Word: savitz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Choreographed and directed by Diane Paulus, Celia Savitz and Rebecca Shannon...
Fundraising is a serious job for Celia M. Savitz '89, co-director of Citystep, which must raise $20,000 a year for the troupe's operation. "I don't consider myself a fundraiser. But I believe in the organization and because I am inherently involved in it, I know that we need the money," she says...
...annual semi-formal ball at the Charles Hotel only raises a quarter of the budget. Citystep must pay the hotel "a few thousand dollars" for the room and the proceeds from alcohol sales, says Savitz. They must also pay the hotel for drinks if $500 worth has not been purchased...
...They [Citystep members] have a lot of faith [in the organization], so it sometimes gets hard when people don't recognize that through their wallets. This is water off their backs, but our lifeblood," says Savitz...
...Sometimes you leave [the class] really discouraged that you're not getting through to them," Savitz says. "But in the long run it has really affected them...