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2021 Digital Symposium

When:
Wednesday, March 17, 2021, 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Wednesday, March 17, 2021, 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 18, 2021, 10:00 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Friday, March 19, 2021, 10:00 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 20, 2021, 10:00 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Where:
The 2021 Symposium will convene in an all-in-one digital event platform that serves as an interactive gathering hub for professional development and convening. It features live-streamed events, digital agendas, speaker and audience engagement, community bulletin board, virtual expo hall, sponsor decks, and more.

Accessibility:
All live sessions will include ASL interpretation.
All sessions will include closed captions.

Dance/NYC’s 2021 Symposium will focus on rebuilding the dance ecology with emphasis on civic engagement, deepening justice and a focus on the whole dance worker. It will invite participants to investigate topics of decolonizing dance education, community organizing and social change, governmental + social advocacy, among others, in the context of a health crisis and in the wake of the social justice uprisings of 2020.

As the only multi-day gathering of the dance community in the New York metropolitan area, the Symposium aims to create a meeting place for the dance field, to exchange ideas, expand networks, sharpen organizational practices, and deepen awareness and direction of New York City’s legacy of dance-making.

Symposium Programming Committee

Albert Blackstone, Director, MOMEN; Faculty, Broadway Dance Center
Ami Scherson, Member, Dance/NYC Junior Committee
Ana "Rokafella" Garcia, Managing Director, Full Circle Souljahs
Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Senior Director of Artist Development & Curation; Editorial Director, Gibney
Juan José Escalante, Executive Director, José Limón Foundation
Julia del Palacio, Director of Strategic Partnerships, Kupferberg Center for the Arts
Laurel Lawson, Choreographer, Kinetic Light; Artist-Engineer, Rose Tree Productions
Nelida Tirado, Artistic Director & Teacher of Nelida Tirado Flamenco
Niya Nicholson, Managing Director, MOVE(NYC) Foundation, Inc.
Parijat Desai, Artistic Director, Parijata Dance Company
Remi Harris, Programs Manager, Center for Performance Research
Sydnie L. Mosley, Artistic Director, Sydnie L. Mosley Dances
Zavé Martohardjono, Artist

Leadership support is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Howard Gilman Foundation. The Symposium is also supported, in part, by funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.