For the second year in a row, the Miners Foundry Cultural Center has received a $10,800 grant toward funding their 2nd Annual Nevada City Dance Festival. Center Executive Director Gretchen Bond says the money, from the California Arts Council, will allow them to continue to expand the event. She says next year’s festival, which will run from March 14th through the 17th, will feature five dance companies, instead of two. She says the center’s Osborn/Woods Hall allows you to see performances in a way many people have never had an opportunity before…

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Bond says the Center will again have to match the grant amount, through community-wide donations and fundraisers. But the response was very good for the first festival…

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The five companies that will be hosted next year are: dawsondances, the Lake Tahoe Dance Collective, the Linda Blair Dance Company, Pisa Za Congo Dance Company, and Airaligned aerial dance group. Bond says it’s also hoped that the festival can expand to other venues in the future, to make it to a more city-wide event.