National Dance Project receives the Dance/USA Trustees Award

NEFA is thrilled to announce that the National Dance Project received the Trustees Award from Dance/USA. This award honors outstanding work that has special significance to the dance community. During its almost 30-year history, NDP has supported over 820 dance projects that have toured to all 50 states, Washington, DC, Guam, and Puerto Rico reaching more than 3.6 million audience and community members. The NDP team has worked tirelessly with Advisors to develop strategies to interrogate bias in the panel process, with artists to center their needs in the practices of the program, and with us to bring their goals and hopes for the future to the broader NEFA community. Join us in celebrating this work and the current, dedicated NDP team: director Indira Goodwine-Josias, managers Kristin Gregory and Cheri Opperman!

In addition to this award, Dance/USA, the national service organization for the dance ecosystem, announced the recipients of the Dance/USA Honor, ‘Ernie’, and Champion awards, to be presented at the 2025 Dance/USA National Conference in Chicago, June 17-20.

Read about the Dance/USA Honors

Indira is a Black woman with long black hair and she wears a blue blouse. Cheri is a white woman with short brown hair and she wears a navy, v-neck. Kristin is a white woman with long brown hair that has blonde highlights and she wears a stone v-neck with khakis. They all pose in front of the Boston skyline.
From left: Indira Goodwine-Josias, Cheri Opperman, and Kristin Gregory | by Jeffrey Filiault/NEFA
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