Credits & Sponsors

We gratefully acknowledge all who support The Carreño Festival.  Thank you to all of the many volunteers, and thank you to the many sponsors who make the Festival what it is.   Please click on the links below for information about our supporters.

A huge “Thank You” to our supporters and sponsors!

The Carreño Dance Festival would like to thank the following for their generous and thoughtful support and sponsorship. We thank you very much for making many unique aspects of the festival possible. Please visit our website for information on supporting the festival, and helpful links to many of our current partners.

  • Enterprise Holdings (parent of Alamo, Enterprise, National, and We Go car rentals)
  • Fine Arts Society of Sarasota
  • Icard Merrill
  • Canandaigua National Trust
  • The Observer Newspapers
  • ABC 7
  • McCarver and Moser
  • Sir Speedy of Sarasota
  • SoDanca
  • Grishko
  • Discount Dance Supply
  • Benefis Ballet Costume Shop
  • Scoop Daddy’s Ice Cream Shop
  • Starbucks Coffee Downtown Sarasota
  • Anna’s Deli
  • Sweats by Jo
  • Steps on Broadway NYC
  • Russian Pointe
  • Yumiko
  • Kultur.com
  • Gaynor Minden
  • Blondie’s Cookies
  • American Dance Competiion
  • Daisy’s Dance Studio
  • Visit Sarasota County
  • Le Barge Cruises
  • Sarasota Bay Explorers
  • Sarasota Cuban Ballet School
  • Brooks, Kathy and Garry
  • Ciaravella, Ron and Shannon
  • Colby, Alexander and Janice
  • Curry, Richard and Paulette
  • Doery, Fred and Lynda
  • Dowd, Jack and Jill
  • Githler, Kim
  • Goldstein, Dr. David and Pilar
  • Golemme, Patricia
  • Hamad, Renee
  • Heneberger, Harry and Gordon
  • Kane, Stanley
  • Kretzmer, Ernest and Alisa
  • Krums-Kane, Elita
  • Libby, Harold and Wanda
  • Maytham, Donna and Walter
  • Mues, Edward and Jadwiga
  • Peterman, Ira and Beverly
  • Sandefur, Tana
  • Steinberg, Arline and Harvey
  • Troiano, Anna Maria
  • Waters, Gil and Elizabeth
  • Winston, Edie
  • Wolfendale, Cynthia and Mark
  • Zabelle, Robert and Jeanne

Our supporter’s kind generosity will be recognized in our program books.

Photo and Video Credits

Photos – Shirley Blair, Cliff Roles, Bill Wagy, Loren Mayo of The Observer Group, and Carreno Dance Festival staff.
Videos – Bill Wagy, Public Television Station WEDU-TV, Tampa, Florida