DANCE

Dancing in Harlem Streets: The Dance Theater of Harlem has a savior. The Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund has awarded the troupe a $1-million grant to help solve the financial crisis that forced the company to cancel two major tours and virtually disband. The Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund will give $600,000 to help reduce the company’s deficit and $400,000 for dancers’ salaries and company operations--provided the company raises additional funds by Sept. 30, the end of its fiscal year, said M. Christine DeVita, president of the fund. Officials declined to say how much money the company needed to raise. “The Dance Theater of Harlem is a world-class ballet company and clearly a national treasure,” DeVita said. The fund was founded by the late Lila Acheson Wallace, co-founder of Reader’s Digest magazine.