We Can't Do It Without You
Your donation will enable us to offer SpecotorDance's Dance Outreach Programs for Youth in ALL Parts of Monterey County. We will provide the gift of dance in "priority-communities". We will reach out to broad and diverse populations and mentor young artists. We will encourage all participants to find their own creative voices and celebrate the deep joy and fulfillment that comes with experiencing authentic and life-giving creativity.

In 2026, your support will enable us to offer our programs including:
  • The 2nd King City Dance Week featuring performances and movement workshops with visiting guest artists at the Stanton Theater February 26 and 27, 2026 in partnership with Center Stage Theatrical (Winter) 
  • Re-staging Common Ground, about California Agriculture for King City audiences (Spring)
  • Choreographers' Showcase, presenting original issue-based dance works created by guest dance makers from all over the state and the nation (Summer)
  • The 6th Ocean Arts Festival featuring ocean-themed visual and performing art created by artists under the age of 25 in partnership with the YMCA of the Monterey Peninsula (Fall) 
Now through - December 31, 2025
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Thank You To Our Major Donors
Monterey County Gives 
Harden Foundation
Arts Council for Monterey County 
Roger Stewart 
Amy Byington
In Memory of James Atkins
Diana Huang and Ron Chen  
Yellow Brick Road
Events California
Jonathan Lipow
George and Mimi Neisen
Monterey Rotary
&
Kathleen Bear, Lisa and Anthony Ciani, Lois Cornell, Mary and Pierre Cousineau, Connie DeNault, Dixie Dixon, Michelle Djokic and Mark Talbott, Christopher Fitz and Anita Dilts, Jane Franch, Bonnie and Daniel Frenandez, Susan and Martin Garbowitz, Connie and Sam Katz, Matthew and Joan Little, Wendy Loew-Mari and Eobert Mari, Esther and Gary Lucas, Ellen Martin, Gary Masters and Fred Mathews, Paula Pelot, Mary Pommerich, Thomas Rebold, Susan Rosen, Kyra and Brian Schlining, SawTeen See, Richard Stanely, Kyle Stewart, Cath Tendler and Jan Valencia, Roger and Linda Thompson, Jan Wagstaff, Janet Whitchurn,
Emily and Matthew Zefferman
Testimonials
As a local radio journalist for many years, I have kept up through stories and conversations with Fran Spector Atkins and her brilliant dance projects.  It has been a reassuring pleasure to follow her adventures in artistic expression and community involvement like a North Star on the Monterey Peninsula.  From gang violence to conservation of the ocean to overcoming isolation from the coronavirus experience, she has been a healing and creative force to budding dancers and appreciative audiences.  SpectorDance helps us rise up and reach out to make the world a better place.
- Lisa Ledin at NPR for the Monterey Bay Area, 90.3 KAZU
Fran Spector Atkins is a tour de force in our community and throughout the country. She is an amazing teacher, dancer and choreographer who masterfully weaves her art making with dialogue about the toughest and most complex issues we face. We have all benefited tremendously from the incredible growth of her school, her choreographic works and her leadership during the past fifteen years that I have been the Executive Director of the Arts Council for Monterey County. She is a great asset to our region and an inspiration for everyone who meets her. Whenever I say that "the arts are the answer", I think often of Fran's gorgeous, daring, innovative and powerful work.
- Paulette Lynch - former Executive Director of the Arts Council for Monterey County
“The California Arts Council believes in the potential of the arts to enrich the lives of all our state’s residents, especially our young people,” said Nashormeh Lindo, California Arts Council Chair. “That belief does not change with our system-engaged youth; it grows stronger. The world we create for our young people today determines our world tomorrow. We are proud to support the work of SpectorDance.”
I deeply admire SD's forward-looking vision. I applaud the many dance-education programs in the area, but none of them makes so clear the connection between dance and the social issues with which we all confront on a daily basis. SD's embrace of gang violence and oceanic degradation, both of which profoundly afflict life in Monterey County, has revealed essential current truths that other area arts have as of yet to take notice. I cheer SpectorDance more for making those issues a much bigger part of daily life in our community, for representing the urgency these issues demand, not only to artists but to the rest of us who have no end of ways to look the other way. SD makes its educational vision a matter of immediacy--hence action--that all other local arts institutions should embrace. I can think of no other arts program that is more deserving of widespread community support.
- Scott MacClelland - editor, Performing Arts Monterey Bay

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  Dancers: Anne-Marie Talmadge and Jones Welsh Talmadge
Photo by William Roden, New Dawn Studios