Santa may have ruled December, but the fundraisers are the gift givers in January from the past year’s efforts. And once again Bank of Texas is sponsoring the event to give the moola away. Tonight 48 performing art groups of North Texas were head-over-stiletto-heels as TACA presented checks totaling $1.3M at the Wyly. Newbies to receive funding were Vox Humana and Dallas Neo-Classical Ballet.
This makes the ninth consecutive year that TACA broke the million-dollar giveaway!
Here is the breakdown of the happy artistic campers who were onstage with smiles:
- Musical Ensembles
- Chamber Music International – $5,000
- Dallas Bach Society – $8,000
- Dallas Chamber Music Society – $5,000
- Fine Arts Chamber Players – $29,000
- Orchestra of New Spain – $15,000
- Sammons Center for the Arts – $11,000
- Texas Winds Musical Outreach – $12,000
- Tuesday Nite Jazz – $10,000
- Voices of Change – $10,000
- Symphonic Arts
- Dallas Chamber Symphony – $13,000
- Dallas Symphony Orchestra – $100,000
- Dallas Winds – $35,000
- Lone Star Wind Orchestra – $13,000
- Plano Symphony Orchestra – $10,000
- Operatic Arts
- The Dallas Opera – $100,000
- Choral Arts
- Arts District Chorale – $5,000
- Orpheus Chamber Singers – $15,000
- Plano Civic Chorus – $6,000
- Vox Humana – $5,000
- Dance
- Avant Chamber Ballet – $12,500
- Bruce Wood Dance Project – $15,000
- Dallas Black Dance Theatre – $85,000
- Dallas Neo-Classical Ballet – $5,000
- Texas Ballet Theater – $70,000
- TITAS – $65,000
- Theater Arts
- African American Repertory Theater – $12,500
- Cara Mía Theatre Company – $15,000
- Dallas Theater Center – $100,000
- Echo Theatre – $12,000
- Kitchen Dog Theater – $35,000
- Lyric Stage – $30,000
- Second Thought Theatre – $18,000
- Shakespeare Dallas – $35,000
- Teatro Dallas – $10,000
- Theatre Three – $30,000
- Undermain Theatre – $25,000
- Uptown Players – $33,000
- WaterTower Theatre – $40,000
- Spoken Word
- WordSpace – $5,000
- Youth Arts
- Big Thought – $15,000
- Children’s Chorus of Greater Dallas – $37,000
- Dallas Children’s Theater – $75,000
- Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra – $45,000
- Junior Players – $38,000
- Lone Star Circus Arts Center – $5,000
- Collaborative Partners
- AT&T Performing Arts Center – $5,000
- Nasher Sculpture Center – $10,000
- SMU Meadows School of the Arts – $10,000
One of TACA’s fundraising efforts will take place on Friday, February 19, when Rebecca Fletcher and James E. Wiley Jr. are presented the TACA Silver Cup at the Hilton Anatole.