Programs
EVENTS
Dance/NYC is amplifying its role as a convener, connecting and educating its constituents and strengthening the collective voice for dance.
Past Events
Dance/NYC 2022 Symposium
Dance/NYC’s 2022 Symposium: Life cycles. Livelihoods. Legacies., focuses on uncovering the generational continuum of lives in dance. Sessions explore career and life navigation, underscoring dance and artistic practice as core human needs while building understanding across generations of audiences and dance workers. This multi-day event invites participants to investigate topics of mentorship, advocacy, leadership, and equity, within an ethos of community care.
Redefining Practice | Afro-Latinidad and the NYC Dance Ecology
The final event in the Redefining Practice series and presented in partnership with Ballet Hispánico and the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute.
Redefining Practice | Re-Entering With Care: A Community Town Hall
The fourth event in the Redefining Practice series, curated and organized by the Dance/NYC Junior Committee. Part town hall, part community conversation, this event unpacks what it might mean to “re-enter” the dance field as the NYC dance community begins to resume in-person performances. While the onset of the pandemic marked an abrupt and jarring halt to movement practices, returning to the studio does not have to happen similarly.
Redefining Practice | Dancers Protecting Their Labor
The third event in the Redefining Practice series, this dialogue unpacks the workforce experiences of dancers across genres and those who work to champion livelihoods in dance. Bringing together dance workers and advocates, the conversation offers a range of perspectives from a labor standpoint that respond to ongoing economic scarcity and inequity across the dance field, and point to collective ways to redefine current practices.
Redefining Practice Town Hall Series
As the landscape for dance as professional practice, living ritual and technical production continues to evolve, Redefining Practice explores how artists and institutions are adapting, unlearning and innovating new ways of being in creation–and the many phases that creation takes–to prioritise new learnings in racial justice, physical/emotional safety, and community care.
Vaccines for Dancers Town Hall
The Vaccines for Dancers Town Hall is an informational session and community forum for dance workers to learn about the COVID-19 vaccine and its impact on dance practice.
Redefining Practice | Oceanic Currents: Indigenous Pacific Islander Movement Artists
The second event in the Redefining Practice series, Oceanic Currents: Indigenous Pacific Islander Movement Artists weaves together womanist, queer/trans, and progressive Indigenous Pacific movement artists in New York City and the diaspora, this gathering seeks to strengthen internal and external community ties, and further Native dance futures.
Redefining Practice | Asian American Choreography Tea House
The first event in the Redefining Practice series, Asian American Choreography Tea House is curated and moderated by Final Bow for Yellowface co-founder Phil Chan. In this discussion, Asian and Asian American choreographers Annie Heath, Nai-Ni Chen, Zhongjing Fang, and others unpack the complex relationship between personal identity and the expression of Asian cultural heritage.
