The Dance Enthusiast is a vibrant, engaging digital news site and arts service organization. Our mission is threefold: to serve the dance community by sharing its stories and news; to offer audiences unique access to the compelling dance companies and moving artists of New York City and the world; and, to invite audiences, artists, and writers into a conversation about dance. Our new media work, as well as our offline initiatives illuminate, educate and inspire audiences to understand the deep value inherent in dance. We connect our audiences to people who make dance happen by: 1.Covering the news of the dance world. 2.Creating original content. 3.Interviewing, Photographing,video-ing, writing about and constantly looking for new ways to keep dance alive beyond the performance. 4.Supporting dance companies and dance artists to share their stories on our site. 5.Encouraging audiences to advocate for the dance field by sharing their opinions about what they see. 6. Creating Offline engagements that combine performance with formal and informal conversation, bringing the pages of The Dance Enthusiast to life. We educate audiences, future dance communicators, and dance advocates. We celebrate,question, and discuss issues in the dance field. We encourage involvement.