Appropriation Assignment

Here is my homework assignment for this week: appropriating funds from a sponsor.

My audience for this assignment is a scientific research laboratory which I'm approaching to sponsor one of my company’s concert dance performances.

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Geeksdanz is in the process of putting together a brand-new performance for our 2010-2011 season, and we would be honored if you and your company would agree to sponsor it. The concert consists of a new evening-length work that takes its inspiration completely and directly from the fields of molecular and physical science. Our hope with this work is that it will highlight and expose the “dance-like” aspects of these fields to an arts audience who may be unfamiliar with them. By observing science in this unusual context audiences may find themselves able to understand and identify with such fields more easily, and therefore more inclined to take a greater interest in them.

In our effort to source as much of the piece to science as possible, we consider sponsorship from laboratories such as yours a very important factor. It is the choreographer’s belief that the viewer should be able to trace everything in this new work back to science at some point, and we feel that budget is no different. In return for your investment, Geeksdanz would like to offer you a unique experience: a professional dance performance within the walls of the Laboratory itself. The entire company will come to your facilities and show a selection of science-based dance pieces from our existing repertoire, as well as a sneak peek at our new work. Your employees will have the chance to experience dance in an intimate setting, quite unlike any theater performance. They will also have ample opportunity to meet the members of this unique new company, to ask them questions and hear their stories. We at Geeksdanz are continually dedicated to blurring the line between “art” and “science,” and we sincerely hope you will agree to aid us in our current effort.


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