How important is NEA support to Dance/USA programming?
SNYDER: Well our funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, which we greatly appreciate and use strategically, is designed to help mostly our professional development and research activities. It helps secure speakers, workshops, and activities around our annual conference and our winter forums, both of which bring in a fair number of [dance professionals] together under the same roof to deal with issues of importance. NEA: In an interview, former Dance/USA Director Bonnie Brooks said, “Each era has meant a widening of the circle, and a maturing of the organization.” What does “widening the circle” mean to you? SNYDER: We have made a concerted effort to broaden the universe to include all of the various components of the professional dance field, including agents, artists, managers, individual artists, smaller institutional companies, and institutions, and presenters as well as a more diverse population of styles. [We are] forever growing the appreciation for what a service organ
