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METHODOLOGY This study is the third research deliverable of a Dance/NYC effort to advance a cultural ecosystem that expressly and equitably includes disabled artists. It extends early learning from Disability. Dance. Artistry. (2016) (Dance.NYC/DisabilityDanceArtistry16) and Discovering Disability (2015) (Dance.NYC/DiscoveringDisability15). The goal of the research is to identify and address needs and challenges of performing integrated and disability dance artistry in the metropolitan New York City area, from the perspective of recipients of Dance/NYC’s Disability. Dance. Artistry. Fund, a funding effort called for by Dance/NYC research that has made possible six integrated and disability dance productions. Questions of interest include: What barriers do participants experience in working to engage disabled and nondisabled local audiences? How are the participants impacted by the local infrastructure—its buildings, transportation, and communications environment? What funding obstacles exist? Are there program, budget, and policy bright spots that should be encouraged and followed? How do experiences differ for groups touring to New York, and how can local learning inform work in other geographies? The methodology embraces making meaning from three primary sources gathered from July 2017 to April 2018 to arrive at common and new understandings: first, in-person dialogue in the form of six convening organized to connect the artistic leadership of grantee organizations and their presenters with local artists, which are archived on video at Youtube. com/DanceNYCorg; second, grantee applications (27 total, 6 grantees) and mandatory narrative and financial reports (6), which invited feedback on
