The Mission of Freespace Dance

The artistic voice of Freespace Dance is one of collaboration, believing in combining different art forms to create something unique and varied. Artistic Director Donna Scro collaborates with composers, dancers, musicians, visual artists, designers, etc. The vision is to open the doors to all artists to come and create, rediscovering dance with each collaboration.

photo © Lois Greenfield

photo © Lois Greenfield

Donna Scro’s work is athletic, bold, fearless, and connects to the human experience. Combining her athletic nature and her humanistic connection, Donna’s work is accessible to people of all ages and backgrounds. Freespace Dance is a company that makes a strong connection both physically and emotionally with the audience, believes in the spirit of inclusion, and leaves all with a positive dance experience. The company strives to teach the love of dance to children and adults with the philosophy that if one can move, think and feel, one can dance.

Freespace Dance is an open forum designed to collaborate and create, teach and encourage, invite and dance.

 Freespace Dance’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) mission is to: provide individuals an opportunity to achieve their full potential; enhance and strengthen our art form; and solidify our reputation as a preeminent arts organization, embodying excellence, empowerment, and inclusion. We strive to share our joy of dance, while fostering a welcoming environment—both internally and externally—that celebrates and embraces many forms of diversity.

FSD reflects the diverse communities we serve; creating space for a wide range of different voices to be heard; valuing and respecting both visible and invisible differences; being humble, transparent, and honest in our DE&I work; and owning responsibility for positioning dance as an art form that is accessible to everyone. We define diversity as the appreciation and respect for the many intersections of differences in society including, but not limited to: race, gender, nationality/culture, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical abilities, age, and parental status.

Freespace Dance is a company that makes a strong connection both physically and emotionally with the audience, believes in the spirit of inclusion, and leaves all with a
positive dance experience.