Dance/NYC 2016 Symposium

Sunday, February 28, 2016
All Day

Dance/NYC’s 2016 Symposium will invite participants to consider connections between the art form of dance and New York City and explore urgent questions of cultural planning, affordability, equity and inclusion, public-private partnerships, and the future of technology. How can New Yorkers, by working together and across sectors, act now to advance the art form and more than 1,200+ dance makers and companies in the metropolitan area? And how can the art form contribute to the future of all New Yorkers?

As the only full-day gathering of the dance community in the metropolitan area, the Symposium aims to share information and innovation and to stimulate awareness, interest, and ongoing engagement in dance. The Symposium will make use of multiple studios for panel discussions, case studies, interactive workshops, a networking lunch, and more.

Discount Code for Asian American Arts Alliance Members ($75 off full cost of registration)

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Recommended Sessions of Interest:

Voices on Race and Dance

These four sessions bring together leading national voices on race and dance in order to explore and foster solutions. These sessions are meant to build upon one another; however, it is not mandatory to attend all.

Philanthropic Approaches to Advancing Racial Equity

11:20 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.

This session will spotlight select funding initiatives underway to address racial justice and equity in dance and the larger cultural sector. What role can funding play? What more can be done? Moderated by Holly Sidford, President at Helicon Collaborative.

Featuring: Laurie A. Cumbo, New York City Council Member - District 35; Maurine Knighton, Senior Vice President for Grantmaking, Nathan Cummings Foundation; Katie Steger, Senior Program Associate, Arts and Cultural Heritage, Mellon Foundation; Risë Wilson, Director of Philanthropy, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation; more to be announced

Diversity and Inclusion in Dance Education

2:40 p.m. to 4:10 p.m.

Curated and moderated by Camille A. Brown, this session engages participants in a collective discussion around issues of diversity and inclusion in dance education. What schools and organizations are “bright spots” for inclusion? How do we begin to reimagine curriculum that is inclusive (on a national/international level or across a broader scale)? What can teachers and educators do to instigate change? Using leaders in the field as featured discussants, this conversation aims to specifically address cultural equity in dance education.

Featured Discussants: Ananya Chatterjea, Founder/Artistic Director, Ananya Dance Theatre; Joan Finkelstein, Executive Director, Harkness Foundation for Dance; Theresa Ruth Howard, Co-Founder, Museum of Blacks in Ballet; Zazel-Chavah O'Garra, Founder and Artistic Director, ZCO/DANCE PROJECT; more to be announced