton Vorse House (Provincetown, MA)
New York Live Arts
Province Lands Outdoor Amphitheater (Cape Cod, MA).
SLATE (NYC)
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Collaborators are a cornerstone of the ETD. They include dancers, instructors, guest choreographers, writers, designers, technicians, composers, and multimedia artists. We are committed to offering opportunities to historically underrepresented and underserved people--women, BIPOC, disabled, and LGBQT+ contributors comprise at least 50% of our staff, board, collaborators, and audiences.
ETD Collaborators:
Andrew Weeks
Daniel Tobias
David Kagen
Gerald Busby
Gustavo Monroy
Lois Greenfield
New Wave Arts
Nikola Bradonjic
Noa Wollstein
Rachel Neville
Scooter LaForge
Shannel Resto
Steven Menendez
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Eryc Taylor, President & Artistic Director
Eryc Taylor is the Artistic Director of the NYC-based nonprofit dance company Eryc Taylor Dance, its community outreach program, ETD Outreach, and the New Choreographer Grant program for emerging choreographers. Taylor holds an MFA in Dance from NYU Tisch and has been creating and touring work in NYC, nationally and internationally since 1995 and 2006 with ETD. He has received grants, awards, and government support from NYSCA, LMCC, SVOG, and Dance/NYC. Highlights include ETD tours in Mexico (2016 & 2017) and South Korea (2019); ETD's EARTH (2019), featured on the PBS ALL ARTS series "Climate Artists"; ETD's dance film, Uncharted Territory (2020), receiving critical praise, awards, and several film festivals; Factory/Refractory (2022) a critically acclaimed site-specific immersive dance production inspired by 1990s nightlife presented at SLATE NY for 2022 and 2023 residencies.
Nikita Cotton, Treasurer
Nikita Cotton received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from New York University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School. Nikita developed her love of the arts while studying abroad in Florence and London. Nikita is deeply committed to social activism and facilitating outreach to underserved communities; in addition to serving on the Board of ETD, Nikita is the Chair of the Junior Board of The Campaign Against Hunger. Professionally, Nikita is a fintech lawyer (NY admission pending) with particular interest in the intersection of financial and racial inequality.
