ustainability.” Running a contemporary dance company is a precarious balancing act, because each season brings new and unexpected challenges. Financial difficulties quickly become creative and administrative nightmares. Sometimes plans are fully arranged but have to be discarded because sufficient funds are not available. With this kind of uncertainty, how can we provide creative employment for collaborators and dancers, produce and present new work, and communicate with growing audiences?

Early in Terrain’s development I was able to do everything, and simultaneously balance my roles at Princeton and as a new mother. Now we have grown to the point that I need to defer administrative and managerial help to someone more qualified and with more time. I hope soon to transform Terrain into a self-sustaining company. Princeton has afforded me some stability by providing research funding over the past two years. While this support has been invaluable for the creation of new work, it certainly does not cover all expenses incurred in presenting this work, nor does it address the daily cost of operations. Our financial needs last long after the performance — follow-up, writing grants, maintaining the website and long term strategic planning are the bare necessities for keeping us off the ground.

So we hope you will continue to keep us in mind and on your list of worthy organizations to support. Your donations are always used efficiently to build a solid future. We are working towards creating sustainability by hiring management, developing infrastructure to promote awareness of Terrain’s excellence, and to build new audiences. Donations of any size are welcome, and will help strengthen our community, devoted passionately to the vision of dance that is Terrain. All of your donations are tax-deductible, as Terrain is a sponsored artist of The Field.