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The company the register carried at one line is a whole institution, and its first long seat was in Osceola: the Patchwork Dance Company was founded in 1977 by its artistic director Debbie Werbrouck (later Debbie Werbrouck Shubert), a regional nonprofit contemporary company dedicated, in the national dance directory's entry, to enriching audiences through performances and outreach, performing the choreography of nationally recognized and resident choreographers and hosting guest-artist residencies. Its federal recognition followed its founding, and the two dates print together, unreconciled as the record gives them: the company was founded in 1977 (Dance ICONS' residency directory); its IRS ruling at the Osceola post office is April 1983 (the register read whole for this build), as Patchwork Dance Company Inc., Box 50, Osceola — the ruling dates the exemption, not the first performance, and the six years between them are the company's unincorporated youth, printed as the record states it and no further. The Osceola seat is documented at law-report strength: the Indiana Board of Tax Review's record for the property at 686 Apple Road, Osceola, in Penn Township describes a 5,574-square-foot building with a detached garage on a 120-by-205-foot lot, used by Debbie Werbrouck's School of Dance and the Patchwork Dance Company for the study of the art of dance, the company — a 501(c)(3) — using the facility rent free; the school around it was incorporated November 17, 1988, and had operated, on the testimony the Board prints, for forty years. A dance school and its company, on Apple Road in Osceola, is the town's one professional arts seat of the twentieth century, and the banked build had it at a post-office box.
The work, and the course since: the Tribune's record carries the company at performance strength — in 2001 "Patchwork showcases choreographers" states its artistic director's governing aim, to bring the works of different choreographers to the Michiana area, with a number by Nan Giordano of Giordano Jazz Dance of Chicago on the "In Concert" program; the Tribune's 1998 profile of Werbrouck Shubert records her rise in the Chicago National Association of Dance Masters, some four hundred studios, as its president-elect, and quotes Saint Mary's Moreau Center director Dennis Andres that she was "real interested in building dance in Michiana"; the company's programs played the University of Notre Dame's DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts and the Elco Performing Arts Center in Elkhart. The seat then moved west, as this town's institutions do: the Board of Tax Review's later record places the school at 3466 Douglas Road, South Bend, in a building constructed specifically as a dance-education facility by Shubert Construction, with Patchwork still housed free of charge, its activities by then printed whole — live performances, in-school workshops for public-school students and teachers, master classes with visiting artists, free lectures, and scholarships the arrangement made possible. The present state, verified November 2026: the company remains an active 501(c)(3) at the Douglas Road seat (EIN 35-1422458), its most recent Form 990-EZ in the nonprofit record filed for 2021 with revenue of $27,625 and principal officer Karen Klima named; its own site, patchworkdance.org, stands; and the nonprofit record notes a recent season in which most performances were held virtually. A company founded in 1977, federally ruled from an Osceola box in 1983, housed rent-free first on Apple Road and then on Douglas Road by the school that surrounds it — that is dance whole for this section: Osceola was its first long home, and the register line that pointed here understated it by forty years.
Sources: Dance ICONS, U.S. residencies directory — founded 1977 by Artistic Director Debbie Werbrouck; resident and national choreographers; guest residencies. this history (banked), IRS register read whole — Patchwork Dance Company Inc., Box 50, ruled April 1983. Indiana Board of Tax Review, OC Properties LLC determination (assessment 2007–08) — 686 Apple Road, Osceola; the 5,574-square-foot building; the school's November 17, 1988 incorporation; the company's rent-free 501(c)(3) use. Indiana Board of Tax Review, Shubert Construction determination (2013) — 3466 Douglas Road purpose-built; the company's program list. South Bend Tribune — the 2001 "Patchwork showcases choreographers" (via the Michiana newspaper catalogue) and the November 29, 1998 Werbrouck Shubert profile (Tribune snippets as preserved). Nonprofit record (Givefreely/990-EZ mirror) — EIN 35-1422458, 2021 revenue $27,625, principal officer Karen Klima, the virtual season, patchworkdance.org. Rights basis for images: none pulled.