Outreach FAQS

What is FLY Dance Company?
How can I book a FLY performance?
What do FLY performances cost?
What is a FLY “residency”?
What is “blocked booking” and why should I want to help organize one?
Who can organize a blocked booking for a FLY performance or residency?
Who benefits from the performance fees paid to FLY?
What are the names of organizations that support FLY?

Q. What is FLY Dance Company?
A. FLY is a group of young street dancers who have been organized and trained as professional performers by artistic director Kathy Wood, a life-long dance teacher, choreographer, and educator. FLY offers high-quality, clean-cut, wholesome performances: Evening-length concerts, mini-concerts, outreach programs, lecture/demonstrations, and workshops. FLY tours its performances all over the United States and sometimes other countries. There is a lot more to answer this question at About FLY and throughout this web site.

Q. How can I book a FLY performance?
A. Please see Booking FLY.

Q. What do FLY performances cost?
A. Performance fees vary by type of performance and the expense and time associated with travel from the Houston, Texas area. The current performance fees for your particular area are more completely covered on the School and Community Outreach Programs page in the sidebar topic Specific Info for Houston-Area, Other Texas Cities, Other States and Europe.

Q. What is a FLY “residency”?
A. We define a residency as multiple performances at one venue (such as school, theater, or other community location) or several in the same general area.

Q. What is “blocked booking” and why should I want to help organize one?
A. Blocked booking is when enough performances are scheduled in a general area to economically justify a trip by FLY Dance Company. By helping to organize a block, you can make it possible for FLY to make the trip to your community.

Q. Who can organize a blocked booking for a FLY performance or residency?
A. Just about anyone. For example: Arts organizations, theaters hosting a FLY concert, school principals and teachers, several schools together, school districts, PTO program chairpersons, city governments, community service organizations, anti-drug organizations, detention centers, or private sponsors such as parents, grandparents, local businesses, major corporations, and other community leaders.

Q. Who benefits from the performance fees paid to FLY?
A. This question has two answers.
The short answer is: FLYworks is the direct beneficiary.
FLYworks is the FLY Dance Company’s supporting non-profit organization whose directors oversee its operation. The dancers and staff of FLYworks are full-time employees on a monthly payroll. Performance fees are the primary support for FLYworks. However, individuals, charitable foundations, governmental cultural organizations, and corporations help support FLY as well—through donations or by hiring FLY to perform at a sponsored event. This underwriting helps make performance fees more affordable and, along with the performance fees, makes FLY Dance Company possible.
The real answer is: Those served by FLYworks—30,000+ young people served each year in outreach performances and about the same number of arts patrons who enjoy FLY concerts. This community service is why FLY exists.

Q. What are the names of organizations that support FLY?
A. The Houston Endowment, Inc., the Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County, the Texas Commission on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Target Stores.