Bookings — Fort Wayne Dance Collective

The Fort Wayne Dance Collective supports three performing groups: FWDC Touring Company, Fort Wayne Taiko, and Pineapple Dance Project. These companies are available to perform at a variety of private and public events including fundraisers, ribbon cutting ceremonies, parties, school assemblies, art openings, theatrical performances, and videos.

For additional information and to book FWDC’s groups please contact:

Ashley Benninghoff, Program Director

Email: ashley@fwdc.org

Phone: (260) 424-6574

Videos:

Touring Company (video 1)

Touring Company (video 2) ft. Pineapple Dance Project

Fort Wayne Taiko

Pineapple Dance Project – “Fort Wayne Dance Collective members are delightful and compassionate for our cause. Our audiences have enjoyed them, over the years, when they do their gigs for us. We were able to put together some of their dance footage and we won a Philo Media Festival Award for it. TRACK is forever grateful to Fort Wayne Dance Collective and the Pineapple Dance Project. The dance troupe has been fabulous and faithful to TRACK. I say, many thanks for being with us, throughout the years, through thick and thin… next year, we’d love to have them be a part of another TRACK event.”

— Patty Hunter, Artistic Coordinator for Three Rivers Art Center for Kids (TRACK).

Fort Wayne Taiko – “The LaFontaine Arts Council (LAC) of Huntington is a proud supporter of the Fort Wayne Taiko Drums! For many years we have sponsored their outstanding presentations in our county schools and our community. The passion displayed by the drummers for their craft immediately captures the attention of their audiences. Audience interaction during their performances heightens the excitement of the program! Attendees leave the program excited and eager to share their experience with Taiko Drums! Taiko Drumming is contagious and addictive! You exit their performances wanting more! The cultural lessons shared about the history of Taiko is an impacting cultural lesson to all fortunate enough to enjoy the talents of these professionals!”

– Debbie Dyer, Executive Director for the LaFontaine Arts Council (LAC)

FWDC Touring Company – “Each time we have a sponsored dance assembly we make sure to remind our students that people they have never met care deeply for them. That they care so much for them they pay to make sure they can have dance classes and participate in instructional assemblies. This message is powerful for them. Thank you so much for all the tangible and intangible gifts you have given our students!”

– Brenda West, Principal at South Wayne Elementary School