With more than fifty years of leadership sustaining this organization, its publications, gatherings, and community, the DSA Board was thrilled to launch the Leadership Circle Giving Society in 2024, since renamed as the Giving Circle. 

This major gifts program buttresses the essential work of diversifying DSA income in support of below-cost membership rates that minimize financial barriers to membership for an increasingly contingent community (in explicit alignment with DSA’s mission and values). We are happy to continue and extend this work each year with an opportunity for our individual DSA and Honorary members at large to join the Circle. 

Giving Circle funds are unrestricted and support DSA general operations, including compensation (administrative & editorial), costs of publications, digital infrastructures (website, e-commerce for registration, abstract submission portal, mobile app/conference program), additional organizational costs (insurance, accounting, etc.), and more. DSA is working towards a reciprocal community of care, wherein the members with secure institutional affiliation and/or personal access to capital will help subsidize organizational accessibility and continued participation for members who are contingent workers, independent scholars/artists, and graduate students without funding.  As our field is increasingly populated by the critical contingencies of academic labor, DSA’s Giving Circle asks that past Board members, past Editors, past Editorial Board members, and past senior members of the dance studies discipline join in this effort.  The Giving Circle is an opportunity to support the Dance Studies Association’s organizational health and longevity, as current Boards continue pressing toward anti-racist action, equity in access, diversity in leadership, and reciprocity in radical care.

Join the leadership circle today by donating to DSA online or by reaching out to DSA Executive Director Jill Nunes Jensen at [email protected].

DSA’s Giving Circle

*2024 Inaugural Leadership Circle Charter Members with gifts of $250 and above